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WASHINGTON — With near-
record deficits on the horizon, a
senior House Republican says he
will push for a constitutional
amendment that would force
Congress to balance the federal
budget.
"Without that kind of discipline,
I’m afraid that we'll have deficits
as far as the eye can see," said
Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner of
Wisconsin. His amendment would
include an exception for war or
national emergencies.
Sensenbrenner plans hearings
to help flesh out details such as a
reasonable deadline for a bal-
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WASHINGTON — Environmental
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rescue 171 sailors, hikers,
downed pilots and others across
the United States last year.
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that Iraq is in possession of undeclared "We cannot get ourselves into a situation officials said.
chemical warheads, which the United where the Council just, in the presence of
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chemical warheads in an Iraqi bunker troubling and serious.”
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initial evidence suggested at least 11 had wasn't certain whether Iraq had declared in reports to the United Nations though loaded with conventional explosives,
them but said they should be destroyed, they were riot for chemical or biological which are a common battlefield weapon.
The comments came a day after weapons. Iraqi Officials, who maintain This class of rocket, when loaded with
weapons production effort the United on Jan. 27, even as the United States the condition of anonymity, said evidence counted for, according to inspectors.
Also Thursday, inspectors took 3,000
in excellent condition, is noncooperation, just wants to not do any- their tests determined any agents were
ever inside the warheads.
Iraq is allowed to have artillery rockets
the government of builds its forces in the Persian Gulf for a suggests at least 11 of the warheads were
" possible war. never loaded with any chemical agent, pages of mostly Arabic documents relat-
The Council "will have to make its Whether the 12th — which was taken for ed to Iraq’s nuclear program from the
to what it should or tests by U.N. inspectors — had ever con- Baghdad home of Iraqi physicist and
States accuses t
Saddam Hussein of operating.
“The chemical warheads found by the
inspectors were not — not — on the own judgment as
declared list of weapons that Iraq issued should not do,” Powell said. However, he tained any chemical agent was unknown, laser expert Faleh Hassan.
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each of the next two years. That
figure doesn't include any spend-
ing on war or President Bush’s
proposed $674 billion tax cut over
the next 10 years.
Columbia crew settles
into its space laboratoiy
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. —
Space shuttle Columbia’s U.S.-
Israeli crew settled into its 180-
mile-high laboratory Friday and
started work on dozens of experi-
ments on such things as spiders,
flowers and cancer cells.
“We’re having a great time and
starting to get things squared
away where we can move around
and really get settled in,” com-
mander Rick Husband said one
day into the 16-day flight.
The astronauts turned on a pair
of Israeli cameras to measure
desert dust in the atmosphere
over the Mediterranean and
Atlantic. Tel Aviv University scien-
tists are interested in learning
how migrating plumes of dust
affect climate. Besides eight
Australian "astrospiders” — gar-
den orb weavers known for their
perfect and well-kept webs —
Columbia is carrying ants, carpen-
ter bees, fish embryos, silk-
worm?, mealworms and rats. All
were reported in good shape.
Senators hope to learn
more on missing pilot
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Two
senators leaving Saturday for the
Middle East say they hope the trip
yields information on the fate of
missing Navy pilot Michael Scott
Speicher, whose plane was shot
down over Iraq in 1991.
Sens. Bill Nelson, D-Fla., and
Pat Roberts, R-Kan„ did not
announce their exact itinerary.
“I can tell you that at each step
Pat Roberts and I will be taking up
the Speicher issue,” Nelson said.
Nelson and Roberts, now chairs
the Senate Intelligence
Committee, will be traveling with
eight other senators for diplomat-
ic, military and intelligence briefin-
gs prior to a possible war with
Iraq. The pair have been investi-
gating the case of Speicher, an F-
18 pilot from Jacksonville who
was originally declared killed in
action on the first night of the Gulf
War. He was later reclassified as
missing in action.
Calif, court to decide if
violent poeby criminal
SAN FRANCISCO — A teenager
who was expelled and convicted of
a crime for writing violent poetry at
school has taken his case to
California’s Supreme Court in a dis-
pute over the limits of free expres-
sion in a post-Columbine world.
Five of the seven high court Jus-
tices agreed Wednesday to hear
the case involving George T„ who
was 15 when he was expelled
from Santa Teresa High and pros-
ecuted under a criminal threats
law. The San Jose boy, whose
name has been withheld because
he is a minor, was sentenced to
100 days in a juvenile hall in
2001.
In the boy’s poem, he threat-
ened to bring guns to school and
kill students. His attorney, Michael
Kresser, said the boy's prosecu-
tion was an exaggerated response
to student attacks like the 1999
Columbine High bloodbath that
left 15 people dead.
Kresser said Thursday that the
poem was artistic self-expression
and that George T. was prosecut-
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never been loaded with killer agents.
U.S. officials said the warheads, dis-
covered Thursday by United Nations Secretary of State Colin Powell told for- the country has no prohibited weapons, chemical agents, can fly only a few miles,
inspectors, are a violation of a U.N. man- ejgrl journalists “we believe that a per- said they were surprised at the furor ere- Before the Gulf War, Iraq had tens of
date that Iracj possess no chemical, bio- suasive case will be there at the end of the ated by the discovery. thousands of these rockets, including
, . M t State Department spokesman Richard some loaded with the nerve agent sarin.
U.N. weapons inspectors. Boucher said "to have the Iraqis act sur- Some were destroyed during the war, oth-
The inspectors are to make a prelimi- prised just doesn 't wash." ers during the post-war U.N. inspection
scale covert chemical and biological nary report to the U.N. Security Council A U.S. defense official, speaking on process. But thousands remain unac-
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The department will officially “Overall it’s been too weak,"
come into being next Friday, Sen. Joe Lieberman, D-Conn., a
Ridge, in a hearing before the although it won't assume opera- presidential hopeful, said of the
WASHINGTON (AP) — Tom committee Friday morning, said tional control of the agencies until administration’s record on home- Democraticattempttoadd$5bil-
Ridge sailed tlirough Senate con- “terrorism directly threatens the March 1. The government has yet land defense. "Its vision has been lion to this year's budget for
finnation hearings Friday on his foundations of our nation” and to decide where the headquarters too blurry and its willingness to homeland security, primarily to
way to becoming the nation's first eradicating that threat will be "a will be. Ridge is a former con- confront the status quo, including fund programs at the state and
Homeland Security Department long struggle." gressman and governor of with resources, has been too lim- local levels. “I hope that this
chief and taking on tlie task of Lawmakers said the fight Pennsylvania who since the Sept,
harnessing a giant federal bureau- should not come at the expense of 11, 2001, attacks has been
cracy responsible for protecting civil rights or the free flow of President Bush's chief adviser on day after the Senate rejected
commerce. homeland security.
"y While there was no dissent over
The White House projected this doing things will be enormously of our task” of bringing together Ridge 's qualif ications for the job,
we®k J^aJbud8et 7'11 leap difficult to change,” Sen. Robert 22 federal agencies with 170,000 senators used the four-hour hear-
u.u.__or. ... Bennett, R-Utah, told Ridge employees to lead the security ing to question the administra-
before the Senate Governmental campaign. The new department, lion’s anti-terrorism policies and
Affairs Committee unanimously he said, “will not in and of itself ask how the focus on homeland
approved him for the new cabinet be able to stop all attempts by security could affect civil liber-
post. The full Senate is expected those who wish to do us harm."
to vote on the nomination next ~
Tuesday.
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