Clinton pushes Congress
on education initiatives
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS designed for 1,200 students, but
SOUTH BRUNSWICK, NJ. - wi^ have 1,650 when classes
President Clinton had three start after Labor Day.
missions in New Jersey on , Youve got the problem of
Wednesday: Help the the trailers, and then youve got
Democrats win back the House, lhe Problem in our cities of so
plug A1 Gore s run for president rnany old school buildings that
and push his own education ini- e,,h“ can t be or haven t been
tiatives through Congress before modernized. You ve got whole
he leaves the White House. floors in some of these schools
■All over America, our facul- that are shut down, even though
ties are better than our facili- *he schools are full to the gills,
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philosophical debate about the
federal government's role in
education instead of approving
money to modernize America’s
schools. Clinton has requested
$25 billion in interest-free mod
ernization bonds for school dis
tricts to help build and renovate
6.000 schools nationwide.
He also wants Congress to
approve $6.5 billion in grants
and interest-free loans to make
emergency roof, heating, cool
ing and electrical repairs at
5.000 schools.
Republicans in Congress,
who don’t want the federal gov
ernment meddling in local
school district affairs, fear
Clinton’s plan would create
unnecessary bureaucracy in
Washington.
The UUr prerers a tax credit
plan like one Clinton vetoed last
year when Congress aimed to
lower a school district’s cost of
borrowing money for building
projects.
“For the past two years,
Congress has sent school con
struction packages to President
Clinton and both times he
vetoed them,” said House Ways
and Mean chairman Bill Archer,
R-Texas.
“We will try again but I hope
this year our schoolchildren
come before politics, and that
the president will drop his veto
pen and pick up an attitude of
compromise so we can get this
done.”
with education a top con
cern among voters in this year’s
presidential election, Clinton
also took time to laud Vice
President Gore’s work to
improve the federal student
loan program, provide tax cred
its for college tuition and get 95
percent of schools connected to
the Internet - up from 35 per
cent five years ago.
Clinton spoke at the school
before attending two receptions
for Democratic congressional
candidates. One was to raise
$200,000 for Cherry Hill Mayor
Susan Bass Levin and the other
was to bring in $250,000 for Rep.'
Rush Holt, D-N.J.
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Western blazes continue to rage
■Montana,Idaho and
Wyoming are experiencing
what is being called the worst
fire season in half a century.
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
HELENA, Mont. - Montana
Gov. Marc Racicot declared
more of his state off-limits to
recreation because of extreme
fire hazard Wednesday. His new
proclamation means 19.6 mil
lion acres are closed - about
31,250 square miles, an area
roughly the size of Maine.
Twenty-seven large fires
were burning nearly 630,000
acres in the state. Montana
encompasses 93 million acres.
The governor’s new order
banned hiking, camping, hunt
ing and fishing on public land
in western Montana and parts
of central and southern
Montana during the height of
the summer tourist season.
Some exceptions were writ
ten in for specific recreation
areas. And Glacier National
Park, one of the state's top
draws, is not affected, although
it has special fire-prevention
policies in effect for visitors,
said spokeswoman Amy
Vanderbilt
More than 5.73 million acres
have burned across the United
States so far this year - an area
about the size of New
Hampshire - in what has been
called the worst fire season in a
half-century. The National
Interagency Fire Center said 79
large fires are now burning,
almost all in the West, and cov
ering more than 1.4 million
acres.
The worst fires are in
Montana, Idaho and Wyoming.
They included a volatile
blaze that has burned at least
75,000 acres near Townsend.
That fire on Tuesday shut down
two major power lines to the
Pacific Northwest and closed
U.S. 12.
The highway was back in
service Wednesday, with
motorists being guided through
the smoke in escorted convoys.
The power lines also are back in
service as sawyers continued to
remove trees and other growth
near the 500-kilovolt lines, in
hopes of safeguarding diem.
In Utah’s Stansbury
Mountains, two inmates died
after being struck by lightning
Wednesday while a prison work
crew was fighting a fire near
Grantsville.
Seven inmates were struck
and all were flown by helicopter
to the University of Utah
Medical Center, where the two
men were pronounced dead.
They were members of an
inmate work group that rou
tinely batties fires.
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N. Ireland faces latest killing in feud
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BELFAST, Northern Ireland
—A Protestant man was shot to
death at his north Belfast home
Wednesday, police said, in what
appeared to be the latest blow in
a vicious feud between pro
British gangs.
No group claimed immediate
responsibility.
The shooting happened only
a few hundred yards from the
spot where the outlawed Ulster
Volunteer Foice.on Monday shot
dead two Protestant militants,
among them a prominent mem
ber of the rival Ulster Defense
Association.
me uua naa vowea to retal
iate by killing UVF supporters.
And Wednesday’s victim, 21
year-old Sammy Rocket, came
from a family that had been
expelled from UDA circles in the
mid-1990s and had switched
allegiances to the UVF.
Before the latest shooting,
Britain’s minister responsible for
Northern Ireland, Peter
Mandelson, insisted that a joint
UDA-UVF cease-fire remained
intact in the province
Mandelson said he had no
doubt that most commanders of
the UDA and UVF didn’t want
their feud to degenerate into a
total breakdown of their 1994
truce, a pillar of Northern
Ireland’s shaky peace accord
"It is possible for an organiza
tion to be on cease-fire but for
individuals associated with it to
be involved in unlawful activity,”
he said.
Mandelson defended his
“It is possible for an organization to be on
cease-fire but for individuals associated with
it to be involved in unlawful activity,
Peter Mandelson
British Minister for Northern Ireland
decision Tuesday to order the
arrest and reimprisonment of die
most notorious militant, Johnny
“Mad Dog” Adair, who was
seized at police gunpoint and
delivered fay helicopter back to
prison.
The brawny UDA command
er was paroled last year under
terms of the 1998 peace accord,
but he had been accused of stok
ing a violent turf wat with UVF
members, particularly in his
Shankill Road power base.
Aaair iea a raucous uua
parade up Shankill Road last
weekend. After gun attacks on a
UVF-linked pub and several
leading UVF members’ homes,
the UVF retaliated Monday by
fatally shooting two men, one of
them an Adair subordinate, as
they sat in a parked car on nearby
Crumlin Road.
Britain deployed police and
troops into the Shankill district to
deter an expected UDA counter
strike. Wednesday night’s shoot
ing on a residential street just off
Crumlin Road happened not far
from a joint police-army check
point No arrests were reported.
Had Mandelson ruled that
the joint UDA-UVF truce had
broken down, he could have
ordered more than 150 convicted
members of both groups
returned to prison to continue
serving their suspended sen
tences.
Instead, he focused criticism
on Adair, calling him the leading
member of a small group of
“gangsters and thugs who oper
ate on the black side of Northern
Ireland society”
He said Adair had been “given
a chance to go straight,* but had
instead "whipped up the feud.*
The viability of the Good
Friday peace accord depends in
part on maintaining cease-fires
by the Irish Republican Army,
which draws support from the .
mo6t militant Catholic areas, and
Protestant-based gangs such as
the UDA and UVF.
Before calling their joint
cease-fire, those two Protestant
groups were responsible for slay
ing more than 800 Catholic civil
ians.
dui rivalry over control or
criminal rackets has risen
between the two groups, particu
larly once Adair returned home
to the Shanldll last September.
Adair, 36, was convicted in
1994 of directing terrorism after
being taped by undercover
police officers bragging about his
role in terrorizing Belfast
Catholics. He served just five
years of a 16-year sentence.
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