European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 5, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 4 a the stars and stripes saturday january 5,1991n.y.c. Facing budget deficit of $500 million new York apr the City a $250 million budget Gap has ballooned into a half billion Dollar chasm that will require immediate shrinking of the municipal work Force officials said. A the news is bad to be sure but it is not surprising that you have these changes a js4ayor David Dinkins said Friday. A they re things for which we just must adjust and we Are prepared to adjust. It will be difficult and painful Butic will do it because fiscal stability is absolutely Dinkins aides said thursday that the difference Between expected Revenue and projected spending for the year ending june 30 was $500 million double the Gap revealed just three weeks ago. The estimated Gap for the next budget year grew from $1.6 billion to Between $1.8 billion and $2.1 billion officials told the new York times. The officials spoke a Day after the City announced a wage increase for two major unions. A new York new Day reported that 286 employees scattered throughout City government would get Pink slips on Friday in a first round of layoffs. By feb. 1, More than 7,000 workers will be notified that their positions Are being eliminated with about half finding other City jobs new Day said. An additional 5,000 to 15,000 City jobs will be Cut beginning March 1, new Day pleads guilty Charles Daugherty it left26, appears in court thursday with his attorney Ken Gray to plead guilty to charges of criminal impersonation. The 26-Ycar-old Man shocked parents and school officials when he was discovered posing As a female cheerleader at Coronado High school in Colorado Springs Colo. Mccain disputes sex Keating aide s Story Washington a Arizona sen. John Mccain testified Friday his Arizona colleague Dennis Deconcini arranged a crucial 1987 meeting that senators held with Federal regulators on behalf of Charles ii. Keatingjr. Mccain defending himself against suggestions of impropriety in dealing with Keating disputed the testimony of Keating aide who said it was sen. Donald Riegle of Michigan who set up the april 2,1987, meeting. That meeting which four senators held with Edwin j. Gray then the top Federal Thrift regulator has emerged As a critical event in allegations against the so called Keating five the ethics panel is investigating allegations the senators improperly intervened with regulators on behalf of Keating and his failing Lincoln savings and loan at a time when Keating was raising or contrib uting $1.3 million m political donations for the senators. _ Mccain received a solid endorsement from one member of the Senate ethics committee sen. Trent Lott,r-miss., who concluded questioning by saying he found no improper activity by the Arizona Republican. / Mccain the Only Republican among the five senators under investigation underwent questioning by his own attorney. John Dowd who asked a who set up or arranged the april 2 meeting a Mccain replied a it was my understanding because it was in senator de Concini a office that it was senator de assertion was the latest in a series of defences mounted by the two Arizona senators that have been damaging to the other. / a v a Quot a a a a. A former lobbyist and top aide to keat ing James Grogan delivered immunized testimony last month before the ethics panel. He asserted that Riegle d-mich., had the april 2 meeting and first suggested it in a private meeting with Keating in Arizona the month before Mccain also defended himself on other Points saying he did nothing improper and at All times acted a in keeping with the standards of my a but in his Long morning in the witness chair Mccain faced the sharpest questioning yet of the hearings from committee chairman Howell Heflin a Ala Heflin zeroed in on Mccain a failure to reimburse Keating and his company for extensive air travel and vacationing until the Lack of payment was called to his attention in 1989. specific flights that Mccain his wife Cindy their child and baby Sitter took at Keatings expense and asked what procedures Mccain used to assure payment. A obviously i did not have a proper procedure a Mccain acknowledged. Heflin also cited one group of flights and said their Cost amounted to $3,512-, and asked Mccain Why he repaid Only $550.w a a Mccain said he had no explanation and added a i attempted to repay everything and if you can find something i did no to pay ill give you the Mccain earlier described a meeting with Keating in which he angrily confronted the savings and loan owner and rebuffed Keatings request that he try to negotiate with Gray on Lincoln a behalf. A i told him i would not do that. That was improper. I would not negotiate on his behalf a he said adding that the meeting was a the end of our s _ Atlanta up. A More than half of american women Ages 15 through 19 have had premarital sex and nearly three quarters of sexually Active Young w Oman have had More than one partner a Federal Survey said thursday. The study also found that the proportion of Young women who reported having had premarital sexual Intercourse increased steadily from 28.6 percent in 1970 to 51.5 percent in 1988. The centers for disease control which conducted the Survey also warned the evidence of increased sexual Intercourse among Young women poses serious health consequences for the nation. / not Only Are teen agers More Active sexually before marriage but the sexual activity is starting at an earlier age the cd Early initiation of sexual activity certainly is increasing rather than declining among adolescents a said Sevgi aral chief of the behave rial studies Section of cd. A a what we arc finding out is that the sexual revolution is slowing Down in some respects but in some dimensions that certainly is not the Case a aral said. The cd Survey covered tire years 1970-1988 and was based on interviews with 8,450 women Ages 15-44 from a nationally representative Sample of households. Of the Young women who initiated sexual Intercourse before age 18, 75 percent reported having had two or More partners and 45 percent reported having had four or More the Survey revealed. The study a so found that the older a woman was when she started having sex the fewer sexual partners she had. A among those who became sexually Active after age 19, 20 percent reported having had More than one partner and 1 percent tour or More partners a researchers said. The proportion of Black adolescents having premarital sex a was consistently higher than that of Whites but the difference narrowed Over time the cd said. For Black women 15-19, 46 percent reported having had premarital sex in 1970, compared with 26.7 percent for White women in that age group. By 19s8, the difference had narrowed to 5s.s percent for Black women and 50.6 percent for Whites. A a a. A for White adolescents this represents an increase in the number of sexually experienced females from 2.2 million in 1970 to 3.7 million in 19ss and for Black ado from 0.6 million to 0.8 million a the study device of d for implant Woburn mass. Up the government has approved implantation of the first self contained heart assist device that should give patients awaiting heart transplants greater Freedom of movement the manufacturer said. Thermo cardio systems inc Developer of the Battery powered hear mate device announced on thursday that the first implant will take place at the Texas heart Institute in Houston within months. A l the operation will Mark the first time a patients heart is supported by an implanted heart assist device without the patient being attached to a Bulky external Power console Thermo officials mate which is powered by a Small Battery pack that can be w Orn in a lightweight shoulder Holster is designed to allow a patient awaiting a heart transplant to move about freely and resume Ninny daily activities. A unlike a total artificial heart the device allows the natural heart to stay in place and leaves Natu Lal blood circulation undisturbed _ a
