European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 8, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 2 the stars and stripes sunday March 8, 1992 at a glance a a of j. Amp amp or r n quoth europeans Are fun Dong that american sports Caps fill the fashion Bill quite nicely. See stories in sunday Magazine. Captains win reprieve the army has cancelled a Board to select captains to be fired from the service but majors Are still being targeted. A Page 4 castration approved a Houston judge Friday approved a child molester s request to be surgically castrated rather than go to prison on a charge of raping a 13-year-old girl. A Page 5 analyst to be fired the census Bureau intends to dismiss an analyst who estimated that 13,000 iraqi civilians were killed by forces during the persian Gulf War an estimate that was More than twice As High As the Bureau s subsequent official calculation. A Page 7 talks on arms Start a . Senate delegation has travelled to Moscow for talks on converting russian defense plants to civilian uses and dismantling the former soviet Union s nuclear Arsenal. A Page 8 suicide troubles area a suicide has cast a harsh Light on the thorny Issue of property ownership that leaves millions of Eastern germans unsure if they can stay in their Homes. A Page 9 fare boosts delayed . Air travellers got a temporary reprieve from higher prices Friday when airlines in bankruptcy walked at an Effort to impose a fare increase. A Page 15 Index Abby Ann Landers 14 commentary. 13 faces a no places a .14 letters. .12 Money matters. 15 Mutual. 16-17 sports. 18-24 weather. .11 Fitzwater explodes at Media during Bush s Oklahoma rally Oklahoma City a the White House voiced its frustration with negative press coverage of president Bush when administration press aides shut Down an audio feed of a Campaign rally and press Secretary Marlin Fitzwater lashed out at several reporters. A a in a sick of All you Lazy bastards a Fitzwater told one reporter who tried to explain Why reporters wanted to remain in a news filing Center Friday while an outdoor rally was under Way nearby. By the end of the Days Campaign tour Fitzwater sounded a conciliatory note saying a the press have a Tough Job to do. These things he also apologized a for the bad the incident occurred in the news filing Center at Oklahoma Christian University of arts and sciences where equipment was set up to provide sound from the rally. A cheering crowd of several thousand students had gathered to hear president Bush and Fitzwater shouted in a joking cheerleader style for All the reporters to come on out to see the rally. Many reporters were already outside but a few including radio reporters who needed to tape record the rally and others who were on deadline remained inside to listen to the speech. Minutes later fitzwaters Deputy Judy Smith announced that the sound would be Cut off because Fitzwater wanted everyone outside to cover the event. A few reporters tried to explain their situation and Fitzwater shouted at Rita Beamish Baker from Page 1 Fitzwater also dismissed the Koch comment As outrageous. A jewish Leader and a member of Congress said Baker should resign if the statement attributed to him is Correct. Koch in his weekly column Friday in the new York Post wrote a when Baker was criticized recently at a meeting of High level White House advisers for his belligerent attitude toward Israel he responded a of a Mem. They did no to vote for Bush carried about 29 percent of the jewish vote in 1988. Koch said his source whom he re Baker made the alleged remark and fused to identify was present when a Legea a a told him Baker was referring to jews. Rabbi Avi Weiss National president of Amcha the coalition for jewish concerns said a emr. Baker sounded like Pat Buchanan or David Duke. Congressional hearings Are in order. If in fact it is proven that or. Baker made those comments he should rep. Charles e. Schumer d-n.y., said bakery a reported comments prove a the has lost All ability to be an evenhanded negotiator Between arabs and israelis. He said Baker should disqualify himself from future negotiations. Rep. Larry Smith d-fla., said Baker should Issue a denial personally and not through his spokeswoman. A if these allegations Are True. Then he is unfit to serve and should either immediately tender his resignation or president Bush should ask him for it a Smith said. Rabbi Alexander m. Schindler president of the Union of american Lebrew congregations said he doubted the remarks attributed to Baker were True. A i cannot believe that Secretary Baker would make so vulgar so ugly and so bigoted a statement a he said. Of the associated press Quot in a sick of All you Lazy bastards failing to cover Bush a events in person. He made angry remarks to several others. He singled out reporters for the Washington Post and the new York times who he said wrote critical stories about Bush without actually seeing specific events. Both those reporters were outside covering the rally. Smith later said that Fitzwater was concerned about reports that some of Bush a Campaign events had been lacklustre and he believed reporters were not accurately characterizing them. Fitzwater said he Cut off the audio feed because a i just wanted you to go out and cover that he said he recognized a the press have a Tough Job to do. These things Bush from Page 1 primary and caucus Competition coming up this week on super tuesday. For Bush the primary also tested the persistent protest vote nagging his re election bid. Polls showed Bush would win by a landslide after five primaries in which at least 30 percent of the Republican vote was cast against him. Bush asked for a primary showing that would resound across the South on tuesday. A super tuesday a big big a the president said when asked How it looks for him in those next primary states. Duke the former Louisiana legislator with the Kun flux klan past hunted South Carolina votes with appearances in Spartanburg and Anderson. In Florida Tsongas called Clinton a pander Bear on Friday and a new Tsongas and that accuses Clinton of used him of using ethnic code words in a distorting Tsongas views on social Secu critique of Tsongas economic policies. Rity. A a we re going to take the gloves off a earlier in the week Clinton appeared Tsongas said in West Palm Beach. A you at a senior Center and quoted a passage have a candidate who will say anything to from Tsongas economic Book in which get Tsongas suggests limiting Cost of using in those lines mirrored the theme of a creases for Federal entitlements to 1 per cent below inflation. Tsongas openness to capping such increases is considered harmful Politi Calfy with Florida a Large elderly population. Linton also said the former Massachusetts senator wanted to help corporate America before offering any kelp to the Middle class. Tsongas dubbed Clinton a pander bears for saying in a nationally televised debate thursday night that he supported a scaled Down continuation of the sea Wolf nuclear submarine program. Tsongas said Clinton a knows full Well it will never be built but accused him of trying to win votes in Connecticut where the submarine was to be manufactured. Bush a budget proposal Calls for the completion of one sea Wolf but cancels two others even though Congress has democratic candidate Paul Tsongas pulls out a Teddy Bear to show that rival Bill Clinton is a a pander approved the Money for them. The billion Pes to _ Ive Yei on pandering to voters Clinton said by a program represents 17 billion of the a opes weapons purchases Over five billion that Bush hoi to save in ears. Tsongas was the one who flipped on social Security increases and nuclear Power. Tsongas kept up the attack Friday night. At a greek Church in fort Lauderdale he held up a stuffed Teddy Bear and said a this is my opponent a pander scuds from Page 1 Ings have occurred during the 18-month-old embargo. The recent plan to Board the North korean ship comes after state department criticism of North Korea last month for shipping the scud missiles. The new York times reported in fridays editions that the missiles were aboard two ships the Dae Hung to and the Dae Hung Dan. Some Bush administration officials believe that boarding the ship would Send a warning to North Korea. The times reported that the disingenuous use of the . Authority is causing some administration officials to be sceptical about the legality of the plan. At least one official who discussed the contingency planning did so because he considered such a step ill advised the times reported. The concern about North koreans missile sales comes As negotiations Over North koreans nuclear weapons programs Are in the midst of a crucial stage on the question of whether the Pyongyang government will abandon its quest to acquire an atomic Arsenal and will open its nuclear Sites to International inspections
