European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 7, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday april 7, 1992 the stars and stripes a Page 7agencies pushed to escalate drug War by Carolyn Skorneck the associated press Washington a critics of president Bush a War on drugs say it concentrates too heavily on Law enforcement but documents show the White House had to prod five agencies to seek More Money for treatment and preventative efforts. The office of National drug control policy waged intense Battles last year to Force the five agencies and a sixth one to seek is 15.3 million in additional funds to perform their roles under the National drug strategy according to the documents obtained by the associated press. Five agencies that work on reducing the demand for drugs were pushed to request $100.4 million of the total according to the documents. They were the departments of education housing and Urban development health and human services labor and veterans affairs said the documents sent by the the Senate judiciary and to Louse Conyers anti drug office to government operations committees. The drug policy office also Strong armed the Treasury department into seeking More Money for its Law enforcement programs. The Agency had not increased its proposed budget for internal Revenue service Money laundering investigations the documents show. The Bush administration wants to spend $12.7 billion next year for Federal anti drug efforts a about 70 percent for Law enforcement and International efforts and 30 percent for demand reduction. House government operations chairman John con yers or. Said he has Long been a concerned. That the administration is ignoring the most important component of the drug War prevention and  a it is interesting that at Long last this reality now appears to have penetrated the administration itself a said Conyers a Mich. Department representatives denied they were slackers in the War on drugs. Instead they said that they faced tight budget constraints and that the volleys Between them and the drug policy office were part of the Normal negotiating process. Maty Brunette huds assistant Secretary for Public affairs said the office of management and budget told the department to keep its budget request 5 percent below that of current services plus inflation. A we determined to apply across the Board to All programs a 5 percent reduction a Brunette said. A it Wasny to a matter of Lack of commitment to the Public housing program for drug elimination which the Antidrug office insisted needed More Money. Labor spokesman Bob Zachari Asiewicz said its $10 million dispute with the drug policy office was a fall part of the give and take that always accompanies the budget making process. Even Bruce Carnes anti drug director of planning budget and administration said in an interview that he understood the departments were hobbled by a budget agreement with Congress that left a very very Little Money available. That meant we were cutting into Bone or muscle at least from other  but that did no to Stop the anti drug office directed by Bob Martinez from playing hardball by using the one real Power Congress gave it the Power to expose to Congress those agencies it believed were seeking too Little Money to carry out the presidents anti drug strategy. Revealing such problems required a breach of the administrations Normal reluctance to Tell outsiders a that is Congress a about family squabbles. Two botched suicide leaps land Man in Buffalo Hospital Kenmore . Apr a Man who leapt from a fourth Story window and survived by Landing on a car Rode an elevator Back up and repeated his suicide attempt a jumping from the same window and Landing on the same car. The 30-year-old survived both 40-foot leaps and was in fair condition sunday at a Hospital in Buffalo police said. A a that a a total of eight floors and other than a broken wrist and a broken ankle he a in As Good shape As you or i a said police capt. Emil Palombo. In his first attempt saturday morning the Man a had to take a running leap because those windows done to open a Palombo said. He Dove through a double paned window Landing on the car buckling the roof and doors and smashing its rear windows Palombo said. Although dazed and bleeding from facial cuts the Man got up and walked to the buildings elevator a witness told police. A the was Cut up there was a Trail of blood going into the Hall up the elevator and into the room a Palombo said. Kenmore police it. Ronald Sardina arrived at the six Story building in time to see the Man make his second jump onto the crumpled car. A i saw a sneaker some blood and a lot of Glass a said Sardina who spotted the car. A i looked up and he appeared at the broken window and just kept  Palombo said police believe the Man suffered his most serious injuries in the second fall when the car no longer absorbed the Impact and a kind of flattened out like a  the Man lived in the building last year moved out then moved Back in last week neighbors said. Police found nothing in the apartment to indicate the Man was Pividal. Palombo said people who make suicide attempts often try again a but not in the time Span of two three  a god bless him he a alive a Palombo said. A whatever help he needs he a going to get  sex Model to Appeal overturned award by the new York times new York a a former Model for Penthouse Magazine will Appeal a ruling by a new York state appeals court that overturned a $4 million punitive damage award for sexual harassment her lawyer says. Her supporters denounced an opinion in which a dissenting judge castigated the 41-year-old woman for willingly placing herself at risk by pursuing a career in the sex Industry. The woman Marjorie Thoresen had been awarded $4 million in punitive damages and $60,000 in compensatory damages by Justice Elliott Wilk of state supreme court in Manhattan who upheld her sexual harassment charges against the Penthouse publisher Robert Guccione in 1990. But the appellate division of state supreme court. In Manhattan ruled thursday that while Thoresen was under certain circumstances. It is not. Entitled to the $60,000 for being coerced into having sex with two of Guccione a business associates she could not receive an award for punitive damages. The ruling said new Yorkus human rights Law did not provide for punitive damages. And in what seemed to be Sharp criticism of women who seek a career in the sex Industry and then seek damages for sexual harassment afterwards Justice Richard w. Wallach said he would even deny Thoresen the compensatory damages. A this Case is All about sexuality a he said. A whether it is about sexual discrimination is another  in a partial dissent the judge said a whatever exploitation occurred Here was self exploitation willingly undertaken for monetary and other  Thoresent a lawyer Murray Schwartz said he would Appeal the ruling. At least 12 feminist organizations and groups fighting violence against women had filed briefs in her behalf before the appellate division. Ellen b. Holtzman president of the women a bar association of the state of new York said a any opinion from the Bench which indicates a she got what she deserved a is demeaning and sends a message to society that sexual misconduct in the workplace is justified nor apr certain rirriim�f9nrp5 it is not a but the office threatened to do just that to the six departments late last year after More Subtle negotiations failed to persuade them to increase their budget requests. The office has never used its ultimate weapon sending letters signed by Martinez to a department head declaring the departments drug War funding inadequate. Instead it has fired warning shots. A a we be threatened by sending Over drafts of unsigned letters that would de certify agencies and that got an answer a Carnes told a Senate panel last week. A there we be got definite big time  after receiving such letters a Hud requested $8.25 million More for Public housing drug elimination Grants. A labor sought $10 million More for its employment and training administration program. A education boosted its proposal for drug free schools and communities Grants by $62.5 million. A Treasury asked for $14.9 million More for irs Money laundering investigations. A the a hiked its veterans drug treatment proposal by $11.4 million. A has added $8.2 million to its proposed budgets for the administration for children and families and the centers for disease control. Congress was never supposed to know about the drug policy offices threats. But it Learned of them because the congressional committees requested the drafts As Well As Martinez a signed letters certifying every departments final budget request As adequate. Mark Barnes counsel to has Secretary Louis w. Sullivan for drug abuse policy shrugged off the threat and the fact that Congress knows about it. A while the process is far from a perfect one it seems to work As intended a Barnes  Channel Likely to end broadcast april 15 from wire reports Boston a the Christian science Church said sunday that its Money losing Monitor Channel to network will shut Down april 15 unless a buyer is found. The new cutoff Date is two months earlier than the deadline announced previously. The Church is talking with potential buyers said Virginia s. Harris chairwoman of the churches Board of directors. Atwo killed at picnic los Angeles a gunfire erupted at a fraternity and sorority picnic in a Park leaving two men dead and four people wounded police said. One Man was arrested and police were looking for others authorities said. Police said they did not know what prompted the shooting sunday. About 200 students from around the state had gathered at the Park in Van Guys about 15 Miles Northwest of downtown los Angeles for the african Peoples National pan hellenic greek show police  quake hits Reno Washington a a mild earthquake Shook the City of Reno nev., on sunday the . Geological Survey said. Uses spokesman Don Finley said the quakers epicentre was about 10 Miles North of Reno. The tremor which took place at 9 01 . Sunday registered 4.1 on the Richter scale. Finley said there were no reports of injuries or property  protest spills Algonac Mich. A about 300 indians who live on an Island in the St. Clair River marched to protest chemical spills that have polluted the waterway they Call a the blood of Mother  the demonstrators from Walpole Island at the River a Mouth marched through nearby Sarnia Ontario and called for an end to the spills by Polisar rubber corp