European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 27, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday july 27, 1993 . The stars and stripes Page 5 recession feared if deficit Bill fails Washington a Congress failure to Pas president Clinton s $500 billion deficit reduction pack age could bring Back the recession administration officials say. It s imperative that we get this package through lest interest rates surge and undermine economic re covery Treasury Secretary Lloyd Bentsen said sunday. Bentsen was part of a chorus of top administration officials and democratic congressional leaders who took to the airwaves sunday to warn of what they said would be the consequences of not acting this year to curb the Federal deficit. If no agreement is reached you d see an immediate Spike in interest rates and with that you normally correlate a drop in the Stock Market Bentsen said Onnic s meet the press. And the last thing we want to see is this country drop Back into  but Benteen As Well As a number of lawmakers predicted agreement will be reached on a Compromise that will Call for steeper taxes on the wealthy. A gasoline tax increase of 6 to 9 cents a gallon. And cuts in medicare and other social Benefit pro Grams. Supporters say it will Cut the deficit by $500 billion Over five  Altman Bentsen s top Deputy at the Treasury department said that consumer and business Confidence would Tumble if the package is not passed and that the trend toward Job growth would Start to unav  stakes Are enormous Altman said on can s news maker sunday. He said the administration was working nonstop to get an agreement acceptable to both the Senate and  met separately Over the weekend with three democratic senators Dianne Feinstein of California David l. Boren of Oklahoma and j. Bennett Johnston of Louisiana in Hopes of garnering support for the plan House speaker Tom Foley discussed the Issue on lbs face the nation and said that it s going to Bevery close but we must pass it rep. Weisi Mfume d-md., chairman of the con Gressional Black caucus predicted a Bill is going to pass by the tightest of margins. We really Don t have a  the caucus has criticized the Senate version for cutting too deeply into programs aimed at helping the poor and threatened to withdraw support if som benefits Are not restored. Although Republican lawmakers As a group have re fused to endorse either the House or Senate Bill some gop lawmakers predicted a Compromise Bill will be approved by the democratic majority. In the stars and stripes 10 years ago july 27,1983 the . Air Force announced its first successful Experiment using High Energy laser beams to Knock out missiles travel ing nearly 2,000 Mph. 20 years ago. July 27,1973 president Nixon rejected subpoenas from investigators demanding watergate related White House tape recordings set Ting in motion a constitutional Battle with Congress and the special watergate prosecutor 30 years ago july 27,1963 an earthquake devastated the macedonian capital of Skopje killing and injuring thou Sands rendering More than 100,000 homeless and causing untold prop erty damage. 40 years ago july 27,1953 with the shooting to end at Midnight Allied and communist negotiators prepared to sign documents formally ending the korean War three years one month and two Days of one of the blood Iest costliest conflicts in . History. 50 years ago july 27,1943 american bomb ers led wave after wave of Allied planes against nazi targets heavy bombers hitting four targets in Northern Germany and medium bombers hitting another in France. I world War ii 50 years ago today july 27 1.943 British planes strike Hamburg Germany for the second time in four nights dropping incendiary bombs that for the first time in the War touch off a devastating firestorm. German leaders set plans for the military occupation of Italy and restoration of dictator Benito Mussolini to Power. In the aleutians the last japanese troops on Kiska Island slip away. Source 2194 Days of War w. H. Smith publishers inc. Mofid almanac Book of world War ii Bison books corp., 1981. A 7 in family drown when boat sinks Perryville Ark. A a family fishing trip to a Cool River on a hot sum Mer Day ended disastrously when the group s Small overloaded boat Sank. Five children and their parents died. Nine be Prole All family members were aboard a boat meant to hold three Sun Day Perry county sheriff Gary Lawson said. None was wearing a life preserver and Only the father David Bailey 32, could swim Lawson said. Bailey however was among those who drowned. The other victims were identified As Bailey s 40-year-old wife Wanda Crystal and Chris 10-year-old twins Amanda 7 Amber 4 and David jr., 18 months. Two girls survived one 14, the other 12.they told authorities that the 12-foot, is Flat bottomed aluminium boat began Tak ing on water Over the sides. It apparently Sank soon after being launched on the Fourchu Lafave River. Nina Kelley 74, of Perryville. Said she and her son Phillip Kelley arrived at the River soon after the boat Sank. We come to fish but we come up on that. We did t see nothing but a girl h61 luring screaming she was drowning Kelley said. She said her son helped one girl get to Shore the other girl made it out of the River on her own. The River has Little current but is about 18 feet deep where the boat Sank near Perryville Lawson said. Perryville is about 35 Miles Northwest of Little Rock. The sheriff said the surviving girls Are in the custody of other family members. Their names were not immediately Avail Able. Arkansas was under a heat advisory sunday with temperatures reaching 100 in spots. Teresa backs ban on contraception Omaha neb. A contraception is a selfish act that destroys the Power to create a child Mother Teresa told a Catholic conference on the 25th anniversary of the Church s order Banning artificial birth control. Contraception cannot be an express Ion of total self giving because in contraception something is done to oneself to destroy the Power to conceive a child Mother Teresa said in a videotaped Mes Sage shown during sunday s opening of six Day conference on the Catholic Church s teachings on contraception. The 83-year-old roman Catholic nun and Winner of the Nobel peace prize had planned to. Attend the conference but poor health prevented her. Her taped message read from Calcutta India was heard by about 3,000 people at the con Ference s opening ceremonies in the City auditorium. The same selfishness that wants to prevent the child by contraception will grow until it wants to kill the child Al ready conceived Mother Teresa said., we must fight selfishness with a True generous and sacrificing  Pope Paul i s controversial encyclical humane vital banned for catholics such contraceptives As the birth control Pill diaphragms condoms and spermicides. Catholics Are allowed to practice birth control by refraining from sex during a woman s Fertile period. After 25 years with humane Vitae Hope we have grown stronger in our conviction that to listen to the Church is to listen to Jesus himself Mother Teresa said. Catholics from 20 countries were expected to attend the conference which includes sessions on the history of Catho Lic protestant thought on birth control and the development of natural family planning methods. But the conference takes place amid Stormy debate Over whether the birth control ban is right. The Rev. Richard Mccormick a pro Fessor of Christian ethics at the univer sity of notre Dame said in an interview before the conference that there is great dissent in the Church among married peo ple priests Bishops and theologians. The Church should face this dissent to learn from it but it does t want the questioning because it s afraid that its authority will be threatened Mccormick  Kenneth e. Untener of Sagi naw mich., argued in the june 18 Issue of Commonweal that the Church should acknowledge that the majority of catholics Don t follow the Church teaching on artificial birth control and should throw the topic open for discussion. The journal family planning perspectives reported that in 1988 Only 4 percent of White Catholic married women in the United states were using family planning methods that require abstaining from sex during their Fertile periods a drop from 32 percent in 1965.the conference is sponsored by Omaha s Pope Paul i Institute for the stud of human reproduction and the Creigh ton University school of Medicine. Paper pus ouf Anc comic strip Houston a the Houston Post pulled sunday s Jutland comic strip by pulitzer prize winning artist Berkeley breathed fearing it would offend read ers. The Post substituted a previously run outland and made copies of the strip available to readers at its offices. The switch also was explained in sunday s newspaper. As journalists it is always uncomfortable to pull a comic strip executive editor Ernie Williamson said in the paper. But in this Case i Felt we had no  the comic strip featured an Exchange Between the strip s Star the Penguin character opus and a woman who comes upon opus and two other male animal characters sitting in their underwear. How do you know if a woman has been working at a computer there s White out on the screen opus jokes this chuckling cohorts. You dumb hypocrites the woman replies. You mock the half of humanity that makes your graceless existence Bear Able. Men should pause for one moment and take another Long hard look at thievery thing that brings meaning to their meaningless  the strip then shows the woman walk ing away and the three male characters peeking into their underwear. Outland is distributed to 350 newspapers including the stars and stripes by the Washington Post writers group. Alan Shearer general manager of the group said no other newspaper had pulled sunday s strip. Breathed won a pulitzer in 1987 for his daily comic strip Bloom county which he replaced with the sunday strip outland in 1989