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Wednesday January 24, 1996 Internet Edition Fax FROM Eight pages © 1996 The New York Times FROM THE FRONT PAGE President Takes Tack Clinton Declares ‘Big Government’ Era Over Of a Front-Runner WASHINGTON — Offering his own clean up abandoned industrial sites. idea of limited government to compete And the President resurrected a WASHINGTON — President Clin- with the Republican vision, President theme of his 1992 campaign, saying ton gave a front-runner’s speech Clinton Tuesday night challenged the that citizens must share responsibility Tuesday night, the speech of a candi- nation to provide enough educational with their government, urging families date confident that he is ahead. opportunities, economic security and to make efforts to stay together, watch In a State of the Union Message freedom from crime to allow Ameri- closely over their children and end do- that proposed an agenda cans to make the most of an “age of mestic violence. News not only for this year but possibility.’’ “To improve the state of our union, Analysis also for the second term In an election-year State of the Union we must all ask more of ourselves,’’ Mr. that Mr. Clinton hopes Message, Mr. Clinton separated him- Clinton said. “We must expect more of to win in November, he self decisively from Democratic ortho- each other and we must face our chal- dwelt only briefly on the protracted doxy, twice pronouncing that the “era of lenges together.’’ struggle over the budget. He sounded big government is over.’’ “The era of big government is over,’’ almost as if the fight was over. In his He outlined seven areas of challenge he continued. “But we cannot go back prepared text, he told Congress and for the nation and a number of small to the time when our citizens were left the nation, “I am convinced we will steps that the Government might take to fend for themselves. We must go for- balance the budget and make perma- to allow its citizens to help themselves, ward as one America — a nation work- nent deficits yesterday’s legacy.’’ ranging from a $1,000 merit scholar- ing together, to meet the challenges we Then he hurried on to the future, ship for the top 5 percent of graduates face together. Self-reliance and team- setting out a series of challenges that from each public high school to an work are not opposing virtues — we he said the nation faced in what he F.B.I.-waged war on youth gangs and to must have both.’’ termed this “Age of Possibility.’’ targeted tax credits for companies that By ALISON MITCHELL That future, the President said again and again, using various Wary of Attack, U.S. Bolsters Security in Bosnia metaphors and examples, could only be achieved by teamwork between Re- SARAJEVO, Bosnia and Herzegov- political leaders. The other reason publicans and Democrats, between ina — American forces in Bosnia cited in intelligence reports was the Federal and state and local govern- have heightened security after intel- American pressure on the Bosnian ments, between government and the ligence reports suggested that mili- Government to expel the foreign vol- private sector. He set himself against tant Muslim groups were planning unteers from Islamic countries who “division, discrimination and rancor’’ terrorist attacks against American have trained Bosnian troops and and argued that “self-reliance and targets in Bosnia. fought alongside them. teamwork are not opposing virtues.’’ The reports said the attacks were in- On Sunday the Islamic Group, an Mr. Clinton has spent the last year tended as retaliation for the life sen- Egyptian militant organization that facing a hostile Congress. But unlike tence given to Sheik Omar Abdel Rah- considers the Sheik a spiritual leader, many of his predecessors, notably man by a Federal judge in New York vowed in a statement that it would set Harry Truman, who found them- this month. He was convicted of plot- its sights on the United States in re- selves in a similar situation, he chose ting terrorist acts aimed at New York taliation for the Sheik’s sentence. not to lambaste the Republicans City landmarks and conspiring to kill By CHRIS HEDGES Tuesday night. Instead, he took the high road, referring only obliquely to Japan’s Trade Surplus Decreased in 1995 his differences with the House and Senate, as when he said the nation TOKYO — Japan’s giant overall and imports, fell 11.4 percent in 1995 could not “go back to the era of fend- trade surplus shrank in 1995 for the to $107.1 billion, from $120.9 billion in ing for yourself.’’ first time in five years, led by a sub- 1994, the Ministry of Finance reported The President left it to his chief of stantial narrowing in the politically early Tuesday. staff, Leon E. Panetta, to put that sensitive gap with the United States. Behind the decline was the rise of point in robust language. Many analysts say the decline is the Japanese yen in recent years, The Republicans, Mr. Panetta sug- likely to continue, and help ease ten- which encouraged imports of every- gested at a pre-speech briefing, sions with the nation’s trading part- thing from American personal com- wanted to take the country back to ners and help keep the dollar strong. puters to Australian beef, while the law of the jungle, “the survival The Government reported Tuesday crimping Japan’s exports of such prod- of the fittest.’’ that Japan’s merchandise trade sur- ucts as cars. By R. W. APPLE Jr. plus, the difference between exports By ANDREW POLLACK Fax Wednesday, Jan. 24, 1996 2 INTERNATIONAL China Rattles Its Saber to Curb Taiwan Briefly Noted BEIJING — The Chinese leadership Administration has “no independent S. Korean Ex-President Indicted has sent unusually explicit warnings confirmation or even credible evidence’’ TOKYO — South Korean prosecu- to the Clinton Administration that that the Chinese are contemplating an tors indicted former President Chun China has completed plans for a limit- attack on Taiwan, and spoke almost Doo Hwan Tuesday for overseeing the ed military attack on Taiwan that dismissively of the prospect. massacre of hundreds of pro-democra- could be launched in the weeks after “They can fire missiles, but Taiwan cy demonstrators in 1980. Taiwan’s President, Lee Teng-hui, wins has some teeth of its own,’’ the official The massacre, in which young the first democratic balloting for the said. “And does China want to risk demonstrators in the city of Kwangju presidency in March. that and the international effects?’’ were shot and clubbed to death, The purpose of this saber-rattling is By PATRICK E. TYLER shocked the world. The indictment of- apparently to prod the United States fers a reminder of how harsh repres- to rein in Taiwan and its leader, Presi- U.S. Regrets Hiding Arms sion, even if it seems successful initial- dent Lee, whose push for greater inter- ly, can fester beneath the surface and national recognition for the island of WASHINGTON — The United bring down dictators many years later. 21 million people, has been condemned States formally apologized to Austria here as a drive for independence. Tuesday, saying it failed for four Panel Urges British Policy Shift While no one familiar with the decades to inform successive govern- BELFAST, Northern Ireland — The threats thinks China is on the verge of ments about 79 secret arms caches set international commission for disar- risking a catastrophic war against Tai- up on Austrian soil by the Central In- mament in Northern Ireland has rec- wan, some China experts fear that the telligence Agency. The caches of guns, ommended that Britain drop its de- Taiwan issue has become such a test of ammunition and explosives were mand that the Irish Republican Army national pride for Chinese leaders that stashed in remote areas in the early begin to disarm before its political the danger of war should be taken seri- 1950’s to support an underground net- arm, Sinn Fein, is allowed to take ously. work of partisans in the event of a So- part in full-fledged peace talks, offi- A senior American official said the viet invasion. cials said Tuesday. The commission, headed by former Senator George J. Mitchell of Maine, has also recommended that Sinn Fein Proposed Kenyan Press Laws Draw Fire give new assurances that the I.R.A.’s NAIROBI, Kenya — The Government governing Kenya African National cease-fire, now in its 17th month, is is moving to enact two laws that jour- Union have a comfortable majority in permanent and that the overwhelm- nalists here say would muzzle indepen- Parliament, so the laws are expected to ingly Roman Catholic organization dent newspapers. The proposals have be passed. The proposals have drawn a has no intention of resuming its vio- stirred a political storm in this East barrage of criticism from civil-rights lent campaign in the predominantly African country, where journalists have lawyers, editors, reporters and Western Protestant province. had increasing freedom since the Gov- diplomats. ernment first held multiparty elections “This council has been given too much Tainted Campaign Money Alleged in 1991. power,’’ said Joseph Odindo, the editor BOGOTA, Colombia — Colombia’s One proposed law would set up a 13- of the weekly The East African. “In politics have been thrown into turmoil member press council and give it the some cases they have more power than by a former senior official’s charges power to license journalists. The council a court of law. ’’ that President Ernesto Samper know- would be able to strip reporters of their Attorney General Amos Wako denied ingly received contributions by drug licenses or bar them from working if that the Government would use it to si- traffickers to his 1994 campaign.