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Thursday, April 25, 1996
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Clinton clamps down on terrorism
President signs bill allocating $1 billion for law enforcement
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Survivors of the bombings in Oklahoma City and the World Trade Center — some of them wiping away tears — watched President Clinton sign a bill yesterday providing new tools and tougher penalties for the war against terrorism.
At a ceremony on the south lawn of the White House, Clinton told the bombing survivors and the families of victims of 11 other terrorist
attacks, "We renew our fight against those who seek to terrorize us, in your names.
"We send a loud, clear message today all over the world, in your names: America will never surrender to terror."
In a presidential election year, it was an opportunity for a warm display of bipartisanship on a sunny, spring day. It brought Clinton together on the same stage with his GOP presidential rival, Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole.
Almost two dozen members of Congress joined the president.
More than a year in the making, the bill expands the government's power to exclude suspected foreign terrorists from the United States.
Authorities say it also will make it easier for police to trace bombs to the criminals who made them, by requiring chemical markers in some explosive materials.
Further, it imposes unprecedented curbs on federal appeals by death-row inmates.
The audience included 22 survivors of the Oklahoma City bombing a year ago, seven survivors of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and four relatives of victims of Pan Am Flight 103, which exploded over Lockerbie, Scotland, in 1988.
"This is a good day because our police officers are now going to be better prepared to stop terrorists, our prosecutors better prepared to punish them, our people being better protected from their designs," the president said.
Despite all the celebration, the bill was not as tough as Clinton wanted.
For example, Congress dropped provisions that would have made it easier to wiretap all phones used by suspected terrorists and would have enabled the military to help in cases involving chemical and biological weapons.
The legislation authorizes $1 billion in funding for federal law enforcement agencies to use in combating terrorism. It also requires the death penalty for killing current or former federal employees because of their work and in certain international terrorism cases.
ATM fees leave consumers seeing red
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Customers' anger with rising automated teller machine fees is so high that even a key banking industry ally, House Banking Chairman Jim Leach, suggested yesterday that bankers ought to hold off on any new increases.
"I think it would be wise for the industry to take a step back and put a voluntary freeze on any surcharges," Leach, R-Iowa, said as a House Banking subcommittee opened two days of hearings.
Bankers and ATM network operators strongly defended their actions
at the hearings, which were prompted by actions earlier this month that could result in people being charged twice for using cash machines owned by another bank.
"Why are we paying banks to make a profit on our money when they're paying such low interest rates?" asked Randy Capps of Washington after using a downtown ATM. "I just feel like I'm spending more and more and getting less and less for having my money in the bank."
In inside the hearing room, and at ATMs on Washington's streets, consumer anger was obvious.
At the hearing, Rep. Marge Roukema, R-N.J., said her subcommittee on consumer credit issues would determine what role, if any, Congress should play in response to such consumer anger.
Several House Democrats already have proposed legislation that would force greater disclosure of ATM fees, or in one case, to ban the fees altogether. In the Senate, Banking Committee Chairman Alfonse D'Amato, R-N.Y., is developing a bill that would prohibit ATM surcharges.
Members of the American Bankers Association argued that legislation
isn't needed since a Federal Reserve rule forces banks to disclose ATM fees. Typically, that's about a dollar for using a cash machine not owned by the customer's bank.
Rep. Bruce Vento, D-Minn., urged bankers to change their systems so consumers could see all fees displayed on the ATM's computer screen at the time of the transaction.
But Paul Allen, executive vice president of Visa U.S.A. Inc., called the idea unworkable because the owner of an ATM in a convenience store might not know how a customer's own bank calculates fees, which vary widely.
THE NEWS in brief
Rescued diver is thankful
The Associated Press
BRISBANE, Australia — A quick-thinking Australian diver saved an Oregon man who ran out of air and lost consciousness while scuba diving off a South Pacific island.
Mark Deaves of the Royal Australian Navy was taking part in a diving exercise nearby when he
saw Montgomery in trouble.
Raymond Montgomery, a U.S. Army reserve sergeant from Canby, Ore., said yesterday that he ran out of air while diving in 165 feet of water near an old shipwreck off the island of Espiritu Santo, in Vanuatu, on Tuesday.
"I was unconscious when I was pulled on board," Montgomery said.
He swam to the stricken man, gave him compressed air from his own supply and then helped him to a nearby boat.
"I'm very grateful. He probably saved me from becoming a vegetable as well as asaving my life."
Montgomery was flown to Townville Hospital in Australia where he is recovering.
A hospital representative said he did not suffer permanent injuries.
Elderly aren't retiring from sex
The Associated Press
BOSTON — Many married folks have sex well into their 80s — at least in Sweden.
Doctors from the University of Goteborg surveyed the sex habits of 321 men and women, all of them 85 years old. The results, they say, contradict the stereotype that old folks cannot — or don't want to — have sex.
elderly people who are widowed or single.
Not surprisingly, intercourse turned out to be rare among
But not so for married senior citizens. Twenty-two percent of the men and 10 percent of women said they continued to have intercourse.
Almost half of the married men and a quarter of the married women said they still had sexual feelings.
The study was published in today's New England Journal of Medicine.
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