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World & Nation Thursday, July 25,1991 The Battalion Pago 3 Jobless workers rally for benefits; Bentsen promises emergency plan WASHINGTON (AP) — Hundreds of job less workers rallied Wednesday on the steps of the Labor Department for an extension in unemployment benefits as Sen. Lloyd Bent- sen promised to declare an emergency and get tne money flowing to the nation's strug gling families. Chanting "Lay off Bush" and "26 weeks is not enough," the crowd called for Presi dent Bush to extend unemployment bene fits for jobless workers whose checks stop after 26 weeks. But Bush's spokesman. Marlin Fitzwater, said Wednesday that the president believes the economy is in recovery and would likely veto emergency legislation to extend unem ployment benefits. "The Bush administration calls for an emergency for the Kurds, for the Turks, for the Bangladesh," Bentsen said. "And even in the president's budget, they declared an emergency for the Panama Canal Commis sion. "I say it's time to declare an emergency for the unemployed workers of America," Bentsen told the crowd under a sizzling noonday sun. Bentsen, D-Texas chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, promised the panel would act Thursday on a proposal to extend unemployment benefits up to 20 weeks. Bentsen would not raise taxes or cut other programs to pay for his proposal's $5.8 bil lion cost. Instead, he would declare the re cession an emergency and allow the govern ment to simply borrow the needed money, thus driving up the deficit. Fitzwater, however, said the president opposes such a plan unless there are spend ing cuts to pay for it. Unemployment coverage has expired for an estimated 2.3 million workers. In Texas, according to Bentsen's office, 546,000 people were unemployed in May, and as of June, 12,394 had exhausted their benefits. "Only the fat cats at the top levels of this administration could fail to understand what the unemployed are up against in terms of getting unemployment insurance benefits," Sen. Paul Sarbanes, D-Md., told the rally. "What they don't understand or appre ciate is what it means not to be able to meet the house payment and the car payment, not to be able to be able to put food on the table for your kids," Sarbanes said "We're talking about working people — people who have been working year in and year out, who are now out of a job because of this Bush recession." Sarbanes predicted Congress would send emergency legislation to the president's desk, "and ask him what he thinks about it." "I say it's time to recognize there's an emergency here at home," Sarbanes told the rally, coordinated by the Philadelphia Unemployment Project. Rep. Thomas Foglietta, D-Pa., said 8.7 million people are out of work. "These are the American men and women who are personified by the sign I saw on one of the T-shirts today: 'Do I have to lose everything I've ever worked for be cause our government won't pass protective legislation.' Network will provide epa plans r hearings on border pollution coverage of rape trial WASHINGTON (AP) — Tele vision viewers will get to judge for themselves whether William Kennedy Smith is guilty of rape when his trial is shown live by a new cable network. The Courtroom Television Network will provide "very complete, if not gavel-to-gavel" coverage of Smith's trial sched uled to begin Aug. 5 in West Palm Beach, Fla., Merrill Brown, senior vice president, of the net work, said Tuesday from New York. He said the network is carried in 39 states, with more than 450 cable systems wired into 4 mil lion homes. Viewers will see and hear ev erything the jurors in Smith's trial see and hear — except the name and face of the woman who says he attacked her and perhaps the names and faces of other women who may testify against him. The network will use a 10-sec- ond delay, as it does with all tri als, so it can delete explicit material. In this trial, the delay also will be used to remove the name of the woman he is ac cused of raping, if it is spoken. Brown said. Cable News Network also plans to air "major portions of the testimony" live, although the coverage won't be as exten sive as on the courtroom chan nel, said spokesman Steve Ha worth. Smith is charged with raping a 29-year-old Jupiter, Fla., woman on March 30 at the Kennedy family's Palm Beach estate. He has denied the charges. W0RLD/NATI0N BRIEFS From wire reports Three soldiers die in explosion □ MANAMA, Bahrain — Three U.S. soldiers clearing ammunition near a military camp in Doha, Ku wait, were killed Tuesday when some of it exploded, the U.S. mili tary said. The ammunition was left over from a powerful July 11 explo sion at the army depot, said a statement from the Joint Informa tion Bureau in Dhahran, Saudi Ara bia. The deaths brought to 16 the number of U.S. troop fatalities since the end of the Persian Gulf War. All were accidental, caused by traffic accidents, mines or ex plosions, said an army officer who spoke on condition anonymity. Panel finds no corruption □ WASHINGTON — A panel in vestigating allegations by a former Customs Service agent of wide spread corruption in the Southwest has rejected the accusations, Cus toms Commissioner Carol Hallett said Wednesday. The panel did, however, spotlight deficiencies in the service, including failure to in vestigate accusations promptly. The panel of four Customs officials and five people from outside the agency was "unanimous in every one of their findings,” including the conclusion on corruption, Hal lett said in an interview. Union Treaty finds agreement □ MOSCOW — President Mikhail S. Gorbachev emerged from 12 hours of talks Wednesday to an nounce a final agreement on the new Union Treaty to reshape the Soviet federation and give more power to the republics. The treaty could bolster Gorbachev’s standing going into Thursday’s meeting of the Communist Party’s Central Committee, where hard-liners are expected to stiffly challenge a re form platform supported by the president. The platform denounces the party’s dictatorial past and em braces private property and free dom of religion. Group makes threats to German government two Ger- ton (AP) — A group claiming to hold Wednesday threatened "extremely negative i government offered convincing in- Moslem brothers imprisoned in Ger- BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) mans hostage on action" unless the German formation about two Shiite many. The threat came in a Arabic-language statement delivered to the independent Beirut newspaper Al-Nahar. It was accompa nied by a photograph of a German who is missing in Lebanon. In the statement, a group calling itself the Holy Warriors for Freedom claimed it kidnapped two Germans in a bid to win the freedom of Lebanese brothers Mohammed Hamadi and Abbas Hamadi. "But alas, they understand only the language of blood and violence ... and we shall not hesitate to use them because we shall not permit any wrong done to our two strugglers," the statement said. It demanded that Germany give details about the Hamadi brothers' conditions within 48 hours through intermediaries from Iran or Syria. "Otherwise we shall take an extremely negative action after which regret is of no use," the statement said. Prison officials said last week that Abbas Hamadi, who was jailed on a kidnapping conviction, had been stabbed in a fight with another inmate. In response to a threatening statement July 18 from another group, the German government rejected allegations that the two men were being mistreated in prison. WASHINGTON (AP) — The Environmental Protection Agency plans a series of hear ings along the Southwest border as it develops an environmental plan for the region, where raw sewage pollutes the Rio Grande, and El Paso suffers from a choking mix of fumes. Sen. Lloyd Bentsen, D- Texas, said Wednesday he has re ceived word that the g (joyd Bent- ?h 8 e ?ea?taS Mn ^ the EPA as par Tf !? aS £ lanS ,0r President Texas hearings. Bush's plans to address the envi ronmental impact of free trade agreements with Mexico on the borderlands. According to Bentsen, the EPA is considering hearings in Laredo, El Paso, Nogales, Ariz.; Calexico, Calif.; San Diego and at a location in New Mexico, which is still undecided. The hearings are tentatively planned for late September and early Oc tober. Bentsen had asked EPA Ad ministrator William K. Reilly last week to hold hearings on the border as it develops the "Inte grated Environmental Plan for the U.S.-Mexico Border." "It will be impossible to draft an effective plan for dealing with the serious pollution problems plaguing the border area without nearing firsthand from the pi pie who have to deal with trv and suffer with them every day," Bentsen said Wednesday. eo- em Peace proposal crisis Shamir's partners may quit Cabinet JERUSALEM (AP) — Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir's ultra right coalition partners threat ened Wednesday to quit the Cabinet if he accepts U.S. peace talk plans, raising the possibility of a power play by Shamir to re tain control. Housing Minister Ariel Sha ron, leading the criticism, told 20 hard-liners in Parliament that Is rael "faced perhaps its most dan gerous political moment" and could be pushed into giving up war-won land, Israel radio re ported. But politicians and analysts believed Shamir is popular enough to override opposition to the Middle East peace confer ence and recruit left-leaning par ties into his governing coalition to maintain a majority in parlia ment. "There is no force now that could prevent a peace con ference, and Shamir under stands this," analyst Zvi Gilat wrote in the Hebrew daily Hada- shot. The U.S. plan calls for a one-time peace confer ence leading to direct negotiations Israel and the - 7- Yitzhak Shamir’s coalition partners threaten to quit the Cabinet. between Palestinians and each of the Arab states. Opponents came out in full force on Wednesday, the day af ter Shamir welcomed Syria's move accepting direct negotia tions with Israel for the first time. Right-wingers fear Secreta: of State James A. Baker Ill's e forts to start talks will lead Israel to give up the Golan Heights, West Bank and Gaza Strip, cap tured in the 1967 Middle East war. The ultra-nationalist Tehiya Party asked its Central Commit tee to vote to leave the govern ment, arguing that Shamir "has opened all the doors that can lead to a lot of concessions." Tehiya has three members in Shamir's 66-seat majority in the 120-seat parliament. Four other ultra-right lawmakers have also indicated they would bolt the Cabinet, which includes all par ties from Shamir's governing co alition. But Shamir can stay in power with support from left-wingers who have pledged to back the prime minister if he moves to ward peace. High Blood Pressure Study Individuals either off or on high blood pressure medication needed to participate in a one week blood pressure research study. No investigational medication. $100 incentive paid to those chosen to participate and who complete the study. 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