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Show DAILY HE1ALD At First call-u- More than 5600 soldiers willbe notified next week Robert Burns THE ASSOCIATED PRESS - It could i WASHINGTON be a weekend for thou- long sands of former soldiers. . The Army says it will begin notifying more than 5,600 of those soldiers next week that they are being involuntarily recalled to active duty and could be sent to Iraq or Afghanistan ' as early as this fall, i "There's going to be soldiers who, yes, will be shocked," said CoL Debra A. Cook, commander of the Army's Human Resources Command and the final arbiter of requests for ex- sult, small numbers of former soldiers have been called up, with little or no publicity. Tom Bunch of Chillicothe, Ohio, said in a telephone interview Wednesday that his son Jon, of Madison, Wis., was called up from the IRR m April and is due to fly to the Gulf on Friday. The younger Bunch was an active-dut- y artillery officer in 1998-9- 9 and then spent three years in the National Guard. The Army contacted him early this year about transferring from the IRR to the National Guard or Reserve, where, it was implied, he would be less likely to wind up in Iraq. "He thought he'd take his chances," so he stayed in the IRR, where his military commitment was due to expire next June, the elder Bunch said. "He didn't know if they were blowing smoke." ," Members of Congress were informed Tuesday of wjiat the Army called a "potentially emotional and historic1' decision to reach deeper into the Individual Ready Reserve. Some leading Democrats cited it as evidence that the Bush administration had underestimated the length of time and number of American troops it would take to stabilize and rebuild postwar Iraq. " . Rep. Ike Skelton, ranking Democrat on the House Armed Services Committee, said the mobilization was "a clear signal that we need to provide more troops to the overburdened U.S. Army." Skelton has led a push to in , emption. Most of the former soldiers recently left the Army as truck drivers, mechanics, supply clerks, administrative clerks or combat engineers. All win be kept on active duty for at least 18 months but not longer than two years. The first formal notifications are due to arrive in mailboxes on Tuesday. The call-u- p will be done in three increments from July to " Pecember. ' It is the first large-scal- e use of former soldiers in the Individual Ready Reserve since 1991. But it is not the first time the Army has clipped into this category of reserves for Iraq. Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld authorized the Army to do so in January. As a re crease the size of the active-dut- y Army, which Congress has mandated at 482,400. Once notified of their caO-ureservists win have 30 days to report to a mobilization station for actainistrative and medical checkups, then be sent for refresher training in their specialty before heading to Iraq or Afghanistan. The call-u- p is the first sizable use of the Individual Ready Reserve since 20,277 were mobilized (luring the 1991 Gulf War. Before that, the only other such call-u- was in 1968 during the Vietnam War. Army officials said Wi for Iraq v day another cau-uand Afghanistan is likely next f year. . . "We expect to call some f more," possibly thousands v more, for Iraq and Smi-Robert said I Afghanistan, ley, the Army secretary's prin-- f cipal assistant for troop training, readiness and mobilization. - The Army did not immediately offer a breakdown of the 5,674 soldiers being recalled. Raymond Robinson Jr., a senior personnel official at Army headquarters in the Pentagon, said many are from California and Texas. People in the Individual Ready Reserve are distinct . from the National Guard and Reserve because they do not ' perform regularly scheduled training and are not paid as reservists. They are eligible to be recalled in an emergency because they have not finished their reserve-dut- y commitment. p, p p state-by-sta- - - GOP split over tax cuts can't budget produce election-yea- r to reserves are Tuesday ps Thursday, July 1. 2004 blueprint of their tax and spending goals for the federal budget year that starts Oct. 1. WASHINGTON But it was an emotional fight . Republion Capitol Hifl. House Speaker can hopes of pushing a $2.4 trillion budget through Congress Dennis Hastert, accused moderate Sen. John McCain, have all but vanished, an elec- -' tion-yeof not understanding sacembarrassment forced rifice during wartime, promptby an angry rift between GOP the former Vietmoderates and conservatives ing McCain nam POW to question his over tax cuts. Though Republicans control party's desire to reduce deficits. GOP leaders wont definitive-l- y thelHouse and Senate, they alcall the budget dead, though most certainly win fail to commost lawmakers rate the plete one of Congress' most chances for passing one this raising questions about the GOPs ability to manyear as slim to none. In tacit acknowledgment, both chambers age its narrow majorities.. Without a budget. Congress have begun writing the 13 annual spending bills for next year can still pass spending biHs to a job that normally awaits keep agencies functioning, and tax cuts, too. But Republicans completion of a budget. lose the procedural advantages "It's on life support at this that make it easier to cut taxes, point," said Sea Rick Santorum raise the federal borrowing limof Pennsylvania, a Senate GOP it and keep spending bills' costs leader, "They're trying. I don't see any avenues, but Don's kw. "This is a battle within the Re- come up with avenues before when I didrlt see any." publican Party about whether "Don" is Senate Budget Comdeficit reduction or smaller government should be the dominant mittee Chairman Don Nickles, ' who wanted to cap his ideology," said Brian RiedL, budget analyst for the conservative congressional career with a budget in place when he Heritage Foundation. Conservatives say cutting taxes will retires in January. Nickles has force lawmakers to make govmet repeatedly with warring ernment smaller. GOP factions and party leaders "Because the Republican Parso far for naught. "I had some great ideas at ty is not united on that issue, there are going to be break3:30 this morning" about resolvdowns," he said. ing the dispute, he said recently. With war, terrorism and the "I just about convinced myself , economy stealing the headlines, but I haven't been able to confew voters are likely to notice vince anybody else so far." whether lawmakers finish a Nickles has told colleagues he Alan Pram ASSOCIATED PRESS THE ar , 24-ye- . "This is a battle within the Republfcan Party about whether deficit reduction or smaller government should be the dominant ideology." Brian Jtiedl Heritage Foundation analyst is "out of options" for resolving the dispute, said a lawmaker speaking anonymously. Underscoring the political potential a budget stalemate can offer, Santorum and other Re-publicans jumped on the last one in 2001 They brought a pack of bloodhounds to a news conference where they blamed that, year's Democratic-le- d Senate for the impasse and coaxed the dogs to "find the budget, hoys." With deficits soaring to record levels, this year's snarl occurred when McCain and three other moderate GOP senators demanded a requirement that any future tax cuts be paid for with spending cuts or tax increases. Joining him were Sens. Lincoln Chafee, phis Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins, both Conservatives just as stiffly opposed anything that could stifle the tax reductions they and President Bush cherish. "We've probably reached the end of the line," said Snowe. . No mad cow disease found in cow singled VAr II C LOOK FOR OTHER GREAT SAVINGS STOREWIDE! I out in testing H. Josef Hebert THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON No sign of mad cow disease was found in an animal singled out in preliminary screening last week and then subjected to a follow-uchemical test, the Agriculture Department said Wednesday. Officials declined to provide additional information about the animal. Test results on a second animal that was possibly being infected will not be ready for a few days. 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The initial screenings on these two animals have raised concern in the industry about the potential effect on the talks, though Clifford sought to play that dowa He said officials have made clear to US. trading partners that inconclusive test results does not necessarily mean that a cow, is infected. The government plans to screen 268,000 animals in the next year to 18 months. , |