European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 12, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Pago 4 b the stars and stripes . Friday March 12,1993funds freed for jobs program Clinton Aims to ease Impact of base Washington Ftp president Clinton announced the release thursday of $1.7 billion in Federal funds to train displaced defense civilian and military personnel to find peacetime jobs and to Aid communities facing base closings. Gene Sperling Deputy assistant to the president for economic policy told reporters that the a ideological blinders of ast administrations kept the United tates from becoming More competitive. A a those policies he said slowed Down the conversion to a Post cold War Economy. The initiative was formally unveiled by Clinton during a visit thursday to Westinghouse electronics systems in Linthi cum md., will also provide assistance to a it of hard hit defense industries and communities. In Advance of Clinton s visit the White House issued the Broad outlines of the defense reinvestment and conversion initiative at a time when forthcoming base closings and layoffs in the defense Industry Are causing deep concern. Under the plan the president will release $1.4 billion that was appropriated by Congress last year for defense conversion but never spent by the Bush administration. In addition the administration will redirect $300 million in leftover fiscal 1993 funds. Clinton said that by 1997 the investments for defense conversion would almost triple to More than $5.2 billion. Aides said that at least one million civilian employees and one million members of the military would be affected by the initiative. The conversion package includes four major categories for new investment. In addition to worker training and adjustment funds would be spent to invest in hard hit communities dual use technology and commercial military integration and creating opportunities for new civilian technology adjustment. A White paper specifying where and How the Money will be spent will be issued in Early april Sperling said. He said the plan will seek to redirect the talents of personnel from soldiers to scientists saying they were a responsible for winning the cold War during the Campaign Clinton said he would provide conversion Loans and Grants to defense contractors and order the Pentagon to conduct a National jobs inventory to assist displaced workers. He said he would also encourage companies that help rebuild America a by doing such work As constructing roads and communications systems a to contract jobs to defense facilities. In addition Clinton said he would offer Early retirement and prorated pensions for military personnel with 15 to 20 years of service. At the same time he said he would urge states to offer alternative certification for retired military personnel so they could take jobs in such professions As education health and Law enforcement with the end of the cold War most of the nation s defense industries began massive layoffs and several even dosed. Clinton s proposal to reduce defense spending by $111.8 billion Over the next four years and his plans to dose More military bases Are certain to cause More hardships. Westinghouse electronics systems was selected for Quot a a Clinton s speech As an example of the peacetime conversion that he advocates. The firm changed gears to go from producing electronic systems for the military to turning out systems for  command to Aid Navy s changing role by Chuck Yin if Washington Bureau Washington the Navy has established the naval doctrine come to develop policies that support the services new emphasis on projecting . Military Power ashore from ships officials announced wednesday. The a new command for the Post cold War Era is based at Norfolk naval station in Virginia. It is commanded by rear adm. Frederick l. Lewis. The command will a define the new direction of the Navy Marine corps team a focusing on doctrine for expeditionary warfare the Navy said in a statement. The command will expand on principles contained in the Navy a recently unveiled strategy paper a from the  the paper outlines the service s intention to move from cold War planning for warfare against other navies on open seas to using Navy ships As Mobile bases hugging the coastlines of regional trouble spots. The strategy a shifts the focus from a global threat to regional challenges and concentrates on littoral or near land warfare and Man Euver from the sea a according to the statement. Adm. Frank b. Kelso ii chief of naval operations outlined the Broad elements of the new strategy this week at a hearing of the House armed services subcommittee on military personnel. A manifestation of the policy is the departure of the aircraft Carrier Theodore Roosevelt from Norfolk for deployment to the Mediterranean sea. The Carrier which was scheduled to leave port thursday to replace the Carrier John f. Kennedy and its Battle group is carrying a 600-member special purpose Marine air ground task Force that includes a Squadron of Marine corps f/a-1s Hornet aircraft. This is the first time a Marine air Squadron has been deployed aboard a Carrier Kelso said. The Roosevelt deployment will feature exercises to test whether carriers can handle missions such As hostage Rescue and embassy evacuations in unstable locations around the world. A we re trying to learn How we can tailor our smaller Navy forces to handle particular situations a Kelso said. The commander of the Navy doctrine come will report directly to Kelso and Gen. Carl e. Mundy jr., commandant of the Marine corps. The Ndoc will also work with the doctrine commands of the other services a to provide for smooth integration of naval expeditionary forces into joint operations at any level a the Navy statement said. Command of the Ndoc which will have a total staff of about 50 people will alternate Between the Nav and Marine corps. A police photographer wednesday documents items found at the scene of the murder of or. David  in doctor s killing asks to keep Bible with him in cell Pensacola Fla. Apr an abortion foe who reportedly admitted shooting a doctor to death outside a women s clinic asked a judge thursday to let him keep his Bible in jail As a Legal document. Escambia county court judge William j. Green ordered Michael Frederick Griffin held without Bond in the wednesday shooting. The slaying of or. David Gunn was the first Ever reported at an anti abortion demonstration. Abortion rights activists called it an example of growing extremism in the anti abortion movement. At the hearing Griffin told the judge that he wanted to be his own attorney and a i would like to keep my Bible As one of my Legal  the judge said those requests should be taken up with the jail administrators. While about a dozen demonstrators picketed the clinic Entrance Gunn was shot three times after getting out of his car near the Back door police said. Griffin 31, was charged with murder after walking around the building and surrendering to police watching the protest sgt. Murray Holt said. Griffin was dressed in a Gray suit a like he was going to Church a when he told the officers a a a in be just shot i. Gunn a said John Burt a Lay preacher who led the protest. Griffin Gunn appearing on lbs to thursday morning anti Abr Tion Leader Randall Terry who founded operate Rescue described the killing As an a inappropriate i Pulsiver act a but then went on to attack Gunn As a it Derer. A while we Grieve for him and for his widow and 1 his children we must also Grieve for the thousands children that he has murdered a Terry said. Gunn a 47-year-old father of two worked at to ens clinics in three states. Friends said he was co fitted to ensuring women had Access to abortions even in conservative areas where no other Docu would perform them