University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, September 13, 1989
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Bush may veto anti-drug program
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Top administration officials said yesterday that they would urge President Bush to veto a Democratic plan to expand his anti-drug fight by $2.2 billion, saying it "simply throws money at the problem."
Democrats stuck with their proposal, which would beef up treatment, prevention and law enforcement initiatives, saying it was a badly needed response to the growing
problem of illegal drug use and drug-related violence.
Administration officials talked of a possible veto as Bush made a live televised appeal from the White House to millions of schoolchildren, and telling them that refusing drugs "won't make you a perer."
"I'm asking you not to look the other way," Bush said. "I'm asking you to find someone who needs you. And offer to help. I'll say it again: If you're not in trouble, help someone
who is."
Democrats said they would finance their proposal with across-the-board cuts in hundreds of federal programs and sought to graft the proposal to an unrelated appropriations bill on the Senate floor.
White House officials met privately with Senate Republican leader, as both sides held closed-door meetings over the handling of a maneuvering on the drug issue.
The clash came as the president's drug policy coordinator, William J.
Bennett, told a House committee that the administration envisioned its anti-drug efforts costing $50 billion during five years. At the same time, a separate Senate panel approved a Pentagon spending bill containing more than $1 billion for anti-drug efforts.
The White House's Office of Management and Budget distributed a statement saying that Bush had "made the tough choices" when he unveiled his $7.9 billion anti-drug plan last week.
Protests mark 100 days since Tiananmen
The Associated Press
Other protests were held in London's Chinatown town, as well as in
HONG KONG — Tens of thousands of people, many wearing black armbands, rallied to cheer escaped leaders of China's pro-democracy student movement yesterday, the 100th day since its suppression.
Taiwan and the Portuguese territory of Macao.
many of Hong Kong's favorite pop singers performed during a nearly three-hour concert to mark the day, but the loudest cheers were for leaders of the movement who escaped Chinese authorities.
China's state media did not mention the protests.
World Briefs
Wu'er Kaixi, a charismatic Beijing student who was one of China's most wanted activists, vowed success for the fight for freedom in a speech to the hushed crowd.
rebuild the Goddess of Democracy (the statue that became the movement's symbol) in Tiananmen Square."
"Democracy will come to China, but it's going to be a long and difficult road," Wu'er said in a voice cracking with emotion. "If we unite with a democratic spirit, one day we will
China says about 300 people died in the street clashes June 3-4 between Chinese troops and pro-democracy activists, but Western security sources say the toll may have been 3,000.
MIAD* BODIES RETURNED:
Vietnam has returned the remains of three more Americans killed in the Vietnam War, the official Vietnam News Agency reported yesterday.
The report said the remains were handed over Monday in Hanoi to a representative of the Joint Casualty Resolution Center.
Since 1974, Vietnam has returned the remains of 394 Americans, the agency said.
As of last last month, the U.S. government has said 2,340 service men still are listed as missing from the war in Indochina. Most — 1,707 — are unaccounted for in Vietnam.
On July 31, Vietnam turned over the remains of 31 servicemen.
Progress on resolution of the MIA issue has been dramatically speeded up since the middle of last year. More remains have been turned over, and Vietnam has allowed joint U.S.-Vietnamese teams to go into the Vietnamese countryside to investigate possible MIA sites.
CANCER STUDY BEGINS: An investigation will begin this week to determine if United Auto Workers union members at a General Motors Corp. plant near Detroit have an unusually high rate of brain cancer, the union and the company say.
The study will focus on GM's Hydra-Matic plant in Ypsilanti, west of Detroit, where about 7,300 workers are employed. The investigation will focus on employee exposure to chemicals at the plant, which makes car and truck transmissions, GM and UAW officials said Monday.
The study will be part of an investigation by Harvard University into hazards caused by fluids used in cutting machines. Earlier studies have linked the fluids to increased risks of stomach, intestinal and lung cancers, but not brain cancer.
GM and the union said the study was prompted by employee concern but that it wasn't known how many Hydra-Matic workers have had brain cancer.
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