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2B – Daily News – Friday, March 26, 2010 WORLD BRIEFING GOP vows to repeal health care bill WASHINGTON (AP) — Capping an epic strug- gle, congressional Democrats applied the final touches Thursday to historic legislation enshrining health care as the right of every citizen. Republicans vowed to campaign for repeal in the fall election season, draw- ing a quick retort from President Barack Obama: ‘‘I welcome that fight.’’ The president spoke in Iowa as the Senate voted 56-43 for legislation mak- ing changes, including better benefits for seniors and lower- and middle- class families, to the bill he signed with a flourish at the White House on Tuesday. That cleared the way for a final, confirm- ing vote in the House, which Democratic leaders hoped for by evening. Passage of the two bills was the culmination of what Obama called ‘‘a year of debate and a cen- tury of trying’’ to ensure coverage for nearly all in a nation where millions lack it. Taken together, the two bills also aim to crack down on insurance industry abuses, and to reduce federal deficits by an estimated $143 billion over a decade. Most Americans would be required to buy insurance for the first time, and face penalties if they refused. The second of the two bills also presented Obama with another vic- tory, stripping banks and other private lenders of their ability to originate student loans in favor of a system of direct govern- ment lending. Apart from their impact on nearly every American and an estimat- ed one-sixth of the Amer- ican economy, the week’s events marked Obama’s biggest political triumphs since he took office more than a year ago. A pend- ing arms control agree- ment with Russia, announced on Wednes- day, added to his resume, and White House officials said they hoped the momentum would trans- late into further political successes in the run-up to the midterm elections. Eurozone nations reach agreement BRUSSELS (AP) — Countries that use the euro said Thursday they have agreed on a financial backstop for Greece that would combine loans from other eurozone gov- ernments and the Interna- tional Monetary Fund, a move aimed at stopping the government debt cri- sis that has undermined the shared currency. The bailout program could be used only if Greece winds up shut out of normal market financ- ing such as selling gov- ernment bonds, and would require all 16 countries to agree on releasing the loan funds. It also calls for tougher rules to keep government finances from getting out of control and causing another crisis — one key weakness in the euro that has been exposed by the current troubles. The plan, pushed by Germany and France, was an attempt to stem a gov- ernment debt crisis that has raised concerns that Greece’s woes might spread to other euro gov- ernments with shaky finances, such as Portugal and Spain, raising bor- rowing costs and worsen- ing the large debt loads governments have taken on as a result of three years of global economic turmoil. A Greek default would be a serious blow to the euro — so serious that most economists and mar- ket analysts think Europ- eran governments would step in and stop it some- how, but promises of help had been vague until now. Wis. priest accused of molesting 200 deaf boys VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican on Thurs- day strongly defended its decision not to defrock an American priest accused of molesting some 200 deaf boys in Wisconsin and denounced what it called a campaign to smear Pope Benedict XVI and his aides. Church and Vatican doc- uments showed that in the mid-1990s, two Wisconsin bishops urged the Vatican office led by then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger — now the pope — to let them hold a church trial against the Rev. Lawrence Murphy. The bishops admitted the trial was coming years after the alleged abuse, but argued that the deaf com- munity in Milwaukee was demanding justice from the church. An American protester in Rome on Thursday called the Murphy case an ‘‘incontrovertible case of pedophilia.’’ Despite the extensive and grave allegations against Murphy, Ratzinger’s deputy at the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith ruled that the alleged molestation had occurred too long ago and that Mur- phy — then ailing and elderly — should instead repent and be restricted from celebrating Mass out- side of his diocese. The official, Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone — now the Vatican’s secretary of state — ordered the church trial halted after Murphy wrote Ratzinger a letter saying he was ill, infirm, and ‘‘simply want to live out the time that I have left in the dignity of my priesthood.’’ Threats up against lawmakers WASHINGTON (AP) — A fax bearing the image of a noose. Profane voice mails. Bricks thrown, a gas line cut. White powder sent to an office. Democrats and a few Republicans revealed mounting numbers and unsettling details of threats against them Thursday in the emotional aftermath of the passage of the health care overhaul. Lawmakers uniformly condemned the harass- ment, but that’s where the agreement ended. 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