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FBI shoots teen after bomb threat to dam STEVENSON, Wash. (AP) — A teen-ager shot to death by an FBI agent at Bonneville Dam tried to extort $15,000 from the government by threatening to blow die dam up, the FBI said Monday. Nathaniel Milligan, 18, of Skamania County was shot twice as he approached an FBI agent and an Oregon state trooper with a loaded .22-caliber rifle in one hand and what he said was a detonator in the other, the FBI said. Authorities evacuated about 15 people working at the visitor center and at the adjacent powerhouse No. 2 and warned fishermen away from the dam. Milligan later showed up at the dam and, after a confrontation, was shot by the FBI agent about 6:45 pjn., Pasenelli said. k - — • Dole unveils economic plan Proposed package to promote interest and job growth, Republican presidential nominee says. DETROIT (AP) — Bob Dole and Jack Kemp focused on their economic plan in a crucial Midwestern battle ground state today, insisting the economy was stagnant and would per form much better if taxes were cut and the federal budget balanced. “It’s about growth, it’s about oppor tunity, it’s about jobs; it’s about the private sector,” Dole told Republican governors and private business lead ers. “We believe there are great oppor tunities. The mainstay of this campaign is the economic package.” Dole, the Republican presidential nominee, said his plan to cut income taxes by 15 percent, give families a $500 per-child tax credit and halve the capital gams tax would spark invest ment and job growth. He also insisted that his campaign still had a chance to overtake President Clinton. “There’s a lot of movement out there,” Dole said. “People are begin ning to listen.” Running mate Kemp said Clinton and other Democrats are criticizing their tax cut plan in order to “drive a wedge” between labor and employers. They spoke in a town hall-like set ting, organized by the Republican Gov ernors Association, held at a Detroit Diesel Corp. plant that employs 6,300 people and has turned itself from an industry laggard to a leader in heavy engine manufacturing. Although Dole and Kemp con tended the economy is working at a much slower pace than it should be, some of the governors acknowledged that it actually looks good. But they said Clinton didn’t deserve the credit. “The economy has never been bet ter. But let me tell you, it’s the gover nors of this country who have made he difference,” said Ohio Gov. George Voinovich. Clinton spoke to a rain-soaked au dience at he Parma, Ohio, campus of Cuyahoga Community College outside Cleveland, talking up a student loan program hat bypasses banks. The president said he popular pro gram was an example of his differences with Dole, who voted against the program’s creation in 1993 and has “tried to cut it back and cripple it ever since.” Dole attacked he Democrats over pj/r r ; ■jfc •/ t' j I1' Y -' ’ g..'v . ' J *: - !,-{ i i \ . * p >, i £ .■-*■ . — ~c-. s - a ass : - m as the weekend at stops in traditionally Republican states for recent revelations that people with ties to an Indonesian business conglomerate have contrib uted hundreds of thousands of dollars to the Democrats. Dole labeled the matter a “major scandal involving a flow of foreign money into the Democratic Party and attempts to buy access to the White House.” He proposed an overhaul Of campaign finance laws, including a ban on contributions from anyone who is not a U.S. citizen and eligible voter. Currently, foreigners who are per manent U.S. residents may contribute. “We simply cannot allow the po litical influence of any American to be outweighed by foreign money,” Dole said Sunday in Nashua, N.H. Dole today was beginning a two day visit to Michigan and Ohio, battle ground states where polls show him trailing President Clinton and where 39 of the 270 electoral votes needed for victory are at stake. Clinton was stumping the same two states, starting his day in Cleveland and ending it in Detroit as he mixed cam paigning for his re-election with rais ing money for Democratic congres sional candidates. Vice President A1 Gore, mean while, spent Sunday in Chicago trying to firm up traditional Democratic con stituencies, meeting with Hispanic leaders and visiting a black church. “You can make the critical difference” he told his audiences. On campaign finance.reform, Dole proposed a bipartisan commission to tackle an issue that Congress has been unable to resolve, including another failure this >year. Clinton’s re-election team said Dole was being hypocritical in calling for campaign finance reform when he had opposed many such measures in his 354 year career in Congress, including last year when a major effort failed to limit Senate and House campaign spending and abolish PACs. “We agree that campaign finance reform is long overdue and should be dealt with in a bipartisan fashion. But it’s a little late and disingenuous for Bob Dole to promote campaign finance reform,” Clinton campaign spokesman Joe Lockhart said. “It’s too bad that Sen. 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