NATION/WORLD UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Wednesday, September 14, 1994
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Clinton to make speech on Haiti
Military buildup near Haiti
Carriers prepare to leave for battle
In the event of an American-led invasion, 17 countries have pledged a minimum of 1,500 troops for peacekeeping operations in Haiti. A look at forces near Haiti:
The Associated Press
Knight-Ridder Tribune/KUN TIA
WASHINGTON — An aircraft carrier that could serve as a launching platform for invading Haiti headed to sea yesterday, and President Clinton scheduled an address for tomorrow to make his case that U.S. interests there are vital.
Both Democrats and Republicans in Congress complied they were being ignored by a White House bent on war.
Clinton is considering announcing a firm deadline for Haiti's military leaders to leave — or sending an emissary to Port-au-Prince with one last demand that they surrender power, a senior administration official said.
The USS America sailed from Norfolk, Va., as another huge carrier, the USS Eisenhower, was taking on Army helicopters and soldiers there in order to depart today to the Caribbean.
Defense Secretary William Perry was heading to Norfolk to talk with military leaders aboard the Eisenhower and the USS Whitney, which would serve as the command ship for military operations in Haiti.
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At the White House. chief of staff Leon Panetta threatened that if Haiti's military leaders don't give up power, "action is going to be taken against them very soon."
In Haiti, the army-installed government protested what it called the "scandalous and unacceptable behavior" of the United States but gave no indication of stepping aside.
Lawmakers on Capitol Hill were taking the threats at face value.
Lawmakers in both chambers
said there should be votes in Congress before the administration commits any U.S. soldiers to Haiti. But White House representative Dee Dee Myers said there was no need and that any action to restore Haiti's elected leaders would be "minor compared to what was needed" in the Persian Gulf War.
Democratic leaders in both houses, Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell and House Speaker Thomas Foley, both said they preferred the president come to Congress before any invasion. But Mitchell said, "No president in my lifetime has agreed" that congressional approval is necessary for military action.
Dole said that he was pressing for a chance to bring the Haiti issue to the
Senate floor for debate. In the House, Rep. Gene Taylor, D-Miss., hoped to force the body to take up a resolution barring intervention in Haiti without congressional approval.
Despite pleas from Secretary of State Warren Christopher for unity, few Democrats outside the Congressional Black Caucus, which is also divided on the issue, stood publicly behind Clinton.
At a private weekly caucus of Democratic senators, several complained that the president had turned the issue into a political liability, according to one participant.
Sen. Joseph Lieberman, D-Donn,
said Democrats had "very, very profound concerns about the wisdom of invading Haiti."
Crash cause still in doubt Officials to run tests on recovered debris
The Associated Press
CORAOPOLIS, Pa. — Evidence recovered from the wreck of USAir Flight 427 cast doubt yesterday on the theory that the jet crashed because its right engine was thrown into reverse.
Federal investigators determined that the devices that engage an engine's thrust reversers were not deployed on the right side of the Boeing 737-300, suggesting the engine was operating normally.
Despite the evidence, Tom Hauver of the National Transportation Safety Board said investigators hadn't ruled out any possible cause for Thursday's crash, which killed all 132 people aboard.
"It's too early in this investigation to start discounting things," Haueter said last night at a news conference.
The devices, called locking actuators, determine the position of other actuators that control the thrust reversers, a breaking mechanism. The other actuators, which were found in the deployed position, now are believed to have shifted on impact.
Officials believe something may have caused the plane's right wing to rise, forcing the plane to roll to the left and go out of control.
Three possible scenarios will be tried out via computer: that the right engine went into reverse, it came loose, or spoilers — wing flaps that act as air brakes — were unevenly deployed.
Haueter said the right engine's rear mount also was recovered and appeared to have been dislodged by the crash itself, not by any occurrence before the crash. The missing mount was a component of the theory that the right engine came loose and threw off the plane's balance.
Metalurgists will be asked to examine the wreckage.
$263.8 billion defense budget passes Senate and House
The Associated Press
With an 80-18 vote, coming after final House approval Aug. 17, the bill goes to the president for his signature.
WASHINGTON — The Senate sent President Clinton a $263.8 billion defense budget for 1995 yesterday that closely reflects White House priorities while adding funds for bombers and cutting money for peacekeeping.
The measure slightly increases Clinton's defense budget request for the fiscal year beginning Oct. 1 and represents an increase of $2.8 billion above this year's defense budget. Adjusted for inflation, however, that translates into a defense spending cut of just under 1 percent, the 10th consecutive real decline in the defense budget.
In all, 18 percent of the total federal budget would go into defense under this legislation.
Republicans and moderate Democrats, including one of the chief architects of the bill, warned that the defense spending trend established by the Clinton administration may not pay for the president's own military plans.
"The current budget levels will not be adequate to maintain the current readiness of our forces," said Sen. Sam Nunn, D-Ga., chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, "to provide for their needed modernization, to support the compensation and quality of life improvements that we all want for our military members and their families, and still support the force structure necessary to carry out the full range of missions."
Sen. Strom Thurmond, R.S.C., the ranking Republican on the committee, was more blunt.
"Our military is already in serious trouble." Thurmard said. "The president has asked our troops to do more and more with less and less."
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