European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 25, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday july 25, 1993 . The stars and stripes Page 5 defense conversion part of budget plan by he los Angeles times Washington the Senate armed services committee on Friday recommended a.$262 billion budget for the Pentagon next year that includes major new programs for conversion re search and development to help boost the ailing defense Industry. The $262 billion budget figure for Fis Cal 1994 is about $1 billion below the president s request. After adjusting for inflation it is actually smaller than the $259.1 billion budget for this year. The budget will be the first for the Linton administration coming in a period of Sharp defense cutbacks the Down sizing of troops in Europe and new strategies on the size and shape of the armed forces at the end of the cold War. Other significant provisions of the Bud get called Tor a 2.2 percent pay raise for. The military next january despite presi Dent Clinton s pay freeze announced ear Lier this year and adhered to the Clinton in the stars and stripes 10 years ago july 25,1983 the defense department revived and sent to the White House alternatives for stepped up training of Al Salvador s troops one of which involves Dou bling . Military advisers in that country. 20 years ago july 25,1973 John d. Ehrlich Man told the Senate watergate committee that president Nixon believed the break in at the office of Daniel Ellsberg s psychiatrist was Well within the Legal Bounds of the presidency. 30 years ago july 25,1963 the soviet Brit ish and american delegations concluded a final draft on a nuclear test ban treaty but its signing was held up by arguments concerning a non aggression pact. 40 years ago july 25,1953 the Senate passed a $34.5 billion defense department Money Bill after giving president Eisenhower a rousing vote of Confidence on his controversial air Force cutbacks. World War ii 50 years ago today july 25 dictator Benito Mussolini is deposed by italian leaders Adolf Hitler quickly orders German troops to occupy the Mountain passes into Northern Italy. American forces run into stiffening resistance As they press eastward through Northern Sicily. Japanese troops bog Down a major . Attack in the Jungles of new Georgia Island in the Solomons. Source 2194 Days at a w. H. Smith publisher inc. Wort almanac Book of world wat ii. Bison Book corp., 1931 a administration s directives to allow women to serve on ships engaged in com Bat missions. The committee s chairman sen. Sam Nunn said he expects the full Senate to take up the budget measure before Law makers leave aug. 7 for a monthlong re Cess. The Georgia Democrat predicted Swift passage. The Bill approved by the committee continues to shape the . Defense establishment for a Post cold War world he said. The committee authorized a military troop strength of 1.62 million for the next fiscal year about 106,100 below the cur rent level. The incentives for defense Industry conversion come at a time of deep cuts in military spending. They include new pro Grams to retrain displaced workers in Sci ence and engineering Fields As Well As funds for helping local communities adversely affected by base closings. Confirmation looks assured for Ginsburg Washington a appellate judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg president Clinton s nominee to the supreme court appears on her Way to easy confirmation after a week of smooth sailing in Senate hearings. Sen. Joseph r. Biden jr., d-del., chairman of the Senate judiciary Corn Mittee said he planned a vote thursday on the 60-year-old judge who would be come the second women on the High court. The full Senate is expected to act before lawmakers recess in Early August. I can unabashedly and without Reser vation support the nomination of Ruth Bader Ginsburg to go to the supreme court Biden said Friday after four Days of questioning by judiciary panel Mem Bers. A number of other committee Mem Bers have announced their support and there has been no sign of opposition. Conservative groups sounded the Only negative note by telling senators that Ginsburg s abortion rights stand would make her a Radical Force on the court. During her testimony last week gins Burg endorsed the right to abortion and said she still would like to see the equal rights amendment which would ban discrimination on the basis of sex added feb the Constitution. But she refused to give her opinions on Many other issues including whether capital punishment violates the constitutional ban on cruel and unusual punish ment. On Friday Ginsburg said she was a Little tired but otherwise Fine As she headed into a closed meeting with com Mittee members to discuss any possible allegations about her personal life or conduct. The meeting lasted Only 20 min utes and no further inquiries were planned on the matters discussed. The american bar association s com Mittee on the judiciary rated Ginsburg Well qualified saying she has out standing Legal ability and wide experience and meets the highest standards of integrity professional competence and judicial  former education Secretary Shirley Hufstedler told the Senate panel that Ginsburg was one of the major architects of the Campaign that changed the supreme court s collective mind about  Joycelyn m. Elders nominated for surgeon general gestures while Reading her open ing statement Friday to the Senate labor and human resources committee. S elders hearing closes after 1 heated session by the new York times Washington surgeon Gen eral designate Joycelyn m. Elders under attack by Many conservatives for her outspoken advocacy of con Dom distribution in High schools Early sex education and government financing of abortions underwent a bumpy Senate confirmation hearing Friday but seemed to weather it Well. Her performance before the sen ate labor and human resources committee was such that democrats were Given renewed Confidence that the questions raised last week about number of her past financial dealings would not Block her confirmation. The hearing was concluded in just one Day at the end of which the com Mittee s chairman sen. Edward m. Kennedy d-mass., praised elders for her forthrightness and scheduled a vote on her nomination for next Fri Day. A vote by the full Senate is expected in Early August. In a reflection of the controversy Over elders appointment the hearing hit a procedural Snag when sen. Don Nickles r-okla., objected to the hearing being held while the Senate was in session. The rarely used proce Dural Man Euver forced Kennedy to re Cess the proceeding until the Senate ended its business for the Day. Kennedy was angry and let everybody know it. He told his colleagues that they could be working Long into the night and into saturday. The Senate finished its work Friday so the hearing could resume in the afternoon. After the hearing sen. Dan Coats r-ind., said he was Stilt not satisfied. My questions were not fully an swered he said and my deepest concerns were Only  elders a paediatrician whom Dill Clinton appointed director of the a Kansas health department in 1987, when he was governor parried repeated questions about her finances and firmly defended herself on a matter that had been raised As an Issue Only in recent Days her decision on one occasion not to announce that a Batch of condoms distributed by the state to Public health clinics had proved to be substandard. The episode occurred in 1991, when the health department received complaints that the condoms were breaking. The department notified the food and drug administration and subsequent testing showed that the Batch broke at an unacceptable rate. Elders recalled the condoms from Arkansas clinics. But she said Friday some already had been distributed by the clinics to the Public. She said her staff had decided and she had concurred that no Public announcement should be made. Very few of the condoms got out she said. We Felt making an announcement would be creating a major scare that would make everyone afraid to use  murder script reviewed at son s trial los Angeles a eighteen months before Josd and Kitty Menen Dez s sons shot them to death she helped her son Erik Type up a screenplay about a Rich kid who kills his parents a Friend testified Friday. Craig Cignarelli a schoolmate who collaborated on the script with Erik Menen Dez testified outside the jury s presence As a judge decided whether to allow screenplay evidence into Erik s murder trial. His brother Lyle is on trial with him but evidence against Lyle is being heard by a separate jury. The siblings admit they shot gunned their wealthy parents to death aug. 20, 1989, at their Deverly Hills mansion but claim they did so after years of abuse. Cignarelli a key witness in the prosecution Case told a grand jury that Erik confessed to him that the Brothers had killed their parents with shotguns. According to Cignarelli Erik said Lyle declared let s do it then shot his father. Lyle then told Erik shoot mom cig Narelli said. Erik s lawyers oppose any testimony about the 1988 screenplay collaboration saying it is irrelevant because it did not happen near enough to the time of the killings. Cignarelli 21, said he and Erik now 22, went to a Mountain Cabin in january 1988 to write a screenplay they called friends. It was a murder mystery Cignarelli said. A kid opens up a will sees his inheritance sees to stands to gain $187 million goes upstairs and kills Iii Par