"Airsoalwaalo Rabin s no ".;W 2 othiers charged Los Angeles Times JERUSALEM - At the end of the "30-day Jewish mourning period for slain 1"Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin yester- day, Israell prosecutors formally 'charged his confessed assassin, Yigal Amir, with premeditated murder. " Israel's Justice Ministry announced that the 25-year-old Jewish law stu- dent, his brother Hagai, and their friend, Dror Adani, also were charged with -conspiracy to kill Rabin and to attack 't Arabs, illegal arms possession, manu- -facturing arms and other crimes. The charges were filed as Rabin's fam- ily, political leaders and army officers visited his grave in Mount Herzl cem- etery for a final emotion-filled farewell. "Yitzhak, you were murdered be- cause you were right," Prime Minister Shimon Peres said in a eulogy. "The bullets which tore through your chest did not kill the fruits of your labor.... The dawn of peace has broken 'and it shall never be eclipsed by anyone." Amir has saidthathekilled Rabin in an 'effort to halt the turnover of West Bank landto Palestiniancontrol undertheprime minister's 1993 peace agreement with Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat. Instead, the murder has prompted ?eres to pick up: the pace of Israeli troop withdrawal from Arab cities in the West Bank, which religious Jews like Amir believe is holy land that they call by the Biblical name of Judea and vamaria. The unrepentant Amir also has in- sisted he acted alone in killing Rabin and the indictment says that although Amirplotted the murder with his brother and friend, in the end he did act alone on Nov. 4 in the fatal shooting after a Tel Aviv peace rally. The three men allegedly had debated a variety of ways to kill Rabin, includ- ing with a car bomb, blowing up the Rabin home in Tel Ayviv and firing an ,anti-tank rocket at the apartment, ac- cording to the charge sheet. They also reputedliy had the idea to shoot Rabin during an interview with a 'gun hidden in a microphone or tape recorder. Amir, his brother and Adani are scheduled to appear in Tel Aviv Dis- trict Court today to hear the charges :gainst them. Although Amir originally said no one could defend him bett than he could defend himself, heapparently has agreed to be represented by defense attorney Jonathan Ray Goldenberg, a resident of the West Bank settlemenit of Emanuel. fGoldenberg said in a tlephone inter- view that Amir's family had hired him ' and that Amir has asked for consider- aable control over his defense. According to the indictment, Amir had tried to kill Rabin at three previous public appearances this year. Prosecutors have asked that the Amir brothers and Adani be tried before a panel of three judges because of the severity of the charges. They said they had 43 witnesses for their case. Altogether, police arrested nine reli- gious Jews in their 20s ii connection with the assassination. The only other one to be charged so far is Sgt. Arik Schwartz, a soldier accused of giving army explosives to the Amir brothers for 'use in planned attacks on Palestinians. The Michigan Daily - Wednesday, December 6, 1995 - 5 Al itration agrees to GOP budget demands AP PHOTO A relative of one of the victims in the 1980 Kwangju military massacre grieves and another relative lies on the hood of a car carrying a lawyer for former President Chun Doohwan in front of the Ahnyang Prison outside Seoul, South Korea, yesterday. Former S. Korean president indicted19i bribery scandal SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - The scene has become all too familiar: A prosecutor takes to live television with an announcement that shakes public confidence in the country's most pow- erful people. This time, it was expected, but no less shocking. Former President Roh Tae-woo, four aides and a dozen top businessmen were indicted yesterday in a bribes-for-favors scandal. The aftershocks began immediately with the No.2 man in the ruling Demo- cratic Liberal Party offering to resign - a move that was a virtual revolt against President Kim Young-sam and threatens to break apart the rulingparty. The potential defector, Kim Yoon- hwan, leads a strong regional faction and is a friend of both Roh and former President Chun Doo-hwan, who was jailed Sunday in an unrelated case. After meeting with the president, Kim Yoon-hwan withdrew the offer, but it likely only delayed the split. His followers reportedly have asked him to quit with them. One is expected to announce a breakaway today, with others to follow suit. To fill the gap, the ruling camp is reportedly inviting some opposition members to join it. In the long run, it is unclear whether' a shakeup would help or hurt the ruling party. After a debacle in local elections in June, it faces important parliamen- tary elections in April. President Kim, a former opposition leader who in 1993 became the first civilian president in 32 years, has been trying to distance himselffrom his mili- tary-backed predecessors. The threatened defection offers a chance to make a clean break - the party is changing its name today to the New Korea Party - but the scandal threatens to envelop him as well. When senior prosecutor Ahn Gang- min began his live announcement about Roh's indictment at 2 p.m., people crowded around televisions in offices and restaurants. The announcement carries serious ,implications for the country's booming economy, since the list of indicted busi- nessmen reads like a Who's Who of the corporate world, including heads of the Samsung and Daewoo conglomerates. They were not arrested but could face up to five years in jail. Rob was arrested last month after admitting tearfully on live television that he amassed a $650 million slush fund during his 1988-93 term. He claimed the money came from dona- tions. A day later, Roh's former chiefbody- guard, Lee Hyon-woo, was detained, charged with managing $230 million that the ex-president still had left in secret bank accounts. Roh faces 10 years to life in prison if convicted of corruption, and prosecu- tors are seeking forfeiture of his esti- mated $350 million inassets-includ- ing the money left in the slush fund. "The investigation was conducted with a national call to cut off tradi- tional collusive ties between politics and business," prosecutor Ahn said. He said 35 businessmen were found to have given Roh bribes of up to $32 million, but legal action was taken against only 12 whose criminal activ- ity was evident. Ahn, who heads a 37-member in- vestigative team, said the probe will continue to check whether Roh di- verted any money to secret foreign bank accounts. An opposition legislator alleged that Roh took up to $150 million in kick- backs in connection with a $5.2 billion deal to buy 120 F-16 jet fighters from General Dynamics Corp. ofthe United States, which has denied the claim. In 1992, Roh's daughter, Roh So- young, and her husband were convicted in a U.S. court of violating currency laws after depositing nearly $200,000 in 11 California banks during Roh's presidency in 1990. The money report- edly came from a Swiss bank. The Washington Post WASHINGTON - The Clinton ad- ministration has agreed to Republican demands that it prepare a new plan to balance the budget in seven years, and President Clinton plans to release the proposal by the end of the week to get budget talks back on track. Negotiations between White House and congressional leaders broke offagain yesterday after Republicans said they don't want to resume talks until they can compare details of Clinton's new seven- year plan with their own plan. White House Chief of Staff Leon Panetta yesterday offered to negotiate with Republicans one part of the new plan, the line-by-line details of Clinton's proposal to cut Medicare spending growth by $124 billion. Republicans have proposed to cut Medicare spend- ing by $270 billion, but GOP leaders say they don't want to negotiate any part of the plan until they can see all of its elements. It is the third budget plan Clinton has proposed in 10 months. A copy of the 35-page Medicare plan obtained by The Washington Post indi- cates it saves the same amount Clinton proposed in June. But the new proposal offers line-by-line details of how those savings will be made, uses newer eco- nomic assumptions to assert the Medi- care trust fund would remain healthy until the year 2011 and reduces the cuts in payments for virtually all groups of health care providers. The major differences between Clinton's new plan and the GOP plan is the level of cuts, $124 billion versus $270 billion. According to the adminis- tration, the Pesident would raise Medi- care premiums to only $77 per month by the year 2000, while Republicans would raise premiums to $88.90. The President's plan also includes some additional benefits, such as im- proved mammography coverage and improved benefits for Alzheimer's pa- tients. Compared with the Republican plan, the Clinton plan imposes new costs of $8.8 billion on beneficiaries, compared to $51 billion in the GOP plan, cuts hospitals by $50 billion com- pared to the GOP's $94 billion, and doctors by $15 billion compared to the GOP's $35 billion. Like the GOP plan, Clinton's plan Business coalition concerned about GOP budget plan Los Angeles Times WASHINGTON - A coalition representingbig employersand some major labor unions warned yester- day that the budget-balancing plan approved by Congress could "add almost 8 million people to the ranks of the uninsured and shift $85 bil- lion in costs to the private sector," The National Leadership Coali- tion on Health Care, which includes Chrysler, Ford, Safeway, Ralphs and Southern California Edison among its 93 members, raised the first public complaints by major businesses over the impact of the Republican plan to balance the budget in seven years. The GOP budget plan - which President Clinton has threatened to veto -- contains provisions to slow the rate of growth in Medicare and Medicaid, as well as a tax cut. The White House and the congressional leadership are negotiating toward a Dec. 15 deadline, with hopes of reaching an agreement on a blue- print to eliminate the deficit. Although "it is clearly beneficial for all Americans" to reduce the defi- cit and balance the budget, the coali- tion said, "we mustbeconcerned that, as we make major changes in Medi- care and Medicaid, we do no harm." widens options for Medicare beneficia- ries to join private doctor and hospital health care networks, preferred provider plans, point-of-service health mainte- nance plans at Medicare's expense. But the president's plan does not include options to enroll in medical savings plans or private fee-for-service plans. The movebythe White House amounts to Clinton's acquiescence in the non- negotiable demand by House Republi- cans that a balanced budget by the year 2002 is theirbottom line. But it also aims to preserve Clinton's priorities: protect- ing some key social programs from the far deeper saving the GOP proposes and rejection of the large GOP tax cuts. Heart attaCk while huntinig Caims life of NRA president Gore announces 1st Peace Corps mission in S. Africa DEARBORN (AP)-Tom Waslington, leader of the National Rifle Association and longtime head of Michigan's largest outdoors group, died yesterday from complications of a heart attack suffered while hunting. He was 58. Washington died at Oakwood Hospital, where he was flown two days after suffering a heart attack Nov. 16 while deer-hunting in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. "He was a real American patriot, a fine sports- man and a close friend," said veteran U.S. Rep. John Dingell (D-Dearborn). "Tom was dedicated to the protection of our fundamental liberties and our natural environment." "During the time he was in our care, he had multiple setbacks," hospital spokeswoman Suzanne Truskowski said. She said he died at 12:30 p.m. Washington stepped into the nationalspotlight as president of the 3.5 million-member NRA in 1994 as the organization became increasingly political and ac- tivist. He joined the NRA board in 1985. "The politics is out of ne- Washington cessity," he said earlier this year, "because we have to defend our right to have firearms." Washington was elected in May to a second, one-year term.The Lansing resident continued to serve as executive director of the Michigan United Conservation Clubs, a job he assumed in 1974. He was among Michigan's leading advocates for fishing, hunting, firearms, conservation and envi- tonmental interests and was an avid hunter himself. Gov. John Engler, who sometimes clashed with Washington over environmental issues, said Washington "always spoke from the heart and represented his issues well." Los Angeles Times PRETORIA, South Africa-The United States will send Peace Corps volunteers here for the first time next year in a show of support for South Africa's fledgling democracy, Vice President Al Gore said yesterday. Gore and other senior Clinton administration officials made a whirlwind 36-hour visit here for the first substantive meeting of the U.S.-South African Binational Commission, a Cabinet-level panel created in March to cement and expand post- apartheid ties between Washington and Pretoria. After a daylong series of meetings, Gore and Deputy President Thabo Mbeki formally signed three agreements in a relaxed outdoor ceremony behind the Presidential Guest House. The documents authorize creation ofa Peace Corps program, establish guidelines for the Agency for International Development's $160-million aidpack- age for fiscal year 1996 and expand cooperation in science, technology and the environment. "We've gotten off to a flying start," Mbeki told a news conference. Gore concurred, calling it "a wonderful day of hope and progress." For all the rhetoric, the commission clearly has more symbolic than practical value now. 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