2-The Michigan Daily - Friday, November 17, 1995 Hillnears agreement on HUD, VA, EPA bi-s; White H The Washington Post WASHINGTON-House and Senate negotiators resolvedthdirdifferences yes- terday over an $80.3 billion bill funding veterans, housing, space and environ- mental agenciesemploying some 300,000 government workers. But even with Republicans dipping into a newfound $1.1 billion collection of money to add back some of the funds cut earlier from the Environmental Pro- tection Agency and the Housing and Urban Development Department, White House sources signaled that the spend- ing bill was still unacceptable. "Isee no indication that we've had a huge break- through," said one official. If President Clinton were to sign the measure, which appropriates money through next September, furloughed workers at the agencies it covers could return to work. On the Republican side, the desire to accommodate the administration was tem- pered by anger at resistance to GOP poli- cies from some agencies. The conferees sent what they called a "strong message" of displeasure to Veterans Affairs Secre- tary Jesse Brown in the form of sharp cuts in his office's staffand travel budget. The cuts had not been included in versions of the bill passed earlier this year by the House and Senate. Sen. Christopher S. Bond (R-Mo.) said he was incensed at reports that Brown had spread "falsehoods" about louse S nl GOP plans for veterans through e-mail issued by t and messages affixed to employees' Confere pay stubs. "The secretary has done ev- all EPA acc erything in his power to block every the 1995 a effort of Congress to bring the VA into ence and t the 21st century," said Bond, who chairs fund envir the subcommittee that drafts the appro- tories and priations measure. gressionalc Asked ifhe might relent on the cuts to million, as Brown's office, Bond said, "Maybe in a House and year." versions o Brown called the action "a mean- The con spirited attempt to undermine my abil- lion for the ity to do my job." cleanup pr Nevertheless, the conferees insulated the 1995 1 the major veterans programs from their enforceme personal ire. VA medical research pro- $1.5 billio grams received $257 million, the full Observe amount that Brown had requested. And tween Bon medical care was allocated $16.6 bil- mittee Cha lion, an increase from 1995 and only N.Y.) fore slightly less than Brown wanted. day to app The overall measure has been under off the ev intense fiscal and ideological pressure income ter all year, with budget cutters targeting ernment-a housing and environmental accounts The Bo for big savings, and House conserva- ated budge tives attaching legislative riders to it to Federal Ho curb EPA's alleged regulatory excesses. alternativ As expected after recent House votes against m registering rising concern among GOP $1.1 billio moderates over the party's environmen- available t tal image, Republican conferees confereest dropped most of the riders. But they lion in one retained one provision that removes to keep th EPA's power to veto wetlands permits properties, i i a veto i i the Army Corps of Engineers. es settled on $5.7 billion for counts, a 14-percent cut from amount of $6.6 billion. Sci- echnology accounts, which onmental research in labora- colleges in dozens of con- districts, were allocated $525 substantial increase over the Senate allowances in earlier f the bill. ferees added back $160 mil- Superfund hazardous waste ogram, bringing it closer to level. But management and nt programs were funded at n, a deep cut from 1995. ers credited a side deal be- d and Senate Banking Com- airman Alfonse D'Amato (R- nabling the conferees yester- rove a step that could stave iction of thousands of low- nants from subsidized, gov- ssisted housing units. nd-D'Amato maneuver cre- tary savings, by allowing the using Administration to seek es to costly foreclosures ortgagees in default. Some n of the savings were made o Bond's panel, enabling the to authorize up to $624 mil- -time payments to landlords, hem from refinancing their raising the rents and evict- come tenants who then could afford to pay. p FlkN lUlEI /U UIF1E1 HId tortt .., ALL SCREENSSThREO I SNATIONAL REPORT OR Parkinson's disease won't slow Reno WASHINGTON -With medication controlling the shak- ing of her left hand, Attorney General Janet Reno says her newly diagnosed Parkinson's disease will neither force her from office nor cease her long weekend walks along the Potomac River. "I feel.fine now. I continue to take my long walks," the 57- year-old attorney general said at her weekly news conference yesterday. "I don't feel like I have any impairment. I feel strong and feel like moving ahead." She has "an excellent, long-term prognosis," her doctor, Jonathan Pincus, a neurology professor at Georgetown Uni- versity Medical Center, said at a later news conference. "Her Reno mild tremor was completely eliminated with modest doses," of medication, he said. Reno disclosed that she was diagnosed three weeks ago with the progressive disease that undermines muscle control. Doctors assured her that, like hundreds of thousands of other Americans with Parkinson's, she could continue working without impairment. MIGHTY 1APHROPITE 1 (a) Vserrsiosr 1. Bring in this ad, and receive one I FREE 2Ooz DRINK! with any popcorn purchase Expires: December 15, 1995 -..-----. - - - -.. Park worker may be punished for working TRAVERSE CITY- A national park superintendent might be disciplined for his refusal to stop working despite the federal government's partial shutdown, his supervisor said yesterday. Bill Fink, who runs the Keweenaw National Historical Park in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, said he would con- tinue defying orders to stay away. But he has stopped urging other federal employees to join his "work-in." "I'm continuing to try to see that I take care of my work, my job and my customers," Fink said. "I feel very strongly about this com- mitment, about making my statement, saying that I care. I did this knowing that I was going far out on a limb and that there might be profound personal consequences." Fink's job is not in jeopardy and no decision has been made to punish him, said Bill Schenk, director of the Na- tional Park Service's field office in Omaha, which has jurisdiction over the Keweenaw park. But Schenk said he was reviewing the matter and that disciplinary action m = "9 i I I v firee a KAPLAN Educational Center presents: So You Want to Be A Doctor? Join us at 337 E. 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Doctor to examine Freeman brothers ALLENTOWN, Pa. - A judge has ordered two brothers accused of killing their parents and brother to be exam- ined by a psychiatrist hired by prosecu- tors, so they can prepare to rebut a potential insanity defense. The defense and prosecution wrapped up three days of pretrial hearings for David Freeman, 16, and Bryan Freeman, 17, on Wednesday by outlining issues that have to be settled before their triple- homicide trial begins in January. The Freeman brothers are accused of killing their mother, Brenda; their fa- ther, Dennis; and their 1l-year-old brother, Eric, in their Salisbury Town- ship home in February. The brothers then fled with a cousin to Hope, Mich., a tiny commuiity north of Midland in the central part of the state, where they were arrested. 0. scription on oneis missing several letters, but is believed to read "Hasmonean,'' another name for the clan. "This is the first time the word Hasmonean has been foundon archaeo- logical evidence," Riklin said. Former South Korean president arrested SEOUL - Former President Roh Tae-woo was arrested yesterday on charges of accepting multimillion-dol- lar bribes from the country's biggest businessmen in exchange for govern- ment contracts. Locked in a cell in a jail outside the capital, the man credited with some of South Korea's biggest diplomatic suc- cesses has become the nation's most famous prisoner. Rob, whose name is pronounced "No," is the first former South Korean president to face legal action for deeds committed while in office. Ifconvicted, he could face 10 years to life in prison. As court officials took him tojail, the 62-year-old former army general struggled to keep his composure and said: "To our people, I'm really sorry. I'm ready for any punishment." - From Daily wire services Workers find Jewish tribe's tombs in Israel MACCABIM, Israel - A tractor leveling ground for a new highway broke open a 2,000-year-old burial cave believed used by the Maccabees, a tribe of Jewish warriors whose re- volt is celebrated in the festival of Hanukkah. Excited archaeologists showed off their dusty find yesterday - the first physical evidence of the Maccabees, known until now only from ancient Jewish writings. "This is the first time that archaeolo- gists have evidence that there really was this family," said site director Shimon Riklin, as workers in hard hats cleared away sand that has covered the cave for nearly two millennia. The cave was discovered Monday by workers building a highway 19 miles northwest of Jerusalem. It includes an entrance courtyard and three small burial chambers built ofchalk blocks, in which archaeologists found 24 stone boxes, or ossuaries, containing the bones of the dead. 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