European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 23, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 b the stars and stripes Friday August 23, 1991 hit area new York a mayor David Dinkins tried to Calm tension Between hasidic jews and Blacks in Brooklyn but a jeering bottle throwing crowd drove him away and violence continued Early thursday. New York new Day columnist Jimmy Breslin described in an article thursday How he was pulled from a cab robbed stripped to his underwear and beaten. The unrest in Brooklyn a Crown Heights neighbourhood began monday night after a Black child was struck and killed by a car driven by an Ultra orthodox hasidic jew. A rabbinical student was fatally stabbed by a Black Man hours later in what police say was a revenge killing. Police reported 44 arrests by wednesday. Injured were at least 20 people including journalists and firefighters and 86 police officers including eight hit by Shotgun pellets. Breslin a pulitzer prize Winner was not among those seriously injured. He wrote that someone looked in the cab and yelled Quot White Man. White  then a group of about 50 people descended some calling for Money he said. One Man jumped on the Hood and hit the Windshield with a baseball Bat Quot with a look on his face that told you All you Ever wanted to know about life in new York at this time a Breslin wrote. He said he made it out of the cab and was rescued from the crowd by two men with a knife who walked him to the police precinct. Early thursday Dinkins and police commissioner Lee Brown visited the wounded at Kings county Hospital. They told reporters they would not impose . Deficit approaching near record Washington up the Federal deficit grew by $40.7 billion in july to $218 billion according to the Treasury department which said the government was Well on the Way toward a record budget shortfall in the current fiscal year ending sept. 30. The department figures were released wednesday. The congressional budget office projected this month that the fiscal 1991 deficit will be a record $279 billion. The record was set in 1986 when the annual Csc licit reached $221 billion. Last year s deficit was $220 billion. The budget deficit is the difference Between what the government takes in and what it spends. Police in riot gear walk past a police car overturned by rioters wednesday in a third Day of violence in Brooklyn . Curfew in Crown Heights. Of wednesday hundreds of Blacks some carrying baseball bats bottles a or rocks attacked the Headquarters of the Ultra orthodox Lubavitcher sect. Club wielding police in riot gear separated the two groups. On wednesday afternoon Dinkins decided it was too dangerous to take a planned walking tour through the neighbourhood. Instead he visited the family of 7-Yearold Gavin Cato who was struck and killed by a car in the entourage of the Lubavitcher spiritual Leader rebbe Menachem Mendel Schneerson. The child a Cousin Angela Cato also 7, was critically injured. Dinkins the City a first Black mayor was jeered and booed As he tried to speak to the Black crowd through a megaphone. A with respect to the Driver of the car that matter will be presented to a grand jury a Dinkins said. Quot in the meantime we be got to increase the peace. I do want Justice. We All want Justice. But we will not get it with  about 50 police officers escorted Din Kins to his car As the crowd threw bottles at him. No charges have yet been brought against the Driver Yoseph Lief 22, said Brooklyn District attorney Charles j. Hynes. On wednesday a Black youth Lemrick Nelson 16, was charged with second de Gree murder in the stabbing death of Yankel Rosenbaum 29, a hasidic student from Australia. Rosenbaum was not involved in the car Accident but police said he was apparently killed in retaliation. Plan to open hospitals to. Draws protest from . Veterans by the Washington Post provided at new outpatient clinics in Cal sharing by the Washington Post Washington to the dismay of the nations largest veterans organization the department of veterans affairs May allow its hospitals to treat non veterans who live in Rural areas lacking adequate Access to health care facilities. Care at the vans 172 hospitals has been largely restricted to former service personnel and in some instances dependents. Non veterans who need specialized care May also be treated at a hospitals if they Are admitted to a Hospital run by a medical school affiliated with the a. The new proposal disclosed this week by the american legion Calls for the a and the health and human services department of use existing medicare medicaid or Indian health service funds to pay for health care that could be offered to Rural americans who have not served in the military. Under the proposal the care could be provided at new outpatient clinics in Rural areas or at existing a hospitals officials said. Studies by the Federal government have shown that Many Rural americans Lack Access to Gallity health care. Has Secretary Louis w. Sullivan has made that Issue a priority initiating the joint project with the a a year ago. He Hopes to use the vans Hospital system largest in the nation in improving medical services in Remote areas. The legion said in its statement that the a is planning to run Rural healthcare projects at three to five of its hospitals for three years. A officials confirmed that the two departments Are discussing such a project. A Secretary Edward j. Derwinski has been sympathetic to Sullivan a overtures provided the projects do not detract from any veterans health care program said Ken m. Link of the vans office of medi Cal sharing. But legion officials expressed fears that a hospitals might turn away veterans in favor of non veterans with medicare funds. Quot that is a ridiculous idea and one the american legion cannot abide a said Robert s. Turner the organizations National commander. In a statement released monday the legion said it was sympathetic to the health care needs of Rural americans but charged that a this plan does no to seem to get at that problem. What it appears to be about is  veterans groups have for years charged that a hospitals have been underfunded forcing administrators to close wards and deny service to veterans unable to prove their health problems Are related to their military service. A if there is excess capacity should t it be directed toward those veterans who need help Turner said. Cereal firm raises Cane Over food program ban Washington a Kellogg a is fighting government regulations that Are keeping Raisin bran off the breakfast tables of poor women and children. The Federal special supplemental food program for women infants and children does t allow program participants to use vouchers to buy Raisin bran saying the Cereal is too sugary. About $200 million Worth of Cereal is bought each year with wic vouchers. Kellogg s is annoyed because cheerios made by archrival general Mills is among the approved cereals. A a it a so loony Quot said Kellogg s spokes Man George Franklin the Battle Creek Mich., Cereal maker has spent the last 14 years trying to convince the government that All Raisin bran a not just its Brand a is As nutritious As cheerios. The key to being included on the wic list is to have no less than 45 percent the daily minimum requirement of Iron and no More than 6 Grams of sugar. The government says Raisin bran has too much sugar. But Kellogg a contends Raisin bran has More Iron than cheerios and is cheaper. It also Points to the health benefits of fruit something cheerios lacks besides says ,.the sugar in Raisin bran is largely the natural sugar from raisins. Phil Shanholtzer spokesman Lor the wic program said pregnant women nursing mothers and their infants Are prescribed certain foods to meet particular individual nutritional deficiencies so that health problems stemming from a poor diet at the Start of life can be avoided. The program sets a particular sugar level per ounce of food. A the problem with Raisin bran is that when you add the sugar in the bran flakes and the sugar in the raisins it pushes it up really High a he said. Kellogg a however has found champions on Capitol Hill. A what kind of prunes do we have setting these guidelines Quot asked rep. Paul Henry a Mich. The rules that keep Raisin bran off the list Are Quot regulatory constipation a Henry said suggesting the government say a a cheerios to regulations that keep Raisin bran off the list of wic foods