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Bosnian cease-fire agreement reached
SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina — The chief European and U.N. negotiators reached a cease-fire agreement yesterday with the three warring factions in Bosnia, according to the French Defense Ministry. Lord Owen, the European Community's chief peace negotiator, and Cyrus Vance, the U.N.'s special envoy, said the Muslim, Croat and Serb leaders had agreed to attend peace talks in Geneva next week.
New York officer acquitted in killing
NEW YORK — A police officer who triggered midsummer violence when he killed a convicted drug offender fired in self-defense and has been cleared by a grand jury, the district attorney said yesterday.
City officials urged calm in the Washington Heights neighborhood of northern Manhattan as heavy rain and a heavy police presence helped keep the peace in the hours after the grand jury decision was unsealed. The decision cleared Officer Michael O'Keefe in the killing of Jose "Kilo" Garcia last July.
Family-leave bill faces Bush veto
The Associated Press
The House approved the measure 241-161 after a debate in which some Republicans said the timing of the measure was a cynical election-year ploy to embarrass Bush, who has used family values as a theme in his re-election campaign.
WASHINGTON — The House of Representatives yesterday sent to the White House an emergency-believe bill that Democrats said would boost family values. But the vote fell short of the two-thirds majority needed to override a certain veto by President Bush.
A top White House aide, who asked not to be named, said there was no doubt Bush would veto the bill, as he did with similar legislation in Congress.
The measure would guarantee many U.S. workers up to 12 weeks of unpaid family leave a year to care for newborn or sick children, spouses
and ailing parents.
A senior official, speaking only on the condition of anonymity, said Bush would like to provide the tax break to companies with up to 500 employees. Such a program could be financed for less than $500 million, the official said.
Rep. David Dreier, R-Calfif, said Bush wanted the private sector to create such family-leave policies voluntarily. He said having the federal government do it would saddle small business with a costly and onerous federal mandate, which may lead to higher unemployment.
But many Republicans, as well as Democrats, said that businesses with 50 or fewer employees are exempted from the bill. They said small businesses therefore would not be hurt
House Speaker Thomas Foley, D-Wash., said the legislation had been modified to satisfy many concerns about the burdens that would be imposed on small business.
Russia and China to sell nuclear reactors to Iran
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Russia and China have agreed to sell nuclear reactors and technology to Iran despite U.S. objections, U.S. and Iranian officials said yesterday.
Iranian President Hashemi Rafsanji, in Beijing, confirmed that China had agreed to his nation the materials for a 300-megawatt reactor for peaceful purposes. He gave no details.
Russia has agreed to sell Iran two 440-megawatt reactors and provide about 170 technicians to install and operate it, said the people's Mujahideen of Iran, the largest anti-government movement.
A trust administration official said the deal likely would be announced Sept. 21. The official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the United States had sought to dissuade the Russians from completing the deal.
Even if the reactors were transferred tomorrow, it would take years for them to begin work, he said.
russia, China and Iran insist that the reactors and related technology are designed to produce nuclear power. But U.S. officials say Iran plans to produce nuclear weapons and easily could convert the plants to military use.
The United States had urged China, which was a main arms supplier to Iran during the 1980-88 Iran-Iraq war, to reject the Iranian nuclear deal.
Chinese officials insisted, however, that the reactor was non-military. They said that earlier this year they signed the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, which bars the transfer of nuclear technology for military use.
The reactor will be installed at Darkhoin, a nuclear site 25 miles south of the Iranian city of Ahvaz, said the Mujahedeen's Washington representative Alireza Jafaradeh.
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