Nation IN BRIEF : NEW JERSEY : $2 Billion Sought for Computer Link Plan

President Clinton announced that his administration wants to spend $2 billion over the next seven years on a program to connect all public schools by computer. “We have dramatic proof of the power of technology to expand opportunity,” Clinton told an audience in Union City, N.J. “We have to harness that power and spread it throughout the country.” White House officials said that the program would not be underwritten solely with federal funding. Rather, the goal would be to set into motion a national effort, in which states would receive federal money for working with private groups to develop plans to link schools by computer. But the proposal faces tough sledding in the Congress.