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--put 100,000 more police officers on the streets; $9.85 billion for prisons and $6.9 billion for crime prevention, including drug courts. The balance is nearly 45 percent for law enforcement, almost 33 percent for prisons and 23 percent for crime prevention and drug courts.
Crime bill goes to Senate
The Associated Press
Legislation faces uncertain future
WASHINGTON — Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Joseph Biden said yesterday that a $30.2 billion crime bill was just "one step away" from President Clinton's desk, but Republicans were trying to make that a huge leap.
Sen. Phil Gramm, R-Texas, a staunch opponent of the bill's ban on assault-style firearms, said he planned to use a Senate procedure that would require the bill's supporters to muster 60 votes, the same number required to stop a filibuster.
If successful, it probably would mean the end of the package that passed the House on Sunday, 235-195, with the help of 46 Republicans.
Crime bill backers cannot count on the votes of all 56 Democratic senators because as many as three of them will support the effort to block it, said Sen. Larry Craig, R-Idaho, a board member of the National Rifle Association, which has campaigned for months to derail the legislation.
Meanwhile, White House Chief of Staff Leon Panetta put pressure on the Senate with a round of appearances on the morning television shows, saying it would be "a disgrace to the country" if opponents blocked the bill.
House feverishly, planned a similar effort for the Senate and scheduled meetings with several senators yesterday afternoon, said spokeswoman Dee Dee Myers.
Sens. Byron Dorgan, D-N.D., and Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., predicted the bill's supporters would gather the necessary 60 votes to overcome the Republican procedural effort to block the bill, known as a "point of order," and pass it intact.
President Clinton, who lobbied the
"We have such an epidemic of violent crime in this country that to make the perfect the enemy of the good here makes no sense," Dorgan said.
Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., said he would support the bill even though it was not perfect legislation.
"All factors considered," he said, "I believe it will be a significant step forward in our fight against violent crime."
The pending crime bill would authorize $13.45 billion for law enforcement, including $8.8 billion to help
The bill also would ban 19 types of assault-style firearms and scores of others with similar characteristics, allow life sentences for some third-time felons and expand the federal death penalty to more than 60 crimes, including fatal drive-by shootings, carjacking deaths and major drug trafficking, even when the defendant is not directly linked to any specific death.
"We are one step away from getting a significant crime bill to the president's desk," Biden, D-Del., said as debate began on the Senate floor.
The legislation "will not end crime, but thousands of Americans will live safer, more secure and happier lives if we take this money that we are getting from firing federal bureaucrats and hire cops," Biden said.
A trust fund created with money saved by reducing the federal work force would pay for the bill's anticrime programs.
U.S. officials try to nip exodus
Associated Press
GUANTANAMO NAVAL BASE, Cuba—The United States is prepared to hold up to 10,000 Cubans here "indefinitely," in a sign of the administration's resolve to prevent an exodus of refugees from reaching U.S. shores, Defense Secretary William Perry said yesterday.
The get-tough policy has had little effect on its intended audience, however. More than 1,000 refugees a day are being intercepted. Those are the highest numbers since the 1980 Mariel boat lift, when some 125,000 Cubans fled to the United States.
at least 20 tiny makeshift rafts.
Perry flew here across those waters, gazing from the cockpit of his C-20 executive jet as it swooped over several ships plucking refugees from the sea. During the flight, Perry observed
More than 50 Coast Guard and Navy vessels patrol the waters between Key West and Cuba, forming, in effect, a sea-borne sea wall. Thirty planes patrol overhead.
"It's a stunning sight." Perry said. "There's a tidal wave of people forming out there."
In Washington, the administration slammed the door on treating the fleeing Cubans as political refugees. Asked whether the Cubans taken to Guantanamo had any chance of being admitted as political refugees, INS Commissioner Doris Meissner said flatly: "No, they do not."
The White House said it believed the number of refugees would drop off substantially within a week, as word of the change of policy filtered into Cuba.
Perry noted the psychological strain of staying in an isolated encampment such as Guantanamo, where rows of tents on an abandoned airstrip will house the refugees. It "is tough for people," he said, which it is hoped will help curb the exodus from Cuba.
The fate of the Cubans became clearer yesterday, when the Immigration and Naturalization Service
described how they would be treated. Cubans who want to come to the United States can apply for legal immigration, not blanket political asylum, INS officials told reporters.
Over the weekend, the administration announced moves targeted at further isolating Fidel Castro's communist government by cutting off transfers of funds from the United States to Cuba, restricting charter flights and increasing anti-Castro radio and television broadcasts.
Deputy Transportation Secretary Mortimer Downey the Coast Guard had been involved in a "high-paced operation" that has focused on a search-and-rescue mission aimed at saving the lives of those who have departed Cuba aboard flimsy craft.
"We can't be sure we are finding them all. We found some empty rafts." Downey said, attempting to emphasize yet again the perilousness of embarking on the high seas in homemade craft.
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