European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 05, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The Staps and stripes vol. 52, no. 109 500 thursday August 5,1993 r d 8693 a c by to line up votes for deficit plan Washington a president Clinton picked up four House converts Tor his Defi Cit reduction Bill in a visit to Ca Pitol Hill on wednesday an administration officials Dis closed a fresh Concession de signed to Blunt the Impact on High wage earners. Clinton mane Vered to line up support for his plan As a key democratic swing vote in the Senate Dennis Deconcini of Arizona said after midday White House session that he remained undecided. Votes arc scheduled for later this week on the measure which Clinton says will trim deficits by $496 billion Over five years. The Choice is whether we do this or do nothing and flail around another 60 or 90 Days Clinton told reporters after a closed door session with mouse democrats on the morning after he made a televised Appeal from the Oval office. The Concession disclosed by a senior Treasury department official would give High income americans an extra 24 months to pay a tax increase in the legis lation that would be retroactive see Clinton on Page 2 2 officers get 2v2 years in Rodney King beating it s no of orm a smiling retired . Army Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf is sur rounded by campers during his visit tuesday to . Camp in Brandon Fla. The reaching out to cancer kids Camp played Host to children from Northern Florida Ages 6 to 18, who Are stricken with the disease. Schwarzkopf visited their Barracks and joined in a sing along. Read More about Schwarzkopf on Page 5. Los Angeles a the two officers convicted in the Rodney g. King beating were sentenced wednesday to Ivi years in prison a Quarter of the maximum term by a judge who said that Many of the worst blows they inflicted that night were Legal. Sgt. Stacey c. Kotori 43, and officer Laurence m. Powell 30, had faced up to 10 a tears in Pris on and $250,000 fines for Violat ing King s civil rights during the March 1991 beating. The Inci Dent was seared into the nation Al consciousness by a videotape shot by an Amateur photographer and led to the 1992 rioting that devastated parts of the City. . District judge John g. Davies said the beating started out As a lawful action by police because King had resisted arrest after a car Chase and the beat ing did not become a crime until King stopped moving and offi cers kept on beating him. . Worker accused As spy secrets allegedly passed of Liber an rebels most of King s More severe injuries including those to the head and face happened before the beating became illegal and could not be taken into account for sentencing purposes the judge said. He also held that the officers posed no threat to society had Good service records before the incident and were Good family men. For those reasons he said he see King on Page 2 inside today Washington a a state department Secretary has been charged with passing secret diplomatic cables to a West african journalist who allegedly relayed them to rebels trying to topple the liberian government the government said wednesday. Geneva Jones 47, was accused of smuggling the documents out of the state department in rolled up newspapers her purse or a bag and delivering them to journalist Dominic tube according to court papers. She also was accused of giving documents to a kenyan National Fabian Makani court papers said. Fri agents said they searched tube s apartment where he was arrested tues Day and found thousands of state department documents and 39 Cia files marked  Makani was not charged but i i agents wednesday searched an office in Silver Spring md., listed in the Tele phone directory As the kenyan s business. Doth Jones and tube were charged with illegally transmitting classified see spy on Page 2 airstrikes no solution mediator says Geneva a an International mediator in the bosnian civil War said wednesday that possible nato air strikes would have Little effect in ending the conflict or prodding leaders to make peace. The Only military solution is if you re prepared to put ground troops in and take it seriously said lord Owen of see related Story on Page 3 Britain who is seeking to negotiate an end to Bosnia s nearly. 17-month-old eth Nic  comments by Owen who previously endorsed airstrikes As a Way of protecting . Personnel in Bosnia appeared to be an Appeal to Western Lead ers to give the peace process in Geneva a Chance. Nato has said it could soon launch airstrikes to halt bosnian serbian attacks on Sarajevo the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina. . Planes would Likely see solution on Page 2 Winchester Cathie dial