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Show The Salt Lake Tribune NATION/WORLD Tuesday, January 19, 1999 Last year days after the Monica Security system rather than on gave his State of the Union speech and, to the surprise of some, made no mention of the scandal. Last year, more than 53 million aheadbeusedto rescuethe Social Republican-supported tax cuts. But he is not expected to offer a specific Social Security fix. Hiring new teachers School consiruction subsidy College mentor program Child labor Jobtraining increase Africa trade boost Fast-track trade authority IMF funding Patientbill of rights Medicare expansion Tobacco regulation Family leave expansion Child care credits, grants Juvenile crime bill Clearingjudicial nomination backlog NATO expansion Bosnia peacekeepers funding Test bantreaty ratification Americans watched Clinton's address, which was about a third Clinton wil! deliver the speech in decidedly odd circumstances, with his lawyers having spent the more than the year before. This year he may surpass that number, because Americans want to see if Republicans refuse to applaud, refuse to stand up, or turn their day opening his defense in the Senate. He will be standing in the House of Representatives, where backs. Clinton’s aides have signaled he was impeached last month. He must face membersof the Senate, that he will ignore the Lewinsky scandalagain on Tuesday, but one also said: “You know this guy. When hegives a speech, it is his who aresitting in judgment of him and mayultimately vote on whether to remove him from of- fice. And in the front rowwill be speech, and evenhis speech writ- Chief Justice William Rehnquist, whopresides over Clinton's im- U.N. debt payoff ers don't know exactly how it’s going to comeout because he insists peachment trial. Therewill be more than 270 Republican lawmakersin the room, manyof whom likelywill be less Campaign-finance reform Free TV time for candidates IRS reform oncontrolling it himself.” Clinton will propose several new initiatives, including increasing the military budget by $12 billion and spending $4.2 billion than enthusiastic in welcoming a president they consider a liar and a scoundrel whois guilty of high crimes and misdemeanors. It will be a tough crowd. Low-incomehousingincentives Clean water initiative Efficient energy incentives research increase over five years to aid Russia, Ukraine, and others in disman- tling nuclear weapons. The money also would heip implementstronger export controls to stop the Yet Clinton has refused to de- lay the address, even though some Democrats urged himto do so. “It’s. . . oneof his great joys in life,” a senioraide said, shrugging off the suggestion that Clinton spread of weapons. Regarding health care, Clinton will proposeincreasing the tobac- could wait until his Senatetrial has ended to give the speech. “If you waitedfor a time when nothing else was going on, you'd never Oneperson who will be absent from the chamber is Rep. Henry the health-related costs of smoking and to discourage teen-agers fromusing cigarettes. He also will propose a $1,000 tax credit to ing school districts accountable for student progress and reward- In education, he will urge mak- ing those districts that reject such policies as social promotion. He For criminal-justice improvements, Clinton will call for giving will also suggest tripling spending treat and punish drug-involved school programs. Other proposals will include providing newresources to com- impeachment managers making moneytostates andcitiesto test, gave his reasons on ABC's “Night- offenders, including thoseon pro- the case against Clinton. Hyde andretain policeofficers for after-school and summer- side-by-side pictures on its front page, one THE WASHINGTON POST virtual standstill for three days this week. The big problem now for Torontoniansis digging out from the mountain of ridicule heaped on that a coupleof pranksters snowmobiled down thembytherest of the countryfor being such weather wimps. the normally bumper-to-bumper Don Valley Parkway until stopped by police. Since noon M ‘e to Toronto: Welcometo the rest of Canada,” wrote Montreal Gazette columnist Ian MacDonald. Montreal managed to aecom- Wednesday, most schools and downtown of- fices have closed, hospitals have canceled nonemergencyprocedures, and subway and com- modateafoot of fresh powderFriday without mutertrain service has been on andoff. having tocall in 450 federal troops and an But surely the image of Toronto as the piti- armadaoftrucks and armoredtroopcarriers ful giant was best captured when Prince Ed- The Gazette’s cartoonist featured a snow- ward Island — whose entire population could fit into a handful of Toronto neighborhoods and whose economyis probablyeclipsed by the combined bank accounts of the members of the tony Toronto Club — sent 120 workers covered Maple Leafs hockey fan trying to summon the troops byyelling into his cell phone, “Mayday! Mayday! My Volvo won't start!” Asthe country watchesthe great metropo- and 60 plows tohelpthe Big City with its or- lis struggle through this epictrial by snow deal It all comes as another psychological blow to declared the Ottawa Citizen, streetcars marooned, its . foiled, its snowplows helpless to clear streets strewn with pai : there is an al- mostirresistible, terribly uncharitable, wholly predictable urgeto. smile.” The National Post, Canada’s cheeky new daily newspaper, madeits point by running a munities to preserve green space, ease traffic congestion and pursue “smart growth.” And hewill call for implementing programs to help local governments prepare for biological weaponsat- tacks. Adding to the speech-as-spectacle aspect of the occasion, the White House announced late Mondaythat Chicago Cubs slugger Sammy Sosa will attend the address with first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton. to call witnesses over Democrats’ objections. Daschle and a White House spokesman separately warned that the president’s lawyers would call witnesses of their own if the Republican Senate majority bolster a weak case. For their part, the president’s lawyers are wary that newtestimony might provide damaging new evidence. “It boggles the minda bitto try to understand how someonetesti- fying for the 10th timeor the 23rd timeor the ninth timecan provide any more clarity,” Lockhart said Monday. insisted upon hearing direct testimony from witnesses such as for- mer White House intern Monica Lewinsky and presidential secretary Betty Currie. The Democratic leader also cautioned thatthetrial could deteriorate into a partisan brawl that would drag on through the spring, as the depositions and testimony of one set of witnesses triggered the need to call addi- Residential, Mobile Homes, & Commercial licans say they would never turn down a request by the White House for witnesses, and we cer- tainly would hold them to that “Tt seems to me that within reason wehaveto grant the requests [that White House and House managers] make, and it may be multiple requests,” he said. “It may be one witness triggers the TRADE IN YOUR OLD WATER HEATER SAME DAY INSTALLATION need for another witness.” White House press secretary Joe Lockhart told reporters that “if the House managersinsist on witnesses and the Senate approves them, certainly we will look at calling witnesses,” adding 2 Install Quality, Install Energy Efficient Natural Gas| that “either way weare looking at a processthatis extended and de- layed.” The question of whether to call witnesses has emerged as the most contentious dividing the Senate and appears to be turning into a litmus test of party loyalty in the impeachment trial. The House managers argue that Glass Lined Water Heaters La NATURAL witnesses are needed to resolve BY DESIGN important contradictions in the grand jury testimony of Clinton, Lewinsky, Currie and presiden- SeOUee eS e rch sae tial friend Vernon Jordan Jr. concerning the White scandal. House sex == 268-4671 = REPELeer Democrats have respondedthat the Republicans — who called no witnesses during the House im- had remained opened during the day's snow- storm, dozens offlights had to be canceled because of continuing problemsat Toronto's Pearsonfield Elsewhere, Geoffrey Battersby, mayor of Revelstoke, British Columbia, just giggled as he watched Toronto Mayor Mel Lastman complain ontelevision that his city had temporar- ily becomethe snowcapital of Canada. A few years back, Revelstoke got more than 75 feet of snow but neverhalted busservice.Afterall, said Battersby, this is Canada. Despitethe difficultygetting around, malls such as the Eaton Centre downtown have man- agedto attract a good crowd of shoppers and moviegoers because of the unexpected four- day weekend declared by the mayor. See the Utah Jazz Ad in the Sport Section “How stupid do we look?” saleswoman Angie Batala asked. “Wecall in the military and then open up the shopping malls.” When you want it spotless. Winter WonderSavings WINAIR from Coit. ListPrice $68.95 Yours Absolutely Act will waive up 0 $128.00 And Montreal television that evening was quickto point out that whilethatcity’s airport the humiliation of having SkyDome and its leading theater companyslip into bankruptcy, its star baseball player beg to be traded to Houstonand its feisty tabloid sold to a bunch of Quebecois. Therest of the country has long grated at the city’s smug arrogance and un- Thinking About = Save up to $125,00* be delayed several hoursin Montreal because of trouble with the track outside of Toronto. Toronto, which in recent weeks has suffered VorceStream offensive in President Clinton's impeachmenttrial, Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle, D-S.D., said Monday thatit ‘may be inevitable” that Republicans will vote peachmenthearings during which the two articles of impeachment were approved — are seeking to promise,” Daschle said. Canadian pretensions. But with this storm, Toronto-bashing seems to have become a new winter sport. Friday morning, on an express train heading west from Quebec City, passengers hurled French expletives when told the train would from Toronto of troops unloading snowshoes at their new inner-city barracks, the other fromCalgary showing a couple in shorts playing soccerin the snow. So deserted were Torontostreets on Friday TORONTO — Nevermind the 50inches of THE WASHINGTON POST WASHINGTON — Onthe eve of White House lawyers’ counter- “T've heard a numberof Repub- As Toronto Panics, Canada LaughsAll the Way to the Snowbank snow that brought Canada’slargestcity to a Witnesses ‘MayBe Inevitable’ In Clinton Trial, Daschle Says tional witnesses. 16 USATODAY bation and parole. And he will propose spending $1.3 billion on programs that will hire, redeploy of long-term health care. Hyde, R-IIl., who leads the House oly co tax by 55 cents a pack to pay compensate families for the costs as the Union that Clinton has delivered under the cloud of scandal. surpluses projected for the years SRSARRS MR he will arguethat the huge budget This will be the secondState of SS8 House, but in millions of Americanliving rooms. 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