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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 22, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                A a 5t. No 30$ kids everywhere will be kids . Marine Lance Cpl. Jahn Butler above of san Antonio warns somalian boys thursday to stay out of the Road at a Mogadishu checkpoint below Anicja King of the 984th my co from Colorado Springs colo., is mobbed Friday in a Village near aug of after she approached with Candy in hand. Somalia s educational system is in a shambles because of the War so children have plenty of time to roam the streets. . To press bosnian talks plan to drop supplies by air viewed As bargaining Chip from wire report Washington president Clinton mulling possible military airlifts said sunday he would like to Sec increased efforts to get Relief supplies to Besci ged civilians in Bosnia. Clinton told reporters he was consid ering a formal announcement. I have authorized our people to talk to the . Security Council about the possibility of extra help with food and Medicine for Bosnia the president said. Administration officials said saturday that the proposal for . Military planes to drop Relief supplies in Eastern Bosnia was designed in part to persuade the bos Nian government to rejoin Pence talks in new York. Alija Izot Bogovic Bosnia s president and Leader of its muslims refused to participate in the last negotiations at the United nations. The muslims and serbs have rejected the peace agreement put Forth by the mediators Cyrus r. Vance of the United nations and lord David Owen of the european Community. Only the croats the see . On Page 2 Navy studies proposal to base ships in Israel by Ray Rowde Washington Bureau Washington following a news report that Congress quietly had approved Money to prepare the israeli port of Haifa As a possible permanent base for . Ships Navy officials said Only that they arc pursuing a congressionally Man dated study of the Issue. Haifa Long has served As a port of Call for . Ships in the Mediterranean. But last week the Sun newspaper in Baltimore re ported that the 1991 and 1992 defense appropriations Bills provided $17 million for dredging Haifa Bay and studying what improvements to facilities would be needed to base american ships there. In november 1991, Congress ordered the Navy to conduct a feasibility study on creating such a port according to it . Sharon Heath a spokeswoman for the service. At that time Federal lawmakers called for a review of options for meeting Middle Eastern threats with a shrinking naval Force. Work on the study was suspended for Lack offending but resumed in octo Ber. Congress is Der tic re dec thl re port in pank the Matonte sucs under consideration on the israeli port were not available Fri Day Heath  their 1991 directive Law makers specifically called for a study of the technical requirements and Cost of making the port of Haifa capable of fully support ing the repair Supply and a repositioning need of the United states 6th Fleet the directive also cited . Policy to see Navy on Pago 2 Clinton Calls for government Industry partnerships. A a ii. Imral Lii ii to Tinti a ii i thu and it v it it be ii Washington a president Clinton who has proposed Large cuts in military spending is calling for new High technology partnerships Between government and Industry to help convert lost defense jobs to civilian employment. Clinton was taking his Road show to the West coast where defense industries Are suffering to continue the pitch for his new economic revival package. He has proposed some $76 billion in defense spend inc cuts Over four years in his package. Making his first trip to the West coast As president Clinton hew sunday to Southern California where he was to address students at Santa Monica state College. Later he was to Fly to san Jose in California s High tech Silicon Valley for a private dinner with about 30 business  was to tour Silicon graphics in Santa Clara today then Fly to Seattle and a Boeing aircraft Plant just Days after Boeing announced it will Lay off 23,000 workers. Noting those layoffs in a speech Friday in Hyde Park n.y., Clinton said he backs a new technology policy to help revitalize industries that had been dependent on military contracts. We know that aerospace jobs Are growing in number worldwide High wage jobs. And we sat Here for 10 years and let Europe put $26 billion into on Airbus pro Gram direct government subsidies to throw Boeing workers Mcdonnell Douglas workers and other Aero space workers in America out of work because we said Well we Don t practice those kind of partnerships. So we be cot to face the fact that we be taken a new direction Clinton said and hinted at new government Industry partnerships in aviation electronics and other  president has been on the Road promoting his see Clinton on Page 2  
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