European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 14, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes monday december 14,1987substantial cuts proposed in program for homeless Washington a the Reagan adminis Lra lion is proposing a change in rules that would substantially Cut a Federal program bin filing the homeless unofficial said saturday. Wayne a. Scanlon head of the family support administration in the health and human services department said the new Rule would limit the Federal contribution to a family s stay in a welfare hotel or shelter to 30 Days within any 13-month period. The regulation also would prohibit use of Money in the emergency assistance for families of dependent children program for single homeless people he said. Spending under the program which contributed to the housing of about 15,000 people a month totalled about j 100 million in the last fiscal year Stanlyn said. That would decline in about $ 10 million he said. The cuts arc being made to bring the program which had grown out of its Bounds into compliance with Federal Law he said. The program was not in tended 10 Benefit homeless individuals or for unlimited stays in temporary housing he said. I look an oath to follow the Taw and it s been brought to my attention that we were not following the Law Slanton said. If you Don t like it change the Law about 85 percent of the Money had gone o new York City which would suffer the bulk of the cuts. Several cities in new Jersey and Washington d.c., also would be affected lie said. Other cities have not been As aggressive in using the Money and would see few cuts he said. Authorities in new York House the homeless individuals in addition to families in High rent Wel fare hotels for months and months and even years he said. This is simply not allowed with our Federal  the Federal dollars cover half the Cost of the Emer gency housing. Slate and local governments pick up the rest. Has published a notice of proposed Rule making on Friday asking for Public comment the final Rule Likely will take effect in three to four months Stanlon said. Calif voters May get Chance to vote on legalized suicide9 Sacramento Calif. Up1 California could become the Only government outside Holland to Legal ize physician assisted suicide if a Righi to die initiative proposed for the november 1988 ballot is passed its supporters said. The measure would allow terminally ill patients to ask their doctors in writing to Speed their deaths said David Clarke Northern California Campaign manager for americans against human suffering. Proponents of the initiative said it would be the firs of its kind outside of the Netherlands. They began gathering signatures for the measure this weekend. Existing Law allows physicians to withdraw life sup port and even artificial feeding from terminal or brain dead patients but they can be prosecuted for assisting a suicide. Clarke said at a news conference the proposed act would allow Active euthanasia by permitting a suffer ing  to ask his or her doctor for life ending medication when death is reasonably certain to occur within the next six months no matter what the treat  he said the measure is designed to relieve people inthe final stages of dying who have been kept alive against their will. And who have asked family friends and especially physicians for something that would end life  its provisions specify that Onty the patient or some one named by inc patient can make the decision audit would be reviewed by a three member panel in the latter Case. The initiative would allow a lethal injection or Oral medication to be administered Only in a Hospital by physician but never to pregnant women minors or anyone mentally incompetent Clarke said. He said the proposed humane and dignified death act is probably the first of its kind in the world although he said inc dutch have legalized the practice by court decision. Surveys of physicians in the United Stales indicate they arc split on the mercy killing Issue. One poll found that 25 percent favored allowing physicians to Speed patients deaths provided they arc protected from criminal and civil liability Clarke said. A 1987 Field research associates poll indicated that 64 percent of californians approve of incurably ill patients receiving life ending medication from a doctor at the patient s request. As a statutory change inc measure would require372,178 registered voter signatures to qualify for the november 1988 ballot. The Secrel Arv of stale s office Friday authorized proponents to gainer signatures forthe measure. Supporters include other right to die groups and the state bar of California. Opponents include the Roma Catholic Church and the California medical association. Or. Laurens White the Cha s president elect said some people who have watched the painful prolonged deaths of relatives have assumed Idal doctors Aren t letting people die that we need doctors to kill  who wants to kill himself has a zillion ways to do it and does t need the assistance of the doctor. Stateside aussie pays $2.6 million for condominium in Vail Vail Colo. A austrian tycoon Alan Bond has paid $2.6 million sigh unseen for a condominium in Vail and May have set the re Cord for the highest Price Ever paid for a Condo in Colorado. Bond who won the America s cup race in 1983, sen his lawyer of Vail to Purchase the3,500-Siiuare-Fooi unil at the one Vail place Complex according to sources at Vail associates. Accord ing to Stewart title which handled the paper work Tor the Sale the  buyer was Vima holdings lid., in Barbados. Apartment May be gone with the demolition Crew Atlanta a despite new pledges offends time May soon run out on efforts to save the apartment building where Margaret Mitchell wrote most of gone Wilh the  John Taylor president of Mitchell House inc., the organization hoping to save the building said he has received no firm word from mayor Andrew Young As to How much longer die mayor will delay signing a demolition permit Trammel Crow co., owner of the property in Atlanta s Midtown Section asked for the permit three months ago. Nehl Morton a spokesman for the mayor said that Young kind of agreed to hold off fir six months which Means preservationists May have an additional Chr e months to conic up with a funding . Taylor said this to the first he has heard of thai Penthouse seeks blocking of $7.5 million libel suit Boston a a Penthouse Magazine at Torney has urged a Federal appeals court to blocks $7,5 million libel suit filed by four schoolgirl who were called amazons in an Issue that de scribed amazons As sexually insatiable  the Girts asked the 1st . Circuit court of appeals to revive the suit they filed after the Magazine published a photograph of them under the headline Little amazons attack boys the photo published in april 1986, was taken during a recess the previous november it the Oakland elementary school in Warwick . When it was taken recess at the school was segregated because some Girts had beaten up boys. The principal s decision to separate the sew during recess a policy that since has been rescinded attracted National attention. The four girls who at the time of the photo ranged in age from 9 to 12, and their parents claimed they were lib eled and defamed by the mag Azine because of an article that appeared in the same Issue of Penthouse that denied amazons a sexually aggressive and i a Saleable females . District judge Francis j. Boyle threw out the suit in june. Plans for Alamo replica have group up in arms Houston a a plan to build a replica of the Alamo s facade at a corporate training Center has raised the Dan Der of the Alamo s caretakers who say it would commercialize the Symbol of Texas Independence. Kwik Kopy corp. Officials plan to in corporate a replica of the fort at the com Pany s Headquarters in Cypress about 20 Miles North of Houston and company officials were ready for a fight the tenons told the mexicans logo remember the Alamo it s in Sao Antonio and is a Symbol of to a Independence. Had Field said. The Alamo facade will be incorporated into a 4,000-Square-foot building said the company which has a Chain of 1,000 copy ing centers operating in several countries. Peggy Dibrel. Secretary of the Alamo committee of the daughters of the Republic of Texas a non profit organization thai manages the slate owned Alamo criticized the plan. There is Only one Alamo As far As we ate concerned Dibrell said. We would prefer they did t build another out in  Kwik Kopy i idea commercialized he Alamo she said. It is a shrine because of the men that gave their lives for Texas Freedom and we prefer that the Only one be Here Dibrell said in a Telephone interview from san an Tonio Home of the Alamo. Hadfield speaking saturday before ground breaking ceremonies for the train ing Center said he did nol understand Why the group was upset. Kwik Kopy j 23-Arre Headquarters also contains a restaurant a recreation building Library a Lake and Tennis courts. Dibrell said the Alamo s facade is in the Public Domain and nothing can be done to Stop imitators