House pa s Angeles Times t:. WASHINGTON - The House ap- p roved a stopgap spending measure yesterday to prevent the federal gov- ernment from shutting down this week- end, at the end of the fiscal year. -:The bill, negotiated by the White House and GOP congressional leaders, was approvedby voice vote in the House and appeared all but certain to win Senate approval by today. The action gives Congress and the White House six more weeks to work on details of next year's budget, with- out interrupting paychecks for federal employees or closing down govern- ,nTent offices or programs. "It will give us the additional time we SIMPSON Continued from Page 1 Cochran's summation got highmarks from legal experts. "I'm voting not guilty," said Gigi Gordon,"a Los Ange- les defense lawyer and frequent com- mentator on the case. She said Cochran had left the jury with a dilemma. "It's between 'What is the right thing to do?' and 'Who did the crime?"' she said. "Those are two different questions." Gordon said the question was a le- gitimate one because for the system to work, "we have totrustthe prosecution. Once that trust is violated, then the end "result is as it should be, a verdict of not guilty." New York University law Prof. Stephen Gillers said he would wait for the prosecution's rebuttal today before giving a final grade, but he called Cochran inspirational. "I think he did -well," Gillers said. "He's being per- sonal with the jury, he's putting himself on the line." Again and again, Cochran talked about reasonable doubt and pointed out inconsistencies in the state's case, which he said was grounded in speculation and the rush to judgment. He ended his rmarks with a list of'15 questions he said prosecutor Marcia Clark should answer for the jury before it begins deliberations. -<- Superior Court Judge Lance Ito said he expected to give the jury its final m structions this afternoon and that ju- rors would begin deliberations Mon- Cochran addressed the jury at the beginning and end of the day. Atmidmorning he turnedthe podium over to defense lawyer Barry Scheck, who spent the better part of the day attempting to poke holes in the physical evidence, which he said was "a cancer at the heart of the case." Scheck, bobbing and weaving and becoming red in the face, insisted that key blood evidence had been planted and that blood tests performed by pri- vate labs were meaningless because the evidence was compromisedat the Los Angeles police lab, which he referred to as a "black hole" of contamination. "The evidence was contaminated, compromised and corrupted," he said. Know of news? Call the Daily at 76-DAILY sses stopgap spending measure The Michigan Daily - Friday, September 29, 1995 -- 9 j NATioNAL iPORT Gingrich may punish 3 lawmakers 0 need to work out individual bills," said House Appropriations Committee Chairman Rep. Robert Livingston (R- La.). It also averts an early showdown in what promises to be an autumn full of budget battles between the White House and congressional Republicans, who are determined to significantly reduce the power and scope of government and slash President Clinton's priority pro- grams. In one indication of budget fireworks to come, Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole (R-Kan.) allowed action to be postponed on a spending bill for educa- tion, training and health programs after Democrats voted twice to block floor debate on the measure. The bill is one of 13 appropriations bills Congress must approve and the President sign to oper- ate the government for next year. Democrats and the White House op- posed several aspects of the $62.8 bil- lion measure, includingaprovision that would nullify Clinton's executive or- der withholding federal contracts from companies that hire permanent replace- ments for striking workers and funding they consider inadequate for Head Start, which helps disadvantaged pre- schoolers, and other education andtrain- ing programs. On the temporary funding measure, White House and congressional lead- ers had reached agreement Wednesday to keep money flowing to agencies and departments until Nov. 13, six weeks after the new fiscal year begins Sunday. The agreement calls for reduced spending throughout the federal gov- ernment but does not cut Democratic priorities as sharply as congressional Republicans had wanted. The dozens of programs Republicans want to elimi- nate, for instance, will continue to re- ceive funding at 90 percent of current levels. GOP leaders indicated that their will- ingness to compromise on the stopgap legislation does not signal the same flex- ibility on the yearlong spending bills. "This is not the place to pick a fight with the president," Livingston said. WASHINGTON - Apiece ofe- mail, circulated widely in ~ the Capitol, quotes House Speaker Newt Gingrich as consid- ering punishment for three GOP lawmakers blocking passage . of a farm bill the leadership supports. Rep. Larry Combest of Texas could be stripped of his chairmanship of the Intelligence Committee. Rep. Bill Emerson of Missouri could be denied a chairman's post when his turn comes. And Rep. Richard Baker of Louisiana could simply be moved off the Agriculture Committee. Gingrich sketched these options, alongside other, less punitive strategies, at a closed-door meeting last week at which the GOP high command reviewed efforts to win Gingrich approval of a $13.4 billion package of savings from farm programs. Republican Reps. Combest, Emerson, Baker and Saxby Chambliss of Georgia all voted against a proposal backed by the Agriculture Committee chairman, Rep. Pat Roberts of Kansas, joining with Democrats to defeat the measure. The discussions were disclosed in a memorandum summarizing the meeting that a GOP aide inadvertently sent via e-mail to a Democratic aide. Some Jewish women more prone to cancer WASHINGTON - One of every 100 Jewish women of European de- scent carries a genetic abnormality that may significantly increase her odds of getting breast or ovarian cancer, ac- cording to a study released today. Researchers said this relatively high prevalence of the mutation suggests that Ashkenazi Jews - Jews of central or eastern European descent - may be the first ethnic group for whom it will be worthwhile to offer widespread ge- netic testing for a predisposition to can- cer. But the researchers also warned that they do not know how much of an added cancer risk the mutation confers. Until that critical question is answered, they said, gene tests should not be of- fered to the 7 million Ashkenazi Jews in this country except in the context of clinical studies - such as one about to begin in the Washington area. Starting at the end of next month, researchers will ask thousands of local Ashkenazi Jews to donate a few drops of blood and give a detailed genealogy of family members who have had cancer, in order to further research on the issue. Shuttle launch delayed one week CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.-Space shuttle Columbia began leaking explo- sive hydrogen fuel just hours before liftoffyesterday, forcing NASA to post- pone the science mission for a week. It was the latest in a series of prob- lems plaguing the shuttle program in recent months, including pesky wood- peckers and scorched 0-rings. "That's the luck of the draw," said a weary James Harrington, NASA launch director. Liftoff tentatively was rescheduled for Oct. 5 to allow NASA to replace the leaky valve in main engine No. 1 -a new, redesigned engine. AP PHOTOU AROND T7'A'..~ A Palestinian youth suspected of stone-throwing tries to break away from Israeli soldiers yesterday. Settlers storm Hebron streets I ' Newsday HEBRON, West Bank - Thousands ofangryJewish settlers stormedthe streets of Arab Hebron yesterday to protest the signing of the latest peace agreement between Israel and the Palestinians. While Palestinians were kept off the roads and watched uneasily from be- hind their half-open windows, settlers and their supporters from all around Israel said they had been betrayed by their government and announced their intention to scuttle the deal. Cries of "Slaughter the Arabs" were heard, and a doctored photograph of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin wearing an Arab keffiyeh on his head was hoisted above the crowd. Several Palestinians said their houses had been stoned and their cars vandalized. "This agreement being signed right now is a betrayal of the Jewish people - it is against our history," said Noam Arnon, a leader ofthe settlers in Hebron, as the signing was taking place in Wash- ington. "They want to give this land to the terrorists, to destroy us, to destroy again the Jewish holy sites, the Jewish synagogues ... You Arabs, ifyou dream about uprooting Jews - forget it. We will be here forever." In the crowd, Lazar Fruchter, a former resident of New York, said he would not leave the West Bank, even if it was abandoned by the Israeli army. Chana Witkin, from Tel Aviv, said Jews could never leave the city where the biblical patriarch Abraham is buried. "This signing is the most abominable thing that government has ever done," Witkin said. "It is intentionally against what God wants us to do. It's against our Torah." Nearby, at the U.N.-run Palestinian refugee camp of Dehaishe, outside the West Bank city of Bethlehem, hundreds of Palestinians fought Israeli soldiers in an effort to rip down the 40-foot-tall fences that surround the camp - put up by the army eight years ago to stop youths from throwing stones at settlers and sol- diers. Three people, including an Israeli woman from the group Peace Now, were arrested after the army shot tear gas into the camp to subdue the crowds. In south Lebanon, at the largest of the Palestinian refugee camps there, Pales- tinians burned tires and raised black flags of mourning to protest the accord, calling Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat a "traitor" who has failed to resolve the 50-year-old problem of Palestinian refugees. Despite worldwide praise for Arafat and Rabin and their latest efforts to resolve the decades-old conflicts be- tween their people, the reality here is that the agreement has been deeply di- visive. A poll released yesterday morn- ing in the Israeli newspaper Yediot Aharanot found 51 percent of Israelis in favor of the agreement and 47 percent opposed, with 2 percent not responding. Among Palestinians, the agreementhas been equally controversial. In Hebron- where the accord allows soldiers and set- tlers to remain, at least for the next few years - virtually no Palestinians had a positive word to say about it. "It is a very bad agreement because it doesn't require the settlers to leave," said Reema Abu Handia, a 20-year-old Hebronite. "Hebron is Arab and should stay Arab forever. It was never their land and it never will be." ISCREAM Xiaoping's likely successor gets key Chinese militarypost BEIJING-President Jiang Zemin's position as the leading candidate to succeed Deng Xiaoping at the helm of China got a boost yesterday when a key ally was named to head an important military body - even as another senior party leader was dismissed for abuse of power. As Jiang's star was rising, former Beijing mayor and Politburo member Chen Xitong was stripped of all his party posts because of alleged massive corruption in his Beijing administra- tion. In a report that concluded a four-day plenary meeting ofthe Communist Party Central Committee here, the party lead- ership said Chen "led a dissolute and extravagant life, abused power to seek illegal interests for his relatives and otherpeople and accepted valuable gifts by taking advantage of his position and while performing public duties. For several years, Jiang has been pushing for the appointment of Defense Minister Chi Haotian, his main backer in the senior army ranks, to the military commission vice-chairmanship. U.S. servicemen charged in abduction TOKYO - Three U.S. servicemen were charged today with abducting and raping a 12-year-old girl, clearing the way for their delivery to Japanese au- thorities as protestors nationwide have vehemently demanded. 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