European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 03, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday Augusta 1993. U.s.? -. I the stars and stripes. I Page 5 budget Bill to prevail democrats say Washington a the Clinton administration and congressional leaders Are predicting they can hold together a fragile democratic majority to win final approval of a deficit cutting package of tax increases and spending curbs. The White House on sunday played Down a key democratic senator s defection while trying to change the minds of at least one or two of the six democrats who voted against it the first time. President Clinton decided against his usual sunday Golf Outing to make phone Calls to lawmakers on the Bill key elements of which were adopted by House and Senate negotiators last week. Negotiators were trying monday to finish work on the Compromise which negotiators say would Cut about $49$ billion from the deficit Over five years monday. They Are aiming for final votes to be held before con Gress begins its August recess Friday. It s All politics now hardball politics Senate re publican Leader Robert j. Dole said sunday promising that no gop lawmaker will vote for the budget pack age. " ". That makes every democratic vote count just that much More if the package is to pass. On sunday sen. David Boren a Oka who grudgingly went along with the legislation when it passed the Senate by one vote in june said he would not vote for the Compromise. I must vote against this plan Boren said on lbs face the nation insisting that it needed deeper cuts in social programs such As. Medicare. But vice president Al Gore and Senate majority Leader George Mitchell d Maine said sunday that they were confident the needed votes will be found. We Haven t counted on senator Boren for quite some time said Gore on face the nation. He added we be been putting together a majority that we re very confident  while Gore declined to. Criticize Boren directly White House economic adviser Gene Sperling said the Oklahoma senator s approach amounts to More delay More talk More hiding from Tough choices when the country and the Economy need  Mitchell on Abc s this week with David Brinkley predicted a very close vote. But he said he was confident the Bill will Clear both the Senate and House this week. Other democratic lawmakers who voted against the plan in june have indicated they might be swayed. Sen. Richard Bryan of Nevada May switch if did cur tons for business lunches something of considerable interest in Las vegas arc not Cut quite As much. And sen. Dennis Deconcini of Arizona who has a lot of elderly constituents said he May switch if the tax bite on social Security benefits to upper income people Are cased slightly. Clinton also has talked with sen. Bennett Johnston of Louisiana who also was in the minority when the measure passed �0-49 Only after Gore voted to break a tie. In the stars and stripes 10 years ago aug. 3,1983 defense Secre a tary Caspar w. Weinberger said women in the army May riot be barred from promotion even though they Are excluded from performing combat related jobs. 20 years ago aug. 3,1973 former Cia director Richard Helms testified that 10 Days after the watergate break in White House aide John w. Dean ii asked his Agency to pay Bond for the suspects and put them on the payroll while they were in prison. 30 years ago aug. 3,1963 America will halt All shipments of military equipment to South Africa to prevent them from being used to support racial Segre gation . Ambassador to the . Adlai Stevenson said. 40 years ago aug. 3,1953 thousands of rebellious East germans fought communist police in the soviet zone in a vain Effort to break through the rail Way blockade against free . Food in Berlin. 50 years ago aug. 3,1943 punishing air at tacks on Naples and naval bombardment of three coastal targets ended Italy s breathing spell and sent hundreds of thousands fleeing into the Countryside. World War ii 50 years ago today aug. 3 . Soldiers make gains in the Battle for new Georgia s Munda Airfield which the remaining japanese have been ordered to defend to the last Man. On Sicily British troops capture cent Ripe and push Axis forces Back across the Salso River italian units begin evacuating the Island while German forces protect their escape. Source of our. W h.  get Tough con do lawmakers show Washington a a word of warning to republicans Don t get in the Way of House speaker Thomas s. Foley. He can break a Board in half with his Bare hand. So can agriculture Secretary Mike Espy and democratic rep. Robert Borski of Pennsylvania. The Board breaking Bravura of the nation s lawmakers was the featured attraction of the 1993 Thoon race International championships a Tae Kwon do extravaganza held at a Washington hotel saturday night. Not to be missed was the special mar tial arts Ballet performed to the beat of god bless America. It starred six con Gressmen Gene Taylor a miss. Ike Skelton do. Jim Nussler Iowa Christopher Shays a Conn. Dick Swett . And Nick Smith a Mich. Don t meet me in a dark Alley with music playing growled Swett when asked about his battling Balletic skills. Ill dance right Over  but Taylor said it s the technique not the rhythm that  wish they would t Call it that he said of the martial arts Ballet. I have never been accused of being a Good danc  All the congressmen who performed saturday arc students of Thoon Rhee a 61-year-old master of Tae Kwon do who immigrated to the United states from Korea 34 years ago. He is Given free lessons to members of Congress for the past 28 years. I give them free uniforms free video tapes my free time just to express my thanks to the United states for All it s done for me Rhee said. Ken Carlson a spokesman for Rhee said it usually costs about $75 a month to take two classes a week. Saturday s program was to raise Money for Joy of discipline a martial arts pro Gram that Rhee runs in the Washington House speaker Thomas s. Foley right Breaks two 1-Inch boards with his Elbow Dur ing a Tae Kwon do demonstration in a Washington hotel on saturday. Public school system. Race said Espy a former House Mem Ber is the Best of his High profile Stu dents right now. Mike Espy s a really really disciplined person. I mean he s Only 39 years old and he s already agriculture Secre tary. And he s really really fit said race. Espy has been taking lessons with Rhee for More than three years. Foley started nine months ago. Borski who has been studying with Rhee for several years Calls him one of the greatest american of All  asked if the boards always break when he chops or kicks them Borski laughed. Sometimes he said.  race who says he docs 1,000 push  a Day had his own moment in the spotlight saturday. He balanced a Glass of coca cola on his head while he broke a Board with his foot. Race has 12 schools of tac Kwon do in the Washington area and said he has 65 clinics in the former soviet Union his dream is to promote world peace through the discipline and Structure of martial he also believes that the practice of martial arts can help people live very Long lives i be been telling All the congressmen How would you like to have 140 years of Wisdom in the body of someone 18? " he said. Would t that be great witches pagans rally for religious Freedom inc Jonesboro Ark. A about 60 self described witches and pagans fro several states marched in Jonesboro on sunday to denounce intolerance and to promote religious Freedom. We re speaking for any religious de nomination rally organizer Terry Riley told followers. We want religious free Dom for the entire United  their 2v2-mile trek was peaceful except for a Brief encounter with demonstrators who shouted Bible verses. Police officers formed a human Wall Between the two groups. Riley 39, operates a store specialising in occult merchandise in this northeastern Arkansas town of 31,000. He said he is High priest of the Motani coven of witches and practices a kind of worship called  said marchers came from Colorado Missouri Tennessee and elsewhere. The marchers encountered a smattering of sign waving hymn singing demonstrators among hundreds of onlookers As the group snaked ils Way through Down town then met about 250 demonstrator who had gathered at Central Baptist Church shouting Bible verses Ami chant ing Jesus still loves  the Church protest was organized by Steve Branch whose son was one of three 8-year-old boys found beaten to death in West Memphis in May. One of the three then Uge suspects in the slayings told police last month that he was a member of a cult that killed and ate dogs. Acquaintances said another suspect claimed to be a Devil worshipper. Police have declined to comment on the rumours. Riley said the slaying of Branch s son had nothing to do with the witches Reli Gion