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Clinton says be may veto
$80 billion GOP spending bill
WASHINGTON (AP) - President
Clinton on Monday urged Congress to
speed up work on long-stalled spending
bills but warned he will veto a
Republican bill for $80 billion in tax
cuts and measures that ignore his prior
ities on education and the environment.
Congress has sent the president
two of 13 spending bills, and a stopgap
funding measure expires Friday.
Clinton appeared at the White
House with House Minority Leader
Richard Gephardt, D-Mo., and Senate
Minority Leader Tom Daschle, D-S.C.
Earlier, Senate Majority Leader
Trent Lott, R-Miss., questioned
whether the Clinton administration can
be trusted to reach a deal on the 1999
budget, quoting a White House official
as saying the administration is prepared
to shut down the government if that
seems to its political advantage.
The White House said he was mis
characterizing remarks of Chief of Staff*
Erskine Bowles.
Russia pledges j^joipt wage
payment to prevent strikes
MOSCOW (AP) - Russian
President Boris Yeltsin’s government
pledged Monday it will no longer fall
behind in paying wages, attempting to
ease tensions before a nationwide
workers’protest . ■
lions, of Russians weary tSfbroken
promises and the government’s appar
ent inability to end an economic crisis
could take part in demonstrations
planned Wednesday for cities, towns
and factories across the country.
“The govemment wiH do its utmost
to pay wages regul^ topjib|ic sector
workers, starting in October”Deputy
Prime Minister Valentina Matviyenko
said Monday, according to the ITAR
Tass news agency.
Sarah Ferguson makes debut
as British talk show hostess
LONDON (AP) — She’s had prob
lems, and so, too, have her guests. The
Duchess of York shared it all in her
debut as a chat show host on British
television Monday.
Until now, the former Sarah
Ferguson, ex-wife of Prince Andrew,
had confined her paid TV appearances
j to the United States for fear of causing
more upset in the royal family.
But “Sarah... Surviving Life,” 10
one-hour shows commissioned by Sky
TV, was launched with promotional
newspaper interviews in which she dis
cussed her current boyfriend, her finan
cial affairs and her refusal to move out
of a wing of Andrew’s house where she
lives with their two daughters.
House votes for impeachment inquiry
WASHINGTON (AP) - In a his
toric step taken strictly along party
lines, the House Judiciary Committee
voted Monday night for an open
ended impeachment inquiry of
President Clinton. The top
Republican lawyer cited “substantial
and credible evidence” of 15 possible
grounds for impeachment.
The roll call for a formal inquiry
under Watergate-style rules was 21
16, with all the panel’s Republicans in
favor and all Democrats opposed.
The full House is expected to agree to
the inquiry later this week, thus mak
ing Clinton only the third president in
American history to be subjected to
the threat of formal impeachment
proceedings.
“Do we have a duty to look fur
ther, or to look away?” Chairman
Henry Hyde, R-Ill., asked at mid
morning as he gaveled the committee
to order in the same cavernous room
where Richard Nixon’s fate was
debated a quarter-century ago.
“This is not about Watergate,”
retorted Rep. John Conyers of
Michigan, the panel’s senior
Democrat. “It’s an extramarital
affair.”
Democrats tried twice to curtail
the scope and duration of the inquiry.
Both times they were turned away^on
party-line votes, including on one
proposal to limit the inquiry to
Clinton’s relationship with former
White House intern Monica
Lewinsky and force the case to be
wrapped up by Nov. 25.
Under the rules adopted at the
Republicans’ insistence, Congress
would be empowered to investigate
not only Independent Counsel
Kenneth Starr’s evidence relating to
Clinton’s relationship with Lewinsky,
but other matters as well. The com
mittee would have power to subpoena
witnesses and conduct hearings.
In an hourlong presentation to the
panel, the Republicans’ lead investi
gator, David Schippers, broadened
the counts set out by Independent
Counsel Kenneth Starr to raise the
possibility that Clinton took part in a [
broad conspiracy to cover up his [
actions. '
Clinton did not mention the pro
ceedings unfolding 16 blocks away
when he appeared briefly before
reporters on the White House 1
grounds. ■
Said his spokesman, Joe [
^ockhart: “We don’t believe there’s
anything here that reaches the level of
m impeachable offense.”
Nixon resigned before the full
louse could vote to impeach him in
[974. The only other president to face
he threat of impeachment, Andrew
Johnson, was impeached by the
louse but acquitted in the Senate by
i single vote in 1868.
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Inside the committee room,
Schippers, the lifelong Democrat
hired by Hyde to oversee the case for
Republicans, methodically reviewed
evidence submitted three weeks ago
by Starr.
Dropping some of Starr’s counts,
adding others, and recasting still oth
ers, he came up with 15 counts, four
more than Starr had.
Clinton advisers depart
WASHINGTON (AP) - In a
swift change of command, three of
President Clinton’s top advisers are
leaving within a three-week span
even as the White House braces for
impeachment hearings.
Chief of Staff Erskine Bowles
announced he will depart soon after
Congress completes work - perhaps
as early as this week but more likely
next week. In addition, Rahm
Emanuel, the president’s senior
adviser, said he will leave Oct. 19.
Bowles and Emanuel join an
exodus led by press secretary Mike
McCurry, whose last day was
Friday. Together, the three officials
have been among a dozen or so
White House aides waging a dam
age-control battle ever since the
Monica Lewinsky scandal erupted
Jan. 21.
“They’re not only experienced
and talented, they’re trusted and
respected,” said a senior adviser,
speaking on condition of anonymi
ty. “It’s not a happy day.”
Joe Lockhart, the president’s
new press secretary, dismissed the
turnover’s significance.
“The president doesn’t feel
deserted,” Lockhart said. He said
staff people “stay for a little while...
they come and they go. And the
president will find people who are
talented and energetic and can help
him promote the agenda he’s laid
out”
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High court rejects
tribe’s casino, appeal
^ (AP) - The
Supreme Court on Monday rejected an
appeal by a Nebraska Indian tribe
ordered by the federal government to
close its gambling casino.
The court, without comment,
turned away the Santee Sioux Tribe’s
argument that it should be allowed to
continue operating the casino even
without an agreement with state offi
cials.
In its appeal, the tribe had argued
that a federal law requiring tribes to
negotiate gambling agreements with
states was no longer enforceable
because of a 1996 Supreme Court rul
ing that said tribes cannot sue states in
federal court to resolve gambling dis
putes.
The 1988 Indian Gaming
Regulatory Act requires tribes to nego
tiate agreements with their states
before starting casino-style gambling.
The law allows Indian tribes to operate
casinos only in states whose laws gen
erally permit such gambling.
U.S. Attorney Tom Monaghan in
Nebraska said it could be two months
or longer before the Supreme Court’s
action takes effect through the 8th U.S.
Circuit Court of Appeals, and in that
time his office will discuss with the
tribe its closing down the casino
Monaghan’s office seized $87,000
in casino gambling proceeds from the
tribe. Monaghan said his office will
voluntarily return the money to the
tribe when the casino is closed. “They
have argued their points well but the
courts have ruled against them,”
Monaghan said.
Tribal attorney Dan Evans said
options for the tribe include setting up
games that are allowed under Nebraska
law, and continuing its efforts through
the secretary of interior and Congress
at solving impasses between tribes and
states over the kinds of games allowed.
“The underlying dispute is still
there,” Evans said
The Santee tribe argued that
Nebraska officials failed to negotiate a
compact in good faith. It sued the state
in 1996 and opened a casino when an
agreement was not reached. The casino
offered video slot machines, video
poker and video blackjack.
Later that year, the Supreme Court
threw part of die 1988 law that had let
tribes sue states in federal court to
resolve gambling disputes. The Santee
tribe’s lawsuit then was dismissed.
Soon after, the chairman of the
National Indian Gaming Commission
ordered the tribe to close the casino *
because it lacked an agreement with
the state. The tribe and the federal gov
ernment sued each other, and a federal
judge ruled that the government could
not order the casino closed.
U.S. concerned about
WASHINGTON (AP) -
President Clinton expressed concern
Monday that Yugoslav President
Slobodan Milosevic is “playing the
classic game of making false
promises” to avoid NATO military
strikes in retaliation for weeks of
bloodshed in Kosovo.
Clinton raised his concern in a
telephone call with Russian
President Boris Yeltsin, who argued
that Milosevic is abiding by U.N.
demands for a withdrawal and an
end to repression. Clinton said
Milosevic’s compliance “must be
verifiable, tangible and irreversible,”
press secretary Joe Lockhart said
Yeltsin expressed reluctance
about the use of force against the
Serbs, as he has in the past “But the
president made it clear this isn’t a
time for half measures, it isn’t a time
for promises, it’s a time for full com
pliance,” Lockhart said. He said
Clinton made the point he was “con
cerned that Milosevic was playing
the classic game of making false
promises designed to remove inter
national pressure.... He made the
point that we don’t wish to use force,
but what happens next depends on
President Milosevic.”
Clinton’s national security team
met for two hours in the White
House Situation Room for a briefing
on military options in Kosovo and to
review a United Nations report on
Serb compliance in the region.
A White House official, speak
ing on condition of anonymity, said
the advisers noted the “real consen
sus” in NATO toward resolving the
conflict with military action in the
absence of a settlement, and are
seeking to ensure that Milosevic is
not trying to pull “a sham” to hold up
a possible settlement
A senior U.S. official, mean
while, said the United States is offer
ing Milosevic a deal that would defer
for two or three years a decision on
whether Kosovo would separate
I j '
from Serbia.
Being held in suspension, mean
while, is a political decision by the
16 NATO nations on whether to
bomb the Serbs. But plans for an
attack “are on a fast track,” said the h ,
official, traveling with Secretary of
State Madeleine Albright to the
Mideast
The threats have had at least a
temporary effect on Milosevic,
whose offensive is designed to
repress sentiment among the majori
ty ethnic Albanians in Kosovo
province to break away from
Yugoslavia.
Milosevic has ordered most of
his Serb army units back to their bar
racks, withdrawn police units and
apparently ordered a halt to the burn
ing of villages. Some 250,000 peo
ple remain homeless, with winter
approaching.
Carrying the deal to Milosevic
was Richard Holbrooke, the
American diplomat who helped
engineer an end to ethnic warfare in
Bosnia three years ago largely by
persuading Milosevic to accept a
compromise accord with Muslims -
and Croats.
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(Clinton) made the
point that we don’t
wish to use force,
but what happens
next depends on
President
Milosevic.”
Joe Lockhart
White House press secretary
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