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Few would feel federal shutdown
WASHINGTON—At the stroke of midnight tonight, the nation's government may lapse into a coma. And most Americans won't notice unless they're planning to visit a national park or apply for Social Security.
The Associated Press
That's because America's vital functions will continue, even if a budget stalemate between Congress and the president brings about a federal shutdown tomorrow, sending 800,000 workers home and closing offices across the country.
About 1.2 million employees will stay on the job — printing money, chasing criminals, forecasting the weather, tracking the space shuttle if it's launched, feeding the animals at the National Zoo and guarding the Monets at the National Gallery of Art.
And the nation's defenses will remain intact: The 1.5 million active-duty military personnel will stay at their posts. Mail will be delivered. Amtrak trains will run.
"Clearly, air traffic controllers have to stay on the job, or the planes won't fly,"
White House budget chief Alice Rivlin said in a recent interview. "Meat has to be inspected, or people won't buy it. Federal prison guards have to stay there, or otherwise you would put prisoners in the street."
So all workers deemed essential to the nation will stay on the job, even though the government will have no authority to pay them. They will get back pay when the stalemate ends.
Usually that happens quickly. Only one of the four shutdowns since 1981 lasted more than one day, and it was over a holiday weekend so few workers were affected. Several times the threat of a shutdown has been averted with a last-minute compromise.
But this is a bitter standoff. President Clinton has promised to veto a bill needed to give most federal agencies the authority to keep spending money after the midnight deadline. He doesn't like other provisions the Republicans have attached to the bill. Both sides said that they wouldn'tudge.
At a briefing at the White House, Rivlin said that all federal workers had been told to report to work tomorrow, even
She said that because of the way the law was written, members of Congress, the president and political appointees who had been confirmed by the Senate would continue to be paid. She said that she did not know whether they would be paid on time.
those who would be furloughed.
The impact will be obvious on the streets of the nation's capital, Rivlin said. While schools will remain open and police and fire services will continue, trash collection will cease, she said.
Others who will notice: tourists at sites such as the Washington Monument, people applying for social security and reporters who rely on non-essential government representatives.
Of course, if a shutdown continues, the number of people who notice it would steadily increase.
Any length of shutdown has quiet costs that taxpayers will bear even if they don't know it. The General Accounting Office, the investigative arm of Congress, estimated in 1991 that it would cost the government from $240 million to $600 million to close shop for three weekdays.
Murder trial begins for Michael Jordan's father
The Associated Press
LUMBERTON, N.C. — He calls himself Lord D.A.A.S. U'allah now, but prosecutors still know him as Daniel Green.
He is the young man charged with killing Michael Jordan's father, and his capital murder trial is scheduled to begin today. He has pleaded not guilty.
penalty for Green, who turns 21 this month. The defendant has converted to Islam and changed his name, but court documents continue to refer to him as Green.
Michael Jordan, whose Chicago Bulls play tomorrow in Orlando, is not expected to attend the trial.
Police have described the shooting of James Jordan in the early morning hours of July 23,1993, as an act of random violence motivated by robbery.
Prosecutors are seeking the death
Tired from driving after he attended the funeral of a friend in coastal Wilmington, Jordan pulled his red Lexus pavement off U.S. 74 onto a patch of pavement in front of a
country store in Robeson County. Without warning, he was killed by a single shot to the chest around 3 a.m.
His body was found Aug. 3 floating in a swamp. Green and his friend, Larry Demery, were arrested 12 days later.
Police said that Green and Demery had left an obvious trail and had videotaped themselves with an NBA ring, golf shoes and a watch that had belonged to James Jordan. One key clue reportedly came from telephone calls the two had made from the cellular phone in Jordan's car.
Israeli intelligence was aware of plot
The Associated Press
TEL AVIV, Israel — In the latest evidence of a stunning intelligence failure, the Shin Bet security agency acknowledged yesterday that it had advance information about the assassin of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin.
In a court appearance, the confessed assassin's brother said he had received weapons from a sergeant in an elite army unit, who is the seventh detained suspect. The assassin's brother was ordered to be held for 12 more days.
In a highly unusual move, the secretive Shin Bet sent a fax to Israel's Army radio saying that authorities had been told of an assassination plot in June by a friend of Vigal Amir, who confessed to gunning down Rabin after the Nov. 4 peace rally.
The agency acknowledged that a friend of Amir's, Shlomo Halevy, provided authorities with an accurate description of the assassin after being told of plans to kill Rabin by a mutual friend.
Halevy told his army commander of the plot but did not reveal Amir's name or say he knew him.
Security sources said on condition of anonymity
that Halevy's information had been turned over to the Shin Bet, but after a superficial check, the agency ignored it.
Hagal, wearing jeans and a black skullcap, told the court he had not believed that his brother really had planned to kill Rabin. He said a cache of weapons found at the Amir house had been for possible use against Arabs.
Theories that Rabin was the victim of a wider conspiracy also were bolstered yesterday when police told a magistrate's court in Tel Aviv they had evidence linking a sergeant in an elite army unit to the assassination.
The detained soldier, an observant Jew, is the seventh suspect in custody. Hagai Amir, Yigal Amir's 27-year-old brother, told the court he had received weapons from the soldier, Eric Schwartz, but had returned them.
Four senior Shin Bet officials have lost their jobs. Its director, identified only as "C," has offered to resign but was asked by acting Prime Minister Shimon Peres to stay on until a government probe is completed.
Five other people were arrested near Tel Aivy yesterday when they telephoned police and threatened to kill Peres.
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