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PAGE EIGHT—Sapulpa (Okla.) Herald, Monday, February 22, 1993
Gore calls for speedier U.N. role in Somalia
SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — The
Clinton administration is voicing its
displeasure and urging the United
Nations to "move more quickly” to
take over peacekeeping operations in
Somalia so most U.S. troops can come
home, Vice President A1 Gore says.
In an interview Sunday, Gore also
distanced the administration from the
remarks of a senior State Department
official, held over temporarily from
the Bush administration, who said in a
recent speech that Russian President
Boris Yeltsin was "just about at the
end of his usefulness.”
And the vice president promised
that he and Clinton would “go to the
mat” to offer political support to
lawmakers who cast tough votes in
favor of the administration's econom-
ic package. He rebuked Republican
critics of the plan as the architects of
the deficit mess Clinton is trying to
clean up.
Gore was interviewed as he flew
from Washington to California to join
Clinton in promoting the administra-
tion's economic package and a tech-
nology initiative that would redirect
some government research from
defense to civilian and commercial
areas as well as offer incentives for
private companies to expand research
and development of new products.
Clinton has asked Gore to spear
head the initiative.
“This has been the focus of an
enormous amount of work by the pres-
ident and his advisers,” Gore said of
the technology plan, which includes
creation of a new civilian research
agency and investments in fiber optics
and supercomputer networks.
“The competition between us and
Europe and Japan is now in the high
technology areas,” Gore said in cast-
ing the initiative as a key cog in Clin-
ton's economic policy.
During a discussion of foreign poli-
cy issues facing the new administra-
tion, Gore distanced the White House
from the recent remarks by State
Department official Richard Armit-
age, who also said he believed Yelt-
sin’s “days are somewhat
numbered.”
“He was certainly not speaking few
the administration when he made
those remarks,'' Gore said, adding that
Clinton and the Russian leader speak
periodically by telephone. "We wish
him well and are in a continuing
dialogue with him on problems of
mutual concern and opportunity and
building the friendship between our
countries.”
When former President Bush sent
U.S. troops to protect relief convoys in
Somalia, he said he hoped they would
be leaving by the time Clinton took
office. Although that was considered
an unrealistic timetable, Clinton and
Pentagon planners had hoped the with-
drawal would be in full swing by now.
On Saturday, the special U.S. envoy
to Somalia, Robert B. Oakley, criti-
cized the United Nations for stalling
its takeover of the operation, which
now involves nearly 18,000 U.S.
troops, all but 5,000 of whom are
supposed to be replaced by a
U.N.-commanded peacekeeping
force.
Asked about the slow pace of the
transition to the international force.
Gore said: “None of this is a big
surprise but it is nevertheless quite
important for the U.N. to move more
quickly. ... The essence of the same
message has been delivered (to U.N.
officials) in other ways.”
Students of the Month
Sapulpa Middle School’s Students of the Month for Jeremy Miller, Elizabeth Willie, Sarah Reldy, Leecln-
February are (from left) first row: Tim Bladgett. Phil da Valdez and Aroun Walters. (Herald StafT Photo by
Bonilla, Jennifer Kirk, Kristin Jordan; second row: CAROLINE BAKER)
Senators watch
with eye on ’96
WASHINGTON (AP) — In the
Senate, the complexity of President
Clinton’s economic package boils
down to two numbers: 22 and 12.
Of 34 Senate seats before the voters
in this two-year election cycle, 22
belong to the Democrats and only 12
arc Republican. And since the Demo
crats control the Senate by only a 57 to
43 majority, they arc in anything but a
risk-taking mood.
And any plan as big as Clinton’s is a
risk.
The tax increases are so broad, and
the spending cuts so disparate, that any
senator could find a reason to vote
against the program. Voting “no” is
almost always a safer vote than voting
yes.
Well aware of this, Clinton is selling
his package as a balanced whole, the
ticket for economic revival of a nation
headed toward second class status.
But Clinton never has to lake votes on
individual aspects of his plan — sena-
tors do.
Senate Democratic leaders charged
with shepherding the Clinton plan
through Congress know that they will
be tested time and again by Republi-
cans who will try to pick it apart with
an unending stream of individual votes
on such items as Social Security taxes
and pork-barrel cuts.
They can let it get picked, but not
apart.
Already, with only an outline of the
plan at their disposal, at least three
Senate Democrats with tough elec-
tions ahead — Don Reigle of Michi-
gan, Bob Krueger of Texas and Dennis
DcConcini of Arizona — have been
noticeably cool toward it.
Combined with some leading party
conservatives, such as J. James Exon
By The Associated Press
An intense storm system moving
across the South spawned several
tornadoes blamed for at least two
deaths. In the Rockies, five skiers were
missing today while avalanches and
blinding snow blocked highways,
stranding hundreds of travelers.
At least half a dozen twisters touch-
ed down Sunday in eastern Tennessee,
including one in Lenoir City that killed
an elderly woman and injured nearly
100 people.
“Houses have been leveled
Businesses have been leveled,” said
Loudon County Sheriff Tim Guider.
“All power is out to the city.”
Ten people were injured by another
tornado that hit nearby Tellico Plains,
Tom. Across the region, dozens of
homes were damaged or destroyed,
and thousands of people remained
without electricity today, authorities
said.
In CedaMwa, Os., a man in a trailer
was killed by one of at least two torna-
does that tore through the state Sunday
of Nebraska and David Boren of Okla-
homa. who said last week they wanted
changes to ensure the package doesn’t
turn into all taxes and no spending
cuts, it wouldn’t take long before the
new president faces trouble.
It will take gentle compromise to
get the plan through without plowing it
under.
In advance of the voting, Republi
cans are sowing dissent.
Senate Minority Leader Bob Dole,
R Kan., reminds anyone who’ll listen
that Republicans took the tough vote
in 1985 on a budget plan that included
Social Security cuts — and they lost
control of the Senate the following
year
Sen. Phil Gramm, R-Texas, had
declared that the 1994 elections will be
a referendum on Clinton’s plan.
Actually, the “referendum” could
come much sooner. Krueger, the sena-
tor appointed to the seat of now-
Trcasury Secretary Lloyd Bentsen,
faces a special election on May 1.
There’s a strong Republican field
lining up, not to mention one or two
Democratic rivals.
“I don’t think that we can overplay
how concerned we are about it,” said
Don Foley, executive director of the
Democratic Senatorial Campaign
Committee.
“I view the Krueger race the same
way I viewed the Wofford race in
1991,” he said, referring to the special
election in which Democratic appoin-
tee Harris Wofford of Pennsylvania
won his term. “It’s the scene-setter. It
will tell us a lot about the view of the
country."
“It remains to be seen whether
control of the Senate is at stake... (but)
a few losses and we could easily be in
danger of losing the Senate,” he said.
night, authorities said. At least 19
others were injured in the north Geor-
gia town, where rescue crews worked
to free people trapped in houses and
cars.
“We have been hit pretty hard,”
said Glen Arp, a radio operator with
the Polk County police. “We have
trees blocking roads, power lines
down, mobile homes pushed over,
roofs blown off of residences.”
A tornado that touched down about
40 miles cast of Lexington, Ky., appa-
rently caused no damage, but thundci -
storms damaged roofs and caused
widespread power outages.
Rescue workers were to resume
their search today for an 18-year-old
man whose canoe overturned in a
storm-swollen creek in Rush, Ky.,
police said.
The storm moved over the East
Coast today, bringing a mix of winter
precipitation. Heavy snow was
blamed for numerous traffic accidents
>n the Northeast
Bosnian
airdrop
considered
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Clin-
ton administration is completing plans
for an airdrop of supplies into Bosnia,
but details of the relief effort including
enforcement of the "no-fly” zone
against Serbia must still be worked
out, officials say.
White House spokeswoman Dec
Dec Myers, traveling with President
Clinton in California, said Sunday she
expects an announcement on the relief
effort after the president meets Tues-
day with U.N. Secretary General
Boutros Boutros-Ghali.
Clinton acknowledged on Saturday
that he was considering the possibility
of making air drops of food in Bosnia
because truck convoys had been
stopped from delivering supplies.
“We have an agreement tentatively
to try to start the trucks up again, but
we may have to go in and drop some
aid,” he said.
Bills in both the House and Senate
seek lifting of the international arms
embargo.
Hillary
spoke to
Eleanor
NEW YORK (AP) — Hillary
Rodham Clinton says imaginary
conversations with Eleanor Roosevelt
helped her survive the stresses of last
year’s presidential campaign.
“Early on as the campaign would
go and things would happen, I would
shake my head, and 1 would say, ‘Why
me?”’ Mrs. Clinton said Sunday night
at a tribute to the former first lady.
But as she learned more and more
about Mrs. Roosevelt, Mrs. Clinton
said she began to ask her for advice —
“How did you put up with this? How
did you go on day to day with all that
would happen, with the kinds of
attacks, criticisms that would be
hurtled your way?”
Mrs. Roosevelt’s answer? “Get out
and do it, and don’t make any excuses
about it,” Mrs. Clinton said.
Franklin D. Roosevelt III said there
were similarities between his grand-
mother and Mrs. Clinton, “both
women of intelligence and high ener-
gy ... willing to take big risks” to help
the less fortunate.
The new first lady arrived from
Washington by train in a heavy snow
storm to attend the benefit at Lincoln
Center, featuring Joanne Woodward,
Rosemary Clooney, Judy Collins,
Barbara Cook, Lena Home, Marilyn
Home and others.
Mrs. Clinton was welcomed to the
stage with a standing ovation that
capped two hours of Broadway,
cabaret and folk tunes, Negro spiritu-
als and Mrs. Roosevelt’s words.
Ticket prices ranged from $40 ro
$400. Organizers hoped to raise
$400,000 to landscape two acres of
New York's Riverside Park, where an
8-foot bronze statue of Mrs. Roosevelt
is to be erected by next year.
Snow buries Rockies,
twisters rake South
Clinton eyeing new taxes?
WASHINGTON (AP) — One tax
increase this year may not be enough.
Af ter outlining billions of dollars of
tax hikes last week to reduce the defi-
cit and revitalize the economy. Presi-
dent Clinton may ask Americans this
spring to dip into their pockets to over-
haul the nation’s medical-care system.
The possibility is strong enough that
White House Budget Director Leon
Panctla acknowledges publicly that
specific taxes — on tobacco and alco-
hol — are among the likely targets.
Treasury Secretary Lloyd Bentsen
stops a bit short, saying only that
“they will remain an option on the
table.”
Clinton’s top health advisers are
said to be weighing other options.
Among them: requiring workers to
pay tax on part of the health insurance
premiums paid by their employers;
limiting Medicare benefits for upper-
income retirees, and even imposing a
limited national sales tax.
But less than a week after Clinton
urged Congress to raise taxes by about
$60 billion a year in the name of deficit
reduction, it is difficult to find a
lawmaker wanting to discuss a new
round of taxes for health care.
“Nobody can ever say we can get to
100 percent (health insurance) cover-
age without a tax,” said Sen. David
Durenberger, R-Minn., an authority
on the system and a member of the
Senate Finance Committee. “It’s hard
to imagine covering 36 million... (who
now have no insurance) without addi-
tional public subsidies.”
But Durenberger advocates a gradu-
al approach to health-care reform,
rather than an effort to fix the system
in one massive sweep.
Sen. Byron Dorgan, D-N.D., who
pressed for action on health care while
a member of the House Ways and
Means Committee, says Congress has
no alternative but to act this year, but
adds it is too early to talk higher taxes.
“Hopefully, savings generated by
(medical) price controls or cost
containment will finance a health-care
plan,” Dorgan said.
But don’t look for easy answers.
“Health care is the 500-pound
gorilla in the deficit,” Dorgan says.
“You can do all sorts of dances around
the fire on spending cuts and tax
increases, but if you don't fix health
care, you're not going to solve this
country’s problems.”
In that, Clinton, Dorgan and Duren
berger agree.
In fact, nowhere in his economic
speech Wednesday night was Clinton
more emphatic: "All of our efforts to
strengthen the economy will fail
unless we also take this year — not
next year, not five years from now but
this year — bold steps to reform our
health-care system.”
Assuming Congress approves Clin-
ton’s entire deficit-reduction plan, the
deficit will continue its downward
slide. But in 1997 it will start rising
again without a major health overhaul.
Today the nation spends 14 cents of
every dollar on health care. Unless the
trend is reversed, it will reach 20 cents
within seven years.
So, what will it take to fix the
system?
“There’s no great mystery what’s
wrong,” says Dorgan. "Health care
costs too much. We’ve got to bring
prices down.”
Getting there won’t be simple,
Durenberger says. “We don’t even
know today what it will take to bring
the cost of care within, say 9 percent...
(of total income), which I believe we
can do in 10 years.”
Clinton pushes plan in west
SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — Tailor-
ing his sales pitch at every stop. Presi-
dent Clinton is taking his campaign-
style road show to the recession-weary
West Coast, promising high-wage,
high-tech jobs and a stem resolve
toward Europe's aircraft industry.
Today he takes his wares to a high-
tech graphics company in California’s
Silicon Valley then to Washington
State for an address to employees of
Boeing, which just announced plans to
lay off 23,000 workers. Vice President
A1 Gore Jr. joined Clinton here Sunday
evening.
The two-day trip began with a rally
at Santa Monica College, where he
outlined his economic plan to a bois-
terous crowd.
“I plead with you to communicate
with members of the House and Senate
that you understand that you can’t just
have the sweet parts of this program,
you’ve got to have the tough parts,
too,” Clinton said
Gore, en route to California,
pledged in an interview that lawmak-
ers who cast politically tough votes for
the economic plan would receive the
administration's support. “We will go
to the mat for those who are willing to
help us out," he said.
Clinton was welcomed to the finan-
cially strapped West Coast by scream-
ing crowds, and streets lined with
well-wishers.
In Santa Monica, he borrowed
themes — and sometimes lines —
from his address to Congress last
week. “The price of doing the same
old thing is a whole lot higher than the
prices of change.” And, borrowing a
theme he borrowed from President
Kennedy, “You can’t just say,
‘ What’s in it for me. ’ You have to say,
‘What’s in it for us.’”
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