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DATE: THURSDAY, July 29, 1993                   TAG: 9307290079
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A-5   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: The Washington Post
DATELINE: WASHINGTON                                LENGTH: Short

SENATE OKS EXECUTIONS FOR TERRORIST KILLERS

The Senate voted overwhelmingly to establish a federal death penalty for terrorist-committed murders and to cut off foreign aid to Nicaragua because of the country's purported connections with international terrorism.

Waiving a procedural objection by a vote of 75-25, the Senate included the death penalty for murder caused by bombings or other terrorist activities in the $23.6 billion appropriations bill for the Commerce, State and Justice departments for fiscal 1994.

The new death penalty was proposed by Sen. Alfonse M. D'Amato, R-N.Y., who has been under special security protection since he was identified as a target of foreign nationals charged with plotting a series of terrorist acts in New York, including blowing up the United Nations.

The suspension of aid to Nicaragua through Sept. 30, 1994, was approved by a vote of 77-23.

by CNB