European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 27, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes . Saturday february 27.1993 senator accuses Kemp of rewarding cronies by the Washington Post Washington the controversy Over bonuses awarded by outgoing Bush administration Cabinet secretaries to political appointees erupted anew thursday Assen. David Pryor d-ark., accused former housing and Urban development Secretary Jack Kemp of giving Polit ical cronies $94,000 in Post election bonuses. Fryer s attack was made shortly after a Kemp led group called empower America which employs one of the Bonus recipients and the husband of another announced an Effort to defeat president Clinton s economic plan. Apparently Jack Kemp s idea of economic stimulus isto give salary bonuses to political cronies Pryor who is Linton s closest Friend in the Senate said in a speech on the floor. That s Good for the cronies but what about the rest of America the Point in the current economic debate is not spending stupid As recent buttons worn by republicans would have us believe Pryor said in reference to Lapel buttons worn by Many gop lawmakers during Clinton s state of the Union address last week. It s stupid  Kemp fired Back describing the bonuses As the result of routine civil service performance reviews that were con ducted throughout his four years at the department of housing and Urban development and suggesting that Pryor devote his attention to unnecessary government spending including funds that go to Arkansas. All employees who were Given top ratings for Job performance by review boards including political and civil serv ice employees received bonuses of up to 2 percent of their annual salaries Kemp said. The reviews were made before the nov. 3 election and such bonuses arc paid routinely i november and december he added. It s somewhat demagogic to criticize rewards for Supe rior service that is based on an impartial performance re View Kemp said in a Telephone interview. As Many As six other Cabinet secretaries made Cash awards of hundreds of thousands of dollars to political appointees and other staff members in the closing Days of the Bush administration. But Kemp said he believes that bonuses Given by some other Bush administration Cabine secretaries May not have resulted from the same kind of performance reviews that Hud conducted. St. Valentine killings in Bronx linked to revenge for a slap by the new York times new York the shootings of six people in a Mott Haven apartment and a Young woman at the Entrance to the Bronx county building were twin acts of revenge rooted in a simmering rivalry Between two Young women Over a Man the police said thursday. At the Center of the Case the police said were one of Heyoung women Lourdes Caslllas and her husband Anthony. It was his rage at a teen Ager who had hit his wife that led him to plot retaliation a plot that came to fruition on St. Valentine s Day when three adults and three teen Ager were lined upon the living room floor of a Bronx apartment and each shot in the , a Day after Lourdes Caslllas was slain at the courthouse in another apparent revenge shooting and Oneman was arrested in connection with the Mott Haven deaths the police arrested and charged four More men including Caslllas in connection with the feb. 14 slay Ings. Revenge said the new York City chief of detectives Joseph r. Borrilli is the motive that s going through this whole  to those investigating the Case As Well Tomany people on the streets of the Bronx the apparent motive for the violence and the fact that lie feud played Outon the Steps of the Borough s criminal court building showed How frighteningly crime has spun out of control income parts of the City. It s the old Story of a smack in the face which 20 year Sago May have resulted in somebody being stabbed has now resulted in the death of seven people said police commissioner Raymond w. Kelly. A police investigator said the suspects in the Mott have killings were believed to be members of a loosely knit drug gang. But they said the murders appeared to be acts of Sim ple revenge unrelated to drugs. The police say Caslllas began plotting the killings some time after August 1992, when he was being held on hikers Island on a drug charge and his wife was injured in a fight with Edwin Santiago 17, a student at South Bronx High school police said Santiago one of the six victims in the apartment was the intended target. The fight according to police investigators As Well As peo ple who knew some of the victims and suspects grew out of a Long simmering rivalry Between Lourdes Caslllas and Santiago s sister Maria Santana. A police investigator who asked not to be identified said that Caslllas had at one time dated Santana and that he had broken off with her after he became involved with Lourdes Caslllas and had a baby Wither. A woman who lives in the building at 645 Prospect ave.,where the killings look place said that Santana and Lourdes Caslllas hated each other and at times exchanged heated words. She said that Caslllas had continued to View Santana As a romantic threat. Lourdes was harassing her All the time said the woman who requested anonymity. She was  animosity Between the women erupted on a Bronx Street last summer. During the tight the police said Edwin Santiago came to the Aid of his sister Ana slapped Casellas. How severely injured she was is a matter of dispute. Torrelli Anthony cast Lias 21, is led by police officials from the40lh precinct in the Lirong in new York City thursday after being charged in the murders of six people. Said by some accounts she was severely  but other police officials and neighbors interviewed thursday said that Santiago had slapped her and caused her to drop he baby. Santiago gets involved and he slaps her in the face an pushes her causing her to drop the child said one police official. That we feel May have been the  Borrilli sneaking at a news conference thursday at the40th police precinct station House in the Bronx said Casel Las later visited her husband in jail and told him of the fight. She visits him at riders and explains to him what happened he said. Subsequent to his release he gets the co operation of the other individuals. They arrange to commit and we believe they extract the revenge that he wants for his  nuclear sub Memphis runs aground in Florida from wire reports fort Lauderdale Fla. A nuclear submarine was temporarily grounded a mile off the Florida coast thursday while heading to a test Range. The attack submarine Memphis freed in self after1 i hours and there were no injuries or apparent damage said it. Cmdr. Dave Morris of Atlantic flee Headquarters in Norfolk a. The ship was nuclear powered but did not have nuclear  the Accident the 362-foot boat and its Crew of 130 men were sent to the Navy submarine base takings Day oa., for inspection he said. The Accident occurred just before 6 . When the Memphis heading toward a shallow water Range for tests ran onto a Shoal a mile off the Broward count coastline. He said the Navy was trying to determine if the Memphis was slightly out of position or if the Shoal did not show on its charts. Selective service targeted Washington the government should shutdown the selective service system and end registration for the military draft a move that would save $30 million annually 16 lawmakers said  selective service meets no existing strategic need. It s dead weight that should be Cut now said rep. Peter a. Defazio Dore. The congressmen including three committee chairmen urged president Clinton in a letter to eliminate the service in the interest of deficit reduction. Abc admits new error Ndoc news came under severe criticism thursday following its second on air apology in recent weeks for presenting misleading  Brokaw apologized wednesday on the Abc nightly news for a Jan. 4 Story on Federal Forest management in Idaho s Clear water National Forest. In the apology Brokaw said Abc news inadvertently used dead fish from another Forest further South not  the apology which followed complaints also admitted that some fish in Clear water that appeared to be dead were  had been stunned for testing  earlier this month the network admitted it faked flaming crash of a general motors pickup truck on its new Magazine series dateline Ndoc. Group assails pay freeze Washington the Senate and bipartisan leaders of Congress promised wednesday that lawmakers would forgo pay raises next year but algal group thursday vowed to go to court to Stop them from doing  american constitutional Law foundation based in Denver said a recent constitutional amendment prohibits Congress from varying its pay before an intervening election. Last year the group lost its argument in Federal court that the so called Madison amendment bars annual Cost of living adjustments. The amendment written by James Madison in1789, was ratified last year in response to lingering Public anger Over a 1989 Law that increase congressional pay in several Steps to $133,600. William Orr executive director of the non profit group said Madison also was concerned about Congress decreasing its pay As a Way to exclude citizens of modest Means. The question in 1993 is whether giving up Acola designed to keep Pace with inflation amounts to a pay Cut. Steve Ross the House counsel called that an interesting constitutional question. Toy makers Bow to pressure Washington toy manufacturers have abandoned their opposition to Federal legislation Rwy Mai waking on toys that could choke Young the toy manufacturers of America inc., which has previously opposed such a Labelling requirement old Congress wednesday that it would support Alaw requiring a warning Label on toys with Small parts that could pose a hazards to children under the age of 3. The Industry s change of mind u primarily base Don its fear that individual states if left to their own devices on the Issue could impose a Patchwork of conflicting toy Labelling standards