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Clinton urged to soften panel’s base-closing plan NATIONAL WASHING TON (AP) Th« Hmtngon is urg log that a pro powd bas* dos ing list be mviM'd lo save tnouMnd* oi tons m t.ai ifurnin a slate c;ru« tol to Pres idenl ('Union's re olt« (Ion stnti egy. Defense Secretary William I’erry has enthral •*<! .a cnmpro mi so that would turn half the jobs over to private business (jdifonun's is onomy would !*> hit hanl by the recommendation* of the Defense Have Closure and Realignment Commission The nation’s most puj>tilotis state has r)4 electoral votes i’erry briefed the president Wednesday on the commission's extensive pm kage of proposed (wise i losings and realignments, Mary Kllen Glynn, a deputy White House press ms retan said after the HO- minute session end ed The commission's recom mended changes are estimated to save tin' Pentagon $10 I billion over the next 20 year* In three previous rounds of base closings, the independent commission's recommendations www accepted in their entirety In the White House Glynn said Clinton got "a very thorough briefing" from Perry. Deputy Defense Sec rotary John White mtd (.en John fiha likashvili. c hairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff She said the defense officials briefed Clinton on their recommendations for c hanging the c ominission’s par k age A more formal Defense I hr part men t recommendation will lie presented later in writing Clynn said Clinton had made no dm ision* on this "Everything is on tin* table today." she said without disc usstng the spec I fit s of the Pentagon's recommenda tions Dolcmse of fie lais speaking on condition of anonymity had said earlier that Perry would recom mend that Clinton press for pist the one change in California The Pentagon is willing to tu cepi the commission's downs of other o* ■ ommvndaiion*. the official* said The Perry compromise is intended to defuse a politically charged debate over the proposed closing of Mr Chilian Air Fort *• Base and the loss of its 11,000 military and civilian jobs McClellan, near Sacramento, is lhr’ largest of six military liases in California that the commission has re< unintended lie c losed Hie Perry plan would not stop McClellan from dosing, but it would lie designed to keep rough ly half of the 11.000 jobs in the area by allowing the Air Fort e to hire* private companies to do the base's depot maintenance work, the offlt tats said it is presumed the work would go to California aerospnr e finns Chuck Pizer a spokesman for the base-dosing commission, said the Pentagon had discussed its proposed i ompromise with the cxwnmtssi oil's staff imt riot the voting members "Quit* honestly. we stand behind the recommendations we have s»-nt to the president." Ptx er said Although the Perry plan is intended to ease the economic blow to California, the state's leading politic ians were quick to < ritu ire it Wednesday Sen Dianne Fetnstein. D-Calif., released copies of a letter to ( hn ton in which she- said the idea of farming out depot mainterwinc e work that is now done a! Model lan would not guarantee the jolis stayed in her state "I believe that anything short of keeping McClellan Air Forc e Base fully open is unacceptable." Feinstein wrote, adding that Gin* ton should rejoc t the commis sion's base closure list outright. "He should reject it in its eiitireH rather than try to lash ion some kind of half-lsikcti polit ical solution.' said (iov. Pete Wil son, who is seeking the Republi can nomination for president I he White House does not want to fw act.u«'i) of interfering with the base-closing commis sion's work, since the panel was created to keep politico out of the economically painful process of shutting down Cold War-era bases Yet that is the charge being leveled by House Speaker Newt Gingrich and others In Marietta. Ga . on Tuesday. Gingrich suggested Clinton was trying to shore up political sup port for 1‘i‘tf) by rescuing the McClellan depot maintenance jobs ( .ivvn till- president's liesper ation about California, you can understand what lie's trying to do.” Gingrich told a news con ference tie fore a Fourth of July parade "1 think with every base on that list, you could ask the question. 'Why doesn't the president i are about us'' If the purpose is to have honest people meet as a i ornmission. what does it mean to have politicians interfere?" Gingrich said Ticketmaster dodges antitrust suit WASHINGTON lAI’l Thu |ustu e Itepartmont dei lined WcitnrMlin to brim; an antitrust i ase against fit ketmasler. the nation's largest distrib uior of ti* kets for live sports events and < oiuerts A tirgBt of widtl) putrlk i/ed protects by tht roi k band Pearl |am and bv < onsumer groups, the l.os Angeles based eompanv had been under investi gation bv the department s antitrust division for alleged niilu on»|Mditive and monopoly prm in es Die company sold 55 million In kets last year for an estimated $! <> hllllon Pearl lain t homed the company priced tii kets too high for the hand s teenage fans In a two-sentence statement, the justii e Depart ment said it had informed the parent company. I n ketmaster Holdings Group Im . that "it is i.los ing its antitrust Investigation into that firm's con tracting prut tii os No lawsuit isas filed so the case is over Hut the antitrust division named industry participants that tlie government ''will continue to monitor < om petitlie developments in the ticketing industry That kind of statement means the government would have to see actions or evident e it currently i anno! find before taking any a< lion IVpartmcnt spokesman |amt» Swwne^ <!«»< lined to elaborate on the reasons for the government's de< ision t company tpokaimo wore not immodlatttly avail able for comment Tn kelmaster earned an estimated $240 million last year from its service fees on tn kets sold for t.OQO locations around the nation 1 wo thirds of the nation’s 10 million concert an na seats are governed by exclusivity contracts tie!ween Tu kelmaster and arena managers, accord ing to the industry newsletter PolisUn Pearl Jam fought with Tickutmaster last year over the service t fiarge it tat ks on the prii e of tickets I he Isiud d«s idi-d to tour without Tu kelmaster. but canceled the plans after le.intmg it wouldn't I*- nosy Two of its memfiers testified against the agency last year at a congressional hearing Pearl Jam is itching to perform, said Kelly Cur tis. the Seattle-tiasud Lind's manager The band ns ognizes that w ill mean no concerts in arenas i on trolled by Tit ketmaster contra* ts, he said. On June Hi this year, the group launched its first com ert tour without Tu kelmaster in smaller locales without appearances in New York or Los Angeles Woody Harrelson’s dad tries to escape prison ATI .ANTA (AP) Actor Woody Hnrrelson’s father, serving a life sentence for assassinating a federal judge, attempted to ew ape from federal prison with two other inmates by < limbing over a wall, authorities said Wednesday Charles V Harrelson, 56. and (rank robbers Gary l„ Settle, 29. and Michael Rivers, 56. surrendered Tuesday night after a warn ing shot was fired from the guard tower, a prison official said. Thev clirnftod a wall with a makeshift rope All three inmates were in the spec ial unit Wednesday pend ing further investigation, prison spokesman Mike Minion said Harrelson was convicted of assassinating t I S District Judge John II Wood Jr in Texas in 1979 Kvidence at the trial portrayed Harrelson, who already had served time for a murder Tor-hire conviction, as a professional Jiit man lured In drug dealer Jimmy Chagru to kill the judge, w ho w as scheduled to preside over Chagra's drug trial Wood, know n as "Maximum John" for the stiff sentences that he dealt to drug offenders, was gunned down Max 29. 1979. out side tiis San Antonio i ondominium. Chagra was Inter ai quitted of charges he had Wood killed, although his wife and brother were i onvicted in the plot. C.ha gra is i urrently serving time in federal prison on other charges + Learn Haw To Save A Lite Community Adult CPR/First Aid Workshop $15 Fee Includes 4 Hour Class • Instruction Booklet. Red C ross C.P.R. 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