-Caveat Lector- Kay Lee & Joe Hart wrote: > > School of the Americas Funds Renewed > http://www.newsday.com/ap/rnmpwh1y.htm > > By DAVID PACE Associated Press Writer > > WASHINGTON (AP) -- Congressional negotiators agreed Wednesday to provide > full funding next year for the School of the Americas, rejecting last > summer's House vote to slash the budget of the controversial Army school in > Georgia. > > Rep. Jack Kingston, R-Ga., said the House conferees on the fiscal 2000 > foreign operations spending bill voted to accept the Senate's position that > provided $2 million in the State Department budget to pay the expenses of > Latin American soldiers who attend the school at Fort Benning. > > While the action will not become final until the conference on the entire > bill is concluded, Kingston said the section covering funding for the > school has been closed and cannot be reopened. > > ``The School of the Americas is in there,'' he said. ``It's survived > another year.'' > > The House voted 230-197 last summer to eliminate the $2 million in training > funds after opponents of the school argued that many of its graduates had > been linked to human rights atrocities in Latin America. The school had > survived four previous House votes since 1993. > > The school has been the target of a decade-long campaign by religious > activists upset that graduates of the school were linked to the 1989 > murders of six Jesuit priests and two women in El Salvador. > > Father Roy Bourgeois, a Maryknoll priest who has spearheaded the campaign > against the school, said the conference committee action Wednesday won't > slow the campaign. > > ``We are not going away,'' he said. ``We're going to keep coming back to > Washington and to the main gate of Fort Benning in greater and greater > numbers every year until that school is shut down.'' > > The House conferees voted 8-7 to recede to the Senate position. > > Kingston said the House agreed to go along with continued funding for the > school because members of the foreign operations spending panel did not > want to lose jurisdiction over the school, which also receives funding from > the Defense Department budget. > > Kingston said House conferees felt that the Pentagon would find a way to > continue operating the school, even if the $2 million in training funds > were eliminated. > > The $2 million represents about half the school's annual budget. The rest > comes out of the Pentagon budget, which also pays the salaries of the > military officers who serve as instructors. Congressional opponents of the > school estimate it costs the taxpayers $20 million a year. DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substance�not soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. ======================================================================== Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ ======================================================================== To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
