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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.
A few anti-abortionists also
were arrested.
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