The Michgan Daily - Tuesday, September 21, 1993- 7 LOOK MOM! Congress close to. decision on bases WASHINGTON (AP)-Congress neared a final vote yesterday on rec- ommendations to shut 130 military bases and scale back 45 others in a money-saving effort that will cost tens of thousands of jobs nationwide. The Senate considered a motion to disapprove the work of the seven-mem- her Defense Base Closure and Re- alignment Commission. The panel sub- mitted its recommendations to Presi- dent Clinton on July 1; it took him less than 24 hours to approve the list'and send it to Congress. The law creating the commission requires that the entire package take effect unless both the House and Sen- ate vote to overturn it in its entirety. The Senate was expected to endorse the recommendations. No motion of disapproval has surfaced in the House. This marks the third round of base closures in five years, and another swipe at reducing military infrastructure is planned for 1995. The bulk of the direct job, losses will he concentrated in three states. Hardest hit are California, slated to lose more than 40,000 military and civilian defense-relatedjobs; Florida, facing the loss of 22,000 jobs, and South Carolina, which is expected to lose more than 14,700 jobs. Among the major installations on the list are Alameda Naval Air Station in California, the Orlando Naval Training Center in Florida and the Charleston Naval Station and Naval Shipyard in South Carolina The commission estimated thatclos- ing the bases will save about $4 billion from fiscal 1994 to fiscal 1999 after one-time closure costs of $7 billion. Savings after thetumn of the century will he about $2.3 billion annually. California Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein, sponsor of the motion to re- ject the closings, descrihed her effort as "a last-ditch plea." She argued the panel failed to acknowledge the economic impact of its decisions. "It's almost like a doomsday ma- chune. It goes on and on regardless of what happens," Feinstein said of the commission. Sen. John Glenn, a member of the Armed Services Committee, conceded that closing bases is painful, but re- minded his colleagues that it is neces- sary as the military reduces the number of troops and weapons. "We just can't afford to keep every- thing open thatwe wouldlike tokeepopen all over the county" the Ohio Democrat said.'7be Cold Warhaspassed us. We're inatimeofslowdown....Wedon'tneedall these bases, and basically we can't con- tinmeto pay for then." Earlier this year, the four military services made their recommendations to Defense Secretary Les Aspin, who then submitted his proposal on closures and realignments to the commission on March.12. The panel traveled to bases around the country and held scores of hearings hefore five days of public debate and votes on the final list in late June. The commission rejected the Pentagon's recommendation to close six major in-. stallations but accepted the rest of its proposals. EUZABEI1 LIPPMAN/Daiiy A prospective customer checks out the merchandise at a local bookstore. Warring factions, *filto reach accord t sUrprise meetit.n 11 L* __j ZAGREB, Croatia (AP)-Bosnia's three warring factions failed anew to come to ter~ns at a surprise meeting yesterday aboard a British warship in the Adriatic Sea, wrecking plans for a * peace signing in Sarajevo. Croatian radio and the "Politika" TIV news program in Belgrade, the aYugoslav capital, said the Sarajevo meeting had been called off. Croatas HINAnews agency quoted mediators' spokesperson John Mills as saying there were "no steps forward in .negotiations" yesterday on the aircraft carrier HMS Invincible. The biggest obstacle to the plan, *,which would divide Bosnia into Serb, Croat and Muslim ministates, appeared to be a dispute over how to give the Muslim-led government access to the Adriatic. Th*'Ie meeting includedBosnian Presi- dent Alija Izetbegovic, Bosnian Croat -leader Mate Boban and Croatian Presi- The biggest obstacle to the plan.. appeared to be a dispute over how to give the Musflntied government access to the Adriatic. dent Franjo Tudjman. HINA said Presi- dent Slobodan Milosevic of Serbia and Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic also were aboard, although some re- ports said Kamadzic sentrepresentatives. The session was mediated by spe- cial envoys Lord Owen of the European Community and Thorvald Stoltenherg of the United Nations, who had said they hoped a plan could he ready for signing Tuesday in the besieged Bosnian capital. HINA said Tudjmnan was returning to Zagreb. 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