European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 03, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The stars and stripes tuesday August 3,1993 i at a glance new techniques in molecular biology May help piece together answers to perplexing questions on humanity s ethnic history. See Story on Page 17. Deficit Victory foreseen leading democrats predict they can hold together a fragile demo cratic majority to win approval of president Clinton s deficit package. Pages special summer school  Haut Chye 10, is spending the summer blowing through a year of College science in three weeks. Page patrols sought lebanese leaders want the army to prevent guerrillas from using Vil Lages As staging Points for attacks on the israeli Security  Page 11 ism employees fret ism workers in Europe and Japan Are wondering How heavy the Job cutting a will fall. Page 16 Index Abby Ann Landers. 21 classifieds. 25-27 comics. 21-23 commentary 15 computers 2 crossword 21 faces a places. 24 focus 17-20 Horoscope 27 Jumble 27 letters 14 Money matters 16 sports 29-36 to listings 35 weather 13 1 corrections because of a reporting error the Nam of the new v corps safety program was incorrect monday. It is called the Force Protection initiative. Because of a reporting error a caption sunday incorrectly reported the amount of Money Seaman recruit Max Ebstein raised for the fight against cancer by Rol Ler blading last year from Michigan to Florida. Ebstein raised $40,000. . \ maastricht treaty court Rawn London a Britain on monday ratified the maastricht treaty on closer european Union within hours after a Pri vate Legal Challenge was withdrawn the foreign office announced. The British ambassador to Italy sir Patrick Fairweather deposited Britain s instrument of ratification at the italia ministry of foreign affairs a foreign office statement said. Ratification takes place in the italia capital because that is where the treaty of Rome setting up the european Community was signed in 1957. Britain was the last country to ratify the maastricht treaty which provides for close cooperation on foreign policy and defense matters among members of the 12-nation dec. The treaty also envisages a single currency by 1999, but that now seems unlikely. The ratification process was bogged Down in parliament for months involving More than 200 hours of debate in the House of commons and splitting the governing conservative party. Prime minister John major finally pushed a ratification Bill through the House of commons on july 23 by threat ening to Call a general election unless anti treaty rebels supported him. The last obstacle to ratification vanished monday morning when a former editor of the times of London lord Rees Mogg decided not to pursue a Legal Chal Lenge in the Appeal court. His lawyers said Rees Mogg though the treaty less threatening to Britain s sovereignty since the weekend foundering of the Community s Exchange rate mechanism. That linked the major currencies and was a precursor to a single currency. The crisis arose because other Curren cies could not keep Pace with the German Mark. The Only Block now to implement ing the treaty is a Legal Challenge in Ger Many. The court ruling there is expected i september. Nato from Page 1 problem plagued peace talks Hung in the balance As bosnian president Alija Izet Begovic demanded  Force keep a Promise to withdraw immediately from a newly captured Sarajevo Moun Tain. Ize Begovic said he would decide today whether to continue negotiations Only if serbs rolled Back from mount by Elasca. He met for about 30 minutes monday with leaders of the rebel serbs an croats after keeping the talks in suspension All Day. At a news conference ize Begovic cast new doubts on the Validity of a constitutional Deal agreed Friday. He also said serbian proposals on boundaries of the three planned ethnic republics were unacceptable since they would not give enough territory to the muslims. The american proposal to use foregoes further than nato s plan to Reta Liate for attacks on .  were approved in a . Reso Lution and nato later voted to provide air Power. But the United nations has never called on the 70 Alliance warplanes based in Italy. Gain from Page 1 said St. Louis City police chief Claren Eharmon. Significant leaks in a number of tanks have  a Fleet of 30 buses assembled to take residents to an emergency shelter As the City shut off utilities in the area. Efforts to stabilize the tanks were halted temporarily sunday night by a Flash fire. It burned itself out in less thah a minute and divers resumed efforts to disconnect pipes from the tanks. It s a Good thing i got my nerve Pill with me. It makes my blood pressure go up said Ida Bieller 70, who fled her Home during the night with just a change of clothes and her medication for High blood pressure. I wish i could win the lottery. I d get out of St.  Rush hour was a major head ache. Weekend flooding closed several Bridges and highways creating traffic jams and turning half hour commutes into in hour trips. In St. Charles mo., just Northwest Oft. Louis water flowed Over a levee along the Missouri River Early monday an poured into an area that already had been flooded. Authorities considered or Dering More evacuations but decided against it. Some 1,000 residents in the already soggy area left their Homes sunday after River water poured Over a  mood is like the River fire chief Neil Svetanics said. It keeps Chan Ging. It goes up and Down and  late on sunday the Mississippi eve pulled a floating fast food restaurant free from its moorings near the Gateway Ted Roth of Rosebud mo., watches floodwaters covering Hichwa 19 near Herman the area normally is a half mile from the Missouri River. Hermann. Arch. The Burger King restaurant closed along with other riverfront attraction since the flooding began took a helicopter pad and another boat with it downriver then smashed into the interstate 55 70 Bridge and broke up. The Bridge the main link Between Missouri and Illinois was closed temporarily. Tugboats corralled the boats and tied them off downriver. Even though the River crested the threat of damage remained. The missis Sippi is expected to drop Only a few inches a Day. Overseas arizonans face withholding tax Washington is starting in Legal residents who live elsewhere a pro september the defense department will begin mandatory withholding of state taxes for service members who Are Lega residents of Arizona but live elsewhere said officials with the defense finance and accounting service. The new requirement is the result of changes to the Arizona tax code. Arizona had been one of a handful of states that vision that mainly benefits military personnel. Tember the first month it will be in  returned after that Date will finance officials Saiu be ice members  should Contact their local finance or per a the 1993 tax year sonnet offices to Complete the proper questions about Arizona tax liability withholding form known As the w-4. Should be directed to local Legal services the form must be completed and re offices finance officials said. Finance and turned to the appropriate office by aug. 15 personnel offices Are not trained to help  to i�l.i.ni.4i. _. 5i  a i a ,4. I i _. Do not require payment of state taxes for for the withholding to be Correct for sen  with individual state tax 1 j j t u questions