European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 11, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes . Thursday february 11,1993 Clinton slashing Federal jobs Perks some limousine services dining rooms face president s a Washington a president Clinton is Cut Ting 100,000 jobs from the Federal work Force banishing obscure commissions and slashing More perquisites of Power in the second round of his Campaign to Cut the Cost of government the White House said wednesday. Among the privileges on the presidential chopping Block wednesday were chauffeur driven limousines for top Cabinet deputies Money losing executive dining rooms at Federal offices and some flights on govern ment aircraft communications director George Ste thanopoulos said. Clinton is calling for a reduction in the Federal work Force of a 100,000 workers Over the next four years Steph Nopoulos said on Fox morning news. That does t mean he s going to be firing workers but it docs mean that As people leave the work Force As we lose people through attrition they will not be re placed Steph Nopoulos said. Steph Nopoulos also said Clinton would make Sharp thousands bid 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. Ash 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 Farewell. He 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  Ash 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 Valeric 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 reductions in those government commissions that Don t necessarily do a lot of work but do Cost taxpayers  one Day after ordering cutbacks in White House payroll staff and privileges Clinton was calling together his Cabinet on wednesday to Issue orders for similar sacrifices throughout the massive Federal bureaucracy. We re setting Down a Marker Here that should Check the growth of unnecessary government said Bruce Reed Clinton s Deputy assistant for Domestic policy. The Federal bureaucracy went up under Rea Gan. It went up under Bush. It s going to go Down under Clinton.". The most significant of wednesday s orders were Fol lowing through on Clinton s Campaign pledges to eliminate at least 100,000 Federal jobs through attrition and to Cut administrative costs by 3 percent annually throughout government. Those two Steps Are expected to save the government 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. At least $9 billion Over four years said a senior White House official speaking on condition of anonymity. In addition Clinton was ordering agencies to a at least a third of the 700 Federal advisory commissions that Are not required by Law. That could save roughly $50 million a year. Reed said the latest round of orders was designed to make sure government is doing everything it can to sacrifice before. Clinton asks More from Ordinary americans., Clinton also planned to ask Cabinet members to look for Perks and privileges and waste at their depart ments and. Offer up some sacrifices of their own the unidentified senior White House official said. The official said Clinton also was considering other Steps to improve the management of government such As legislation to make it easier to fire Federal workers move them from one Job to another and eliminate Nar Row Job descriptions. 1 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. Home alone parents indicted on 64 counts in neglect Case Geneva 111. 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. Pavid and Sharon schoo were indicted tuesday on 64 counts including neglect of children endangering the Fife of a child aggravated Battery abandonment cruelty to children and Possession of  Akemann Kane county state s attorney said the couple twice left the girls Ages 4 and 9, Home alone once Tor four Days in the summer and for nine Days during their mexican vacation Ove 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 girl 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-s2 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 50feet Long and 4 feet in diameter a Little Over an hour into the flight at a 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