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Democrats look to pare down health care plan
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON—Democrats began talking yesterday about scaling back benefits in President Clinton's health plan to eliminate the red ink found by the Congressional Budget Office. Some Republicans said the CBO wasn't tough enough on the White House proposal.
Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass., said Congress could lower costs of the Clinton plan in a number of ways, including raising the cigarette tax by $1 instead of 75 cents and limiting subsidies to businesses with 50 or fewer workers instead of 75.
Sen. John Chafee, R-R.I., argued it would be better to take a pay-as-you-go approach to health reform. His bill would phase in subsidies for lower-income families to buy insurance as the government squeezed $213 billion from Medicare and Medicaid through 2004.
CBO Director Robert D. Reischauer, whose report indicated the Clinton plan would increase the deficit by $74 billion through 2000 and a total of $126 billion through 2004, said the plan could be made to have no effect on the deficit.
Relschauer urged lawmakers to "design a health care plan that makes sense" without worrying about the federal budget.
NATO sets deadline for Serbs to leave Sarajevo
Another cease-fire begins in Bosnia
The Associated Press
BRUSSELS, Belgium — NATO allies tentatively agreed yesterday to set a deadline for Bosnian Serbs to lift their murderous siege of Sarajevo or face air raids, diploms said.
Bosnian Serbs earlier agreed to withdraw their heavy weaponry from around the Bosnian capital beginning at noon yesterday and put it under U.N. monitoring, said the U.N. commander in Bosnia, Gen. Sir Michael Rose.
It was unclear whether it was a tactical maneuver by Bosnian Serbs to avoid the threat of air strikes. Dozens of cease-fires have been agreed to and broken in the 22-month-old conflict.
Under the U.S.-French plan tentatively agreed on, Serbs will be told to remove within 10 days the more than 500 heavy guns that for nearly two years have been pounding Sarajevo. If they did not comply, NATO would carry out the strikes. The plan was reached after months of indecision by the alliance.
NATO was expected to ask U.N. chief Boutros Boutros-Ghali to decide when to begin the 10-day waiting period, according to diplomats.
The discussions at NATO headquarters come five days after a mortar attack on Sarajevo's central market killed 68 people and wounded about 200. The attack horrified the world and highlighted Western inability to take a forceful stance against the carnage.
"It is time to act," NATO Secretary-General Manfred Woerner said earlier as he entered alliance headquarters. He said there had been "enough words."
Any air strikes would be the first offensive military action by the alliance in its 44-year history.
Several cease-fires in the past have been ignored.
In Sarajevo, in addition to the Serbian agreement to withdraw its artillery, Bosnian Serbs and the Muslim-led government agreed yesterday to a cease-fire to begin today, said Rose, the U.N. commander in Bosnia.
The NATO meeting came in response to a request from U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali for authority to call air strikes against artillery around Sarajevo because of Saturday's mortar attack.
Bosnia's Muslim-led government charges the shell fired into a crowded marketplace was launched from the surrounding hills by Syrian gunners, who have relentlessly shelled the city for months. Bosnian Serb leaders deny the shell was theirs, alleging the Muslims did it to gain Western sympathy.
"All I can say is that this is a morbid, disgusting invention," Bosnian presidency representative Kemal Mufic, whose brother-in-law was killed in the marketplace massacre, said of the Serb allegation.
At a meeting Monday, the 12 European Union foreign ministers were again divided over the strikes and passed the issue along to the NATO alliance, bringing the United States and Canada into the debate.
State defends alternative to all-male school
The Associated Press
ROANOKE, Va. — The attorney general for Virginia yesterday defended a plan to keep Virginia Military Institute all-male by setting up a separate but similar program for women.
The Virginia Women's Institute for Leadership "is designed to create the goal of a female citizen-soldier in Virginia in the same way that Virginia produces male citizen-soldiers." James Gilmore told U.S. District Judge Jackson Kiser.
"It's a good opportunity for women." Gilmore said in a hearing that resulted from a 1990 Justice Department lawsuit.
financial support to a separate program for women.
Kiser ruled three years ago that VMI's unique educational environment would be ruined if women were brought on campus. The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond overturned his ruling but gave the state the option of giving equivalent
The program at Mary Baldwin College, a private women's school 30 miles from VMI's Lexington campus, would have the same goal of preparing students for leadership but without VMI's sometimes harsh 24-hour military atmosphere.
"The evidence will show that the innovative, holistic program envisioned for (Mary Baldwin) would be in far greater demand among the young women of Virginia than a mere mirror image replication of VMI." Gilmore said.
The Justice Department returned to court to argue that the Mary Baldwin alternative allows sexual discrimination to continue in a way the appeals court barred.
The program omits the essential components of the VMI's unique experience and bases the differences
Haugen likened the state's position now to its maintaining separate but supposedly equal public schools for African Americans, a practice found unconstitutional decades ago.
on gender stereotypes, said Justice Department attorney Gary Haugen. The Justice Department wants Kiser to force VMI to admit women.
VMI attorney Robert Patterson told Kiser that if he rejects the Mary Baldwin plan, all single-sex institutions will fall.
"On this little battlefield rests the future of single-sex education in America," Patterson said.
Last month, the Supreme Court ordered The Citadel, the nation's only other state-supported male-only college, to let Shannon Faulkner attend day classes while a federal judge in South Carolina decides whether to back the single-sex plan or to let her join the corps of cadets.
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