University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, July 18, 1990
Nation/World
House kills budget amendment
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The House narrowly defeated a constitutional amendment yesterday to balance the budget after opponents said it was a gimmick to hide the failure of the governor to account for cut the huse federal deficits.
The House voted 279-150 in favor of the amendment, but it was seven votes short of the two-thirds required to propose a constituency change.
President Bush, meanwhile,
declared that the worsening federal
deficit meant "the time for
game-playing is over" and set a
budget meeting with congressional
leaders at the White House today.
Backers of the amendment said they had expected defeat. Rep. Charles Stenholm, D-Texas, said either way, Congress needed to make tough choices to end a decade of huge increases in the national debt, which now tops $3.1 trillion.
If passed, the amendment would have prohibited government spending from exceeding revenues, or any increase in government borrowing, unless the requirements were waived. The committee, a member of Congress. The amendment would have taken effect in 1995.
It would "send a message to the economic markets of our country that this Congress is serious" and "that it said Rep. Marilyn Lloyd, D-Tenn."
Bush, in a letter Monday, urged support of the amendment along with changes in the budget process to give the president more power,
including the line-item veto
"Together with political courage and discipline, these tools are vital to solving the problem of budget deficits," Bush said.
The House last voted on a balanced budget amendment in 1982, when it fell short by more than 40 votes. Support for the amendment has grown since then, largely because of growing frustration over the deficits and the failure of statutes such as Gramm-Rudman law to solve them.
But opponents said yesterday that the amendment was a sham, that its requirements could easily be dodged.
Kohl foresees united parliament this year
The Associated Press
BONN, West Germany — A jubilant Chancellor Helmut Kohl said yesterday that all major obstacles to German unification had been swept aside and said elections for a united German parliament were likely in December.
speaking to reporters the day after he returned from the Soviet Union with guarantees that a united Germany was free to join NATO, Kohl also said he hoped bilateral treaties with the Soviet Union and Poland could be concluded by early next summer.
"The practical problems, which lay before us on
the way to German unity, have been solved," Kohl said.
He said elections for a united German parliament on Dec. 2 were presumable. But whether East Germany merged with the West before or after, the states had to be decided by East Berlin, he added.
"We are no world power," he said, emphasizing that the new Germany would be embedded in the European security architecture.
He said he was sensitive to the concerns of fellow Europeans. He noted that Britain had grabbed its very existence in battling Hitler. He said it was no
accident Germany had agreed to reduce the size of a unified army to 370,000 and cut compulsory military service from 15 to 12 months.
East German Foreign Minister Markus Meckel, however, rejected the idea of one German army and said East Germany needed its own military. Currently, the two Germans have about 600,000 men under arms, 480,000 of them in West Germany.
In evaluating the role of the new Germany in central Europe, Kohl said he envisioned it as a transit point for ideas and perspectives between West and East.
Lack of expertise experience slowing earthquake rescue
The Associated Press
The U.S. military joined the search for survivors. Japan also sent aid and medical teams.
MANILA, Philippines — Rescuers worked yesterday to save hundreds of people trapped by an earthquake that left 234 people dead, but the squads were hampered by a lack of training to cope with the disaster.
- rmpno reporters who visited areas of major damage said there was little sign of a coordinated, government rescue operation.
Most rescuers were private citizens organized by local civic groups and lacked training to deal with the emergency. Reporters also said rescuers lacked heavy equipment such as cranes to lift debris.
In the mountain resort town of Bagino, Rep. Raul Rauco, assistant House majority leader, stood helpless in front of the Nevada Hotel after shouting to his wife who was trapped inside.
Frustrated, Roco urged cadets of the Philippine Military Academy, located there, to help him rescue his
wife.
"Sir, we want to help you but what can we do? How can we, with our bare hands?" a cadet responded.
The Office of Civil Defense and the Red Cross reported that 234 people were killed in Monday's earthquake, hundreds were injured and thousands left homeless. The quake measured 7.7 on the Richter scale and was centered 60 miles north of the capital, Manila.
The military said it was unable to bring cranes, tractors and other heavy equipment to Baguio because of landlines triggered by the earthquake. There are hundreds of people in passenger buses, trucks and private cars.
Filipino officials and reporters who visited the city, one of the hardest hit by the earthquake, said hundreds of the city's 120,000 residents have fled their homes and pitched tents in the city's park or are living in their cars.
Eighty-two people are known to have been killed in Baguio and hundreds are feared missing.
Food and fuel supplies in the city were reportedly running low.
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