European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 23, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday juty23, 1993 . The stars and stripes Pago f lawmakers Man Euver in budget Battle Washington a Senate bar gainers May be ready to restore some social spending they Cut from president Clinton s deficit reduction Bill and liberals Are pressing the White House for More support in their Battle to protect those programs. We will continue that fight to put Bil Lions of dollars for food Stamps and other social programs Back in the Bill  Rangel in. Y., a senior House negotiator said wednesday. He added to just not certain How hard the president is going to  with negotiations Between the two Cham Bers Over the final shape of the budget Cut Ting package starting to get serious Senate bar gainers were preparing to reveal their first offer thursday. Part of it was going to address the tens of billions of dollars Clinton proposed for so Cial programs such As food Stamps and in tax Breaks Tor businesses aimed at spurring in vestments. One Democrat speaking on condition of anonymity said senators would probably offer to restore some of the Money the sen ate had Cut from Clinton s plan to give tax Breaks to the working poor and to Compa Nies operating in decaying Urban and Rural areas. The Democrat provided no figures. The House s deficit reduction Bill included a five year $28 billion expansion of the tax credit for Low income workers and a $5 billion break for businesses in poor communities. The Senate limited the credit for poor workers to $18 billion and the break for companies to $200 million. Liberals Are making restoration of fund ing that was Cut from those initiatives along with food Stamps medicare and similar so Cial programs a condition for their support of Theofil Senate finance committee chairman Daniel Patrick Moynihan , said the Senate offer would show real  Rangel said he believed the Senate proposal would not be very dramatic on most of the Bill there is Little differ ence Between the House and Senate. Both Chambers would raise the bulk of their Sav Ings by taxing the Rich and business and by cutting defense and medicare. Overall democrats say the package would Lead to $500 billion in deficit reduction Over the next five years. Moynihan said the Senate proposal would contain nothing new regarding the Energy tax one of the most contentious differences Between the two houses. The Senate approved a 4.3 cent per Gal Lon increase in the Federal gasoline tax enough to raise $23 billion Over the next five years. The House adopted a $72 billion tax on most forms of Energy. Rescued from Sticky situation above 20-month-old Julia Damn of Palo Alto calif., is sur rounded by Rescue workers after she got her Arm stuck in the drainpipe of a Pool wednesday. It took More than two hours of Jack hammering to free her. Below Julia and her Mother Cindy Damn head to a Hospital to have the pipe removed from the child s Arm. It s True teacher Fiancee win Jackpot Madison wis. A state lottery officials con firmed wednesday that a fond do Lac schoolteacher and his Fiancee won the nation s biggest lottery Jackpot As they validated the winning ticket Worth $111 million. Steve Madsen spokesman for the Wisconsin lottery said the  ticket endorsed by Leslie c. Robin Sand Colleen de Vries was handed Over wednesday afternoon at the office of a fond do Lac attorney rep resenting the couple. Madsen said no formal presentation had been scheduled because of continuing Legal proceedings Over the payout. Robins and de Vries went to court tuesday seeking a ruling allowing the Jackpot payments to be split evenly Between the two in separate checks. On wednesday circuit judge Gerald Nicholi ruled that the ticket holders could earn interest on the winnings while the court decides the Issue. Lottery officials said payments had never before been split. Madsen said the judge directed that the first install ment of the Jackpot $3.6 million after taxes be deposited in an interest bearing account. No court Date was immediately set on Robins re quest to Divide the prize. Lottery officials arranged to Deposit the Money in the National Exchange Bank in fond do Lac on thurs Day making it necessary to validate the ticket Madsen said. We re obviously not going to put $3.6 million in a Bank account without making sure. The winning ticket was indeed the one that they held he said. Robins 30, was reported to have bought the ticket for the july 7 drawing at a supermarket a couple of blocks from the apartment where he and de Vries 24, a nurse reside. Don Schort a Madison attorney for Robins and de Vries said the two probably would step Forward within two weeks to accept their prize at a ceremony at the supermarket. The Jackpot which must be claimed within 180 Days Calls for annual payments of about $3.6 million for 20 years the largest single lottery payoff in the unite states. Robins and de Vries have switched to an unlisted Telephone number and could not be reached for com ment. Elders knew condoms failed leakage tests Washington apr surgeon general designate or. Joycelyn elders decided to withhold information on possible defects in condoms that were being Given to schools and clinics in Arkansas while she was state health director. The state was distributing More than i million con Doms a year but officials concluded that telling the Public the condoms had flunked leakage and breakage tests would cause an unnecessary scare. It was the judgment of Tom Butler Deputy director of the Arkansas health department after meeting with Fea Unsel and other senior members of the staff that because at least 95 percent of the condoms in the worst Batch were still effective to have made a Public announcement might have undermined Public Confidence in condoms Victor Zonana a spokesman for elders at the Federal department of health and human serv ices said wednesday. The resulting nonuser of condoms would have been a greater risk to Public health department officials concluded. It was a judgment Call and it s one the a Kansas  by Zonana said. Or. Elders was notified of this conclusion and concurred in the professional judgment of her senior staff Zonana said. Elders has been a vocal supporter of condom distribution including in the schools to Stem teen age pregnancies and control the spread of disease. She has not been giving interviews prior to her confirmation hearing scheduled for today. A Senate panel postponed hearings on her nomination last week after opponents raised questions about her finances. Conservatives also oppose elders because of her outspoken support of abortion rights and sex education for Chil Dren. Government documents obtained by the associated press show that Arkansas was distributing condoms bought from the same supplier Ansel inc. Of Dothan Ala which sold them under the Brand name lifestyle. Tests on four lots of the Arkansas condoms by the food and drug administration found a defective rate More than 10 times higher than the limit set by the Agency. The Fra allows a defective rate of four con Doms per thousand but the Agency s tests found one lot with a defective rate of five per Hundred. The company complained that the tests themselves were defective because the Fra was using old equip ment. The rate was High enough that the Fra moved immediately to get a court order that would allow . Marshals to seize the condoms according to the documents obtained by the a. Lobster boy trial is ended by judge Tampa Fla. A a judge declared a mistrial wednesday in the Case of three people accused in the contract killing of a sideshow performer known As the lobster  circuit judge Barbara Fleischer made the decision after a sheriffs detective testified that one of the suspects took a lie Detector test which is inadmissible in court. The judge ended the trial after two Days of jury selection and less than a Day of testimony. A new trial was set for oct. 25. Veteran carnival Star Grady Stiles was shot in the Back of the head As he sat in his suburban Gibsonton Mobile Home last thanksgiving weekend. The 55-year old Stiles was the lobster boy because a hereditary condition gave him claw like hands. Stile wife Mary Theresa Stiles 55 Stepson Harry Glenn Newman 18 and neighbor Christopher Michael Wyant 17, the alleged hit Man Are charged with first degree murder and conspiracy. Stiles wife and Stepson claim that he abused them for years and that it was self defense when they paid the neighbor $1,500 to carry out the slaving. Earlier on wednesday in opening arguments de sense lawyers portrayed Stiles As a powerful alcoholic brute who Pom Meled his wife and Stepson with his two fingered arms rammed them with his wheelchair and repeatedly threatened to kill them. But prosecutors urged jurors to reject defense arguments of battered spouse syndrome and battered child syndrome saying the murder for hire plot was too involved to be self defense