News Digest
Thursday, November 16, 1995 Page 2
Clinton rejects deal, says he’ll hold firm
WASHINGTON—With a partial shutdown
stretching through a second day. Republicans
crafted legislation Wednesday to reopen gov
ernment on condition President Clinton agrees
to balance the budget in seven years.
Clinton threatened to veto the measure even
before the lawmakers could pass it, saying the
GOP was demanding “a level of cuts in Medi
care and Medicaid, in education, in the envi
ronment and a tax increase on working people,
all of which I find objectionable.”
In an interview on CBS, Clinton vowed to
hold firm in the standoff, “even if it’s 90 days,
120 days or 180 days.”
That left the impasse without any clear end
in sight, and with the two sides debating an is
sue that has divided them all year.
“It’s time for him to put up or shut up” on
balancing the budget, Mississippi Rep. Mike
Parker, who switched from Democrat to Repub
lican last week, said of Clinton.
Research gave
him a future
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Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle, D-S.D.,
accused House Speaker Newt Gingrich of pro
voking the budget crunch. “He wants chaos. He
wants collapse of the government, and now he’s
got it.”
In a bizarre interlude, Gingrich complained to
reporters at breakfast that Clinton had mistreated
him and Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole dur
ing a trip on Air Force One recently, and he said
that was “part of’ the standoff.
The budget impasse and a Republican “hard
ening of attitudes” prompted Clinton to cancel
his abbreviated weekend trip to Japan, White
House spokesman Mike McCurry said.
Congress, meanwhile, completed work on a
spending bill that would, among other things, pro
vide the money to keep the White House running
through the year. While Clinton did not sign that
immediately, he did sign a measure putting the
Transportation Department in business for the
year; Congress finished that spending bill last
month, but it wi sn’t sent to the White House un
til Wednesday.
As for the proposed legislation that would re
open the entire government through Dec. 5 while
requiring Clinton to balance the budget by 2002,
Gingrich and Dole unveiled it shortly before the
evening newscasts aired in the East.
“We’re going to give him a chance to sign up
for a balanced budget,” said Gingrich, R-Ga. Both
he and Dole, R-Kan., said Clinton had repeatedly
expressed support for such a plan.
In a retreat for Republicans, the bill would be
stripped of a hike in Medicare premiums that
Clinton cited in vetoing an earlier bill.
It would put Clinton on record in favor of tech
nical economic estimates made by the Congres
sional Budget Office — less optimistic than the
administration’s own.
McCurry said that was tantamount to accept
ing the GOP balanced-budget bill, which would
squeeze Medicare, Medicaid and other social pro
grams while financing a tax cut that Democrats
say if tilted to the rich.
Shell will participate in gas plant
LAGOS, Nigeria — Royal Dutch
Shell confirmed Wednesday that it will
participate in a $3.8 billion natural gas
plant in Nigeria, despite international
outcry about the execution of nine dis
sidents.
In Brussels, Belgium, the 15-nation
European Union approved an arms
embargo against Nigeria’s military
government but stopped short of im
posing sanctions on trade or oil ex
ports.
Shell officials said it wasn’t clear
when negotiations on the natural gas
project would conclude but said a for
mal agreement may be signed as early
as December. They disputed criticism
that such a deal amounted to an en
dorsement of Nigeria’s crackdown on
political dissent.
“There have been suggestions that
the project should be deferred or can
celed because of recent events in Ni
geria. But you have to be clear who
would be hurt,” said Dick van den
Broek, a director of Shell International
who confirmed the company’s inten
tion to stick with the project.
He added that revenues for the
project wouldn’t have any impact on
the current Nigerian rulers because it
wouldn’t start producing gas until
early in the next century. Shell says
the project will create 6t000 jobs dur
ing construction.
Van den Broek said job creation
and environmental improvements
were compelling reasons to proceed.
The executions Friday of play
wright Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight other
anti-government activists drew inter
national condemnation.
“I’m absolutely amazed and flab
bergasted that they can go ahead with
this at this time,” Saro-Wiwa’s son,
Ken, told reporters in Strasbourg,
France, where he was addressing the
European Parliament.
Nigerian dictator Gen. Sani Abacha
said his regime was determined to
maintain security. “We will do every
thing possible to maintain our unity,
to maintain our stability, to maintain
our security and to preserve, protect
and maintain our integrity as a nation,”
state-controlled TV quoted him as say
ing during a visit to northwestern Ni
geria.
•A stray in Monday’s Daily Ne
braskan incorrectly reported that
Jean Cahan, a representative of the
Harris Center for Judaic Studies at
the University of Nebraska-Lin
coln, said Israeli students had been
involved in book burnings, physi
cal intimidation and bombing labo
ratories for two centuries.
Cahan actually said that extrem
ist students all over the world had
been involved in violence.
Also, Israel has not existed for
two centuries.
•A story in Wednesday’s Daily
Nebraskan incorrectly reported that
a panel on the Million Man March
would meet that day. The panel will
meet tonight at 7:30 in the Nebraska
East Union.
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“By endorsing the seven-year balanced bud
get, you have to endorse their Medicare cuts.
You have to endorse their whole budget. And
the president has said that’s unacceptable,”
McCurry said.
Earlier, Gingrich had said lawmakers would
begin work on legislation to reopen targeted
agencies, such as Social Security and passport
offices. Officials said that approach was being
sidetracked, at least for now.
With the government’s borrowing authority
curtailed, Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin ear
lier in the day executed a bookkeeping maneu
ver that gives the government greater flexibil
ity. In effect, he replaced securities in two trust
funds with $61.3 billion in IOUs that do not
count against the debt limit.
‘This is no way for a great nation to manage
its financial affairs,” said Rubin, a former Wall
Street financier, underscoring that Social Secu
rity trust funds were not involved. But “using this
authority is immeasurably preferable to default.”