The Michigan Daily - Thursday, September 26, 1996 - 7A I NATION/WORLD H scracks down on . .l ilegalaens WASHINGTON (AP) - The House voted to crack down Son illegal aliens yesterday, passing a bill that would nearly .double the number of border patrol officers and speed up deportation procedures. "This bill secures America's borders, penalizes alien smugglers, expedites the removal of criminal and illegal aliens, prevents illegal aliens from taking American jobs and ends non-citizens' abuse of the welfare system," said Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Texas), who introduced the legisla- tion. The House also was considering the fiery issue of whether states should be allowed to close schoolhouse doors to immi- *grant children who are in the country illegally. Some Democrats bitterly opposed the huge immigration bill, saying it was too hard on legal immigrants and not hard ;enough of unscrupulous employers who knowingly hire ille- gal aliens. They have urged President Clinton to veto it, but the White House has not said whether he will do so. Yet the 229 Republicans - almost all the GOP members in the House - were joined by 76 Democrats in approving the bill and sending it to the Senate, which was expected to vote on it later this week. Voting against the bill were 117 Democrats, five Republicans and one independent. Republicans - who worked for two years to bring the immigration bill to a final vote - said the bill was Congress' first serious action against illegal immigration in years. "Every three years enough illegal aliens enter the country permanently to populate a city the size of Boston or Dallas or San Francisco,' Smith said as the House voted on the mea- sure that was a compromise of separate bills passed last spring by the House and Senate. But Democrats called the bill a ruse that does not attack the true causes of illegal immigration. Some also suggested that Republicans were using the issue to score points with voters weeks before the election. "The problem with this bill is that it cons the American people into thinking major new steps are going to be done," ;said Rep. Howard Berman (D-Calif). Under the bill, local police and other law enforcement offi- cers would have new powers to detain and remove illegal aliens and foreigners would have a tougher time winning U.S. asylum by claiming persecution in their home countries. Penalties for alien smuggling and document fraud would be increased. Yeltsin's surgery postponed for at least 6 weeks Los Angeles Times MOSCOW - The surgery for Russian President Boris Yeltsin will be postponed for at least six weeks because his heart is damaged and he will proba- bly need another two months after a triple- or quadruple-bypass operation to recuperate, his doctors said yesterday. That announcement by Russian sur- geons and Michael DeBakey, the American heart-bypass pioneer who is consulting here, was aimed at dis- pelling fears that Yeltsin, 65, who has been hospitalized for almost two weeks, is too weak to undergo surgery. But it threatened to leave Moscow without an active leader for most of the winter and prompted even more moves by the president's potential successors to draw attention to themselves. The medical luminaries, who met for three hours of consultations at the Central Clinical Hospital, were deter- minedly upbeat about the delay in the president's planned surgical proce- dures. They said Yeltsin's condition had improved since a heart attack in late June - a seizure unreported at the time - and the delay was needed to ensure success. "If we were to conduct the operation today, we could expect a positive result. The chances of the positive result would be about 80 percent. But if we give the patient another six weeks to prepare for the operation, the chances of success will be close to 100 percent," said Renat Akchurin, the surgeon who is expected to operate on Yeltsin, with DeBakey watching. As well as heart muscle damage, DeBakey admitted that Yeltsin had been losing blood in recent months and said the cause for this needed to be investi- gated. "It is an easily correctable thing, but we have to be sure,' he said, adding that the Russian leader's kidneys and liver are functioning normally. The drawn-out timetable announced yesterday would schedule the operation between early November and December - and DeBakey left open the possibili- ty of more postponements by saying the timing depended on what the medical team observed in the next six weeks. Kremlin officials have no political option now but to continue to insist that Yeltsin will soon be fit enough to undergo surgery. Any suggestion that he is too ill to operate upon would intensify a struggle between his would- be successors? it would threaten Russia's post-election stability. Other presidential hopefuls have used growing public anxiety about Yeltsin's future - and the prospect of Russia drifting back into the chaos of its recent past - to seek the spotlight for themselves with demands for Yeltsin's resignation or apocalyptic warnings about disasters facing Russia. Communist Gennady Zyuganov, beaten in the July election, has claimed that Yeltsin deceived voters about his health and was reelected under false pretense. On Tuesday, he demanded Yeltsin's resignation - an action echoed yesterday by former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev. Yesterday, Russian Security Council chief Alexander Lebed also took his turn, asserting that Russia's underpaid armed forces were on the verge of revolt. The outspoken former general, who is not in the government but answers directly to Yeltsin, also criti- cized U.S. missile attacks on Iraq. The Clinton administration responded quickly, accusing Lebed of undermining U.S.-Russian relations. "Frankly, we are puzzled with the comments of Mr. Lebed because they are so inconsistent with the generally good cooperation we have had with the Russian government," said State Department spokesperson Nicholas Burns. AP PHOTO A German Tragedy Johann Astner and his wife Christina cry in each other's arms during the funeral of their daughter Natalie in Epfach, Germany, yesterday. Seven-year-old Natalie had been kidnapped on her way to school and left to drown. France, U.S. cross signals over Bosnia Los Angeles Times UNITED NATIONS - A top French official said yesterday that the United States has accepted a two- year plan for consolidating the peace in Bosnia- Herzegovinia that would include a continued presence of Western ground forces. But this assertion - made by French. Foreign Minister Herve de Charette - was quickly denied by State Department spokesperson Nicholas Burns. He said Secretary of State Warren Christopher had been informed in general about the plans by Charette in a meeting in early September "but he (Christopher) did not agree to anything." In Bergen, Norway, there were news service reports - that senior U.S. officials - meeting with their NATO counterparts - supported a proposal by European defense ministers for the alliance to start planning a new military mission that could replace the NATO-led peace force, known as IFOR, by the end of the year. This seemed to be a change in the U.S. position. When Secretary of Defense William Perry arrived in Bergen on Tuesday, he told reporters that talk about a new peacekeeping force in Bosnia was "premature." The conflicting accounts of the Paris meeting by French and U.S. officials and the confusing signals from Bergen reflected just how politically delicate the issue of international involvement in Bosnia is for President Clinton. He has pledged that U.S. peace- keeping troops will start leaving Bosnia by the end of this year. Pressure for an extended military mission also came from Bosnian President Alija Izetbegovic. who told the U.N. General Assembly yesterday that "the pres- ence of the international military forces will be indis- pensable for a certain and limited period of time and economic assistance is necessary for a longer period." Some comments from European officials seemed to indicate a possible way for Clinton to fulfill his pledge and still take part in a new military mission to Bosnia. In a breakfast meeting at the United Nations, British Foreign Secretary Malcolm Rifkind predicted to reporters that, as Clinton has promised, the present NATO-led mission will leave Bosnia as scheduled. But the British minister said he did not look on its departure as the end of international military patrolling Bosnia. "The odds are pointing to some sort of follow-on military deployment," he said, adding that a decision would probably be made at a conference in London at the end of November or early December. Asked if British troops would take part in that kind of military mission in Bosnia if Clinton refused to send U.S. troops, Rifkind replied with a stark "Nope. Charette, replying to a similar question in a more elliptical way, said that "the presence of a French force would depend on the measures approved"' by the allies. But in the past, French President Jacques Chirac has made it clear that he would not keep French troops in Bosnia if the United States refused to allow any of its troops there. Trying to explain the difference in the French and American assessments of the September Christopher- Charette meeting, a French spokesperson said the minister was clearly talking about general principles, not details, when he told reporters at breakfast, "'The (French) proposal was accepted by the United States at a meeting I had with Warren Christopher in Paris." Charette said that, even when the Dayton, Ohio, peace accords were negotiated a year ago, "we all real- ized that one year was too short" a period for a peace- keeping mission. COOKIES M, MX r I" D i~ A OUA) PPUIA TYLtB O fl1Q1TIN TOP$ShIN N , a LIMO ODPDV1tD UL IV1/2 (MllTATI! f (010 WTAT I T A 40ZH VOUAT 1TT4 M 17M1 * TAU OH ANV 1V1, VOV'11 L009MA[IfL[OV!! K *715 N. 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