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:
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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.”
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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.
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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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