NATION/WORLD
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Monday. February 15. 1993
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Clinton to address nation
President wants to muster support for economic plan
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — President Bill Clinton will give his first televised address to the nation tonight, promoting an economic program that top administration officials said yesterday would ask for sacrifices from all U.S. citizens.
The administration said the president's plan would propose close to 150 specific spending cuts, while a top Democrat in Congress said that the middle class would be most affected by a new broad-based tax on energy.
The White House confirmed that in its effort to control the deficit, it was considering limits on the payments received by doctors and hospitals under Medicare, the giant government program that supplies health care for 35 million elderly and disabled U.S. citizens.
Officials said that Clinton still was making final decisions on the outlines of the huge package. But based on a variety of comments, the economic plan was shaping up to
be the largest deficit-cutting package in history, proposing about $250 billion in spending cuts in five years.
However, one Republican said it would create $250 billion in tax increases in that same time period.
White House officials conceded yesterday that virtually every U.S. citizen would be asked to contribute to the plan, either through benefit cuts or higher taxes.
"I am not going to tell you that this package is going to exclude anybody," said White House budget director Leon Panetta on CBS's "Face the Nation."
As part of a stepped-up sales effort, the administration announced that Clinton would address the nation from the Oval Office at 8 tonight. Officials said Clinton would speak for only 10 minutes and would not reveal any specifics of the package that he would unveil Wednesday night in a joint address to Congress.
health care costs in the budget," said Panetta, noting that Medicare and Medicaid, which provides health care for poor people, represent half of the projected growth in the government's deficit in coming years.
House Speaker Thomas Foley, D-Wash., said the only tax increase that would hit the middle class would be an energy tax that probably would be based on the heat content of all types of energy. The administration considered but rejected a proposal just to raise the gasoline tax.
Foley said the administration also had apparently decided to boost taxes on Social Security benefits for retired families making $32,000 or more a year, from 50 percent to 85 percent of their benefits.
Sen. Pete Domenici, R-N.M., said that he understood Clinton's package could have as much as $250 billion in new taxes in five years, which he said would be a job loser.
Senate Republican Leader Bob Dole of Kansas said that instead of coming up with a bold new economic program, Clinton appeared ready to offer the country the Democrat's old recipe of tax and spend.
"We've got to confront the issue of
Photos of Challenger's wreckage released to public by space agency
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — NASA released photos yesterday of the space shuttle Challenger's smashed crew cabin, after they were made public by a New York man who sued under the Freedom of Information Act.
The space agency said 45 photos which showed debris from the wrecked crew cabin became public documents after they were released to New York artist Ben Sarao on Feb. 3.
Sarao had submitted a Freedom of Information Act request for the pictures in 1990. It was denied, appealed and then became the subject of a federal lawsuit against the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. The lawsuit was settled earlier this month.
Sarao released the photos to The New York Times, which published one of them yesterday.
The photos "are far fewer than what he had originally requested" said NASA representative Jeff Vincent.
All seven astronauts aboard the Challenger, including New Hampshire schoolteacher Christa McAuliffe, were killed when the shuttle exploded shortly after takeoff on Jan. 28, 1986. It crashed into the sea off Cape Canaveral, Fla.
The families were consulted throughout the process, and none of the astronauts' personal effects are shown in the photos, he said.
"NASA screened the photos very carefully to ensure that the privacy interests of the Challenger families would be protected," Vincent said.
The pictures include parts of an airlock the astronauts passed through for depressurization, parts of the rear wall of the crew cabin and a window frame from the shuttle, Vincent said.
Serbs block relief trucks in protest
SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina — Bosnian Serbs turned back a U.N. convoy carrying food and medicine yesterday to a Muslim town in eastern Bosnia that has been surrounded by Serbs for 10 months.
It was another setback for relief agencies facing mounting hostility from leaders and citizens of Bosnia's Muslim community who say not enough is being done to stop the republic's civil war or to help 200,000 people trapped in the east.
The Associated Press
Officials in Sarajevo, Bosnia's capital, and Tuzla are blocking further aid to their residents to protest the failure to get supplies to the east. U.N. officials have criticized that move because it intensified public anger aimed at U.N. operations and warned that stored food could spoil.
The Sarajevo city council, backed by Bosnia'sMuslim-led government, announced Friday that until convoyes reached eastern Bosnia, it would stop distributing the food aid that has kept Sarajevans alive during the 10-month-old siege.
Bosnian Serbs refused to let the 10 trucks in the U.N. convoy pass, saying they had insufficient advance notice, said a spokesman for U.N. aid operations in Belgrade.
Serbs — sometimes soldiers, sometimes unarmed women and children — have often blocked U.N. convoy to eastern Bosnia, the scene of some of the worst atrocities and fighting since Bosnian Muslims and Croats voted for independence nearly a year ago.
More than 18,000 people have died, and more than 1 million have lost their homes since Bosnia's war began.
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