Clinton Seeks To Head OffCuts in National Service

President Clinton last week launched a pre-emptive strike against the threat that the new Republican Congress may try to cut funding for AmeriCorps, the national-service program that he views as one of his proudest achievements.

Speaking in Denver at a Martin Luther King Day ceremony, Mr. Clinton said the intent of budget cuts is not to "wreck the government," but to "give us a lean government that will help us to work together to solve our own problems."

AmeriCorps, he said, serves as a national...