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...alleged thatVietnamese officials are holding the remains of up to 400 U.S. servicemen. Assistant Secretary of State Winston Lord testified that there was no evidence to back up such a claim, and that Vietnam lacked an incentive to do so in any case. Even so, Committee Chairman Benjamin Gilman (R-N.Y.) threatened to withhold funds needed to open a U.S. embassy in Hanoi -- an option that Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole is also weighing. Rep. Bob Dornan (R-Calif.), a Republican presidential candidate, delivered a characteristically vituperative half-hour speech. "Clinton does not have the moral standing to touch...
...Currently, dozens of colleges and universities across this country, including the prestigious ones such as Harvard and Yale, blatantly discriminate against students willing to serve their country, and it is so aggravating to this member," said Rep. Gerald H. Solomon (R-N.Y.), who co-sponsored the bill with Rep. Richard Pombo (R-Calif...
...Amato (R-N.Y.) announced that he would begin Whitewater hearings July 18, looking into whetherWhite House officials improperly handled Vincent Foster's papers after the attorney's apparent suicide. (Whitewater prosecutors are already investigating whether White House aides committed a crime by removing tax-related papers -- since recovered -- from Foster's office two days after he was found dead July 22, 1993.) D'Amato, who expressed frustration earlier this year that the Simpson trial was getting the kind of coverage his hearings deserve, promised further sessions through the end of 1995 and perhaps into election year...
Saying that the "deliberate, disgusting, revolting conduct" of AIDS patients causes the illness, Sen. Jesse Helms (R-N.C.) called for a reduction infederal funding for AIDS.As expiration nears for the $880 million Ryan White Care Act of 1990, which provides money for AIDS treatment, Helms said the disease consumes a disproportionate amount of federal funding, considering that it is only the ninth leading cause of death in the U.S. Helms denies accusations that he is trying to stop reauthorization of the White Act altogether. Reaction was swift from Jeanne White-Ginder, the mother of the act's namesake...
...audition as a deficit-fighter. Top Republicans now say they believe his alternative 10-year timetable relied onoverly-optimistic economic scenarios and failed to cut Medicare and social services enough."I don't believe it comes close to balancing in 10 years," said Senate Budget Committee Chairman Pete Domenici (R-N.M.). The White House, which plans to market Clinton's ideas as the more humane route to fiscal responsibility, immediately fired back. "They can't pass a budget over a veto," White House budget chief Alice Rivlin told reporters. Clinton has already alienated congressional Democrats by compromising so much...