European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 7, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Paga 8 the stars and stripes . Sunday March 7,1993clinton choices Irving conservatives by the los Angeles times Washington a mounting anger among some conservative democratic foreign affairs advisers about a perceived leftward turn of Clinton administration policy erupted into View Friday As a group met with the presidents National Security adviser to press for More top administration jobs. The group which includes former Clinton Campaign counsel David Ifshin have watched in increasing discomfort As the administration has begun filling out the state department with moderate liberals. They contend that the tilt of the department contradicts Clinton a Campaign Promise that he would be a Quot new kind of democrats a a vow that Ted Many to abandon the republicans and give Clinton a winning margin they argue. Quot ultimately this will Hurt him politically a said a person who shares the groups ideological views. Quot it will be used to prove its a myth that this is a new democratic party and that the old internal schisms have been  a a meeting at the White House with National Security advisor Anthony Lake and his Deputy Samuel Berger were Ifshin foreign policy analysts Joshua Muravchik and Penn Kemble and Peter r. Rosenblatt president of coalition for a democratic majority. They have agreed with the anti communist views of the Bush and Reagan administrations foreign policy during the 1970s and 1980s, Are staunch defenders of Israel and have sometimes been labelled no conservatives Ifshin described the meeting not As a Quot Gripe session a but an Quot Effort on both sides to find a solution to this problem. Quot there a no bad Faith Here but there Are a lot of complicated issues a he said. The Clinton Campaign wooed voters with moderate to conservative foreign policy views with arguments that it would not represent solely the ideological heirs of the democratic party a anti War Wing. Such figures As retired adm. William j. Crowe former chairman of the joint chiefs of staff stood up for Clinton to help dispel voter doubts that a candidate with a controversial draft record was weak on defense but As the slate of senior foreign policy officials at the state department has begun to fill out some observers believe it has a More Liberal cast particularly on the defining Issue of How Force should be used to revolve International conflicts. White House bows to judge suit Washington a the Clinton administration promised Friday to Tell a Federal judge in Advance of meetings by the White House task Force planning an overhaul of the nation s health care system. . District judge Royce Lambert asked for the Courtesy while he ponders a suit by three groups to remove White House secrecy surrounding the panel s work. Because the task Force is chaired by first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton who is neither a Federal official nor employee closed meetings Are illegal under the 1972 Federal advisory committee act or Fada the suit alleges. President Clinton has strongly defended letting the task Force and its 340-Membcr Quot working group of employees from various agencies and consultants temporarily put on the Federal payroll work in private. Allowing open press coverage and letting the Public in would Quot be like opening the White House to every staff meeting we have a he said. But Quot that a the Price you pay under the Law when a president appoints his wife to head an advisory task Force Lamberth was told Friday by Kent Masterson Brown a Lexington ky., attorney representing the three plaintiffs in the suit. Brown said the Kennedy anti nepotism act passed in reaction to resident Kennedy a appointment of his brother Robert As attorney general prohibits a president from putting relatives in powerful jobs. P p Allison Kosik 4, Arkansas ambassador for the March of dimes greets first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton at a March of dimes gathering in Little Rock. Ark., last week. Clinton Heads a task Force on the nation s health care system. Group of mayors backs economic plan Washington a More than 40 mayors offered their support to president Clinton a economic program Friday saying it would help strengthen americans ailing cities. Quot president Clinton understands that As go our cities will go this nation Quot mayor David n. Dinkins of new York said at a news conference the mayors held with the president and vice president Ai Gore. Quot our new president has advanced a meaningful program to Jurny Start our ailing Economy and to Reform the deep structural problems that have weakened America from the financial capitals to the farmhouses Dinkins said. Some mayors like John Rafferty of Hamilton township n.j., said they attended because they were invited but still were not ready to fully endorse the program. Quot its a Complex program. The tax aspect of it i have to review Quot said Rafferty who is a Republican. Quot i feel it just deserves More  most of the mayors said they were particularly enthusiastic about educational programs to Aid Young people a like Clinton a commitment to fully fund head Start a and the Short term stimulus program to boost the Economy through infrastructure projects summer jobs programs Community Block Grants and incentives. Mayor Bill Anthaus of York  is president of the . Conference of mayors said the conference endorsed Clinton a program wholeheartedly across party lines. A i endorse this program also As a Republican who believes its very important and should not be a partisan Issue Quot he said. Quot but most importantly i endorse this for the homeless people in my City for the women and children the children who need head Start for my children who should not have to be bankrupted by the deficit that we have not been Able to address  Clinton said the mayors intuitively understand the Tough decisions he has had to make in order to try to increase investment and Cut the deficit simultaneously. Quot any mayor who has served for any length of tune has been compelled to make the Linds of choices that Are embodied in this program Quot he said. After the news conference Many of the mayors visited Clinton in the Oval office. Increased Aid for Russia is planned sync woday Washington a president Clinton declared his intention Friday to Quot More aggressively engaged the United states in russians economic and political revitalization at a Summit april 3 and 4 with russian Leader Boris n. Yeltsin in Vancouver British Columbia. Quot obviously Money will be discussed but it is not just a question of Money and its certainly not Money alone a Clinton said of the Summit. Quot i can Tell you we be Clinton and his advisers discussed some rather innovative things that have not yet Beer on the table in these discussions in the  addressing another foreign policy priority at a news conference Friday Clinton disputed charges that . Airdrop in Eastern Bosnia and Herzegovina were intensifying serbian attacks on the Muslim population in that embattled nation. Clinton also reported Quot some indication Quot that Progress was being made in the talks to end the fighting. At a subsequent press briefing White House communications director George Steph Nopoulos said separate teams from the state department and the department of the Treasury were in Europe reviewing methods to intensify the  embargo a aiming to Cut off goods headed to Serbia Overland and blocking the serbs International Money transfers needed to pay for imports. Steph Nopoulos defending the effectiveness of the embargo announced that five serbian ships had been seized within the last month including one Friday morning off the Seychelles islands in the Indian Ocean that was carrying serbian arms apparently bound for Somalia. The wifi it House spokesman also claimed Success for efforts to Block shipments headed for Serbia along the Danube River. But when asked How these sanctions were aiding the bosnian muslims under attack Steph Nopoulos said Quot Well we Are producing results when we do anything to limit Serbia s ability to create goods in the Long run when we limit their ability to get financing. We Over time will be inhibiting their ability to carry on the aggression a Clinton told reporters that Jfe Afi Reed with the Quot general thrust of an essay by former president Nixon that called for increased support for Russia despite the american Public a focus on Domestic issues. Nixon predicted that Quot without a substantial increase in Aid from the West the Yeltsin government will not  later Steph Nopoulos said Clinton spoke to Nixon by Telephone recently for a half hour about the situation in Russia. Clinton will meet w Ith Nixon before the Summit though no Date was announced Steph Nopoulos added