Clinton Calls for Action on Social Issues : Legislation: In radio address, President puts health care, crime, welfare and job training at top of his Administration for ’94. Dole says GOP will work with him where possible.

President Clinton sketched out his agenda for the new year on Saturday, calling for action on his health care, crime, welfare and job training initiatives.

In a radio address taped Friday at this seaside resort and broadcast to the nation on Saturday, the President also spoke of the nation’s sense of community and the obligations of its citizens to each other.

“For too long, we’ve been coming apart rather than coming together,” he said. But “in 1993 we’ve begun to reverse that, and I’m grateful.”

He went on to preview his goals for the coming year, predicting that his health care reform plan would pass in 1994 and calling it “a good deal for our families and our future.”

Saying that he planned to begin creating a system of lifetime education and training, he declared that a first step would be an education program that begins by “setting high standards for our public schools and challenging every state to meet them.”

The House and Senate have each passed separate bills to create voluntary academic standards for public schools.

Turning to his developing welfare reform proposal, Clinton stressed its emphasis on work and responsibility, saying: “Those who can work should do so. And both parents must take responsibility for their children because governments don’t raise children, parents do.”

He also called on Congress to pass an anti-crime bill that would put more police officers on the street, ban assault weapons and stiffen sentences for violent repeat offenders.

In 1994, the President said: “Let us resolve to improve the health security, the personal security and the job security of the American people who work hard and play by the rules.”

Giving the Republican response, Senate Minority Leader Bob Dole of Kansas promised the GOP would work with Clinton where possible but said no health care plan has enough support to pass.

“We’ll need a different plan taking the best ideas, if any, from all the proposals, but without price controls, employer mandates, mandatory health care alliances and massive overdoses of government control,” he said.

Later Saturday, in comments to reporters, Clinton indicated he has been closely involved in the Administration’s effort to uncover more details about the federal government’s radiation experiments on humans in the 1940s and 1950s.

Clinton said he has already had conversations with his staff about the disclosure program, which has been led by Energy Secretary Hazel O’Leary.

“We’ve got to meet now and assess where we are with the information and where to go next,” he said.

The White House has summoned staff members from the Energy Department, the Defense Department, the Veterans Affairs Department and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration to a meeting Monday to coordinate the release of information on the tests. Although not scheduled to attend those sessions, the President left open the possibility that he might participate.

In the last week, O’Leary has said that as many as 600 people were involved in 800 experiments to determine the effects of radiation on human beings. She has also claimed that federal agencies were involved over the decades in efforts to cover up the tests.

On Friday, Veterans Affairs Secretary Jesse Brown announced an investigation to determine whether any patients in VA hospitals were involved. Defense Secretary Les Aspin previously called for a search of military files for more information on the tests.

The President and his family have been spending the New Year’s holiday at this island resort to attend the annual Renaissance Weekend, a gathering of some of the nation’s leading figures that features off-the-record panel discussions about personal and public policy matters. The First Family is scheduled to return to Washington today.

Clinton’s own new year apparently got off to a painful start. At a golf outing early Saturday, he complained of soreness and asked for aspirin to ease discomfort brought on by a 90-minute touch-football game on the beach Friday afternoon.

The President was tackled hard during the game, slapped in the face by a bouncing football, and twice relegated to the bottom of a pile of bodies.

The football was “too much,” he told reporters Saturday. ‘I’m pretty stiff today, guys, but plugging away.”

The Clintons spent New Year’s Eve listening to a Renaissance Weekend panel talk about its foremost gripes.

At the stroke of midnight, the participants cried “Happy New Year!” But then they turned not to merry-making but back to the seminar topic at hand.

Later, the approximately 1,000 weekend participants held hands and sang songs that included “God Bless America,” “Auld Lang Syne,” “Oklahoma” and a tune from the Broadway musical “Annie.” The Clintons left for their borrowed beachfront home by 1:30 a.m.

After golfing Saturday morning, the President spent the afternoon at seminars, socializing and watching football. On Saturday night, he was to address the full group with a talk entitled “What I Have Learned.”

On Friday, a group of panelists gave Clinton unsolicited advice on missions they hope he will accomplish during his presidency. One member of the Renaissance Weekend group, which includes more than a sprinkling of the very wealthy, told Clinton he should go easier on the well-to-do.

Others, including some teen-agers, told the President that he needed to do more about guns and violence in schools. Clinton listened politely, participants said, but had no comment.

Aside from its intellectual endeavors, the President’s visit has given him an opportunity to pursue sports with a selection of the rich and celebrated.

In his football game Friday afternoon in front of the Hyatt Regency hotel, Clinton was joined by former Miss America and TV personality Phyllis George. On his team was Rep. Marjorie Margolis-Mezvinsky (D-Pa.), who cast a key vote for Clinton’s economic plan last summer. Their team was a winner this time as well; they came out ahead two touchdowns to one.

During Saturday’s golf outing, Clinton was joined by Harvard University management expert Michael Porter, sports broadcaster Dick Schaap and sports doctor Rod Mortenson.

Clinton dined with retired tennis pro Stan Smith on Thursday night at Smith’s glass-sheathed home in the walled Hilton Head subdivision of Spanish Wells.