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P0TTSV1LLE (PA.) REPUBLICAN EVENING HERALD THURSDAY, JUNE 20, 1996 Senate votes to repeal military abortion ban Nation world briefing For updates of today's top stories, call: r. 628-6000 453-1000 462-3000 647-7575 889-5200 362-4000 773-2211 345-3200 Today's Headlines By John Diamond Associated Press WASHINGTON Abortion rights advocates won a rare victory in the Republican-controlled Congress as the Senate voted to allow abortions at U.S. military hospitals overseas. The 51-45 vote Wednesday would repeal a new law banning those abortions. But first the House and Senate must resolve their disagreement on the issue.

Last month a similar move in the House to overturn the abortion ban failed 225-192. Kate Michelman, president of the National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League, called the vote, "a welcome break from Congress' unprecedented assaults on women's reproductive freedom." Sen. Patty Murray, included the measure in the hospitals overseas, the policy has changed back and forth during the years. Murray and others argued that women have no safe alternatives when stationed overseas, and they framed that argument as one of basic fairness to women serving their country. Sen.

Barbara Boxer, D-Calit, said the largely male Senate needed to see the issue from a woman's perspective. $267 billion defense authorization bill for 1997. This year's defense authorization signed in January contained the Republican-backed ban on abortions at overseas military hospitals. Abortions long, have been banned at domestic military hospitals, on the assumption that military women or family members could go elsewhere for safe abortions. At U.S.

military 1016-1021 Perot, Simon team up on economics book 17 history of money and monetary policies from the gold coins of ancient Lydia to today's fluctuating currency markets. In the book's second part, they diagnose the illnesses facing the dollar and give their prescription: balance the budget, encourage long-term savings, reduce the trade deficit and perhaps most importantly Americans should do something about it, like organizing a civic program on the issue, writing Congress or the local newspaper. "Then go to the last page of your calendar and write: 'I helped- change the book concludes. Simon, who is retiring from early next year, has long supported a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution. He has earned a reputation as a "pay-as-you-go" Democrat who would rather raise taxes than rely on deficit financing.

Last June, in a report to the Senate, Simon discussed the dollar, the Japanese yen and the deficit. That drew Perot's attention, and Perot invited Simon to Dallas in August to address his United We Stand America organization. Soon after, Perot suggested they write a plain language economics book. "We've had a lot of fun," Perot said. Odd political couple offer easy-to-read solutions By Tom Strong Associated Press WASHINGTON A political odd couple by most standards, Ross Perot and Illinois Sen.

Paul Simon have teamed up to publish a plain-language prescription for the country's economic ills. Simon, a former newspaper editor, banged out a rough draft on his trusty manual typewriter. Perot suggested changes and, of course, supplied his trademark charts and graphs. The result: "The Dollar Crisis: A Blueprint To Help Rebuild The American Dream." Coming to bookstores soon, the 148-page paperback is their take on the dollar crisis and a public call to pressure political leaders to ensure economic security for future generations. The solutions are not new, but the authors believe it will take a major grassroots campaign by Americans before the country balances the budget, reduces the Associated Press Ross Perot, left, and Sen.

Paul Simon, head to a recent signing of their book on economic solutions. trade deficit, encourages savings, considers new tax policies and better trains its workers. In the book's first part, "What's the Problem?" the authors give a rapid-fire ValuJet to pay $2 million for inspections WASHINGTON (AP) ValuJet has agreed to pay $2 million toward the cost of federal inspections that identified a history of sloppy and skipped maintenance in the months before one of jts jets crashed in the Everglades. A Federal Aviation Administration document released Wednesday listed a host of incidents, unrelated to the May 11 crash that killed 110 people, in which ValuJet planes flew with faulty parts, without federally mandated inspections, or after being seniced by unqualified mechanics. Montana hearing set for Unabomber suspect HELENA, Mont.

(AP) A federal judge scheduled a Friday hearing to decide whether to transfer Unabomber suspect Theodore Kac-zynski, 54, to Sacramento, where he has been indicted for the 1 8-year bombing spree. The former math professor was indicted Tuesday in Sacramento on 10 counts of transporting, mailing and using bombs. The charges involve four Sacramento-linked attacks, two of them fatal. Handwriting helps police crack Zodiac case NEW YORK (AP) A detective assigned to a seemingly ordinary shooting in Brooklyn didn't immediately make the connection. Then, while looking at the suspect's written statement, he noticed strange scrawls including an inverted cross crowned by three Ts.

Detective Sgt. Joseph Herbert, who years ago worked on a task force hunting New York's infamous Zodiac killer, instantly flashed on the taunting letters the gunman had written. That coincidence, followed by a fingerprint match, helped crack the case of the killer who terrorized New York in the early 1990s, police said Wednesday. Bobby Fischer presents new chess game BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) Former world chess champion Bobby Fischer wants to bring the fun back into chess. To do it, he has created "Fischerandom," a computerized shuffler that randomly distributes chess pieces on the back row of the chess board at the start of each game.

That creates 960 possible variations of starting positions the first modification to the game in 500 years, the Argentine Chess Club said. U.S. won't deport Haitian fugitive from justice WASHINGTON (AP) The United States is refusing to deport to Haiti a fugitive from Haitian justice who is suspected of leading a terror campaign against pro-democracy forces at a time when he also was a paid CIA agent. Haitian government officials say the State Department's decision not to deport Emmanuel "Toto" Constant reflects its concern that he might reveal during court proceedings details about the CIA's role during the period of military rule in Haiti. Teen-ager uses computer to haul in fugitive ANTIGUA, Guatemala (AP) A year ago that nice Mr.

Young wired Sebastian Strzalkowski's computer for the Internet. Last month the good deed was Young's ticket to Miami. In handcuffs. Sebastian, a 14-year-old computer buff, found Bill Young's picture on the FBI's Web page three weeks after the family had signed up with an Internet service. The name attached to the picture was that of Leslie Isben Rogge, 56, wanted for a string of American bank heists.

He's been on the FBI's Most Wanted List for six years. Clinton adviser may be implicated in trial WASHINGTON (AP) Bruce Lindsey always was there for Bill Clinton an intense, bookish aide at the elbow of a rising political star. Now it's Clinton's turn to stand up for the man who's always stood by him. Prosecutors in the Little Rock, trial of two bankers are poised to implicate Lindsey in what they say was an illegal transaction involving Clinton's 1990 campaign for governor. Although Lindsey does not face charges, a defense attorney in the case said Wednesday the Clinton confidant will be named as an unindicted co-conspirator.

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