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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 15, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The Stesan stripes vol. 51, no. 302 350 monday february 15,1993 b d 8693 a Clinton to detail cuts Al Washington a president Clinton will offer close to 150 specific spending reductions when he announces his economic program in a televised address tonight his spokesman said. White House spokesman George Ste thanopoulos said sunday that Clinton will speak on television tonight As a pre Lude to his state of the Union address wednesday. He s serious about spending cuts in a Way no other president has been Ste thanopoulos said. He said that although Many of the cuts will come from the defense budget reductions will come from every part of the . Budget. Clinton s spokesman said health care on economic costs Are another area that needs to be brought under control if the president is to achieve his twin goals of reducing the Defi Cit and solving the United states health care crisis. Health care costs Are spiralling out of control Steph Nopoulos said speaking on Abc s meet the press. He added that they make up 14 percent of the . Bud get. " Clinton is committed to protecting people and going after the doctors and the hospitals where the real savings Are he said. " he is committed to getting Cost controls in first then working on  hundreds of thousands of people in the United states Are not Able to afford health insurance and Clinton has prom ised to improve their Access to medical services. Letort g. Panetta Clinton s director of the office of management and budget said that the main focus of Clinton s new economic plan will be changing the tax rates for upper income people. The top income tax rate for those earning Over 200,000 is going up pan Cotta said sunday on lbs face the nation. " but everybody s going to carry their fair share in some  it s the same old tax and spend and not a new idea As far As i can see it s tax the Rich Cut defense Senate minority Leader Robert Dole r-kan., said on lbs. If that s the Case that s not very  president Clinton delivers his radio address from the Oval office of saturday. . Marine sgt. Francisco Castro of new York lifts a somalian boy playfully at a checkpoint sunday in Mogadishu. Brick by Bride Somalia Mission keeps expanding Gail Alassi Somalia a operation restore Hope the .-lcd military Mission to halt clan warfare and get Aid to the needy has unofficially widened its role to include such tasks As rebuilding houses digging Wells and creating police forces. Officials Call it Mission  Italy s 187th Parachute regt came to Gail Alassi in december with loaded guns in an Effort to Stop clan fighters and bandits from looting Relief shipments in tended for starving people. Now they Are laying bricks and hammering tiles on the roofs of damaged houses. They already had rebuilt the Hospital and fixed a Well. In Mogadishu a 3,000-Membcr police Force is being set up by the coalition forces to assume traffic control and Monitor feeding centers. When you re on a Mission you always want to move Forward not backward. You look for things to do Suid col. Fred Peck the . Forces spokesman. But Peck warned there has to be limits or the foreign troops might get mired deeper than intended. In Gail Alassi a town of 8,000 people 100 Miles North of the capital the italian troops initially confiscated weapons and patrolled the area while the save the see Brick on Page 2 Nasa releases shuttle disaster photos by William j. Bradthe new York times seven years after the challenger disaster killed seven astronauts including a schoolteacher the space Agency has been forced to release some of the Many photographs it took of the shuttle s pulverized Crew Cabin. Forty eight pictures of the wreckage which was recovered from the Bottom of the Atlantic Ocean off Cape canaveral fla., appear to show nothing startling about the Fate of the challenger and its Crew. But they  eventually help aerospace engineers design safer space ships. The photos were released feb. 3 to Ben Sarao a new York City artist who had sued the National aeronautics and space administration under the free Dom of information act for the pictures. I did it to help people understand what happened to that Structure and to help them learn How to build better ones Sarao said in an interview. Nasa has shown great reluctance to release information about the dead Crew members their personal effects and the shuttle s Cabin citing the privacy interests of the Crew s families. Sarao filed his request in 1990. It was denied. After his Appeal for a reversal was also denied he sued Nasa last year. The Agency then released a limited Selec Tion of photos to him. Jeff Vincent a spokesman for the space Agency said that it was the first Public release of such material and that the photographs had been screened to protect the privacy of the astronauts families. He added that under the Law the photos could now be released to any one requesting them. Photos taken by ground based Tele Scopes Jan. 28, 1986, when the challenger exploded shortly after its launching show that the Crew Cabin survived the Ini tial explosion and the general breakup of the ship s fuselage. Engineers believe the Cabin remained intact throughout its fall to Earth with some astronauts probably conscious until it crashed into the Ocean at High Speed. Searches of the Ocean floor reportedly found Only pieces of the Cabin and other debris  
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