European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 16, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes sunday february 16, 1992 at a glance English language programming went into orbit when Europe s satellite television switched on last year. Sec sunday Magazine. Bush begins Blitz with a top aide conceding that Republican challenger Patrick Buchanan will get Quot at least 30 percent of the vote Quot president Bush began a weekend Campaign Blitz across new Hampshire on saturday in preparation for tuesdays primary. A Page 4 world s changing face a National geographic society cartographer armed with sandpaper wiped the soviet Union off the face of the Globe. A Page 5 tips on insurance fraud insurance fraud investigators Are following leads on cases around the United states thanks to a new toll free hot line. A Page 6 some team names dropped the oregonian newspaper in Portland announced that it will discontinue publishing sports teams names that May be offensive to racial religious or ethnic groups. A Page 7 Baker vows help Secretary of state James a. Baker lit pledged to help nuclear scientists in the former soviet Union find ways to stay employed and convert their skills to peaceful uses. A Page 8 Cut above the rest Elvis mane Man the Barber who pruned the Presley Pompadour is worried he May have to leave Fried bergs Ray Barracks in Germany. A Page 10 Index Abby Ann Landers. 14 commentary. 13 faces a no places. 14 letters. .12 Money matters. .15 Mutual. 1617 sports. 1824 weather. .11 committee democrats finalize own version of tax package Washington apr democrats on the House ways and Means committee completed work Friday on a tax plan offering a $200 credit for most workers tax cuts on capital gains and new measures designed to stimulate the Economy. The plan will be considered by the House As Early As this week As the democratic alternative to president Bush a proposal. The Bill would Cut taxes by about $90 billion Over the next five years chiefly for people making under about $80,000 a year. It would raise other taxes by the same amount and most of the Money would come from the Well to do. Preliminary estimates indicated families whose after tax incomes average $37,286 would realize a $285-a-year savings from key parts of the democratic Bill. The richest 1 percent with incomes averaging $392,025, would pay an extra $ 11,184 a year. A i think this will pass on the House floor a i really do a said rep. Beryl Anthony jr., dark. Asked whether it can win sufficient Republican support he replied a a it la give them heartburn to vote against  the Bill is essentially the one recommended thursday by ways and Means chairman Dan Rostenkowski Dill. However the proposed reduction in taxes on capital gains which Are profits from the Sale of investments is considerably less generous than Rostenkowski offered and far less than what Bush recommended. A we must really be doing our Job because we re irritating them downtown in the White House Rostenkowski said. Democrats Hope to use the election year legislation to prove their party is the party of Quot tax fairness a in contrast to what they perceive As too much tax Relief for the Rich Over the past decade. The heart of the plan is a tax credit of up to $200 per wage earner in each of the next two years a couple could get up to $400. The size of the credit depends on a workers wages but about 80 percent of All workers would get the maximum credit. On the other hand the 31 percent top tax rate would be raised to 35 percent affecting generally single people with incomes Over $100,000 and couples Over $200,000. In addition a new surtax would be imposed on those with taxable incomes Over $1 million a year. The democratic Bill includes several pieces of the plan Bush advanced in his state of the Union message and 1993 budget. But the democrats came up with their own version of How the Economy should be stimulated relying mainly on a 1 percentage Point reduction in the 34 percent maximum corporate tax rate. The Bill would allow Many people to tap into their individual retirement accounts in order to buy a Home or pay for medical or education expenses. But it dropped the $5,000 tax credit that Bush wanted for some Home buyers. Another individual provision of the democratic plan includes allowing a tax credit of up to $500 for interest on student Loans. The democrats capital gains reduction would retain the present maximum 28 percent rate on capital gains. That Means the richest americans who would be subject to the new 35 percent top income tax rate would pay one Quarter less tax on some investment income than they would on wages. Airlift from Page 1 because it shows that America cares. Krumm said he thought that russians would make it through the Winter because Many began stockpiling food some time ago. However he warned that problems could occur once those reserves Are exhausted. Krumm said the russians face Tough times because they done to know How to wean themselves from 70 years of dependency and bureaucracy. Supplies from previous International Relief shipments to the Commonwealth of Independent states have ended up on the Black Market. But officials claim that Isnit True with supplies from operation provide Hope which began last monday when the first of 64 american flights began airlifting food and Medicine to the former soviet republics. The supplies airlifted Friday were destined for the russian cities of Kostroma and Tula. Precautions were made so that the food ends up at the schools orphanages and soup kitchens where it is needed said Thompson Buchanan a retired foreign service officer called Back to Active duty to help oversee food deliveries to Russia. A nothing moves until we approve its movement said Buchanan who otherwise would have been on a ski trip to Jackson Hole Wyo. Meanwhile the flight Crew and members of Rhein main s 4th Mobile Aerial port so in Germany helped Young russian paratroopers Load the 28 pallets of food onto nine flatbed trucks. Buchanan said he was there to help slice through red tape to get the food to those who need it. State department monitors accompanied the Supply trucks to Tula and Kostroma. After City officials develop a food distribution plan a team from the state department will evaluate their plan. If acceptable additional monitors from the state department Wilt accompany the food to the Sites. From there random inspections will ensure compliance. Vadim Gryzlow said he thinks the system will work. Gryzlow is a former soviet military officer who now works for the evening Tula newspaper after he was forced to leave the army because of military cutbacks. Tula a City located about warms my of fat to see soviet Soku Sand american soldiers Ete imaging badges a6df a is instead of bullets a Ethan Heinz Heinz a student at the Institute of International relations was paid $10 an hour for his work but would have done it for free he said. A this is one of the highlights of my life Quot said the 20-year-old native of Cincinnati. A it just warms my heart to see soviet soldiers and american soldiers exchanging badges and pins instead of  the air Force members swapped cigarettes uniform patches and Caps with the paratroopers in Exchange for pins and traditional russian hats with upturned ear flaps. Wearing one of those hats was master sgt. Dan Nelis a Load master with the 326th military Airlift so a Reserve unit from Dover fab Maine. Nelis said the c-5  have lifted off the runway from Rhein main that morning with any More supplies than were already inboard. What is a huge amount for a Load master can seem 120 Miles South of Moscow is known for producing cakes teapots and military weapons said Sergei Korolyov a student from the Tula teachers training College who was working As an interpreter. Monitoring the food during the six hour drive from the Airport to Kostroma were Laura Hospital and Ethan Heinz two american Exchange students studying in Moscow. They responded to state department flyers distributed in their dorms asking for inspectors. Insignificant for a nation Nelis said but its the fought that counts. A they can look at us and say a hey these Guys Arentt that bad a a he said. Nelis said he thinks there should be More exchanges Between America and the Cis because a it gets to be a Little smaller  fellow Load master Jeff Moore agreed. A i wish we could do More but we re hurting ourselves a said the 32-year-old staff sergeant from Mannington . Moore said he hoped that the former soviet republics have the patience to work things out among themselves instead of erupting into civil War. A i Hope we do enough to support Yeltsin a Moore said. A i Hope we done to leave him hanging. When Gorby left we got a second Cnance. I done to think we Well get a third  from Page 1 h. Ide or. Of Sudbury mass As skipper of the la Salle at the ceremony watched by about 500 sailors aboard the ships deck. The United states contributed the bulk of 700,000 air sea and land troops deployed to end the occupation of Kuwait. Almost All of them have returned Home including More than half a million . Troops. An estimated 5,000 air Force personnel remain tucked away in saudi Arabia with a composite Wing of warplanes while a couple of thousand americans Are shipping Back the remnants of Materiel from the saudi theater. Taylor has 18,000 sailors and marines aboard 27 ships a including the aircraft Carrier Dwight d. Eisenhower and the amphibious assault ship Saipan. The 15,000-ton la Salle has been flagship of the . Navy a Middle East Force for two decades. It is painted White rather than the customary Gray to deflect the intense heat of the Gulf Region. The sailors have dubbed it a the great White ghost of the arabian  As Taylor conferred the legion of Merit on Ide for his service which included eight Safe transits through partially cleared mined channels off Kuwait he recalled that after spending 60 Days off Kuwait and under the smoke of its iraqi torched Oil Fields the la Salle had turned Black. La Salle rounded up 1,400 iraqi prisoners of War from Kuwait a fail aka Island during the War and escorted the first 500 commercial ships that went into Kuwait harbours to Mark the emirates restoration to economic life