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Competition will be fierce
for federal stimulus money
WASHINGTON — Just how
much bang will taxpayers get for
the billions of bucks President
Clinton wants to spend to reignite
the economy? If state and local
officials are right, the answer is an
explosion of new jobs.
Already, the competition forihat
one-time shot of federal money is
shaping up as fierce.
As Clinton puts the final touches
on his package of 1993 tax breaks
and job-creating projects, potential
beneficiaries are lining up with
ideas on how to spend the money.
Nevada Gov. Bob Miller said
his state needed millions in addi
tional federal tax dollars to repave
Interstate 80 across northern Ne
vada, build a new bridge over the
Colorado River and improve rail
yards in the Reno area. And that’s
just for starters.
The second tier of his wish list
includesa high-speed rail line from
California to Nevada.
Other states have chimed in,
too. Oregon, for example, wants
“tens of millions” to replaceaCivil
War-era canal that is the sole source
of water for the city of Albany, and
$18 million for sewer
improvemnets in East Springfield.
The political maneuvering has
already begun.
Despite indications the economy
is slowly improving, Clinton is
likely to call for a $31 billion stimu
lus package, about half in tax breaks
for business and half in jobs-re
lated government spending.
Clinton outlines change
WASHINGTON — President
Clinton, in his first prime-time ad
dress from the Oval Office, summoned
Americans to “a call to arms” on
Monday, promising a plan to revive
the economy through a painful pack
age of tax increases and spending
cuts.
“We have to face the fact that, to
make the changes our country needs,
more Americans must contribute to
day so that all Americans can do
better tomorrow,” the president said.
“But I can assure you of this: you’re
not going alone, you’re not going
first, and you’re no longer going to
pay more and get less,” he said.
The speech previewed one he will
make to Congress on Wednesday night
outlining details of his program to
revitalize the economy and create jobs.
It also spurred an intense public rela
tions blitz to overcome resistance in
Congress, and among the public to
$500billion in tax increases and spend
ing reductions in popular programs
over four years.
Clinton’s speech amounted to a
lecture on the nation’s econom ic prob
lems and the solutions he proposes to
fix them. Using charts and graphs, he
blamed the woes on the policies of
Ronald Reagan and George Bush.
“Look at this,” he said, pointing to
one graph. “The big tax cuts for the
wealthy, the growth in government
spending, and soaring health care
costs, all caused the federal deficit to
explode. Our debt is now four times as
bigas it was in 1980.”
Monday night, Clinton promised
to “chart a course that will enable us
to compete and win.”
He said, “My message to you is
clear: The price of doing the same old
thing is far higher than the price of
change.”
He said change must begin at the
top, and noted his recent announce
ments that he would cut the size of the
White House staff and the size of the
federal workforce.
“If you join with me, we can create
an economy in which all Americans
work hard and prosper,” the president
said. “This is nothing less than a call
to arms to restore the vitality of the
American dream.”
The president said that special in
terests already were out in force to
block his program. “Those who have
profited from the status quo will op
pose the changes we seek, every step
of the way,” he said. “They’ve al
ready lined the corridors of power
with high-priced lobbyists.
Sarajevo is now town without bread i
a j cvu, Bosnia- Herzegovina
— Sarajevo’s misery hit a new low
Monday as the last operating bakery
ran out of fuel to make bread and the
capital’s 380,000 residents were told
to stay indoors because of fierce shell
ing.
Snow was back
on the streets of the
embattled city. A
natural gas pipe
line was cut and
electric power was
available through
only one precari
ous line.
City leaders refused for a fourth
day to distribute U.N. food aid to
protest the U.N.’s failure to get sup
plies to eastern Bosnia.
Mortar shells thudded into down
town Sarajevo and shells fired by
government forces hit some Serb po
sitions.
Sarajevo main hospital said three
people were killed and 18 wounded
Monday.
Bosnian radio reported that many
areas of the city and suburbs were
shelled, and that the western suburb of
Dobrinja was still being hit in the
evening with its residents taking shel
ter in basements.
Serbs began besieging the Bosnian
capital soon after Bosnia’s majority
Muslims and Croats voted for Bosnia’s
secession from Serb-dominated Yu
goslavia a year ago. Bosnia’s Serbs
opposed secession.
Heavy fighting also reportedly
flared in the Serb-held enclave of
Krajina in southwest Croatia. Fight
ing between Croats and ethnic Serb
resumed last month after a year-long
truce.
In the latest casualty count from
the Bosnian war, the government said
134,208 people, including 1,634 chil
dren, have been killed or were miss
ing in areas under Bosnian control.
Serbs have captured two-thirds of
Bosnian territory since they began the
rebellion.
Western officials have estimated
the Bosnian death toll at more than
18,000, but acknowledge their fig
ures are conservative.
The government also said 146,158
people were wounded and said 64,050
of them will be invalids because of
amputations or major injuries.
At Sarajcvo’sonly remaining bak
ery, manager Enver Kazazic said gas
and diesel supplies had run out and
ovens produced no loaves Monday
for the first lime in the war.
“Sarajevo is now a town without
bread,” he said. “This is the worst
situation for the bakery in 40 years.”
He said 2,500 loaves left over from
Sunday’s production had been deliv
ered to hospitals. The main hospital
alone needs 4,000 loaves daily and
refugee centers need 10,000, he said.
Eastern Bosnia remained cut off
from aid.
LA teachers: Strike would stir more tension
LOS ANGELES—Nearly forgot
ten amid the apprehension over two
racially charged trials is the prospect
of a strike next week by 28,000 teach
ers in the nation’s second-largest pub
lic school system.
The teachers union worries that a
walkout Feb. 23 would put pickets
and thousands of students on city
streets at a time when tensions are
running high.
“It has us frightened to death,” said
Catherine Carey, a spokeswoman for
the United Teachers-Los Angeles
union.
I
“We don’t want our people hurt,
we don’t want anybody hurt.. .espe
cially the kids. That would be tragic.
That’s why we hope an agreement can
be reached in the next week,” she
said.
If mediation efforts fail, the teacher
walkout is scheduled to begin during
the federal civil rights trial of four
white police officers accused of beat
ing black motorist Rodney King.
And it would start shortly before
the state criminal trial of three black
men charged with beating white
trucker Reginald Denny during last
year’s riots.
School board member Mark
Slavkin said if the union wanted to
prevent trouble it should abandon plans
to walk out.
“There’s no way you can have a
strike that will not do great damage
tolhis city, period,” Slavkin said.
The union has called the strike to
protest a cumulative 12 percent pay
cut the school board imposed last fail
to bridge an estimated $400 million
deficit in the district’s $3.9 billion
budget.
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Gulf states seek to counter Iran’s new subs
ABU DHABI, United Arab
Emirates — The wealthy Persian
Gulf states are turning their atten
tion to anti-submarine warfare,
unheard of in the region until Iran
recently bought Russian subma
rines.
In the past, navies took third
place in the defense priorities of
gulfstates,after airand land forces.
That is changing rapidly, experts
say.
As the new dimension in the
area’s weapons buildup since the
Iraqi invasion of Kuwait, anti-sub
marine warfare holds center stage
at a five-day arms exhibition that
opened Sunday with displays by
350 companies from 34 nations.
“There’s now a definite con
cern, particularly in the southern
gulf, about the Iranian submarines,’’
said Richard Coltart of Britain’s
Marconi Defense Systems, which
produces anti-submarine weapons
and detection equipment.
Doctor helps 13th person commit suicide
ROSEVILLE, Mich.—Dr. Jack
Kevorkian helped a 70-year-old
invalid kill himself Monday by in
haling carbon monoxide. He was
Kevorkian’s 13th assisted suicide.
Hugh Gale, a former security
guard, had been disabled more than
10 years with emphysema and con
gestive heart disease.
“He was in terrible pain,” said
Michael Schwartz, one of
Kevorkian’s attorneys. “He was on
oxygen 100 percent of the time —
could not walk, could not go out of
the house.”
Gale’s wife, Cheryl, and
Kevorkian were at Gale’s suburban
Detroit home when he died,
Schwartz said. Mrs. Gale did not
speak to reporters. Linda Vaughn
Davis, an assistant county prosecu
tor at the scene, said she didn’t
know what legaJ action, if any,
would be taken.
Tyson s lawyers appeal
for retrial of rape case
INDIANAPOLIS — A judge who
kept key witnesses from testifying
and blocked the introduction of im
portantevidence allowed Mike Tyson
to be wrongly convicted of rape, his
lawyer argued Monday in appealing
for a new trial.
“We want a new trial in which all
the evidence can be presented to a
jury,” attorney Alan Dcrshowitz told
a group of law students after two
hours of argument before a three
judge appeals panel.
The Indiana Court of Appeals panel
is not expected to rule on the request
for at least two months, court officials
said.
Inside the state Supreme Court
chamber, Dershowitz headed a de
fense team that attacked Superior
Court Judge Patricia J. Gifford’s han
dling of the case.
Gifford denied a jury the necessary
tools of evidence by blocking testi
mony from three defense witnesses
and refusing jurors a chance to con
sider whether his accuser had con
sented to sex, the former heavyweight
boxing champion’s lawyers said.
“U is obvious if they had these
tools, they would have acquitted Mike
Tyson,” said Nathan Dershowitz, an
other defense attorney and the brother
of Alan.
‘This appeal is not about re-weigh
ing evidence, as the defense would
have you do,” prosecutor Lawrence
M. Reuben saia.
Tyson, 26, is serving a six-year
sentence after being convicted last
year of raping Desiree Washington in
his Indianapolis hotel room in July
1991. She was contestant in the Miss
Black America beauty pageant at the
time.
Boxing promoter Don King, who
attended the hearing, said he planned
to visit Tyson with news of the hear
ing. .
Nathan Dershowitz argued that
Gifford should have permitted testi
mony from witnesses who said they
saw Tyson and a woman embracing in
his limousine outside his hotel. One
witness saw Tyson and the woman
walk arm-in-arm into the hotel, he
said.
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