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Hosted by Comedian Dan St. Paul Special guests Leslie Fisher- Miss T.A.M.U. and Night-n-Day - 1992 Variety Show Winner Tickets go on sale Tuesday March 30 For tickets: MSC Box Office 845-1234 or 1-800-275-1000 Page 8 The Battalion Wednesday, March 31,' Beer companies plan attack on D.C. to battle "sin tax'-funded health pi THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — A thousand beer sellers inun dated Capitol Hill on Tuesday hoping to avoid pick ing up some of the tab for President Clinton's health care plan. Fresh from a daylong training session in which they were pumped full of statistics and arguments, the wholesalers and brewers hoped to meet with vir tually every member of the House and Senate. Their mission was to confront any increase in the excise tax on beer — a "sin tax" — before it was pro posed to pay for the health care plan. "Remember, you're not going up there to save the world" but instead to save jobs, Henry King, director of the Brewers Association of America, told the beer sellers in a private training session beforehand. For Bo Huggins, who with his father owns a Miller-Heineken distributorship in Houston, the first stop was the office of Rep. Mike Andrews, D-Texas. Andrews is a member of the House Ways and Means Committee, which gets the first crack at any legislation dealing with taxes, and is also a leader in the effort to impose a stiff new tax on cigarettes. Huggins said he came away "encouraged that lie (Andrews) seemed to understand the difference be tween tobacco and beer." But the Houston lawmaker made no commit ments, explaining to his guest that often Congress must deal with issues as they are packaged by the White House. "I hope beer is not in the mix," Andrews said. But he noted: "The administration is struggling to for health care." Clinton has promised a comprehensive he care reform package by May 5 that will, amongoth« things, provide health insurance for the 36 millfe Americans currently without it. To help pay for the plan, many anticipate tin White House will propose higher excise taxes on cohol and tobacco products — and perhaps firearm The beer sellers' lobbying onslaught is not first to hit Capitol Hill since work began onfo health plan. Last week hundreds of doctors lobbie: lawmakers in a campaign organized by the Amer can Medical Association "The guy from back home is the best lobbyist^ ing," explained Ronald A. Sarasin, president of ft National Beer Wholesalers Association, whirl helped organize Tuesday's campaign. "It's extremely effective for people to comet Washington from back home. There's a niessag there, even if he doesn't say anything," he said. To prepare their troops, the wholesalers an brewers spent Sunday and Monday in seminars an, meetings at a hotel three blocl « from the Capitol The impromptu lobbyists were urged to empha size the economic impact their businesses haven local communities and to highlight the industry advertising campaigns to curb drunken driving am underage drinking King, in a private training session, urged thebusi nessmen to carry their lobbying fight home and keep up a sustained attack over the next six months, when details of the health plan will be hashed out Military court convicts Serbs of war crimes THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegov- ina — A military court convicted two Serbs of war crimes on Tues day and sentenced them to death by firing squad for atrocities that included slitting the throats of POWs and raping Muslim women. No date was set for the execu tions of Borislav Herak, 22, and Sretko Damjanovic, 31. Defense attorneys said they would appeal. The commander of U.N. peacekeepers urged Bosnian au thorities to turn the case — Bosnia's first war crimes trial — over to an international tribunal to avoid inflaming ethnic pas sions. Herak, his head slightly bowed as the sentence was read, confessed to killing 30 war pris oners and civilians, including a dozen young Muslims he first raped. Damjanovic claims he was tor tured into falsely confessing to five murders and two rapes. The only evidence against him, his lawyer complained, is Herak's testimony. Defense lawyers planned an appeal to the Bosnian supreme court, saying the trial produced no hard evidence and hinged on the disputed confession of one defendant. Given a chance to speak after sentencing, Herak said, "I de serve the death penalty. 1 would just like to see my father one more time and to have some ciga rettes." Damjanovic said bitterly, "I just want to thank the court for this." Asked by Judge Zlatan Teftedarija to elaborate, Dam janovic said, "This is a not a fair judgment. I am not guilty. I'd also like to have some cigarettes." Both soldiers were convicted of crimes against civilians and genocide, based on Herak's testi mony that he and Damjanovic killed people during so-called "ethnic cleansing" operations to purge Muslims from villages the Serbs took over. ££ World News Briefs April vote draws Russian debate MOSCOW (AP) - Re formist lawmakers advised President Boris Yeltsin on Lues- day not to hold his own refer endum and cautioned about discontent in the army as he plots strategy in the battle with parliament. Yeltsin's chief of staff said the president might hold a plebiscite to counter an April 25 referendum on his leadership that was approved Monday by the Congress of People's Deputies. "I still don't know whether 1 should take part in the April 25 referendum or oppose it," legis lator Gleb Yakunin, a Russian Orthodox priest and staunch Yeltsin supporter, told the ITAR-Tass news agency. The four-day emergency Congress session failed to de cide the fight between presi dent and parliament, although Yeltsin's opponents did suc ceed in eroding his powers. The opponents fell only 72 votes short of the 689 needed to re move him from office in a vote Sunday. Bitter attacks on Yeltsin have become a habit with the 1,033- member body. Many oppose Yeltsin's free-market reforms and Western-oriented foreign policy. Israel authorities ban Palestinians HADERA, Israel (AP) - Gunmen shot to death two Is raeli traffic police sitting in a squad car Tuesday, and the government struck back by bar ring the West Bank's 1 million Palestinians from entering Is rael. Police blamed militant Arabs for the pre-dawn slayings. The assassinations at an in tersection near this town in Is rael's heartland appeared to es calate a wave of Arab attacks that has claimed 13 Israeli lives in March. Twenty-six Palestini ans also have been killed this month. The unrest provoked a pub lic outcry that threatened to weaken Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin at a time when he is de fending the U.S.-sponsored peace punress against demands from Israeli hard-liners to scrap it. Palestinians said the tough measure of sealing the occupied territories and barring 120,000 Palestinians from their jobs in Israel would damage peace prospects. In Washington, White House spokesman George Stephanopoulos said the Clin ton administration wants to keep the peace talks on track but said: "TVe're obviously con cerned by the escalating vio lence on all sides." Most recent attacks on Is raelis have happened in the oc- copied lands, especially the Gaza Strip, which was sealed on Monday after the stabbing death of a Jew. London abortion conflict escalates LONDON (AP) - Authori ties moved forcefully Tuesday to keep U.S.-style anti-abortion militancy out of Britain, arrest ing the founder of the Rescue America group and stopping a counter-demonstration. Anti-abortionists have fire- bombed U.S. abortion clinics and harassed women clients, and an abortion opponent has been charged with murderinga doctor outside a Florida clinic. Family planning workers fear the same could happen in Britain, where abortion has been legal since 1967. Stunned by the arrest of their leader, Don Treshmanof Houston, anti-abortionists from the United States and their British allies called off <i| demonstration Tuesday outside the London offices of the Inter national Planned Parenthood Federation. But about 60 police showed up, and they arrested some2f_ abortion rights demonstrator; | intent on confronting the Amer icans. 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