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If linton aims to help victims of military cuts ^^^^Scot^aurer/uN Companies urged to make products for civilian uses BALTIMORE—Looking to wean the nation off Cold War military bud gets, President Clinton on Thursday promised help to people and places hurt by deep Pentagon cuts and a new round of base closings. He also pledged to spend billions of dollars to promote civilian uses of military technology. “The world’s finest makers of swords can and will be the world’s finest makers of plowshares,” the There are hundreds of questions on the GMAT, GRE and LSAT. This checklist will help you answer all of them. y Kaplan makes test prep convenient. jW With 1 50 centers ami thousands of class schedules, the Imr I odds are we'll lx* ready to teach when and where you need us to lx* there. .1,-Kaplan helps you manage your time. 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John KasicH, ranking Re publican on the House Budget Com mittee. , Clinton said, “I don’t pretend that this will be easy, and all of it will take some time.” Clinton’s first-year budget con tains little new money, and most of the programs announced Thursday have been on his agenda since the presidential campaign. But the Westinghouse plant— with its elec tric cars and high-tech civilian radar — was a fitting backdrop for unveil ing his repackaged defense conver sion program. Nearly4,500plant employees have been laid off since 1991, but company officials said hundreds of jobs were saved when the tirm began using its technology to create products for ci vilian and military uses. Clinton wants to use federal money to help more defense-oriented com panies develop similar “dual-use” programs. The first money forClinton’spack age comes from a $1.4 billion appro priation approved by Congress last year but not spent by the B ush adm in - istration. Reiterating a promise he made last month, Clinton said he would takcanothcr$300million from other federal programs to make Si.7 billion available for defense conver sion in the fiscal year that ends Scm 30. Police: No conspiracy in clinic shooting PENSACOLA, Fla. — Investiga tors found no evidence Thursday of a conspiracy in the shooting death of a doctor outside his abortion clinic. The anti-abortion demonstrator who re portedly confessed was ordered held without bond. In the wake of what’s believed to be the nation’s first killing stemming from an abortion demonstration, clin ics around thecountry lightened secu rity and women’s groups urged Con gress to approve legislation making theblockingof clinicsa federal crime. At conservative Pensacola’s two abortion clinics, police increased se curity. “The whole community feels vio lalcd by the killing,” Mayor Jerry Maygarden said. A candlelight vigil in Gunn’s memory was planned in Pensacola for Thursday night. Michael Frederick Griffin, once described by his wife as suffering “great fits of violence,” was ordered held without bond. A day earlier, he shot Dr. David Gunn, calmly surren dered and confessed, auhtorities said. “At this lime we have no evidence to indicate a conspiracy exists,” po lice Sgt. Jerry Potts said. “The case is not closed, but I can’t say we antici pate additional arrests.” In Washington, several national groups urged an FBI investigation of “anti-choice violence.” The shooting, abortion rights ad vocates said, is indicative of growing extremism in the anti-abortion move ment. “The government needs to ensure that vigilantes, terrorists and religious extremists do not take away our basic right to choose,” said Kate Michelman, president of the National Abortion Rights Action League. Randall Terry, a leader of the anti abortion group Operation Rescue, called the killing an “inappropriate, repulsive act,” but he also called G unn a murderer of babies. I Youth Baseball Employment Opportunities The Babe Ruth Baseball * League needs umpires & coaches for the summer. Leave message at 489-4252 and specify if interested in afternoon umpiring or morning ^ & afternoon coaching, y I-1 1993 SUE TIDBALL AWARD FOR CREATIVE HUMANITY HONORS: Ron Bonnstetter Deloris (Dee) Borg Louis Crompton Rosanna Johnson Frances Kaye Marvin Rhodes Anona Trutna George Veomett Yolonda Yates Linda Young AWARD EVENT AND RECEPTION SUNDAY, MARCH 14 7:00 P.M. St. Mark's Episcopal Church 1309 R Street Celebrative Music & Entertainment PUBLIC INVITED Cult leader Koresh releases 3 followers from compound WACO, Texas — Doomsday cult leader David Koresh agreed to let three men leave his armed compound, the FBI said, but dozens of followers remained locked in a standoff with federal agents for a 12th day Thurs day. The three men, whose exit was promised in a phone call early in the day, had not left the Branch Davidians* rural compound near Waco by mid afternoon. Also Thursday, a 12-ycar-old girl who lived with the cult for four years said that while there, she was taught to pul a gun in her mouth and instructed how to commit suicide by tak ing cya nide. Two women and 21 children were allowed to leave last week. TTte last was a young girl last Friday. Ninety adults and 17 children arc still be lieved to be in the compound. More than a week ago, Korcsh reneged on a promise to surrender the entire cull once a radio station played a lengthy statement of his on die air. FBI spokesman Dick Swcnscn called Koresh’s latest promised re lease a positive signal in negotiations to end the stalemate, which began Feb. 28 when an attempted raid by federal agents turned into gun battles. Four federal agents and at least two cult members died. But Swcnscn also cautioned, “Un til they come out, we won’t be com fortable that they arc coming out.” Korcsh, an apocalyptic preacher who has called himself Jesus Christ, has said earlier that he was injured in the gun battle. Since Tuesday, he has complained of a^ headache and left negotiations to other cult members, led by aspiring preacher Steve Schneider. Communist lawmakers further diminishing Yeltsin’s powers MOSCOW — The Communist dominated Congress whittled away more of President Boris Yeltsin’s powers Thursday and canceled a na tional referendum he had sought to cement his authority. The criticism was so biting that Yeltsin walked outof the Grand Krem lin Palace before the Congress of People’s Deputies adjourned its sec ond day of an emergency session. The votes culling his power were preliminary but potentially damaging to Ycltsin, who has haggled for months with Parliament Speaker Ruslan Khasbulatov over who should wield supreme power: the president or par liament. Without his present power to issue decrees, Yeltsin loses the ability to implement market reforms over the heads of obstinate officials and pro A Communist lawmakers. And without the threat of the proposed April 11 referendum, lawmakers may be emboldened to attack Yeltsin further. Yeltsin’s supporters in the 1,033 member Congress claimed the re strictions, if given final approval, could make Yeltsin a lame-duck presi dent. The resolution was sent to an editing committee — which includes Yeltsin and Khasbulatov—andcould. be presented for a final vote Friday. “After this Congress, the reforms could be finished,” said Leonid Gurevich, a pro-Yeltsin lawmaker. In Washington, Secretary of State Warren Christopher expressed coni i dcncc Yeltsin could emerge in a stron ger position, saying that “the end ot the story has not been written.” Nebraskan to ,ubmtt •tofy ideas and comments to the Dally Nebraskan by ETSTrflffi'.V63 amand5 p.m. Monday through Friday. 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