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
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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
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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,"
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