By The
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Edited by Kristine Long
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Thursday, January 27,1994
Two die in plane crash
Speech renews health disputes
McCOOK — A twin-engine
private plane crashed during a snow
storm Wednesday, killing two peo
ple and injuring five others.
Authorities on the scene of the
crash in a small canyon near the
McCook Municipal Airport con
firmed two deaths.
Five other people on board the
plane, at least three of them males,
were taken to McCook Community
Hospital, said hospital spokeswom
an Candy Crosby. Their conditions
were not immediately known.
The plane carried six Nebraska
Public Power District employees
who were returning to Columbus
from a business trip in Denver, said
Ron Bogus, an NPPD spokesman.
The employees worked in the util
ity district’s information services
division and had been in Denver
since Monday to look at computer
software.
The plane crashed at 3:16 p.m.
CST near the airport on the east
side of the city, two blocks from the
only hospital in the county.
Dale McNutt at the National
Weather Service station at the air
port said it was snowing heavily at
the time of the crash.
The plane just missed some hous
es and a hospital. Rescuers used
city snow removal equipment to get
to the scene of the crash.
WASHINGTON — The White
House flashed compromise Wednes
day on a key element of President
Clinton’s health care plan, but the
president renewed his threat to veto
any bill that doesn’t provide coverage
for all.
The Senate’s top Republican said
ber of companies that would be per
mitted to self-insure rather than join
huge regional alliances.
In remarks to groups representing
major manufacturers and corporations,
Bentsen acknowledged that many com
panies feel “the 5,000-employee
threshold for joining regional allianc
es is too high.”
“We hear you,” he said. “We’re
willing to discuss this one and the
other details of our plan.”
Thepresident, meanwhile, canceled
a speech scheduled as a reprise of his
State of the Union because of hoarse
ness. But the inevitable day-after pre
dictions and reaction proliferated.
“I think we’re going to pass major
health care reform in this Congress
and the public will support that in
deed,” an upbeat House Speaker Tho
mas Foley, D-Wash., said.
But Sen. Bob Dole, the Senate Re
publican leader, said on NBC, “Over
all, his program is in trouble.”
Dole said that Clinton was “going
to have to drop a lot of these price
controls, mandates, the mandatory
health care alliances, before we make
any real inroads.”
White House Chief of Staff Mack
McLarty countered, “It’s very early to
be counting votes.”
At the same time, White House
aide George Stephanopoulos said
Clinton would not budge from his
demand for coverage for every Amer
ican.
“On that fundamental point we
can’t move,” he told ABC. “Because
if we don’t have universal coverage,
you’ll never get the costs under con
trol.”
Clinton made health care the cen
terpiece of his second year in office
during the State of the Union speech
Tuesday night, calling upon lawmak
ers to join a “journey of renewal” for
America. He vowed to veto any bill
that did not “guarantee every Ameri
can private health insurance that can
never be taken away.”
In the immediate aftermath of the
3icech, several Republicans accused
linton of unusual partisanship, but
Democrats gave him 60 ovations dur
ing his address -- nearly one a minute.
President
Bill Clinton
Clinton doesn t
have the votes”
without major con
cessions. On the
morning after his
State of the Union
message, Clinton
hosted Democratic
congressional lead
ers at the White
House to review an
agenda that featured health care and
other domestic concerns such as wel
fare reform, a crime bill, environmen
tal measures and a greater effort for
worker retraining.
Treasury Secretary Lloyd Bentsen
suggested a compromise was possible
on at least one controversial issue --
health care reform -- saying the White
House was willing to expand the num
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Jury extends investigation oj skating attack
PORTLAND, Ore.—A grand jury
extended its investigation of the at
tack on Nancy Kerrigan to Feb. 18 -
three days before the final roster for
the U.S. figure skating team at the
Olympics has to be submitted.
Meanwhile, The Oregonian news
paper Wednesday cited unidentified
sources as saying Jeff Gillooly was
prepared to implicate his ex-wife
Tonya Harding in the Jan. 6 attack.
Harding has maintained her inno
cence and has not been charged, but
U.S. figure skating authorities may try
to remove her from the team.
The grand jury had scheduled to
complete its report by Feb. 3 but needs
more time because it has subpoenas
out all across the country* said FBI
spokesman Bart Gori.
The U.S. Figure Skating Associa
tion has until Monday to submit the
team roster to the U.S. Olympic Com
mittee but can make substitutions un
til Feb. 21.
Sources told The Oregonian that
Gillooly was willing to admit his own
role in the attack and testify Harding
helped plan the assault as well as
cover it up.
The report followed others Tues
day in the Detroit Free Press and on
NBC that Gillooly is trying to work
outapleabargain implicating Harding.
Sources told NBC that Harding’s
legal strategy is to maintain she found
out about the alleged conspiracy and
got involved in a cover-up out of fear
of Gillooly and Shawn Eckardt, her
310-pound bodyguard. NBC reported
Harding will point out that in divorce
papers she accused Gillooly of abuse.
Investigators would not comment
on whether Gillooly was trying to
make a deal. Gillooly’s lawyer, Ron
Hoevet, said Gillooly has not spoken
to investigators.
Gillooly, Eckardt and two other
men have been charged with conspir
ing to injure Kerrigan. • < i
Officials plan to send missiles to South Korea
WASHINGTON — The United
States will send Patriot air-defense
missiles to South Korea, a senior Pen
tagon official said Wednesday.
This announcement comes in re
sponse to North Korea’s refusal to
allow complete nuclear inspections.
Frank Wisner, the No.3-ranking
official at the Defense Department,
told reporters at a breakfast meeting
that details of the missile deployment
had yet to be decided.
“We will proceed with the deploy
ment,” Wisner said. “It doesn’t mean
we’re proceeding with it on a crash
basis, that they have to be out there
tomorrow morning.”
He said the move would be made as
part of‘sensible, rational defense prep
arations” in the event that North Ko
rea would launch a Scud missile at
tack on South Korea. He said other
defensive measures would be consid
ered if the United States and its allies
sought U.N. economic sanctions
against North Korea.
Wisner said no final decision had
been made on the Patriot deployment,
but his comments describing the rea
son for the deployment appeared to
leave little doubt that the administra
tion was determined to go ahead once
the details had been worked out.
Dee Dee Myers, the White House
press secretary, said President Cl inton
had not decided whether to approve
the deployment of Patriots but added,
“I think we are looking favorably on
the request.”
Wisner said the request had been
made by Army Gen. Gary Luck, the
commander of U.S. forces in South
Korea as part of a review of defense
requirements in the area. Wisner not
ed that there currently were no air
defense requirements in South Korea
and that a Patriot deployment had
been considered for some time.
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