N~nu /i ' L The Michigan Daily - Wednesday, November 29, 1995 - 7 Congress members Government funding runs out four other Republi crats at a narrow, onl Diec. 3 . paneled Capitol m "Serious and sor Los Angeles Times nition," said Whit WASHINGTON - White House and con- Panetta. "It is goin gressional officials last night opened talks on Under the accoi balancing the budget amid doubts that a deal is Clinton agreed to possible before government funding runs out would be balanced again on Dec. 16. cans promised the Although nine days have passed since Presi- long list of Clinto dent Clinton and Congress reached an agreement and the environme that reopened the government after an unprec- But Republicans edented six-day shutdown, neither side has made would move from th - much of an attempt to bridge the huge gap be- is poised to veto, tween their positions. balked at providing "The mood is somber because we know the big balance the budget job we have ahead of us," said Senate Budget Clinton will be Chairman Pete Domenici (R-N.M.) as he sat with Panetta, who once say mood at budget talks is somber cans across from seven Demo- rectangular table in a wood- eeting room. mber is probably a good defi- e House Chief of Staff Leon ng to be a tough job." rd that ended the shutdown, try to negotiate a budget that in seven years, and Republi- budget deal would preserve a n priorities such as education nt. have refused to show how they eir seven-yearplan that Clinton while the White House has g any clue as to how it would in the seven-year time frame. e primarily represented by e headed the House Budget (Negotiating a budget) is going to be a tough job." - Leon Panetta White House chief of staff Committee. Domenici and House Budget Chair- man John Kasich (R-Ohio) will lead the congres- sional delegation. Little of substance was expected to be dis- cussed at the opening session, which will mostly cover the ground rules of the negotiations, offi- cials said. "They're talking about talking," said White House spokesman Mike McCurry. This pre-talk stalemate has led some members to assume that no deal will be reached in time and that the budget turmoil, instead, will be- come the central issue in the looming presiden- tial campaign between Clinton and his Republi- can challenger. Both House Minority Leader Richard Gephardt (D-Mo.) and Clinton political adviser James Carville have advocated a strategy of turning the presidential campaign into a sort of national referendum on the differing budget visions. House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) said yesterday that Clinton would not get a new stopgap funding bill unless progress was being made in the budget talks. Clinton, meanwhile, told Senate Democrats he felt honor-bound to make a good-faith effort to reach a deal. I- Japan revises national defense policy for 1st time since 1976 Los Angeles Times TOKYO - Japan yesterday re- vised its national defense policy for the first time in nearly two decades, emphasizing a high-tech, streamlined military force and reaffirming the security alliance with the United States. The new policy, approved by Prime MinisterTomiichi Murayama and other Cabinet members ofthe Security Coun- cil of Japan after extensive political wrangling, also spells out new duties forthe forces. Reflectingthe Kobe earth- quake and poison-gas attack on Tokyo's subways this year that shook the sense of security this peaceful nation has long taken for granted, the guidelines add the duties of disaster relief and protec- tion against terrorism. They also add global peacekeeping activities amid calls for Japan to play a more active international role. But some analysts said the policy fails to articulate a new, post-Cold War mission for Japan's Self-Defense Forces. While the original 1976 de- fense plan justified the nation's mili- tary buildup as protection against what it officially labeled the "latent threat" of what was then the Soviet Union, the revised guidelines do not specify any perceived security threats. Although it contains an oblique ref- erence to China as a "great military power (with) nuclear weapons in our country's surroundings," the ambigu- ity leaves the forces without a clear mission, said Makoto Momoi, a former Japan Defense Agency official andnow security specialist with the Yomiuri Research Institute. "We can't say anything frankly about the Korean peninsula, China or Rus- sia," Momoi said. "There is no new evaluation of the strategic environment, so there is no new mission under the new policy. We get a new, compact, smaller army, but the policy doesn't explain what they should do," he said. Momoi said the policy was a mish- mash of compromises that leaves no one happy and will be defined overtime through parliamentary questioning, leaks to the Japanese media and the Defense Agency's own interpretations. But it retains the nation's fundamental defense policies, such as maintaining the U.S.-Japan security alliance and disavowing military action except for self-defense. Japan, whose defense budget tops $50 billion, is the world's second-larg- est spender on military needs after the United States. Momoi addedthat President Clinton's canceled Japan visit, which had been scheduled for last week and was to have focused on security issues, contributed to the ambiguous language. Defense officials had hoped Clinton would prod Socialist Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama toward a stron- ger defense posture - perhaps horse- trading concessions regarding the con- troversial issue of U.S. forces on Okinawa in exchange for Japanese pledges to beef up air reconnaissance, naval power or technical cooperation, he said. But analysts also said the blueprint reflects Japan's modern realities. The plan reduces military personnel to 145,000 from 180,000, and creates'a new reserve force of 15,000. But the reduction may have no actual effect, because the nation's unpopular Self- Defense Forces have never been able to recruit the maximum number allowed. The number of personnel now stands at about 158,800 and is projected to de- cline further, as demographic shifts re- duce the number of youths and a recov- ering economy provides morejob alter- natives. AP PHOTO Guerrillas of the Hezbollah or Party of God examine the wreckage after a bomb explosion that killed Saeed Harb, an official of the Iranian-backed Hezbollah, in Jibchit, South Lebanon, yesterday. 8M inure when Lebanese guerillas fire waves of rockets bn Israel Does waiting in line bug you? Los Angeles Times JERUSALEM - Tens of thousands of Israelis were ordered into bomb shel- tens yesterday after waves of katyusha "-rokets fired by Lebanese guerrillas injured eight people in the northern town of Kiryat Shemona. The rockets began to fall as parents were taking their children to school -yesterday morning. Children were 'hustled into shelters and classes were --canceled. Rockets smashed into homes and parked cars, and knocked down power lines. Hospitals and neighborhood clin- ics reported only minor injuries from shrapnel, but dozens of people suffered from shock. Israel responded with air raids on katyusha-launching sites and pounded Lebanese villages north of its so-called security zone in southern Lebanon with hundreds of shells. Prime Minister Shimon Peres made an unannounced visit to Kiryat Shemona in the afternoon. He toured the damage area, spoke with the wounded and warned Leba- non, Syria and the Shiite Muslim mili- tant organization Hezbollah that the attacks must stop. "We regard with grave severity the events," Peres said at a news confer- ence. "We can tell by the targets and the time of the attack that the goal of the Hezbollah was to hit people, to kill." Hezbollah claimed responsibility for the shelling and said it was retaliating against the Israeli Army's demolition of several Lebanese homes in recent days and the Israeli Navy's refusal to let Lebanese fishermen fish off the south- ern Lebanese coast. Peres said that Hezbollah violated an agreement the United States brokered two years ago during aparticularly heavy exchange between Israel and Hezbollah. In that agreement, each side promised to refrain from hitting the other's civilians. The prime minister said Israel passed a message through U.S. Secretary of State Warren Christopher to the Syr- ians, warning them to rein in Hezbollah. With 30,000 troops in Lebanon's east- ern Beka'a Valley, Syria controls the supply routes for Hezbollah. "We see a great contradiction be- tween the calls for peace and the firing of these katyushas," Peres said. "They do not go together and they cannot." At a Mediterranean economic con- ference in Barcelona, Spain, on Mon- day, the Israeli and Syrian foreign min- isters exchanged public reaffirmations of their willingness to negotiate peace. 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