European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 19, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Pages a a a the stars and stripes saturday May 19, 1990house goes $44 million in the red on free mail Washington i Pic Hyk members have sent so . Free mad that their Arec Mac be admit 5-w might car the red but he end is the year we Akers said up Fiz Cut. A Ca f asked a and senators  agreed a ? let the horse use s25 million in --.�?�.per. Feeds from a Cape rations account to help make or a Fuz if Quot kit. A i appears he Hrose s going to spend twice As a Quot Fri Quot or res As planned said sen. Don n . Of the House postage Bill came As House is it a tors me for a second Day to Iron out z a Here roes r the supplemental appropriations Bill. Which includes $300 million in Aid for Nicaragua and $420 million for Panama. President Bush chided Congress this past week for dallying on the Aid measure. Nicaraguan president Violeta Chamorro urgently needs the Money because her country is bankrupt and is rocked with by anti government strikes. Bush said. About 14,000 nicaraguan contras Are staying in Camps under a u n. Supervised peace agreement reached with Chamorro after she Defeated sandinista president Daniel Ortega. The Bush administration worried the rebels might run out of food is expected to take Between $ 1 million and $1.5 million from Aid programs to other countries to help feed the contras. Said . Officials who asked not to be identified. The Money Bill. Loaded with pork barrel items and extraneous provisions totals about s3.3 billion. Once negotiators have reached agreement the package must be approved by the full House and Senate. Money wont be sent to Central America until an authorization Bill is passed by the House. Debate is set for monday. The 1990 Bill contains a Host of big ticket items including $110 million for the census and about $162 million for the head Start program for poor children. Lawmakers removed a proposed $10 million for a . Embassy in Lithuania. Controversy has been brewing on the House mailings for some time and Fazio told senators the House intends to Lake up proposed  near White House reveals its Many secrets tourists aware of who walk among the tulips in Washington s Lafayette Square Are Seldom the Parks Rich and often tragic history. Washington apr tourists admiring the Grassy serenity of Lafayette Square Little suspect that it once was the site of a love Triangle murder. Helen Hayes stage debut and a makeshift zoo where Ulysses s. Grant kept a menagerie of Deer and Prairie dogs. Some of the Quot secrets of Lafayette  both amusing and tragic were disposed during a historical tour of the 7-acre Park opposite the White House. The tour was sponsored by the National Trust for historic preservation. According to tour guide Sarah Shaffer the Square that is inhabited today by homeless vagrants once was surrounded by elegant hotels dubs and the Homes of prominent washingtonians. The Square is no stranger to scandal. Store than a Century before the watergate scandal a lurid sex scandal resulted in the death of the son of Francis Scott key who wrote Quot the Star spangled  a Phillip Barton key was fond of crossing the Square from his boarding House to visit the wife of Daniel Sickles a new York congressman when she waved an a Clear signal from her bedroom window. Sickles enraged at the discovery of his wife s infidelity killed key with a Shotgun blast in 1859. A a on the East Side of the Square lived do lev Madison the destitute widow of James Madison who had to mortgage her House before Henry Clay persuaded Congress to rive her s20.000 to pay off her debt to financier John Jacob Astor. Nearby is the site of the old Belasko theater a vaudeville Palace where actress Helen Hayes made her first stage appearance As a 5-year-old Singer. A site on the northeastern Edge of the Square was occupied by the posh Arlington hotel where industrialist Andrew Carnegie once spent $10,000 on a dinner party for his friends. The Park originally contained a private farmhouse Apple Orchard and graveyard before it was bought in 1791 to help create the capital City envisioned by George Washington. It served As the unkempt front Lawn of the executive mansion until Thomas Jefferson ordered Pennsylvania Avenue built right through the Middle. It was a military Campground in the War of 812 and again during the civil War. When president Lincoln crossed the Street to visit troops guarding the White House. The president s Park was renamed Lafayette Square during the French military hero s visit to the United states in 1824. But it is Andrew Jackson a not Lafay Ette a who is honoured with an equestrian statue in the Center of the Square. The statue was cast at a local foundry from melted Down British cannons seized in the War of 1812. It was unveiled in 1853 and celebrated by spectators who toasted a old Hickory from open kegs of rum and whiskey. The Square was haunted by tragedy. Too. A a conspirators in Lincoln a assassination in 1865 bungled an attempt to kill Secretary of state William Seward in his Home on Lafayette Square. Although Seward survive eco his wife and daughter died of a nervous prostration shortly after the attack. In a Home on the present site of the Hay Adams hotel on the Northern Edge of the Square. Clover Adams daughter in Law of John Quincy Adams committed suicide by drinking chemicals from her rooftop photography lab. Long before the Square was beautified with fountains and Floral gardens. President Grant had the Park drained and landscaped removed a civil War cemetery and installed his Pel Deer and Prairie dogs. The tour was pan of local observances of National historic preservation week an annual event to encourage efforts to preserve historic buildings objects and j Sites i i Tutu asks americans to help s. Los Angeles up a archbishop Desmond Tutu urged americans on thursday night to make a financial investment in the exiled youth of South Africa so they can carry Freedom throughout the continent. A we want to be free so Whites will be free to launch Africa into the 21st Century a Tutu told a gathering of 350 at a fund raising dinner to Benefit the Bishop Desmond Tutu Southern african refugee scholarship fund. Tutu 58, the w inner of the 1984 Nobel peace prize spoke humorously and eloquently to a Star studded crowd at the Biltmore hotel. Guests included mayor Tom Bradley former san Francisco mayor and democratic gubernatorial candidate Dianne Feinstein los Angeles Urban league president John Mack actor James Earl Jones and musicians Lionel Ritchie and Quincy Jones. Quot i Tell leaders of nations i visit that Freedom is cheaper than repression a Tutu told the $200-per-plate dinner. A my friends you Are contributing to this glorious future. The new South Africa is going to need skilled persons. Investing in the new South Africa is investing in Young  the scholarship fund established by Tutu in 1984 w Ith the funds from his Nobel prize provides educational opportunities to South african youth exiled for their political activities. The students Are expected to use their leadership skills in a Post apartheid South Africa. Tutu on a 0-Day speaking and fund raising swing through Southern California said in his 35-minute speech that in the future people in South Africa will count a not because of their color but because of their character and  Tutu reminded his audience that despite recent changes in South Africa apartheid is a still very firmly in  africans youth Desmond Tartu