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     European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 7, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday february 7, 1993 . The stars and stripes Page ? Falls victim to i Washington apr president Clinton having lost a second prospective attorney general Over her hiring of an illegal immigrant is pressing ahead in a search for a nominee without a a Zoe Baird  Quot he is going to go Forward. We re going to have an attorney general a Clinton spokesman George Stepha Nopoulos said Friday after Federal judge Kimba m. Wood withdrew from consideration. Wood was Clinton a expected Choice for the Post although she had not been officially nominated. She took her name out of Contention saying her baby Sitter of seven years had been an illegal immigrant when she was hired in 1986. In a statement Wood said she had a fulfilled every Legal requirement with respect to the employment of our  a she did not break the Law a Steph Nopoulos confirmed. The Manhattan jurists withdrawal was followed with in hours by the disclosure that As a student in the 1960s she had trained briefly As a Playboy club Bunny. An administration official called the Playboy training a irrelevant a two finalists believed to be still under review for the Justice department Post arc both men a Washington lawyer Charles  Ruff and former Virginia gov. Gerald Baliles. A Woods announcement stunned a White House still reeling from the withdrawal on similar grounds two weeks ago of Clinton a first Choice corporate attorney . A a the announcement was especially surprising Stopha Nopoulos said since Clinton himself had asked Wood in a face to face interview a if she had a Zoe Baird  she had answered no the same Way she responded on two previous occasions in conversations with White House staff Steph Nopoulos said. Wood 49, echoed that in her own statement released Friday in new York saying Clinton asked her whether a i had a a Zoe Baird problem. I said i did not and i do  it was Only after household financial records submitted by Wood were examined in a background Check that White House officials realized they had a new major problem on their hands Steph Nopoulos said. Wood acknowledged hiring a baby Sitter in March 1986, even though the woman had an expired entry visa. Wood said she a complied with All immigration Laws during that period and paid a fall required  Baird who withdrew two weeks ago had not paid social Security taxes As Wood did. And while an administration official said Woods Brief training As a Playboy Bunny was not relevant the new York times which was first to publish the report said the administration was concerned that it might become the target of jokes. Atom smasher space station May have funding reduced Washington a the White House acknowledged late Friday that president Clinton May Cut spending on two of the nations most expensive science projects a the space station Freedom and a huge atom smasher in Texas. But officials said neither project would be scrapped. Congressional sources speaking on condition of anonymity said earlier in the Day that Clinton a budget director Leon e. Panetta wanted to terminate the $30 billion space station and the $8.2 billion superconducting supercollider. But Clinton was Quick to deny that any decision had been made. Asked if the projects had been cancelled the president said a a that a not  a indeed Clinton asked for additional review of the two projects after Panetta proposed ending them during a Cabinet Retreat last weekend a congressional aide said. A the president was not comfortable with a budget that did not contain the station Quot the congressional aide said referring to space station Freedom. White House communications director George Steph Nopoulos stressed later Friday that Clinton so a that a not True comment went Only to the question of whether the projects would be scrapped entirely. Steph Nopoulos said a a it a possible that both could be Cut but a the is not cancelling the super Collider or the space station Quot he said. A the president is looking at All areas of the budget for appropriate cuts a the spokesman added. The two projects Are among the costliest science programs the government finances. They have been criticized by Panetta and others Oyer the years because of their Mammoth budgets which have drained Money from smaller competing scientific endeavours. Eliminating both programs would save significant dollars but it would put Only a Small Dent in next years projected $290 billion deficit. The real savings would be Over the Long term. The space station for example was not Only expected to Cost $30 billion to $40 billion to build but was projected to Cost $100 billion More to operate Over its planned 30 years in space. Panetta a proposal was made during a Retreat with. Clinton Cabinet officials last weekend at Camp David my. The congressional aide said that Treasury Secretary Lloyd n. Bentsen a former Texas Roy Schwitters director of the superconducting super Collider Laboratory stands 100 feet underground in an Access Tunnel at the facility in Waxahachie Lexas. Senator strongly objected to killing the projects which Are both in Texas. But another Cabinet member Energy Secretary Hazel of Leary said thursday that she did a not feel passionately about the atom smasher. A the Issue becomes can we afford this a she said. The atom smasher project involves construction of 54 Miles of tunnels at a site 30 Miles South of Dallas. It v. A wild be the worlds largest particle accelerator. Advocates said it May eventually unravel the secret of How the universe was created. Supporters say cancelling the project would Cost Lexas about 2,000 construction jobs. Nasa already has spent some $8 billion on the space station which was proposed by president Reagan in 1984 As a 10-year, $8 billion project. It has been heavily criticized by Congress which has forced major redesigns and reductions. Leaders Are at Odds on Bosnia plan Washington a president Clinton in his first White House meeting with a foreign Leader disagreed Friday with Canadian prime minister Brian Mulroney Over a peace proposal for War torn Bosnia and Herzegovina. Mulroney embraced the outlines of a peace plan offered by International envoys Cyrus r. Vance and lord David Owen. He said it represented a a lot of constructive work and offered the a elements of an  Clinton however said he was reluctant to endorse the Accord because the United states did not want a to impose an agreement on the parties to which they do not  he said muslims in Bosnia a might be left at a severe disadvantage if the agreement is not undertaken in Good Faith by the other parties and cannot be enforced  the Vance own plan would Divide Bosnia into 10 Semi autonom Mous provinces linked to a weak Central government. The United states maintains that the plan would not reverse the a ethnic cleansing Quot Campaign that bosnian serbs have carried out for almost a year against their ethnic rivals. Another . Complaint is that american military forces would be required to enforce the plan. Clinton and Mulroney agreed that the peace process would be enhanced by greater involvement by russian president Boris n. Yeltsin. The distinction of being Clinton a first visiting foreign Leader was reserved for Mulroney in recognition of his country a status As americans neighbor and largest trading partner. Quot our steadfast relationship with Canada is an indispensable elements of the continuity of . Foreign policy Clinton said. Clinton promised to give a High priority to economic ties with Canada but said a some disagreement even among close partners seems inevitable  
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