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Paga design: Jenn MohaN LINCOLN JOURNAL-STAR Nation 10A MONDAY, JULY 30, 1995 Clinton, Dole to offer welfare plans Key papers were destroyed 1947 'Roswell Incident' BY ROBERT PEAR New Yori Times JA Bob Dole Bill Clinton ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) -Key military documents on the so-called Roswell Incident, cited by UFO buffs as an alien crash, appar-; ently were destroyed without authorization decades ago, a congressman said Saturday. Rep. Steve Schiff of New Mexico said a General Accounting Office report shed no new light on the 1947 trash and showed that important documents are missing. "Documents that should have provided more information were destroyed," Schiff said.

"The military cannot explain who destroyed them or why." Schiff said the GAO estimates the information was destroyed more than 40 years ago. The Air Force has said that the wreckage was probably a balloon launched as part of a classified government project to detect Soviet nuclear weapons. The GAO report, released Fri-', day, said that two government documents are the only official 'records remaining of the crash For nearly half a century, the mysterious crash has fueled speculation about aliens in the New Mexico desert. Cold War secrecy and a government cover-up. "The debate on what crashed at Roswell continues," the GAO report said.

It said the Roswell base's administrative records from March 1945 through December 1949 and its outgoing messages from October 1946 through December 1949 were destroyed. Those messages, internal military communications, would have shown how military officials in Roswell explained what happened to their superiors, the Republican congressman said. "My understanding is that these were permanent records which should not have been destroyed," Schiff said. Scientists and Pentagon officials have said an experimental aerial surveillance balloon crashed northwest of Roswell in 1947, but UFO buffs have contended that was a cover up for the crash of an alien space ship. conservative bill drafted by Gramm and a liberal alternative to be offered by Senate Democrats.

Dole's proposal, like the bill passed by the House in March, would give each state a lump sum of federal money, known as a block grant, to assist poor people. State officials would have far more discretion than they now have in deciding how to use the money. But poor people would no longer have a legal right, or entitlement, to assistance, and the federal government would put a cap on total spending, regardless of economic need. As they gathered in Vermont, governors of both parties said they favored welfare reform that left states with the most money available and the fewest restrictions on how to use it. Thompson said he continued to be concerned that some Republicans would load up any welfare reform bill with "conservative prescriptions," including work requirements or denials of cash to unwed mothers.

Each of those mandates he said, just like liberal mandates of the past, "limits our flexibility, our ability to get the job done." Senate Republicans have made progress toward resolving one bitter dispute holding up the issue, over how to divide up the federal money that would be turned over to states in the form of block grants. Senators from Sun Belt states had objected to the formula used in the House bill and in the Finance Committee bill, saying it made no allowance for population growth. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-Texas, said the Republicans had agreed on a formula to compensate high-growth states with a pool of money totaling $860 million over five years. "I believe it will be acceptable to everyone concerned," she said in an interview.

And Thompson said Saturday that Dole had assured him that under the new fiscal formula no state would get less federal money than it now received and that there would be increases for high-growth states like Florida and Texas. Clinton, a former governor of Arkansas, has often expressed support for governors seeking more flexibility to devise and run social welfare programs. In the president's speech Monday, administration officials said, he will propose expanding the authority of the secretary of health and human services to approve state welfare experiments. Administration officials said they hoped Clinton's proposals would enable him to regain control of an issue that he made a campaign priority in 1992. only to see Republicans claim it as their own after last year's elections.

WASHINGTON President Clinton and Senate Republican leader Bob Dole will offer competing proposals Monday to overcome a political impasse that has stalled welfare legislation for two months. The two men are scheduled to outline their proposals in speeches to the National Governors' Association, meeting in Burlington, Vt Gov. Tommy Thompson of Wisconsin, a Republican who is the group's incoming chairman, said he would work to line up support for Dole's plan. Administration officials said Saturday that Clinton, in an effort to recapture the initiative on welfare, would announce steps to encourage states to move more of their welfare recipients into jobs. Currently, fewer than 10 percent of the 5 million adults on welfare are employed.

He will offer states incentives to meet an ambitious new goal of putting substantial number of welfare recipients into jobs or programs that prepare them for work. States could choose a variety of strategies, including "workfare" or subsidies to private employee to hire welfare recipients. A senior administration official said Clinton also would give states more flexibility in running their welfare programs, a priority for gover- nors from both parties as well as for congressional Republicans. Dole, the front-running candidate for the Republican presidential nomination, has for several weeks been struggling to broker a compromise on welfare legislation. Bills approved by the House of Representatives and by the Senate Finance Committee are, in general, much tougher than Clinton's proposals and would set more stringent work requirements.

Dole's proposal builds on the measure approved in May by the Senate Finance Committee. A bloc of 24 conservative Republicans led by Sen. Phil Gramm. the Texan who is one of Dole's chief rivals for the party's presidential nomination, rebelled against that measure, forcing Dole to move to the right in his search for a Republican consensus. Aides to Dole said his plan would place him in the middle, between a near what was then the Roswell Army Air Force Base.

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