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Clinton plugs health care, agenda on TV town hall ’ CHARUrm:. N.C (AP) Warming up for his evening forum with health < are events in rural Troy. I SO miles east of Char lolle. Clinton said promoting health ( are and the rest of his agenda outside of Wash ington would la* a critical trad in the weeks and months ahead That appmetj), he said, will keep his ideas from getting "lost in a cloud of hot air." The Charlotte event was the first of three rv town halls scheduled this week, and Clinton opened with a recap of his health care efforts and a plug for anticrime leg islation on the agenda when-Congress returns next week. Clinton said the measure would put 100.000 police officers on the strc*et. ban i!H types of assault weapons and c reate a "three strikes and you're out" no-parole provision for the most violent federal i rimes, as well as increasing drug treat ment funds. And. looking to prove his agenda is not being derailed by the Whitewater contro versy. Clinton also said his efforts to streamline government were ( horning ahead It is going to lx* a very busy year." Clin ton said Still, be said the public might lx surprised by the busy agenda "because of what conies across the airwaves you may not know the work of the people is going on.” he said Clinton's first question was about (Time, and the sec ond was from a man skepti c al the government could run a national health (are overhaul Thai s why 1 don't propoae that the gov ernment take it over.” Clinton said, cast ing his program as using government tools to control costs but leaving much of the nation's private, market-Ixised health can* system inlac t A few minutes Inter. Clinton assured a Roanoke. Va , insurance salesman that health care reform would not destroy — but likely improve — his livelihood because small business would gel better rates and then go looking for coverage "They will still be able to buv their insurance from you," Clinton said He also defended his proposed tobac co tax increase as 'a fair and reasonable way" to help pay for health can* reform hut promised to he sensitive to the eco nomic impat t on tobacco states like North Carolina The town halls am hor in vet another White House effort to ft* us public atten tion on Clinton's domestii agenda par ticularly crime and health care as Congnas prepares to return from an Kastnr recess and take up both issues • In addition to the questioners in Char lotte, Clinton took questions from studio audiences at affiliated stations in Virginia, Tennessee and Texas Karlier, speaking to reporters. Clinton acknowledged support for his health plan has ebbed and flowed in the polls He attributed most of the slips to attacks by critics or a diversion of White House often Hon to other issues “What I'm trying to do is get out here and highlight these real world experiences of the doctors and nurses and all the health (are providers here so thnl we can focus the attention of the American people and the Congress on solutions to the null prob lems and not the rhetorical problems." the president told reporters With Congress due back next week and health ( are before several committees. Clinton offered this optimistic status report 'I think we are winning it again, and we are getting real mm ement in Con gress ” Responding to voter confusion shown in polls. Clinton has simplified his pre sentation. relying frequently on ( harts to promote the major goals of his program — and rebut the major criticisms. He said it would eliminate such prac tices as imposing lifetime limits on poli cies but keep the industry financially viable because insurers would get more premiums if everyone were insured. Parents charged with endangering kids RCXdfKSTKR, N Y (AP) The parents of nine i hildren found < roue hed in a house reeking of sewage and heaped with garbage were charged Tuesday with endangering the children's welfare. The children, ages 10 months to H years, were placed in protei live custody Monday night after polii e and mm ini workers forced their way into the two-story , wooden-frame house on the city's southwest side It was unclear how long the i hildren were left alone, hut polii e Investigator Dale I eor said they were alone for long periods of time quite fre quently Poor said the toilet emptied directly into the basement and that the house's seven rooms were so full of junk that the children wore hard to find In some comers, dirty clothing was piled f> feet high, and the basement floor was awash "with 5 inches of fi-i al matter." he said All the chil dren needed a hatfi and some had hug bites The only food in the house was a can of tuna John Person, fi t. and Christine Conner. 44. were arraigned on nine counts of endangering the wel fare of n child Ihey were released on their own roc ognirance A pretrial hearing was set for April Fear said authorities went to the house after getting an anonymous tip Ai < ording to < ourt documents, the < ouple left their children in the <are of the eldest, a 14 year old girl I Oregon west Fitness Is the place to work out! 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The actor wasn't seriously hurt Snipes refused medical treat ment and was cited at the s< one for rei kless driving, said Florida Highway Patrol I t Sherian Sta ley The chase began Monday night, authorities said, after Snipes sped between Trooper Steve Walker's marked patrol < ur and another motorist on the two lane southbound side of the Florida Turnpike The pursuit continued for 30 miles, ending as Snipes tried to exit the highway at the Jupiter offramp, lie crashed when his motorcycle and the front of the patrol utr bumped, Staley said Authorities didn't know how fast Snipes was traveling when he was thrown He suffered only minor injuries, Staley said. The 31-year-old action-adven ture star lias appeared in such films as "Demolition Man" and "Rising Sun." He is in Florida filming "Drop Zone," in which he plays a federal marshal who infiltrates a band of skydivers while tracking a killer. Snipes had another brush with the law during a motorcycle mishap last August. 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