European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 14, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse Pages b the stars and stripes at a glance Diana and Rick Aragon celebrate their 21st Valentine s Day together finding love in a Romance that was t supposed to be. The Aragons Are celebrating at Aviano a Italy where they Are stationed As people All Over the world take time to Honor falling in love. See stories in sunday Magazine and on Page 4. Fight against violence Janet Reno said that As . Attorney general her first priority would be prosecuting violent crime. Page 5 support for Gays Cardinal Roger m. Mahony of los Angeles said Gays and lesbians should be allowed to enlist in the armed forces. Pages apology demanded a Charity watchdog group is de manding an apology from Ann land ers because it says the advice columnist added inflammatory remarks about a fund raising firm to a letter the group sent her. Page 8 a Friend to sailors Angle Cramer says she May know More sailors than any woman in the world. She s proud of the claim after working for 18 years at a seafarers club in Bremerhaven Germany. Page 9 palestinians Rebuff plan palestinians exiled in a no Man s land dismissed As meaningless a move to resolve the crisis Over their deportations. Page 10 taking a break Wall Street had a relatively quiet week ending lower As it consolidated the huge gains it chalked up in the previous week s dramatic up surge to record Heights. Page 17 l Index Abby Ann Landers 16 classifieds 20-24commentary15 faces n1 places 16 Horoscope 23 letters 14 Money matters 17 Mutual 1719 sports 25-32 weather 13 Clinton from Page 1 cause we want to soak the Rich but be cause we want to Stop soaking the Middle class and ask everybody to Bear a fair share of the at a photo session before a Roosevelt room meeting with his economic advis ers Clinton said he has been asking con Gressional leaders for their ideas and i be gotten some Good suggestions some of which we be been Able to Clinton said the plan was not finished yet otherwise i would t be asking them to meet on Clinton plans to hit the Road after wednesday s speech to help sell his eco nomic plan to the nation. The president will have a full court press to make sure the american people understand his economic plan and under stand what it s going to do for the coun try said White House spokesman George Stopha Nopulos. Clinton s plan will have two parts a stimulus package of about $31 billion in new spending and investment tax Breaks is designed to boost the econ omy in the Short run. A mix of higher taxes and deep spending cuts arc designed to reduce the deficit in the Long run. In the Republican response to Clin ton s radio address sen. Thad Cochran of Mississippi said the president should put his emphasis on spending cuts say ing we Don t need symbolic spending that adds to the deficit at a time when the Economy is Clinton will unveil the program in a speech to a joint session of Congress on wednesday night. I be started putting elements of it to Gether. It May not be As much of a speech As a talk Clinton said during a Friday picture taking session with members of Congress. Clinton vice president Al Gore and much of the Cabinet will barnstorm the country after the speech to promote the plan Steph Nopoulos said. Tentatively planned is a two Day Clin ton trip at the end of this week most Likely to the Midwest. A later bus trip one of Clinton s Sig nature ways of travelling is also Possi ble White House aides said although Steph Nopoulos said a Clinton Gore bus tour was very Many Cabinet members Are being sent to their Home states the Day after Clin ton s speech to help sell the package. And White House aides said Clinton is seriously considering a proposal by House majority Leader Richard a. Gep Hardt d-mo., under which the president would return to Capitol Hill the morning after the speech to answer lawmakers questions about the plan. Sunday february 14,1993 Man reportedly admits killings Miami a the Man awaiting trial in the 1990 slayings of five Oas Ville College students has confessed and i cooperating with authorities a newspaper reported saturday. Danny Harold rolling 38, has pleaded not guilty in the Case. He is serving a life sentence for a string of unrelated robberies. The Miami Herald quoting four unidentified sources said rolling has Given details of the stabbings to investigator including Why he chose the victims. The Herald said the sources would no give specifics however. A closed door hearing in the rolling Case was schedule for this week. Rolling recently began talking to investigators directly the Herald said Al though much of the information has Bee passed through his inmate Friend Bobby Lewis who is serving a life sentence for murder. Earlier last week investigator searched an animal pen near the site of one of the killings. The Herald said the were looking for a knife rubber gloves and body parts rolling had confessed to burying nearby. The five victims All students at the University of Florida or nearby Santa be Community College were found slain in Cam pus area apartments in late August 1990. Hijacking from Page 1 emerged with the release of an Fri complaint charging Hoemeke with aircraft piracy and threatening the flight Crew aboard Lufthansa flight 592. Air piracy carries a potential prison sentence of 20years to life. According to the complaint Demerc threatened during a refuelling Stop in Hannover Germany to Start killing flight criminal from Page 1 attendants one every five minutes unless the refuelling was seeded up. The complaint said Duemcke boarded the plane at Frankfurt International air port and turned the Ethiopia bound flight toward the United states because he had been unable to enter the unite states Roche said Der eke who has a sister in Gettysburg pa., and Brothers in Minnesota and Indiana had never been tothe United states before. According to the complaint deck commandeered the plane because he had a number of Persona and family problems which required his presence in the United states an ethiopian citizen Duemcke bad lived in Morocco briefly and in Germany since August the Fri said. The Fri complaint said deck sneaked the starter s pistol which would fire Only Blanks past Security at Frank Furt s Airport by putting it on his head and covering it with his hat. The defendant was examined with handheld scanner. From the shoulders Down the complaint said. About nonjudicial or administrative actions taken against individuals involved in the misuse or funds. With no findings of criminal action or fraud anyone named in the findings would be protected by the privacy act he said. Although the miss pending violate army regulation 215-1, which governs mar funding the actions did not violate any Federal Laws. Citing past abuses of morale funds Congress in the 1993 defense authorization Bill ordered the defense Secretary to rewrite the regulations so that misuse of non appropriated funds would be punish Able by Federal Law and under article 92 of the uniform code of military be been looking at this Issue for some time now said a defense depart ment official in Washington who asked not to be identified. We were working on it even before the authorization Bill came out last the services have drafted proposed standards for what the official called Naf resource he said the proposals must still be written and re viewed by the appropriate agencies and individuals before the new regulation scan be made final. Finishing this process could take time because Many top civilian slots in the Pentagon remain unfilled with the changeover from the Bush to the Clinton administrations the official acknowledged. The Pentagon s tentative goal Calls for enacting the regulations by the end of the Calendar year he a result of the Frankfurt misspent ing the military Community nearly ran out of morale welfare and recreation funds last summer according to source Sand documents. None of the ongoing mar programs were adversely affected Bridges said however instead of undertaking new projects managers had to use their depleted assets to keep the existing one open Bridges said. Frankfurt spent $364,565 of morale fund Money on purchases that should have been made with appropriated fund tax dollars and this Money was not reimbursed said Millie Waters an army spokeswoman in Heidelberg. According to accounting documents some of the purchases Frankfurt officials made using morale funds were More than $60,000 for furniture car Peting computers and other office equip ment for the civilian personnel office including a $5,000 desk and chair for the director $18,100 for brochures etc.," which included fliers promoting the civilian personnel office and official programs for military ceremonies. $1,700 for a paper shredder for the Central accounting division. $2,000 for flags at a june 1992 change of command ceremony. A stars and stripes Story on the Flag purchases Drew attention to Frankfurt s morale fund spending and the i Vestiga Fon results were released last week at the request of the newspaper. According to the army the results of the three investigations were the follow ing the army in Europe s internal re View and audit compliance office issued preliminary audit report feb. 9 indicating that troop morale funds were Spei within their budgets even though the funds were spent on inappropriate Pur chases. An army regulation 15-6 inv Stigi Tion completed on dec. 9, found tint staff members at Frankfurt s 103rd Are support group improperly used Moranc funds when tax dollars should have Bee used. The intent of the staff member was to reimburse the morale account Slater through the slower appropriated fund procurement system but they eventually realized they had circumvented the regulatory system. The complexity of reorganizing several military communities into the new sup-1 port group allowed their actions to go undetected. Although some Money was improperly spent the inquiry found no evidence of fraud criminal acts or personal gain. 2nd Region criminal investigation omd agents found no criminal action. They also regularly review Community and installation finances to assist com Manders in minimizing opportunities for criminal activities with the system. As a result of the investigation management in Frankfurt s consolidated mor ale fund staffs established tighter Cash controls and recruited in House auditors Childress said. Army officials previously have said that last year s consolidation of military communities into area support groups would reduce the Chance of future miss pending. Contributing to this report Start writer Chuck Vinch i Washington
