European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 16, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse The Sll Saui Lpes. Vol. 51, no. 303 350 tuesday february 16,1993 b d 8693 a Linton s plan will take years for results by Steven greenhouse the new York times Washington the economic plan that president Clinton introduces wednesday will trumpet spending for education Job training and Public works As the key to building a Richer nation his aides say. But these investments could prove the biggest Gamble of his presidency. The reason the Public May not Sec the benefits for years a if Ever. Though these spending plans could put thousands of people to work quickly in Highway construction or other projects Many experts say it will be five to 10 years before the measures produce a noticeable pick analysis up in the nation s productivity and competitiveness which is the underlying aim of the plans. For example Clinton wants to invest More in poor children by expanding head Start but it will be a decade or More before these chit Drin enter the labor Force As skilled workers. Similarly it is Likely to be a decade before an ambitious nationwide computer network is in place enabling laboratories and businesses to communicate better and lower their costs. Many americans will no doubt want to see a tangible return on this spending soon because Clinton plans to increase investment by such a Large amount a aides say $140 billion to $200 billion Over the next four years. Indeed the bold promises of investment that helped elect Clinton in 1992 might come Back to haunt him in the 1996 presidential Campaign if he has nothing to show for the spending by then. A we can expect a payoff on these investment projects maybe in four to six years a said David a. As Chaucer an economics professor at Bates College in Lewiston Maine and an expert on Public sector spending. A but a four to six year time horizon poses a serious political problem a it s not conducive for see plan on Page 2hungry Sarajevo runs out of fuel Sarajevo Bosnia and Herzegovina apr Sarajevo a last bakery ran out of fuel for its ovens monday leaving the City in the fourth Day of a hunger strike without. Bread for the first time in Bosnia s 10-month War. Snow blanketed the City now without heating fuel and its last electricity was provided by one precarious Power line. Mortar shells thudded into downtown and out to serbian positions As heavy fighting reportedly flared elsewhere in Bosnia and Over the serbian held enclave of Krajina in Southwest Croatia. The City a departing . Commander reflected a general mood of despair in his Farewell message. Ten trucks carrying food and Medicine for desperate muslims isolated in the Czerska Region of Eastern Bosnia remained blocked at the serbian bosnian Border unable to reach an area Cut off by 10 months of War. Bosnian serbs refused to let the trucks through sunday. . Officials tried to negotiate a cease fire but both serbian and bosnian forces were blocking the Convoy according to a source with the . High commissioner for refugees in Belgrade Yugoslavia. Protesting the failure to get supplies through to Eastern regions Sarajevo authorities stopped distributing . Food Aid in the capital Friday despite nearly nonexistent stocks and fuel and water supplies. At Sarajevo a Only remaining bakery manager Enver Kazazic said Gas and diesel supplies had run out and ovens had produced no loaves Friday for the first time in the War. A Sarajevo is now a town without bread a he said. A this is the worst situation for the bakery in 40 years. This is the first Day in the War we did no to make he said 2,500 loaves had been delivered to hospitals see fuel on Page 2 Sarajevo residents visit the grave of a relative at the City a lion cemetery monday. With most Trees Cut Down for firewood mourners arc exposed to sniper fire and must visit the cemetery in the Early morning to avoid being shot. Inside today no insurrection Gen. Colin a Powell denies his plan on the future of the military is the a opening shot of an insure ctr it no a against the Clinton administration.$60 Page 5peace vital to Israel Peres says in . By Michael Ross los Angeles times Washington a israeli foreign minister Shimon Peres told american jewish leaders sunday that Israel must make peace with the palestinians or face in the future a a yugoslav like situation in our own country Quot that could endanger the existence of the jewish state. Beginning the first visit to Washington by a senior israeli official since the . Elections in november Peres also said that the new israeli labor led government is a extremely confident that it will be Able to forge a close partnership with the Clinton administration to bring about peace in the Middle East. Peres who was to meet with Secretary of state Warren m. Christopher and other administration officials today relations advisory Council. But it was Clear from the conciliatory and hopeful Tenor of his remarks that Peres was seeking to establish a new footing for .-israeli relations strained by the Bush administrations differences with labors right Wing liked predecessors. Feres broke no ground in what had been billed beforehand As a a major policy address before the National jewish Community efforts to ease those strains and establish what Peres said should be a a strategic and political partnership Quot Between Washington and Jerusalem were delayed by the prolonged crisis that erupted in the Wake of israelis expulsion of More than 400 palestinians to Southern Leb anon two months ago. Israeli officials said that they honed the crisis had been defused with the . Security councils endorsement Friday of a Compromise under which the deportees will gradually be allowed to return Over a year. Peres failed to even mention the deportees in his speech an omission that israeli observers said underscored the labor governments Hope that the controversy can finally be set aside. Although he did not address Arab demands that All the deportees be allowed to return Home before another round of peace talks begins Peres sounded a conciliatory note on negotiations with the a we understand that peace Calls for Compromise and we Are ready to play our share not Only to enter into a general Compromise but to make territorial see Peres on Page 2
