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UNIVERSITY TOWER 410 South Texas Avenue ((409)846-4242 (800)537-9158 Senate passes child-care proposal New plan will allow low-income families subsidies, tax credits Vol. 88 No. WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate on Thursday endorsed a Democratic child-care package providing low-income parents with sub sidies and tax credits, defeating first a White House-backed alternative based almost entirely on tax relief. The Democratic leadership’s victory in the showdown left its multibillion-dollar plan as the centerpiece of the Senate’s child-care legislation. Under an agreement between the parties, the debate continued Thursday on a number of pro posed amendments, with Republicans seeking to tack parts of their defeated tax-credit plan onto Democratic measure. A final vote was expected Friday before the Senate breaks for a two-week recess. Senate Ma jority Leader George Mitchell said he would de lay the recess if action on child care dragged past Friday. House action on child care, at the com mittee level, is scheduled to begin next week. Senate Democrats predicted their plan would serve as the framework for the measure that ulti mately clears Congress. Republicans did not dis agree but said likely differences with the House would lead to a conference committee and allow the Bush administration to seek a compromise. The White House on Wednesday raised the prospect that President Bush would veto the Democratic bill, saying in a statement distributed on Capitol Hill that the president’s senior advis ers would recommend a veto if the legislation reached the White House in its present form. Bush spokesman Marlin Fitzwater, however, said later in the day that the administration hoped for a compromise. In trying to kill the Democrats’ bill, Republi cans argued it would create new government bu reaucracies and limit parental choice because the legislation recommends that states adopt mini mum standards for child care. But the principal author of the measure,Sa “ id ‘ Christopher Dodd, D-Gonn., said it was lui crous not to favor state regulation of child cart. “If your car and your pets are given certe protections by state licensing agencies, we your children deserve no less," Dodd said. Hi also disputed the GOP assertions about pareni: choice, noting that 70 percent of the $1.75bl(i in subsidies authorized for fiscal 1990 woiil have to he paid to parents. e JP can leader Bob Dole ol Kansas said. “It’s a fa issue, not a government issue.” amily In addition to the subsidy authorization,lit Democrats' plan creates a new tax credit, of upit $500, to help low-income parents buy! surance for their children. It also would makcn fundable in advance the existing dependent can tax credit, a step designed to provide cash to b income parents who otherwise cannot takeat Clayton Willia vantage of the credit because their incomes ares low they do not owe taxes. Combined, thosecrei its cost the government about $3 billion a year. Airlines plan tighter screening procedures WASHINGTON (AP) — The government Thursday ordered tighter screening of cassette record ers, lap-top computers and other electronic devices on some interna tional flights, but rejected calls to ban all such items from airliners. Relatives of some of the 270 peo ple killed in the December bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Scotland had called for the ban after investi gators said plastic explosives con cealed in a radio cassette player de stroyed the plane. Transportation Secretary Samuel Skinner, announcing the measures, indicated a ban would unduly incon venience passengers and would not likely be imposed by other nations. Skinner said the Federal Aviation Administration measures would take effect immediately and would in clude “more than just turning on and off’ the equipment. He said in spectors would go through a series of checks, including possibly open ing the devices. Skinner said he expected several other countries to announce similar increased screening. British authorities are continuing their investigation into who planted the bomb on the Pan Am flight. Plastic explosives cannot be de tected by ordinary X-ray screening, and the Transporation Department has ordered U.S. airlines to begin in stalling equipment that can detect plastic explosives in luggage at air ports throughout the world. Offi- It is my firm belief that the option we have selected provides the proper balance between passenger safety and convenience at this time.” — Samuel Skinner, Transportation Secretary Officials agree, he said, that creased screening is the mosfacctf table and effective” method of dea vaste disposal mild damage cials acknowledge it could take two years or more to finish the job. The new order applies only to U.S. flights originating in Europe and the Middle East. It will not af fect non-U.S. airlines, U.S. domestic flights, flights from the United States to Europe or the Middle East or flights to and from other coun tries. Skinner said the step was the re sult of consultation with top trans portation officials of other countries. ing with the danger “It is my firm belief that theoy Attorney Gent tion we have selected provides lit Monday, proper balance between passenp safety and convenience at this Skinner said in a speech to aiu near Carlsbad freight group The EAA said in a news rete that additional time may berequird at airport screening points becauit ^ t h e plant of the procedures. Some airlines ready conduct such screening. Smithsonian honors ‘Sesame Street for twenty years of programming WASHINGTON (AP) — The horde of squealing youngsters knew how to get to Sesame Street on Thurs day: Follow the yellow bird, just as millions of kids have done watching television for the last two decades. The Smithsonian Institution saluted the 20th anni versary of the popular public television show with lavish oratory at the ceremonial opening of a “Sesame Street” exhibition at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History. Visiting preschoolers swarmed past grown-up digni taries and TV camera technicians to jostle happily around Mr. Hooper’s storefront. At the window ledge was Elmo, their old Muppet friend. The friendly, red-faced animal, operated by puppeteer Kevin Clash, waved back and spoke to the youngsters who reached out to grasp his paws. The children giggled at Oscar the Grouch, scowling from his trash can, and peered up at the 8-foot-2 yellow majesty of Big Bird. Along the lower walls of tilt museum, they twirled clear plastic wheels to form funny faces and searched a train picture to count hidden letter T’s. “The one thing kids won’t learn on ‘Sesame Street'ii the difference between education and fun,” said Ellen Roney Hughes, the exhibition curator. “Sesame Street,” created by Joan Ganz Cooney’s non profit Children’s Television Workshop to help disad vantaged children age 3 to 5 make the transition from home to school, made its public television debut Nov 10, 1969. Mat may ODESSA (A The U.S. Ei guickly to ope LJ.S. Environrr iiew groundwa The Texas oartment does :erns. “The public Expert says Germans, not Brits, sunk Bismark WASHINGTON (AP) — A deep- sea inspection of the Bismarck sug gests that the most powerful battle ship in Adolf Hitler’s navy was scuttled by its own crew rather than sunk by the British in a celebrated battle, underwater explorer Robert D. Ballard said Thursday. During a 90-minute news confer ence, Ballard described how he and his ocean-crawling robot located the Bismarck “sitting upright and proud” two weeks ago. Then the American oceanogra pher, whose father was of British Xhe future of the Bismark is in the hands of the German people. _ Robert D. Ballard, underwater explorer background and whose mother was of German heritage, addressed him self to the German people in Ger man. “I am an underwater explorer, not a treasure hunter,” he said, translating himself back into En glish. “We found no human re mains. We touched nothing and took nothing. ... The future of the Bismarck is in the hands of the Ger man people.” He said he will disclose its exact lo cation only to Germany so Germans themselves can decide whether to try to raise the ship, which sank after a battle May 27, 1941. Leaders agree upon cease-fire in Zaire war KINSHASA, Zaire (AP) — President Jose Eduardo dos Santos of Marxist Angola and rebel leader Jonas Sa- vimbi shook hands Thursday and agreed to end 14 years of civil war, reports said. The accord came at the end of an African summit on Angola attended by 14 African heads of state, with a cease-fire to start at midnight June 24, according to Zai rian officials quoted by the French news agency Agence France-Presse. It was the first time since the civil war began in 1975 that dos Santos and Savimbi, head of the U.S.-backed National Union for the Total Independence of Angola, known as UNITA, had met. The announcement came in a Declaration of Gbado- lite, the town in northern Zaire where the summit was held. A commission headed by Zairian President Mobutu Sese Soko is to be established to bring about national reconciliation in Angola. Ballard, a senior scientist at c Woods Hole Oceanographic! tion in Massachusetts, said struct® evidence satisfied him that theft mans scuttled the battleship rati than trying to surrender or allofl her to be sent down by British fire “Only scuttled ships lendton® it to the bottom in one piece,”" lard said. “It appears the cif opened it up along its entire lenf It was clearly flooded, stem tost® “Maybe the Germans didn't'® it taken as a war prize,” he added It is known that two years earf Hitler ordered the German pod battleship Graf Spec scuttled af® was cornered in the neutral port Montevideo, Uruguay, and attack by British ships. Hitler appart'- wanted to keep the British ft learning the secrets of the ft Spec’s construction and weapons The historic handshake followed five hours of delay during which hard talks took place, the Zairian officials were quoted as saying. President Moussa Traore of Mali, head of the Orga nization of African Unity, was reported as saying in a closing speech that a new page had been turned in Afri can history. “This brotherly handshake between Dr. Jonas Sa vimbi and President dos Santos symbolizes the end of civil war in Angola, which will open up a new era . . . devoted to economic and social development.” In the 1941 battle, the Bismatt 1 main guns were quickly knocked® and the attacking British ships"' out of range of her secondary] Ballard said, so it was helplessi* taking hundreds of hits — its sink clearly inevitable. The Bismarck was found by lard in more than 15,000 feet of ter about 600 miles west of Bn France. He said it was in remark good shape, “elegant, well served.” All th< The W.T. \ Sunday. 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