By The
Associated Press
Edited by Jeff Singer
NEWS DIGEST
Net?raskan
Thursday, August 5,1993
Clinton
pushes
Congress
WASHINGTON — President
Clinton picked up four House con
verts for his deficit reduction bill in a
visit to Capitol Hill Wednesday, and
administration officials disclosed a
fresh concession designed to blunt the
impact of the measure on high wage
earners.
Clinton maneuvered to line up sup
port for his plan as a key swing vote in
the Senate, Dennis DeConcini of Ar
izona, said he remained undecided.
Votes are scheduled for later this week
on the measure, which Clinton says
will trim deficits by $496 billion over
five years.
“The choice is whether we do this
or do nothing and flail around another
60 or 90 days,” Clinton told reporters
after aelosed-doorsession with House
Democrats on the morning after a
televised appeal from the Oval Of
fice.
The concession, disclosed by a
senior Treasury Department official,
would give high-income Americans
an extra 24 months to pay a tax in
crease in the legislation that would be
retroactive to Jan. 1. Republican crit
ics had said that attempting to squeeze
a full year’s higher taxes out of less
than six months’ withholding would
cause severe harm to small businesses
and others.
Deficit compromise source:hous®,cbo
President Clinton made an aggressive public appeal to support
the deficit compromise budget plan. Taxes ^ ^ who earn
h> under $200,000 per year
Reduction sources:
Under the proposal President
Clinton calls, "A fair and balanced S
plan," every $10 in deficit
reduction would come from:
Reducing the deficit:
The budget package, Democrats
say, would pare $496 billion from
budget deficits through 1998.
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Taxes on rich: those Spending
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Clinton administration officialsand
congressional leaders have said the
Senate shapes up as a tougher obsta
cle to passage than the House, but
Clinton expressed optimism.
“But I don’t think the Senate will
let the plan go down,” Clinton said. “I
don’t think they would do that to the
country.”
The Senate approved the plan ear
lier in the year on a 50-49 vote, with
Vice President Al Gore casting the
tie-breaking vote. Since then, one of
the supporters, Sen. David Boren, D
Okla., has announced his opposition,
sending the White House searching
for an offsetting “yes” vote.
One target of White House lobby
ing, DcConcini, said Wednesday he
was still leaning against the package
even after the president praised him
during his Oval Office speech on
Tuesday.
“Ihavcn’imadc up my mind ....the
leaning is against it because I voted
against it before,” DcConcini said.
-News Briefs
LA. police sentencing begins
LOS ANGELES — A judge
Wednesday denied a defense motion
for a new trial as the sentencing of the
two policemen convicted in the
Rodney King beating got under
way.
Sgt. Stacey Koon and Officer
Laurence Powell faced a maximum of
lOyears in prison for violating King’s
civil rights during the beating, seared
into the national consciousness by a
videotape shot by an amateur photog
rapher.
U.S. District Judge John Davies
denied the motion for a new trial and
another seeking acquittal.
The defense claimed that the guilty
verdicts may have been based on com
munity pressure rather than strictly on
evidence. William Kopeny, one of
Powell’s lawyers, criticized prosecu
lore description of the jury as the
“conscience of the community.”
“Isn’t the jury the conscience of
the community?” replied the judge.
In April 1992, a stale jury acquit
ted Koon, Powell, Briseno and Timo
thy Wind, of all but one state charge
in the March 1991 beating of King.
The verdicts touched off riots that
killed more than 150 and did nearly $ 1
billion in damage.
Federal civil rights charges were
then brought against the four. In April,
a jury convicted Koon and Powell and
acquitted Briseno and Wind.
Unlike the mob scene that pre
vailed when the officers were con
victed three and a half months ago,
few people aside from reporters and
photographers were outside the down
town federal courthouse Wednesday.
tbl arrests pair for espionage
WASHINGTON — A Stale De
partment secretary and a West Afri
can journalist have been arrested on
espionage charges of delivering clas
sified defense documents to unautho
rized people, the FBI said Wednes
day.
Geneva Jones, 47, a secretary em
ployed at the State Department's Bu
reau of Politico-Military Affairssincc
1989, was arrested Tuesday by FBI
agents, the bureau said.
Also charged with espionage was
Dominic Ntubc, who said he is a
journalist, the bureau said. Ntubc is
permanent resident alien from
Cameroon, said Frank Scafidi, spokes
man for the FBI s Washington iicia
office.
Jones was arrested at 5:15 p.m.
Tuesday as she left work at the State
Department, Scafidi said. Nlubc was
arrested two hours later at his apart
ment in the city, the FBI said. Both
spent the night in jail, Scafidi said.
The two were arrested under a
provision of the espionage statute that
bars the transmission of documents
containing classified defense Secrets
by a person unauthorized to have ac
cess to the material to someone else
who is “not entitled to receive it.”
The offense carries a 10-year pris
on term.
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Kansas City impressed with Shields
RIVER FALLS, Wis. — Kansas
City's Will Shields is a third round
draft choice, but the Ouiland Trophy
winner from Nebraska is playing like
a first-rounder in training camp.
“Will has far exceeded what we
thought he might be able to do," Chiefs
coach Marty Schottcnhcimcr said
Wednesday. “He has natural instinct.
Players either have that or they don’L
He isa very bright, hard-working guy.
“The one area you look at and
wonder if he is going to be able to do
it, is (learning) all the assignments,
but his intelligence has accelerated
his progress.”
The Chiefs did not have a first or
second-round draft pick, but the addi
tion of Shields has caught the eye of
veteran offensive tackle Reggie
McElroy, who predicts big things from
the rookie guard.
Will Shields has a lot of natural
talent," McElroy said. “He loves the
game, he has quick feet, and once he
truly learns to play the game, I feel
he’s going to be one of the finest
guards in the league."
Shields, 6-foot-l, 305-pounds,
hasn’t hesitated from soliciting ad
vice from veterans like McElroy.
“The best way to learn is from
people who have been in the league
quite a while," Shields said. “I ask a
lot of questions and try to learn as
much as I can from everybody around
me.
“I’ve learned a lot of patience from
Reggie. In college, you could jump
outand manhandle somebody. It takes
more patience."
The one concern teams who passed
up Shields had was whether he would
be an effective pass blocker after he
played in Nebraska s run-basca of
fense.
“Everybody didn *l ihink I could do
il because I came from mostly a run
ning team,” Shields said. “But how
would anybody know until they actu
ally saw me do it?”
They saw him struggle against a
New Orleans rookie in pass protec
tion drills 12daysagowhcnthcChicfs
practiced against the Saints. After
Shields consulted briefly with
McElroy, he performed well against
the Saints' Wayne Martin, who was
third in the NFC in sacks last season.
“Watching him and the way he
played the game, he was still playing
college footbalI,”McElroy said. “Hav
ing been in the league 11 years, there
are certain tricks I sec and try to tell
him ...”
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