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Ssx. News digest Clinton era begins with ‘daunting challenges’ President-elect pledges innovation in government WASHINGTON — On the brink of his presidency, Bill Clinton pledged - on Tuesday to inject a spirit of inno vation in government and said, “I desperately want to make a differ ence.” Nearly half his Cabinet received preliminary approval and Clinton filled out his State Department team to confront a rash of global crises. “I face daunting challenges too great for any person’s mind to com prehend or wisdom to judgeor strength to meet alone,” Clinton said. At 11 a.m. Wednesday, Clinton will recite the historic 35-word oath and become America’s 42nd presi dent. Fifteen minutes earlier, Vice President-elect Al Gore will be sworn in. Both men will begin the day wor shipping at the Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church. Thousands of people paid between S100 to $ 1,000 for tickets to “a presi dential gala”ofentertainment featur ing such stars as Elton John, Barbara Streisand, Aretha Franklin, Chuck Berry, Judy Collins and the Alvin Ailey Dance Troupe. The rock group Fleetwood Mac reunited for the per formance. Clinton began his day by paying solemn tribute at the graves of the two slain Kennedys, John and Robert, his political heroes. He placed a white rose at each burial site and bowed his head in prayer. About 20 members of the Kennedy clan joined him. -44 / did not run for this job just to warm the seat I desperately want to make a differ ence. -Clinton President-elect --99 ~ President Bush held a farewell lunch with Vice President Dan Quaylc and said goodbyes to his aides. Clinton invited past and present governors to lunch, and he spoke to them about his vision of the presi dency. “My goal as president will be to bring to this city a new spirit of inno vation,” Clinton said. He quoted Franklin D. Roosevelt, another former governor who became president in a time of econom ic trouble:'' We ought to be about bold experimentation.” Reciting a long list of objectives, he said he wanted to fix the economy, create jobs, reduce the huge federal debt, control health care costs, im prove schools and “reinvent our na tional government.” He promised to eliminate unnecessary bureaucracy and work for campaign finance and lobbying controls. “I did not run for this job just tc warm the scat,” Clinton said. “I des perately want to make a difference.” He said the government must find away to experiment, to embrace what works and reject what docs not. “It doesn’t work that way in govern ment,” he complained. “We have to find a way to make the exception the rule.” Clinton said the nation must enact a health care program this year, but said it has to be linked with efforts to reduce the budget deficit. He said the states will have to shoulder part of the burden. L Clinton views Iraq cease fire with doubt; wants compliance WASHINGTON — President elect Clinton greeted Iraq’s cease fire offer on Tuesday with skepti cism and bluntly warned that defi ance would trigger more military strikes. “We need to see Iraq change its behav ior,” Cl inton comm un ications director George Slcphanopoulos said. “We need full compliance with the U.N. resolutions.” Saddam Husscin’ssuddcn prom ise to stop firing at allied aircraft patrolling the no-fly zones over Iraq raised hopes of reduced ten sions in the Middle East when Clinton takes office at noon Wednesday. Clinton himself said nothing publicly about Iraq. Speaking for him, aides pledged a continuity in the hard-line U.S. policy as the hour approached when the Bush administration’s two-year confron tation with Saddam would become an instant Clinton administration foreign policy dilemma. Advisers said Clinton was weighing an array of options from the Pentagon and his own camp. Some advisers privately ex pressed relief at the prospect of a cooling-off-period and an inaugu ration day Tree of military action. Publicly, Clinton aides would not offer any praise of Saddam’s announcement. They chose instead to note Iraq was still not in compliance with United Nations demands for its in spectors to have full access to sus pected Iraqi military installations and were openly skeptical of Saddam’s commitment to honor the no-fly zones he has'insisted violated Iraq’s sovereignty. “The policy is firm at this point,” Slephanopoulos said. “There should be no perceived opening of the door” to improved relations, said Clinton press secre tary Dee Dee Myers. Sports wire Iraq promises cease fire after air battles eruot Lendl loses in Australia MELBOURNE, Australia— No. 8 seed Ivan Lendl, showing rustincss because of a groin in jury which forced him to with draw from a warm-up tourna ment, fell toChristian Bergstrom 6-4, 6-4, 2-6, 6-4 in the First round of the Australian Open. He had not lost in the First round of a Grand Slam since 1981 at Wimbledon. Sixth-seeded Michael Chang put on an exhibition of al l-around tennis in beating Chris Bailey 6 3,6-1,6-1. Bears hire Wannstedt CHICAGO — The Chicago Bears dipped into Dallas for another hands-on, emotional coach Tuesday, picking Cow boys defensive coordinator Dave Wannstedt to replace Mike Ditka. The Bears want Wannstedt to work the same Ditka magic. That job starts after the Cow boys play the Buffalo Bills in the Super Bowl on Jan. 31. Barkley goes after ref NEW YORK — The NBA deferred any action Tuesday after Charles Barkley’s tirade and pursuit of ofFicial Jim Clark following the Phoenix Suns’ 106-103 loss to the New York Knicks on Monday. Barkley vaulted over the scorer’s table tochasc after Clark al the end of the game, com plaining that he had been fouled by Anthony Mason on a last gasp 3-point shot. When warned that the out burst would cost him money, Barkley went wild, r JL JL WASHINGTON — Fresh air battles mounted over northern Iraq on Tuesday and additional U.S. warships sailed to the region as the Bush ad ministration prepared to hand its troubled relationship with Iraq to Presi dent-elect Clinton. President Bush’s spokesman said the White House wanted to see action backing up the Iraqi offer to cease firing at allied planes in its “no-fly zones.” The incoming Clinton ad ministration, too, said it wanted more than words. . Iraq’s ruling Revolutionary Com mand Council — headed by Saddam Hussein — said there would be no attacks on U.S., French or British planes in a gesture of good will start ing at midnight on Clinton’s Inaugu ration Day. The move came after Iraq asked Clinton to abandon the allied air raid campaign, asserting that continued attacks would not force cooperation by Baghdad. “There is a cease-fire regimen in place in U.N. Resolution 687, and if Iraq complies with that, then there should be no problem,” said presiden tial spokesman Marlin Fitzwaicr. George Stephanopoulos, Clinton communications director, said Iraq’s offer did nothing to change the fact that the new administration expects “full compliance with all the require ments of the U.N. resolutions.” “We need to sec Iraq change its behavior,” Stephanopoulos said. At the Pentagon, spokesman Pete Williams termed the offer “a helpful sign.” But “more important than any statement is action,” he said, citing the two issues that have drawn Iraq and the allies into military confronta tion repeatedly in recent weeks. He said Iraq must: • Stop firing on U.S„ British and French aircraft patrolling the no-fly zones in the north and south, take its anti-aircraft missiles out of firing sta tus and store them. • Agree to the weapons inspec tions demanded by the United Na tions. Both WjHiams and Fit/.water de nied the Bush administration would steer clear of force against tnc Iraqi military if provoked in the final hours before Clinton is sworn in at 11 a.m. on Wednesday. “We continue to watch Iraq’s be havior. We certainly would not hesi tate to respond if necessary,” said Fitzwatcr. About 2:30 a.m. EST Tuesday, Iraqi missile and radar in stallations “locked on” a U.S. F-4G “Wild Weasel,” which fired a anti radar HARM missile at the site, lo cated some 14 miles cast of the city of Mosul, Williams said. “We’re not certain of the results,” he said. About an hour later, a U.S. Air Force F-16 drew Iraqi anti-aircraft artillery fire, but did not return the fire, Williams said. In a third incidental 5:30a.m. EST at a different location, two F-16s were fired on by Iraqi anti-aircraft artillery. They dropped four cluster bombs at the Iraqi weaponry, but Pentagon of ficials “don’t know the results,” Wil liams said. Williams said that Iraqi jets arc continuing to fly just across the 36th parallel that forms the southern bor der of the northern no-fly zone in an attempt to lure allied aircraft into air defense traps. “This is slicking a toe over the line,” he said, indicating that the Iraqi flights arc designed only to draw al lied planes close enough to surface to-air missile batteries to try to shoot them down. Kuwait’s new border The United Nations Iraq-Kuwait Boundary Demarcation Commission has redefined the international border between the two countries as a result of the 1991 Gulf War. • _ IRAQ ■ Safwan .' — ----- New border - Old border Umm S- KUWAIT Y 10 km f~ ■ 1 "■ - .... 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The 556 Marines who left forCamp Pendleton, Calif., were jubilant as they departed, many of them cheering loudly, happy to be out of harm ’ s way and the heat, disease and dust of So malia. More than 500 troops were scheduled to leave Wednesday, re ducing Marine strength to less than 9,000. Another spokesman, Army Lt.Col. Steve Ritter, told the daily briefing that li.S. strength had probably reached its peak in numbers, but about 430 support troops, mostly from the Army, would be arriving as part of the logistics task force. The United States reportedly will provide logistics sup port to the U.N. command once it is set up. The Marines arc providing secu rity for aid workers trying to break through the famine, disease, lawless ness and civil war that have taken 350,000 Somali lives in the past year. “I’m excited to be leaving Soma lia,” said 1st Lt. Anne Christenson, 25, of Vancouver, Wash., looking forward to a reunion with her hus band, who is in the Navy. “It’sa pretty hard place to be living in, the heat, the dirt, being shot at. I’ve only been here for five weeks. It seems like a year, though.”