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Thursday, October 6, 1994
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Democrat and Republican leaders put off trade vote Decision on GATT held until November
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Struggling to save a huge global trade accord, Democratic and Republican leaders in the House agreed yesterday to postpone a vote on the measure until after thanksgiving.
President Clinton had been pushing for a vote before lawmakers went home this week. And as recently as yesterday morning House Speaker Thomas Foley, D-Wash, said he was "firmly and absolutely committed" to that.
But, in a letter to the president, Foley and the other leaders said the House would vote Nov. 29 on legislation implementing the accord signed under the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade.
At the insistence of Sen. Ernest F.
Hollings, D-S.C., the Senate had
already decided to vote on GATT on
Dec. 1, two days later.
The House leaders said that the Senate decision to postpone the vote had undermined their ability to guarantee bipartisan support for the effort.
They promised to work to assure that GATT overwhelmingly passed the House.
The pact will cut world tariffs by an estimated $740 billion, reduce other barriers to trade and extend the rules of world trade to services and intellectual property such as computer programs and drug patents.
Opponents, including Hollings, say it will open American markets to a flood of manufactured goods produced in low-wage countries, destroying jobs at companies making textiles, aircraft, automobiles and other goods.
With the postponement, Kantor said, "We've taken the politics out of the debate. It will be calmer, more rational and more effective."
But some rank-and-file Republicans, who hope to see their party make big gains in the Nov. 8 midterm election, complained that a lame-duck session would mean as many as 100 defeated or retiring House members would vote without any accountability to the electorate.
"I think it is plain unconscionable that we bring this back in a lane-duck session. This important legislation should not be decided by members who have no political stake in the outcome," said Rep. Elton Gallegy, R-Calif.
PENSACOLA, Fla.—A former minister was convicted yesterday of violating the nation's new abortion clinic access law for a shotgun attack that killed an abortion doctor and his bodyguard.
Man convicted on abortion access law The Associated Press
A federal jury deliberated just over two hours before finding Paul Hill guilty of three counts of violating the new law and one separate firearms charge. He was the first person tried under the law adopted earlier this year.
He also is awaiting trial in state court Jan. 30 on murder and attempted murder charges that could get him the electric chair.
He showed no emotion as the verdict was read, but after the jury left the courtroom he smiled broadly and shook hands with his two standby attorneys. He could get life in prison when he is sentenced Dec 9.
Hill, who acted as his own attorney, has said murder is justifiable if it stops abortions, but the judge barred him from presenting that defense at his federal trial.
His brief closing argument was almost identical to his opening statement: "This government is unjust because it does not protect innocent life. To the extent we take part in this evil, we must answer to God. May God help us all."
During his three-day trial he called no witnesses, cross-examined none of the prosecution's wit.
messes and presented no evidence. Eleanor Seal, president of the Feminist Majority Foundation, v which trains abortion clinic escorts, said that she hoped the verdict would send "a very clear message that this extreme terrorist activity in the name of religion will not be tolerated."
Witnesses testified that Hill, 40,
ambushed John B. Britton, James
H. Barrett and Barrett's wife, June,
with a 12-gauge shotgun as the
three arrived July 29 at a Pensacola
abortion clinic. Brittn and Barrett
died in the barrage of shotgun fire.
Mrs. Barrett was wounded.
Before the trial concluded yesterday, Mrs. Barrett testified that Hill stood in the parking lot of the clinic waving a pamphlet as she, her husband and the doctor arrived. Hill moved to one side, then approached the vehicle, holding something, she said.
"I didn't identify it as a gun," she said. "I heard this 'boom', and I said 'My God, he is shooting at us'."
Mrs. Barrett, 68, was hit in the breast and left arm.
She dived to the floor as her husband stepped out. She remained there, closing her eyes until the shooting was over. When she opened her eyes, she saw blood dripping between the seats.
"I said, 'Doc, are you OK?" she recalled. Her voice cracked, she added that the 69-year-old doctor did not respond.
Filibuster doesn't have a prayer, education bill approved
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Turning back a Republican-led filibuster over school prayer, the Senate gave final approval yesterday to an education bill providing billions of dollars for helping students in impoverished districts, training teachers and reducing school violence.
The vote was 77-20.
The House already has approved the legislation reauthorizing the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, which expired last Friday. Clinton has indicated his support.
Education Secretary Richard Riley also praised the bill.
"This Congress has seen its way around gridlock, found common ground on some of the most difficult and contentious social issues, and that's the way it should be," Riley said. "Children are not learning as Democrats or Republicans. They are learning as Americans who are the future of the country."
School prayer advocates, led by
Sen, Jesse Helms, R-N.C., tried to block a final vote on the bill. Helms thought the prayer language included in the bill was too weak.
"America is in the midst of a historic struggle between those who on one hand yearn for a restoration of traditional values envisioned by our founding fathers, and on the other hand, by those who contend that anything goes," he said.
Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., countered: "Those who are voting against ending this filibuster are voting against education. They are voting against federal aid to hard-pressed local schools. They are
voting against teachers and students. They are voting against major reforms and improvements in the most important federal assistance for schools in every city, town and village in America."
The Senate voted 75-24 to break the filibuster. The only Democrat voting against cutting off debate was Sen. Richard Shelby of Alabama.
The legislation protects the right of students to participate in voluntary, constitutionally protected prayer and cuts off federal education funds to school districts found to have willfully violated a court order that allows for prayer.
WASHINGTON — Capped two days of celebration with Nelson Mandela, President Clinton announced a $100 million fund to help entrepreneurs in southern Africa. Half will go to South Africa in hopes it will be an economic engine for the region.
Mandela grateful for U.S. help
The Associated Press
The two countries also will establish a high-level commission to boost energy, education and development projects.
Clinton also announced that Peace Corps volunteers next year will travel for the first time to South Africa to work on sanitation, agriculture, education and rural health care.
"You have shown us the way and we look forward, sir, to walking down the road with you," he told Mandela.
Mandela thanked Clinton for U.S. support and credited the American president with "ensuring that Africa does not become a forgotten continent."
Mandela said he is still considering Clinton's request to provide police or military support for the U.S.-led military action in Haiti. The decision will be made in consultation with other countries of southern Africa, he said, adding, "We are keen to answer collectively as a region."
Mandela also said he would meet with exiled Haitian President Jean-Bertram Aristide while in Washington. Clinton said he was grateful for that because "the Haitian people will see that you can bring a country where there have been deep, even bloody divisions, together."
dence then."
LOS ANGELES — As O.J. Simpson's lawyers waged another losing battle to get evidence thrown out yesterday, a sister of his saint ex-wife suggested for the first time she has questions about his innocence.
"If O.J. is so innocent, why are they trying to suppress all the evidence?" Denise Brown told reporters after the morning court session.
In-law questions O.J.'s innocence
She said she felt compelled to make the statement because "I've never seen this before."
Referring to Simpson's plea of "absolutely, 100 percent not guilty" in the slayings of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman, Brown said: "He's 100 percent innocent." Keep the evi-
Brown and other family members have sat through most of the hearings in the murder case. But this was the first time any member of her family has hinted at his or her view of the defense.
Brown wore a button on her lapel saying: "Remember Nicole Brown and Ronald Goldman."
Simpson's ex-wife and her friend, Goldman, were slashed to death in front of her condominium June 12.
The thrust of yesterday's hearing was similar to others — a new effort by the defense to keep out of the trial such evidence as analysis of blood drops found on the driveway of Simpson's mansion and items seized from his Bronco.
The Associated Press
Defense spending cut by 1 percent
WASHINGTON — President Clinton signed a $263.8 billion defense spending bill yesterday, while making clear he does not believe its terms limit his flexibility to deal with events in Bosnia.
fiscal year, which ended Sept. 30.
The authorization measure, which Clinton said would provide for a strong national defense, represented a $2.8 billion increase over the 1994
Adjusted for inflation, that increase translates into a defense spending cut of just under 1 percent, the 10th consecutive decline in the defense budget. In all, 18 percent of the total federal budget would go for defense under the new law.
- Included in the defense bill for fiscal 1995 is authorization for another aircraft carrier, three guided-missile destroyers and six C-17 airlifters.
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