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House passes ByAlanFham Associated Press WASHINGTON — A weary House approved a huge spending bill and tighter immigration laws Satur day, handing victories to both Repub licans and Democrats just five weeks before the election and moving Con gress to the verge of adjournment. By a 370-37 roll call, the House shipped the 3,000-page package com bining both measures to the Senate. That chamber seemed likely to vote final congressional approval Monday and send it to President Clinton for his promised signature. The House vote was the chamber’s last major business of 1996, and let members of the first GOP-c on trolled Congress in 40 years begin fleeing the Capitol for the campaign trail. The bill, completed at sunrise af ter all-night bargaining by White House and congressional negotiators, bears political points for both sides. Final approval will allow Republicans to avoid a rerun of last year’s federal shutdowns when the new fiscal year begins Tuesday. Clinton gets the $6.5 billion extra he wanted for education ■and other domestic programs. Both sides get a tough new immigration law to brag about. “It’s what happens when you aban don extremism and start working to gether,” Clinton told a campaign crowd in Providence, R.I. But House Speaker Newt Gingrich, R-Ga., said the session-ending legis lation cemented GOP priorities. Gingrich said the agreement would let Congress leave “ahead of sched ule, under budget, in a cooperative manner and getting a lot of good things done for the American people.” When the bill finally hit the House floor shortly before 9 p.m. - about 14 hours after it was completed in all night negotiations - Republicans lauded it. The budget package contains $244 billion for the Pentagon and $145 bil lion for the departments of Health and Human Services, Interior and dozens of other agencies for fiscal 1997. In cluding funds for Medicaid and other benefit programs that are automati cally paid, the measures contain about $600 billion - more than one-third of the entire federal budget. ] The extra $6.5 billion Clinton won; was for schools, anti-terrorism, fight ing drugs and a host of other domes tic programs. The immigration measure would forbid illegal immigrants from receiv ing Social Security and make it harder for them to receive drivers’ licenses and other benefits. i Israel reopens tunnel, agrees to peace talks JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel de fied world opinion Sunday by reopen ing a tunnel near Jerusalem’s Muslim holy shrines, but agreed to a summit with the Palestinians in Washington in an attempt to revive peace talks and end the violence that has taken 73 lives. President Ginton telephoned Pal estinian leader Yasser Arafat and Is raeli Prime Minister • Benjamin Netanyahu and told them he expected their summit Tuesday to end in suc cess. “The president said the results needed from the meeting in Washing ton are an end to the violence and speedy renewal of negotiations,” a statement from Netanyahu’s office said. Although the reopening of the tun nel kepft Palestinian aiiger running high, Clinton’s personal intervention was seen as likely to calm passions on both sides and renew hopes for progress. Arafat and Netanyahu initially re fused to make concessions that would allow the summit to go ahead, but Israel’s Channel 2 TV said a possible compromise was emerging. Arafat, it said, would pledge to end the violence and stop objecting to thd tunnel, while Netanyahu would agree to a timetable for future negotiations and adate.for Israelis military puliout ffomthoWestSanktoTvoffe^ One remaining obstacle was the role of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak. Clinton invited him to at tend, and Arafat insisted that he be there, but Mubarak did not agree to go. The 500-meter tunnel is portrayed by Israel as a harmless archaeological excavation, but it runs alongside hal lowed Muslim shrines and is seen by Palestinians as diminishing their claim to Arab ea$t Jerusalem. Israel opened the tunnel on Tues day night, triggering clashes that left 56 Palestinians and 14 Israelis dead in the worst gun battles that Israel closed the tunner Friday and Saturday, hoping to restore calm, and reopened it Sunday. Netanyahu vowed Saturday night that the tunnel “will always be open.” Late Saturday, the U.N. Security Council passed a resolution that indi rectly calls on Israel to close the tun nel. The vote was 14-0, with, the United States abstaining. Arab teen-agers threw stones Sun day as Israeli guards opened the steel exit door Qf the passage leading onto the Via Dol6rbsavJesus’s route to his Nebraskan “eSS! Aftpfl News EdHors: Opinion CopyOwfc Ctitof. Sports Eifltor: Photo Director: Web Editor: MgMEdHor: Layout Editor: UnLi QJ_ myni nows Art Director: Asst Advertising Z Bosrd Chairman: **£ **—M-»-■ rTUTMWOVHU Adviser: Doug Kouma 472-2588 Doug Peters Paula Lavigne Jeff Randall Anne Hjeraman Kefly Johnson Julie Sobczyk Mitch Sherman Joshua Qlln Tarma Wnnaman Michele Cofins Beth Narans Nancy Zywiec Jennifer Mike Antone Oseka Aaron Steckefcerg Dan Shattil Amy Struthers Tracy Welshans Tiffiny Clifton Travis Brandt DonWahon.^C. 473-7301 FAX NUMBER: 472-17*1 The Daily Nebraskan (USPS144-080) is published by the UNL Publications Bowd. 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Olson Semi nars in Great Plains ' Studies Brian Dippie, speaker Great Plains Art Collection, 215 Love Library 3:30 - 5:00 p.m. Wednesday, Oct 2 Flu shots/Wellness Profiles City Campus Union Sponsored by the University Health Center 11 a.m. -1 p.m. Poetry reading/ lecture Simon J. Ortiz Native American "Creative Verbal Expression" Lincoln Indian Center 1100 Military Road "Demystifying Lan guage" Great Plains Art Gallery 215 Love Library 2:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct 3 Agricultural-Sciences & Natural Resources Career Day East Campus Great Plains Room Flu shots/Wellness Profiles East Campus Union Sponsored by the University Health Center 11 a.m. -1 p.m. Used Book Sale Sponsored by Nebraska State Historical Society Second Floor Gallery Museum of Nebraska History 15th & P Streets 10:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. Sale goes through Oct. 5 For more information: Call Cindy Drake at 471-4786 Friday, Oct. 4 A Couple White Chicks Sitting Around Talking Studio Theatre Temple Building Studio 301 12th and R Streets 8:00 p.m. $3.00 Oct. 5-2 and 8 p.m. Oct. 6-2 p.m. Satuvday, Oct 5 “Creative Drama for Youth" Sponsored by UNL Theatre Department Temple Building 12th and R Streets Contact Karen Libman at 472-1626 8y Gamer*, for 6amer* Mlkjie, Mini&turcs, RoU PIkying, 2kh<j More. 2439 R&nJolpk St. • Lincoln NE 48510 . 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