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NATION/WORLD
Government posts record surplus
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WASHINGTON (AP) - The government posted
a record $237 billion surplus in the budget year that
just ended -- a fiscal performance that President
Clinton quickly seized upon yesterday to promote
Vice President Al Gore's run for the White House.
It was the third straight year of windfalls, some-
-thing that hasn't happened since the late 1940s, and
marks a dramatic turnaround from fiscal year 1992
-the year Clinton captured the presidency - when
the government registered a record deficit of S290.4
billion.
The official announcement of the 2000 surplus
comes only two weeks before voters elect a new
president. A major point of contention between
Gore, the Qemocrats' pick, and Texas Gov. George
W. Bush, the Republicans' choice, has been what
should be done with surpluses that are projected to
total $4.6 trillion over the next decade.
Bush has proposed a SI1.3 trillion across-the-board
tax cut, while Gore has called for smaller, targeted
tax cuts and more government spending.
"It's worth remembering, I think, that when Vice
President Gore and I took office in 1993, the deficit
was S290 billion ...," Clinton said on the South
Lawn of the White House during an event to push
his education initiatives.
"Working together we turned that around - not
by chance, but by choice," Clinton said. "There are
big opportunities and big challenges out there, but I
believe we have to first stay with what got us here -
pay down the debt, strengthen the Social Security
and Medicare systems - ... and we need to then
seize this opportunity to take the money that's left to
invest in our future, especially education."
Bush campaign spokesman Scott McClellan
offered a different assessment.
The credit for our current prosperity belongs
to the hardworking men and women of America,
entrepreneurs, small business owners, not the
Clinton-Gore administration," McClellan said.
"Even with these new figures, it's still not enough
to cover Al Gore's massive increase in govern-
ment spending."
The government's 2000 surplus for the year
that ended Sept. 30 surpassed the previous record
of $124.4 billion for fiscal year 1999 and came
on top of a 569.2 billion surplus in fiscal year
1998. The 1998 surplus marked the first time the
government had managed to finish in the black
since 1969. The last time the government report-
ed three consecutive years of surpluses was in
1947-1949.
Social Security taxes provided nearly S150 billion
of the surplus in 2000.
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Teen holds Arizona classroom hostage
GLENDALE, Ariz. -- An armed teen-ager briefly held a classroom full of
children and a teacher hostage yesterday at his former elementary school
before surrendering to authorities. No one was injured.
The former student at Pioneer Elementary School gave up after talking
with members of a police SWAT team, police spokesman Matt Brown said.
The standoff in the eighth-grade classroom lasted about an hour.
"He came here with a purpose but thank goodness he didn't carry it ou ,
said Brown. He did not elaborate beyond saying the boy discussed the reason
for his actions with authorities.
Brown said the portable classroom was full when the student walked in
with a 9mm handgun, but he gradually let students go. There were still se-
eral people in the room at the time the student surrendered.
The school has classes for kindergarten through eighth grades and the
children involved were about 13 or 14 years old, Brown said.
Other students were bused to a high school, where parents could pick them
up, and the school was closed.
Courtney Smith, who lives across the street from the school, said she
saw the suspect enter the school grounds at about 11:15 a.m. He w
wearing camouflage and had a hood over his head, but she didn't see
weapon.
Discovery touches super successful mission" Mission
Control said after Discovery rolled to
down in California a safe stop.
"Great to be back' replied Cmdr.
EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, Brian Duffy.
Calif. - Space shuttle Discovery and Gusts of close to 30 mph forced
its seven astronauts landed in Califor- NASA to pass up a landing attempt
nia's Mojave Desert yesterday after Cape Canaveral, Fla., earlier in the d
dangerously high wind prevented a
touchdown in Florida for the third day Ameritech ordered
in a row.
The shuttle swooped through a to
clear sky and touched down on the pay Cu~JLm1rS
runway at Edwards Air Force Base MADISON, Wis. - State regulators
about 2 p.m., ending a 13-day flight yesterday ordered Ameritech to pay
during which the astronauts got the S0 million as part of a deal to com-
international space station ready for pensate some 90,000 Wisconsin cus-
the arrival of its first full-time resi- tomers affected by service troubles that
dents next week, have plagued the telephone company.
The desert landing, the first for a The Wisconsin Public Service Co
shuttle since 1996, will be expensive mission and Ameritech agreed to the
for NASA. Ferrying Discovery back to settlement after the state agency
Florida, done piggyback on a modified received twice the number of com-
Boeing 747, is expected to cost close to plaints than usual following severe
SI million. The mission was NASA's weather that caused a series of outages
100th shuttle flight. The shuttle zoomed this summer. Under the consent order
across the Pacific and right over Los the PSC approved yesterday, a cus-
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on the final approach. week would receive SI31; Ameritech
"Welcome back to Earth after a previously would have paid S13.
AROUND TH--E WORLD
SBarak wleas to allies weeks of fighting to 127 - the vast
majority Palestinians.
in light of clas hes A 17-year-old Palestinian boy
was shot and killed in Gaza, and a
JERUSALEM -- Israeli Prime 13-year-old died of a bullet wou
Minister Ehud Barak stepped up his suffered four days earlier, the Sh
urgent quest for the political allies hospital said.
needed to save his fragile government, A Palestinian man was fatally
and the army warned yesterday that it shot in the West Bank town of
was bracing for extended clashes in Jenin.
Palestinian towns.
"Friends, this is a time of emer- Voters denied in
gency, and in an emergency, broth-
ers walk together," Barak told Israel Egyptian elections
radio as lie appealed to all of the
nation's diverse political parties to ASHMUN, Egypt -- Police fi
join in an emergency coalition gov- on opposition supporters and beat
ernment. them with batons as clashes erupted
For Palestinians, yesterday was a during parliamentary runoff elections
holiday marking the ascension of the yesterday. One person died and
Muslim Prophet Muhammad to heaven dozens were wounded.
from Jerusalem. Scores of voters denied entrance to
Rain-drenched streets and cold polling stations in Ashmun gathered
weather helped dampen - but did not outside the courthouse yesterday and
extinguish - confrontations in the pelted police trucks with stones.
West Bank, while clashes carried on Police responded with tear gas, live
in the drier Gaza Strip. ammunition and batons.
Three more deaths were reported,
bringing the toll from nearly four -Compiledf/iom Dui: wire rewort
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