101.   Clinton opposes environmental program cuts contained in those bills which would have, however, reopened museums and parks heavily used by tourists at this time of year.

102.   They are odds over funding in a range of areas, including defense, education, health care for the elderly and funding of environmental programs.

103.   Keating in turn accused Howard of blackmail by linking his one billion dollar proposal for an ambitious environmental program to the partial listing of national telecommunications carrier Telstra.

104.   The Coalition had made a billion-dollar environmental program conditional on the Telstra sale going ahead.

105.   The government plans to sell off a third of Telstra to raise eight billion Australian dollars, one billion of which has been earmarked for an ambitious environmental program.