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The BG News Tuesday, September 7, 1993 Bowling Green, Ohio Volume 76, Issue 10 Briefs Arafat tries Hurricane aid to increase to gain Weather Clinton pledges increased emphasis on reconstruction Is it partly cloudy, or part- The Associated Press Clinton brought no new federal federal government and private year. support for ly sunny?: initiatives on his Labor Day visit, enterprise. "It's very moving to me," he Partly sunny Tuesday. but said the government has a added. High 70 to 75. Northeast HOMESTEAD, Fla. - President "long-term commitment to help- Clinton said the ongoing re- Clinton brought along Labor winds 5 to 10 mph. Tuesday Clinton walked a street Monday ing people here deal with the covery work in Florida demon- Secretary Robert Reich and peace plan night, partly cloudy. Low SO where leafless palm trees tower aftermath of the hurricane. We strates "we have to look at these Housing and Urban Development to 55. Chance of rain 20 per- over boarded-up buildings as he are in this for the long run." things not as a one-month or even Secretary Henry Cisneros to The Associated Press cent. Wednesday, variable pledged ongoing federal help to He said the reconstruction a one-year project. We have to cloudiness with a chance of demonstrate the administration's people still recovering from work offers a Labor Day lesson ask ourselves - and be honest broad-based efforts to help in the showers. High near 70. Hurricane Andrew. that "the government and the about it ~ how long does it take recovery effort. Chance of rain 40 percent. CAIRO, Egypt - Yasser Arafat "We will be with you from now people ... can work together as for people to recover from some- Clinton's visit came one year brought his campaign to sell the on," Clinton said after an emo- partners." thing like this and structure the after he came to Florida as a PLO-Israeli peace agreement to tional town meeting with South national response accordingly." presidential candidate to survey Egypt on Monday after receiving Inside the News Florida residents who recounted Later Monday, he was visiting Clinton praised the residents' damage from the nation's most lukewarm support in Syria their yearlong struggles to a boarded-up apartment complex tenacity and said he hoped people expensive natural disaster. The The agreement calls for Pales- restore homes and communities. in South Miami Heights that is in the Midwest who have been storm on Aug. 24,1992, caused an tinian self-rule in the Gaza Strip "Give us a chance to help. We can being rehabilitated as a joint flooded out of their homes will and the West Bank town of Jeri- Ashes to ashes...: make this come out all right." project of organized labor, the see "how far you can come in a The smoke stack across See Clinton, page five. cho - a small portion of the Arab from the Administration land Israel has occupied since Building on campus seems 1967. to be a health hazard, but Before arriving in Egypt, the University officials say it's only Arab country that has given not. What's the real story? wholehearted support to the plan, □ Page five. the PLO chief picked up en- dorsements for the accord from the Gulf Cooperation Council, a six-nation group lead by Saudi Arabia Outside campus It called the accord "a first step toward reaching a just, last- ing and comprehensive settle- ment to the Palestinian problem Patrol say DeWine's and the Arab-Israeli conflict." daughter driving too fast: In Syria, Arafat met for 6 1/2 XENIA -- Lt. Gov. Michael hours with President Hafez As- DeWine's daughter was sad, who asked to study the plan driving too fast for the wet more fully. The Palestine Lib- road conditions when she eration Organization took As- was killed in a collision, the sad's request as an expression of State Highway Patrol said support, with reservations, a PLO Monday. official said in Cairo, speaking on Trooper D.T. Heard at the condition of anonymity. Xenia post said the patrol determined that Rebecca A. If Assad's backing materi- DeWine was driving 55 mph alizes, it could help Arafat secure on Aug. 4 when her car went approval for the plan from the across the center line on a PLO's ruling Executive Commit- curve. The car hit a pickup tee. Hard-line PLO factions truck going 39 mph on U.S. based in Damascus are repre- 42 north of Xenia, Heard sented in the ruling body, and said Monday. Assad has influence over them, The speed recommended although he does not control on the curve is 25 mph, he them. said. The PLO Executive Committee Heard said Ms. DeWine meeting could begin this week. probably could have avoided Israel has already approved the the crash if the pavement deal. had been dry. He said she Radical Palestinian groups and was used to driving the even members of Arafat's own stretch of road in dry condi- faction have said the agreement tions and she didn't adjust contains no guarantees for a her driving habits to com- Palestinian state and avoids deal- pensate for the wet pave- ing with the status of Jerusalem, ment. The patrol found evi- Where's the sun? Israeli settlements and the 3.5 dence that she was using her million Palestinian refugees who brakes as she went into the Angela Kappcnhagen, 3, left, and her brother Tyrone, 5, seek shel- I Cleveland's near west side Friday. The rain Is expected to give live outside the occupied terri- impact. ter under a broken umbrella as they keep watch for a shower on | way to partly sunny skies today. tories. Ms. DeWine, 22, was the third oldest of the DeWine's See Egypt, page lix. eight children. DeWine's wife, Fran, said the family had not seen the results of the crash In- Copyright suit Federal improvement plan set vestigation and had no comment. filed against Gore to unveil sweeping government changes today Still on the loose: The Associated Press placed workers buyouts, early after delinquent taxes and fees. BUCYRUS, Ohio (AP) - A Wood Cable TV retirements, transfers and train- O Give federal bureaucrats Plymouth-area man who WASHINGTON - Vice Presi- ing for other public and private more flexibility to buy cheaper sector jobs. walked away from the min- by Sharl L. Veleba dent Al Gore said Monday the equipment, streamlining the cur- imum-security area at the courts reporter administration's "rock 'em, sock Some key recommendations rent system. Example: Allow Crawford County jail was 'em, shake 'em up" plan to would: agencies to make purchases still loose Monday evening, change the federal bureaucracy "I Cut wasteful and duplicative under $100,000, instead of the the sher if fs department Eight entertainment companies are suing area cable television will make the government work programs. Examples: merge the current $25,000 threshold. said. companies Including Wood Cable, Inc. and Wood TV Corp, 118 N. better and cost less. Government law enforcement functions of the O Give managers more power Charles R. Osborne, 29, Main St., for alleged copyright inf ringment. as it exists is "failing the Ameri- Drug Enforcement Administra- to hire and fire employees, de- was In jail for misdemeanor About 40 other Northwest Ohio cable companies and systems oper- can people," Gore said. tion with the FBI; close dozens of centralizing the current system. traffic violations when he ators are named in the complaint, filed Aug. 3 in U.S. District Court in The vice president, point man Department of Agriculture field Example: Reduce by half the walked away about 9 p.m. Toledo. on the proposal to make sweep- offices; eliminate the Food amount of time needed to fire Sunday, said Deputy Gail The suit is one of 90 filed across the nation against cable companies ing changes in the federal Safety and Inspection Service by federal managers. Cochran. Escape charges that seek a total of $15 million in compensation. government, Is scheduled to un- consolidating all food safety re- Many of the changes would up- were pending, she said. In the complaint, Columbia Pictures, Tri-Star Pictures, MGM Par- veil the blueprint In a White sponsibilities under the Food and set labor groups and step on the Local and state law en- amount, Twentieth Century Fox, Universal, the Walt Disney Com- House ceremony this morning Drug Administration. toes of legislators whose In- forcement authorities were pany and Warner Brothers allege the cable companies did not pay with President Clinton at his side. O Treat taxpayers like cus- fluence would be diminished by notified. royalties that should have been paid to them for programming. They The White House estimates tomers. Example: Allow people to changing the budget, personnel have filed similar suits in federal courts across the United States. savings at $108 billion over five pay taxes by credit card.