European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 30, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse The 1942-1992 50 years of service vol. 51, no. 43 350 saturday May 30,1992 d 8693 anew go Bill to be sought to it 1�?~.u i t a it. Some key elements of it Tom q expended Al education Bene Ltd for displaced serve remembers. A a program to train former military and civilian defense workers As teacher q Loans and Grants to a sep businesses scarred by the loss of nearby my try bases. A Job training and assistance to communities of Tbs reduced defense Tenc final a serement program for q use of some former defense workers to Heip clean up the environment. Bush Hopes to ease pain of Cussas Phoenix apr president Bush in an election year bid to ease the pain of defense cuts proposed on thursday a five year $1 billion Effort to help ease the transition of military and defense Industry employees into a Post cold War Economy. Included in the proposal Are new i Bill benefits More Job training and assistance to communities hit by reduced defense spending and Early retirement for defense department employees. It also would provide $90 million for programs to help former military and defense Industry employees become teachers. A whether working As a teacher in an elementary school or As an environmental Engineer i am committed to ensuring that the vast talents of former defense personnel can be put to productive use in private life a Bush said. A one Clear Benefit of the end of the cold War is the substantial defense savings possible in this new environment a the president said in remarks prepared for delivery at american legion Luke Greenway Post. A some have called for far deeper cuts a in Overall military spending he said. A i reject this Bush a proposal requires congressional approval. The White House unveiled details of the plan As the president was flying to Arizona on a trip that will also take him to California and Texas. Senate democrats complaining that Bush has done virtually nothing to address the transition unveiled their own swords to Plo shares plan last week. It would Cost $1.2 billion in 1993 alone but sponsors said it could be accomplished without cutting other Domestic programs. Rep. Les Aspin d-wis., chairman of the House armed services committee also has developed a plan see Bill on Page 2u.s. To close haitian Camp at Guantanamo by the new York times Washington a moving to bolster its policy on Haiti the Bush administration said thursday that it would close the refugee Camp at the . Naval base at Guantanamo Bay Cuba Ana bar any ship that trades with Haiti from . Ports. The measures Are intended to tighten the hemisphere wide embargo on Haiti a military government and Force it to restore the elected government of president Jean Bertrand Aristide. President Bush also said in a statement thursday that the administration was examining other Steps a to tighten sanctions against the illegal regime in the White House did not elaborate. On the decision to close the Guantanamo Camp the state departments Deputy spokesman Richard a. Boucher said a we made the decision to phase out the facility at Guantanamo because it was increasingly Clear that it was acting As a Magnet and causing More haitians to get on boats in the Hopes of getting the Camp was set up at the end of last year. Refugee organizations and human rights groups reacted quickly to the news. A Guantanamo was never overcrowded a said Lionel Rosenblatt director of refugees International. A there were at most 12,500 haitians on 47 Square Miles of land. When we look Back on this people Are going to say that the United states walked away from a very reasonable approach of providing screening for Asylum seekers. The administration simply does no to want to give these refugees a fair attorneys representing haitian refugees asked a Federal judge in new York to Block the new policy of returning All haitians stopped at sea. Judge Sterling see haitian on Page 2 Barbara Walters interviews potential presidential candidate Ross Perot aboard his private s rejection of Gays draws flak new York up Ross Perot Drew his first blast of Strong opposition when he ruled out hiring homosexuals to fill Cabinet level jobs and said it would be a a unrealistic for them to serve in the military. In an interview to be broadcast Friday on Abc Perot also called the presidency a a brutal dirty thankless jobs that people All Over the country have urged him to take. And in her first television interview Perot a wife Margot said the Texas billionaire surprised her As much As he shocked others when he suggested that he would run for president if petitioned by the people. A and i was just stunned a said Margot Perot who added that her husband later shrugged it off As a a hypothetical kind of Perot in the interview with Barbara Walters for Abc tvs 20/20, said he puts a a very Strong store see Perot on Page 2 Sarajevo experiences night of horror Belgrade Yugoslavia apr Sarajevo was battered Early Friday by serb led forces who set buildings ablaze with mortars heavy artillery and rockets reports from the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina said. The medieval croatian port of Dubrovnik on the Southern Adriatic coast also was hit by Long Range artillery local defense officials said. Shells landed in the walled City Center Only Days after the yugoslav army lifted its 8-month-Long siege and withdrew to the South of the City. A it was a night of horror and destruction a said the Belgrade based Tan Jug news Agency in a report from Sarajevo. Sarajevo radio reported that rockets from Multi barrel launchers artillery and mortars fired by serb forces in the Hills around Sarajevo indiscriminately hit All parts of the City. Many buildings were set ablaze and snipers prevented firefighters from reaching the fires the radio said. Ground forces also battled around Sarajevo Airport and in the adjacent Dobrija residential suburb which serbs have been trying for weeks to occupy. Croatian radio in Zagreb quoted bosnian govern see Sarajevo on Page 2
