July 1, 1995

A Senate vote on a new package of midyear budget cuts negotiated by the White House and Congressional leaders from both parties was unexpectedly derailed today when two of the most junior Democratic Senators refused to go along with the deal. Against the wishes of Democratic leaders who seemed helpless to stop them, Senators Paul Wellstone of Minnesota and Carol Moseley-Braun of Illinois began a bumbling filibuster in an effort to restore about $600 million to the $16 billion bill, for youth job training programs and assistance for the elderly.

Facing outrage in California, the White House and Pentagon are weighing the political costs of rejecting, for the first time, the recommendations of an independent commission on the closing of military bases. A tug-of-war centered on McClellan Air Force Base near Sacramento has developed between White House political operatives, who view California's 54 electoral votes as crucial to President Clinton's 1996 campaign hopes, and commission members, who are vowing to stick to their guns to close it and eliminate nearly 11,000 military and civilian jobs.

Researchers say a gene somewhere on chromosome 13 is linked to the most problematic form of bed-wetting, primary enuresis, in which children 7 years old or older wet the bed three or more times a week. Only the general location of the gene has been found, not the exact site, and it may not be the entire explanation or the only gene involved.

Under the daggerlike Gothic spires and within the nicotine-yellow walls of Westminster, connected by a single hidden door to the House of Commons, lies a warren of corridors, three bars, an open-air terrace and a two-chambered cafeteria of plush seats and quiet corners. Off limits to all but Members of Parliament, it is generically called the "tearoom" and even in the best of times it is a center of political gossip and horse-trading. But these days, in the frenzy of a race for the leadership of the Conservative Party that could go exploding off in any direction, the tearoom is a veritable pit of intrigue, alliance and betrayal. It is to John Major's Britain what the Borgias' palace was to early 16th-century Italy.

Changes at Javits Center Hundreds of union members lined up to seek jobs at the convention center as the state moved to shake the mob's grip on hiring there. Page 21. Restrictions Upheld A Federal appeals court upheld rules barring "indecent" programming from the air waves except between 10 P.M. and 6 A.M. Page 7. Eddie Murray Joins Hit Club Eddie Murray of the Indians became the 20th player and second switch-hitter with 3,000 hits. Page 27.