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Page 4 • The Battalion
Friday • November 17,
Reno announces she has Parkinson’s diseass
□ The Attorney General
announced that she was
diagnosed with the disease
three weeks ago.
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.
Any peace agreement should provide:j
war crimes pr osecutions, the South Africani|]
rist told reporters after a meeting with Dep
Secretary of State Strobe Talbott.
The Bosnian Serbs have rejected the a*
thority of the U.N. court and declined to tufl
over suspects. The tribunal itself has saidl
would not try suspects in absentia.
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Spend Summer Session I in Mexico City,
studying PUBLIC RELATIONS AND
INTERNATIONAL COMMUNiCAT/ON
while experiencing the exciting culture of
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Monday Nov. 20, 2 p.m.
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