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Show The Salt Lake Ppbune NATION/WORLD Friday, February14, 1997 Clinton Budget Plan In Red, Congress Says KNIGHT-RIDDER NEWS SERVICE WASHINGTON — President Clinton’s proposed plan to balance the budget would fall short and leavea deficit of at least $49 billion, rather than a $17 billion surplus as promised, the director of the nonpartisan Congressional BudgetOffice said Thursday. liminary estimate as proof that reaching an agreement to balance the budget won't beeasy, despite an atmosphereof bipartisan cooperation. In outlining his plan, Clinton has avoided talk of sacri- fice or pain, preferring to focus on his proposals to cut taxes for the middleclass. The White House countered that its blueprint would balance the federal budget in 2002 and thatevenifit fell short, automatic triggers would kick in to raise taxes and slash almost all federal spending. The preview of upcoming budget negotiations wasset off by the testimony Thursday of Congressional Budget Office Director June O'Neill before the House Budget Committee. Her office uses more-cautious economic fore: than the about NAOC DeputyDi- Michael Jackson becamea fa- Medical Center. A hospital sour ther early Thursday when his will study ways to accommodate gave birth to a boy Budget Committee Chairman John Kasich, R-Ohio, agreed: “It area regularly. Just a few days earlier, IOC thetre for the arrival of the Glove Child —whosename, weight andlength weren't revealed shows we have much work to do President Juan Antonio Samar: joying the slope. served, it must be preserved, but actually, weekend skiers are en- Even though the president and Congress have dropped the parti- san rhetoric that surrounded their goyernment-closing stalemate a year ago, Kasich said the job of negotiating a detailed budget plan remains “veryhard.” White House spokesman Michael McCurrysaid Thursday the Clinton administration dent its economic for is confiare manager for public relations. Hesaid the run lies within anational park and on private land, which essentially we face is going to be a lot more peoplein this town think.” id Norihiko Ijima, means the committee's hands are tied ‘Each tree is designated as anch expressed frustration about difficult to accomplish than some morespectators “We can't accept cutting down the apparent contradiction “If the slope must be pre- before we're able to provide relief to hard-pressed families. It’s This is some- thing I don’t fully understand Samaranchsaidat IOC headquar- property for all the nation,” said Ijima. “It’s not only NAOC’s deci- ters in Lausanne, Switzerland. “It sion to cut downsuch important is a pity that the NAOC and FIS trees. have not yet found asolution.” Carrard tried to soften Samar- anch’s message, explaining that from far awa difficult” prob- lems sometimes canappear “rela- sport Deborah Rowe Jackson. The whirling dervish of pop music was in the delivery room “Words can’t describe how I feel,” Jackson saidin a statement “T have been blessed beyond com. prehension and I will work tire I at being thebest fatherthat I can possibly be.” confirmed the birth to the AP. Hospital spokesman Ron Wise said the Jacksons, withtheir new born, left the hospital about 8 a.m., destination unknown Jackson, 38, annou ced in Novemberthat Rowe, a 37-year-old nurse, was six months Lisa Marie Presley, divorced ear lier last year. RESIDENT'S DAY 997 AUDI SALE And McCurrysaid that thedifference between thetwoforecasts point,” he snapped. “I don’t think the question has any meaning Whilethe comments of Kobaya- lion out of a budget that would total nearly $2 trillion in 2002. “That's only a fraction of a dif- shi and Carrard may kill hopes of self-proclaimed lover of trees said Nagano maybe missing the bigger picture: “I’m sure those ference between the two sets of Clinton’s budget proposal could She warned that a complete analysis of the president's proposed budget due in the next sev- handle an unexpected deficit because it wouldincludea trigger mechanism. The proposed trigger would raise taxes by ending most of the new middle-class tax cuts and would automatically cut federal spending onall programs except Social Security by 2.25 percent — after Clinton hadleftoffice. koto Kobayashi bristled raising thestarting point, another potential conflict is brewing An FIS offi wanted more trees felled along the moguls coursein lizuna Kogen to create roomfor18,000 to 20,000 specta tors — 10,000 more than the course is designedto hold Naganocan“sell all the tickets it can print” for the moguls event if it will clear more trees, said John Johnston, head of the FIS freestyle committee On the day of the 1997 FIS Freestyle Ski World Champion ships, slightly more than 6,000 people watched mogul skiers rocket through the course. But many hadtostrain for a glimpse win a gold medal in the Olympics then you want as many peopleto Johnston, a Canadian and a trees will grow back again, but the Olympics only come once. 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But the question is: Am I the only mad person?” This message, South Korean officials said Thursday, was written by Hwang Jang Yop, 72, the rth Korean Communist Party elder whomthey claimto beprotecting inside the heavily guarded here. They also asserted that North Korean agents tried to break into the consulate building late Wednes- day night but were repulsed by Chinese securitypolice. North Korea stuck toits claims that Hwang had been kidnapped Caught uncomfortably in the middle of the bizarre cloak-and- dagger episode being played out in a tree-lined Beijing diplomatic enclave, China on Thursday ap: pealedfor calm. Chineseofficials wrestled with the question of what to do about a secretaryof theruling Worker's Party of Korea and the architect of its fanatically nation alist “juche” philosophyof ‘self. reliance.’ He reportedly walked into the South Korea consulate Wednesday, demandingpolitical asylum. In a brief statement, Foreign Ministry spokesman Tang Guoqiang gingerly avoided taking sides, e had not been informed in advance of Hwang Jang Yob's transit through Beijing,” said. Tang “What has been reported is still being subjectedto investiga tion and verification ‘The incident put Beijing in the awkward position of having to choose between its longtime Com: munist ally in North Korea, wherepeasants are reported near starvation, and South Korea which in 1996 recorded $20 bil lion in bilateral trade with China Westerndiplomats with experi ence on the Korean peninsula predictedthat if Hwang werere turned to North Korea, he would almost surely be killed Allowed to go to South Korea he would be debriefed, feted and showcased as the south’s biggest prize in the ongoing Cold War ben the two ethnic Korean Take an extra 5% off All permanently reduced red-lined w inter merchandise. Our entire winter inventory has already been reduced to 50%off the regular prices. Now save an additional 25% on winter merchandise in our Men’s, Women’s, Z-Attitude and Children’s departments. jursday began with allega tions from South Korean diplo mats that North Korean agents had tried to enter the two-story consulate building, now cordoned off and ringed with dozens of 1 Chinesesecurity police e have asked the Chinese government to protect our embas sy compound Koreans or ed,” against North anything unexpect said embassy spokesman Chang Moon Ik Except for a brief, wooden worded item in the English ver sion of the official New China News Agency, the ineident involv ng Hwang went unreported here °38,399° | AluminumSilver, Byzantine near Nagano, that is threatened BEIJING — Thenote, purportedly written by the highest-rank- Hwang, 24,999" Others: Emerald Green (3), White, Black, Byzantine LOS ANGE! eS TIMES. consulate pregnant with his child. They wedlater that month. Jackson and his first wife. selection. No charge scheduled maintenancefor 3 years or Pressed to explain the dilem ma, NAOC Director General Ma- took Rowe delivered without compli cations, the source said. “Wewill not raisethestarting rate profits. Korean which DayeStrong's is having asale andall new and used Audi's Senate Democratic Leader Tom Daschle of South Dakota said South arrival, see it as you can,” hesaid. “Thisis the chance. It’s a big deal.” is relatively small, only $66 bil- tively simple.’ Johnstontried to appealtothat samesense of national duty, ex plaining that Japanese mogul ski- ers are poised to dominate the wife, the place about 1 a.m. at Cedars-Sinai “If a Japaneseskier is going to more accurate than those in Congress. ‘We disagree with their analysisof the economy,” hesaid higher unemployment, slightly S. Korea Says Note Written By Defector cutting trees,” The Jackson camp was mum LOS ANGELES — The King of Pop hasanheir. rector General Naokichi Nishimurasaid, adding that organizers slower economic growth, and slightly lower wages and corpo- 2002 may not be mucheasier this year than last, partly because thereis oneless year to get there and partly because reaching THE ASSOCIATED PRESS “The Nagano Olympic Organiz- @ Continued from A-i assumptions and not any barrier to achieving an agreement about a balanced budget,” he said. 2002: “Balancing the budget by (S]gve Child: King of Pop’s ra Pop! ing Committeeis not considering ficult.” White House, predicting slightly eral weeks could show an even larger deficit than $49 billion in ofthe competition from between AOC, however, shows noincli nation to start up the chain saws. More Trees, Fewer Fans agreement on the hard choices will most likely continue to be dif- another indication that the task Republicans seized on the pre- Nagano: A3 a Ce Visit us onthe Internet al www.ecmi.com |