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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 07, 1996
Page
3
President Clinton will sign the 265.6 billion defense authorization bill despite larger GOP gains, avoiding a clash with Congress and challenger Bob Dole. The decision will be announced in his weekly radio address.
President Clinton tells 10 000 National Baptist Convention delegates in Panama City that unemployment fell from 5.4 to 5.1 percent in August and 10 percent of new jobs were created. He vows not to concede Florida as Dole campaigns elsewhere.
The Senate confirmed Franklin Raines to head the White House budget office replacing Alice Rivlin who moved to the Federal Reserve Board. Republicans had delayed the vote seeking more details on balancing the budget by 2002.
The Pentagon says 11 of 15 air defense sites were destroyed or damaged by Tomahawk cruise missiles in Iraq while two sites escaped largely undamaged. Some detonation points could not be located, and about six missiles could not be fired as planned.
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