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By The Associated Press Edited by Todd Cooper NEWS DIGEST Nebraskan February 22,I9t3 Clinton challenges critics to orrer more cuts SANTA MONICA, Calif. (AP)— President Clinton, stepping up an at tack on critics who say his economic plan doesn’t contain enough spending reductions, said Sunday his opponents should offer more cuts and “not talk about doing better.” “It’s one thing to talk like a conser vative and another thing altogether to live like one,” Clinton said as he brought his sales stow for his economic program to the West Coast, where defense related indus tries areparticu larly suffering. Clinton told several thousand students at a community college that he would stress increased high-technology part nerships between government and industry to help convert lost defense jobs to civilian employment He also announced he was releas ing $500 million in federal funds to help defense industries convert to ci vilian projects. Aides said the money had been held up by the Bush admin istration. Clinton said his new technology proposal includes more job retraining programs for laid-off defense work ers and a shifting of government re search and development from defense purposes to civilian causes like envi ronmental protection. “Unless California is revived, the nation cannot recover economically,” Clinton said. Speaking with students in the gym nasium of Santa Monica College, Clinton cited his steps in cutting the White House staff by 25 percent, gov ernment adminstrative costs by 14 percent over four years and advocat ing a one-year freeze in the salaries of government officials. “Every time I go someplace, they say cut more and tax less,” Clinton said, referring to criticism from con servative lawmakers and many econo mists that his plan designed to reduce the federal deficit by $325 billion in four years is weighed too heavily in favor of taxes. Clinton said that, in additon to deep spending cuts in many areas, including the Star Wars anti-missile program in the defense budget, he had produced 150 specific cuts in his eco nomic plan. “That’s not bad for four weeks on the job. I think we can do better. But I think what we ought to do is do better and not talk about doing better,” he said in reference to his critics. The plan outlines about $1.5 tril lion in government spending in the fiscal year that begins Oct. 1. On his first trip to tne west as president, Clinton was flying later Sunday to San Jose, in California’s high-tech Silicon Valley , for a private dinner with about 30 business leaders. On Monday, he will tour Silicon Graphics in Mountain View, Calif., then fly to Seattle and a Boeing air craft plant — just days after Boeing announced it will eliminate 23,000 jobs this year/ “This whole part of our country, ^ which has been the beacon of hope for decades, is now under great stress,” Clinton said in Santa Monica. Clinton has proposed some $76 billion in defense spending cuts over four years in his new economic pack age. On finding ways to transform de fense industries to civilian jobs, Clinton said: “It’s time to stop talking about conversion and start doing some ming aooui u. * Noting the Boeing layoffs in a speech Friday in Hyde Park, N.Y. Clinton said he backs a “new technoH ogy policy” to help revitalize indus tries that had been dependent on mili tary contracts. “We know that aerospace jobs are growing in number worldwide - high wage jobs. And we sat here for 10 years and let Europe put $26 billion into an Airbus program, direct gov ernment subsidies, to throw Boeing workers, McDonnell Douglas work ers and other aerospace workers in America out of work because we said, well, we don’t practice those kind of partnerships. “So we’ve got to face the fact that we ’ ve taken a new direction,” Clin ton said, and hinted at new government industry partnerships in aviation .elec tronics and other fields. If you're dissatisfied with your current check- r ing account, check with us. At Metropolitan Federal, we'll deposit the first $10 in your new checking account. I Toward Your New I Checking Account IH£ ' &. < ¥► ' f 9$ '*• v ,, c ^ v I Brine in this coupon to toe downtown Lincoln Metropolitan Federal office andweUdeposit$10.00 I into your new Lifestyle Checking account* Offer expires April 30,1993. _ mm mim ad Well Give You $10 To Start A Good Book. It's easy to get your $10 too. Just bring in the coupon and open a new Lifestyle Checking account. You're sure to find one that fits the way you like to manage your money. Stop into the Metropolitan Federal office in downtown Lincoln. We'll get you started on a good book again. The Heartland^ Bank* METROPOLITAN^ federal bwk^L amhjmmm put Maaaa 238 South 13th • Lincoln • 473-3521 (Si Syria supports U.S. campaign to reopen Mideast peace talks United States will step in to help, Christopher says RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — Syria gave its unqualified support Sunday to the U.S. drive to reopen Mideast peace taiks as Secretary of State Warren M. Christopher promised to step in to help shape a settlement once the negotia tions resume. “We intend, if anything, to be more active than the United States has been in the past,” Christopher said, taking a stance long urged on Washington by the Arabs. But even with the support of President Hafez Assad, once prominent in the Arab rejectionist camp, Christopher still needs Palestinian ap proval of a phased return of 396 exiles from Lebanon. Christopher got Israel to agree Feb. 1 to take back 101 right away and the remainder by the end of the year. Now Christopher is urging Israel to speed their return by expediting re views of the expulsions. The men were de ported Dec. 17 on suspicions of inciting vio lence. The idea was given to Christopher on Friday in Cairo by Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak. Christopher met for 3 1/2 hours with Syrian President Hafez Assad. Afterward, neither Christophernor Syrian Foreign Minister Farouk al-Sharaa would provide details of the discus sions. Christopher praised Assad, saying the Syr ian president “has an independent desire to move forward with the peace process.” The secretary then flew to Riyadh, the fourth stop on a weeklong trip, his first abroad, for a meeting Sunday night with King Fahd of Saudi Arabia. He said he would be asking Saudi Arabia “to help us in an early resumptions of the negotia tions” of Mideast peace talks. Syria's determination to return to the bar gaining table in hopes of winning back the Golan Heights could put pressure on the Pales tinian leadership to accept something less than the immediate return of afl the deportees. Sharaa called their exile “a human tragedy” and “a thorn in resuming the peace process.” But he said the stalled peace process was “broader and more important” Christopher, meanwhile, again said the United States would be a “full partner” in the negotiations and, for the first time, explained what he meant by that. “I think you will see the United States being in a very pro-active role,” he said. “On a number of issues the parties are close enough together so they can be assisted by the facilita tion of an outsider. “There is room for a constructive role of an honest broker at this stage.” -World wire Cease-fire holds in Sarajevo as convoy brings aid SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina — A U.N. convoy held up for days by hostile Serbs and mined roads finally delivered food to a besieged eastern town on Sunday, but there was still no aid distribution in shattered Sarajevo. A unilateral, nationwide cease-fire called Saturday by Bosnia’s Muslim president, Alija Izetbegovic, appeared to be holding around the capital, but already was fraying else where. As the commander of U.N. peacekeepers in Bosnia headed for consultations with Bosnian Serb leaders to try to consolidate the truce, Muslims, Serbs and Croats were all reported to be massing troops or digging in for more fighting. U.N. list requests $250 million for Somalia projects MOGADISHU, Somalia—A U.N. wish list of projects to start rebuilding Somalia seeks at least $250 million—and that’s just for immediate needs, according to a (baft copy obtained Sunday by The Associated Press. The proposal includes projects to restore water systems, schools, agriculture and health care and promises a request for additional funds will come later this year. It says success hinges on allied forces continuing to maintain security in the lawless country. U.N. officials are to present a final ver sion of the report to a conference of donor nations on March 11 in Addis Ababa, Ethio pia. An aid package could provide a boost to peace talks between rival factions sched uled in Addis Ababa four days later. Nebraskan Un-Si ff, B0«. NobruKa Union 34.1400 R SI. iSs5s;4SS3S«s=s gAjicrWon grtot t, 18° hK °n# y^r. Second'claM^BostaQ*SB«*lS!coS*NE **^NtbCMKan'**•**••*■Union34,1400RSt.,Lincoln,NE MM8-044e ALLMATKMAL COPYRIGHT If** DAILY NEBRASKAN