European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 10, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday March 10, 1993 . The stars and stripes Page 7clinton agrees to extra spending cuts from wire reports. Washington president Clinton a agreed to $55 billion in additional spending cuts Over five years. White House press Secretary Dee Dee Myers said Clinton agreed to the cuts following a meeting with the House budget committee. Both the House and Senate budget committees Are a a  their first key votes today approving budget resolutions that Issue Overall instructions to the appropriations and tax writing committees. Those committees then will work out the details. But with apparent agreement Between the White House and congressional leaders on the shape of the $1.5 trillion budget Resolution Clinton has taken a significant step toward enacting his economic program. In addition Congress seems to be looking favourably on the $16 billion in new spending that is part of Clinton a $30 billion Short term stimulus package. Moderate and conservative democrats have complained for weeks that Clinton a package relied too heavily on tax increases to finance initiatives and to reduce the deficit and have demanded More spending cuts. But As Myers said the new cuts would do Little More than enable Clinton to achieve his original target of reducing the deficit to about $200 billion by 1997, $140 billion below the projected amount without any action. In addition a Large chunk of the cuts a about $17.5 billion of the roughly $55 billion a would come in the fifth year. Sources said the cuts would total about $3.8 billion mfiscall994and$11 billion to$12 billion in fiscal 1995. The cuts Are necessary to keep Clinton s proposals beneath the spending Caps imposed by a 1990 budget Summit and to make up for lost ground after the congressional budget office declared last week that Clinton s plans would fall about $67 billion Short of his target of reducing the deficit Over the next five years. The new savings would be achieved by delaying or trimming some of Clinton s proposed a a investments in the Economy and cuts in other programs including defense. . Unions urge fewer managers from wire reports Washington several Federal workers unions have a suggestion for president Linton in his Effort to Cut the government payroll Don t forget the managers. Clinton has promised a reduction of 100,000 jobs through attrition a retirements and resignations for example. But he has not said which jobs he considers expendable. Janice Lachance spokeswoman for the 700,000-member american federation of government employees said her Union Hopes. Clinton will a flatten out the Structure when he makes his cuts. A for example there is one manager for every six employees which is Way out of line from any kind of private sector ratio a Lachance said in an interview. The Federal government employs 2.2 million people not counting the uniformed military or . Postal service said Mike Orenstein spokesman for the office of personnel management. The Normal attrition rate is about 10 percent or roughly200,000 a year he said. Killings planned Norfolk a. A a gun dealer accused of threatening president a Linton had a much broader wish to get rid of High government officials according to a taped interview with Federal authorities that was played in court monday. On the tape Michael b. Shields cited worries about his business and differences Over policies including Clinton s Promise to allow Gays in the military As reasons for wanting to kill the president last month. He told government agents he had not yet recruited anyone to carry out assassinations but said he intended to do so. He said other targets might include vice president a1 Gore key members of Congress and first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton. . Magistrate Tommy Miller ordered that Shields remain in custody pending his trial. Shields 28, was arrested feb. 23. Meetings defended Washington first lady Hill any Rodham Clinton says she wants to keep her health Reform task Force meetings private to prevent influence from special interests. Three groups have asserted in a Federal suit that closed meetings Between task Force members and working groups advising the panel Are illegal under the 1972 Federal advisory committee act. A we do not want to have health care legislation in the Clinton administration written by any special interest group a she said monday. Protesting haitians detention pro haitian demonstrators gather outside the Federal courthouse in Brooklyn n.y., where a new chapter in a Legal Battle opened monday Over the Fate of 264 his infected haitian Asylum seekers being detained at the . Naval base at Guantina to Bay Cuba. The haitians like 10,000 other refi gees had been cleared in late 1991 and Early 1992 to enter the United Stater As political Asylum applicants. But unlike the others they were never released from the base because they tested positive for the human immunodeficiency virus which causes aids the Clinton administration is defending the Bush administration s restrictive policy on Haltan refi gees a policy that president Clinton criticized during his presidential race. Truth stranger Nixon Back at from wire reports Washington a in 1972, 26-Ycar-old Bill Clinton Laboured in Texas a vainly it turned out a to defeat Richard m. Nixon. That was a Long time ago though and Nixon on monday accepted an invitation to visit one of his old haunts the White House to visit president Clinton. The Issue a How to assist Russia As it moves toward free Market democracy a is certainly important. But the image of the private meeting Between Clinton and the Republican sex president whom Young democrats of his generation grew up hating was even More arresting. A irony is too weak a word for what a going on these Days Quot said Ellis Woodward a former Carter administration official. A but lets face it Nixon has something to  actually each had something to offer. Nixon a crusade for russian Aid appears to be based on a Heartfelt historical judgment about the merits of such assistance and a calculation As to How it can serve him politically. For in seeking to drum up american support for russian president Boris n. Yeltsin Nixon who than fiction White House analysis resigned the presidency in 1974 amid the watergate scandal is not Only rehabilitating the russian Leader but also himself. Being invited to the White House was a major step in his comeback. As for Clinton he understands that Nixon can be useful in garnering Republican support for any Large scale increase in american assistance to Yeltsin. That would almost certainly be a controversial idea during the current budget debates a Nixon can cover Clinton on the right and Clinton will take care of the left himself Quot said Robert Hormats vice chairman of Goldman Sachs International. Nixon argues that Western governments have to Stop looking at financial help to Yeltsin purely in banker a terms. Because Yeltsin s Success is essential for the Success of democracy in Russia and the Success of democracy in Russia is so essential for the West a ability to reduce military spending he says the West should offer significant help a even if it Means some of the Money will be wasted. Academy suspends professor Over exam by the Washington Post a longtime professor at the . Naval Academy in Annapolis md., has been suspended for a week in an investigation of an incident in which midshipmen obtained a copy of a difficult examination before it was Given. Raymond Wasta who coordinated an electrical engineering examination taken in december by 700 midshipmen was suspended without pay for careless attention to duty his attorney said. The attorney Arthur r. Butler said he is appealing the decision. Naval officials said up to 28 midshipmen face expulsion in a cheating incident stemming from the dec. 14 test. The exam was Given to Junior non engineering students who were required to take the course. The Academy a superintendent rear adm. Thomas c. Lynch ordered an investigation soon after the test was Given when a midshipman told a faculty member that another midshipman had obtained questions before the examination