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Show September 24,1997 The Salt LakeTribune NATION Wednesd: Al0O Clinton Pushes Senate On Campaign Finance THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — President Clinton threatened Tuesday to call the Senateinto a special sion to consider a proposed over- haul of campaignfinancerulesif Republican leaders try to go home for the year without making nance reform in a meaningful way.” dentis willing to invoke his au- onCongressto stayin session until all of the critical elements are fully considered.’ With the Clinton threat in hand Senate Minority Daschle told reporters Leader Tom Daschle of South Dakota agreed to support the same Lott resolu- tionheangrilyrejected Friday. It thority under Article 2, Section 3 of the Constitution, that fear is no longer a real one. If the bill is brought up the day the Senate wants to recess, Clin- consideration on the Senate Majority any attempt to bring up campaign floor.” Clinton wrote to Senate Leader Trent Lott of Mississippi The president. whose own fund raising activities are under inves: tigation, warned, “If any attempt is made to bring this bill up in a manner that would precludesufficient time for debate, I will call Jury Will Decide Fate of Man Who Killed 2 Lesbians THE ASSOCIATED PRESS MEDFORD, Ore. — Roxanne Ellis’ pickup was full of Christ- John adjourns for the year and blocks finance overhaul legislation before that bill is considered ‘The concern we had [Friday] was that thebill would beoffered at thevery last dayor in the last week, leaving us virtually no opportunity to debate campaign-fi- decision on whetherto send another U.S. astronaut up to the shaky Russian space station Mir. If Goldin gives the go-ahead, astronaut David Wolf is scheduled to ride the space shuttle Atlantis into orbit Thursdaynight for a weekend rendezvous After meeting with his Russian counterpart, Yuri Koptev, in Moscow, Goldin said he won't make a sued a warning of his own “The president has a lot of issues that he would like for us to bill co-sponsored by Sen. Sensenbrenner, R-Wis., chairman of the House Sci- number of presidential initiatives up the bill. And after listing a MeCain, R-Ariz., and Russ Feingold. D-Wis., before the Senate This measure is of the utmost SERVICE with the Mir. pending before Congress, he is- importance. and it deserves full KNIGHT-RIDDER NEWS WASHINGTON — Facing continued congressional concern about safety. NASA Administrator Daniel Goldin on Tuesday delayed until the final hours his ton can extend the session Lott said on the Senate floor that he neverintended to wait until the end of the session to bring calls for the Senate to debate a time for debate and a vote Will Astronaut Join Mir? It’s Up in the Air With the assurance that we now have inthis letter, that the presi- final determination until he returns to the United Department investigation of fund States today and confers with NASA officials responsible for the shuttle-Mir program. A NASA spokesman said Goldin would announce his decision Thursday morning after studying the last of a series of safety reviews. Previously, NASA said the decision would be made Tuesday Wolf. who says he is “looking forward” to his trip, is to replace Michael Foale, who has survived a major collision and repeated lesser accidents during his four months on the 11-year-old Russian ship. dent Al Gore. the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, Rep. James work with him on,” Lott said. “Weintend to do that.” The bill would, among other things, ban unlimited “soft money” donationsto political parties. Such gifts have led to a Justice raising by Clinton and VicePresi- While the countdownfor the launch continued at ence Committee, renewedhiscall for Goldin to abandon Wolf's mission. Ps Appearing on NBC's “Today show Tuesday, Sen- senbrennercalled the risks aboard Mir “unacceptable.” If his advice is ignored, Sensenbrennersaid hewill summon Goldin before his committee to “explain why he has put David Wolf's life at risk.” Appearing on the same TV show, Norman Thagard, the first American astronaut to spend months aboard the Mir, said Wolf, a 52-year-old physician and researchscientist, should be allowed to stay on the Russian ship despite the risk. “If this were on a purely technical basis, I don’t think there’d be any question but David would be permitted to go to Mir,” Thagard said. “But when politicians get involved and questions other than purely technical ones are considered, then all bets are off, Thagardsaid astronauts are in greater dangerrid- ing the spaceshuttle into orbit than they are on Mir. The Russians hopeto keep their space station flying until at least 1999, when construction of the In- ternational SpaceStation is to be well under way. t Lg . fs id ie mas presents for her 2-year-old granddaughter on Dee. 4, 1995, when she drove to a suburban neighborhoodto showa housefor rent to a man from California. Instead, Robert Acremant was looking for money to start life over. A former accountant in Los Angeles, his life had fallen apart Hehad beenspurnedbya Las Ve- gas stripper and was drinking heavily. When Ellis showed Acremant the house, he pulled a gun and demanded she write a check. When she refused, he lured her companion and business partner, Michelle Abdill, to the house and demanded that Abdill write the check When Abdill also refused, Acremant bound themwith duct tape, ordered them to lie in the back of the pickup and shot them in the back of the head with a .25- caliber pistol. Acremant, 29, pleaded guilty last year to two counts of aggravated murder; jury selection in his penalty hearing began Tuesday in Jackson County Circuit Court. Jurors will decide if he should die or get life in prisun without parole. The slayings sent a shiver through thegayand lesbian com- munity of southern Oregon. Partners for 12 years, Ellis, 53, and Abdill, 42, had cared for AIDS victims and workedfor the defeat of a statewide measure to limit the rights of homosexuals. can't even tell you how frightening it was, especially for the lesbian community,” said Cherie Garland of Ashland, a member of Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays and a close friendof the victims At first, Acremant told police that he knewthe women were lesbians and figured they wouldn't haveanyfamilies to miss them. 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