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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.
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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,
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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.
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Marines say Somalia more stable now I
MOGADISHU, Somalia — The
first American combat troops flew
home from Somalia on Tuesday with
excitement, relief and a feeling that
they brought some stability to this far
off ravaged land.
The chief U.S. military spokes
man, Marine Col. Fred Peck, said he
did not know when more of the 24,715
American troops would be withdrawn.
The United States has been sty
mied in its efforts to transfer military
control of Somalia to a U.N. com
mand because the Security Council
has not yet acted on a required resolu
tion. The lop U.N. envoy to Somalia,
Ismat Kittani of Iraq, indicated Mon
day that the U.S. deadline of Feb. 1
would not likely be met.
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.”