European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 19, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                It a no  at a of khat the Rev. Jesse Jackson has appealed to president Clinton to allow a group of his infected haitians to enter the United states. Jackson is Midway through a we Klong hunger strike in sympathy with haitian boat people. See Story and photo on Page 4.lead in totes killing a British police spokesman said detectives were following what they described As a Quot Strong Lead Quot in the murder of 2-year-old James Bulger after new witnesses emerged wednesday evening. A Page 10missiles suspected . Weapons inspectors have gathered information that led some to believe Iraq May still be pursuing its missile program. A Page 11israelis Battle muslims pro iranian Muslim guerrillas fought Large scale artillery and rocket Battles with israeli troops in Southern Lebanon on wednesday in what Security officials described As the worst flare up of violence in the area this year. A Page 11market reacts strongly . Stocks got off to a Strong Start thursday and Long term interest rates fell As investors had their first Opportunity to react to full details of president Clinton a economic plan. A Page 12 Index Abby Ann Landers .16 classified. Comics. 16,22-23 commentary. Crossword. Faces in places 24 focus. Horoscope. Jumble. Letters. Money matters. Sports. 29-36 to listings. Weather. 13 plans prom Page t Mem than from Rcd gun View of the fou of the Federal in Sci Omant with shrunken defense Hudgie and a much More a ctr i approach to we Ial need a Clinton uttered not a word of direct criticism of i Trier Reagan or former president George Bush Quot there k plenty of blame to go around in both branches of the government and both Partis Quot he said. A the time a come for blame to end i did not seek this office to place blame. I come Here tonight to accept responsibility and i want you to accept responsibility with me. I do not care who gets the credit for it a that was one of Reagan a favorite aphorisms. Nonetheless republicans immediately denounced the plan and sported buttons that said a tax and spend.  Quot the american people would do Well to remember when you hear a Democrat Call for taxes do not ask for whom the tax rises a it will Rise for you Quot House Republican Leader Robert h. Michel of Illinois declared in the official Republican response. But White House strategists predicted that the most critical Battles ahead will be waged not against republicans but among fellow democrats who control both houses freeze from Page 1 adjustments in the pay of service Mem ers and defense department civilian employees. Clinton a proposals were meant to set an example m his theme of shared sacrifice to address the nations economic ills. He noted that he already has Cut staff at the White House and scaled Back spending at various Federal agencies and he said there arc similar proposals in Congress to Cut administrative budgets and reduce staff. A i think it is Clear to every american including every member of Congress of both parties that the Confidence of the people. In our institutions in Washington is not High a Clinton said. Quot we must restore  not surprisingly Federal and military advocacy groups were unenthusiastic about the presidents Call to bite the Bullet. Quot we have consistently supported cuts from Page 1 delaying the Start of a widely praised Law designed to close the wage Gap Between civil service and private sector workers. The military received a 3.7 percent pay increase in january. The proposed cuts require congressional approval and Federal worker unions said they will oppose the president s proposals on Capitol Hill. Zizzadoro admitted that the pay freeze is going to Hurt Quot especially with a daughter going to College. She a going to Princeton and fortunately she has a scholarship. But being a Parent i still have to provide some payment to the University and its going to put a Little Pinch on our  he said that though the pay freeze and proposed limit on future raises May look Good on paper and Are offered in Good Faith a i think they have to come Down Here and see How we actually live and the expenses we go  Petty officer 1st class Denise Shorter who is assigned to Nas is Gonella Sicily described the proposed pay freeze As Quot dumb. We can t meet the Cost of living As it  of t Otto no  waited in a "5 to it it let a a of  Ltd divided a a it and c Union him if a Ili Muo a Marl i  out a i Jar a he a a a a a i a a a a a us a it a Obb veg one inv a Ettwein Row Perot the 1<�� hit Lonait who became a presidential con Lender Las year b focusing on the danger of the deficit in a r he Tor it wednesday night Clinton teemed to Echo Perot to his Call for Campaign finance Reform and John i. Kennedy in his Call for common purpose. Quot if we do not act now a i inv said a a we will not recognize this country 10 years from now Quot. The speech was an hour Long and included a laundry list of his legislative Agenda but Clinton s tone was Plain spoken and conversational and he was interrupted by 29 standing ovations. In the gallery above first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton was seated Between two economic heavyweights Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan and Apple computer chairman Jonn Sculley. The Middle class would pay modestly higher prices for gasoline Home heating fuels and electricity under the new Energy tax. Social Security recipients who meet an income threshold a $25,000 a year for an individual or $32,000 for a couple a will pay taxes on 85 percent of their benefits up timely and equitable pay increases for All our members Quot said Stephen Aubin a spokesman for the air Force association the air Force lobby. He said the Gap Between military and private sector pay As measured by the employment Cost Index a labor department measurement of private sector salary increases now stands at almost 12 percent. Quot every Effort should be made to close that pay Gap Quot Aubin said. Quot we done to like this very much at All a said John Sturdivant president of the american federation of government employees. His organization represents about 700,000 Federal workers More than one third of them employed by the defense department. A we Are prepared to do our share but we re being asked to do far More than our share Here a Sturdivant said. Quot were taking a double hit a paying More taxes and having our pay scaled  Sturdivant noted that Clinton said he is willing to listen to anyone who has better ideas about cutting government spending. Quot we re going to take him up on that however she added Quot i could Deal with the suggestion of a lower increase during the next years if it would  a Well i voted for him a said air Force tech. Sgt. Mark Gilliam of Clinton. Quot i will live and die with  Gilliam who is assigned to the 3rd space comm so Kapaun air station Kaiserslautern Germany has taken Clinton Scall for sacrifice to heart. The 12-year Veteran and father of two says he considers the sacrifice Small in the grand scheme of things. Quot its about time we Start looking at the Long term benefits of the plan and not the Short  but the Short term is what most people arc concerned about As is the Case with army spec. Theresa Ellis a in a willing to make sacrifices a she said Quot but 1 done to know if it is a Good sacrifice to make. It affects me  a member of the 45th finance sup Cort unit in Kaiserslautern Ellis has Een in the array for 4vz years. She is married and has one child. Ellis has come to rely on the annual Cost of living adjustment to help make ends meet. Quot i look Forward to my pay raises a she said. �?o1 think it the one year freeze and subsequent reductions is a bad  Gilliam however believes that americans must learn to embrace the concept Uttmi $0 Piffl and a. A. J two of the Musil ilk or it in n Tammii or of Wadi tfx a f. A a Individuate with a w Fri a of in iffy Mote than $4u Hgt him i  p., than j2mmki0 would Laic a lip m Iurco Hatic he a of called Foi $253 billion in wend no Cut Over four year including in it Hon from the Pentagon budget. $ is from suffer medicare and medicaid com control and a one year freeze in Page for 3 million Federal workers but in a graphic example of just Bow difficult the deficit a become even that Stern package won t tame it. Administration projections show the Federal budget shortfall would decline to $206 billion in 1997 but then begin to Rue again to $399billion by 2003. In order to actually reduce the deficit Over the Jong term the package unveiled wednesday night will have to be followed in Short order by a separate major initiative to control health care costs. With that budget director Leon e. Pan Etta said the deficit could be brought Down by 2003 to $87 billion a roughly the same level it was when Reagan took Over in 1981 with a program of cutting taxes and increasing defense spending that first sent the deficit careening out of control. His plan Clinton promised would arrive on Capitol Hill in the Spring. Offer a Sturdivant said. A we will be talking with various members of Congress to look at alternative ways of dealing with our budget crisis other than taking it out of the hide of government  Sturdivant also expressed particular concern that Clinton a proposals would in effect delay a critical phase of a new pay system for government workers that was created by the Federal employees pay comparability act of 1990. That legislation Aims to revamp the general schedule the uniform pay scale for Federal White Collar workers in the United states and move to a system of locality based pay that links annual raises to local labor markets. It currently covers Only three High Cost localities a los Angeles new York Ana Chicago. Beginning next year and continuing for the better part of a decade other locations were to be phased in. By some measurements Federal employee pay lags As much As 28 percent behind the private sector Sturdivant said. Quot the presidents proposals will definitely cause us to fall further behind a he said. Of shared sacrifice. If they done Tihe country at Best will Only be treading water in a sea of debt. Quot my philosophy is to get ahead you have to give up something a said Gilliam. Isabel Castillo a civil service worker at naval station Rota Spain who was slated to leave Europe on thursday agreed with Gilliam. Quot i know pay increases come in pretty Handy but on the other hand we All need to make sacrifices to help the  Rafael Pena Perez a Secretary at Lakenheath american Middle school at Raf Feltwell England noted that the private sector is not going to be affected by a pay freeze Quot so we Federal government employees and the military will get unequal  Pena Perez said he realizes the government has a deficit problem but much or the Money woes can be attributed to fraud waste and abuse. Quot there a a lot of waste in the government a he said. Quot they should Cut the amount of paperwork and High ranking government employees sitting in fat jobs and not doing anything. That will solve much of our  stall writer Kevin Dougherty in Germany Ion in Italy and Murid rth Winder in England contributed this Story