NATION/WORLD UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Monday. November 8.1993
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Clinton criticizes unions for NAFTA disapproval
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Using harsh language against an old ally, President Clinton said organized labor was strong-arming lawmakers with
scuttle the North American Free Trade Agreement.
In a rare and sweeping morning television interview, yesterday. Clyster
A top AFL-CIO official called the assertion "a cheap shot" and "simply not true."
Vision interview yesterday, Camph also insisted that North Korea could not be allowed to develop a nuclear bomb.
"We have to be firm about it," he said, but he refused to discuss the possibility of a pre-emptive strike against the communist nation's nuclear facilities.
Clinton, appearing for an hour on NBC's "Meet the Press," reiterated his support for Russian President B
Yeltsin and exiled Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide.
The president also issued a sharp defense of his first year in office, say
ing historians will "be hard-pressed to find many first years of presidencies that match ours."
In a personal moment, the former Arkansas governor said he still found living in the White House "pretty confining."
AFL-CIO secretary-treasurer Thomas Donahue, interviewed on "CNN Late Edition," said he had been angry when he heard Clinton's characterization.
"I don't know whether it's the finest public housing in America or the crown jewel of the prison system," he joked.
"I thought it was a cheap shot," the labor federation's No. 2 official said.
"No need for it. It is simply not true."
Clinton said he now understood how a president could become "out of touch and maybe out of harmony with the American people."
Aides said his attack on labor had not been scripted, but the remarks were astonishing for a Democratic president, even on a free-trade issue that has spawned an odd menagerie of political coalitions.
He said unions were privately threatening to cut financial support and field opponents if lawmakers supported the free-trade deal with Mexico and Canada.
"At least for the undecided Democrats, our big problem is the raw muscle, the sort of naked pressure that the labor forces have put on," Clinton said.
"We've tried to make it very clear that this is one issue on which we disagree with Bill Clinton," he said.
During a commercial break in the show, senior White House adviser David Gergen slipped Clinton a piece of paper telling him that wire service stories were trumpeting his criticism of labor. Clinton called the situation an example of how a president's words could be twisted.
Donahue said the labor federation would get over the rift with Clinton concerning the trade agreement.
"It's perfectly true that some of our affiliates have taken the position that
"Those guys are my friends," he said of the unions. "I just don't agree with them on NAFTA."
The free-trade deal, which comes to a vote Nov. 17, is about 30 votes short of the majority needed to pass it in the House, Clinton said.
they will not support people who cause job loss to their members."
"I think we'll make it, however," he said.
Opponents, most visibly former presidential candidate Ross Perot, think that the pact will cost thousands of jobs. Clinton said Vice President Al Gore would fare well tomorrow night in his debate with Perot, although the Texas billionaire "is the master of the one-liner and the emotional retort."
Presidents support college merger
Plan would link Fort Hays State Great Bend college
The Associated Press
GREAT BEND — A proposal to merge Barton County Community College and Fort Hays State University has the support of both institutions' presidents.
Officials say the move would cut county property taxes, ease transfers between schools and put the community college under control of the Kansas Board of Regents.
"The primary advantage is the merged institutions would be in a better position to meet the educational
needs of central and western Kansas," Fort Hays State President Edward Hammond said.
Officials from both schools plan to take the proposal before the Regents and eventually the Legislature.
The move would merge operations such as admissions and libraries, but each school would retain its own government.
Hammond said such a merger had never been done in Kansas, and it might be difficult to build trust between the two faculties.
Hammond said the bulk of community college funding — perhaps $3.5 million — would be transferred from county property taxes to the state general fund.
Discussion of the merger began about a year ago, and Barton County
trustees voted recently to pursue the idea.
Hammond said the merger would cut Barton County's college mille levy in half over a five-year period, from 28.6 mills to 14.3 mills.
Community colleges come under the authority of the Kansas State Board of Education.
Community college President Jimnie Downing said about 95 percent of the education board's funding went to public elementary and secondary schools, with community colleges and vocational-technical schools dividing the rest.
"The Regents have the responsibility of higher education," he said. "I consider us to be part of that realm."
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