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Nebraskan
Thursday, February 10,1994
Israel, PLO agree on security issues
CAIRO, Egypt — Yasser Arafat
and Shimon Peres, Israel’s foreign
minister, reached agreement Wednes
day on some critical security issues
that have stalled the Israeli-PLO peace
accord.
Peres said he and the PLO chair
man had settled “five or six of the most
complicated issues” involved in turn
ing over control of the occupied Gaza
Strip and West Bank town of Jericho
to the Palestinians.
Peres added, “We didn’t complete
our work.”
The final deal is to be negotiated
between Arafat and Israeli Prime Min
ister Yitzhak Rabin.
The two sides were haggling over
control of the crossings from the au
tonomous Palestinian areas to Egypt
and Jordan, security for Jewish set
tlers who remain in Gaza and how
much land around Jericho would be
ceded to Palestinian control.
Among the issues left for Arafat
and Rabin to decide was the size of the
Jericho area, Peres said.
Arafat said the new pact was “a
very important step to implement the
agreement from paper to the ground.
“We can say that Palestine - and the
name of Palestine - has returned to the
map of the Middle East,” he added.
Peres and Arafat initialed a 21
page document, complete with maps,
at a ceremony hosted by Egyptian
President Hosni Mubarak at the end of
three days of talks.
As the two were speaking in Cairo,
members of the World Jewish Con
gress in Washington got word of the
agreement from President Clinton.
“Another big milestone has been
achieved today,” Clinton said.
Egyptian Foreign Minister Amr
Leaders remain calm
about plan’s high cost
WASHINGTON—Republicans
claim the Congressional Budget
Office delivered a knock-out blow
against the Clinton health plan by
saying it would worsen the deficit.
Democratic congressional lead
ers consulted with President Cl inton
this morning and said there was no
reason to panic.
“It’s not a problem,’’ said House
Majority Leader Richard Gephardt,
D-Mo., stressing that the CBO re
port shows the White House plan
really can cover everybody and still
cut medical bills in the long run.
“The differences arc relatively
small, and we will resolve them on
the Hill,” said Rep. John Dingell,
D-Mich., chairman of the Energy
and Commerce Committee. “The
president has the only sensitive,
workable ... plan that provides uni
versal coverage for every Ameri
can.”
Dingell added, “I would urge
you not to panic” over the projected
deficit impact of the president’s
health-care plan.
The bearer of the news, CBO
Director Robert D. Reischaucr, cau
tioned against reading too much
into his agency’s calculation that
Clinton’s plan would drive the def
icit up by $126 billion between
1995 and 2004.
It would also trim the nation’s
medical bills by one-third of $1
trillion over the next decade, he
said.
He told the Senate Finance Com
mittee Wednesday that without
Clinton’s controversial caps on in
surance premiums, the costs would
be “quite a bit higher.”
Reischauer urged lawmakers to
“design a health care plan that
makes sense. ... You shouldn’t let
budgetary treatment dictate pro
gram design.”
Senate Majority Leader George
Mitchell itemized some of the pos
itive points in the CBO analysis
from the administration’s perspec
tive, including its projection that it
would lower businesses’ health in
surance costs by $90 billion in 2004
alone.
Reischauer said that “the vast
preponderance of that money would
be returned to workers in the form
of higher wages.”
Health
care
reform
costs
National health expenditures under the
Clinton health plan, as calculated by the
Congressional Budget Office, and
expenditures without reform; both in
billions of dollars.
Impact of Clinton plan on deficit. Increase
to budget in billions of dollars. The impact
is less than $500 million in 2004.
Law firm shreds Whitewater evidence
WASHINGTON — The Rose law
firm where first lady Hillary Rodham
Clinton was a partner shredded docu
ments last week relating to Whitewater
Development Corp., The W ashington
Times reported Wednesday.
The paper cited its source as an
unidentified Rose employee who said
the documents included material
showing the involvement of President
and Mrs. Clinton, along with James
B. McDougal and his then-wife Sus
an, in the Arkansas real estate ven
ture.
Special counsel Robert B. Fiskc Jr.,
appointed Jan. 20 by Attorney Gener
al Janet Reno, is looking into whether
McDougal improperly diverted funds
from the Madison Guaranty Savings
Loan Association, which he con
trolled, to Whitewater and Clinton
gubernatorial campaigns.
The Times said it was not clear
whether the reported shredding would
violate state or federal laws.
In Little Rock, Ronald M. Clark,
managing partner of the Rose firm,
called the report “totally false.” Asked
whether documents related to
Wh i tewater were shredded, Clark said:
“Absolutely not. To my knowledge,
we have no documents in the firm’s
possession related to Whitewater, and
if we do, we are accumulating them in
single location awaiting the appropri
ate time that they will be examined.”
Associate Attorney General
Webster L. Hubbell and the late White
House Deputy Counsel Vincent Fos
ter Jr., also were partners in the Little
Rock law firm with Mrs. Clinton be
fore moving to Washington to serve in
the Clinton administration.
Foster committed suicide, and the
White House has acknowledged that
papers relating to Whitewater were
taken from his White House office last
July after his death. The information
was turned over to the Clinton’s per
sonal lawyer in Washington before
investigators could examined it.
“There’s absolutely no doubt that
the records destroyed last Thursday
were those the firm had on
Whitewater,” the Times quoted the
Rose employee as saying. “There were
a lot of papers, and the process took
quite a long time.
“A bunch of the stuff was there to
be read, and it was felt that this could
be very bad,” the newspaper quoted
the employee as saying.
It reported that a second Rose em
ployee who took part in the shredding
would not talk about it, but declined to
say the incident had not occurred.
“I’m not going to comment,” the
paper quoted the second employee as
saying. “I’m not going to say anything
about what happened. I would just
prefer not to say anything about this at
all.”
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Moussa had worked late into the night
to smooth over last-minute disputes
between Peres and Arafat, amid re
ports Peres was seeking approval from
Rabin. w .
The negotiations since Monday
have included at least seven sessions
between Arafat and Peres. Neither has
given details on the talks.
The Israeli withdrawal will clear
the way for limited Palestinian self
rule in the territories. It was to have
begun Dec. 13 according to the PLO
Israel peace accord signed in Wash
ington in September.
negotiators nave repeatedly said
any agreement reached here will al
most certainly contain some sensitive
problems to be settled later by Arafat
and Rabin.
Israeli and PLO officials both have
said it could take at least two more
weeks of negotiations to complete spe
cifics.
The Cairo talks began after more
than a week of squabbling over results
of the previous Peres-Arafat discus
sions in Davos, Switzerland. The PLO
accused Israel of backing off agree
ments; Israel denied it.
United States, Japan
find common ground
WASHINGTON — The United
States and Japan plan to announce a
multi-billion-dollar AIDS and popu
lation-control effort and joint initia
tives on environment and technology
this week, in hopes of casting a posi
tive light on what may be a stormy
trade summit.
Crucial talks aimed at narrowing
America’s huge deficit with Japan
appeared deadlocked Wednesday onl y
two days before President Cl in ton and
Japanese Prime Minister Morihiro
Hosokawa were to meet to sign an
initial agreement.
Hope still existed for a last-minute
breakthrough to salvage the discus
sions, but officials reported both sides
were still far apart on the key matter in
dispute - how to measure progress in
opening Japan’s markets toU.S. goods.
While talks had been progressing
among lower level officials earlier in
the week, a U.S. offic ial, who spoke on
condition of anonymity, said that the
American side walked away from the
table Tuesday night, contending that
the discussions were at an impasse.
Although the main focus of
Clinton’s summit with Hosokawa is
expected to be trade, the two nations
also have worked out a package of
agreements relating to the environ
ment.
The agreement on AIDS and pop
ulation is aimed at helping poor coun
tries slow their birth rates and combat
AIDS. Japan will commit $3 billion
by the end of the decade, and the
United States will pledge $9 billion,
said U.S. and Japanese officials.
The two countries also are com
pleting details on a joint project for
environmental protection and clean
up in Eastern Europe, and on efforts to
protect tropical forests in Asia.
Japan will commit $1 billion to
ward environmental work in Eastern
Europe. The United States is not mak
ing a financial commitment, but will
provide personnel and technical help,
a senior administration official said.
Other agreements expected to be
announced Friday involve coordinat
ing research into global warming and
developing high-speed rail technolo
gy
The package of accords stems from
an agreement between Clinton and
thcn-Japanesc Prime Minister Kiichi
Miyazawa to discuss areas of cooper
ation beyond the stubborn trade is
sues.
In the trade talks U.S. officials
insisted they would not accept an agree
ment that only papered ovcrdiffercnc
es between the two nations as a way of
giving Clinton and Hosokawa some
thing to announce on Friday.
The officials repeated veiled threats
made by Treasury Secretary Lloyd
Bentsen in Tokyo last month that the
United States would consider other
options if the framework negotiations
aren’t successful.
Noncommercial movies
ton Oscar nominations
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. — A
German businessman who protects
Jews from the Nazis. A mute New
Zealander who leaves her husband.
Innocent women and men accused in
an Irish Republican Army bombing.
Academy Award voters this year
honored seemingly uncommercial
storylines and the largest beneficiary
was Steven Spielberg’s Holocaust dra
ma“Schindler’s List,” which received
a leading 12 Oscar nominations
Wednesday. Its nominations include
best picture and best director.
Other films receiving multiple nom
inations include the New Zealand dra
ma “The Piano” and the IRA story “In
the Name of the Father,” both among
the five best picture nominees.
“This is a very special moment for
all of us who have dedicated ourselves
to this subject,” Spielberg said of
“Schindler’s List.” “The news of 12
nominations was overwhelming.”
In addition to best picture and di
rector, “Schindler’s List” was nomi
nated for best actor for Liam Necson
(who played Schindler) and support
ing actor for Ralph Fiennes (who
played sadistic Nazi commandant
Amon Goeth).
Spielberg’s “Jurassic Park,” the
highest-grossing release in movie his
tory collected three nominations in
technical categories.
“Philadelphia,” the first big studio
film about AIDS, got five nomina
tions, including best actor for Hanks
and best original screenplay.
“In the Name of the Father,” a
1 ittle-seen account of a falsely convict
cd Irish rebel Gerry Conlon, received
seven nominations, including best
picture and best actor for Daniel Day
Robin Williams’ cross-dressing
performance in the hugely successful
“Mrs. Doubtfire” was overlooked
“Sleepless in Seattle” received just
two nominations.
In the best picture category, the
nominees were “Schindler’s List,
“The Fugitive,” “In the Name ol the
Father,” “The Piano” and “The Re
mains of the Day.”
For best director, Spielberg will
face “The Piano” maker Jane Campi
on, only the second woman to be nom
inated in the category (Lina
Wertmuller lost for 1976’s “Seven
Beauties”). Also nominated for best
director were Jim Sheridan for' In the
Name of the Father,” James Ivory lor
“The Remains of the Day” and Robert
Altman for “Short Cuts.”
Others nominated for best actor
were Anthony Hopkins for his role as
the butler Stevens in “The Remains ot
the Day" and Laurence Fishbume lor
playing the abusive Ike Turner in
“Whafs Love Got to Do With It.
The best actress selections were
Angela 3assett for singer Tina Turncr
in “What’s Love Got to Do With it ,
Stockard Channing as society wne
Ouisa Kittredge from “Six Degrees o
Separation"; Holly Hunter as the mute
mail-order bride Ada in “The P,an0 ’
Emma Thompson for house kcep<
Miss Kenton in “The Remains ot me
Day”; and Debra Winger as dying
writer Joy Gresham in“Shadowlands.