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Ss;srcu., News digest i-World wire ——, Israel to return 100 deported Palestinians JERUSALEM — Israel will return 100 of the deported Pales tinians from Lebanon immedi ately and return the remainder within a year, Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin announced Mon day. The deportations prompted the U.N. to demand the exiles’ immediate return and threatened the resumption of Middle East peace talks. Rabin said the arrangement was worked out in discussions with the United States, and that the Clinton administration un dertook to shield Israel from in ternational sanctions and to work to renew the Middle East peace talks. L.aiiiomia nouses slip, sliding away Anaheim, Calif. — Two weeks of near-record rain in January undermined a posh Ana heim Hills neighborhood, send ing it slipping 1 inch downhill every day. Foundations and swimming pools cracked, streets and side walks buckled, and authorities ordered people out of 46 expen sive but unsafe homes. FBI analyzes funds for Israeli Muslims WASHINGTON — The FBI believes some Arab-Americans are raising money for the political and welfare activities of Hamas, a Pal estinian Muslim movement in Is raeli-occupied territories, officials said Monday. Law enforcement agencies are monitoring several groupsof Hamas supporters that are disseminating anti-Israel propaganda and raising i ■ funds for Palestinian welfare and religious causes, said one official. They dispute claims in the offi cial Israeli media that Hamas’ main command and control center is in the United Stales. The command center for Hamas, which Israel blames for the killings of at least 11 Israelis in the past four years, is located in the occupied Gaza Strip and West Bank, this official said. Clinton grants governors 1 more leeway with Medicaid! WASHINGTON — President Clinton gave the nation’s governors a freer hand Monday to run their finan cially strapped Medicaid programs. The governors in turn promised to help him sell a tough plan to shrink the huge budget deficit. Clinton said that easing Medicaid rules was “one big step on a long road to giving this countiy the kind of health-care system it needs.” -The gov ernors were ebullient fol lowing a four hour meeting with Clinton focusing on soaring health care costs that are helping -drive the bud get deficit to a projected S327 billion this year. Clinton “is fully knowledgeable and very sympathetic to what it is that we are facing,” Republican Gov. Pete Wilson of California said. New York Gov. MarioCuomosaid he expected Clinton to come up with a deficit-reduction plan “that will re ceive a substantial amount of support from Republican and Democratic governors.” The administration has raised the possibility of an energy tax, limits on Social Security cost-of-living in creases, higher corporate taxes and increased taxes on the wealthy. “No decisions have been made, and I don’t know that it’s very produc tive to go into what’s on and what’s off the tableatany time,” While House communications director George Stephanopoulos said. Clinton is to announce his program Feb. 17 in an address to a joint session of Congress. Clinton said the nation’s health bill has more than tripled in the last 12 years. “Now we spend far more than any other nation on Earth and we get less for it.” Medicaid provides health care for welfare recipients and low-income elderly, blind or disabled people. Fed eral and state outlays approach $140 billion. Clinton said, “For years and years and years and years, governors have been screaming for relief from the cumbersome process by which the federal government has micromanaged the health care system affecting poor Americans. We are going to try to give them that relief so that for lower costs we can do more good for more people,” he said. “This will be one big step on a long road to giving this country the kind of health care system it needs.” He ordered the Health and Human Services department to streamline the process by which states seek Medic aid waivers. The waivers offer states flexibility from federal regulations in the way they spend the federal portion of Medicaid money. Arkansas obtained a waiver to al low elderly patients to use Medicaid money for in-home programs rather than nursing home. 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White House press secretary Dee Dee Myers called the incident deplor able and said il lends no credence to M military leaders who warned that lift- M ing the ban would lead to violencdB against homosexuals. “There have always been instance^ of bigotry against nolonly homosexu als but against other racial and ethnic minorities,” she said. “The president deplores it, but I don’t think that is li ^ reason not to lake a step forward on a ■ civil rights issue.” The victim, Crae Pridgen, 28, suf- 1 fered cuts and bruises. He lost a tooth, had a black eye, swollen lip and cut ear. He told police that the attackers mentioned Clinton. Three other people who tried to break up the scuffle received minor injuries. Pridgen credited three witnesses for saving him. Serb-Croat fighting resumes; I U.N. looks to press peace I ZAGREB,Croatia — A three-day lull in Serb-Croat fighting was shat tered Monday by fighting between government and ethnic Serb troops in Croatia’s southwestern reaches. Fighting also flared in neighboring Bosma-Herzegovina. Serb forces al lowed besieged Muslims to escape one town, but were pressed by Mus lim-led government troops in another. In Brussels, the European Com munity endorsed an internationally mediated plan to divide Bosnia Herzegovina into 10 semi-autono mous provinces. The 12-nation community consid ered but did not impose new sanctions against Serb-led Yugoslavia. A U.N .-brokered cease-fire held in Croatia for the past year, but was broken when the government launched an offensive Jan. 22. The Bosnian parties had accepted the plan to divide Bosnia into prov inces, but disagreed on proposed pro vincial borders. After the failure of the Geneva talks Saturday, the United Nations was expected to try one more lime to forgeacompromiscbetween Bosnia’s Muslims, Serbs and Croats. The European Community’s me diator at the talks, Lord Owen, said U.N. pressure in the next days could still “pull the Serbs and the Muslims together” on the proposed map. Failing that, “I just think we will have to railroad the map through,” he said. IT NelSfa^kan I Editor Chris Hopfsnspergsr Night News Editors Stephanie Purdy I 472-1766 Mike Lewis Managing Editor Alan Phelps Steve Smith Assoc News Editors Wendy Mott Lori Stones Tom Malnelll Art Director Scott Maurer Editonal Page Editor Jeremy Fitzpatrick General Manager Dan Shattll Wire Editor Todd Cooper Production Manager Katherine Pollcky I Copy Desk Editor Kathy Stelnauer Advertising Manager Jay Cruse Arts & Entertainment Mark Baldridge Classified Ad Manager Karen Jackson Editor Publications Board Chairman Doug Fiedler Diversions Editor Kim Spurlock 436-7862 Photo Chief Klley Tlmperley Professional Adviser Don Walton 473-7301 FAX NUMBER 472-1761 The Daily Nebraskan(USPS 144-080) is published by the UNL Publications Board. 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