European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 18, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday december 18, 1992 . The stars and stripes Page 5 Vietnam vet to head a sources say  p Deri a a. _. B a ljt7leock> Ark a president elect Clinton will choose a Marine Veteran who was wounded in Vietnam to head the department of veterans affairs sources say. The expected nominee Jesse Brown is the executive director of the disabled american veterans. Browne a right Arm is partially paralysed from a gunshot wound he suffered in 1965 while on patrol in Vietnam. The 48-year-old Veteran is known As a crusader for improved health benefits for disabled veterans. Clinton was expected to make official two other appointments thursday sources said. A former South Carolina gov. Dick Riley has been selected to head the education department. A former san Antonio mayor Henry Cisneros was his Choice to Lead the department of housing and Urban development. In the stars and stripes 10 year Sago dec. 18,1982-Thehouse voted 259-105 to cite Anne m. Gor such administrator of the environmental Protection Agency for contempt of Congress after she withheld Agency documents on orders from president Reagan. 20 years ago dec. 18,1972 a astronaut Ronald e. Evans took a spacewalk from homeward bound Apollo 17 about 180,000 Miles from Earth to retrieve film from the spacecrafts camera Bay. 30 years ago dec. 18,1962 a British prime minister Harold Macmillan travelled to the Bahamas for talks with president Kennedy. 40 years ago decri8,1952 a president elect Eisenhower and Gen. Douglas Mac Arthur discussed peace in Korea at a meeting and Quot a very pleasant reunion in new York. 50 years ago dec. 18,1942 a an Una Mored Quot flying column Quot of two Kitchen trucks a water Wagon and a jeep unwittingly got within two Miles of Central Tunis Tunisia 10 Miles behind German lines but escaped without drawing a shot. C world War ii 1 50 years ago today dec. 18 19 �?�4 2 australian soldiers using newly arrived tanks drive the japanese out of Cape Endia Dere East of Buna on new Guinea s North coast. On Guadalcanal american infantrymen climbing the Northwestern slopes of mount Austen run into the first resistance from japanese troops. In Libya new zealand soldiers clash with Axis forces at Tofilia. Source 2194 Days of War w. H. Smith publishers inc world almanac Book of world War ii Bison books corp1981 a last week Clinton made Public 11 top level appointments before taking a break to focus on this weeks two Day economic conference. Aides said he hoped to fill out his Domestic policy team and then turn his attention to National Security posts. Two sources said Clinton offered the education Job to Riley on sunday but Riley did not immediately accept because of some reluctance to leave his Law practice and move to Washington. One source said Riley later notified Clinton that he would accept. Riley elected a Southern governor alongside Clinton in 1978, shares the president elects belief in improving education opportunities. During his two terms As governor he pushed through an education package financed by an increase in the state sales tax. Riley 59, joined Clinton in helping found the democratic leadership coun v Brown Cisneros cil a group that sought to move the National party closer to the Center. Last month Clinton tapped him to Lead the transition teams search for sub Cabinet level appointees. The appointments of Cisneros and Brown would bring More minorities into the Clinton Cabinet which the president elect has promised will reflect the country a diversity. Cisneros would be Clin a photo released by Nasa shows material moving at 148,000 Mph in the Orion Nebula a Star forming Region 1,500 Light years away. New Telescope photos suggest planets beyond solar system spreads out into a flattened disk usually called a Circum Stellar disk and in some cases the grains presumably form into planets. The discovery was announced by the National aeronautics and space administration. It was made by or. C. Robert of Dell an astronomer at Rice University in Houston while he was studying the orbiting telescopes photography of the Orion Nebula a turbulent Region that is 1,500 Light years away. A Light year amounts to about 5.88 trillion Miles. But in cosmic dimensions the distance of 1,500 Light years is virtually next door. Disks of Dusty material probably the size of Sand grains were identified around at least 15 nascent stars each less than 1 million years old. The Telescope was unable to detect any clumping of material suggesting the beginnings of planet formation. By the new York times astronomers have uncovered the strongest evidence yet that planets could exist beyond the solar system and May even be a common occurrence. The evidence came to Light in photographs taken by the Hubble space Telescope. The photographs show Broad disks of Gas and dust grains surrounding 15 newly formed stars. Astronomers said wednesday that examining the pictures was like looking Back and seeing How the solar system probably appeared soon after the Sun formed 4.5 billion years ago. Even More important scientists said the Hubble a images seemed to confirm widely held theories about the formation of planetary systems. They provided direct evidence that dust surrounding a Newborn Star has too much spin to be drawn into the collapsing Star. Instead the material tones first hispanic appointment and Brown would be second Black selected for the Cabinet. Earlier appointments included the selection of democratic party chairman Ronald Brown As the nations first Black Commerce Secretary. Clinton has said he Hopes to fill All or most of his Cabinet slots before Christmas. Among the other appointments said to be taking shape rep. Mike Espy d-miss., is considered the top contender to head the agriculture department. His appointment would put a third Black in the Cabinet. A source in Washington said Espy 39, had been Given informal notice from transition aides that an appointment As Secretary of agriculture was coming but Espy had not heard from Clinton. Transition aides cautioned that they did not know whether Clinton had chosen Espy who has lobbied for the position. Bank probe May turn up criminal acts Washington a a Federal investigator probing the House Bank scandal reported a possible criminal conduct by a few past and present lawmakers on wednesday. The Justice department immediately established a special prosecution unit to conduct an investigation. Malcolm r. Wilecy a Justice department special counsel did not name those facing further investigation. He said the list was a almost entirely former House members but he made Clear that some current members Are still in limbo neither cleared nor referred for further investigation. These arc lawmakers whose accounts were complicated or who have not yet furnished necessary information. Attorney general William p. Barr said in a statement the new unit would be part of his departments Public integrity Section which normally prosecutes wrongdoing by Public officials. Barr said the unit will be staffed by career Federal prosecutors who have been assisting Wilkey. Wilkey a report Means the scandal is ending for All but a few members of Congress. After a House ethics committee investigation revealed that lawmakers wrote thousands of bad checks at their Bank the Issue All but paralysed the chamber for a time this year. 2nd doctor linked to drug agent Case los Angeles apr a mexican informant told . Investigators in september that a doctor other than Humberto Alvarez Machain administered drugs to keep an american agent alive for torture a judge disclosed wednesday. . District judge Edward Rafeedie who acquitted Alvarez in the Case on monday chastised government attorneys for failing to disclose the information before Alvarez a trial began. But Terree Bowers the . Attorney in los Angeles said prosecutors Only became aware of the information late on dec. 10 and submitted it to the judge monday the next court Day. Alvarez was abducted by .-paid Bounty Hunters from Mexico in 1990 and brought to the United Stales for trial in the 1985 death of agent Enrique Camarena