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Tuesday, September 3, 1996
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Congress gets back to work
Avoidance of a shutdown is its No.1 priority
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — In the shadow of a national election campaign, lawmakers return to the Capitol this week for a brief, pre-election session likely to be marked more by political combat than by bipartisan, legislative accomplishment.
The No.1 agenda item, for Republicans and Democrats alike, is the
passage of spending legislation necessary to keep the government running normally beyond the beginning of the new fiscal year.
Majority Republicans have made it clear that they'll do what they must to avoid a replay of the two 1995 shutdowns that damaged them politically.
"We're not putting poison pills into the bills," said Tony Blankley, spokesman for House Speaker Newt Gingrich.
Beyond that, Republicans hope to send major immigration legislation to President Clinton, probably for his veto. Republicans will attempt to move politically-charged bills to curb government benefits for same-
sex marriage partners and will push legislation forbidding U.S. troops from serving under international command. GOP presidential candidate Bob Dole stressed his commitment to that issue in his convention acceptance speech in San Diego.
Gingrich and Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott are expected to call for votes, before the end of the session, on Clinton's veto of legislation banning certain late-term abortions. The so-called partial-birth abortion measure cleared the House earlier by 286-129, more than the two-thirds majority needed to override, but the margin was a smaller 54-44 in the Senate.
Gingrich also has flirted with the
idea of moving a modest tax-cut measure bill this fall, although not the comprehensive, 15 percent reduction that Dole outlined at the GOP convention last month.
Democrats have an agenda of their own, but it is unlikely to go far in a Congress dominated by Republicans.
Senate Democratic Leader Tom Daschle said he would be prodding Senate Majority Leader Lott to confirm more of the judicial nominations that have been languishing for months. In addition,he said, Democrats would be offering an action agenda with proposals for personal security, pension security and health security.
French scientist returns to Earth
The Associated Press
MOSCOW — France's first woman astronaut and two Russian crewmates returned to Earth from the orbiting Mir space station yesterday.
The Soyuz TM-23 spaceship that was carrying Claudie-Andre Deshays, Yury Onufrienko and Yury Usachev landed about 60 miles southwest of the city of Akmola in Kazakhtstan, near Russia's Baikonur Cosmosdrome, the ITAR-Tass news agency said.
Deshays, a 39-year-old rheumatologist and an expert in neuroscience, spent two weeks
aboard the Russian space station studying the effects of weightlessness on the human body.
France's National Space Agency paid Russia $13.7 million for Deshays' journey, the Inter-fax news agency said.
Her crewmates spent 193 days in orbit, conducting more than 100 experiments and several spacewalks.
Two Russian cosmonauts and an American astronaut, Shannon Lucid, remain aboard the Mir. Lucid is scheduled to return later this month on the U.S. space shuttle Atlantis.
No date for summit
The Associated Press
JERUSALEM — Israeli and Palestinian negotiators ended a round of talks yesterday without a date for a summit between Benjamin Netanyahu and Yasir Arafat.
Criticizing Netanyahu's policies, Arafat said he remained committed to peace but that Netanyahu also must cooperate.
Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erakat said some obstacles remained, but that there could be progress later in the day. Netanyahu's office said no agreement on a date had been reached.
Erakat and his Israeli counterpart, Dore Gold, briefed their leaders after the negotiating session ended at 3:30 a.m. More talks were scheduled yesterday afternoon.
Palestinians have been bitter that
Netanyahu has not met with Arafat
since taking office in June.
A key sticking point is the extent of an Israeli troop pullout from Hebron, the last West Bank town under Israeli occupation.
Israel's previous government had agreed to withdraw its troops from most of the city of 94,000 Palestinians and 450 Jewish settlers by the end of March. The pullout was delayed by suicide attacks by Islamic militants in Israel.
When Netanyahu took office he said he wanted to negotiate better security arrangements for Jewish settlers. Arafat has said he would not renegotiate the agreement.
Also on the agenda is a Palestinian airport in Gaza — under construction, but held up by Israel's demand to retain control over security.
Erakat said the Palestinians wouldn't settle for a summit that wouldn't yield results.
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