2 - The Michigan Daily - Monday, February 6, 1995 lo/, Clinton's budget sparks political fire - W~~~-'7 K< . Los Angeles Times WASHINGTON - On the eve of PresidentClinton's annual budgetmes- sage to Congress, Republican and Democratic leaders accused each other yesterday of lacking the political back- bone necessary to cut spending enough to balance the federal budget. Republicans said Clinton's budget, which would leave the deficit hovering around $200 billion a year through the rest of this decade, failed to exhibit fiscal "leadership." Democrats re- sponded that GOP leaders were quick to criticize Clinton but slow to offer specifics of their own. Members of both parties, however, were eager to assert which programs they would leave intact. Social Secu- rity, the government's biggest program at about $335 billion - about $1,300 for every man, woman and child in America - crowned almost everybody's list of favored programs. "Nobody - Republican, Demo- crat, conservative, liberal, moderate- is even thinking about using Social Security to balance the budget," Senate Majority Whip Trent Lott (R-Miss.) said on CBS-TV's "Face The Nation." Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole (R-Kan.) accused Democrats of spread- ing fear among the public with asser- tions that the GOP wanted to cut Social Security. "It's about time the Democrats started some leadership around here, instead of trying to scare people on Social Security or veterans or every- thing else," Dole said on NBC-TV's "Meet The Press." House Budget Committee Chair- man John R. Kasich (R-Ohio) noted that Clinton's budget barely dented the government's enormous entitlement programs - those that guarantee fed- eral benefits to those meeting particu- lar eligibility requirements. FOR YOUR EYE EXAMS & EYEGLASSES Republican field for '96 begins shaping up Budget focuses on illegal workers WASHINGTON-In an effort to make it more difficult for illegal immigrants to find jobs in the United States, the Clinton administration will ask Congress to hire about 570 additional investigators for checks of work sites and to finance new methods of verifying that job applicants are in the country legally. The fiscal 1996 budget thatPresidentClinton will present to Congress this week will request $93 million to underwrite the expanded verification programs and add 370 Immigra- tion and Naturalization Service investigators and 200 Labor Department wage-and-hourenforcers, Justice Department Clinton officials said Saturday. The proposal represents a 29 percent increase over current funding levels in those areas. The request is notable because it signals a potential turning point in enforce- ment of immigration laws. The INS traditionally has focused almost solely on border crossings where many immigrants enter the country and has relied on voluntary employer compliance with the ban on hiring illegal immigrants. Energy Dept. seeks Tritium decays at a rate of 5.5 per- .centayear,soby 2010,the country will $50 billion for tritim need a new source to maintain even the much-reduced nuclear arsenal envi- WASHINGTON-In a significant sioned by the START II arms reduc- step toward restoring the nation's abil- tion treaty, according to Energy De- ity to manufacture nuclear weapons, partment and Pentagon estimates. Giorgio Armani STUDENT DISCOUNTS Kjchiardscm $ 4tical 320 S. 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The Washington Post WASHINGTON - The Republi- can congressional victories have sparked activity among prospective candidates for the GOP presidential nomination, with at least nine politi- cians in various stages of entering the race and a host of others watching closely. Three of the most prominent likely competitors - Senate Majority Leader Robert J. Dole of Kansas, Sen. Phil Gramm (Tex.) and former Ten- nessee governor Lamar Alexander - already have put together major pieces of their campaign organizations. Only slightly behind them is former Vice President Dan Quayle, who plans to announce his candidacy in April. Commentator Patrick J. Buchanan, who unsuccessfully challenged Presi- dent George Bush from the right in 1992, is deciding whether to try again for the nomination. A number of his past supporters, including his sister, Angela "Bay" Buchanan, are prepared to go to battle once again. In addition, Sen. Richard G. Lugar -- a foreign affairs expert who, like Quayle, is from Indiana - is looking at a bid; Rep. Robert K. Dornan of California has told reporters that he will run; Sen. Arlen Specter (Pa.) is exploring whether he can gain support by challenging his party's Christian right; and Alan L. Keyes, who ran for the Senate unsuccessfully in Maryland and was assistant secretary of state for international organizations during the Reagan administration, has formed a presidential exploratory committee. In Iowa, where the February cau- cuses mark the opening contest for delegates to the national convention, Brian Kennedy, newly elected chair- man of the state party, said four Repub- licans are at varying stages of organiz- ing for the 1996 caucuses: Dole, Gramm, Alexander and Specter. Quayle is scheduled to meet with state party leaders in Des Moines next week. Kennedy said that Dole, who fin- ished first in the 1988 caucuses, has to be considered the front-runner at this point. But the Iowa GOP has grown more conservative since 1988. The Christian Coalition has effective con- trol of the state central committee and was responsible for Kennedy's eleva- tion to the chairmanship over two ri- vals. Kennedy said that Gramm is ag- gressively targeting conservative ac- tivists, holding himself out as "the true conservative in the party." Quayle, with his emphasis on "fam- ily values," also will appeal to the party's conservative wing. Specter, an abortion rights supporter, appar- ently hopes to rally moderates to his cause while his rivals split the con- servative vote. At this very early stage in the campaign process, much of the com- petition centers on hiring well-known staffers and picking up financial sup- porters. Because many states have moved up the dates of their primaries and caucuses, some Republican strat- egists believe that candidates will need as much as $20 million at the start of 1996 to be able to compete effec- tively. In the battle for fund-raisers, offi- cials of Alexander's campaign boast that five former finance chairmen of the Republican National Committee are putting the arm on donors for the former governor. the.Energy Departments proposedbud- get for next year includes $50 million to begin developing a new facility to pro- duce tritium, a radioactive gas that is a key ingredient of nuclear warheads. Construction of a tritium source would close a yawning gap in the U.S. national security structure, which as- sumes a long-term reliance on nuclear weapons. The United States has not had the capability to produce tritium since nuclear reactors at the Energy Department's Savannah River, S.C., plant were shut down in the late 1980s. The United States no longer has facilities to produce key warhead com- ponents, such as plutonium. Mostcom- ponents, including plutonium cores, are being recycled from warheads re- moved from the active stockpile as post-Cold War arms reduction agree- ments are implemented. New MS drug has fewer side effects Si LOS ANGELES-Multiple scle- rosis patients may soon have a new drug that is nearly as effective as the recently approved beta-interferon but that has far fewer side effects. Preliminary results from a clinical trial show that the drug, called copoly- mer one, reduces flare-ups of the dis- abling disease by nearly one-third, the drug's discoverer said yesterday at an MS symposium at Cedars-Sinai Medi- cal Center. The drug's manufacturer will this week apply to the Food and Drug Administration for marketing approval, immunologist Ruth Arnon of the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel told the meeting. ~.a. China, U.S. raise many tariffs to 100 percent p A OUND THE WORLD U.S. to aid in Balkans mon cause a , But the f grievance mediation by problem Croats andI MUNICH, Germany - Bosnian throats again Muslims and Croats, under pressure . from the United States to shore up i tl their fragile federation, agreed yes- over Pe terday to submit any grievances to an international mediator for binding LIMA, P arbitration. reported b U.S. officials who brokered the Ecuadoreant agreement at a meeting in Munich jungle borde portrayed the resulting accord as an talksinBrazi important diplomatic step in contain- Ecuador ing the nearly three-year-old Bosnian fighters attac civil war. waters of the Assistant Secretary of State Rich- two countrie ard C. Holbrooke said the United and off for I1 States would further bolster the fed- President eration by providing constitutional visited the 1 law experts and a retired U.S. general said Peruviai to serve as advisers. Wealthy indus- the base of i trial nations also will be asked to' ing on the po contribute at least $10 million each in He alsos aid, Holbrooke added. had been kill As the third year of the Bosnian dor - twice civil war draws to a close, the Croat- given by Peru Muslim federation has been among soldiers have the few diplomatic successes by out- and presumn side powers trying to end the war, erupted Jan. Created last March at Washington's The unm, behest, the alliance converted former the border ru. enemies into factions allied in com- may contain -Fr gainst the Bosnian Serbs. federation has been beset s that threatened to set Muslims at each others' n. g continues eruvian border Peru - New fighting was etween Peruvian and troops along theirdisputed er yesterday as cease-fire il broke up without a truce. rcharged that Peruvian iked its posts at the head- e Cenepa River, where the es have been fighting on' 0 days. t Alberto Fujimori, who border region yesterday, an troops had surrounded ihuinza and were advanc- ost. said 22 Peruvian soldiers led in fighting with Ecua- e the number previously u. Ecuador says eight of its e died and two are missing ned dead since fighting 26. narked 50-mile portion of uns through an area which gold, uranium and oil. rom Daily Wire Services 0 i' Kaplan helps you focus your test prep study where you need it most. 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U.S. Trade Representative Mickey Kantor's pronouncement that "we are drawing the line here today" on trade came just three days after an annual State Department report faulting China as an authoritarian state that had failed to improve its record of "widespread and well-documented human rights abuses." Both were admissions that Presi- dent Clinton's decision last spring to remove the link between trading privi- leges and human rights had done little to promote improvements in either area. China's trade surplus with the United States was nearly $30 billion last year, second only to Japan and growing rapidly. The trade dispute is serious. It could, for example, result in China turning to Europe for billions of dol- lars worth of future aircraft purchases. But both sides are likely to work hard to keep it within manageable limits. GOP opposes nomninee for surgeon gen. WASHINGTON (AP) - Senate Republicans predicted trouble forPresi- dent Clinton's surgeon general nomi- nee yesterday, and chastised the White House for not telling Congress sooner that the doctor performed abortions. "Will it be in some difficulty? Yes," Senate Majority LeaderBob Dole said, when asked about the nomination of Dr. Henry Foster Jr. The Tennessee gynecologist-obste- trician came to Clinton's attention through a teen-age pregnancy program he founded in Nashville's housing de- velopments. It nroPs teen-ataprs to del2v CsYexua I -1 1995 Student Recognition Awars Outstanding Student Leader Outstanding Student Organization Program of the Year 1FN ,P a ]all Outstanding New Member Outstanding New Organization Advisor of the Year The Michigan Daily (ISSN 0745967) is published Monday through Friday during the fall and winter terms by students at the University of Michigan. Subscriptions for fall term, starting in September, via U.S. mail are $90. 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