
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: SATURDAY, August 14, 1993                   TAG: 9309120262
SECTION: EDITORIAL                    PAGE: A9   EDITION: METRO 
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THE NEXT FIGHT: FIGHTING CRIME

PRESIDENT CLINTON'S package of anti-crime measures has a little something for everyone. For conservatives: expansion of the federal death penalty to cover more crimes, and a limit - one - on federal habeas corpus appeals, mainly for death-row inmates.

For liberals: a guarantee that death-row defendants will be represented by attorneys meeting minimum competency standards at every step of the appeals process, and endorsement of the Brady bill requiring a five-day wait and a background check for handgun-buyers.

Certainly as significant, in terms of potential effect on crime, are the provisions for everybody: $3.4 billion to put 50,000 more police officers on the street; $100 million for a Police Corps college scholarship program; boot camps for young, nonviolent offenders; a Safe Schools program, a public-housing safety program and a national service plan for repaying college grants with service as public safety workers.

With Senate Republican leader Bob Dole of Kansas already praising the presidenti

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