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Senate Democrats seem ready to adopt Iraq plan Bennett Roth Hearst Newspapers (U-WIRE) WASHINGTON — President Bush and House leaders Wednesday agreed on a resolution that would hand the White House authority for a possible invasion of Iraq. The White House has yet to strike a deal with the Democratic-led Sen ate, which is expected to debate the issue as soon as Wednesday. A House vote on the resolution is ex pected next week. Senate Democratic leaders have sought to put a number of condi tions in the resolution to ensure that diplomatic avenues are ex hausted in the United Nations be fore any military moves. But a number of moderate Democ ratic senators broke with their leaders Wednesday and endorsed the House resolution, an indication that Bush likely will get his way in the Senate. Bush, surrounding himself with lawmakers front both parties in the Rose Garden, hailed the resolution saying it “will show to friend and enemy alike the resolve of the United States.” The president said Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein will he given a chance to disarm, hut he added if “he chooses to do otherwise, if he persists in his defiance, the use of force mav become unavoidable.” Bush won over House Democratic Leader Richard Gephardt, D-Mo., by making a number of minor conces sions, such as agreeing to notify Con gress of military strikes beforehand, or at the latest within 48 hours after the action. The notification would certify that diplomatic and other peaceful means were not adequate to protect Americans from Saddam’s weapons. Bush also will update Congress every 60 days about the Iraq situa tion. He had offered earlier to report every 90 days. Standing with the president at the White House, Gephardt said, “many of us believe that we need to deal with this threat diplomatically if we can, militarily if we must.” Lawmakers from both parties pre dict broad bipartisan support when the vote comes next week. Democrats have been trying to ac commodate a wide range of views on Iraq among their members, some of whom back the president while oth ers believe Bush has not done enough on the diplomatic front Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle, D-S.D., who was not invited to the Rose Garden event with Bush, said he wanted the resolution to more fully spell out the administra tion’s strategy regarding Iraq. “I continue to believe that the final resolution should include greater emphasis on eliminating Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction, a stronger statement that operations against Iraq will not undermine the ongoing international effort against al-Qaida, and a clear assessment of the administration’s plans for ... a post-Saddam Iraq,” said Daschle in a statement issued by his office. Senate Foreign Relations Chair man Joe Biden, D-Del., has unsuc cessfully been pushing a resolution that would require that Bush work through the United Nations before launching mi attack. However, Biden has been undercut by others in his party, including Sen. Joseph Licberman, D-Conn.. who in troduced the House resolution lan guage in the Senate and stood with the president in the Rose Garden. Lieberman said that while the Sen ate will consider a number of alterna tive resolutions, “in the end, this res olution will pass in the Senate with a very large, bipartisan majority.” Lili’s winds reach 145 MPH Mike Tolson Hearst Newspapers HOUSTON — As Hurricane Lili gained speed and fury with each passing hour, thousands of fright ened coastal residents in Texas and Louisiana fled inland Wednesday. Unwilling to take their chances with the second major storm in a week to target the area, people from Port Arthur to Lafayette, La., paid heed to suggestions to evacuate. Lili was expected to barrel ashore today in south-central or southwest ern Louisiana. Its steady winds of 145 mph earned it a Category 4 des ignation — ripe with deadly and dev astating potential. Most of the Texas coast escaped se rious concern. But officials in Orange and Jefferson counties spent the day overseeing evacuation efforts. High ways in East Texas were clogged with refugees in search of shelter. Forecasters with the National Hurricane Center predicted Lili, compact and well-defined, would gradually veer to the north and make landfall this afternoon near New Iberia, La. It will be preceded by a storm surge of 10-20 feet, they warned, as well as by numerous rain bands dumping from 6 to 10 inches on land still soggy from last week’s Tropical Storm Isidore. Though less likely, a Texas landfall near the Golden Triangle remained a possibility. Gov. Rick Perry signed a precautionary disaster declaration late Tuesday to speed up state and federal assistance to areas likely to be affected by the storm. “Hurricane Lili will cause a great deal of damage wherever it hits,” Perry said. A hurricane warning covered a stretch of the Gulf Coast from east of High Island to the mouth of the Mis sissippi River. Tropical storm Warn er1 ^ ■ it» ^ m-m ings went much farther, to Freeport on the west and to the Alabama coast on the east. Unlike Isidore, a once-menacing hurricane that was reduced to a mid dling tropical storm by its journey across the Gulf of Mexico, Lili has grown in danger over the past 48 hours since sideswiping Jamaica and clipping Cuba’s western tip. The air pressure in Lili’s center — one measure of a storm’s ferocity — dropped to 938 millibars by mid-day Wednesday, low enough to place it among the top 20 of the most in tense storms on record. 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