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Mondav. November 20. 1995
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Extremist bombs Egyptian Embassy
Islamic group claims explosions which killed 15
The Associated Press
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — A suicide bomber rammed a pickup packed with explosives into the gate of the Egyptian Embassy yesterday, killing 15 people and wounding 59 others. Islamic militants claimed responsibility.
Most of the dead were Paldstani security guards and people applying for visas. One Egyptian diplomat also was killed, hospital officials said
Pakistan's Foreign Minister Sardar Aseff All called it a dastardly attack.
"It was a terrorist attack perpetrated by a suicide bomber who may have blasted his way through the gate and exploded his pickup truck." Ali said.
Survivors of the powerful blast that ripped an entire side off the embassy said there were two explosions.
The explosions occurred at about 9:30 a.m. when the embassy was in
full operation. Sunday is a regular working day in Islamic Pakistan, which celebrates the Muslim holy day on Friday.
The first explosion sent panicked workers from nearby office buildings, banks and other embassies scurrying outside.
Three minutes later, a second explosion sent concrete and shrapnel flying, witnesses said. The blast could be felt several miles away.
"I was standing outside the gate, and the body of a police officer came flying over the wall and landed beside me," said police constable Mohammed Iqbal, a security guard for the Egyptian ambassador.
Iqbal said the first explosion appeared to be outside the Egyptian Embassy compound while the second larger explosion came from within the walled area.
"It was a massive explosion," said Abdul Majd Maklloh, an embassy worker. "There were parts (of the building) flying all over the place."
Moans and screams from injured workers, some trapped within, could be heard outside the compound. A chunk of the embassy wall was blasted away and a staircase stood exposed. Outside the building was a hole 10 feet deep.
of a vehicle from the rubble, said a security officer who didn't want to be identified.
Rescue workers were pulling bits
Interior Minister Nasrullah Babaa said a militant Islamic group trying to overthrow Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak's government had claimed responsibility for the explosion.
Shortly after the blast, an unidentified man called a Western news agency in Cairo. Speaking in Arabic, he said only: "Al-Gamaa al-Ilamiya claims responsibility for the Pakistan blast."
Al-Gamaa al-Islamiya, which means the Islamic Group, is the main extremist group in Egypt, whose government blames it for the violence there in recent years.
Since signing an extradition treaty last year, Pakistan has thrown out several Egyptian nationals believed to be trying to overthrow Mubarak.
Most of the city's foreign embassies are located in the area, including the U.S. Embassy about six blocks away.
Meanwhile, Pakistan was reviewing its security arrangements for foreign missions in the capital.
"We will consider what we can do and get moving right away," said foreign ministry spokesman Gul Hanif. "Everyone is more alert."
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WASHINGTON — Ending a tense six-day budget standoff, the Republican-controlled Congress rushed to enact legislation ending a partial shutdown of government last night after the White House committed to speedy negotiations to balance the budget in seven years.
The Associated Press
The president was expected to sign the temporary budget legislation last night. Even without it, White House officials said Clinton had the power to call federal employees back to work.
In the four-week spending bill, the White House and Republicans agreed the balanced budget legislation would protect future generations, secure Medicare solvency, reform welfare, provide adequate funding for Medicaid, education, agriculture, national defense, veterans and the environment.
to help working families and stimulate economic growth.
"I hope in the next three or four weeks we will produce a balanced budget with the president on board," said Senate Budget Committee Chairman Pete Domenici, R-N.M.
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By voice vote, the Senate adopted a one-day temporary measure to reopen the government today. It then approved a bill providing funding to the government through Dec. 15. The House planned to adopt the one-day bill last night and follow today by approving the four-week measure.
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In a compromise that was key to the agreement, the two sides agreed that the Congressional
Both sides declared victory — Republicans because the deal reflected their seven-year timetable and Clinton because it spoke of protecting programs he considered important.
The agreement, reached after a day of offer and counter-offer, with White House Chief of Staff Leon Panetta shuttling between the White House and Capitol, also provided that any eventual budget deal shall adopt tax policies
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Under the agreement, nearly 800,000 federal workers will return to work immediately, although government funding will expire in December, the deadline for the temporary funding accord.
Budget Office would measure whether any eventual budget deal eliminates deficits, but only after consulting with the White House and other government and private economists.
Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole, House Speaker Newt Gingrich and their chief deputies held a news conference where they were barely able to contain their euphoria.
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At dawn, VanHals, of North Canton, Ohio, spotted the ski lift line in the distance and trekked down the slope. An Alpine rescue squad
Clinton said the agreement represented the first sign of Republicans' willingness to move forward without forcing unacceptable cuts on the American people.
Yesterday's negotiations occurred amid increasing signs of restiveness among federal employees and the public. Forty percent of the federal work force has been furloughed since Nov. 13.
Two students die during ski trip
GRENOBLE, France — American student Brent VanHala hiked out into the snow seeking help after a blizzard stranded him and six friends on a mountain during an Alpine ski trip.
The Associated Press
After they strayed from the marked trail, a blizzard hit, forcing them to spend the night in the shelter of some over-hanging rocks.
Two students perished. Four others remained hospitalized yesterday in serious condition, suffering from hypothermia because their body temperatures had dropped to about 86 degrees. VanHala and another student have frostbite.
"It was after I left that they died," VanHala, 21, said yesterday from his hotel in Tigres.
The ski slope manager said that the group had been ill-equipped for the trip up the 8,000-foot Grande-Motte mountain. They were wearing jeans and sweaters instead of ski suits, the ski slope manager said.
The students, who are juniors at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, were studying in Luxembourg. They went to the ski slope in Tignes, near the Italian border, Friday for a weekend trip but got lost and spent a terrifying night stranded in a storm.
rushed to the mountain by helicopter.
By the time it arrived, Rebecca Andrew, 20, of Bath, Ohio, and Christopher Eggerton, 21, of Mansfield, Ohio, had frozen to death.
Operators had closed down the lift two hours early on Friday because of the storm. Security teams surveyed the slope for stragglers, but the students went undetected because they had left the trall, said Roger Bouzon, assistant manager of the Tigres ski slope.
another 800 yards to camp for the night. "It was a wrong turn by us," Hanala said. "There was no fault on the part of the operators."
He also said that the group had left its equipment 300 yards from the edge of the trull and had hited
The four injured were recovering in three French hospitals westerd
the edge of the trail and had hiked
A groggy Poploskie said by telephone that he did not want to talk about his experience. But his mother, Ann Poploskie, said Jon had called her from the hospital Saturday and had told her what had happened.
"He said they were skiing and apparently a tremendous storm came up," she said. "They made one run down the mountain, and they were fine. And then they went up for the second run, and it was a whiteout. ... The wind was so strong it just blew them over."
"My son is an outdoor person. He's in very good physical shape, but they just couldn't stand in the
Julie Chamberlain, 20, of Cincinnati, was hospitalized in Grenoble. Elisabeth Carey, 20, of Fairview Park, Ohio, was in nearby Moutiers. Christopher King, 20, of Naperville, Ill., and Jon Ploploskie, 20, of Troy, Mich., were in the Burgst. Maurice clinic.
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Poploside said.
She also said
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cardiopul-
monary resuscita-
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tried with King
to revive their
two companions.
Ann Poploskie
Mother of injured skier
The Miami University program annually sends 75 students to study at the John E. Dolbois European Center in Luxembourg. The university is planning memorial services in Luxembourg and in Oxford, 31 miles northwest of Cincinnati.
"They sought to keep everybody alive," she said.
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