European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 10, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse Tuesday August 10, 1993 . The stars and stripes Page 7 go is Jwj Clinton p i pm n e is democrats vow new spending cuts turnover time of this Topsy Turvy cover photo of former president Reagan is not a time Magazine goof but gimmick to illustrate a Story on president Clinton s just passed budget the upside Down picture on next week s Issue Marks the first time the 70-year-old newsmagazine has used a inverted cover image. Washington a with a Defi Cit reduction package approved the Clin ton administration and congressional democrats promised sunday to push for additional spending cuts later this year including a new look at social Security and medicare president Al Gore said the administration planned to submit additional budget cuts to Congress in october. Moreover sen. Robert j. Kerrey d-ncb., said he will push for curbs on Cost of living increases for social Security recipients. Some curb on social Security spending such As limiting annual increases to a percentage below inflation is a reason Able thing to consider said Kerrey on Abc s meet the senator who held off support for president Clinton s deficit reduction package until the final hour last week be cause of misgivings about a Lack of spend ing cuts suggested that tinkering with so Cial Security might be acceptable i Congress sets an example by cutting its own pay and , although not embracing Kerrey s proposal conceded on Abc s this wee with David Brinkley program i Don t think we can take entitlements such a medicare and social Security out of the $496 billion five year deficit reduction package that was approved by whisker last week in Congress has yet to be signed by Clinton. Nevertheless administration officials and congressional Leaden Are making Clear that the Battle to control the deficit is far from is not the end of the process said House speaker Thomas s. Foley d-wash., agreeing that new spending reductions including proposals to resubmitted by the White House will be considered in All of the additional deficit reduction is going to come from cuts i spending said Froncy on can s newsman or sunday. He and dip that although social Security Cost of Liying adjustments May be highly controversial they will be on the table since every possible Means of reducing this deficit has to be said he has been told that the administration would propose a Rollback in some spending already approved for fiscal 1994, which begins in october Aswell As savings from studies now under Way to make government More Senate Republican Leader Robert Dole of Kansas suggested that gop Law makers May not be eager to join the Campaign to make further spending cuts an that without at least some gop support any substantial budget reductions Are Likely to be impossible. Dole said he and other republicans want the new income taxes on the wealthy a Central part of the just passed deficit reduction package not to apply to All of this year. As approved by Congress the higher taxes Are retroactive to Jan. 1. Republicans will insist we go Back and take out we a talk about spending cuts said Dole on meet the press. Mash tents urged for War in la. Los Angeles a a doctor who served i Vietnam says Mash style tent emergency rooms could come to the Rescue in gang plagued neighbourhood where Street violence is booming but Public health Cen ters Are going bust. There s As much a War in the streets Here right Novas in Vietnam said or. James Mays who served in a Mobile army surgical Hospital. I m a Soldier in a War and it s a War we re just three of the Mobile tent hospitals could go a Long Way to help Shore up the depleted Public medical system in South Central los Angeles Mays said sat urday. The area faces the imminent closure of six health enters to meet $100 million in county medical spend ing cuts. Mays and neighbourhood groups Are asking the Feder Al government to move some Mash units to the gang dominated area that has the City s highest crime rate. Believers flock to see image on tree Brownsville Texas up hundreds of roman Catholic faithful congregated sunday at a tree in a Brownsville neighbourhood where they claimed Tosee a distinct image of the Virgin Mary. Since saturday they have claimed to see the image inthe tree s trunk. Amid a crowd estimated at 500, about 50 women were kneeling and reciting the Rosary in the mid dle of a Street which had been roped off by police. Ned Singh a tenant of a boarding House on the Sam property As the tree said everyone sees something different. We had Over 1,000 people praying Here last night.". Observers say they see a remarkable formation in the tree bark which looks to some like the Virgin Mary with her arms extended to the Side. To others it is a statue of a Saint and to others Sim ply a tree trunk. People have been bringing offerings of Flowers prayer cards Rosary beads and other items to the tree. Fearing someone might damage the bark Singh put up a sign in Spanish that reads please do not Cut the 2 injured in fiery Arizona train crash Seligman Ariz. A Crew members jumped from a locomotive seconds before it slowed into the derailed cars of another train touching off a fire. Two train employees were hospitalized in sunday s crash near Seligman in East Central Arizona. The wreckage blocked Arizona s main Santa be Railroad line in both directions authorities said. Several cars on an Uphill travelling eastbound train derailed while it rounded a Blind curve and its Crew was unaware of the trailing cars dragging behind. A westbound train with four locomotives saw the cars across its track but was unable to Brake in time. They came around the Corner and literally they had moments to Duck said Jon Poston a spokesman for the Arizona corporation commission. Three of the locomotives burst into flames he said. One of the derailed cars carrying polypropylene remained intact despite the crash. Polypropylene is used in cigarette lighters. One Crew member suffered internal injuries. Another suffered first and second degree Burns said Santa be spokesman Mike Martin. The trains were travelling a route connecting Chicago and los Angeles. Gay forced to leave air Force is accused of molesting student Tempe Ariz. A a former air Force sergeant who was discharged after announcing his homosexuality on National television has Bee accused of molesting a College student. Aniban Bhattacharya a 23-year-old senior Tarizona state University filed a complaint july 23 with Campus police accusing Thomas Panicci of molesting him in a school restroom after a feb. 4 lecture. Bhattacharya a sociology major told police he decided to file the complaint because he did not want Paniccia to be reinstated in the military. Redid not say Why he waited almost six months. Paniccia 29, called the charge becoming a Public figure i get crack pots and potshots All the time Paniccia said. I guess i can categorize this in the same Paniccia s disclosure last year on Abc s goo morning America and his subsequent discharge from Davis Mon Han fab in Tucson helped fuel National debate surrounding Gays in the Mili tary. The 11-year Veteran has since been hauling the military for reinstatement. The complaint was being investigated and no decision has been made whether to Forward it to the Maricopa county attorney s office univer sity spokesman Keith Jennings said Friday. Early Gay rights advocate Dies new York a James w. Owles an Early Gay rights activist who was the first openly homosexual candidate for political office in new York City has died Ofalda related illness. He was 46
