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I tiesday • July 29,1
Clinton, GOP resolve budget deal conflicts
WASHINGTON (AP) —The Clinton administration and
congressional leaders neared a handshake Monday on bal
ancing the budget by 2002 while slicing taxes for millions of
families, students and investors. Both sides began promot
ing the pact to ensure they could muscle it through Con
gress this week.
After months of bargaining, the final shape of the package
solidified. Assured were a tax credit for many children, a big
effort to expand health-care coverage for many of the 10 mil
lion uninsured American children, and a phased-in boost in
the 24-cent-per-pack cigarette tax.
Many disputes were resolved with an everyone-wins ap
proach. Underlining this, the five-year, $85 billion net price
tag for tax cuts set by the May balanced-budget agreement
seemed likely to grow by about $10 billion.
As it emerged, the accord put leaders of both parties in po
sition to claim credit for the broadest tax cut since 1981 and,
if achieved, the first federal surplus since 1969.
“This is an historic opportunity. It can be the achieve
ment of a generation,” President Clinton told the nation’s
governors at a Las Vegas convention, hoping to also spur
lawmakers back at the Capitol. “It can only happen with big
majorities of people in both houses and both parties com
ing together and I believe we’re on the verge of achieving it.”
“Both sides have had to give in one category or anoth
er,” Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott, R-Miss., told re
porters. “I think on balance the com
bination is worth having.”
House Democrats, Congress’ largest
pocket of resistance, planned to meet
Monday evening with administration of
ficials to learn about the plan. House Re
publicans were considering a separate
session of their own.
Even as both sides smelled victory, still
they circled each other on some issues.
The GOP acceded to Clinton’s de
mands for a $24 billion, five-year effort
to expand health-care coverage for many of the country’s
10 million uninsured children. That amount was $8 billion
beyond what many Republicans preferred, but there was a
catch. They were insisting that Clinton let states have lee
way in deciding which services would be provided, such as
mental health and dental coverage.
In addition, the GOP wanted welfare recipients taking
subsidized jobs in the public and nonprofit sectors to be ex-
Clinton
empted from minimum wage and other worker protections.
They argued that such requirements would make it harder
to find such slots and hurt state efforts to trim welfare rolls.
Clinton was resisting.
The continuing snags were clearly annoying GOP lead
ers, who were within reach of two of their party’s biggest leg
islative achievements in years. Lott said the administration’s
bargaining tactics were “like the boa constrictor that con
tinues to squeeze.”
In a triumph claimed by both sides, there would be a
$400-per-child tax credit in 1998, rising to $500 the next
year, for children 16 and under. It would apply to many fam
ilies whose earnings are so low that they owe little or no in
come tax, a victory for Clinton. But it would also go to sin
gle parents making as much as $75,000 and couples making
$ 110,000, which Republicans wanted.
The package was on track to include $35 billion or
more in education tax breaks, a key Clinton demand to
which lawmakers added their own ideas. Clinton said it
would contain his treasured “Hope scholarship” of
$1,500 tax credits for the first two years of college. Also
included were special savings incentives for education
and other reductions.
Israeli, Palestinian negotiators say talks will resume
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israelis and Pales
tinians, weary of months of sporadic vio
lence and mutual recriminations, an
nounced Monday they would return to the
negotiating table within days to resume
their quest for peace.
“We are deciding to return to the talks ...
out of a desire to restore mutual trust,” Is
raeli Foreign Minister David Levy said after
a meeting in Jerusalem with Palestinian
Planning Minister Nabil Shaath.
It was not clear why the two sides were
able to come together now, after a four-
month impasse, but they have stepped up
contacts in recent weeks. In addition, Is
raeli Prime Minister Benjamin Ne
tanyahu’s opposition to a new Jewish
housing project in east Jerusalem appears
to have reduced tensions.
There was no indication the sides re
solved the key issues that have kept them
apart since March: the Palestinians’ de
mand for a halt to Israeli building in disput
ed territories, and Israel’s demand for a re
newal of intelligence-sharing to prevent at
tacks by militant Palestinians.
Shaath said he assured Levy the Palestin
ian Authority would work to prevent "all acts
that would injure, harm or create violence
against Israelis and against Palestinians.”
Israeli sources said Israel was pleased
about improved security cooperation with
the Palestinians, noting the recent arrests of
Palestinian officers Israel accused of plan
ning attacks on Israelis and the discovery of
a bomb factory in Bethlehem.
Levy and Shaath said bilateral commit
tees would resume work “in the next few
days” on how to implement so-far unful
filled promises from previous Israel-Pales-
tinian peace agreements.
Those issues include the opening of a
Palestinian airport and sea port in the Gaza
Strip, establishment of a “safe passage” for
travel between the West Bank and Gaza, and
the release of Palestinian prisoners.
^ ^ We are deciding to
return to the talks ... out
of a desire to restore
mutual trust.”
David Levy
Israeli Foreign Minister
There was no mention of a settlement
freeze by Israel.
Talks broke down in March when Israel
started work on a Jewish housing project in
Har Homa, an area of Jerusalem the Pales
tinians want as a future capital, setting off
weeks of rioting in the West Bank and Gaza
Strip. Periodic diplomatic initiatives to end
the impasse have failed.
Further clashes between Palestinians
and Israeli troops have broken out sporadi
cally in recent weeks after a Jewish settler
put up posters last month depicting the
Muslim prophet Mohammed as a pig.
Even as the breakthrough in the stalled
peace process was announced, Israel closed
Arab-owned shops in downtown Hebron af
ter three homemade bombs were hurled at
soldiers there over the weekend.
Israeli troops detained about 20 Pales
tinians in the search for the bomb throwers.
Monday’s announcement appeared un
related to American efforts to restart the
talks, although officials from both sides had
traveled to Washington in recent days and
U.S. envoy Dennis Ross is expected back in
the region within two weeks.
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