2 -The Michigan Daily - Wednesday, March 20, 1996 NATION/WORLD House approves defending Taiwan WASHINGTON (AP) - The House overwhelm- ingly passed a resolution yesterday saying the United States should make clear to China that any attack on Taiwan will not be accepted. The non-binding resolution reaffirms the 1979 Taiwan Relations Act and states that "United States military forces should de- fend Taiwan in the event of invasion, missile attack, or blockade by the People's Republic of China." The 369-14 vote occurred as Secretary of State War- ren Christopher made plans to meet the Chinese foreign minister next month to dis- cuss the Taiwan crisis and other issues straining U.S.- Chinese relations. The Sen- "Iif the Uni is ambhiguou; point we risi through wea - Re said on ABC's "Nightline." Lawmakers called the Clinton administration's "stra- tegic ambiguity" and quiet diplomacy in response to China holding military exercises off Taiwan's shores insufficient. "It is very, very important that the United States of Americamake clear to the People's Republic of tedu.States China that a war of ag- gression waged against sJ on this the democracy on Taiwan will not be accepted, not k war by the United States, not by the free world," said ik essi Rep. Christopher Cox (R- Calif.) a chief sponsor of :p. Christopher Cox the measure. (R-Calif.) "If the United States is ambiguous on this point we risk war through weakness," he said. Meanwhile, the administration approved the sale of Stinger surface-to-air missiles and an advanced target- ing and navigation system for fighterjets to Taiwan but denied the Taipei government's request for new sub- marines. The approval came during an annual meeting between Taiwan and U.S. defense officials on the island's military needs, The Washington Post reported. The newspaper also reported that the administra- tion notified Congress yesterday that it was proceed- ing with the transfer of $368 million in military equipment to Pakistan despite its recent purchase of sensitive nuclear equipment from China. Pakistan purchased the American missiles, Navy aircraft and other Army and Air Force equipment in the 1980s but its delivery had been held up over claims that Pakistan was violating U.S. nuclear proliferation laws. Christopher is to meet with Foreign Minister Qian Qichen on April 21 in The Hague, Netherlands, after accompanying President Clinton to a summit meeting with Russian President Boris Yeltsin in Moscow, an administration official said. In early April, Defense Secretary William Perry will hold talks in Washington with the Chinese de- fense minister, Chi Haotian, Pentagon spokesman Kenneth Bacon said. The State Department and senior administration officials have declined to say publicly if U.S. troops would come to the defense of Taiwan in the event of an invasion, sticking to a policy of "strategic ambigu- ity" as defined in the Taiwan Relations Act. NATIONAL REPORT Heavy snowstorms blamed for deaths A last blast of winter plastered the Ohio and Tennessee valleys with heavy, we snow yesterday, closing schools, sending cars skidding off highways and leaving thousands of people without electricity. "It's just been a lousy winter," Connie Smith said while taking refuge in a cof shop in downtown Indianapolis. "It's been one of the worst we've had in a 1 time. "Terrible," said Eric Todd, toweling melted snow from his chilled face while waiting for an Indianapolis bus. On the last full day of winter, up to a foot of snow was possible in parts o Kentucky, with a chance of 10 inches in Indiana, the National Weather Servic said. Six inches fell in parts of Tennessee and flurries blew through Georgia, which had damaging thunderstorms just the day before. "The last (storm) we had killed my daffodils, but my hyacinths and tulips ha just come up. I'm sure I won't have any now," said Shirley Greene of Hendersonvill Tenn. Indiana and Kentucky each blamed one traffic death on the weather. And skidding in southern Indiana struck a bus carrying mentally handicapped adu slightly injuring a dozen people. ate is expected to take up the resolution soon. Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole (R-Kan.) called the situation "very dangerous," adding, "We've got some responsibility to Taiwan." "It seems to me that we'd have some obligation to come to their defense if something happened," Dole Sunscreen and Shakespeare Maximize your exposure this summer. Our program offers an extensive range of graduate and undergraduate day and evening courses in the Humanities, Sciences and Social Sciences. 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Get A Piece Of The Peace... 1 Clinton submits $1.6T budget for 1997 The Washington Post WASHINGTON - President Clinton yesterday proposed a $1.64 tril- lion budget that reaches balance by the turn of the century, offers modest middle-class tax cuts, preserves spend- ing for his domestic priorities - and effectively opens the Washington phase of the 1996 presidential contest. The 1997 spending plan sent to Con- gress amounts to a Clinton re-election platform as much as it does a guide to federal spending over the next seven years. Republicans generally treated it that way, denouncing it as awash in gimmicks, delayed savings and empty promises. But Clinton, in a news conference pre- senting the proposal, called on Republi- cans to seize the last moments before the campaign envelopes Washington to end the partisan budget gridlock that has shut down the government twice and threat- ened the government's ability to pay its debt. With the 1996 budget unfinished, thousands ofgovernment programs are in doubt this year. "We should enact a balanced budget and we should do it now, not after the November election, not after the politi- cal season, not later but now," the presi- dent said of his 1997 plan. "The Ameri- can people deserve nothing less. It is the right thing to do." Republicans scoffed and questioned ...Come See For Yourself Spend this summer in Israel on the program that is right for you GR um itOSma-Ore of a kindforcollegegraduates Suoar ON TM-Thre weeks for those with limited time TA= oF isma-Four week intensive tour of Israel OD1sSEy' 6Explore Eastern Europe and Israelfor four weeks YouNG SINGLEs-Two week program for those 25-30 the president's sincerity. "We passed a balanced budget; Clinton vetoed it," House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) said. "Who's he kidding? We passed tax cuts; Clinton vetoed those." 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PRI MARY Continued from Page 1. to vote, but couldn't because they are not registered in the district. Norton saidshenoticedthis too. "There is a lack of interest or knowledge about the primary," she said. LSA junior Sue Priver said she voted in the March 5 Massachusetts primary by absentee ballot. As she worked in the Union's Campus Information Cen- ter yesterday, Priver said she saw very little traffic toward the polls. "It should be people's perogative to vote, but I don't know how much people on campus know about it - there's a lack of awareness," she added. Although yesterday's turnout was low, Priver predicted a greater turnout in the November election between Dole and Clinton. In addition to Dole's win, officials in the city of Detroit also celebrated vic- tory last night as voters approved the ballot proposal that permitted use of public funds for the building of a new Tiger Stadium downtown. Pending a state lawsuit, all other funding has been approvedand the stadium is scheduled to be ready for the 1998 season. LSA-SG Continued from Page 1. The Michigan Party slate plans to increase LSA-SG involvement on the Code. "We need to teach students who apply for a judiciary position how to do their jobs before they begin them," Scublinsky said. For Kovacs, the government's main objective should be to do more for stu- dent groups than just allocate funds and must get beyond political battles. "We need to focus on the issues, not the parties and the politics," he said. Despite the advice of LSA-SG President Rick Bernstein, the race felt' the influence of party politics last week. On March 13, LSA-SG election di- rector Mark Borgman issued a ruling stating that because of a technicality in House opens debate on immgration bill WASHINGTON - The House of Representatives opened debate yester- day on the broadest immigration-re- form bill in 30 years, bringing to the floor sharp disagreements in both par- ties over such issues as whether to re- duce the number of legal immigrants, create a new agricultural guest-worker program and increase government over- sight of private business. America's systems for controlling legal and illegal immigration are both "clearly broken" and in urgent need of reform, said Rep. Lamar Smith, (R- Texas), the bill's chief sponsor. Oppo- nents, including prominent Republi- cans, argue that legal immigration is not a problem and that efforts should be focused on curbing the influx of illegal aliens instead. Behind the bill's central aims of cracking down on illegal aliens and gradually cutting back legal immigra- tion are more complex controversies over big government, welfare abuse and the changing face of American so- b China begins new round of exercises, criticizes U.S. BEIJING - With Taiwan's first democratic presidential elections just four days away, the war of words be- tween China, Taiwan and the United States shows few signs of abating. China began the latest in a series of military exercises near Taiwan yesterday by pounding one of its own islands offthe southeast coast in a mock invasion, while in Beijing, a Foreign Ministry spokesper- son verbally pounded the United States for sending warships to the region. "China expresses its displeasure with the United States for grossly interfering in China's internal affairs and for the brazen show of force," Shen Guofang said at a regularly scheduled Foreign Ministry news conference. "The United States must immediately stop its activi- ties designed to interfere in China's internal affairs and intensify the ten- sions in the Taiwan Strait area." Although most diplomats and China experts keep predicting that tensions ciety. Parts of the bill are strenqousl opposed by an odd amalgam of conser vative Republicans, liberal Democrats libertarians, ethnic groups and refuge advocates, including the U.N. Hig Commissioner for Refugees. FTC targets 'deman drat' scams WASHINGTON - The Federa Trade Commission said yesterday it i using new regulations, legal action an an educational campaign to fight sca artists who are using the "demand draft' to rob consumers of tens of millions o dollars a year. A demand draft is an account hold advance permission to have money take from his or her checking account to pa a bill. Demand drafts are widely used t cover mortgage payments, insurance pre miums, and other regular bills. The drafts look like checks but instea of a signature they carry a notice sayin the account holder has given permissio to have money withdrawn from his o her checking account. Banks treat t as if they were personal checks. will soon diminish and that all side will avoid physical force, there wer no indications yesterday that tension are easing. Judge grants divorce to Mandelas JOHANNESBURG - After a tortu ous day that ended with Winnie Mandel firing her lawyer and standing alone t plead for sympathy, a Supreme Cou judge yesterday declared the 38-ye marriage of South African Presi Nelson Mandela and his estranged officially dissolved. The divorce ends months of privat wrangling and two days of poigna public disclosures that cast Mandela, th grandfatherly symbol of national raci reconciliation, as unable or unwilling t reconcile with the wife he said made hi feel like the "loneliest man." 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