European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 31, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 a the stars and stripes sunday May 31, 1992 graveside visit on a fkr a 75th birthday Evelyn Lincoln former personal Secretary to president John f. Kennedy takes Flowers to his grave at Arlington National cemetery in Arlington va., on Friday. Lincoln is accompanied by John Metzla superintendent of the cemetery. Juk who was born May 29, 1917, would have been 75 on Friday. Bush backs City Aid during visit to . Los Angeles a declaring a los Angeles will come Back a president Bush praised riot recovery efforts on Friday then urged anew that Congress approve his programs to Deal with violence and despair in americans inner cities. In the City that came to symbolize the Issue after americans deadliest Urban rioting erupted one month ago Bush complained at the Pace of Congress on his Urban Aid and Reform measures. His Agenda was part politics part business All coloured by the Campaign in California which holds the seasons grand finale presidential primary tuesday. Bush is expected to win easily but the pollsters show his re election Campaign lagging behind the surge of sentiment for Likely Independent presidential candidate Ross Perot. Chatting with youngsters at an athletic Center run by sheriffs Bush was asked about the acquittal of four White current and former police officers in the beating of Black Motorist Rodney g. King. The verdicts triggered the City a riots. A what i saw i did no to like a Bush said referring to the videotaped replays of the beating. However he said he was a very confident that our Law our system of Law in the final analysis is fair. In a convinced that Justice is done under our system of  he dodged a question about Murphy Brown the television character criticized by vice president Dan Quayle for having a baby out of Wedlock. A a in be got to make a confession i Haven to seen it a Bush said. The president also attended an asian american dinner and spoke of the destruction in Korea town one of the hardest hit areas in the riot. A the Community will rebuild not to make things the Way they were but to make them better a he said. At a disaster Relief Center in South los Angeles near neighbourhoods hit by looting and destruction Bush said the Federal government is moving fast on recovery efforts. The Center is one of 10 combining Federal state local and private disaster Relief operations. The White House said the centers have handled More than 14,000 applications for housing and business assistance and for other social services. Democrats Back Ferraro Albany . A state democratic leaders endorsed Geraldine Ferraro for the . Senate in the fall primary. Ferraro on thursday was voted a convention  delegates also voted to include state attorney general Robert Abrams new York City comptroller Elizabeth Holtzman and civil rights activist a1 Sharpton on the sept. 15 primary ballot. The primary Winner will face two term Republican incumbent Alfonse do Ama to who is fighting for his political life amid allegations of ethical misconduct. Ferraro the former congresswoman and 1984 democratic vice presidential nominee who is attempting a political comeback told the convention that she would fight for defense cuts National health care and women a rights  criticizes Bush s View on fetal research Irvine Calif. A Bill Clinton on Friday said president Bush a opposition to medical research using aborted fetal tissue puts the lives of women at risk to a save abortion As a political  Quot he cared More about his political health than the health of american women and children a the probable democratic nominee said As he campaigned in Irvine before tuesdays presidential primary. The Arkansas governor also criticized Bush a plan to ease the transition for workers whose jobs Are threatened by defense cuts. He said it was late in coming and failed to go far enough. At a town meeting in Sacramento called to focus on women a issues Clinton launched a broadside at Bush on the fetal tissue research Issue. He said such research and other research called for in the same legislation could a save lives of women by the tens of  Bush maintains that use of aborted fetuses in medical research would encourage women to have abortions. On Capitol Hill the House voted 260-148 thursday to overturn the administration ban on medical research using fetal tissue. But critics of the ban failed to Muster enough votes to override a threatened Bush veto. Clinton said that by promising a veto Bush was also blocking Money in the Bill for research into breast cancer ovarian cancer osteoporosis and other diseases. In the Case of fetal research Clinton said Bush was suddenly being an activist president while failing to push for family leave expanded prenatal health care and other pro family policies. A George Bush is personally on the Telephone calling Congress telling people to vote against this. When he has to go to work to save abortion As a political Issue boy he Breaks a sweat in a  the Arkansas governor charged that the administrations stand demonstrated a Gap Between its lofty words on family issues and its actual performance. A do you want someone who preaches about family values or someone who really values families a Clinton said. From Sacramento Clinton headed into heavily Republican Orange county to discuss converting defense industries to non military applications. On thursday Bush proposed a five year $1 billion Effort to ease the transition of military and defense Industry employees into a Post cold War Economy. The plan includes new i benefits More Job training and assistance for communities hit by reduced defense spending As Well As Early retirement for defense department employees. A i say that a not enough a Clinton said. A we have to do  ends As Richmond news Leader folds Richmond. A. Up a City that prides itself on tradition was losing one of its most enduring institutions saturday when its afternoon newspaper the Richmond news Leader was to Roll off the presses for the last time. It has been a bittersweet and wrenching parting for Many including members of the Bryan family owners of Richmond newspapers inc., which also publishes the morning Richmond times dispatch last september publisher j. Stewart Bryan 111 said the news Leader would fold. He coupled that announcement with news of the birth of a new redesigned and expanded morning paper that will be Home to Many news Leader writers and editors and contain some of the afternoon papers most popular features. Once the most robust of the Bryan family a newspapers with a circulation exceeding that of the times dispatch the news Leader was victimized by the same societal forces that have claimed other . Afternoon papers. The managing editor Jerry Finch said hell miss the adrenalin Rush of meeting deadlines As the paper rushed to press at mid morning. A getting Here Early in the morning getting those papers out four times a Day making it As local As possible. This was really a local newspaper a he said. If there Are any stains on the news leaders obituary critics say it comes with the papers dogged Effort to main Tain segregation in the 1950s. The editorial pages struck a jarring tone and hit perhaps no More strident a note than when James j. Kilpatrick presided at the paper. Although he has since repudiated his former stance it was Kilpatrick a now a syndicated writer whose column appears in the stars and stripes a who urged the legislature in the �?T50s to resist the integration of Public schools and developed a rationale for defying the Federal government. A i still think the editorial Page divides the Community More than it unites a said lawyer Oliver Hill. A they have two problems one the paper has always Een a supporter of segregation and it still supports segregation and it is  gov. L. Douglas Wilder said it la be up to historians to determine what the papers legacy will be. A a in be had my moments with the news Leader and we Veall liked a Good  but he said that in recent years a a it a come to the Point where we do speak the same