European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 8, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes saturday february 8,1992 at a glance Kelly Black left and Chris Bode await their turn to pack groceries at the Heidelberg commissary. Walk in the shoes of a Bagger on pages 14 and 15. Health plan under fire the democratic presidential candidates say president Bush s health care proposal is an election year put of. A Page 4 a drop in the bucket the Federal government has collected Only $365,000 out of $84 million in fines and repayments in 55 savings and loan convictions. A Page 5 building a new world hundreds of volunteers Are applying for a two year peace corps hitch in the former soviet Union. A Page 6 Canada trims forces the Canadian forces Are using retirement incentives and Cash benefits to persuade troops in overstaffed trades to leave the military. A a Page 10 Index Abby Ann Landers. 19 action line. 16 comics. 19-21 commentary. .13 crossword. .19 faces n places. 18 letters. 12 Money matters. 17 sports. 22-28 to listings. 27 a a a m m m weather. 11 corrections because of a reporting error the plane captained by former Twa Pilot John Testrake during a hijacking ordeal in 1985 was misidentified in fridays editions. The plane was a Boeing 727. A because of a reporting error a Story in Friday s editions gave the incorrect number of 2nd army div soldiers killed in the persian Gulf War. Eight soldiers and one civilian from the unit were killed. A because of an editing error an article on separation pay programs that appeared in thursday s editions incorrectly said the air Force had a policy of retaining second term airmen. Iraqi troops did t kill infants in Kuwait rights group says by Dana priest the Washington Post Washington a a 16-month investigation by a human rights group of reports that iraqi soldiers killed kuwaiti infants during the occupation of Kuwait has concluded there is a no basis to the allegation. In a report released thursday Middle East watch said it had interviewed kuwaitis who once claimed to be witnesses to the deaths but actually had received Only secondhand accounts. It also said that examination of cemetery and Hospital records showed there were no mass burials and that most incubators alleged to have been stolen were accounted for. The report was released one Day after the publication of a Cable from the . Ambassador to Kuwait Edward w. Gnehm to the state department stating the embassy a belief that the killings did occur and berating sceptics As a revisionist historians and Quot smug and  the names of the three individuals the Cable quotes As witnesses were blacked out Quot to protect their identities a said a state department official. The Cable said embassy officers had reached their conclusion based on conversations with hundreds of kuwaitis. Middle East watch rebuts parts of the Cable and other allegations in detail for example the Cable says . Officials were told that 250 babies were buried in several mass Graves. Quot the kuwaiti ambulance Driver who delivered the bodies and the caretaker who buried them kept track of the numbers but cannot say How or where the babies died a the Cable stated. Middle East watch said its investigator found one entry in the cemetery record of an unusual number of deaths. On aug. 24,1990,30 infants were buried there including four who had been stillborn and two fetuses from abortions. Nineteen of the infants records showed died Between june 27 and aug. 1, 1990, prior to the invasion. Others had died at different hospitals on different dates during the first three weeks of August. It could find no other record of mass Graves. It was also suggested that the group interview Abdullah Al Hammadi a physician who was supposed to have worked in the maternity wards of Al Sina Hospital and had washed 38 dead babies some of whom Kuwait said had died because of iraqi action. Middle East watch said that when its investigator questioned Al Hammadi he said that his information came from conversations with another Hospital official and that he did not work at the maternity Hospital. Jobless from Page 1 late the Economy. Steinberg said he expected the fed to push Short term rates a Quarter to a half of a percentage Point lower this month. Increases in jobs in government and in health and financial services were not enough to offset a Sharp drop in factory and retail jobs. Automakers alone Laid off 15,000. Construction lost 6,000 jobs despite increased building activity. The decline in retail jobs came despite weak Holiday hiring that had led Many analysts to Hope for fewer layoffs after Christmas. Meanwhile december a Job gain previously estimated at 31,000, was revised Down to 3,000. The january loss brought the number of jobs lost since october to 300,000, negating the gains that had been made in the previous six months a period when Many economists believed the recession was ending. Rising unemployment hit the South and West particularly hard in january after pushing rates up a month earlier in the Industrial Northeast and Midwest. Californians rate shot up to 8.1 percent in january from 7.7 percent a month earlier. Florida a Rose to 8.7 percent from 7.5 percent. The Texas rate was 7.8 percent up from 7 percent. Nationally the unemployment rate Rose for adult men particularly Black men. That rate 13.4 percent was the highest of the recession. The number of discouraged workers people who have quit looking for work remained at about 1.1 million. Hie number of people holding part time jobs Rose by 400,000 in january to 6.7 million. All of the increase was accounted for by peo ele who Werp looking for full time work it could not find it. Analysts expect the unemployment rate to Inch higher in the next few months before improving later in the year even if the Economy skirts a continued recession. So far the Economy Isnit expanding fast enough to create jobs to accommodate the growth in the working age population grows. A the Economy is sort of hanging in there in a state of suspended animation a said economist Robert Dederick of Northern Trust co. In Chicago. A a it a not the sort of environment that makes businesses aggressive about hiring  the Bush administration in its economic report this week is projecting a painfully slow improvement in the unemployment rate even if Congress adopts the presidents proposals for reviving the Economy with tax  from Page 1 work As administrative assistants in schools with discipline problems Nunn suggested. A i can assure you that a Marine corps or army Drill sergeant knows How to maintain order and discipline a Nunn said. To finance the Early retirement plan and additional retirement credit Nunn cited the savings from the Early retire ment provision. The senator called on the defense department to manage an economic adjustment and transition program for workers in the private sector who Are Laid off. Quot i think we owe these people More than a handshake and Best wishes for finding a Job in this recessionary Economy a Nunn said. The Georgia Democrat criticized the department for delays in implementing a provision of the fiscal 1991 defense Bill that provided $200 million in economic assistance for communities hard hit by defense cuts. The senator also called for increasing the amount of economic assistance. He did not provide a specific figure. In testimony before the House armed services committee Gen. Colin Powell chairman of the joint chiefs of staff said the department will know by the end of the year whether it will have to a involuntarily separate Many of the men and women in uniform. The Pentagon plans to reduce its forces by about 25 percent a some 500,000 jobs a by the Middle of the  Page 1 a Pilot proficiency training Mission said guard spokesman David Altom. A National guard spokesman Friday identified the dead crewmen As maj. Richard a. Strang 39, floyds knobs ind. Master sgt. William g. Hawkins Klingaman 29 2nd it. Vincent d. Yan car 25 and master sgt. John m. Medley 41, Crestwood by. Capt. Warren j. Quot Quot a a a a id it. Vin. Or so 38 All of Louisville by. David Altom Public affairs officer for the Kentucky National guard said the plane was on a training flight from fort Campbell by. He said the c-130b Lockheed Hercules was part of the 123rd tac air Wing of the Kentucky guard. The crash occurred along a congested Highway in a commercial area of Evansville. Nine people died in the Motel and two others were found dead in the restaurant said Rick Woods chief Deputy Coroner for Vanderburgh county. He said no additional victims were expected to be found. Nine employees of plumbing and Industrial Supply co., who were attending a seminar at the hotel were unaccounted for a Dir Day night said Bruce Stallings president of the Evansville company. Among them was his brother John. Vanderburgh county Coroner Charles Althaus asked families gathered at a. Beyond recognition thaus asked for dental records and descriptions of jewelry their missing relatives might have been wearing. Altom said the air plane was making touch and go landings in which a plane touches Down and takes off immediately. A they did two touch and gos. And they asked permission for a Low approach and were taking off when they fell into the. Hotel a Altom said. Whitehead said a it dropped out of the air and into the Drury inn s Pool and a Wing came off and careened into the Back of the Jojo  fifteen to 20 people were in the building when the plane crashed he said. The 24-hour restaurant part of a Chain and the Motel Are located on . 41 in this City of 125,000 at the Southern tip of Indiana. The c-130b Hercules is a Workhorse for the military a medium Range Craft that carries mainly cargo or people on a variety of missions