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Thursday, July 25,1991
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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.
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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 -
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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.
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