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to help Soviet republics
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in $24 billion fund
WASHINGTON — President Bush
pledged Wednesday the United States
will help finance a S24 billion inter
national aid fund for the former So
viet Union.
“This isn’t any Johnny-comc-latcly
thing and this isn’t driven by election
year pressures,” Bush said at a White
House news conference. “It’s what’s
right for the United States.”
Democrat Bill Clinton accused the
president of moving too slowly on
economic and humanitarian aid to the
former Soviet republics. At a speech
in New York, Clinton called Bush’s
foreign policy “reactive, rudderless,
and erratic.” Last month, former Presi
dent Richard Nixon had said U.S.
support for Russia was “pathetic.”
Bush, at the White House, said,
“Some people will attack you for doing
too much and some for not doing
enough. 1 think this is right.”
The $24 billion aid fund would be
extended by financial institutions such
as the International Monetary Fund
with principal backing from the Group
of Seven - Germany, Japan, France,
Britain, Italy, Canada and the United
States.
Bush said the United States would
provide S6(X) million in new credit
guarantees for grain purchases by
Russia and a total of $500 million for
Ukraine, Armenia and other former
republics of the now defunct Soviet
Union.
The money would be in addition to
the $3.75 billion in agricultural cred
its approved by Bush since January
1991.
Bush and other administration
officials were at a loss to say how
much the overall plan would cost
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American taxpayers. The plan repack
aged many earlier proposals, includ
ing a long-stalled $12 billion request
to Congress to replenish loan funds of
the IMF. The only major new ex
pense appeared to be the $1.1 billion
increase for agricultural credits.
A senior U.S. official said after
ward the program includes “roughly
S3 billion-plus in new money.” He
broke it down this way:
• $1.1 billion in new credits for
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Russia," Ukraine and other former
republics.
• SI.5 billion as the U.S. share of
a S6 billion fund to stabilize the Rus
sian currency.
• $500 million to SI billion to
finance and insure U.S. investments
in Russia.
“There’s no funny money, it’s real
money,” said the official, briefing
reporters at the State Department under
rules shielding his identity.
Clinton prepares
for final battles
Governor flays Bush’s foreign policy
NEW YORK — Democrat Bill
Clinton said Wednesday the Bush
adm inistration has bowed to politi
cal pressure and
pursued a “re
active, rudder
less and erratic”
course in an era
of global
change.
“George
Bush has invoked a new world
order without enunciating a new
American purpose,” the Democratic
front-runner said in remarks aimed
at boosting his foreign policy cre
dentials.
The Arkansas governor scored
Bush as too slow in helping the
former Soviet republics, too soft
on China’s communist government,
and abandoning Iraq’s Kurds and
Shiites after the Persian Gulf War.
Clinton also took aim at Bush
for what he described as a coldly
calculated political decision to
“browbeat Israel . . . while nutur
ing tics to Syria's despotic regime.”
Clinton said he would not hesi
tate to use force if necessary, but
added that in most eases he would
pfefer multinational actions taken
through the United Nations.
“Amcrica’schallcngc in thisera
is not to bear every burden but to
lip the balance,” Clinton said. “As
John Kennedy put it, we can’t be
strong abroad if we are weak at
home.”
Clinton has planned the speech
for several weeks and took delight
in Bush’s decision to unveil a
Russian aid package the very day
Clinton chose for his address to the
Foreign Policy Association.
Clinton claims media ignoring issues
WASHINGTON — It is like
water torture. One drip doesn’t
matter. Collectively, they can drive
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“Clinton Denies He Exempted
Himself from an Ethics Law,” says
The New York Times.
Bill Clinton says the portrait of
him in the news media is “a total
denial of all my life’s work.”
Arc the media piling on? Is he
undergoing a scrutiny rougher than
normal?
Some observers, including Tho
mas Kean, former Republican gov
ernor of New Jersey and a sup
porter of George Bush’s re-elec
tion, think so.
Kean said he has no problem
with “havc-you-cvcr” questions,
“but I gel very disturbed when they
lead the evening news with itorput
them on the front page. You have
to ask, ‘Is that question really
material as to whether the man
would be a good president?”’
“I think the press is on the edge
of nitpicking Clinton,” added
Thomas W inship, former editor of
the Boston Globe.
Libya protests U.N. sanctions
4 killed in Gaza Strip violence
JhKUbALhM — Israeli troops opened lire
in a refugee camp market Wednesday after
being attacked by firebombs, U.N. officials
and Arab reporters said. Four Palestinians were
killed and more than 50 wounded.
The violence at Rafah in the Gaza Strip
came as Palestinians were shopping for the
feast marking the end of Ramadan, the holiest
time on the Muslim calendar. It was the bloodi
est single confrontation between Palestinians
and troops in the occupied lands in three years.
The Israeli troops were chasing Palestinian
men who had thrown firebombs at them, said
Rolf van Uye, a spokesman for the U.N. Relief
and Works Agency.
“Troops started opening fire, and at the time
the market was extremely busy because of the
end of Ramadan,” van Uye said.
The army, which confirmed four dead and
10 wounded, said a grenade was thrown at ar
army observation post in Rafah town, which
borders the camp.
Troops closed the area and spotted a car a>
it sped from the scene, running over three
bystanders, the army said. Firebombs were
thrown at the troops, and one device set a
border police jeep ablaze, said an army offi
cial, speaking on condition of anonymity.
Troops opened fire, killing two Palestinian-'
who had thrown firebombs, the army official
said. He said he did not know how the other twe
Palestinians were killed.
PLO spokesman Bassam Abu Sharif, speak
ing by telephone from Tunisia, called the shoot
ings a “massacre” and urged the Bush admini
stration to pressure the Israeli government to
prevent further shootings.
CAIRO, Egypt— Syria, Tunisia, Leba
non and the Arab League criticized the new
U.N. sanctions against Libya on Wednes
day, and Moammar Gadhafi reportedly threat
ened to withhold oil exports to Europe in re
taliation.
Protesters in various Libyan cities con
demned what they called the unjust and
Draconian sanctions the U.N. Security
Council imposed Tuesday on Libyan air
traffic and arms trade, the official Libyan
news agency JANA said.
A pro-govemment newspaper Bahrain
asked: “What new world order arc we talk
ing about? And what is the world going to do
under this new world order?”
The paper, Akhbar Al-Khaleej, told read
ers in the Persian Gulf state that the meaning
of the resolution “is crystal clear, that the
big ones can impose what they want on the
world, flouting limits of logic or justice,
flouting respect for international law and
the real will of the international society.”
The Arab League said the dispute could
be resolved by April 15, the date the sanc
tions take effect unless Libya turns over six
suspects in the terrorist bombings of Pan
Am Flight 103 in 1988 and a French airliner
in 1989.
In all, 441 people from 32 countries died
in the airliner bombings.
The resolution “is not appropriate,” said
Foreign Minister Farouk al-Sharaa of Syria.
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parking lots. Point sources arc more
localized, he said.
“Point sources arc quite well
known,” he said. “We need to deal
with non-point sources. Non-point
sources arc considered by most people
to be the predominant problem in
water quality.”
UNL’s part in the project. Mer
chant said, is to invent ways to use
remote sensing, such as aerial sur
veys or space satellites, to dbllccl
data on the pollution. The university
also is looking into computer models
and mapping, he said.
Merchant said the project proba
bly was targeted by the Bush admini
stration because of the way it was
financed.
Money for the study is channeled
through the Environmental Protec
tion Agency office in Kansas City,
Kan., he said. Although the funds
have been allocated, the university
will not receive the money until June,
when the “grant year” begins.
Until then, Merchant said, the funds
arc “frozen” at the EPA office, giving
Bush a convenient target.
“It’s not anything to do with the
nature of the research at all,” he said.
Merchant said all of the grants he
was aware of on the list were similar
in that respect.
“There’s nothing you can general
ize about (the grants) except they
were not spoken for yet, just because
of the grant year.”
The three universities in the water
project, Merchant said, are one year
along in a 3-5 year program. If funds
are cut, he said, the research would
stop and some student employees
would lose their positions.
Merchant said he was optimistic
that the cuts wouldn’t take place.
“We have no way of being certain,
but we have very good support from
our congressional delegates,” he said.
Julie Savidge, an assistant profes
sor in the Department of Forestry,
Fisheries and Wildlife, said one of the
wetlands projects slated to be cut
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ally understudied area of
Nebraska.
Savidge
assistant professor,
department of Forestry,
Fisheries and Wildlife
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involved studying the needs of
Sandhills waterfowl.
The study, she said, would focus
on the 2,(XX) lakes of the Nebraska
Sandhills and how birds use them.
The lakes arc a major stopping area
for migrating birds, many of which
also breed there, she said.
The research would examine more
than one lake to see how different
lakes function together to provide a
habitat for various birds, Savidge said.
She said some preliminary work
had been done, but additional fund
ing was needed for the project to
continue.
The data gathered by the study
would be used to help protect and
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“The Sandhills arc a really under
studied area of Nebraska,” she said.
“It’s one critical area for birds.”
A $60,000 grant allocated to a
groundwater monitoring study was
the second wetlands project on the hit
list.
Anne Malhcmc, a hydrologist with
the Conservation and Survey Divi
sion, said a system to monitor ground
water in the Sandhills was important
in understanding how groundwater
flowed through the aquifer of the
region.
Data gathered in the study could
be used to maintain animal habitats
and track the movement of agricul
ture chemicals and other surface in
puts, she said.
“The hydrology of the wetlands in
the Sandhills has not been studied in
a lot of detail,” she said.
Matheme said she was unsure why
the project was selected for the cuts.
If funding is removed, the chances of
the project being funded by another
source will be “up for grabs,” Math-,
erne said.
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