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Clinton signs community service law
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Promising it will help the nation "strengthen the cords that bind us together," President Clinton signed legislation yesterday, allowing students to trade public service work for college tuition money.
The president, who promised during last year's campaign to press for such a program, said he had "harbored this dream for years." He dubbed the first new program of his administration "AmeriCorps" and appointed Eli Segal, his chief lobbyist for the legislation, as head of the new program.
The law, a watered-down version of Clinton's initial plan, gives as many as 100,000 youth tuition money, modest stipends, health insurance and child care in exchange for community service.
Clinton used two historic pens to sign the legislation during a carefully choreographed campaign-style rally on the South Lawn of the White House. One was used by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to create the Civilian Conservation Corps and the other was used by President John F. Kennedy to set
Members of youth conservation groups from Maryland, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania and Washington, D.C., stood behind the president as he signed the legislation.
More than 1,000 people involved in various community service programs crowded under a massive white tent to watch the bill signing.
un the Peace Corps.
The president received a raucous welcome when he arrived for the rally with a rock band blaring his campaign anthem, "Don't Stop (Thinking About Tomorrow)."
Clinton said he saw the "wreckage, the insanity, the lost human potential" in the nation's communities while campaigning last year and expressed hope that AmeriCorps would represent "a series of challenges, to help us rebuild our troubled but wonderful land."
The new law will allow students who complete two years of community service work to earn $4,725 a year to apply toward college tuition or student loans. Participants also would earn living allowances of at least $7,400 a year and health-care
The first programs could be in use by the middle of next year.
and child dav-care benefits.
The plan allows 20,000 participants in 1994, which is a higher total than ever achieved by the Peace Corps. In the second year, 33,000 people could be involved and by the third year 47,000 could be in the program.
Spending would be limited to $300 million in the first year of the program, $500 million in the second year and $700 million in the final year.
A public corporation with a board of directors will run the program with the help of new state commissions.
The measure also establishes a new bureaucracy, pulling together the government's efforts in existing community service programs involving children, college students and adults.
Clinton originally asked Congress to adopt a far more ambitious $9.5 billion, five-year program. That plan would have allowed 25,000 participants in the first year and 150,000 by the third year, but Republicans balked at the cost.
Yeltsin: Actions could smooth reforms
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Yeltsin and asking for assurances he would act in a way "that ensures peace, stability and an open political process this autumn."
Rutskio and another Yeltis nival, parliament speaker Rusian Khalasulatov, were inside the Russian White House, where parliament is located.
By midnight, several hundred anti-Yeltsin protesters gathered outside the building, many waving red Soviet hammer and sickle flags and erecting makeshift barricades as police stood nearby.
Yeltsin's gamble could decide the future of Russian politics and what kind of government ultimately will emerge from the chaos of the post-
Soviet era. It was his boldest move since he faced down tanks during an abortive August 1991 coup against Mikhail Gorbachev.
If Yeltsin succeeds in dissolving the parliament and conducting December elections, the vote could give him a Congress more in tune with his reformist policies.
Yeltsin's action to break his longstanding stalemate with lawmakers will need the strong backing of the military and security services, which have supported him in the past. Yeltsin paid a highly publicized visit to a military base just last week in a possible attempt to rally support.
Thirty-five military trucks loaded with soldiers and policemen were parked near Russia's Central Bank late Tuesday.
Khsbulatov urged the police and military to ignore orders from the president and appealed for a nationwide general strike. Yeltsin made similar calls in 1991.
"Do not fulfill any illegal decrees coming from the president," Khasbulatov said. "These decrees are considered invalid."
It was unclear how the public would respond to Yeltsin's sudden assault on his opponents. Public opinion polls have repeatedly showed little support for the Communist-dominated parliament.
State television continued its normal programming, showing a classical music concert.
Russia's top jurist, Constitutional court chair Valery Zorkin, joined Khasbulatov at the White House and
offered his support. Khasbulatov said he was organizing the defense of the building.
Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin told reporters the Cabinet supports £elsin. He also said there were no unusual troop movements and that there would be no attempt to storm the White House.
"All troops remain in their garrisons," Chernomyrdin said. "Of course, they are ready for anything, but God save us from doing that."
The constitution, drafted in Soviet times, does not specifically give the president authority to dissolve parliament or call elections. But Yeltsin has often argued that as president, he has the authority to take actions not specifically barred by the constitution.
Assassination of PLO leader called 'sabotage of peace'
The Associated Press
GAZA CITY, Occupied Gaza Strip — Masked gunmen killed a PLO leader in the occupied Gaza Strip yesterday in the first such assassination since the PLO signed a peace accord with Israel last week.
Two cars filled with masked men forced Mohammed Abu Shaaban's car off the road and killed him in a
blaze of gunfire when he stepped out to see what was happening, Arab and Israeli reports said.
Israeli and officials of Yasser Arafat's Palestine Liberation Organization have warned that the treaty might lead to an upsurge in violence between its supporters and opponents in the occupied territories.
Abu Shaaban, a 38-year-old lawyer and a leader of Arafat's mainstream Fatah faction the PLO, had just left a rally of thousands of Palestinians who demonstrated in support of the agreement in Gaza City's Zeytoun quarter, according to the reports.
Palestinian reports said Abu Shaaban's 13-year-old son, his brother and two bodyguards were with him at the time of the slaying, but escaped harm.
Relatives of Abu Shaaban called it a political killing, carried out by opponents of the peace agreement.
Leaders of Palestinian groups opposing the agreement have vowed to fight against it, and some radicals have threatened the life of Arafat himself.
Some Arab reports suggested that Abu Shaaban might have been the victim of rivals within his own Fatah group, rather than Muslim fundamentalists or leftist Palestinians opposing the accord.
The peace pact, signed in Washington on Sept. 13 by Arafat and Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin of Israel, hands over the Israeli-occupied Gaza Strip and the West Bank town of Jericho to Palestinian self-rule within four months.
Abu Shaaban, a popular figure known for his charity work in the area, had led a Gaza Strip political committee advising Palestinian negotiators to the U.S.-backed Middle East peace talks. Since the PLO-Iraeli agreement was announced two weeks ago, Abu Shaaban had organized pro-agreement rallies.
His niece, Maha Abu Shaaban, said after being told of his assassination:
"This is a political assassination. This is a sabotage of peace, they wanted to sabotage peace."
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