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WASHINGTON (AP) — With medication controlling the shaking of her left hand, Attor ney General Janet Reno says her newly diag nosed Parkinson’s disease will neither force her from office nor cease her long weekend walks along the Potomac River. “I feel fine now. I continue to take my long walks,” the 57-year-old attorney general told her weekly news conference Thursday. “I don’t feel like 1 have any impairment. I feel strong and feel like moving ahead.” She has “an excellent, long-term progno sis,” Dr. Jonathan Pincus, a neurology profes sor at Georgetown University Medical Center, said at a later news conference. “Her mild tremor was completely eliminated with mod est doses,” of medication, he said. Reno disclosed that she was diagnosed three weeks ago with the progressive disease that undermines muscle control. Doctors as sured her that, like hundreds of thousands of other American^ with Parkinson’s, she could continue working without impairment. For reporters, who previously had noted a tremor in her hand, Reno thrust out a steady left hand to demonstrate that medication has controlled her only symp tom. She takes 1 1/2 Sinemet pills before each of her three daily meals. Earlier in the morning, Reno had advised the White House. She said chief of staff Leon Panetta “was very supportive.” President Clinton tele phoned Reno later in the day. Reno made clear she had no intention of resigning and said if Clinton won a second term and “if he wanted me back, this would be no reason not to do it.” “If I didn’t think I could do the job, I’d be the first to tell President Clinton,” Reno said. “Based on everything the doctors told me and what I know, there should be no reason why, if the president wanted me to come back in a Reno second term, I wouldn’t do so.” Reno would not be the first public figurt hold high office with Parkinson’s. Former Rep. Morris Udall, D-Ariz., staj in Congress for 12 years after his Parki: disease was diagnosed in 1979. The dise forced him to abandon hopes of seeking 1984 Democratic presidential nominatii Neurological problems resulting from a January 1991 forced him to retire that 11 after 30 years in Congress. It is estimated that nearly one milli Americans have Parkinson’s, but only In have symptoms severe enough to havek diagnosed, said Dr. Stanley Fahn, a neurolo; professor at New York’s Columbia-Presbytt ian Medical Center. The disease, which worsens over time, stroys brain cells that produce a substai called dopamine, which transmits signals the brain, Fahn said. Over time, it can cause tremors ini hands, shuffling gait, slurred speech ai can eventually incapacitate people w] have it. But Fahn said existing treatmec can control symptoms for years and soitj experimental therapies show promise of versing them. Clinton threatens another veto of Republican offers □ The Senate moves toward ending the three-day partial shutdown, but only if the president agrees to balance the budget in seven years. WASHINGTON (AP) — Re fusing to bend in a test of wills. President Clinton threatened anew Thursday to veto the latest Republican offer to end a three- day partial government shut down. He said he was recalling furloughed workers to process claims for Social Security benefits. Rebutted Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole: “He doesn’t want a balanced budget.... That’s the issue.” With the two sides seemingly at gridlock, Democrats savaged House Speaker Newt Gingrich for claiming Clinton had snubbed him recently aboard Air Force One, and that he had toughened his terms on the budget battle as a result. Several lawmakers trooped to the House floor with over sized copies of the front page of the New York Daily Nows. It bore a huge headline of “Cry Baby” and a cartoon depicting Gingrich in a diaper, holding a baby bottle and throwing a tantrum. The Republican leaders re peatedly expressed a willing ness to reopen talks with Clin ton on ending the impasse that has forced huge sections of the government to remain closed since Monday and disrupted normal treasury borrowing. Gingrich, R-Ga., offered to meet Thursday night. At the same time, the Repub lican-controlled Senate ignored Clinton’s veto threat. It labored to pass legislation that would re open the government through Dec. 5 on condition Clinton agree to work out a seven-year bal anced budget, based on Congres sional Budget Office economic assumptions. The House approved the measure early Thursday, 277- 151, with 48 Democrats in fa vor. Democratic lawmakers said Clinton had lobbied them by telephone shortly before the vote to make sure the margin of support wasn’t big enough to override his threatened veto. It wasn’t, but only by a dozen votes. And Clinton was told in one conversation that the time had come to begin thinking about a “gracious exit” from the standoff, said one lawmaker who recounted the exchange on condition of anonymity. With Republicans insisting on a seven-year time frame, both sides were dancing around the key issue of economic assump tions — estimates of growth, un employment and inflation that have a major impact on govern ment spending and revenue estimates. Clinton made plain he would veto the GOP legislation. Sign ing it, he said, would be tanta mount to accepting GOP plans for “crippling cuts in Medicare and unacceptable reductions ii Medicaid, education andenvi ronmental protection. “Congress should act reap sibly and pass straightforward legislation to open the gover: ment and enable it to meeth financial obligations,” Clinte said, “ft should do it right nos “The American people shoi not be held hostage any more the Republican budget pri ties," said Clinton, repeatir: veto threat he first rat Wednesday night. Gingrich expressed irritatr at Clinton's customary charj; that Republicans were seekir; to cut Medicare: ‘‘There's just something profoundly wronj when the president of the Unit ed States ... uses informatior that is not factually correct.” Republicans propose sharply slowing the projected growth ol Medicare over the next seven years, and insist that the $2'?0 billion in savings over those years are needed to assure the program’s solvency. Serbs indicted for actions against Muslims last summe/ □ Chief prosecutor Richard Goldstone urged all sources of evidence to cooperate with the U.N. war crimes tribunal. WASHINGTON (AP) — The two top Bosn ian Serb leaders were indicted by a U.N. war crimes tribunal Thursday as directly responsi ble for “unimaginable savagery” against Mus lims in a fallen safe haven last summer. The chief prosecutor, Richard Goldstone, said he was cautiously optimistic they would be placed on trial. Goldstone said warrants would be sought in Belgrade, Sarajevo and Pale, the Bosnian Serbs’ ad ministrative capital. He also urged all countries where refugees or other sources of evidence may reside to cooperate with the tribunal in The Hague, Netherlands. After two days of talks with CIA Director John Deutch and other senior Clinton admin istration officials, Goldstone also announced the indictment of a Bosnian Muslim in the deaths of several Bosnian Serbs in southern Bosnia. The prosecutor said the unidentified suspect was in a Bosnian Croat unit when the crimes were committed. More than 50 Serbs and Croats have been indicted by the U.N. tribunal. Goldstone praised the United States and the Nether lands for cooperating, implying other nations may not have been so forthcoming. The State Department, in turn, pledged full U.S. support and said no quarter would be given to any suspected war criminals in order to facilitate an agreement to end the war in Bosnia. “We believe justice is every bit as impor tant as peace,” Nicholas Burns, the depart ment spokesman, said. “If we had any evi dence of any individual’s involvement, we would turn it over.” However, Burns said he was not aware of “any information that would be a trail of evidence” linking Serbian President Slobo dan Milosevic, a key figure in ongoing peace talks near Dayton, Ohio, with Bosn ian Serb atrocities. Goldstone declined to say whether Milose vic was being investigated. The Bosnian Serbs’ political and mili tary leaders, Radovan Karadzic and Gen. Ratko Mladic, were first charged by the tri bunal in July with directing and control ling atrocities perpetrated against the civilian population throughout Bosnia- Herzegovina since 1992, with a sniping campaign against civilians in Sarajevo and with taking U.N. peacekeepers a§ hostages and using them as human shields. The new indictments accuse them of (Mj responsibility for atrocities perpetrate against the Muslim population of Srebreai after Bosnian Serb forces overran the U.N.-c- clared refuge in July. “A truly terrible massacre of the Musi: population appears to have taken place Judge Fuad Riad, an Egyptian, wrote. “T r evidence tendered by the prosecutor desert scenes of unimaginable savagery; thousattl of men executed and buried in mass grave' hundreds of men buried alive ... a grandfatki forced to eat the liver of his own grandson. “These are truly scenes from hell, write on the darkest pages of human history.” On Wednesday, Bums reiterated it woci be “inconceivable” for Karadzic and Mladic be left in positions of authority in the event,; a peace settlement. Goldstone, at a news conference, safi the new indictments would be presented) the governments of Serbia and Bosnia,®] also to the would-be Bosnian Serb govenl ment in Pale. 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