European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 23, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Pc a Oil h i ii Ai a a a i re vol. 51, no. 279 350 saturday january 29,1993 b d 8693 Baird bows out in juror Issue Zoi Illard testifies before a Senate committee before withdrawing her nomination to be attorney general. Washington a zo6 Baird withdrew As president Clinton s nominee for attorney general Friday in a Middle of the night Retreat bowing to intense opposition Over her hiring of illegal aliens. A new search began immediately and Clinton aides said it was not limited to women. Quot i feel very badly about it but i m responsible for it Clinton said of his first White House setback which Cli maxed in a series of Midnight Maneu vers at the end of the new presidents first full Day in office. A its time to move on and pick a new attorney general a Clinton communications director George Stepha Nopoulos said trying to put to rest a controversy distracting attention from Clinton s other first Steps As the nations new president. A the president is going to look for the Best person to fill the Post of attorney general Steph Nopoulos said when asked if the new search would be limited to women. A the does t want this to fester too Long Quot said a senior administration official speaking on condition of anonymity. Still aides said Clinton would not Rush the search to replace the 40-Ycar-old Baird whose determined Defiance gave Way to political reality As the clock ticked toward Midnight thursday. A Azo ii Baird decided after the hearings yesterday that it would be Best for her to withdraw a Steph Nopoulos see Baird on Page 2clinton rescinds restrictions on abortion Washington a president Clinton marked the 20th Annicc Saiy of legalized abortion Friday by overturning a series of abortion restrictions imposed by his Republican predecessors. Thousands of opponents rallied near the White House blaming the decision on Quot wicked  a we must free science and Medicine from the grasp of politics a Clinton said As he made Good on a Campaign pledge to lift restrictions on abortion counselling inside  front today Marks Tho beginning of the stars and stripes new focus Home front Section. Turn to Pago 17 for Lour pages of news and features on family issues food and cooking parenting and More. Focus Homo front. Every saturday in your stars and stripes at federally funded clinics and overturning prohibitions on fetal tissue research. Clinton also signed orders ending bans on abortion at military hospitals and Federal financing for overseas population control programs. He also ordered a review of the ban on the private importation of ru-486, the French abortion Pill. He acted As protesters marched from the White House to the supreme court. Abortion rights advocates cheered an administration Friendly to their cause for military by Chuck Vinci Washington Bureau Washington with the stroke of a pen Friday president Clinton accomplished what four years of often bitter congressional wrangling could not a abolish a ban on patient funded abortions in military medical facilities overseas Clinton also issued three additional executive orders that reversed other abortion related policies of the Bush administration. On the 20th Annicc Saiy of the historic Roe is. Wade decision that legalized abortion Clinton overturned the 1988 Reagan administration ban on such procedures with an executive order issued the first time in 12 years. Asked what message Clinton had for the anti abortion marchers White House communications chief George Steph Nopoulos said a the respects their views but he disagrees. He feels that these Are decisions  be left to women and something that they must engage in with Counselor and others in their private  Church Bells tolled in mourning All Daylong in Texas advocates stood guard for women entering a clinic in Tennessee women pushed empty baby carriages in Pittsburgh and in Rhode Island Abor Tion rights supporters planned a night of comedy and music to cheer for the sympathetic Clinton administration. About 20 abortion rights advocates in Chattanooga tcnn., Rose before Dawn to guard the Chattanooga women s clinic against the expected arrival of abortion foes but found they were hours Early. So were the police with a City bus Handy in Case of unruly demonstrators. Included in order late Friday afternoon. Congressional abortion rights advocates fought to overturn the ban affecting military facilities overseas since its inception usually in the form of provisions attached to the annual defense authorization and appropriations Bills. Each year those provisions gained increasing support in Congress but the legislation always faltered at some Point in the budget process. Last year for example a provision to overturn the ban was contained in both the House and Senate versions of the defense authorization Bill. But it was stripped from those Bills after a veto threat from president Bush made congressional leaders fearful of holding up the entire defense budget process Over that single Issue. The provision was then repackaged As separate legislation although even its most ardent backers conceded they did not have enough votes to override the expected Bush veto. When the Bill arrived on his desk Bush let the mandatory 10-Day period for taking action expire effectively killing the Bill through an action known As a a pocket  abortion rights advocates applauded Clinton a actions. A i commend president Clinton a decision to Mark today a anniversary of Roe a Wade by lifting Many of the obstruct see order on Page 2germany�?Ts right Wing violence a tomorrow in sunday Magazine