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New Northern Ireland legislature rehashes deadly attack
BELFAST, Northern Ireland (AP) - United in horror but divided by
politics, Protestants and Catholics in Northern Ireland’s new legislature
Tuesday debated what lessons could be learned from the deadliest attack
in the province’s three-decade conflict.
In often raw and personal speeches, some Protestant Assembly mem
bers accused their IRA-allied Sinn Fein counterparts of complying with
the perpetrators of the Aug. 15 attack in Omagh that killed 29 people.
The so-called Real IRA, a dissident offshoot of the Irish Republican
Army, claimed responsibility for the car-bomb attack
‘There are those in this chamber who know who these people are. And
they should be sharing such knowledge with the authorities” said Derek
Hussey, a member of the Ulster Unionists, the north’s major British
Protestant party. As he spoke, he gestured toward the Sinn Fein benches.
He quoted Sinn Fein President Gerry Adams’ recent pledge that vio
lence should be “done with and gone.”
“I ask the simple question,” Hussey said. “Is it?”
Sinn Fein Vice President Pat Doherty didn’t respond to the verbal
attacks. He said the slaughter in Omagh placed “a great responsibility on
us to sustain the peace process and to bring it to fruition.”
Report: Swissair recorders failed minutes before crash
HALIFAX, Nova Scotia (AP) - The cockpit voice recorder aboard
Swissair Flight 111 stopped six minutes before the jetliner crashed and
killed all 229 people aboard, investigators said Tuesday.
The MD-11 ’s flight data recorder also stopped six minutes before the
plane plunged into the North Atlantic off Nova Scotia on Sept. 2.
The report on the voice recorder provides further evidence that the jet
liner suffered a crippling failure of its systems. The finding also means
investigators will never learn what, if anything, the two pilots said to each
other in the final minutes of the flight
The pilots’ conversation with air traffic controllers ended with the
pilots declaring an emergency because of smoke in the cockpit and saying
they had to land immediately.
The flight data recorder, which was recovered from the ocean floor sev
eral days before the cockpit voice recorder, is being examined by experts at
a laboratory in Ottawa.
House votes to exempt farm aid from spending limits
WASHINGTON (AP) - The House on Tuesday indicated its willing
ness to help fanners weather their severe economic crunch, voting over
whelmingly to exempt the aid from federal spending limits.
“This is a national problem that demands a national solution,” said Rep.
Marcy Kaptur, D-Ohio.
At the White House, President Clinton said lawmakers should act
quickly.
“We cannot afford to walk away from this session of Congress. I don’t
care if there is an election. I don’t care what else is happening We cannot
afford to walk away until we do something to stave off die failure of thou
sands of productive family farms in America,” he told the National
Fanners Union.
“I feel especially bad for the farmers,” the president said, “because it’s
been such a good time for die rest of the country.”
Brushing aside the concerns of fiscal conservatives, the House voted
331-66 against requiring cuts in other government programs to pay for
farm aid.
Congress still must decide what form the assistance will take. Voting
along party lines Monday night, the Senate rejected 53-41 a $7 billion aid
package endorsed by the Clinton administration. Republicans said they are
working on a cheaper plan that would give farmers direct payments, possi
bly about $2 billion.
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Video shows Clinton testimony
House Judiciary Committee members debate its release
. WASHINGTON (AP) - House
Judiciary Committee members were
holding intense discussions in private
Tuesday over whether to release a
potentially embarrassing videotape of
President Clinton’s grand jury testimo
ny Aug. 17.
Republicans pushed to make it pub
lic this week. Democrats have opposed
releasing a tape that would show
Clinton’s demeanor as he answered
questions about his sexual conduct
White House advisers have been
concerned that Republicans could use
the tape in political advertisements if it
were made public.
Committee members also dis
cussed a quick release of Monica
Lewinsky’s testimony about her sexual
relationship wife Clinton.
Rep. Asa Hutchinson, R-Ark, said
the committee might meet in executive
session today or Thursday to authorize
quick release of the material - grand
jury records and other information that
back up Independent Counsel Kenneth
Starr’s report alleging 11 potential
grounds for impeachment
Hutchinson added: “It wouldn’t be
fair to release portions that are more
incriminating to the president than what
would be more exculpatory.”
Rep.ZoeLofgren, D-Calif., also on
the committee, said she was concerned
that some lawmakers are rushing to
release materials when the panel has
until Sept 28 to do so.
“For what?” she asked, contending
the release should be “in orderly delib
erative, responsible fashion” to avoid “a
partisan witch hunt”
While some Democrats have sug
gested a censure as an alternative to
impeachment House Majority Leader
Dick Armey, R-Texas, said he had spo
ken with lawmakers and concluded,
“It’s not an option that holds a lot of
attraction.
“There’s a lot of options being
blathered about most of it from tire
president’s spin team,” Armey com
mented.
Speaker Newt Gingrich told
reporters Tuesday that when the House
finishes legislative business this yeat it
will not formally adjourn. This would
allow the Judiciay Committee to con
tinue its inquiry into Clinton^ conduct
after the election and also would mean
the House could be summoned back if
necessary.
Gingrich said he hoped the commit
tee would make a “truly bipartisan”
decision on whether to proceed with an
impeachment inquiry. “We’re still sev
eral weeks of hard work away from
being able to say anything, and I don’t
want to prejudge anything,” he said.
Presidential spokesman Mike
McCurry said the president’s advisers
had expected that a transcript of the
grand jury testimony would be made
available. “But we expect the House to
employ the video in a responsible, way
so that it doesn’t get misused,” he said.
The grand jury videotape, available
so far only to members of die commit
tee, could be critical to any decision to
initiate a formal impeachment proceed
ing. Starr contends Clinton lied during
the testimony when he denied perjuring
himself in Paula Jones’ sexual harass
ment case in January.
In a public display of solidarity by
female Democrats in Congress, 26 con
gresswomen met this morning with first
lady Hillary Rodham Clinton and later
told reporter they were counting on her
to help turn attention to other issues.
“Widi her help in our districts and in
the states where members of the Senate
are running, we can maintain and
indeed increase our representation in
the House and the Senate,” Eleanor
Holmes Norton, the House delegate
from the District of Columbia, told
reporters after the 40-minute meeting.
“We could not be more encouraged.”
Ban doesn t halt Albanians rally
TIRANA, Albania (AP) -
Albanian opposition protesters
defied a ban and held a peaceful rally
Tuesday, while the government
ordered armed opponents to turn in
their weapons in an effort to squelch
new violence after two days of riots.
In a nationally televised address,
Prime Minister Fatos Nano said the
government’s patience was running
out and it would not “wait endlessly
for all weapons to be taken out"’ of the
headquarters of his rival, former
President Sali Berisha.
Nano guaranteed the safety of
Berisha and his followers, and said he
was willing to consider “in principle”
any formula for resolving the crisis,
presumably including his own resig
nation, as the opposition has demand
ed.
The Interior Ministry warned
Tuesday it would respond with force
to any resistance from Berisha sup
porters after clashes Sunday and
Monday. Police were authorized to
“shoot without warning” if opposed,
the ministry said on state television.
About 3,000 of Berisha’s support
ers rallied in the main Tirana square,
despite a ban by the Interior Ministry.
The protest ended peacefully.
Many protesters flashed the two
fingered victory sign as Berisha cou
pled demands for Nano’s resignation
with exhortations that the demonstra
tors remain peaceful.
Dozens of police cars surrounded
the protesters on Skandeibeg Square,
lights flashing and sirens howling.
The cars and several police vans were
filled with officers carrying subma
chine guns and wearing stocking
masks.
Sharpshooters took up positions
on the roof of the nearby Interior
Ministry building.
The weekend assassination of a
popular Berisha ally touched off two
days of unrest reminiscent of the
nationwide anarchy that lasted for
months in 1997 and sent refugees
flooding into Italy, Greece and other
European countries.
U.S. and European diplomats
were seeking to negotiate a peaceful
end to the crisis. Many fear the unrest
could spread, further complicating
the situation in the neighboring
Serbian province of Kosovo, where
ethnic Albanian rebels are fighting
for independence.
The top Serbian official in
Kosovo, Veljko Odalovic, warned
Tuesday that the stability of the
southern Balkans was at stake.
Berisha has openly supported
Kosovo’s ethnic Albanian rebels.
In southern Albania, police
reported overnight shootouts
between gunmen and border guards
at the Kakavia crossing to Greece.
They said the attackers, from the
nearby Albanian city of Gjirokastra,
wounded three people.
Foreign ministers of Italy and
Germany recommended Tuesday that
an international police force be sent
to Albania and urged the European
Union to increase aid to the country.
The Interior Ministry also urged
Berisha supporters holed up at down
town Democratic Party headquarters
to lay down their arms.
Kussian leaders devise economic plan
MOSCOW (AP) - Russia’s new
government showed some of its cards
Tuesday, proposing to print money to
pay back wages and impose some
Soviet-style controls over die market -
but also making a key appointment to
enhance its reform credentials.
The head of the centrist Our Home
Is Russia parliament faction, Alexander
Shokhin, was named deputy prime min
ister in charge of financial issues - a
daunting job as Russia tries to pull itself
out of its economic morass. He said he
expected another member of his faction
to be named to a Cabinet post later
Russian liberals and media haye
been making doomsday predictions that
the new government, under Prime
Minister Yevgeny Primakov, will repre
sent a retreat to Soviet-era economic
policies.
Primakov, who conferred with
President Boris Yeltsin on nevv Cabinet
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appointments Tuesday, insists he is try
ing only to create a team that represents
all the major political and economic
factions, including the Communist
Party.
Aside from a few preliminary mea
sures, Primakov has not announced any
economic program and appears to be
seeking political consensus rather than
quick economic action He has asked to
be given up to a year before his policies
were assessed.
There have been indications that the
government intends to play a stronger
role in die economy.
Central Bank Chairman Viktor
Gerashchenko called Tuesday for a
return to the Soviet-era practice of
requiring exporters to turn m all of their
hard currency earnings to the govern
ment, in exchange for rubles at a state
determined rate.
The measure “is long overdue,”
Gerashchenko said. ‘That should have
been done last year.”
New First Deputy Prime Minister
Yuri Maslyukov-a Communist Party
member who nevertheless has shown
himself willing to work in a refbnn-ori
ented government-also has advocated
the measure.
No one in the government has
called for reviving Soviet-era funda
mentals such as fully nationalized
industry, price controls or ending the
free flow of capital and the ruble Is con
vertibility.
The Communist Party, which has
formed the most solid opposition to
Yeltsin, has distanced itself from the
new administration. Communist leader
Gennady Zyuganov said the appoint
ment of Maslyukov, a former central
planner, and Gerashchenko, a former
Soviet chief banker, was a Kremlin ini
tiative, not a Communist proposal.
