4 The Daily Tar HeetOuesday, January 21, 1992
Ifr, IWORLD BRIEFS
Price prescribes comprehensive health care
Shamir vows to hold
''M:cupied territories
Occupied West Bank A defiant
'Yitzhak Shamir kicked off his re-elec-"tion
campaign Monday with a promise
to build more Jewish settlements in the
'occupied territories.
To the cheers of 300 people at this
settlement near Jerusalem, the prime
friinister said the West Bank and Gaza
J .Strip were promised to Jews by God
'and would remain Israel's forever.
' -But Shamir later toned down his
"rhetoric, saying early parliamentary
elections would not slow the Middle
, East peace talks in Washington.
" ' The double message was designed to
' win the support of ultra-nationalists
v'whoopposeShaniir'sofferof autonomy
'to Palestinians, while not alienating the
, majority of Israelis who want the peace
' talks to continue.
But the strategy also set Shamir on a
collision course with the Bush adminis-
iration, which has asked Israel to halt
. 4he construction of Jewish settlements
' during the peace negotiations.
.i, i Two small, ultra-right parties pulled
uut of Shamir's ruling coalition Sunday
over the Palestinian issue, leaving him
oiwithout a majority in parliament and
creating the possibility of national elec
;i lions before the scheduled Nov. 3 date.
At least 1 1 survivors
found in French crash
STRASBOURG.France A French
Airbus A-320 carrying 96 people
crashed in snow and fog on a wooded
ridge in eastern France Monday night.
At least 1 1 survivors, including a young
girl, were found in the wreckage after a
four-hour search.
At least one of the six crew also
survived, police said. Efforts were un
der way to remove injured people from
the wreckage, police said.
The plane was en route from Lyon to
Strasbourg when contact was lost shortly
before the scheduled landing at 7:23
p.m. (1:25 p.m. EST), officials said.
Shortly before midnight, officials
located the crash site in the Vosges
mountains near Mont Sainte-Odile, 30
miles southwest of Strasbourg.
Air Inter, which works closely with
Air France, said in acommunique it had
no indication what caused the crash.
The plane, put into service in December
1988, had no record of previous me
chanical trouble, the airline said.
Rain and snow slowed the search by
about 500 people in the sparsely popu
lated area of dense pine forests and
rugged hills ranging from about 2,000
feet to 3,000 feet above sea level.
The Associated Press
By Anna Griffin
Assistant State and National Editor
Although Rep. David Price, D-N.C,
has yet to announce his plans for the
1 992 election, the three-term congress
man is preparing for the next session of
the 102nd Congress by concentrating
on issues important to voters.
In an interview Thursday following
his community meeting at Phillips Jun
ior High School, Price said health care
and the economy present major prob
lems for the federal government.
Health care is an issue dear to Price,
especially since many of his constitu
entscannot afford comprehensive medi
cal care under present federal guide
lines. Many on Capitol Hill want to pass a
universal health care program, but Con
gress first must have the support of the
White House, Price said.
"It will be much more difficult with
Bush in the White House," Price said.
"Although he has shown much more
interest in health care since the election
(of Democratic Senator Harris Wofford)
in Pennsylvania, it is not at all clear that
he really has placed much significance
on the issue."
Wofford defeated former U.S. Attor
ney General Richard Thornburg, a Bush
adviser, in a highly contested Novem
ber election.
David Price
Price said although no concrete health
care plan has been proposed, Demo
cratic members of Congress recognize
what specifics need to be included.
"My main criteria is that whatever
plan we get out has to be national, has to
be inclusive and can't let people fall
through the cracks simply because of
where they live or work," he said. "Piece
meal solutions won't do. There has to
be a program for all Americans."
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A pay-or-play program would be the
easiest to pass through Congress, Price
said. Pay-or-play plans require busi
nesses to provide comprehensive health
care to employees or to contribute to a
national health care fund. Money from
the fund would go to citizens without
health care.
The state of the economy will be
another major issue during the 1992
politicat season. Price said. The 102nd
Congress must do something to pull the
nation out of the recession, he said.
Cutting taxes and providing incen
tives for investments would help allevi
ate some of the nation'seconomic woes.
Price said.
"It is important to not worsen the
deficit, but if we can make the tax sys
tem more equitable, that's certainly
something we need to look into," he
said.
The federal government also must
work with local school systems, com
munity colleges and universities to pro
vide improved technical training, he
said.
"Our problem is also here at home
with our productivity, the training of
our work force and the slippage that
we're suffering with our infrastructure,"
Price said.
"We also need to look at what we can
do to help ourselves with advanced
higher education, more technical train
ing in the community colleges and im
proved education right down through
the ranks."
But any attempt to correct the nation's
sinking economy must concentrate on
improving U.S. access to foreign mar
kets such as Japan and the states of the
European Community. Price said.
President Bush's recent trip to Japan
accentuated concerns that the United
States is suffering because of foreign
trade laws.
The trade agreements Bush brought
back did little to help solve the problem.
Price said.
"There are many commodities that
are being kept out of Japan right now by
restrictive marketing and distribution
practices," he said. "We have sanctions
to deal with that, and we need to use
those."
Although Price will not comment on
his plans for the 1992 election, several
of his advisers have said the congress
man will begin his re-election cam
paign once the state passes a redisrict
ing plan.
Price said he hoped the N.C. General
Assembly would pass a plan soon, but
would not comment on any specific
proposals currently under debate.
"Most of the plans seem to leave the
4th district close to its present configu
ration," he said. "I just hope we can
keep it that way."
N.C. bases could suffer
under congressional plan
to reduce military forces
By Laura Laxton
Staff Writer
In response to changing world rela
tions and growing economic problems,
the U.S. Congress recently voted to
downscale the number of active mili
tary personnel.
But N.C. military bases remain in the
dark about how the reductions will af
fect their future.
"We are reducing personnel because
it was mandated by Congress and that
makes it the law," said Lt. Col. Doug
Hart, Department of Defense public
affairs spokesman.
Each branch of the armed services
will determine where to downscale its
personnel, but each must shrink evenly
in order to maintain a force ready to
fight, Hart said.
At the end of fiscal year 1991, the
number of active military personnel to
talled 1,985,000, Hart said. The con
gressional plan calls for a reduction of
33 1 ,000 troops by the end of fiscal year
1995, dropping the total to 1,654,000.
The public has the misconception
that the military is cutting troops, said
Sgt. 1st Class Skip Richey, public af
fairs spokesman for Fort Bragg and the
1 8th Airborne Division. The Depart
ment of Defense actually is offering
soldiers incentives to retire early, he
said.
"Soldiers electing to get out are mak
ing the decision themselves," Richey
said. 'They don't have to take advan
tage of the opportunity to leave early."
Troops stationed at Fort Bragg Mili
tary Reservation near Fayetteville will
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"In fact, we will probably gain be
tween three and four hundred person
nel," Richey said.
Fort Bragg troops are part of the only
U.S. contingency corp. a group of divi
sions that must be prepared to move into
an area and engage in combat within 1 8
hours of receiving their orders, Richey
said.
The 82nd Airborne Division landed
first in the Desert Storm theater during
the Persian Gulf War, and the 82nd and
18th Divisions were the first to enter
Panama.
Personnel at Seymour Johnson Air
Force Base will not know the effects of
the congressional plan until an official
Department of Defense team visits to
discuss the incentives, said Jay Barber,
assistant chief of public affairs at the
base. " '
"We haven't received any official
information yet, so we have no idea
whatsoever of how the cuts will affect
us," Barber said. "So far, there has been
no indication of moving anything in or
out."
Most base personnel will not decide
whether to retire from the service until
they know what kinds of incentives will
be offered. Barber said. But the incen
tives should be the same for all branches
of the service, he said.
Because the reductions will influ
ence the number of officers needed in
the armed forces, campus Reserve Offi
cer Training Corps detachments also
could experience the effects of the leg
islation. "The reductions will affect ROTC
because we train future officers, but
they shouldn't affect the UNC detach
ment," said Lt. Col. Mike Smiley, the
chairman of the UNC aerospace studies
program. Enrollment in the University's
detachment of Air Force ROTC has
fallen to its lowest point in the last six
years.
"Right now, the detachment is in
jeopardy because of the low numbers,
but we're trying to boost enrollment,"
said Smiley, who is also a professor in
aerospace studies.
"As long as the number of promo
tions remains the same, the cuts should
actually lead to increased opportunities
for promotion (because annual ROTC
class sizes will shrink)."
The University's Naval ROTC unit
may or may not feel an impact, said Lt.
Cmdr. Ray Kempisty, spokesman for
Chief Naval Educational Training in '
Pensacola, Fla.
While the total number of students in
Naval ROTC should drop in proportion
to the downscaling of the Navy, indi
vidual campus enrollment rates will
continue to rise and fall independently,
Kempisty said.
"Any changes won't be seen in
stantly," he said. "It will be about four
years before the results will become
obvious."
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