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LCCCSS lid they would just Lher than release pgest part i,” he said. “1 ; were just playing muld. d to choose, we ly, but I guess we albums.” "Wash iNCiiON Page 5 ‘The Battalion Republicans and Democrats are trying to avoid blame for the collapse of the yearlong budget effort. WASHINGTON (AP) — Bar ring a miracle, the quest for a grand balanced-budget deal is dead. But each side’s election- year drive to portray the other the villain is just beginning. In professed attempts to revive the budget-balancing effort, Presi dent Clinton and liepublicans are waging separate long-shot cam paigns to woo congressional mod erates from the other party to their warring visions of spending tax cuts. At the same time, Republicans may force House votes this week on the two camps’ offers at the budget talks, in hopes of showing that few Democ rats support Clinton’s plan while there is bipartisan backing for the GOP proposal. Real budget work remains. The administration says a cata- dysmic federal default will occur unless Congress extends the limit in February. And tem porary spending authority for dozens of agencies, renewed last Friday, will have to be extended once again by March 15. But for now, both parties — aware that voters want federal deficits eliminated — are trying to avoid blame for the collapse of the yearlong budget effort. Even each side’s attempt to gain sup port from House and Senate moderates is all but certain to fall short of producing a compro mise that can become law, par ticipants concede. “We just decided we’re going to keep working, even if it’s a very slight chance,” said Rep. Collin Peterson, D-Minn., a leader of the so-called Blue Dogs, conservative House Democrats who have been meeting with leaders of both sides. Even so, the chairmen of the Senate and House budget com mittees, Sen. Pete Domenici, R- N.M., and Rep. John Kasich, R- Ohio, plan to meet Thursday with leaders of the Blue Dogs and Senate moderates of both parties, led by Sens. John Breaux, D-La., and John Chafee, R-R.I. Last Thursday, White House chief of staff Leon Panetta and Treasury Secre tary Robert Rubin met with the Senate group. Both the Blue Dogs and Sen ate moderates have produced budget plans with proposed sav ings in Medicare, welfare and other programs that fall mostly between Clinton and the GOP. The biggest gulf is over tax cuts: the Blue Dogs have proposed none and the Senate moderates want $130 billion over seven years, well below the near $200 billion the GOP has sought. The prob lem with craft ing a package that satisfies the moderates is that conser vative Repub licans and lib eral Democ rats are likely to be alienated in sufficient number to prevent a con- gressional package. Many House Republi cans, for instance, are adamant that any final plan include siz able tax cuts. “We can’t spend all our time worrying about the House of Representatives,” said the mod erate Chafee in an interview. “So far what they’ve done is come up with programs that don’t have a chance in” the Senate. Nonetheless, each side hopes it can drum up enough moderate votes to pressure its opponents to return to the bargaining table Dole and make major concessions. Even that is unlikely. But in the meantime, the ef fort helps each camp depict it self as dedicated to eliminating the deficit — which could be come especially valuable if con tinued deadlock causes the fi nancial markets to dive. As they do virtually every day, both sides focused on that theme Tuesday. “The president believes there remains a centrist, bipartisan majority in favor of a historic balanced budget agreement and we’re going to see if we can as semble that coalition,” said White House spokesman Mike McCurry, adding that Republi cans eventually would “want to get on something other than the caboose.” Campaigning in Iowa for the GOP presidential nomination. Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole said that if Republicans can’t reach a budget deal with the president, “we’re going to send him bill after bill after bill that sends power to the people ... and find out where the presi dent stands.” Meanwhile, GOP leaders con sidered whether to schedule House votes on the final offers by Clinton and Republicans at the defunct budget talks. 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But while these animals get infected, none until now had actually developed AIDS. In fact, many scientists Joubted whether the disease was even pos sible in a chimp. Researchers from the Yerkes Regional Primate Research Center at Emory Univer sity in Atlanta described the first chimp AIDS case at a medical conference Tuesday. One of the things that has made AIDS so difficult to control has been the lack of a so- called animal model — a lab animal that can stand in for people in studies of the disease. While monkeys get sick with a simian version of HIV, the AIDS virus, researchers fear that insights from studying these ani mals may not apply to people. The discovery of true AIDS in a chim panzee could give scientists their first ani mal model for the disease. Whether this will be practical is still unclear. Another drawback is controversy about using chimps for medical studies. 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