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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
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president told enthusiastic workers at
a Westinghouse Electronic Corp.
plant, one day before the scheduled
announcement of a new round of base
closings.
Clinton plans to ease the pain of
military cuts with a five-year “de
fense conversion” budget of $19.6
billion, a fraction of the $112 billion
he plans to slash from the Pentagon
budget during the same period.
Republicans said the conversion
program would fail to provide enough
help to victims of Pentagon cuts.
“I think it is a political effort to try
to cover and mice excuses for the
incredible slashing that they’re doing
in this Pentagon, because they don’t
have the guts to cut anywhere else,”
said Rep. 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.
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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
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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.”
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