European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 09, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse Monday August 9, 1993 . The stars and stripes Page 5 budget vote put some in tight spot by the to Angeles times Washington instead of sharing in president Clinton s Celebration of Pas Sage of a deficit reduction Bill some House freshmen and female members Are looking Back with resentment Over being pressured for their support while some ranking colleagues with stronger political bases at Home voted against the plan. Sortie lawmakers pointed to Whitehouse pressure on rep. Marjorie Marco lies Mezvinsky d-pa., who switched he first vote and supported the president s package when it emerged from a House Senate conference committee even though the first term legislator May have to suffer political consequences Back in her top dominated District. Appearing saturday on can s Evans Novak program Margolies Mezvinsky admitted that her support of the Compro Mise budget package would not impress Many in her conservative suburban Phila Delphia District but she declined to pre dict whether it would Cost her a seat in Congress. I think that s yet to be. Seen she said. But Many on Capitol Hill said Margo lies Mezvinsky should never have been put in such a position in the first place. One congressional staffer said sat urday that As a first year legislator who barely won her District last fall she risked her political life for the Democrat backed legislation while some leading House members were Able to cast votes against the package with no danger to their seats. Many of the women and freshmen think it was very selfish of the leaders whom everybody up Here Calls the old bulls to place those who Are most vulnerable in such a position said the staff member who asked not to be identified. There was a lot of discussion and a Lotof anger immediately after the vote the staff member said. There was a Sens that the administration and House leadership should have taken into account that these representatives were from marginal districts and they should have done a better Job of protecting rep. Eva Clayton , president of the democrats freshmen class told the Washington Post on Friday that some ranking House members such rep. . Sonny Montgomery d-miss., had supported the plan earlier but switched to vote against it last week. That did t go Over Well at All Clay ton was quoted saying. The congressional staffer said Many of the freshmen legislators have already decided that they intend to vote against Montgomery retaining the chairmanship of the veterans affairs committee be cause of his vote. Montgomery could not be reached for comment saturday. In his weekly radio address Clinton made no mention of the deals struck to secure the budget package. Instead he basked in the afterglow of the Senate s approval of his budget after vice pres ident Al Gore cast the tie breaking vote. It s a Bright sunny Day in Washington in More ways than one he said. The political fog that has surrounded this town for so Long is at Long last Clinton ignored the razor thin close Ness of his Victory and said his administration is now poised to work with con Gress to Reform health care and restructure welfare policy. Well keep moving As fast As we have in these first six months of the administration and keep taking new ideas to the american people for making our country better and putting our people first he said. In the stars and stripes 10 years ago aug. 9,1983 defense minister Oscar Humberto Mejia victores seized control of the government in a military coup ousting Guatemala s president Gen. Efrain Rios Montt National radio said. 20 years ago aug. 9,1973-vice president Spiro t. Agnew denouncing As damned lies allegations involving him in political payoffs from Mary land contractors said he had no in Tention even temporarily of re signing. 30 years ago aug. 9,1963 a gang of masked robbers working with split second efficiency held up a mail train near Cheddington England escaping with loot that May top $2.8 million. 40 years ago aug. 9,1953 Premier Georgi m. Malenkos announced to the supreme soviet and the world that the soviet Union also has the Hydrogen bomb. 50 years ago aug. 9,1943 Allied forces were preparing to assault the German line along the Volturno River in Italy the last natural defense line South of Rome. World War ii 50 years ago today aug. 9 1943 Denmark s prime minister refuses to obey Germany s demand that saboteurs be tried in German courts. On the Southern soviet front the red army pushes German forces Back on the Bryansk and Kharkov fronts. German troops on Sicily continue their fighting withdrawal toward Messina at the Island s northeastern Comer. Source 2194 Days of War w. H. Smith publishers inc. Of id almanac Book of word War ii Bison books corp1981 workers search Wal Mart rubble in Wake of deadly Virginia Tornado colonial Heights a. A three people killed when a Tornado slammed into a darkened department store were heading for the front doors when the twister hit authorities said sat urday. They were in the process of coming out of the store because the Power was out colonial Heights police capt. Larryl. Williams said. The Tornado hit the front of the store first cutting a Swath 40 to 50 feet wide. Petersburg mayor Rosalyn dance Saida Tornado warning came several minutes after the twister struck but that official Sweren t blaming the National weather , a new Type of radar scheduled for installation near Petersburg later this year might have detected the Torna do weather service meteorologist Valerie. Thompson told the new York times. A fourth person was killed when the storm hit a Prince George county construction site Friday. Williams said everyone known to be in the Wal Mart store had been accounted for saturday. Nevertheless workers resumed their search through the rubble after engineers stabilized what remained. What remained of the store s front Wall teetered precariously toward the building s ravaged Interior. Fearing that people could have been swept out of the building by the ferocious winds authorities also searched a Brush area around a Lake behind the store but found was so Quick probably nobody had time to do anything said Robert l. Bohannon a police chaplain who counselled Many of the 119 who were injured in the people in the store were among 170 Hurt when twisters slashed through several Virginia localities Friday. Wal Mart officials met saturday wit the store s 400 workers at the company s i / Yff " re owl a by " v " " " t it i Wii an Aerial View shows the damage to a Wal Mart store after a Tornado struck Friday. Distribution Center a few Miles away in Sutherland. There was a lot of hugging a Little Bitof tears a lot of laughter said Wal Mart spokeswoman Jane arced. They Are supporting each other leaning on each other. Well be tornadoes rarely Striice Virginia and Friday s was the deadliest to hit the stat since 1959, when 10 people were killed by an Albemarle county twister. Friday s dead were identified As Wal Mart employees Cheryl Diane Weisheim 40, and Carolyn Gunn 48 customer Mae Prosise 57 and Morris Gupton jr., 28, the Prince George county victim. Porch repairs leaving Gore out on a limb Spokane Wash. A the Navy owned Home that is vice president Al Gore s residence was renovated with Wood from the kind of old growth Trees Gore has worked to preserve it was re ported saturday. A Navy official said the renovation was planned during the Bush administration when former vice president Dan Quayle lived in the spokesman review newspaper re ported saturday that 3,000 Board feet of vertical Grain Douglas fir were use d to refurbish the Home s front porch. Vertical Grain boards come from old growth stands of Douglas fir that provide habitat for the threatened Northern spotted owl in Northern California Ore gon and California. There s every Chance that Wood came from the Pacific Northwest. There s just no excuse for a vice president As Environ mentally sensitive As he claims to be not to know this said Elizabeth Pease spokeswoman for the National hard Wood lumber association in Gore s Home state of Tennessee. Gore led a Forest Summit in port land ore., in april that resulted in a Clinton administration Forest manage ment plan calling for big reductions in logging in the Pacific Northwest. Skila Harris Gore s special assistant said the renovation was drafted last year. All those decisions about what was to be used for the veranda predated me and the vice president and the president and everybody else Harris said. J
