European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 04, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday february 4, 1993 . The stars and stripes Page 7 cd i non weighs economic j ump starts Washington a president Clinton is considering a Quick $31 billion stimulus plan and longer term govern ment investments in the Economy that would climb to $60 billion annually by Fis Cal 1997, congressional and administration officials say. Details of Clinton s plan to revive the Economy and control the deficit Are be ginning to emerge just two weeks before he formally outlines it to Congress. Administration officials along with lawmakers and aides on Capitol Hill said Linton has yet to sign off on Many key decisions. Still up in the air arc How much Stimus Cia nominee vows not to keep secrets Washington a the director designate of the Cia is putting his Best foot Forward promising Congress to report without delay on any Covert operations undertaken by the Agency he would Lead. James Woolsey made his pledge to the Senate intelligence committee on tues Day and was expected to win the panel s approval wednesday to become the Agency s 16th director. The full Senate was expected to confirm him later this week. The House and Senate intelligence committees have been sensitive on the question of reporting Covert action particularly because the late Cia director William Casey misled them or withheld notice about several operations Pri Marily in Iran and Central America during the Reagan administration. Woolsey promised that circumstances would be very rare. In which there would be anything but prior notice of such activity by the Cia or the other dozen intelligence agencies he would oversee. In those rare cases when Congress was not informed in Advance whether be cause time was Short or for some other reason Woolsey promised notification within a few Days. He promised to consult with Clinton and get Back to the Senate committee re Garding a query by its chairman sen. Dennis Deconcini a Ariz about whether the administration would be his and deficit reduction he will seek and whether or How to raise taxes on the Middle class. Nonetheless two democratic officials who spoke on condition of anonymity said tuesday that Clinton was consid ering seeking $16 billion in spending in creases for fiscal 1993 to help create jobs. Fiscal 1993 runs through sept. 30. The officials said that during a monday evening meeting Clinton s top economic advisers told several senators that the spending increases would go for Road building waste water treat Chat facilities summer jobs the head Start program for preschoolers and childhood vaccinations. They also said Clinton s aides spoke about a $15 billion investment tax credit for businesses that buy certain types of equipment. The goal is to encourage companies to accelerate machinery Pur chases to spark economic growth. There were no details available about How the tax credit would work. But administration officials have talked about designing it so the break would not go to businesses that would have purchased the equipment anyway. Clinton also was considering a four year plan to strengthen the Economy that would grow from a $10 billion Federal in vestment next year to $60 billion in fiscal Cia director designate James Woolsey holds his briefcase while preparing to testily tuesday before me Senate intelligence committee on Capitol Hill. Willing to have the terms of notification codified into Law. Woolsey a corporate lawyer who served As an arms control negotiator for the Reagan and Bush administrations and As undersecretary of the Navy in the Carter administration also pledged to re Frain from Public statements about . Policy. His role As he sees it Woolsey said would be to sift through intelligence in formation and bring analyses to the administration and the president so the could make informed decisions. Some democrats in Congress faulted Woolsey s predecessors including Robert m. Gates who retired from government last month for using their position and knowledge of secrets to Looby for the president s policies. Women interviewed for top Law Post Washington a president Clinton is focusing on female candidates for the Post of attorney general a source familiar with the process said wednes  those who have been inter viewed Are Manhattan Federal judge Kimba m. Wood Boston Federal judge Rya w. Zobel and los Angeles lawyer Andrea . Clinton has not excluded men from his search and he still has a Way to go be fore he announces his decision Suid the source who spoke on condition of anonymity. White House press Secretary Dee Dee Myers refused to discuss the people Clin ton has interviewed. Asked when the president would de cide she said i Don t think the presi Dent feels he has to make an announce ment this week. As soon As he s ready hell make an  another name circulating at the jus Tice department is that of Minnesota Federal judge Diana e. Murphy. She is being backed by former vice president Walter f. Mondale. It was not known if she has been interviewed by the presi Dent. 1997, one of the administration officials said. No details were discussed about what those investments would be. Clinton s advisers spoke of the presi Dent s new goal of slashing $145 billion from the 1997 deficit which is now expected to exceed $300 billion. That is a Retreat from his Campaign pledge of halving the shortfall. Details of the plan to Cut the deficit re main Uncertain. But based on comments from administration officials and others it seems that tax increases perhaps in the $20 billion to $50 billion Range arc on the horizon. Lesbian among four named to Hud jobs Washington a president Clinton named a lesbian san Francisco official to a key Federal housing Post tuesday making Good on a Campaign pledge to avoid discrimination against homosexuals in his administration. Roberta Achton Borg a member of the san Francisco Board of supervisors would be the highest ranking openly a official in the history of the executive Branch if confirmed us an assistant Secretary in the department of housing and Urban development. Achton Borg was among four High level housing officials named tuesday by Clin ton including Andrew Cuomo son of new York gov. Mario m. Cuomo. Clinton said the officials have a big task ahead of them rebuilding housing Opportunity for All americans and re pairing the torn fabric of our nation Surban  the four arc Cuomo named assistant Secretary for Community planning and development. Achton Borg named assistant Secre tary for fair housing and equal Opportunity. Terry Duvernay executive director of the Georgia housing and finance authority named Deputy Secretary. Jean Nolan former communications director for the Enterprise foundation a National foundation devoted to housing for the poor named assistant Secretary for Public affairs. Cuomo 35, resigned in 1988 from a lucrative partnership in a Manhattan Law firm. Since then he has helped run housing Enterprise for the less privileged Helpa nonprofit organization he founded to build transitional housing for homeless people in new York state. Achtenberg was elected in 1990 to the san Francisco Board of supervisors which functions As a City Council. She has championed the City s Law Rico Gnu ing the unions of homosexuals and unmarried heterosexual couples. Achtenberg 42, spent More than 15 years As a lawyer and executive of Gay rights advocacy groups. She is the author of the Book sexual orientation and the Law. Commerce nominee s computer interests questioned Washington a president Clinton s nominee for the no. 2 Job at the Commerce department Heads a com Pany seeking permission from the depart ment to sell a supercomputer to China. Clinton has nominated John a. Roll Wagen the chairman and chief executive officer of Cray research inc., As Deputy to Commerce Secretary Ronald h. Brown who would have to approve the proposed Sale. Aides to several senators expressed concern tuesday about the Choice of Rollwagen. Cray based in Minneapolis is considered the world s largest manufacturer of mainframe supercomputers. The company seeks to sell a supercomputer to China s meteorological administration that is More than 100 times fas Ter than the most powerful equipment the chinese have. Pentagon officials have opposed the Sale on grounds that the chinese military could use the computer to design nuclear weapons or missiles. Senate aides speaking Only on Condi Tion of anonymity said the nomination of Rollwagen was troubling for several Rea sons including conflict of interest Over the Sale to China. The nomination sends a signal that is very much in contradiction to what presi Dent Clinton has been professing said Christine Tarr a program director for business executives for National Security a Washington think tank made up of chief executives of . Companies. Serving in that position at the com Merce department is an incredible conflict of interest Tarr said. Commerce department spokesman Kevin Sweeney said Rollwagen will re move himself from decision making on any matters which directly and specifically affect Cray