| Show Thu HoraW Journal Logan Utah Frida House approves landmark WASHINGTON (UPI) — Hailed by supporters as the most important youth Ugislarinn jo g die House quarter century passed a bill that would provide aa estimated $27 billiou in aid for child care and would allow parents to use federal money at church-ru- n day care centers dud teach religion Bached by the Democratic the bill passed leadership 5 and Thursday night now goes to a conference committee where House and Senate negotiators must work out the differences between die new plan and similar legislation passed by die Senate last June Opponents of the House hill said die new legislation unfairly limited parents’ choices by requiring states to set child care standards and warned President Bush would veto the measure But House Democrats said they doubted President Bush would veto die final bill once it emerges from the committee 265-14- “If he vetoes it it will become a political issue' said Rep Gus Hawkins "I would reason that the president is a little smarter than asking tor that type of issue when he runs for tributing smaller sums to existing children’s programs The bill increases block grants to states for child care expands the Head Start program so poor children can be cared far all day and year round and establishes programs at school far “latchkey D-Ca-lif The majority of mothers of young children now work and both Congress and Bush have pledged to improve US child care which the National Research Council concluded earlier is inadequate and this mo" often unsafe 5 vote die On an earlier bill billion a House rejected $20 Charles sponsored by Rep and supStenholm ported by the White House that did not require safely and training standards for day care providers What the House bill does not do is create a child care sy stem Instead it relies mainly on income tax credits for faniii to help parents child care while dis for pay children" 225-19- as low-inco- religious" They said the best Are America’s children as R-N- ev The leadership estimates its plan would cost about $27 billion for five years but Republicans say it could be as high as $313 billion The Senate bill is less expensive because it provides less money in tax credits Both the Democratic and Stenholm bills required that parents be able to obtain vouchers from states that they could use at day care centers dud provide religious instruction or worship But sreqe Republicans and conservative Democrats argued the standards would create a burden for currently unregulated religious day care centers in many states and was “anti- - ’s for disability compensation "It is my hope that this action will help begin to mend die divisiveness and controversy that has surrounded this (Agent Orange) issue for many yean" he said The decision does not however extend to Yietnam veterans suffering from other ailments that they claim are associated with exposure to Agent Grange About 36000 Yietnam veterans have filed claims contending they were medically disabled by Agent Orange About 1600 to 1700 of those claims involve veterans with lymphoma and the Veterans Affrurs Department estimates those ranks will increase by about ISO patients each yew as more veterans come down with the rare cancer in the Congress do not neglect" want to be a party to taking Rep Thomas Downey ecision-making said a crucial difference authority away from the parent" said Rep- Clay between the bills was that the Shaw leadership’s plan included school-base- d care for Site up to Rep George Miller defended the standards noting 10 million "latchkey children" the federal government currently which he said w ould help the sets the conditions under which middle class “Could we spend more? I’m livestock can be transported — answered down to the temperature of their sure we could Stenholm '‘But again we look at water '‘Now far America’s children the bottom line and the bottom somehow standards me immoral line is we’re going to have difficulty paying for a lot of v This isn’t a philosophies! argument This is an attack on programs" Before considering the bills America’s children" Miller said “Is America’s children as the House voted uu amendments important as America’s poultry? involving the church state issue — one by Rep David Price -d- D-N- R-F-la D-Ca- -- possible in awarding retroactive benefits and in Miring the widows and children of those veterans whose deaths were due to lymphoma” Derwinski said The cost of the compensation program scheduled to be published in the Federal Register by May 1 is expected to be about $20 million in its first yew rising about $2 million annually as die Yietnam yeterans enter the crucial age of the cancer John Hanson a spokesman for The American Legion called die move by the YA "a step in the right direction" But Hanson added '‘Until they atop using die disclaimer that ’this is not caused by Agent Orange this struggle (over conqxnsa-tion- ) is going to go on for a very long time" The most common complaint related to apparent exposure to Agent Orange is a akin problem called chloracne but cases of testicular cancer ocher rare malignancies and birth defects have also been linked to the herbicide Hanson said The American Legion disputes the CDC’s contention that no good study can be done of Agent Orange and possible disease risk because there are inadequate records on troop movement Hanson said non-Hodgki- service-connect- t VAjW-w1’-- ed ' vt V - y f-- ?' v -- ' 243-18- 297-12- ss Announcing Time Rental’s Annual in Monday April 2nd - Saturday April 7th Featuring Huge Savings On: Snapper Arlans & BCS Mowers Tiers Trimmers Yard & Garden Equipment Kawasaki Suzuki Jet-Sk- is v episodes: conversion of a con- considering none of the elderly Security forces were vent into a luxury hotel by a sisters can drive Thursday in Jerusalem the occupied territories the defrocked nun Amid die legal inquiries into Golan Heights and Israeli Arab and the lucrative sale of another communities convent by eight nuns who fled the sale of the convent In Jerusalem an estimated 200 in a Mercedes limousine to a authorities this week charged a former financial adviser to die Jewish demonstrators associated chateau in the south of France with the ultra right-win-g Kach “If you had told someone nuns Runny Crab 35 with movement matched in front of about both these events a month swindling the sisters through die US Consulate to protest ago they never would have abuse of trust to gain control of what they described- - as US believed you" die diocesean their financial affairs pressure on Israel spokesman said “It’s like a TV Meanwhile about 20 miles “Bush take your money The show something right out of from Bruges a former nun is land is ours" and "USA you 'Dallas’ or ‘Dynasty" of the Anne need us We don’t need you" The more erMfiN episode converting part Klaren convent in Nieuwpoort were among die signs earned by involves eight nuns ages 62 to into a die demonstrators spiffy hotel complete with 93 members of the Order of the “There is no such thing as Poor Clares who sold their pink bathrooms and a refrigerator m every suite Land Day" said Rabbi Meir convent in die historic city of Kahane the American-bor- n Kach — without the pope’s Bruges leader “This is our land" for $M million permission They pronmdy bought an old castle in the French Pyrenees a ‘Just incredible' farm 11 racehorses and six BRUSSELS Belgium (UPI) luxury cars including a Cadillac — Twin tales of mercenary nuns Seville and three white models equipped involving racehorses Mercedes Mercedes-Ben- z and pink bathrooms were dewith phones and televisions scribed by a Roman Catholic nun who The 93 year-old Church spokesman as "somecannot see hear or walk rode to thing right out of ‘Dallas’ or France in an ambulance that in a sort of convent convoy tailed the ‘Dynasty” u’s just incredible impossi- luxury limousine carrying the ble to believe that both diese other sisters events would happen to us’ the Prosecutors interviewed the spokesman for the bishop of nuns in France last weekend after Bruges said Thursday launching an investigation The Bruges diocese was because the six luxury cars they rocked this month by two bizarre bouglit caused a bit of suspicion rein-farc- BOGOTA Colombia (UPI) — An American kidnapped this week in a dispute over an $18000 debt was released and four suspects in the abduction were arrested including two police officers police said Also Thursday the notorious Medellin cocaine cartel said it had negotiated with the government in an effort to end Colombia’s drug ww and US marshal said an accused Colombian drug trafficker had been extradited to Phoenix Atiz to stand trial on smuggling charges Contras coming home Honduras TEGUCIGALPA — Several Nicaraguan (UPI) rebels in Honduras have already returning to their homeland moving before official arrangements are made for their repatriation officials said “We are aware that there has been some filtration of some members of die Nicaraguan Resistance (Contras)’ US Ambassador Crescendo Arcos said Thursday Contra leaders signed an agreement March 23 with a delegation non-Hodgki- iTkh if Motorcycles Drug war to end? begun lymphoma patients die within five years of diagnosis die American Cancer Society says The CDC study showed mow of the excess cases of lymphoma occurred about IS to 25 years after military service in Yietnam a C non-Hodgki- The military sprayed 112 million gallons Those veterans with the disease will receive of Agent Orange in Vietnam from January about $1527 each month for the rest of their 1985 to April 1970 to destroy enemy crops lives officials said About half of all and ground cover The herbicide contained a poisonous contaminant dioxin which has been linked to health problems in animal and human studies Derwinsld said the study provided enough evidence to establish lymdisease eligible phoma as s Y - making it optional for states to allow vouchers to be used for sectarian child care and another by Rep Don Edwards forbidding such uses 2 The House voted and amendment Price’s against 5 against the proposal by Edwards which was backed by teachers groups worried that vouchers for child care could pave the w ay for federal vouchers for religious schools Ivdwards’ amendment would have allowed vouchers to be used at centers run by religious groups which account for about a third of child care as long as there was no religious activity He said without his proposal the bill would violate die constitutional separation of church and state a Kep Barney Frank fellow liberal disagreed saying it would be constitutional to use vouchers at sectarian day care centers in die way federal loans go to students at religious colleges D-N- '‘We will extend as much latitude as non-Hodgki- The study did not directly point to Agent Orange — the powerful wartime defoliant that many veterans have claimed caused cancer and other ailments — or any other factor as ranging (hf increased cancer ridr im- portant as America’s pigs? Is America’s children as important as America's cows? The answer has to be yes" Rep Olympia Smowe added '‘Frankly if child care legislation were an actual child Congress would be charged with both abuse and 4 ‘We $20 million to go to Viet vets with cancer WASHINGTON (UPI) — In a step to defuse the Agent Orange controversy Veterans Affairs Secretary Edward Derwmdd directed his agency to pay more than $20 million a year to Vietnam War veterans stricken by a rare cancer Derwinski’s action Thursday was made in consultation tyith President Bush and was prompted by a study from the federal Centers for Disease Control showing die risk of lymphoma is 50 percent greater among Vietnam jvetcrans than among veterans who served elsewhere bill child-car- e plan would allow the widest possible choice 'The child cate issue is about family and freedom — freedom from lag government freedom from welfare freedom from (ages and freedom of religion" said Rep Barbara Yucanovkh (Arch 30 1999— Papa 5 representing VioNicaraguan President-elelets Chamorro saying the rebels would demobilize and disarm before Chamorro takes office April 25 The agreement named the Toncontin Declaration after the Honduran air force base where it was signed was endorsed Wednesday by Contra commander in chief Israel Galeano or Commander Franklin The agreement calls for die demobilization of Contras in Honduras and the concentration of rebels inside Nicaragua in security zones monitored by peacekeeping forces of the United Nations and die Organization of American States ct cigar-chompi- -- looking for a computer tlul won’t slow vuu down? 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