European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 11, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 b the stars and stripes . Thursday. February 11.1993 Clinton to Cut 100,000 Federal jobs plan targets Perks obscure panels office costs Washington a president Clinton on Federal manpower through attrition. Wednesday moved to Cut 100,000 jobs from the Federal work Force banishing obscure commissions and slash ing fringe benefits of Power saying americans Don t want a government that costs More and docs  in the second round of his Campaign to trim the Cost of the bureaucracy Clinton signed three directives to set in motion the reductions he. Vowed in his Campaign. The actions came just one Day after Clinton announced a 25 percent Cut in the White House staff. Clinton announced the latest Belt tightening moves at a meeting of the Cabinet then told its members the people demand and deserve an Active govern ment on their Side. They Don t want a government that wastes Money a government that costs More and does  now you and i must deliver he said. The president said that he would achieve the cuts in plies. Thousands by Farewell to Ashe at state mansion Richmond a. A thousands streamed into the state s executive mansion on tuesday to say Good Bye to Arthur Ashe who left his segregated Hometown to pursue a Tennis career and returned As a Champion of sports and equal rights. Ashe who died saturday became the second person accorded the Honor of a viewing at the mansion. The first was Confederate Gen. Stonewall Jackson. Many waited in the cold for As Long As two hours to bid  always took adversity like a Man said James a. Jones who drove 70 Miles to be one of nearly 5,500 people to file past the open coffin. He never complained he never pointed fingers. He was a Man of in  Ashe 49, was a powerful voice for civil rights and against South Africa s policy of apartheid. He devoted his final months to promoting understanding of aids he died in new York of aids related pneumonia. Doctors believe he contracted the aids virus from a blood transfusion during heart surgery in 1983. In his youth Ashe was barred from Many Tennis courts in Richmond because he was Black. He left the City in 1961 to pursue his Tennis career and became the Only Black Man to win at Wimbledon and the . Open. To me it said you have to persevere to make changes through work and discipline said Valerie Muhammad who waited patiently in the chill for 90 minutes with her children Ibrahim 3 Khadijah 7 and Flora 9. I want the children to understand about his work and his  visitors filed past Magnolia Trees and up the front stairs into the Oval dining room of the mansion where Ashe Lay in a mahogany coffin. He came up in a really impossible situation said former . Ambassador Andrew Young. He faced i see no need for layoffs he added. A week before he is expected to unveil an economic package of tax increases new spending and tax Breaks to both boost the Economy and lower the deficit Clin ton said he wants to prove to the nation that a pared Down government can perform better. Clinton s actions wednesday would reduce the 2.1-million-member civilian Federal work Force by 100,000 by the end of 1995, with 10 per cent of the cuts coming from management. The Cut backs Are to be spread throughout All Federal agencies and accomplished through attrition drawing from openings created by the 200,000 workers who leave government each year for retirement or other reasons. Reduce the number of Federal advisory commis Sions not required by Law by about one third with each department submitting names of questionable panels. Some possible examples cited by White House aides the weather and climate coordinating committee the Board of Tea experts and the advisory panel for the dictionary of occupational titles. Eliminate Home to work use of chauffeur driven limousines for top Cabinet deputies except where needed for National Security reasons. Require All Federal executive dining rooms to either cover their own costs or shut Down. Of the 14 fed eral departments 10 had executive dining rooms during the Bush administration at an estimated Cost of $4 Mil lion a year. Further restrict use of Federal aircraft for Congo require across the Board cutbacks annually in further restrict or Reoe Rai aircraft Lor each department s administrative costs. Covered sex verment purposes. Cabinet officials would have to get lenses include travel consulting fees printing and sup authorization from the White House counsel before using Federal planes for no government trips. Gay Sailor fails to halt hearing to dismiss him Seattle a a Federal judge refused to order the Navy to halt discharge proceedings against a Gay Sailor who sought to suspend the hearing until presi Dent Clinton ends the military ban on homosexuals. . District judge William Dwyer said tuesday that there was no showing that irreparable harm will occur if the administrative hearing went Forward wednesday As scheduled. Dwyer ruled in a lawsuit filed Friday by Petty officer Mark Philips 22, an openly homosexual Sailor who served on the aircraft Carrier Nimitz. Philips said his constitutional rights would be Vio lated if the Navy proceeds with efforts to discharge him because he s homosexual. Philips attorney Jett Whitmer said after the ruling that he will ask the judge to reconsider and perhaps re quire the Navy to allow Philips to remain on Active duty. Last month Clinton temporarily suspended the Dis charge of homosexuals from the military and ordered that new recruits no longer be asked if they Are Homo sexual. He ordered the Pentagon to produce a draft executive order by july 15 to end the ban. In a Compromise with opponents Clinton agreed tallow discharge proceedings to continue for service members who have acknowledged their homosexuality with final discharges suspended until a decision is made on the ban. In the interim those processed for discharge Are Tobe placed on standby Reserve losing All pay medical and dental benefits and meal and housing privileges. Philips who has served four years was transferred from the Nimitz to naval station puget sound just North of Seattle after he disclosed his sexual Orienta Tion in november. Jeanne Ashe widow of Tennis Star Arthur Ashe an their daughter camera watch tuesday As his casket is carried into Virginia s executive mansion in Richmond. The constant loneliness of a Black Man in White country  gov. L. Douglas Wilder the nation s first elected Black governor and Young were to speak at Ashe s funeral wednesday afternoon at the Arthur Ashe Center a sports Arena and exhibition Hall. Also attending tuesday were Tennis commentator Bud Collins and Tennis pro Yannick Noah. Home alone parents indicted on 64 counts in neglect Case Geneva Iii. A the couple who left their two Young daughters Home alone while they vacationed in Mexico also left them unattended at least once before prosecutors say. In addition the couple whipped kicked and scratched the youngsters they say. David and Sharon schoo were indicted tuesday on 64 counts including neglect of children endangering the life of Achild aggravated Battery abandonment cruelty to children and Possession of marijuana. David Akemann Kane county state s attorney said the couple twice left the girls Ages 4 and 9, Home alone once for four Days in the summer and for nine Days during their mexican vacation Over Christmas. The schoos also locked one girl in a crawl space for seven hours and another in a room repeatedly beat their Daugh ters with a Belt and pulled their hair Akemann said. One Gin was scratched on the Chest and Abdomen and kicked in the ribs the indictment said. Akemann said the girls apparently were disciplined for Normal childhood behaviour. Brazilian satellite in orbit Cape canaveral Fla. A a Pegasus rocket launched from a b-52 flying eight Miles above the at lactic lofted a brazilian environmental satellite into orbit tuesday. The Pegasus was dropped off the Wing of Nasa s modified b-52. After five seconds of free fall the rocket motors were fired one by one and propelled the satellite into an orbit about470 Miles High. The $20 million satellite is designed to Monitor the Amazon River and sur rounding rain forests. It was built Bbrazil s space Agency. Former astronaut c. Gordon Ful Lerton took off in the b-52 at 8 17 . From the shuttle Landing strip at Ken Nedy space Center. He released the winged rocket 50 feet Long and 4 feet in diameter a Little Over an hour into the flight at an Altitude of 43,000 feet about 80 Miles offshore. Upon ignition the Pegasus streaked upward followed by a Trail of smoke. There have been Only two other Pegasus launches by rocket maker Orbi Tal sciences corp., in 1990 and 1991