European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 16, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes thursday january 16, 1992 food stamp Rolls growing sharply Washington a the number of americans receiving food Stamps continues to grow sharply Federal figures show and More than half of the children who eat school lunches receive them free or at reduced prices. According to the agriculture department enrolment in the food stamp program totalled 24.16 million people in october up 400,000 from a month earlier and up 3.23 million from a year earlier. It was the seventh time in eight months that an enrolment record was set. The number of children eating a free or reduced Price school lunch at government expense also continued to Rise in october. There were 12,7 million children from impoverished or Low income families receiving such lunches com pared with 12.2 million in october 1990. Us a said that 44.1 percent of the 24.9 million school lunches served in october were free and that 7.1 percent were sold at a reduced Price. A year earlier 42 percent of lunches were free and 7.4 percent were reduced. A spokesman for the food and nutrition service the us a Agency that administers the programs say the increase in food stamp enrolment could be due to both the Economy and changes that make it More accessible to immigrants and others. The spokesman Phil Shanholtzer said the department suspects the same factors May account for the increase in children receiving free or reduced Price meals. Court rules for vet s widow by the los Angeles times Washington the supreme court on tuesday broadened the Federal governments duty to pay damages when it injures another person through negligence. It was the first opinion authored by new Justice Clarence Thomas. In a 9-0 ruling the court said the government can be forced to pay for the injured persons a loss of the enjoyment of life As Well As for other damages that go far beyond a strict accounting of the victims medical expenses. In the Case the government could be forced to pay an extra $1.4 million on lop of $218,000 already owed to the widow of a Wisconsin Man who suffered irreversible brain damage in a Veteran s administration Hospital. Robert Molzof fell into a coma As he underwent a lung operation in 1986 when Hospital workers accidentally disconnected a breathing tube. He died three years later after his Case was tried before a Federal judge. The Bush administration and most Federal courts conceded the government can be forced to pay for the injured persons medical costs. In addition in this Case the government agreed to pay $150,000 to Molzof s widow to pay her for the loss of her husbands companionship. But the government walked at paying the extra $1.3 million for a future medical expenses Over and above the free medical care at the a Hospital and another $60,000 for Molzoff Quot loss of enjoyment of life. A a pelted with Coats or. Elliott Katz director of the non profit in defense of animals organization and his dog Manco sit tuesday with a pile of furs including one made of 104 baby Raccoon tails that were turned into his office in san Rafael Calif. Katz a veterinarian organized a fur amnesty week just before Christmas but when the week was Over the furs kept coming. The Coats will be used in Street theater productions aimed at ridiculing the wearing of  unseating of Juk files to be sought Washington a a i exas congressman says he will propose that the government immediately open secret files on the assassination of president John f. Kennedy that Are now scaled until 2029. Rep. Henry b. Gonzalez a Democrat said he will introduce a Resolution to unseal the records when the i Louse reconvenes this month. Last week rep. Louis Stokes a Ohio and the Tor Mer chairman of the assassinations committee also said he May propose to release documents sealed by the committee for 50 years in 1979. The House would have to vote to release the records before then Gonzalez who said he did not to know of the files until a few weeks ago said it was a a abhorrent that the records had been sealed. In 1979, the commit tee published 27 volumes of material on the assassinations of Kennedy in november 1963 and of Martin Luther King or. In april 1968. But it sent 848 boxes of sealed raw material to the National archives. The records were scaled at the recommendation of the committees counsel who argued that the raw data contained unsubstantiated allegations material embarrassing to innocent individuals and matters of National Security. The committee concluded that Kennedy was a a probably assassinated As the result of a conspiracy involving a second gunman. That conclusion was at Odds with the Warren commission which concluded that Lee Harvey Oswald had acted alone. In a related development a lawyer says he relayed an order from labor Leader Jimmy Hoffa to two organized crime Bosses that he believes resulted in Kennedy a assassination the new York Post reported tuesday. Frank Ragano of Tampa fla., who represented Hoffa for 15 years told the newspaper that the former teamsters Boss asked him to carry a message to Florida mob Boss Santos Trafficante and new Orleans mob head Carlos Marcello in january or february 1963. A Jimmy told me to Tell Marcello and Trafficante they had to kill the president a Ragano told the Post. Quot Hoffa said to me a this has to be  a Ragano 68, did no to return a phone message left tuesday at his Tampa Law office. Trafficante died of natural causes in 1987. Hoffa has been missing and presumed dead since 1975.general dynamics chief Well paid records show by the Washington Post Washington a the chairman of general dynamics corp. Received a pay package last year valued at $9.35 million during his first year As chief executive of the giant defense contractor according to company documents. That compensation is Likely to make William a. Anders a former astronaut the highest paid executive in a defense business scrambling to adjust to the end of the cold War and the Prospect of rapidly declining sales. It May also reignite controversy among Large shareholders Federal officials and corporate critics Over top level pay at general dynamics. Anderst 1991 pay package was a Complex amalgam of salary $800,000 bonuses $2.95 million special Stock $1.1 million and options to buy additional Stock $4.5 million. Those figures were calculated by the investor responsibility research Center a shareholder lobby group. General dynamics confirmed the figures. A-12 allegation kept secret in lawsuit by the los Angeles times los Angeles a two defense contractors allege in a secret portion of a lawsuit that the government diverted funds from the Navy Snow cancelled a-12 program a and possibly used the Money for intelligence activities in the Reagan administration sources say. The allegation is known As a count 2�?� of the $1.3 billion suit filed against the Federal government last year by general dynamics and Mcdonnell Douglas. It could become a political Bombshell if it were made Public officials said. When the suit was filed senior Navy officers immediately classified the allegation a top  Secretary of defense Dick Cheney said last november that he was not aware of the contractors charges and added that the assertion was Quot ludicrous on its  general dynamics spokesman Alvin Spivak said tuesday that he had no information about count 2. Mcdonnell Douglas officials could not be reached. Last week the Justice department agreed to begin negotiations to Settle the suit. Government officials have denied that their aim in settling was to prevent a Public airing of the dispute. Also tuesday it was Learned that the . Attorney in St. Louis has dropped a criminal investigation examining whether the two companies obtained excessive payments on the a-12. The stealth Jet was cancelled last january after the program a with a $1 billion Cost overrun a had fallen a year behind schedule. It was to have been the successor to the Carrier based a-6 intruder attack bomber. Count 2 is considered so sensitive that the governments information Security oversight office blocked the companies attempt to declassify it. Steven Garfink director of the office said he was Quot satisfied that the information sought to be protected by the Navy. Is legitimately classified a according to a Jan. 8 letter obtained under the Freedom of information act. In a request seeking the declassification last november general dynamics and Mcdonnell officials disclosed that the original allegation was ordered classified by the Deputy chief of naval operations the Navy a second ranking officer