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Senate endorses Bush’s MX plan
Missiles to be installed on railroad cars at cost of $1.1 billion
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate on Tues
day endorsed President Bush’s $1.1 billion re
quest for making MX missiles mobile, heeding
the warning of the Armed Services Committee
chairman against “unraveling” Bush’s defense
plans.
Wary of following the stringent steps taken by
the House, the Senate voted 62-38 to turn aside
an amendment slashing $502 million from the
billion-plus budget for placing the existing 50
MX missiles on railroad cars.
The House had taken that budget-cutting step
last week, trimming the same amount from the
MX rail-garrison system and then eliminating all
$100 million earmarked for the single-warhead
Midgetman missile.
“If we have that kind of unraveling over here,
we go to conference with a totally illogical, un
sound program . . . and I believe that will be det
rimental to both our national security and our
If we have that kind of unraveling
over here, we go to conference with
a totally illogical, unsound program ..
. and I believe that will be detrimental
to both our national security and our
arms control.”
— Sen. Sam Nunn,
D.-Ga.
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arms control,” Sen. Sam Nunn, D-Ga., chairman
of the Armed Services Committee, said prior to
the vote.
The House and Senate meet in conference in
early September to complete a final version of
the two $295 billion defense blueprints the two
chambers have crafted.
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pollution hazards at atomic weapon plants
In voting to table the MX measure,the
also accepted arguments that cuts in thepi
would undermine the verbal agreement
by the White House and congressionalb
proceeding with two mobile missiles
Sen. James Exon, D-Neb., said approval
MX amendment would “blow apart the
crafted compromise” reached by theadmi
tion and Congress.
Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., sponsoroftlj|
amendment, had proposed using the}5l
lion savings for the F-14D Tomcat jet fight
Navy’s carrier aircraft that Bush has slatrldav to ii
elimination; the Army’s Apache helicopieB Higgi
cleanup of nuclear waste sites. B>ducte<
In other action, the Senate approved,‘■ fhe \
non-binding resolution warning the adri dent Bu
tion that “it is not presently prudent orpsBave tlr
to commit to the procurement of an openflBlnited h
force” of B-2 stealth bombers. Pro-Ii
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The En
ergy Department unveiled on Tues
day a five-year program costing
$19.5 billion to correct environmen
tal and health problems at the na
tion’s atomic weapons plants — the
first part of a cleanup that officials
predict will take 30 years and cost
many billions more.
Energy Secretary James D. Wat
kins provided a blueprint for the ini
tial phase of the cleanup and restor
ation plan, acknowledging “the cost
will be high” and even an optimistic
timetable “passes much of the bur
den to the next generation.”
After a top-level review of the
shortcomings in environmental and
health protection measures at the
government nuclear facilities, the
department said it proposes to
spend $2.4 billion next fiscal year m
correcting the shortcomings.
After that the annual bill is ex
pected to steadily increase, peaking
at more than $4 billion in both fiscal
1994 and 1995. Over the span of the
cleanup effort, which will stretch
well into the next century, costs have
been estimated anywhere from $90
billion to $150 billion.
The money, which still must be
approved by Congress, would be
used to clean up pollution where
federal and state safety laws are vio
lated, repair faulty equipment and
develop new procedures and tech
nology for future waste disposal, the
department said.
and assessing the extent of yet un
known hazards. The deparment also
said it would release health records
of workers at weapons facilities for
scientific evaluation to determine
the extent of risk.
subject of investigations by both the
Environmental Protection Agency
and the FBI. Some facilities have
had operations shut down because
of safety and environmental prob
lems.
A series of disclosures this year
has revealed widespread neglect of
safety and environmental safe
guards at the weapons production
plants. A number of facilities, in
cluding major weapons plants in
Colorado and Ohio, have been the
Watkins also promised more
openness on the part of the depart
ment and plant managers with state
and federal authorities, and “an
open dialogue ‘an open dialogue on
environmental, health and safety
concerns” to ease public concern
about the operation of the fat
Watkins, in remarks to tin
tional Press Club, reiterated tl®
department’s efforts over the
to protect public health andthei
ronment at the federal nuclear
ties has been shoddy and in
cases virtually nonexistent.
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operation of the facilities and
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containing known contamination
AUSTIN (AP) — The man whose son’s body was dis
covered on a Nebraska road and became known nation
ally as the “Little Boy Blue” case, was sentenced to 40
years in prison for the 1985 murder of his roommate.
State District Judge Jon Wisser on Monday sentenced
Eli Stutzman, 38, who had been found guilty in the
April 1985 shooting death of Glen Albert Pritchett, 24.
Stutzman faced a sentence of five years’ probation to
life in prison and a $ 10,000 fine.
He must serve one-fourth of his sentence, or 10
years, before becoming eligible for parole, because ju
rors found that a deadly weapon was used in the slay
ing, the Austin American-Statesman reported.
Connie Moore of Houston, Stutzman’s attorney, told
Wisser that the charge in connection with the slaying of
his roommate was “based on a very weak circumstantial
cases,” and asked that Stutzman be placed on proba
tion.
“We are still convinced that this man is being con
victed for a crime he did not commit," Moore said
said Stutzman plans to appeal.
But Assistant District Attorney Carla Garcia!
Stutzman deserved a life sentence. She said Stutti
showed no remorse for his actions and lied toaqu
ances about Pritchett’s whereabouts.
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and roomed with Stutzman and his 9-year-old a
Danny, in Austin.
Pritchett’s body was discovered May 12, 1985, is
culvert outside Austin. He had been shot once in
head. Stutzman and Danny left Austin after depi
questioned him about Pritchett’s death.
Danny’s body had been found in a ditch near
bron, Neb., in December 1985. He was known onl
“Little Boy Blue” by townspeople because of theSi
pajamas he wore. The cause of his death was never 1
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Cooler weather allowed firefight
ers to advance Tuesday on forest
blazes threatening three tiny Idaho
towns, and soldiers in Washington
state began hasty training to join the
battle against wildfires in four West
ern states.
Fire crews have “just been holding
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Boise National Forest spokesman
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But the weather was a mixed bles
sing. Fire bosses who monitored up
to 2,000 lightning strikes an hour in
the areas early Tuesday worried that
continued strikes could ignite a new
round of blazes like those that have
been burning since the middle of last
week.
The Boise center was directing
20,000 firefighters Tuesday, and
1,200 troops at Ft. Lewis, Wash., be
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WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poles expressed shock
Tuesday at soaring food prices, including the highest
meat price increases in recent memory, and Solidarity
lawmakers heaped criticism on the outgoing adminis
tration’s economic policies.
Also on Tuesday, Lech Walesa urged his Solidarity
followers in Parliament to vote against Gen. Czeslaw
Kiszczak, the proposed communist successor to Prime
Minister Mieczyslaw F. Rakowski, and members of the
communist coalition reported divisions in their ranks
over the candidacy.
Rakowski, who was elected first secretary of the Pol
ish United Workers (Communist) Party only four days
“marketization” program put together by Rakowski’s
government. Across Poland, there were scenes of
empty shelves and bewildered shoppers.
“Where is the meat? Where is the meat?” cried out an
old man in a totally bare meat store near the capital’s
Old Town section.
“I am going to America,” a woman shopper said in
despair.
Authorities say the price increases are needed to
prompt farmers to deliver to market and stabilize the
level of s
Hundreds of reinforcemcnis
eluding National Guard troops
crews from out of state, werefer
to help crews on the most critical
lines in the Payette and Boist
tional forests.
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ot the small mining town of Wan 1
120 miles north of Boise, whicl
threatened by a 1,000-acre Win
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Boise.
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two dozen permanent residents*
Warren, was cut off by fires butt
across both roads into town, bet
settlement wasn’t in immediate
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residents largely leveled over
weekend, were estimated bythe
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Food prices skyrocketed under the controversial exact opposite. This ship is sinking.”
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ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — It is an of
ten-repeated tale in Addis Ababa: Two white
children were kidnapped or abandoned 20 years
ago, when the boy was about 5 years old and the
girl but an infant, and raised in a tribal family.
The years have provided different variations
on the story, and though many here know some
version, there are no records to substantiate it.
Now, however, a brother and sister have
stepped forward, claiming to be those lost chil
dren. They say they want to find their parents:
On June 23, a cable arrived at the State De
partment in Washington from the U.S. Embassy
in Ethiopia’s capitol. It began:
“On June 14, two Oromigna-speaking Cauca
sians visited (consular officer) Conoff claiming to
be the long-rumored kidnapped Americans of 20
years ago.”
“After I sent the cable, I called Washington to
assure them I wasn’t making this up on a slow
day in Addis,” Carol L. Rose, who retired this
week as the U.S. consul in Ethiopia, said. “I was
afraid the desk officer wouldn’t believe it. It’s all
just too fantastic.”
Rose’s 2-and-a-half page cable told the story of
Haile Mariam Gadessa and Tegest Gadessa as
they recounted it through an embassy inter-
it to the Associated
preter and later repeated
Press.
Haile Mariam, now 24 or 25, and Tegest,
about 20, speak haltingly and nervously about
their story in the presence of what to them are
strange, white foreigners.
What little they know was told them by the na
tive couple who raised them. Haile Mariam has
only the vaguest memory of those days, Tegest
none at all.
They tell of being left by their parents in the
care of a housekeeper, a man of the Oromo tribe
who took them to live with his relatives in a house
of mud with a thatched roof.
Haile Mariam said he was was raised as a
herdsboy, keeping the family’s cattle, sheep and
goats, while Tegest was given to another family
as a maid.
His eyes downcast and haunted, Haile Mariam
tells of frequent beatings by a foster father who
never wanted them, of being taunted and abused
by villagers who saw him and his sister as freaks.
His gnarled hands speak of a lifetime of hard
work. He has never spent a day in a classroom.
His sister has completed eight years of school.
They said they are not sure why they were left
with the housekeeper, but Haile Mariam thinks
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place the children with relatives,” Worke
“The stigma of raising them alone would
been too great.”
While Rose admits that scenario is possible - eluding
doesn’t believe it. Her cable to the State ^ ‘ I -
ment said consular officials were convinced
two “are telling the truth as they know it
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ring has caused some distortion of their ' -
features. They both have light brown eyes
curly light brown-dark blond hair.”
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can do for Haile Mariam and Tegest.
As the search continues for their parents,i
live together in a mud hut in the village of
beta, about 25 miles from Addis Ababa.
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toy, born out of wedlock, while Haile Man
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