11.   A dispute largely outside the public spotlight is over universal service.

12.   A universal service requirement would teach new generations of Americans that citizenship privileges must be paid for with citizenship responsibilities.

13.   But what to do about the venerable notion of universal service?

14.   Chief among the blessings will be declining long-distance charges, which would be lower because the long-distance carriers will no longer have to subsidize local carriers for universal service.

15.   Clinton also announced that he would develop a universal service fund to provide free access to the Internet for schools.

16.   He wants the agency to report to him the cost breakdown of so-called universal service programs required under the law.

17.   House Commerce Committee Chairman Thomas Bliley, a Virginia Republican, sent a letter to Kennard late today asking him to delay implementing the universal service program funding plan.

18.   In its defense, NYNEX likes to point out that its legal obligation to provide universal service means supplying phone lines to unprofitable customers.

19.   It appears likely the FCC will only tinker with these, and delay major changes until next year when it overhauls universal service.

20.   It set a bold national policy called universal service.