NATION/WORLD The Michigan Daily - Friday, March 22, 1996 - 5 / - w'' d BL j ±v Dole, Clinton butt heads over gun-repeal legislation A Bureau of Engraving and Printing employee inspects a freshly printed sheet of redesigned $100 bills yesterday. The new bills are scheduled to be shipped Monday to banks nationwide, where they will replace the old bills. op-secret 'optically variable iik ued in new U.S. $100 bls The Washington Post WASHINGTON - President Clinton accused congressional Repub- licans yesterday of taking "the side of the Washington gun lobby" in trying to overturn the ban on assault weapons - a rhetorical blast that showed how he hopes one of his more controversial achievements of 1994 can be an re- election asset in 1996. Clinton didn't mention Senate Ma- jority Leader Bob Dole (R-Kan.) by name, but Dole's vague and defensive comments later about whether and when he would schedule a vote on the bill - he pledged last year to do so - made it plain that he was the real target. The day's maneuvering revealed how nearly every major item of legislative busi- ness is becoming a proxy for the im- pending Clinton-Dole general election battle.I Now that he has the nomination, Dole must face the political reality that numerous surveys show some 70 percent of the public favors keep- ing the ban. With the House set to pass the repeal today, will Dole keep his pledge and schedule a Senate vote? "I haven't considered it," he told reporters at a news conference. "It's not a priority." If the assault weapons bill highlights the perils of running for president as a legislative leader, Dole has been busy trying to prove that his platform on Capitol Hill can also be put to advan- tage. Over the past two days, Dole has embraced subjects as diverse as missile defense systems and Everglades alliga- tors in an effort to use pending legisla- tive items to highlight his differences with Clinton. Yesterday, Dole joined with House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) and other Republicans to propose legisla- tion building an anti-missile defense system for the United States over the next seven years. Referring to Clinton's veto last year of a similar proposal, Dole said, "Right now the United States has no defense, and I repeat, no defense, against ballistic missiles, and if it's left up to the Clinton administration, it will stay that way." The proposal would require the United States to deploy a missile de- fense system capable of defending all 50 states from limited attacks by 2003. Clinton vetoed a defense bill contain- ing such a provision last December, arguing that it would lead to a violation ofthe 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty with countries of the former Soviet Union. Dole later yesterday tried to show his support for the environment and fiscal frugality at the same time, join- ing other Republicans in endorsing a congressional plan for saving the Florida Everglades. He noted point- edly that the congressional plan, un- like an earlier Clinton proposal, did not rely on taxes on the sugar industry' for its financing. But it was the gun issue that showed most clearly how the normal push-and- shove of Washington lawmaking has been placed in an entirely different sphere because of the presidential cam- paign. The official White House view is that scheduling a vote on the assualt weap- ons ban is a terrible waste of time, since Clinton would veto any attempt at re- peal. "There is no point in distracting the American people or the Congress from the important work before us," the president said yesterday. Yet this was a distraction on which Clinton and his aides seemed quite ea- ger to devote their attention. "The longer you want to spend on this the better," White-House spokes- person Michael McCurry grinningly told reporters. "I'll wail on." The point ofhis wailing, he explained, was to make the case that "we've got a very extreme agenda coming from the hard right compared to the common- ground agenda that the president's tried to advance." The Washington Post WASHINGTON-Themirroredceil- ing and stainless-steel walls give no hint about what goes on beyond the stark lobby ofSICPA Industries in Springfield, Va. Company officials like it that way. For more than 10 years, SICPA, the American subsidiary of a 70-year-old tv iss ink-making company, has been, t e world's sole producer of a hot com- modity called Optically Variable Ink. When viewed from different angles, the ink' appears to change colors, and when applied to paper currency, it makes coun- terfeiting impossible, SICPA maintains. In-the fall, U.S. money-makers an- nounced a monetary face lift, the first heavy-duty nip-and-tuck in 66 years, beginning with Ben Franklin on the $100 bill. The $765,000 redesign incor- porates several anti-counterfeiting de- vices, including a splotch of SICPA's color-shifting ink in one corner that changes from green to black depending on how light hits it. The first of the new $100 bills will be shipped to banks Monday, putting the U.S. greenback on a par, technology- wise, with the French franc, the Italian lira and the German mark, to name just a few of the currencies that use color- changing ink. SICPA, which has a $10million U.S. contract to provide 20,000 pounds of the special ink - enough to print more than2billion bills-assiduously guards the proprietary technology behind it. The $100 note is the first to undergo the sophisticated makeover, because it is the most popular with forgers abroad, where two-thirds of the $390 billion in U.S. currency is held. Other denomina- tions down to the $5 bill will follow annually, though not all will contain each new counterfeiting deterrent. Old- style bills will remain legal tender and be replaced as they wear out. According to the Secret Service, more than $30 million in bogus U.S. money was passed and seized in this country in fiscal 1995, a 62 percent increase over 1993; an additional $72 million was seized before it got into circulation, three times the 1993 figure. I anel sees low-level extremism in Army The Washington Post WASH INGTON - An Army task force investigating the presence of hate groups in the ranks reported yesterday it had found "minimal evidence of ex- tremist activity," but expressed con- cern about widespread confusion among *diers about Army policy and criti- cized a lack of attention to the issue in training programs. The three-month study, prompted by the hate murder in December of a black couple by three white soldiers in North Carolina, concluded extremist groups - while "visible and active in commu- nities outside some Army installations" - do not seem to be targeting soldiers for recruitment. But investigators voiced alarm about gang-related activities, which they said were "more pervasive than extremist activities on and near Army installa- tions, and are becoming a significant security concern for many soldiers." Among the major recommendations by the one Navy and four Army officials on the task force were clearer rules on participating in extremist organizations, closer screening to keep out recruits with extremist views and new training courses about extremist activity. In a written survey of 17,080 soldiers, conducted by the Army's Research In- stitute, 3.5 percent reported they have been approached to join an extremist organization since joining the Army. Heinghm.hssumr i Sure you deserve some fun this summer after your hard work this academic year. But between vacation, summer jobs and catching up with your hometown pals, you can Congratulations! The following students will be among those recognized during the Honors Convocation Program on Sunday, March 24, 1996. These individuals have demonstrated the highest level of undergraduate academic success by achieving seven or more consecutive terms of all A's and earning the designation Angell Scholar. 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