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The Hawk Eye Thursday May 20, 1993

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Clinton sacks travel office staff

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WASHINGTON - The FBI will investigate the handling of funds in the White House travel office after the discovery that a lot of money cannot be properly accounted for, an official said today. The entire seven-man staff of the travel office was abruptly fired on Wednesday, ordered out of their jobs by the' end of the day. A 25-year-old cousin to President Clinton was named to oversee the day-to-day opera tions of the office. The fired employees were ac cused of shoddy accounting prac tices, mismanagement and pos sible overbilling. However, White House Press Secretary Dee Dee Myers acknowledged today that it was "impossible to know for sure" if there actually were any overcharges.

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billion, a final decision may be made soon on the future of America's space station. One thing is sure: It won't be the grand laboratory in space that Ronald Reagan envisioned. If there is a station and that's by no means certain the National Aeronautics -and Space Administration must set tle on a new and much cheaper design, then get it approved by a reluctant president, a hostile Congress and an irritated group of international partners. NASA is nearing a June 7 deadline, ordered by President Clinton, to produce a station design that cuts construction costs in half. Charles Vest, pres ident of MIT, was expected at the White House today to give officials a closed-door status briefing.

Prime minister steps down

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makers he hoped to break the; political paralysis in the formerSoviet republic.

KIEV, Ukraine Prime Min ister Leonid Kuchma resigned today after parliament refused to extend his decree-making powers and Ukraine's president requested near total control of the government. President Leonid Kravchuk, a former hard-line Communist and the first popularly elected president of Ukraine, told law

Clinton signs motor voter law

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WASHINGTON - President Clinton today signed the "motor voter" law requiring states to allow people to register to vote by mail, when applying for driv-1 ers' licenses and government benefits.

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Department of Natural Resources quality analyst Dennis McGeen, right, and Jim Anderson, executive vice president of the Lake Michigan Car Ferry Service, examine soil for contaminates a t the car ferry site in Ludington, Mich.

Pollution cleanup, not bulldozing, pushed

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property before selling it, is con sidering legislation that would LUDINGTON, Mich. - When give them financial help. And Sen. Frank Lautenberg, businessman Charles Conrad began trying to revive a D-N.J., has introduced a bill century-old car ferry service that calls on state and local across Lake Michigan from Lud governments to provide lowington to Manitowoc, Wis., he interest loans or grants to land owners to encourage them to found there was a catch. clean up contaminated property. After decades of industrial In return, states would certify use, Ludington's docking area the site is no longer tainted, so was contaminated with arsenic, the owners could sell or rede diesel fuel and other toxins. velop the land. Would the property's new own "There are literally tens of ers be responsible for scrubbing thousands of sites that contain the poisons from the soil? They weren't thanks to a small amounts of contamina 1991 Michigan law that allowed tion," Lautenberg said. "Many the state to cut a deal that are in extremely desirable loca shielded the new owners from tions. If we can get these sites liability. The revitalized S S cleaned up, we could put this Badger ferry, launched a year land to productive use." The Michigan law is dubbed ago, has become so profitable that Conrad and his partners "Polluter Pay" because it was are considering adding two more based on the premise that those who dump poisons should re ships. move them or.pay someone else "I don't think there's any to do it. It gives the state broad doubt that we'd never have got powers to assign responsibility ten this project off the ground" and demand payment for sites it without the no-liability pact, cleans. Jim Anderson, executive vice The state also can negotiate president of the Lake Michigan with buyers of tainted property Carferry Service, now in its sec not to sue for pollution that ond season. didn't happen on their watch. The Michigan law is part of a Before the law took effect, movement by state and local cleanups often came only after governments around the country long and expensive court bat to encourage businesses to rede tles. Since then, the Michigan velop tainted urban sites, rather Attorney General's Office has than pour concrete in unspoiled filed 26 lawsuits that resulted pastures or woods. in court orders to pay $12.3 In some cases, governments million to the state. About $4.4 are providing financial help, million has been collected. such as sharing cleanup costs. In other cases, they are guaran teeing developers immunity for pollution they didn't cause. "We have people volunteering to fix these places so they can refinance, sell, or develop the property further," said Michael 3160 Agency Street Rosen, manager of the volun Store Phone: 753-2810 tary cleanup section of Oregon's Prescriptions: 753-5129 Department of Environmental Quality. y*' Reg. or Diet New Jersey, which requires owners to clean up polluted

By John Flesher

WASHINGTON - A group of Iraqis jailed in Kuwait have told U.S. investigators they were, in fact, sent by Iraq to kill President Bush during his visit to Kuwait last month, a U.S. official says. The White House said earlier this month that it would con sider action against Iraq if it finds proof of its complicity in an assassination attempt. Iraq has denied any role in the al leged plot, accusing the United States of fabricating the inci dent as an excuse to attack Iraqi targets. Kuwait arrested 11 Iraqis after they drove in from Iraqi on April 13, and said the suspects planned to attack targets in Kuwait including Bush during his April 14-16 visit. Bush led the allies against Iraq in the Persian Gulf War. The main Iraqi suspect, Wali al-Ghazali, told a team of FBI and Secret Service agents in Kuwait that he planned to strap explosives around his waist and blow himself up next to Bush in a suicide bombing, said the of ficial, who spoke late Wednes day on condition of anonymity.

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CARACAS, Venezuela - A somber President Carlos Andres Perez, speaking before justices deciding whether to order him to stand trial on embezzlement charges, appealed to his .coun trymen today to remain calm. Perez faced the prospect of becoming the first Venezuelan leader to go on trial since the country became a democracy 35 years ago. He is accused of stealing $17.2 million in govern ment funds. Perez, speaking on the radio this morning, said: "Nothing will happen here, I have confi dence in the people."

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