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Nation & world briefing House votes to give Bush war authority Jill Zuckman Chicago Tribune (KRT) WASHINGTON — Fearful of Sad dam Hussein and his dangerous weaponry, a somber Hoy$po| Repre sentatives voted Thursday to allow Pi embark on war if If don its biological, £ clear arms programs. The Senate was expected to folk with a similarly strong vote authoris ing Bush to unilaterally launch a pref emptive strike. Despite passions running high both sides and quarrels over whetheif the United States must work morel closely with the United Nations, the outcome of Thursday’s vote was not in the House, is e: retary qf S*ft wor^ltoeis^ :ions \M it of | lOCratic Leader Richard t iephardt, s the president most of the power DUght, But the resolution also calls he president to exhaust all dipl<) ic efforts before using force, and it ‘OWS Busb^ locus to Iraq, rather t the whole Middle East as the te House initially proposed, inaily, the measure requires the jidept tof eport to Congress every lays if he does go to war. Thursday’s action comes 11 |rs after Congress first decided to ?the Iraqi president for his Ton of Kuwaiti^ August 1990. then, the atmosphere was cedly different. "S-'Congress fronted the American since World bility to give looming midterm election. Even Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle, who had spent weeks voic ing grave concerns about the presi dent’s handUng of Iraq, voted to give him the authority to use force. asking enough questions and not tak ing enough time before granting a pres ident’s request. Thirty-eight years ago, Byrd said, he voted for the Gulf of Tonkin resolution, which gave Presi dent Lyndon Johnson a free hand to expand the war in Vietnam. “It was this resolution that led to js of 58,000 Americans and ricans being wounded rd said. “After all of that carnage, we began to learn that iit voting for the Tonkin Gulf reso lution, we were basing our votes on bad information.” © 2002, Chicago Tribune. Distributed by Knight Ridder/Tribune Information Services. Francis X. Clines and Sarah Kershaw New York Times MANASSAS, Va. — The sniper preying on the Washington area killed his seventh victim on Wednes day night, a man who was struck down outside his car at a gas station here, the police confirmed Thurs day. The gunman remained at large. “It’s a very frightening case,” said Chief Charlie Deane of Prince William County in confirming ballis tic evidence that the sniper had once more needed only a single rifle shot to kill an unaware victim from afar. In a nine-day spree of terrifying marksmanship, the sniper has slain seven people and critically wounded two, stalking his victims from 100 yards or more with a high-powered hunting or military rifle as they went about mundane daily errands. The latest victim was identified as Dean H. Meyers, a 53-year-old civil engineer from Gaithersburg, Md., who had stopped for gas on his way home from his job here. Meyers was shot once in the head. He crumpled to the ground by the gas pumps of the Battlefield Sunoco station just off Interstate 66, about 30 miles southwest of Washington. “We have witnesses we think are of value,” Deane said. This might mean relative progress in comparison to the sniper’s earlier assaults, where he eluded detection in shooting his victims from cover with no eyewitnesses coming for ward. The orily witness until Wednesday told, the police of seeing a white cargo truck speed from one shooting scene a week ago in Mont gomery County, Md. The sniper began enlarging his range of fire after he killed his first six victims last week. They were un aware of being stalked as they pur sued simple activities — mowing a lawn, cleaning a car, taking a consti tutional — within a five-mile circle of the suburbs of Montgomery Coun ty and northern Washington. On Friday, the gunman ranged 50 miles south to Fredericksburg, Va., and critically wounded a woman shopper outside her car. On Monday, he ventured eastward to Bowie, Md., took aim from 150 yards in the woods, and critically wounded a 13-year-old boy at the threshold of his school. The shooting here, in a western suburban county that only Wednesday began relaxing its re strictions on outdoor school activi ties, compounded general fear and anger that the sniper seems to be treating the commuter belt as a kind of grotesque preserve for hunting innocent strangers. The police, acting in a coordinat ed federal, state and local manhunt, once more pleaded for tips from the public. Thousands called in, jam ming the phone lines. A week fo on academic Workshops Prizes Grand Prize: a bicycle thanks to Paul's Bicycle Way of Life October 15th - 18th For more information contact: Academic Learning Services 68 PLC, 346-3226 Jon Sawyer ‘ St. Louis Post-DispatdH^f). WASHINGTON—With Congress giving President George W. Bush strong support on a resolution au thorizing military action against Iraq, attention now turns to the United Na tions, where most observers predict another strong show of support. Private negotiations are continu ing with France and Russia, two permanent members of the U.N. Security Council that have object ed to U.S. and British demands for a single resolution to authorize mil itary action unless Iraq agrees un conditionally to destroy itP weapons of mass destruction. Key leaders are still negotiating over the exact language of a compro mise resolution. Bush spoke directly with French President Jacques Chirac on Wednesday. On Thursday, British Prime Minister Tony Blair met outside Moscow with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Sources close to the negotiations said the parties were moving toward compromise language in a resolution that would not make military action “automatic” in the event of continued Iraqi noncompliance but would prom ise “consequences” instead — an opening for U.S.-backed action without further resort to the Security Council. © 2002, St touis Post-Dispatch. 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