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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 13, 1995)
NEWS FROM AROUND THE COUNTRY To avert shutdown, GOP wants balanced budget nod from Clinton ■ GOVERNMENT spending expires at midnight Monday and borrowing ends this week WASHINGTON (AIM I’ho Clinton administration refused •Sunday to commit to a seven-year balanced budget ns the Republi can price for averting the twin crises this week of a partial fed eral shutdown and a halt to gov eminent borrowing In what amounted to a day of broadcast budget bargaining, leaders swapped conditions for completing a pair of bills allow ing trie government to continue borrowing and spending money, which President Clinton has threatened to veto Federal spending authority expires at midnight Mondm and failure to extend it will force nearly half the federal work force ■ curtail government services, bor rowing authority also lapses this week, which could rattle finau trial markets Swiiilc Majority !.«• i«l**r Boh I>tit?. K Kan wont on ABC s This Week With David Brinkley and said. If tin* president would agree to a balanced budget in s»v mi years, then vv«i i mild Mink*1 very good progress ' in cumplet ing the hills That sentiment was echoed hv House Speaker Newt (.uignch. K f .1 Appearing on NBC's Meet the Press. hi* i .lilt'd for "a letter from the president that said. I accept ■ ■ details, bid in principle White House chief of staff Leon i notta wasted little time m turn* ing tin*m down “That cannot be port and par cel of an agreement" on the two short-term bills, ho dot la red on • didn't rtdo out dist u-.sing it as j) 1!' Ol andng deal. Clinton would dim mate the deficit in nine years, but . seven-year goal. Clinton desired ;in Oval Office mooting with r,ongn*sMonal load* »rs Monday to overcome the impasse Hu! ho issued a romh tion Republicans must first erase a provision from the temporary spending hill boosting monthly Medu are premiums m lamrarv . rather than lotting thorn hill as under current law Cingrich defended the higher premiums, saying Clinton's prof erem o to redtu o thorn is "totally irresponsible" Ihh auae officials say Medu .mi will go bankrupt in seven years unless savings are found. The increase* are a key part of the (iOf’s plan to squeeze savings from the system, and let ting the premiums fall would ike :l poiitii lii-1 b.l! iff !. I i.. h 1st them later The tough talk left it highly y that 800,800 federal employees would be sent home Tuesday, when most agencies authority to spend money expires, Also looming is the expi ration Wednesday of the govern ment's ability to borrow money Kevorkian uses ‘suicide machine’ again ■ SUICIDE: Doctor u .• . machine for first time in four years to assist death of California woman DETROIT fAP) Dr. jack Kevorkian supplied his "suicide machine" far the first time in four years for the death of a Cal ifornia woman who had suffered from breast cancer, his attorney saul Sunday Kevorkian has ai knowledged attending i!f> deaths since 1‘t‘W). and is awaiting trial in two of those deaths. In two of the first three deaths, Kevorkian supplied an apparatus that allowed the patients to inject a sedative and a heart stopping chemical into their own veins. Until Wednesday’s death of Patricia Gish man, however, most people who died in Kevorkian’s presence had breathed carbon monoxide Kevorkian stopped supplying the so-called suicide machine after Michigan authorities lifted his medical lie ease, blix king his access to sedatives Kevorkian was able to supply the machine again this time because (irishman had saved up a quantity of the pain-killer Se< onal, attorney Geoffrey Fieger said. Cashinan, r»H. of San Marcos, Calif., flipped a switch to allow the flow of Seconal into her veins, followed by the heart-stop ping drug potassium chloride, he said. She then pulled a clip to release carbon monoxide as a backup, he said "This was a pure suicide," Computen/ed Seivice Recoids v Couitesy Van Seivice Bosch Authon/ed Seivice I ASi Mastet Cemfied technicians I Since 19/5 Specializing in the Care of German, Swedish and lapanese Automobiles AUTOMOTIVE 1117 frgakln 11*1 f»S.n. 0M7403 eho« 485'8226 Finger Mini ' This woman injur ! od the drugs knowingly Shit turned on the machine herself." Potassium i hloridu and carbon monoxide urn bo obtained with out a lit fiistt, Reger said. Oakland County Medical Examiner l.jubisa Dr ago v it hail said last week carbon monoxide poisoning was the uuso of death Responding to Finger's statement, Dragovic said an autopsy found drugs m Cushman * system. Wo re tits tiling how those drugs factored into the death.' he said Oakland County Circuit Judge Alice Gilbert had barred Kevorkian from using bis suicide machine. 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