A The Daily Herald m m " I i i White Hous Police search for pregnant child default co at end of February 1 A 10 vearold who is 8 12 months pregnant ran away trom a youth center, prompting a police search and raising fears that she will attempt to have the baby without medical supervision. The child came to the attention of state caseworkers Jan. 12, when she posed as a and tried to apply for welfare benefits tor herself and the child she is car rying- -- I 'A tit I By JOHN D. McCLAIN Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON Unless the 4ebt limit is raised by the end of February, the government will default for the first time on its financial obligations, including Social Security and other benefits for millions of Americans, the Clinton administration - The girl, who was taken into state custody and examined by a doctor, disappeared from a youth shelter Sunday morning. says. But congressional Republicans dismissed the warning Monday from Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin and said there would be no immediate action to increase the government's $4.9 trillion borrowing authority-Ho- She lust has no idea what she is in. for," said Children's Tuesday, January 23, 1996 i TT HOUSTON (AP) J i ; Protec- tive ;Services spokeswoman Judy Hay.; "With a body trying to have a baby she's defi nitely in tor some problems. She needs to be under medical care'." use Speaker Newt Gingrich questioned Rubin's credibility and said he wanted to hear instead from President Clinton. Ford calls back 42,700 vehicles i -- i Mini .. "Secretary Rubin doesn't have, frankly, very much standing up here right now to tell us when the debt ceiling is expired, because the fact is each time he has told us, it has disappeared said. again," Gingrich, Although the debt ceiling cri- n ..in- AP Photo DEARBORN, Mich. (AP) Ford Motor Co. is recalling 42,700 1995 and 1996 Lincoln Continentals to fix a problem that can cause the cars' headlights to turn off without warning. The problem has occurred with Continentals with the "autolamp" feature a switch that makes the headlights go on automatically as it gets dark and turn off when the driver leaves the car. Ford said Monday that a problem with the autolamp system can cause the headlights to turn off unexpectedly. The problem doesn't occur when the regular headlight switch is used to turn on the lights, the automaker said. Pucker up! Flathead County Commissioner Sharon Stratton applies a coat of lipstick before taking her turn to kiss a pig Saturday on the steps of the county cour thouse in Kalispell, Mont. Stratton and the county superintendent of schools "won" the right to kiss the little porker for the sake of the United Way. sis has become mired in the budget deficit impasse between Clinton and the Republican-ru- n Congress, economic analysts Utah houses almost half of U.S. chemical weapons By ROBERT BURNS AP Military Writer Ford said no accidents or injuries caused by the problem have been reported. A decade WASHINGTON after it was ordered by Congress to destroy its chemical weapons, the Army is making public how many and what types it has. All are to be destroyed by the year 2004 at a cost of $12 billion. The previously secret figures show a little over 30,000 tons of nerve and blister agents in what the Army calls its stockpile. That is about what observers had widely assumed before Monday's disclosures. Burns reportedly sick, near death NEW YORK (AP) George Burns is too weak to eat and near death, and the gravity of his condition is being hushed up, New York Post columnist Cindy Adams reported today. The comedian, who turned 100 on Saturday, "is not eating. He is not taking solid foods. Not that he doesn't want to. He is not able," Adams reported. '"The possibility is he will be placed on intravenous feeding shortly. There has been a debate among his closest as to whether this should be done. The truth of his condition is being kept quiet," she wrote. "He is barely remaining alive." The comedian's manager, Irving Fein, said Saturday that Burns was weak and "not eating much." The columnist, wife of comedian Joey Adams, also reported that Burns is confined to bed and hardly responded to Fein and old friend Barry Merkin, who visited him on his birthday. The total chemical weapons stockpile consists of 30,600 tons of unitary (single component) agent and 680 tons of binary components, which become deadly on when the two compounds are mixed. Utah's Tooele Army Depot has 13,650 tons of the chemical agents 43.6 percent of the nation's total stockpile. Russia, the only other country to acknowledge having chemical weapons, has put its total at 40,000 tons. The United States is helping Russia destroy them. Less well known was the amount of chemical agents the Army counts separately from its stockpile. There are, for example, , more than 13,600 tons of chemicals in a category that includes materials used for testing and materials and weapons obtained from other countries during wars, officials said. In a few cases, the Army doesn't even know what chemicals are in these weapons. Also not counted in the 30,000 tons are agents used in the Army's chemical defense program. These total nearly 10,000 tons and are stored at Aberdeen Proving Ground in Maryland and at Dug-wa- y Proving Ground in Utah. They are used to validate the Army's chemical defenses such as protective clothing for the battlefield. Bryan Whitman, a Pentagon spokesman, said the Army may keep as much as one ton for its chemical defense program. Every other category of chemicals will be destroyed. By far the most common chemicals in the U.S. arsenal are the mustard agent HD and nerve agents sarin and VX. The only examples of mind-bendin- drugs g holding the debt ceiling hostage" to the budget deficit impasse, said economist David a Wyss of Lexington, Mass., forecasting firm. "All it can do is raise of the type that caused great controversy in the 1970s when it was revealed the Army had experimented with them on humans, are small amounts of BZ stored at Aberdeen and Dugway. The chemical agents stockpiled at the Tooele depot include about 5,695 tons of HD, 6,045 tons of sarin and 1,356 tons of VX. The depot has only about 34 tons of the 680 tons of binary agents. Some 77 percent of the chemical agents at Tooele are stored in ton containers, but the depot stores more than 1.1 million weapons containing agent. The greatest number of these are 105mm projectiles and cartridges, but there also are bombs, rockets, spray interest rates, and that is not in anybody's interest." "An extension of the debt limit will probably be with conditions on it to allow each side to save face," added Laurence Meyer, head of a St. Louis forecasting service. Gingrich said that if a extension is sent to the White House, Clinton would have to accept limits on future debt-lim- it spending. "He has an obligation to put on the table what substantial reforms he is prepared to sign as part of getting a debt ceiling, and in the absence of that frankly we are temporarily at an impasse," Gingrich said. of oth- tanks, mines and projectiles er sizes. Regulators at the Utah Division of Solid and Hazardous Waste had known the figures before, said Scott Anderson, manager of the hazardous waste branch. The United States never used any of the more than 3 million chemical weapons it built. You're Gonna Wish You'd Bought Your Sofa At. IT UP TO When you need lighting & electrical You need Debenham!! I fillip '1,1'" 25 Styles Available 1000 Fabrics Starting At: low-inco- reached its $4.9 trillion limit on borrowing authority in November, Rubin has kept the government afloat by using money from federal employee retirement funds to meet obligations and depositing federal lOUs in its place. 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