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News digest Bush pulls punches on Clinton draft issue SALT LAKE CITY — President Bush told a military group Tuesday that Bill Clinton’s draft record mat ters because any president “might have to decide if our sons and daughters should knock early on death’s door.” Clinton steered clear of the draft issue while telling the group he was ready to lead the military as commander in chief. The candidates addressed the Na tional Guard Association an hour apart in appearances that had been seen as a chance for a hard-hitting exchange on Clinton’s descriptions of how he _ avoided the Vietnam draft Bush spoke of “controversy swirl ing around” the issue, but his ref erences were brief and indirect. Aides said Clinton had pre pared a response in case Bush at tacked directly on the draft issue, but decided it was unnecessary after hearing Bush’s speech. “National security begins with eco nomic security,” Clinton told the eroun. “There’s been a lot of controversy swirling around about service to coun try and influence to avoid the mili taii7, and I’ve read a great deal of speculation that I was going to come out here and use this forum to attack Gov. Clinton,” Bush said. “I didn’t come here to attack him,” Bush told the group. Still, “I want to tell you I feel very strongly about certain aspects of the controversy swirling around Gov. Clinton.” “Despite all our problems at home, we can never forget that we ask our presidents to lead the military,” he said. busn, a Navy nyer snoi aown in World War II, said, “Docs this mean that if you’ve never seen the awful horror of battle that you can ncveT be commander in chief?” “Of course not. Not at all,” said Bush. “But it does mean that we must hold our presidents to the highest standard.” “I will never allow a hollow army,” Clinton vowed. “We still must have the best-equipped and best-trained military to meet today’s threats,” he said, almost echoing Bush’s own re - marks about the importance of the military in a still-dangerous world. Clinton said ne wouia not shrink from his responsibilities as com mander in chief with a goal that “when we fight, always to win.” The Arkansas governor acknowl edged in April that he received an induction notice in 1969 but was al lowed to finish his first year of gradu ate school because the letter arrived late. That summer, he pledged to join an ROTC program to avoid the draft, but he later backed out of that agree ment and made himself available to be drafted. By then, a lottery system was in effect and Clinton drew a high number and never was called. New U.N. General Assembly faces post-Gold War world UNITED NATIONS — The 47ih General Assembly opened Tuesday facing new world disorder: a power vacuum left by the end of the Cold War, and famine, ethnic tension and environmental threats. With a full menu of 145 issues on the assembly’s plate, Yugoslavia was to be the biller appetizer. The United States, European and Islamic nations arc pressing to suspend or expel what remains of Yugoslavia from the United Nations. In its first act, the assembly endorsed by acclamation Stoyan Ganev, the foreign minis ter of Bulgaria, as its new president. Ganev is a symbol of the end of the Cold War. A 37-ycar-old lawyer, he was named last November to the first Bulgarian government since 1944 without Communists or Socialists. NextTuesday, Foreign Minister Cclso Lafer of Brazil begins a parade of about 40 world leaders speaking before the assembly. During the session, which lasts until mid y i. December, the General Assembly is expected to consider the establishment of a revolving fund for peacekeeping, famine in Somalia and other African countries, and payments to a fund to protect the environment. The United Slates wants Yugoslavia ex pelled outright from the United Nations, but might settle for suspension as a compromise, diplomats said. Muslim countries also favored expulsion. Russia opposed suspending Yugoslavia, say ing isolation would hamper communications leading to peace in the Balkans. China report edly shared Russia’s view. The matter was to be decided by the 15 member Security Council later this week, then be taken up by the 179-member General As sembly. Russia and China have veto power in the Security Council, and could block a move toward suspending Yugoslavia. 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V} j mill util nun HU Hill UIIIIU UK nr T Hftif itftl ttf Iff ftlf Iff Irlff Mil? vio • _ _ __ _ _ J Russian joblessness jump predicted by senior official MOSCOW — Russian unemploy ment could jump nearly 20-fold to more than 5 million people next year as cuts in subsidies drive more busi nesses into bankruptcy, a senior offi cial said in remarks published Tues day. Farmers picketed in cities across Russia on Tuesday, protesting that reforms have driven up the prices they must pay at a faster rate than prices they receive for their produce. Inflation has skyrocketed since President Boris Yeltsin accelerated reform by freeing prices last January. So far his government has balked at cutting subsidies to unprofitable slate owned businesses for fear of sinking them and throwing millions out of work. Yeltsin vowed last week to fight hyperinflation by slashing subsidies. A wide-scale privatization program he promised to launch Oct. 1 is ex pected to cause bankruptcies and so cial hardship. ... Economics Minister Andrei Nechayev said the number of people needing work next year could rise to about 7 million people, or 8 percent of the work force. Nechayev, quoted in the government’s Rossiskiye Vcsti (Rus sian News), said about 5 million of the 7 million would be officially ‘job less,’ of which about 4.7 million will receive unemployment relief. The number of people now regis tered as jobless is 248,000, the daily Moskovsky Komsomolcts reported. Authorities have said the real job less figure may be twice the official one. Officials from the International Monetary Fund and World Bank have made loans to Russia conditional on efforts to reduce the budget deficit, forcing Moscow to curb subsidies to the state-owned businesses and facto ries that still dominate the economy. Yellsin and other Russian officials have told Western authorities that -44 The government has promised us a lot, and it still keeps making promises, but the result is zilch. V.P. Pantykin Russian farmer -99 ~ subsidies cannot be cut abruptly for fear of forcing loo many people out of work and causing a social explosion. Pressure from powerful factory managers has forced Yeltsin to con tinue to subsidize them and to post pone plans to privatize the defense industry. Many Russians fear privatization of government-owned businesses and Western levels of joblessness. Those fears are so great that Rus sian lawmakers have balked at allow ing private ownership of land, a key stone of market reform. Protests could spread if Yeltsin’s government goes ahead with plans to stop bankrolling inefficient factories and businesses. Fanner demonstrations were held in Moscow and six other cities Tues day, the ITAR-Tass news agency said. They demanded help paying higher fuel prices. Several hundred demonstrators gathered on Moscow’s Old Square, outside a government office bui Iding. Their demands included more invest ment in agriculture, higher farm prices, lower taxes and greater redistribution of land. Farmers “have finally lost pa tience,” protester V.P. 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