Article: City representatives say budget gives them good news, bad news. (Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)

WASHINGTON _ Last month, President Clinton wooed the nation's cities, promising their top executives cozy White House luncheons and bright futures if they stand by his side. 
On Monday, Clinton proposed a 1995 budget that includes major spending increases for some programs that will benefit cities, such as immunization for poor children, the $3.5 billion empowerment zone program and 100,000 additional police officers. 
But the budget also includes deep cuts in such important urban programs as public housing, mass transit and home-energy assistance to low-income families. 
As they scrambled to make sense of the four mammoth budget documents, city representatives said ...

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