European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 02, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page it the stars and stripes . Tuesday. Now Btu 2.4093 1 gifts to heavy vacation traffic a flock of starlings almost obscures the town Hall of scar Winter sunday. The flight to Wanner climes happens Ever Borough Maine As the migrating Birds head South for the year but the Birds will be Back come springtime. 92 Survey says Washington a americans boosted their do nations to Charity last year at a rate just above inflation As philanthropic giving last year hit $20 billion a Survey  of the 400 organizations in the Survey released sunday by the chronicle of philanthropy had total in Cornel Large enough to put them among the Fortune 500 companies if they were private profit making  Overall 4 percent increase was relatively modest although ahead of inflation. Yet some organizations did considerably better. The largest increase 10.6 percent on average was reported by Public broadcasting station sled by the $205 million in donations to the Public Broad casting  salvation army attracted More private donations than any other organization reporting contributions of$726.3 million in 1992. Second was Catholic charities Usa with $410.9 million. Both organizations reported in creases of about 12 percent Over the previous year. The other top fund raisers were United jewish Appeal $407.4 million. Second Harvest $407.2 million much of it in Foo donations. American re Cross $394.7 million. And american cancer society $354.7 million. The Owca of the Usa reported one of the largest jumps in private donations with contributions of $217.6 million in 1992, a 74 percent increase Over the previous year. The Myca of the Usa jumped from ninth to seventh with $317.1 million in donations. The Survey said donations to jewish federations dropped .26 percent but that partly reflected unusually High 1991 contributions amid the Start of a Campaign to help soviet jews immigrate to Israel. United Jewis Appeal donations declined nearly 39 percent but still totalled $407 million in 1992. Hillary Clinton irate Over to ads on health plan m. _ Washington a first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton accused health insurers monday of spreading lies about president Clinton s health plan and try ing to preserve the Industry s ability to deny coverage to Sicic