European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 01, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes ,1993 at a glance a mannequin in military gear stands outside the museum of the liberation of Normandy in  week of june 6, 1944, will commemorate the 50th anniversary of Day. See sunday Magazine. Try try again Congress will soon try again to enact crime legislation containing controls on handgun purchases an expanded Federal death penalty and limits on lengthy death Row appeals. Pages therapist to testify a therapist who said Erik and Lyle Menendez described themselves As being turned on while planning their parents murders Wilt to Al Lowed to testify in front of jurors. A state divided flooding made Missouri a state divided with the swollen Missouri River doing just what the civil War did slice the state in two. Page 7 Denver crime spree a rash of violent Street crimes in Denver has made Colorado officials skittish about this month s visit by Pope John Paul ii. Page train wreck in Italy a train ran into the rear of another train stalled in an Alpine Tunnel in Italy on saturday killing at least one passenger Railroad officials said. Page 9 Market boost Likely falling european interest rates re fleeting currency turmoil probably will draw More Money into the . Stock Market. Page 19 Index j Abby Ann Landers 15 classifieds. T. 20-23 commentary 14 faces a places 15 Horoscope 22 letters 13 Money matters 19 Mutual 16-18 sports 25-32 weather 12 Israel halts Blitz on Lebanon in truce worked out by . I Bertny Lebanon a a .-brokered truce stopped israels military bombardment in Southern Lebanon on saturday lessening the latest threat to Middle East peace talks. About 500,000 lebanese had Bee driven from their Homes by the air and artillery assault launched last sunday i retaliation for guerrilla attacks that killed seven israeli troops in Southern Lebanon. The offensive was Israel s broadest an bloodiest in Lebanon since its 1982 inva Sion to rout Yasser Arafat s. Palestine liberation organization. At least 126 people were killed and 496 wounded in the e latest assault. Beirut mosques schools slums and waterfront sidewalks have been teeming with Refu gees. More than a 10th of Lebanon s population fled the fighting. The cease fire agreement was worked out by Secretary of state Warren m. Christopher with leaders of Israel Leb anon and Syria the de Facto Power in Lebanon. Christopher is scheduled to visit the Middle East this week to try to revive the stalled peace process which had been jeopardized by the violence. Lebanon prime minister Rafik Hari Riand in. Officers monitoring Southern Lebanon said guns fell silent on schedule. Israel said the cease fire went into effect after the shiite Muslim Hezbollah militia agreed to Stop firing rockets into Northern Israel and on the . Monitor sin Southern Lebanon. But Oded Ben Ami defense affairs spokesman for israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin said any breach of the truce would be met with a Strong re action from the israeli army. There was no immediate comment from Hezbollah officials in Lebanon. A White House spokesman said there would be no immediate comment. Leg seeking to stabilize currencies Brussels Belgium a fighting to save their monetary system european Community officials held emergency talks saturday after Many of their Curren cies came under intense speculative pres sure in foreign Exchange markets. The meeting was scheduled after Many currencies including the French franc spiralled downward Friday As traders rushed to sell them in anticipation of government ordered devaluations. Officials hurried into the mid afternoon talks in Central Brussels without speaking to waiting reporters. A special meeting of finance ministers of the dozen nations was under consideration for today. The turmoil rocking the european monetary system is the worst since it was set up in March 1979 to try to bring stability to dec currencies. Speculation has been rampant that the French franc a Core currency in the sys tem would be forced to drop out at least temporarily from the Exchange rate mechanism which links the nations currencies. Other weak monies also could be knocked out of the Grid in an Effort to bring Calm to the Money markets. A readjustment in the system would be the sixth in less than a year. Any realignment of the european currencies would not change the value of the Dollar. The persistent turbulence has dashed Hopes that the nations will be Able to form an economic and monetary Union with a joint Central Bank and a single cur Rency by the end of the decade. Deficit frontage 1 year an amount he described As a modest and fair Price to pay for the change we seek and the Progress it will  Clinton twice accused republicans of mrs characterizing his Prog Raiti saying they were spreading information that was Flat out  this plan will keep interest rate Down and grow the american Economy he  his appearance in the Rose Garden the president taped a nearly identical speech to serve As his weekly radio address. The White House fog machine is on full blast countered sen. Robert Dole of Kansas the Senate Republican Leader. Dole repeated his party s claim that the democratic package will raise taxes More than $2 for every Dollar in spending cuts. The largest tax increase in history will not boost the Economy said Dole trav Eling saturday in North Carolina. The democrats approach will Hurt Small business kill jobs shrink investment and penalize success.". Defense from Page 1 vide a framework for slashing defens spending sharply in coming years freeing up Money to meet other needs. Top Aspin aides had been touting the Effort As a dramatic departure from pre Vious Pentagon budgetary and policy making exercises one Likely to result in a major shift in current defense  had been advocating such a review As a member of Congress. At the same time the proposal is expected to cheer conservatives and de sense Industry leaders. The Industry has been reeling from Pentagon cutbacks and uncertainty about its  recommendations due out this week or next Are expected to be accompanied by a new White House report arguing that despite the end of the super Power rivalry the United states must maintain a Large armed Force to remain engaged in the Post cold War world. Although the White House report i expected to argue that the United states should rely More than it has on prevent ing conflict by supporting democratic governments and movements around the Globe it asserts that maintaining a Strong military presence and using it selectively also is a necessity. As a result the defense review is expected to recommend that the United states retain sufficient forces to maintains Forward presence around the world including at least 100,000 . Troops in Europe and 11 aircraft carriers  also will Call for holding the line on further cuts in defense spending beyond the $88 billion Over five years that Clin ton already has recommended. The presi Dent has proposed.a-$263.5 billion Mili tary budget Tor fiscal 1994, dropping to$254.2 billion by fiscal 1998. Analysts said Friday that the results Are More conservative than expected for two reasons partly to meet congressional and budgetary deadlines the re evaluation did not include a full review of strategic forces such As bombers submarine Sand missiles. Instead the Pentagon is expected to take up these issues in coming months. It did not propose any major change sin the Basic roles and missions of the individual armed services. Sources Saida pin probably would have additional proposals on that Issue but they Are expected to hew closely to the modest suggestions of the joint chiefs of staff. More important however the review reflects hard lessons Learned by the administration in the face of the crisis m Bosnia the humanitarian Aid Effort m Somalia and the clash with North Korea Over nuclear nonproliferation. As Clinton has been forced to confront each problem the administration has be come More and More convinced that the United states must continue to exercise leadership in the International Arena. And that one analyst said Friday Means. Having a Strong military. Nato from Page 1 the other suspects. In Brussels where nato is headquartered a nato official said saturday two arrests had been made in the belgian capital Over the past 24 hours in connection with an espionage affair uncovered by the germans. The official spoke on condition of anonymity. The reported arrests come on the heels of expectations that new intelligence files will Unm Isk More Western germans who spied for East Germany before the Berlin Wall opened in 1989 and the two Ger Many United in 1990 As the cold War ended. It was revealed in Early july that Ger Man prosecutors and  had received new records that covered 2,000 cases of purported East bloc spying by West germans including politicians industrialists and others. Press reports say up to 50 West Ger Man politicians Are under suspicion. In authorities have refused to confirm the reports though one member of parliament free Democrat Wolfgang Luder said Friday he had been told he was a suspect. Lieder denied being a spy an said he was willing to have his parliamentary immunity from prosecution lifted. West Germany was the prime target of East Germany s spymaster Marks Nvvf who is currently on trial in Dusseldorf at used of treason