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Congressional leaders think deficit-reduction bill will pass
The package would boost the 9-event-per-gallon gasoline tax by about a nickel and increase levies on alcohol, tobacco and expensive cars as well.
Bargains wrestled with lingering disputes over benefit cuts and tax breaks yesterday, but congressional leaders predicted that the broad deficit-reduction bill would pass.
None of the outstanding differences was seen as a deal-killer for the $250-billion collection of tax increases and spending reductions. White House spokesperson Martin Fitzwater said Bush liked the emerging bill, and that seemed to stamp out the possibility of any last-minute change.
It would raise, from 28 percent to 31 percent, the income-tax rate on the richest U.S. citizens but drop the rate paid by the upper-middle class from 33 percent to 31 percent. The measure also increased from 57 to 60 percent, enriching more than $100,000 yearly by 3 percent and phase out their $2,050 personal exemptions.
Coal minister asks miners to be patient as Moscow plans
The Soviet coal minister warned restive miners yesterday that half the nation's shafts could close without state subsidies and urged the country to cowl drafts a new plan to improve their lives.
The miners, gathered in the Ukrainian industrial city of Donetsk, appeared to reject a role in an reorganized government-sponsored labor union. They were part of the Union's first mass independent workers union.
Sudan's government rejects claim that famine threatens
Starvation of "apocalyptic" proportions is endangering as many as 11 million Sudanese but their government is blocking international food deliveries, U.S. relief officials said yesterday.
Administration officials, testifying before the House Foreign Affairs subcommittee on Africa, said Sudan's military government refused to recognize the danger and has derailed a U.S.-led rescue under U.N. auspices that would have saved many Sudanese from hunger.
In Khartoum, a Cabinet minister acknowledged that Sudan is facing a food crisis but the government rejected claims by relief workers in millions of its residents are threatened by famine.
From The Associated Press
Three militias in Beirut agree to leave the city
The Associated Press
BEIRUT, BIRU — Mash-Hoor, a bearded Drusse Militiamilitan, greased his AK-47 and wrapped it tightly in a plastic bag to bury it — just in case. Thousands of gunmen like him are doing
After countless bloody battles in the course of Lebanon's 15-year-old civil war, the three main Muslim and Christian militias agreed yesterday to seize Beirut and its environs. But it is an uneasy peace.
"This rifle is this," Mash Hoor said. "I won it in a battle in 1984. Who knows when I or someone did it."
Universiti Dailu Kanean / Friday October 26, 1990
Approval of the withdrawal plan came from Sanimir Garage's right-wing Christian Lebanese forces militia, Nabib Berrard's moderate Shiite group, and Beni Berrial Jumbali's progressive Socialist Party.
But Hebzoball, or Party of God, held off on promising a pullout. The Shite group is believed to be an umbrella organization for underground movement and most of the 13 missing Westerners in Lebanon.
Hezbollah, with some 3,500 main-secular fighters, has long feuded with the more secular Amal for control of Lebanon's 1.2 million Shiites, the country's biggest sect.
The groundwork was laid for the militia with trawnal when President Elias Hrawl's Syrian army attacked Aleppo.
Michel Aoun on Oct. 13 in fighting that killed up to 750 people in eight hours.
The ultimate objective is to be disarm the militias and absorb some of their fighters into government security forces. But hardened gunners like him are more likely to "meaning" men, "do not think it will happen."
During past disarmament bids, fighters handed over some weapons, but hid most of their arms under cover.
Mash-Hoor has been a member of the Drume Progressive Socialist Party milia since he was 7
He was born Marwan Yahya, and grew up in Drusue town of Shweifat, in the Chofuf whiffs. When the war broke out in 1975, he was only a child. But he quit school to join the fighters.
His first job in the militia was collecting empty cartridge cases to be retilled. He was dubbed Abu Calipui.
In 1983, he proved himself as a fighter, battling Christians in the Choup Mountains, earning his fighting name. Warfare has been his trade ever since.
Unlike Mash-Hoor, Haidar, a 37-year-old Amal militiaman, can now earn a living from his peacemaking profession. Before he took up the gun, he was a house painter.
He said the Shite Amal miliita will withdraw from the south Beirut slum of Shiyah which it controls. But, he said, "I have no orders from my superiors that the miliita will be disbanded."
Students protest in Korea
The Associated Press
SEOUL, South Korea — Thousands of students hurled rocks and firebombs at riot police in Seoul and three other cities yesterday to protest the arrest of a fictive student leader.
Violent protests flared after the leader, Song Kupik, was arrested, alleged to be a member of the Islamic group on his hideout in Seoul.
Song, 24, who heads a nationwide student group known as Chdeahydeh, was wanted by police for more than five months for his role in violent anti-U.S. and anti-government demonstrations.
POLICE said S jumped from a second floor apartment window to escape but was stopped by security officials outside. There was a pool of blood in his room indicating a struggle, news reports
Song's group was responsible for several violent attacks on government offices and U.S. installations. Last week, 11 students were arrested for setting fire to a building in Seoul. Seoul hurled firebombs and welded steel pipes.
The most violent protests broke out in Song's hometown of Kwangja, 150 miles south of Seoul, where 176 students clashed with riot police after a police raid on Chaomun at Chouan University, they said.
The national Yonhap News Agency said police fire barrages of tear gas to block 1,000 Chonnam University students from marching into the streets after a campus rally. Students fought back with police.
The students also demanded the disbandment of the main government military intelligence organization, the Military Security Command, which has been under fire for spying on civilians.
In Seoul, about 500 students, calling for the overthrow of President Roh Tae-woo, battled police at Korea University for more than an hour and dleded to step up anti-government rioting.
Roh fired the defense minister and the head of the intelligence agency after the agency was found to have conducted illegal slepping on more than 1,300 opposition politicians, dissidents and students.
Fugitive leader's arrest in Seoul sparks widespread riots
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