for ; Thu, 26 Mar 1998 07:03:59 -0500 (EST)
Date: Wed, 25 Mar 1998 21:28:57 -0800
From: "Terry J. Blanton" 
To: updates@globalserve.net
Subject: Schiff Passes
.c The Associated Press
 ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) - Steve Schiff, whose battle with skin
cancer forced him to decide not to run for re-election this year,
died today at age 51.
The five-term New Mexico Republican, who had been fighting
aggressive squamous-cell skin cancer for more than a year, died
this morning at his Albuquerque home.
Schiff had been absent from Washington, D.C., since last April
but had been continuing to conduct 1st Congressional District
from home.
During his years in Congress, Schiff was credited with a
compromise plan that allowed Speaker Newt Gingrich to resolve
ethics allegations by paying a $300,000 penalty to reimburse the
government for investigative costs.
Once, when Schiff opposed a congressional pay raise, he donated
the amount of the raise that year to charity.
He also gained headlines in 1993, reopening a federal
investigation into the so-called Roswell Incident in which
extraterrestrial beings were purported to have crashed northwest
of Roswell in 1947. Schiff asked the General Accounting Office,
Congress' investigative arm, to seek Air Force documents relating
to the incident. The Air Force said a secret high-tech spy
balloon crashed, not an alien spacecraft.
AP-NY-03-25-98 1513EST
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