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Also Monday, Bush was to meet with top aides
to discuss a long-range national eneigy policy. Aides
said the power crisis in California was certain to be
at the center of the discussion among Bush, Vice
President Cheney, Treasury Secretary Paul O’Neill,
Commerce Secretary Don Evans and Energy
Secretary Spencer Abraham.
Bush has said the California crunch is a state
problem, but by participating publicly in the
meeting, signaled it is moving up on his agenda.
“The president’s summoned the relevant
Cabinet and agency heads to a session in the White
House where we’ll begin to focus on this,” Cheney
said on Fox News Sunday.
Cheney again hinted that the administration
would examine easing environmental regulations
that have hindered building new power generators.
“California’s probably the toughest state in the
country today in which to build a power plant,” he
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Bush was also dispatching top energy officials
to meet with governors of Western states affected
by the crunch.
The president was resuming his get
acquainted sessions with members of Congress.
Bush sees the personal meetings as crucial to
getting his programs through Capitol Hill.
Later in the week, he planned to formally
propose a system for getting prescription drugs to
the elderly through Medicare.
Bush, borrowing elements of a congressional
Republican plan, pledged to revamp the entire
Medicare program, giving senior citizens a choice
of health plans, including some that offer drug
coverage.
But Bush said this overhaul would not take
effect for four years. In the meantime, he would
give states money to help low-income seniors pay
for drugs. In what he has termed a “helping hand”
program, Bush would give $48 billion to states in
grants, leaving it to them to design drug programs.
About 23 states have drug subsidy programs for
seniors; others would have to create them.
Critics say these initiatives have not been very
effective, and they question the wisdom of
creating a whole new web of programs that would
disappear four years later.
Also this week, the Senate expected to vote on
confirmation of additional Cabinet nominees,
including his most polarizing pick, Attorney
General-designate John Ashcroft. Bush aimed to
hold his first Cabinet meeting on Wednesday.
Sharon, Arafat blame Barak for turmoil
by Greg Myre
Associated Press
JERUSALEM — Palestinian leader Yasse
Arafat and Israeli politician Ariel Sharon rarel;
agree, but on Sunday both harshl;
criticized Israel’s beleaguered Prime Ministe
Ehud Barak, blaming him for the current Mideas
turmoil.
Barak had hoped peace negotiations this pas
week in Egypt would revive his sagging electioi
campaign ahead of the Feb. 6 vote for primi
minister. Both Israeli and Palestinian negotiator
offered an upbeat assessment of the talks tha
concluded Saturday, saying they had never beer
closer to an overall agreement.
But a day later, Barak was under attack fron
both his Israeli and Palestinian rivals.
Sharon, heavily favored in next week’s
election, denounced the concessions Bara!
offered to the Palestinians and made clear he
would remove them from the table if he
triumphed at the polls.
“These meetings (in Egypt) were not meant
to seriously tackle the problems in front of us.
This is some electoral stunt,” Sharon said.
Arafat, meanwhile, unleashed his salvo from
the World Economic Forum in Davos,
Switzerland.
“The current government of Israel has waged
1 for the past four months a savage and barbaric
war as well as a blatant and fascist military ag
gression against our Palestinian people,” Arafat
said.
There had been talk of a Barak-Arafat
meeting this week in Sweden, but Barak’s office
said Sunday night that the prime minister had de
cided “not to continue political contacts with
Arafat and his people until after the elections.”
Sharon leads Barak by 16 to 20 percentage
pouits in opinion polls that have changed little
in recent weeks. Most analysts say Barak needs
some sort of peace agreement to energize his
flagging campaign, and the Taba talks were
seen as his last real shot at a pre-election
breakthrough.
While both sides said the atmosphere at the
talks was positive, they didn’t reach any
concrete agreements and acknowledged
differences remained on all the fundamental
issues — especially on sharing Jerusalem and the
fate of millions of Palestinian refugees who want
to return to homes in what is now Israel.
“Both sides have never reached a point where
we were so close to agreement,” said Barak. “It’s
quite natural that these (core issues) cannot be
solved in a few days.”
But with the election looming, Barak was
running out of time.
Sharon says he will seek a long-term
interim agreement with the Palestinians and
opposes the comprehensive peace settlement
Barak has pursued.
In addition, Sharon has given no indication
he would offer the Palestinians additional
territory — a position that would seem to
preclude any possibility of a future agreement.
“We will be making every effort to reach a
political settlement and make peace on maybe
a different basis, but, I believe, a true one,” said
Sharon, who met with U.S. congressmembers
Sunday in Tel Aviv.
Barak “did not bring peace. What has
happened is due to the mistakes that he made.
He brought a war to the area.”
A total of 375 people, including more than
330 Arabs and more than 40 Israeli Jews, have
died since the fighting began in September.
Oklahoma State students
killed in airplane crash
by P. Solomon Banda
Associated Press
BYERS, Colo. —A twin-engine plane climbed
and banked hard to the right before it crashed dur
ing a light snowstorm, killing 10 people,
including two Oklahoma State basketball play
ers, witnesses said Sunday.
They told investigators the propeller plane’s
engines revved and eased back several times
before the fiery crash in a field Saturday night
about 40 miles east of Denver.
“It sounded like he was flying full power.
Then I heard a thump and saw a low glow,” said
Jon Carrick, who lives about two miles
southwest of the crash site.
Cesar Ronquillo, another area resident, said
the plane's engines were whining when he
heard a loud noise. “I saw the plane turning around,
theq go up again but all of a sudden, go straight
down,” he said.
As light snow fell, a team of National
Transportation Safety Board investigators
began looking for clues to the cause of the crash
amid twisted wreckage scattered across a
quarter mile.
“We have some very detailed and
painstaking work ahead of us in what are not the
best weather conditions,” said John
Hammerschmidt, head of the NTSB crash
investigation team.
Police Sgt. Craig Coleman said the field was
littered with body parts, seats, planning books,
basketball shoes and playing cards, among other
items. “It's a very gruesome and grotesque scene,”
Coleman said.
The Beechcraft King Air 200 Catpass was
one of three planes carrying the Oklahoma
State men’s basketball team and associates back
to Stillwater, Okla., after they lost to the
Colorado Buffaloes in a Big 12 Conference game
at Boulder.
Jefferson County Airport officials lost
contact with the plane when it was 20 miles
southeast of Denver, when it was being handed
off to the Denver air traffic control center, Fed
eral Aviation Administration officials said.
Among the victims were Oklahoma State
players Nate Fleming and Daniel Lawson and
sports information employee Will Hancock, OSU
director of basketball operations.
Gore to teach class
at N.Y. university
by Billy O’Keefe
College Press Exchange
NEW YORK — Don't cry for A1 Gore
Columbia University has decided to take a chance
on the scrappy youngster and give him a job
The former vice president, out of work foi
more than a week, will teach a special non
credit seminar at the Columbia Graduate Schoo
of Journalism, the university announced thi:
week.
The seminar, “Covering National Affairs ir
the Information Age,” will examine the work
of politics from the eyes of botl
politicians and journalists.
Gore himself has been both, working in the
1970s as a reporter for the Nashvillt
Tennessean.
“This is a special opportunity for the school,”
said Tom Goldstein, dean of the journalism school.
“A1 Gore will be an incomparable resource for
our students and others at this university. From
his unique perspective, students will get to see
how government and the press intersect.”
The class will begin in February, and will not
offer students credit toward their degrees.
The university hasn’t announced final
details on the seminar, but said it would likely
be comprised of six to eight sessions.
Founded in 1912, Columbia’s Graduate
School of Journalism administers some of the
most prestigious honors in the field, including
the Pulitzer Prize, J. Anthony Lukas Prize
Project and the National Magazine Awards.
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