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&j=“ News Digest Friday, August 26, 1994 Page 2 Senate passes crime bill WASHINGTON — Capping a ferocious six-year debate, Congress handed President Clinton a critical victory Thursday night with Senate passage of a $30 billion, crime bill. The vote was 61-38. Hours earli er, a handful of Republicans joined Democrats in narrowly blocking a GOP effort that would have derailed the bill. The legislation authorizes thou sands of prison cells, establ ishes new crime-prevention programs, bans assault-style weapons, creates more than 50 new death penalties and is intended to help hire 100,000 new police ofTiccrs. It also fulfills one of Clinton’s campaign pledges two years ago. The House passed the measure last Sunday. 11 now goes to Cl inton for his signature. Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Joseph Bidcn, D-Dcl., called the package “a tough bill, a straightforward bill that the cops want, the prosecutors want and the people need.” But Senate Republican Leader Bob Dole countered that the measure was unduly expensive and loaded with “pork.” “When the people wake up to morrow morning, it’s going to be sticker shock,” Dole said Thursday night. Kerrey, Exon vote for bill U.S. Sens. Bob Kerrey and Jim Exon voted with the major ity Thursday as the Senate passed a $30 billion crime bill. Exon said it was time for people in Washington to stop “just wringing their hands in dismay about the crime epidemic engulfing the nation.” Kerrey has said he supported the bill because its provisions for more police and jails and its ban on 19 assault weapons. South Korean officials insist on inspections SEOUL, South Korea — South Korea said Thursday it won’t provide North Korea with a modem nuclear reactor until the Pyongyang govern ment opens all its nuclear sites for inspection. The South said the North can’t ex pect improved relations with South Korea and the United States without inspectionsoflhetwositcsatYongbyon, 65 miles north of Pyongyang. South Korea has offered the North the $4 billion reactor as part of a U.S.— North Korean deal to have international inspectors confirm the reclusive com munist state isn’t making nuclear weap ons. Top security officials, meeting to discuss the North’s refusal Saturday to allow inspections, affirmed the North must clear up nuclear suspicioas before discussing receiving the reactor, said government spokesman Kim Kyong woong. “The North must take some concrete steps, including allowing special in spections (of the two sites),” Kim said. “Our unswerving policy is that those special iaspections must be a precondi tion for improving ties with South Ko rea and the United States.” Western analysts say inspectioas of the two Yongbyon sites are crucial to clarifying whether N&rth Korea has diverted plutonium from its reactors to make nuclear bombs. 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Rice University in Houston was No. 2 for the second straight year. Trenton State charges $4,012 per year in tuition and fees for New Jersey residents, who make up 91 percent of the student body, and $6,287 for out-of staters. Room and board cost $5,400. The 139-ycar-old school sits on 250 wooded acres between two lakes and has 5,000 full-time students. The mag azine cited its 15-to-l student-faculty ratio and relatively small classes, most with fewer than 35 students. All arc taught by professors, never graduate students. The magazine determined that out of the 78 schools in the country that charge more than $17,500 per year, 16 arc worth the money. Princeton, with tuition and fees total ling $20210, ranked 12th. Trenton Slate ranked first in Money magazine’s breakdown of schools that are “highly selective" - that is, most students were in the top 40 percent of their high school classes with average grades of B or belter and SAT scores of 1,100 or above or ACT scores of at least 27. “When I talk with people about higher education, central to virtually every conversation is the concern about both the cost and the qual ity,” said Harold W. EickhofT, thccollegc’sprcsident.“Whcn these rankings show us in the company of very fine institutions as an example of both quality and affordability, that sug gests to us that we’re on the right track.” Factors determining Money’s rankings included entrance exam re sults, graduation rates, faculty resourc es and deployment, budgets for instruc tion and student services, and default ratios on graduates’ student loans. The magazine then compared those figures with each college’s tuition and fees. 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