European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 23, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday july 23, 1993 . The stars and stripes Page 5 friends mystified by Clinton aide s death by Julie Stewar associated press Little Rock Ark. Vincent Fos Ter jr., Bill Clinton and Thomas Mack Mclarty went from miss Mary s Kinder Garton to the Pinnacle of government. Now friends Are struggling to under stand Why Foster the threesome s quiet est member and a Man whom president Clinton called the Rock of Gibraltar while other people were having trouble would kill himself at the height of his illustrious career. Foster the 48-year-old White House Deputy counsel was found dead tuesday evening at the Washington suburb of fort Marcy va., a civil War Era fort pre served As a Park. His body was slumped against a civil War Cannon. He Hadan antique Colt revolver in his hand. Park in the stars and stripes 10 years ago july 23,1983 Republican Lead ers and senators opposed to the my missile agreed to a plan to end a filibuster Over the strategic nuclear weapon and Clear the Way for Pas Sag of a $200 billion defense spending Bill. 20 years ago july 23,1973 the army filed a lengthy Brief in . District court in Washington opening a Legal Battle with the american civil liberties Union Over the . Army Europe s policies in its War on drug abuse. 30 years ago july 23,1963 president Kennedy asked Congress for legislation to head off a National railway strike by putting the dispute before the inter state Commerce commission. 40 years ago july 23,1953 president Eisen Hower said he is hopeful that a korean truce will be signed soon de spite South korean president syn Man Rhee s demand for a deadline on chinese troop withdrawals. 50 years ago july 23,1943 . Airborne troops Landing in Sicily on a larger. Scale than Ever before proved their ability to hold Back German Armor units with Light weapons Gen. Dwight d. Eisenhower s top air borne expert said. World War ii 50 years ago today july 23 1943 soviet armoured forces drive the germans Back to the lines they held at the Start of adopt Hitler s attempt to overrun the kursk salient on the Southern front on Sicily american troops capture the ports of Trapani and Marsala and push to the Northern coast near Bimini imerese Gen. George Patton shifts the . Advance eastward toward Messina. Source 2194 Oay of wat w. H. Sir dirt publishers inc.  Book of cum War  Book corp. 1981 t police said the death was apparently a suicide. No note was found at the scene Fos Ter s White House office or his Home. I Don t think anybody understands but i think people Are trying to find a simple solution to something that Proba Bly was a very Complex problem skip Rutherford said wednesday. Rutherford who was a state Utility executive with Mclarty now White House chief of staff is a consultant to the democratic National committee. Friends brought covered dishes and condolences to the door of Alice Mae Foster in Hope the Day after her Only son s death. Clinton Mclarty and Foster were life Long friends. Foster and first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton had been Taw partners. I just kept thinking in my mind of when we were so Young sitting on the ground in the Back Yard throwing knives into the ground and seeing if we were adroit enough to make them stick Clin ton recalled wednesday. Foster s record could not be More impressive standout athlete first in his class at Law school top score on the state bar exam a partner at his Law firm within two years. On Jan. 20, the same Day Clinton took the oath of office the new president appointed his soft spoken Friend to be the no. 2 White House lawyer. There were plenty of bumps in the Road ahead As the counsel s office caught blame for several of the administration s missteps. But Clinton rejected Sugges Steven Paxton a Community service officer holds Sally for to cameramen. Boy 15, found strangled by aggressive pet Python Commerce City Colo. A a 15-year-old boy was strangled in his bedroom tuesday by his brother s llv4-foot pet Python. The 80-Pound Snake was quite aggressive hissing and reacting when police found the body of Derek James Romero capt. Michael maudlin said. The boy had Snake bites on his body and an autopsy found that he had been suffocated. Pythons strangle their prey be pfc swallowing it whole. But there was no indication that the Snake tried to Swallow the boy Maud Lin said. The 8-year-old burmese Python named Sally had been a family pet since it was Only a foot Long. The Snake had been allowed Torun free in its Resi Dence since it was first owned about eight years ago maudlin said. Family members said they had never seen the Romeo Snake act aggressively before.  offi cers trapped the Python and took it to an animal shelter. Tons that they might have driven Foster to suicide. An administration official close to Fos Ter said Foster was uncomfortable under Washington s  of the Hope troika Clinton Mclarty and Foster Foster was always the most Pri vate even by the easygoing standards of Arkansas. Still he said Foster showed no unusual signs of stress. Foster who had three children proudly showed off his College age daughter Laura at a giant Media dinner in Washington earlier this year. He said his Only complaint about his new Job was that it kept him away from his family too much. The president and the first lady planned to attend Foster s funeral at St. Andrews Cathedral in Little Rock today. Foster will be buried in Hope. Radio chiefs High salaries by the Washington pos Washington eyes popped Heads spun and reporters thought about Duming off their resume s last week after a senator unveiled the pay of top officials at radio free Europe radio Liberty inc. The president of the operation based in Munich Germany receives $316,824 in salary and benefits according by sen. Russell Feingold a wis. That includes a $52,056 Post allowance for living expenses payments of German taxes and a housing allowance. The director of radio free Europe receives a package worth$318,036, while the personnel director gets a package Worth $232,704. Sen. Joseph r. Biden jr., d-del., said the High salaries do not mean the inde pendent corporation universally acclaimed for its role in dismantling the so Viet Empire should be put under the . Information Agency. Such a move would whack the pay Down to regular Federal government Levels. Putting the organization under the in formation Agency would threaten the operation s journalistic Independence and make it a tool of american foreign policy Biden argued. Feingold and his allies said an organization begun by the Cia and funded by the government need not worry about being seen As a tool of . Policy. Wit the cold War Over they argued taxpayers need a break and a corporation set Ting its own salaries is not the Way to go. Legislation being worked out now Calls for a residentially appointed Senate confirmed seven member Board under the information Agency. The Board would select the director of re re. The scaled Down operation with much of it moving Back to Washington would Cost about $261 million less Over four years. When the dust settled Over the Issue in a Senate foreign relations committee hearing last week Feingold won 15-4, though Biden threatened a filibuster. Sex lawmaker in Texas convicted of racketeering san Antonio a a Federal court jury found a former democratic House member guilty wednesday of racketeering and accepting an illegal gift while he was in Congress. Albert g. Bustamante 58, wavered slightly As he stood and . District judge de Prado read the verdict. After deliberating nine hours Over two Days jurors convicted Bustamante on two counts of a 10-count Federal indictment. Bustamante s wife Rebecca was found innocent of All seven aiding and abetting charges against her. Bustamante could be sentenced to up to 20 years in prison on the racketeering charge and up to two years on the illegal gratuity charge. He also could be Fine Dup to $250,000 on each count. No sentencing Date has been set. Bustamante remains free on a $50,000 Bond. With the racketeering conviction jurors found that Bustamante engaged in a pattern of corruption while in Congress from 1985 to 1993. The racketeering charge included a list of nine allegations. It was unknown which offences the jury believed Bustamante committed. A key allegation was a $35,000 bribe that prosecutors claim Bustamante accepted from Falcon food and manage ments services inc. In Exchange for using his influence to help the company try to renew an air Force food contract. Defense attorneys said they would a peal the convictions. Amid publicity about the Long running Federal investigation directed at him Bustamante lost the 23rd congressional District seat last year to Republican Henry Bonilla