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Senate debates president's power to use troops abroad
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON—Senate Democrats and Republicans clashed yesterday over giving Congress a greater say in President Clinton's ability to use combat troops abroad. The White House fought to halt or soften three different measures.
The White House was negotiating with Senate Minority Leader Bob Dole in an effort to modify his amendment that would restrict spending for U.S. forces in Haiti unless Congress approves.
The efforts are fueled in part by congressional dissatisfaction with the administration's foreign policymaking.
It was the second time in a week that the White House found itself fending off a single senator and his effort to restrict presidential authority. Last week it was Ben Robert Bund
Last week, it was Sen. Robert Byrd,
D-W.Va, and Somalia.
Clinton has said he opposes all three of the restrictive efforts; the prospective Dole amendment to the 1994 defense spending bill, a measure ordering that U.S. troops in U.N. operations always be under U.S. command, and a provision requiring congressional approval for sending forces to Bosnia.
The Senate spent much of the day debating the measure that would prohibit spending defense dollars on any U.N. operation in which U.S. soldiers were under the operational command of a foreign officer.
Sens. Don Nickles, R-Okla., and Thad Cochran, R-Miss., modified the measure so that it would not apply to NATO forces in Europe, would not affect troops in South Korea and would allow the president to declare an emergency to place troops under foreign command.
But Democrats and Republicans still expressed misgivings with the
efforts to restrict presidential authority.
Sen. Sam Nunn, D-Ga., chair of the Senate Armed Services Committee, said, "We ought to say, 'Mr. President, slow down, slow down. We don't think you've thought through this."
But Num also said, "We should say to ourselves, the Senate of the United States, 'Slow down, you're about to alter the balance of power between the president and the Congress.'"
Republican Sen. Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania warned against going too far and said that the provisions were more restrictive than the War Powers resolution, which Congress passed 20 years ago over President Nixon's objections.
That resolution requires a president to get House and Senate approval if U.S. forces are to remain longer than 90 days in "situations where imminent involvement in hostilities is clearly indicated."
First ship stopped by U.S. frigate in Haitian oil-and-arms blockade
Wednesday, October 20, 1993
The Associated Press
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — U.S. warships stopped their first freighter yesterday in the oil-and-arms blockade of Haiti, while a "crisis committee" of Haitian lawmakers tried to break a standoff between the army and the rest of the world.
With only 11 days left before the scheduled return of exiled President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, the committee was looking for a way to pass amnesty legislation, which Haiti's military leaders have demanded.
So far, parliament has not been able to gather a quorum. In Washington, D.C., Congress and President Clinton sparred over whether congressional approval should be required before combat troops were sent to trouble spots such as Haiti.
Sen. Bob Dole proposed restricting spending for U.S. troops sent to Haiti without the approval of Congress. The proposal reflects a widespread perception in Congress that Clinton has failed to articulate a clear plan for dealing with problems in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Somalia and Haiti.
A U.S. Navy frigate stopped a ship from Belize yesterday afternoon. The ship's master said the ship was carrying cement, an item not prohibited under the embargo. The six Navy warships taking part in the blockade moved to 3 miles off Haiti's coast. They stood out clearly through the Caribbean haze.
"We think visibility is important," U.S. embassy representative Stanley Schrager told reporters.
Besides the Navy ships, the flotilla includes at least 10 Coast Guard vessels, a French frigate, two Canadian destroyers and a supply ship, and an Argentine navy corvette. The ships are supported by Navy and Coast Guard aircraft.
The effect of the embargo probably won't be felt for some time. Haiti laid in an estimated three- to six-month stockpile of gasoline before the embargo took effect. But with no further supplies coming in, Haiti's fragile economy, already the poorest in the hemisphere, could disintegrate.
A U.N.-sponsored agreement for returning Aristide and restoring democratic rule was signed last July by Aristide and army commander Lt. Gen. Raoul Cerdas, leader of the September 1991 coup that ousted Aristide. Both did so reluctantly and under international pressure, including sanctions that were lifted after the plan was signed.
The plan broke down last week when Cedras and other officers refused to step down and an unruly crowd turned back a U.S. ship carrying noncombatant troops called for under the U.N. agreement.
Cedras has said that he won't resign until parliament passes legislation granting amnesty to people accused of political crimes since the 1991 coup.
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