European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 19, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 a the stars and stripes i . Friday february 19,1993 White House looks ahead to even deeper troop cuts by Melissa Healy los Angeles times Washington a the Clinton administration signalled wednesday that it plans deeper reductions in military troop Levels after the first round of cuts Are achieved in 1>97. The result would be a military Force considerably smaller than the one envisioned by former president Bush and even at one time by president Clinton. Clinton a five year military budget proposal which offers the first glimpse of the administrations military spending plans if Clinton wins a second term proposes Pentagon spending reductions of $39.2 billion in 1998. That would bring to $123.9 billion the presidents proposed cuts Between 1994 and 1998 a a far steeper decline in Pentagon spending than Clinton had projected throughout his Campaign. The budget blueprint released wednesday indicates that Clinton plans relatively modest reductions in Pentagon spending to pay for Domestic programs. In 1994, for instance he has proposed trimming $11.8 billion from the Pentagon a $275.5 billion budget plan. But the blueprint also made dear that much steeper reductions would come later. Clinton a projected $39.2 billion defense  1998 would be the biggest single reduction in that account for any of the five years projected. The Cut virtually ensures that in 1998 and beyond the number of . Troops a now at about 1,775,000 a would fall Well below the 1.4 million figure that the Clinton administration projected As its target for 1997. That decrease is certain to cause the . Military services further anguish As they plan their personnel draw Downs. ,. The Bush administration with the backing of the joint chiefs of staff had proposed setting what former Secretary of defense Dick Cheney called a a Rock Bottoms base level of . Forces at about 1,620,000. Below that level warned Gen. Colin l. Powell chairman of the joint chiefs the Quality of . Forces and their ability to meet commitments abroad would be dangerously compromised. Jackson pleads for haitian his victims Washington a the Rev. Jesse Jackson Midway through a week 1___i--______ in. A to is Long hunger strike in sympathy with haitian boat people urged presided on wednesday to allow a group of his infected haitians to enter the United states. Jackson said the haitians being held it the . Naval base at Guantanamo Bay Cuba a Marc trapped in a kind of political Purgatory Between Haiti and. The United states. . Authorities have refused entry to 230 haitian refugees infected with the aids virus along with 37 of their relatives. The haitians arc qualified to apply for political Asylum but have been barred from entering the country because they or their relatives have aids or Are infected with his the aids virus. Jackson visited Guantanamo on sunday when he began his fast in sympathy. With about 15 of the haitians who Are going without food to protest the . Policy. The Clinton administration has suggested that it May lift regulations barring foreigners with aids from entering the country. In the meantime Jackson said a president Clinton need Only to use his humanitarian parole authority to permit the haitians to come to this  Jackson said he has decided to share the pain of the haitians by taking Only fluids through sunday. He stood throughout. The hour Long news conference and said a i feel  ,. Jackson also said Olden poly Rice a haitian born player with the Detroit pistons had decided to join the protest by fasting on non game Days. A. /. A the Rev. Jesse Jackson right talks about haitian refugees with rep. Alcee Hastings d-Fla., prior to a news conference in Washington. Plastics expert offers fake horns for rhinos Londonderry . Apr a professor has a plan to save the endangered african Black Rhinoceros from poachers replace their valuable horns with plastic copies made in his lab. Robert Malloy has designed an 18-Inch Horn that can be attached to a five ton Rhino. Malloy a professor of plastic engineering at the University of Massachusetts at Lowell is teaming with John Linehan curator of the Franklin Park and Stone zoos in Massachusetts on the idea. Poachers have devastated the Rhino population because the animals horns bring up to $18,000 each on the Black Market for use in aphrodisiacs and Dagger handles. Only about 2,800 Black rhinos Are left in Africa Down from about 70,000 in 1970, Linehan said. Most White Rhino species arc not As endangered he said. Malloye a process would involve tranquil izing the animals removing their horns and applying an artificial Horn. Malloy used reinforced plastics called composites which would fit Over the Rhino stump like a dental Crown. The Cost could be $1,000 to $2,000 per animal Linehan said. Malloy has been working on the project for a year. He Hopes to test his Model on the first United states zoo Rhino that needs a Horn transplant. He has designed artificial adhesive horns for other zoo animals. But african nations May not Welcome the idea he said. / Namibia already has turned it Down satisfied with its own program of removing the horns and not replacing them. But Malloy does not think that a acceptable. A rhinos need their horns to be socially compatible they give off certain signals of dominance a he said. Linehan said colouring the horns Orange would Alert poachers it is a fake. Rhinos presumably would not care he said. They Are  for King rights trial nearly ready judge says from wire reports los Angeles a Federal judge told attorneys wednesday in the Rodney g. King civil rights trial he expects to swear in a jury this week. . District judge John Davies said the Oral questioning of the first group of prospective jurors was going slower than he had anticipated but he still hoped to have a jury Impan eled by the end of Ali ursary. After filling out lengthy questionnaires about the Legal racial and social aspects of the Case 12 potential jurors Are being questioned by prosecutors and defense attorneys for the four Whites charged in the police beating of the Black  holds riot exercise los Alamitos Calif. A hundreds of California National guard troops converged on the los Angeles area wednesday to test their ability to control a civil insurrection. A the exercise involving about 600 soldiers stemmed from riots that rocked los Angeles last Soring after the acquittals of four Whites on most King. Spring after the acquittals of four Whites on most charges in the police beating of Rodney g. An additional 900 troops were put on Alert by Telephone but were not required to report for duty. In the exercise operation Angel guard troops were dispatched to a half dozen los Angeles area armoires after an afternoon a a alerts was issued to National guard maj. Gen. Donald j. Hernandez by gov. Pete Wilson a  suspect makes Deal Tampa Fla. A a White teen Ager agreed wednesday to testify against two companions accused of the new years Day torching of a Black tourist. In Exchange Jeffrey Ray Pellett will be allowed to plead guilty to a lesser crime. Pellett 18, made the bargain after confessing recanting and then going Back to his original Story of the events surrounding the attack on Christopher Wilson of new York City. According to Pelletti a Story he was with fellow White labourers Mark Kohut 26, and Charles Rourk 33, when they abducted Wilson at gunpoint from a suburban shopping Plaza. A Pellett maintains that he Only followed behind in another vehicle when Kohut and Rourk forced Wilson to drive his car to a Remote Field. There investigators said Wilson was robbed doused with gasoline and set afire. Wilson 31 is recuperating in a new York City Hospital from Burns Over nearly 40 percent of his body. The Stock brokerage clerk has t been Able to identify any suspects from photographic  of stolen Money found Uniondale n y. The Good news is that authorities investigating an armoured car company accused of theft have found about $47 million. The bad news is $40 million is still missing. Among the Money accounted for since Revere armoured inc. Was raided earlier this month was $68,000 found stuffed in a Canvas hamper and $50,000 sitting under a cloth on the floor of one of the company a vaults the cases court appointed receiver told a judge wednesday. Revere was one of the nation s 10 largest armoured car companies until it closed feb. 9, leaving 700 people unemployed. A Day later authorities raided the company s offices in Bohemia. Reveres owners Robert and Susanna Scaretta have been charged with Bank fraud and theft from federally insured Banks. Prosecutors said they lost millions gambling in Atlantic City  appeals Flag ban Montgomery Ala. Gov. Guy Hunt appealed a judges order Banning display of the Confederate Battle Flag Over the Capitol dome paying the $100 fee out of his own pocket his spokesman said wednesday. A any decision to remove the Confederate Flag from atop the Alabama Capitol the Birthplace of the confederacy should be made in a statewide basis not by a local judge a Hunt spokesman Terry Abbott said. Circuit judge William Gordon agreed with four Black legislators in january that an 1895 Law prohibits the governor from allowing any Flag to Fly Over the Capitol dome other than the Alabama and . Banners