European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 5, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday August 5, 1993 us. The stars and stripes fags 5 5 Senate women. A a. A a a a a a a Well plotted strategy puts skids on proposed amendment Washington apr the Senate a five democratic women in their biggest show of Force of the year have won a narrow abortion rights Victory for Federal workers. A i think you can see the democratic women did their Homework a said sen. Barbara Mikulski did. It Mikulski was referring to a parliamentary tactic used by the women tuesday As the Senate voted 51-48, to refuse to consider an amendment to prohibit abortion coverage from being included in Federal workers health insurance plans. A a a a it a pretty historic. We never used to win these a said sen. Barbara Boxer a Calif. Abortion opponents have succeeded in attaching the ban to major pieces of legislation since 1984. But this year Mikulski previously the Senate s Only female Democrat was bolstered by the addition of four women who gained scats in the 1992 elections Boxer sen. Dianne Feinstein of California sen. Patty Murray of Washington state and sen. Carol Mosc Lcy Braun of Illinois. The five women plotted strategy for weeks in preparation for tuesdays showdown. And when it came time to vote the women congregated at the front of the chamber and corralled their male colleagues As they walked onto the floor. After House women were  on a medicaid abortions vote several weeks ago the Senate women shifted into gear. Led by Mikulski they got the Senate appropriations committee to drop a plan by sen. Christopher Bond d-mo., to prohibit abortions in Federal workers health plans except when the. Woman a life was at stake or in cases of rape or incest. Then the female senators were ready when sen. Don in Eklics r-okla., tried to introduce such an amendment on the floor. The vote came on whether the amendment was a a germane to the House passed Bill at Issue a $22.3 billion spending Bill to fund the Treasury department and the postal service. The Overall Bill later passed easily. By focusing on the parliamentary question of whether the amendment was germane Mikulski was Able to pick up the votes of some senators who arc sticklers about Senate rules but Arentt necessarily Rock solid on abortion rights issues such As sen. Robert c. Byrd . For that reason Mikulski declined to Call it a test vote on How the Senate would vote in abortion Battles. Boxer called it a a momentary Victory and said there was work ahead. A a it a a step at a  in the a a stars and stripes 10 years ago aug. 5,1983 a president Reagan said the United states will continue its Maneu vers in the Southern Mediterranean despite libyans threat to attack american ships entering the Gulf of Sidra. 20 year Sago aug. 5,1973 a Justice Thurgood Marshall reversed the action taken by a supreme court colleague Justice William 6. Douglas and cleared the Way for the continued . Bombing in Cambodia. 30 years ago aug. 5,1963 a senators unveiled their version of a military pay increase of More than $1.2 billion a year for the nations nearly 2 million service members. 40 years ago aug. 5,1953 a an estimated 6,000 communist raiders were hurled Back with clubs and High pressure water hoses manned by West German police defending . Free food stations in West Berlin. 50 years ago aug. 5,1943 a an Allied bombardment virtually closed the vital Road around Sicily a mount Etna splitting the germans Bridgehead and threatening to trap their forces holding Catania. World War ii 50 years ago today aug. 5 1 9 4 3 soviet tank forces capture Belgorod a key position on the Northern Edge of the kursk salient. British troops capture Catania on Sicily s East coast while German forces slip out of Troina to the Northwest. After 12 Days of Savage. Fighting in the Jungle of new Georgia Island american infantrymen overrun the japanese air base at Munda. Source 294 Days of War. W. H. Smith publishers inc. World almanac Book of world War ii. Bison books corp., 1981 Apt a i Hook leg shaving describe commander says he ordered restrictions on use of razor Norfolk a. A the commander of a Navy Squadron that operated a a leg shaving suite a at the 1991 Tail Hook convention testified tucs Day that he ordered a Junior officer to shave legs Only. The Junior officer it. Rolando a. Diaz is charged with disobeying a Superior officer and a wrongfully and Dishno Rablyn shaving the pubic area of two women who Diaz attended the convention. Cmdr. Christopher j. Remshak a West coast based Squadron of radar aircraft served As a Host for other Navy reunion set for sex overseas school brats Grapevine Texas a its hard to imagine that retired army Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf Jim Morrison of the doors and Priscilla Presley could have anything in common. But the four Are products of overseas schooling an experience shared by millions of americans whose parents were stationed abroad Over the past 40 or so years. This weekend More than 1,100 overseas brats a former children of military and diplomatic families a will gather at a Dallas fort Worth Airport hotel for the biggest reunion of its kind. A a it a like finding your life that you lost a said 48-year-old sunny Taylor Schwentner of Washington a member of the class of 1962 at Kubasak High on Okinawa. A when you said goodbye to All those friends it was like it was a death because you knew deep in your heart of it arts you  see them  the United states a through its state and defense departments a has operated High schools from Athens to Paris to Wei Brincken Germany Complete with football teams cheerleaders and letter jackets. A we done to have a Hometown or a school to walk by and say that a where we went to school Quot said 35-year-old Wendy Bailey of Williamsburg va., a member of the class of 1975 at England a Laken units. The convention was a gathering of Navy and Marine aviators at a Las vegas hotel. On the conventions opening Day Romshak said he was setting up the shaving equipment in a hotel suite when he met with Diaz whose flying nickname is a a Gandhi and who Romshak said had a reputation As a leg Shaver from earlier Tail look meetings. Romshak said he rules no minors no Only. A the said to me a Are you serious skipper a a Romshak said. A i said a in a serious  Diaz 35, is the fourth Navy officer to undergo a grand jury like hearing at the Norfolk naval base to determine whether he will face court martial in the Tail Hook scandal. Gave Diaz three coercion and legs so far two officers have been ordered ourt martial cd As a result of the Tail Hook convention at which dozens of women said they were assaulted by Drunken aviators. Remshak testified that on the first night of the convention he asked for and got a leg shaving demonstration from Diaz who used a Young woman Volunteer. A i had asked to Sec How he was going to go about doing this a the commander said. A it did no to look in any Way  but Patricia Call a Pentagon investigator said Diaz admitted shaving the pubic area of a woman the next night. A she did no to have any clothes on a the investigator said inc was told. Romshak Saia he had Only heard of the incident famous Dodds students among those getting invitations to the reunion of overseas alumni and the schools they attended Are n h. Norman Schwarzkopf Frankfurt american High school Frankfurt Germany Priscilla Presley . Arnold High school Wiesbaden Germany Mark Hamill Kinnick High school. A Japan Heath High school. Among those getting invitations to this weekends reunion were a Schwarzkopf who went to the american High school in Frankfurt Germany. E Presley who attended Gen. . Arnold High school in Wiesbaden Germany. E Stur wars actor Mark Hamill who was a student at Kinnick High school in Japan. The names were disclosed by Bill gun Kel of reunions unlimited the Englewood colo., company in charge of grand reunion �?T93. Gunkel said he did not know whether the three would attend. Morrison Lead Singer of the doors died in 1971. High schools overseas have an american Public school curriculum with a few adjustments. For instance with Only one High school for three bases on Okinawa Kub Asaki a student body was divided into three athletic divisions so the school could have rival teams. And in overseas schools foreign languages Are not an elective but a graduation requirement and survival tool. While students stateside studied foreign cultures from textbooks their counterparts overseas lived them. I think that it really opened up my s to what it was like to be a i minority a eyes to what it was like to he a m said 38-year-old Glenn Greenv Austin Texas a member of the class of 1973 at puerto Rico a Ramey High school. A a it a something in be never forgotten what its like on the other Side of the  the military fell into the education business after world War i operating a few Independent base schools for children of military family members