The Battalion Monday, March 29,1993 Page 5 " National News Briefs ■"Vr Times probes letter, motives NEW YORK (AP) - A letter purportedly written by an anti- Israel group claiming credit for the World Trade Center bomb ing may provide a motive for the blast. But it also raised new questions Sunday. Although the letter signed by the Liberation Army Fifth Battal ion has been linked to one of the five Muslim fundamentalists ar rested in connection with the bombing, an Arab-American community leader said Sunday he doesn't believe it could have been written by one of them. The letter, mailed to The New York Times four days after the Feb. 26 blast that killed six and injured more than 1,000, con nected the bombing to anger over the United States' support of Israel. One of the men arrested in connection with the bombing wrote it, the Times reported Sunday, quoting authorities it didn't identify. The newspaper didn't say which person was the author. Perot to visit northwest U.S. SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) - Texas billionaire Ross Perot plans to visit Montana and Washington next Saturday, ac cording to leaders of United We Stand, the independent political group he founded. Connie Smith, Washington state director, said Perot planned to visit Helena, Mont., in the morning, conduct a town hall meeting at 2 p.m. at East Valley High School near Spokane and make an evening appearance in Seattle. Details of the Helena and Seattle visits were not immediately available. He fared well in both states last November, carrying 26 per cent of the presidential vote in Montana and 24 percent in Washington. Gays, military message mixed WASHINGTON (AP) - Pres ident Clinton's efforts to end the ban on gays in the military are coming under congressional scrutiny as the White House is sues confusing signals on possi bly segregating homosexuals in uniform. Clinton promised in January to fulfill his campaign pledge to lift the half-century prohibition, but he angered gay rights groups last Tuesday when he said it probably was constitu tional to limit assignments for homosexuals in the armed forces. A day later he said he was inclined against limitations. Various gay rights represen tatives met with Clinton admin istration officials at the White House on Friday to complain. Administration officials said they assured leaders of the groups that Clinton was open- minded about the jobs homosex uals in the military may be as signed. All this comes as the Senate Armed Services Committee be gins hearings this week on the volatile issue. The sessions are expected to stretch out over sev eral months. Man killed by meat grinder SELMA, Ala. (AP) - A large meat grinder started up unex pectedly, killing a maintenance man who was working inside the machine. "It was one of the most grue some things I've ever seen in po lice work," police Lt. Robert Green said. Tyrone Bernard Mitchell, 34, was killed early Saturday at R.L. Zeigler Co., Green said. Zeigler officials declined to comment. Police said Mitchell was em ployed by Packing Sanitation Services Inc., which cleans equipment at the plant. Richard Holtvoigt, site man ager for Packing Sanitation Ser vices, said Sunday that Mitchell's death was being in vestigated. Gephardt: health care may take time WASHINGTON - House Majority Leader Richard Gephardt voiced uncertainty Sunday over whether a health care reform package can be ap proved this year, calling it one of the toughest issues ever to face Congress. "If we can get it done this year, we will," Gephardt said on NBC-TV's "Meet the Press" pro gram. President Clinton has made health reform a top priority, and his special health care task force, headed by Hillary Rodham Clin ton, was scheduled to hold its first public meeting Monday af ter two months of work. Impeach Continued from Page 1 many more deputies had reason to be dissatisfied with me," he said. Khasbulatov added that the voting signaled the ; <0,eed for a change in Yeltsin'^economic re forms. .".When an enpjrmous num ber of deputies . . . almost remove the president from office, we all have to think about this signal very seriously," he said. Also Sunday, Yeltsin issued a series of decrees aimed at helping the people who have been hit by his economic reforms. The mea sures double the minimum wage, increase allowances for students and the disabled, improve health care funding for government workers and give regional govern ments the right to stabilize sky rocketing prices for basic goods. Yeltsin earlier told a crowd of about 50,000 supporters who ral lied outside the Kremlin that he would not step down, even if the Congress voted to oust him. "I will obey only the will of the people," he said as he raised a clenched fist while standing on a platform under the domes of St. Basil's Cathedral. Hard-liners had been seeking Yeltsin's ouster since his March 20 declaration of emergency rule. But on the first two days of the Con gress, they failed to collect enough votes to put the question on the agenda. Outrage over the compro- "I will obey only the will of the people." -Boris Yeltsin mise proposal finally gave them the simple majority needed to call Sunday's vote. The Yeltsin-Kh^sbulatov pro posal also would'haVe called rtfew presidential and*legislative elec tions in November and would have canceled the April referen dum that Yeltsin called. The Congress, elected in 1990 before the Soviet Union's collapse, has been steadily eroding Yeltsin's authority and blocking his free- market reforms. Rally Continued from Page 1 and waved hundreds of white, blue and red Russian flags. Raising a clenched right fist and smiling, Yeltsin was clearly elated by the number of demon strators. Many said they stood with him during the defense of the parliament building, the "White House," in August 1991. "Moscow has awakened at last! There was a period of temporary silence," Yeltsin said. "Now Moscow and Muscovites have de cided to raise their voices in de fense of the first popularly elected president of Russia." After the constant drubbing by the Congress of People's Deputies, his own flaccid speech on Satur day and grief over the death of his mother last weekend, the wel come by the crowd seemed to en ergize Yeltsin. "You have come here today at the right time. It's the day when the destiny of the president, the destiny of the Supreme Soviet, is decided, as well as the destiny of Russia and the Russian people," he said. Yeltsin assured supporters he would stand firm for the people who voted him Russia's first de mocratically chosen president in June 1991. 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