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Show Shutdown Dragging On The Salt Lake Tribune NATION Friday, December ‘AI Poll Names Clinton Person of the Year But Few Are Feeling It GANNETT NEWS SERVICE President Clinton tops the list as America’s No. 1 choice for per KNIGHT-RIDDER NEWSSERVICE WASHINGTON — Don't look for a quick end to the great federal government shutdown of 1995. It's almost certain to keep going for days, if not weeks, after 1996 arrives Monday. For one thing,this isn’t really a crisis. Only 280,000 workers have been furloughed outof a federal civilian work force of 2.1 million. All urgent federal business is being done. Of course, the shutdown does have serious consequences for some Americans. While 367 national parks are closed, for example, neighboring economies are suffering. And 760,000 federal workers are temporarily not getting full pay. Thoseand other problemswill get worse the longerthis goes on. But for now, this partial shutdown — entering its 14th day today — is only a small inconve- nience to the nation as a whole. “Most people will not notice,” said Stephen Hess, a scholar at the BrookingsInstitution. President Clinton is scheduled to meet again this afternoon with Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole and House Speaker Newt Gingrich, but few if any insiders expect an early breakthrough. Indeed, the political obstacles son of the year in 1995 aheadof House Speaker Newt Gingrich whom Time Magazine declared @ Let’s Make a Deal Onthe verge of resuming top-level negotiations, House Speaker Newt Gingrich ruled out reopening the entire government Thursday until a sevenyear budget dealis forged with the president. “Tf there’s a will to getit done,that’s a two- or threeday negotiation,” Gingrich told a news conference. that triggered the current standoff remain unchanged. Nothing less than rival philosophies of government are at stake in the showdown between Clinton and the Republican Congress. Dole guessed today’s talks might have a “50-50 shot’ at breaking the impasse, and White House Press Secretary Mike McCurry agreed. A coinflip offers equalinsight. “It could end in 24 hoursorit could end in six months,” said Stephen Moore, a budget expert at the libertarian Cato Institute. “But thereis a real possibility this could last a long time because both sides seem to have dug in their heels.” Citing Unneeded Weapons, its person of the year. Sosays the publicin a new Harris poll of 1,004 adult Americans surveyed between Noy. 30 and Dec. 3 In the No. 3 spot: Retired Gen Colin Powell, who announcedear lier that he would not seek the presidencyin 1996 He was followedin the fourth fifth and sixth positions, respec tively, by Hillary RodhamClinton (the darling of feminists and the baneof conservatives), NBA su perstar Michael Jordan, and the late Israeli Prime Minister Yitz: hak Rabin, who was assassinated = a. Dario Lopez-Mills The Associated Press EAT WELL AND YOU'LL GROW BIG ‘ . Fi irc in November : Sen. Keiko, the whale who starredin the “Free Willy” movie and who will leave MexicoCity for amore comfortable home in Oregon, takes a bite from hands oftrainer Carla Corral. Bob Dole, Mother Theresa. talieenow hon Rush “Limbaugh and baseball player Call Ripken also were on the Top10 list Haveit all. All at once. Estée Lauder One-Stop Skincare. Clinton Vetoes DefenseBill THE ASSOCIATEDPRESS WASHINGTON — President Clinton vetoed a $265 billion defense-policy bill Thursday, objecting to its demandsfor costly weaponssystems hesaid are unneeded Clintonalso issued an executive order raising military pay by 2 percent. And he asked Congress to quickly pass legislation bringing the total pay raise to 2.4 percent, the amountcontained in the vetoed bill. In his veto message, Clinten said he particularly objected to the attempt written into the bill by the Republican Congress to compel him to build and deploy a Star Wars-style missile defense system by 2003 Clinton said building such a missile-defense system now would violate the 1972 Anti-Ballistie Missile Treaty with Russia and harm arms-controlefforts. Clintonsaid thebill “would unacceptably restrict my ability to carry this country’s national secu- rity objectives and substantially interfere with the implementation of key national defenseprograms.” Thebill, he said, “would waste tens of billions of dollars and force us to commit prematurely to a specific technological option.” ButClinton did not voice objectionsto thebill’s requirementthat Big Government Just Keeps tation has involved the two major federal health-care programs — Medicare for the elderly and Medicaid for the poor — the most drastic spending cuts are targeted on domestic-spending programs @ Continued from A-1 employees is the Department of Veterans Affairs, which at the end of fiscal 1994 had 262,000 people on its payroll. That is 100,000 more employees than the next-largest agency, the Treasury Department, which includes the Internal RevenueService. Again using OMB figures, if the salaries of VA employeesare considered part of defense spending, vhich in a sense they are, then there are fewer than a million people on federal civilian pay- rolls not engaged in defense-related activities. Last year, Kraft seneral Foods had 750,000 workers onits payroll. However the budget fight between President Clinton and conzressional Republicans comes out, the overwhelming likelihood is that federal employment will veto may be sustained on Capitol Hill. subject to annual appropriations. These programsinclude everything from the National Park Service to the Bureau of LaborStatistics. Congressional Republicans plan to reduce such spending by more than a third, on an inflation-adjusted basis, during the next seven years. Clinton would make smaller — but still sizable — cuts in these programs. A commonfeature of many of these programsis that they provide services to the public. 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