European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 11, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                United Way still Shook up year after by the Washington Post Washington a year after ousting its longtime president and acknowledging that donors Money was misspent United Way of America is dogged by pending investigations and Low morale. The Una Board has been trying for months to reach a financial settlement with William Ara Flony who stepped Down after 22 years As president after his spending and management practices came under fire in february 1992. The Board is eager to resolve the Dis put but finds itself in a bind. A payment perceived As too generous could offend two constituencies vital to Uway a survival a the local United ways that pay dues to finance the Uway a operations and the Public which donates $3 billion a year to the United Way network. The Contro Vepy already has Cost local United ways millions of dollars in Public support. And of the 1,400 local United was that once paid dues half have yet to return to the fold this year. The dues falloff has forced the independently run National office to Cut its staff and budget which has gone from $30 million to $21 million in two years. Also looming Over Una is a criminal investigation by Federal authorities. Fri and internal Revenue service agents working with the . Attorneys office in Alexandria va., recently began seeking interviews with former Aramony aides. The new York state attorney general is conducting a separate civil inquiry of the Una Board. Inside Uway a Headquarters in Alexandria some employees feel bruised overworked and unfairly blamed for someone else s alleged misdeeds. At stake aside from 187 jobs Are the services that Una provides to a network that supports 47,000 local charities. All eyes Are on Elaine Chao who was a Surprise pick to put Una Back together again. Chao who immigrated from Taiwan at age 8, is a Harvard business school graduate and former banker who ran the peace corps for 14 months. She is paid $195,000 a year. Chao 39, moved quickly to build a rapport with local United Way officials travelling to More than 30 cities. But at the Headquarters staff members have complained about her mercurial temper and about her Early decision to fill three top jobs with outsiders whom she knew from the Reagan Bush administration and ban Kamenca  group believed behind bomb from wire reports Washington a assistant Fri director James Fox told Congress on tuesday that he believes the world Trade Center bombing in new York was Quot organized by a Large Well known terrorist  though Fox and other investigators already have speculated that a terrorist organization might be responsible his comments at a House hearing were the first official suggestion that the size and scope of the group extended Well beyond the two suspects in custody and a few close associates. Quot this is a group that knows what it s doing Quot Fox told the House judiciary subcommittee on crime and criminal Justice a Cauca by rep. Charles e. Schumard a. Y. Fox did not name any group. His comments Drew a rebuke from his Boss Fri director William s. Sessions who cautioned at the same House hearing against speculating publicly on the Case a although he suggested that the attack does not signal a new wave of terrorism in the United states. Quot we have not concluded this is an act of if iteration Al terrorism Quot sessions said adding Quot we should not speculate. This investigation will take . Authorities have described a palestinian charged in. The feb. 26 bombing Mohammed a. Salameh As a Muslim fundamentalist who worshipped at a new Jersey mosque where a militant islamic cleric Sheik Omar Abdul Rahman preaches. Abdul Rahman has condemned the violence but authorities in Cairo suspect he is the spiritual Leader of egyptian radicals involved in dozens of murders. In new York sources said the bombing conspirators used 1,200 pounds of explosives a triggered by nitroglycerine to blow a six Story Hole in the basement Levels of the world Trade Center. Working in a dimly lighted 10-by-10 storage locker in Jersey City n.j., the bombers mixed the deadly brew in the Days before the blast sources told new Day. The ingredients form Quot Nitro urea Quot a volatile substance used in the Middle East to create pipe bombs. The chemicals a which included nitric acid sul uric acid urea and nitroglycerine were purchased sources said. The completed explosive was loaded onto a rental  and driven to the world Trade Center garage. When authorities later raided the locker they found six Large containers of nitroglycerine in solution and remnants of the acids which were enough to make a 300-Pound bomb sources said. The nitroglycerine was detonated Early saturday by the Jersey City bomb squad. Workers make repairs tuesday in the underground parking garage at the world Trade Center in new York Manhattan cars at Brooklyn prices new York a the owner of the red Cherokee will find its roof peeled off and deposited in the front seat. The owner of the Gold Aerostat will find its entire body Bent at nearly a right Angle and a Wall clock a apparently blown through the Windshield a sitting on the Drivers seat. The time 12 17. These vehicles and dozens of others pulled out of the world Trade centers bombed out garage Are awaiting their owners in a Tough Brooklyn neighbourhood. Quot we be got Manhattan cars at Brooklyn prices a joked sgt. Larry Mccaron who helps run the car recovery operation for port authority police. About 1,000 vehicles were parked underneath the Trade Center when the blast hit feb. 26, the bombing killed five people and injured More than 1,000. Joe Schmucker a regional underwriting manager Foi Allstate insurance company said most comprehensive Auto policies would cover losses caused by terrorism. Officer Chris Zissler who oversees the lot said the owners of cars that were totalled typically show up shake their Heads and fish out personal belongings one father grabbed some Golf clubs. The clubs a were kind of Bent Quot Zissler said. Third of americans live outside state of birth Washington a ninety five million americans a about a third of the citizens a were born outside the state they now live in the census Bureau says. In 12 states most of the residents came from elsewhere. California the most populous state was the likeliest Birthplace for people living elsewhere nearly 3.4 million people who were born in California now live elsewhere. Nevada had the biggest proportion of non natives. Nearly four out of five nevadans came from someplace else mainly California Pennsylvania had the biggest share of stay at Homes. Only one pennsylvanian in five was born elsewhere. Of the nations 248.7 million people one in three was born in other than their current Home state the government said tuesday in a report based on information from the 1990 census. The search for jobs in americans far Flung and diverse Economy causes most of the movement said geographer Alex Desherbinin of the population refer ence Bureau a private research organization in Washington. Quot Industry has required a Mobile labor Force and historically americans have been willing to move to where the jobs Are Quot he said. In smaller Industrial nations such As France Germany or Japan there a Little incentive to move because the nations Economy tends to Rise or fall As a unit Desherbinin said. One american in 11 moved to a different state Between 1985 and 1990. The 12 states where outsiders form a majority Are mainly in the West which experienced an economic Boom in the 1980s. Besides Nevada they Are Florida Alaska Arizona Wyoming Colorado new Hampshire California Oregon Washington Maryland and Delaware. Outsiders also Are a majority in the District of Columbia. In eight states fewer than one person in four was born elsewhere. Besides Pennsylvania the states Are Louisiana Iowa Kentucky West Virginia Mississippi Wisconsin and  urges government to end police War on drugs Siw Jose Calif. Apr a Small group of people including Nobel economics laureate Milton Friedman and Baltimore mayor Kurt sch Moke called tuesday for an end to the government s War on drugs. Drug abuse is a medical and social problem and should be treated with medical and social solutions not Ever increasing police enforcement of criminal penalties the groups statement said. The group called on president Clinton and Congress to form a commission to propose revisions to the nations drug Laws. A your society has continued to attempt at enormous financial Cost and loss of civil liberties to resolve drug problems through the criminal Justice system with the accompanying increases of prisons and numbers of  the statement said. It did not Call for the legalization of drugs