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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 11, 1996)
NEWS BRIEFING * LOOK AT THIS MORNING S HEADLINES Oregon boxcar killings may be connected to several other slayings LMAiIu t W PORTLAND (AP) — Pott*» *rw whether the »Uv* ins* of two men (mind dead in railroad boom are related to as many as seven other slayings across the coun try The (>regon killings occurred In late November or early December, one apparently in Salem and the other in hugest* The vicitms. William Pettit |r and Michael Cliten. each died of a blow to the head "I feel very comfortable that it's probably the same suspect." said Salem police detective Mike Quakenbush Quakenbush said both bodies wen found positioned in a particular way which was not disclosed Quakenbush said he had heard from seven other agent ies around the country investigating similar crimes, leading Quakiot bush to think they could all he the work of the same person or group Word of the killing* ha* spread among men who ride the rails. Jerry Johnson, 53, said he was worried about his safety "We tramps kind of watch out for each other." Johnson said as he and other men sat at a camp fire by railroad tracks in Port* land "If vou don't, who's going tor Prospects appear slim for any agreement on balanced-budget WATHHUU WASHING* TON (API — Agreement on * balant «*d-budget plan i* not* unlikely, Republican leader* *aid Wednesday •* they and lh« Clinton administration posi tinned themsehe* for an elec lion year of blaming each other Financial market* plunged in reaction i think the odd* are batter Hum even, a* of Unlay that there will be no agreement,'' House Speaker Newt Cingrtch, R-Ca, uid during a campaign visit to Wyoming "And I find that a very difficult prnapect ’* "Can we reac h an agreement'? I don’t know," Senate Maionty Leader Bob Dole, R-Kan . said cm the Senate floor "f* it doubt tuV Probably Is it possible? Yes" The leader*' remarks further doused hoties for a pact with President Clinton on eliminating deficits by 2003 and cutting taxes And they contrasted with their comments Tuesday a* ihe talks broke off, when they were careful not to characterise ihe odds of success. Steak and bund markets sank shortly after Gingrich spoke The plummet reflec ted worry by investors who believed until Tuesday that the year long bud get stalemate would be resolved Shelling raises doubts about force's ability to protect Bosnians SARAJEVO. Houma • Ikrnftn • in* <AP) — The mun uUi NATO M ton* that tots taker* over the old U N role at enforcing p**«e in Bosnia it likely to defeat any forte that take* aim at It* soldier* What Bosnians wonder, after a deadly Sarajevo streetcar shelling, disappearances in Serb held area* and trouble in Mostar. is whether NATO can protes t ordinary people from day to day Three weeks into its mission, the NATO-led force is running Into challenges similar to those that plagued the much maligned. underfunded United Nations (one in Bosnia US Defense Secretary William Perry told Congress that the NATO-led forte would be "the biggest, meanest dog in town But while NATO ha* no doubt it tan protes t its own Bosnians are not sure the tough ness will save them "As they did with the U N . the Serb* are testing the patience and will of NATO troops to do anything.' said Kfrem Kulen ovic. fiO If NATO fail* the test, he said, "we can forget thetr ability to protect u* — and themselves It will be UN impotence all over again — the helmets will just be a different color." 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