European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 4, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday Nova psf 4, 1993 the stars and stripes Page 5 sen. Bob Packwood r-ore., leaves the Capitol on tuesday after the Senate voted 94-6 for full disclosure of his diaries As part of the widening probe against him. Washington a after a crushing defeat in the Senate sen. Bob Packwood is digging in for a court Battle Over shielding his diaries from lawmakers investigating alleged sexual misconduct and possible criminal wrongdoing. A. Tortured two Day debate a during which one lawmaker urged the Veteran Oregon Republican to Quot have the Gracco to resign a culminated in a 94-6 Senate vote tuesday night to Force full disclosure of the diaries. But Packwood plans to file papers in Federal District court within a week or. Two to fight the subpoena his chief of staff Elaine Franklin said wednesday. Packwood had no comment on sen. Robert c. Byrds Call for his resignation. But Franklin said that Byrd a master parliamentarian had broken an unwritten Rule in the Senate by urging pack Woods ouster. A there is sort of an unwritten Rule on the Senate floor that one does not bad Mouth fellow senators a Franklin said. In the Senate chamber tuesday night Byrd d-w.va., said Quot i believe he has lost the grasp of what it Means to be. A . Senator. None of us is without flaws. But when those flaws damage the institution of the Senate it is time to have the Grace to  but if resignation was on Packwood a mind he offered no hint throughout the debate. Instead he vigorously argued his own Case saying the Senate ethics committee had no right to a a rummage through thousands of pages of what he termed Quot very very personal diary entries. Packwood a attorney James Fitzpatrick would not comment on whether Packwood might consider resigning or whether the senator Ever solicited jobs for his wife a an Issue raised by a suggestion that the diaries contained evidence of possible criminal wrongdoing. Packwood himself disclosed on tuesday that the original Sej Roal misconduct probe has been expanded to questions of whether he attempted to have lobbyists hire his wife in Exchange for some senatorial a squid pro qu6.�?� Packwood and his wife Georgie were divorced in 1991. Senators turned aside a proposed Compromise that would have limited the scope of the subpoena. A the proposal suggests that there be two standards one Tor 250 million Ordinary citizens Quot and another for 100. . Senators said sen. Richard h. Bryan d-nev., chairman of the ethics , by Jim Latke the associated press the . Olympic luge team did no to travel a few thousand Miles to find a crusade. Even so it found the team. On Friday evening a half dozen of the Slidders had gone to have a few Beers at a bar in the town of Ober Nof where they were training in what used to be East Germany. Before the night was through a gang of Neo nazi skinheads that eventually numbered 15 a intimidated team member Gordy sheer who is jewish. A repeatedly insulted team member Robert Pipkins who is Black. A and punched and stomped Duncan Kennedy a two time olympian who tried to distract them Long enough to let Pipkins get out the door. A a surprised a Pipkins said during a Telephone interview tuesday from the teams hotel in Austria. A totally. In be been coming Here for four Yean now and Duncan has been coming Over since the Early 1980s. We never encountered anything like this. A a now in a not naive. I know racism is a problem in the states too. But personally the wont thing that Ever happened to me at Home was somebody driving by in a car rolling Down the window and Cyl Ling a Nigger a and then driving on. A this a he paused a was worse. Much much  police arrived an hour later arrested five of the skinheads a and told the americans to lock themselves int heirlooms and take Down any signs identifying them As . Lugers a amps sheer stacked the furniture in his room against the door. Pipkins barely slept. A we feel More secure now that we re in Austria a he said a and we re All a Little More aware that a for sure. The More we talked about it among ourselves the More we Felt like it was important to make a statement. We re Public figures in a sense and that gave us a unique Opportunity. A like everybody else wed heard about the violence in Germany about things like this and never thought that anything needed to be done. Sometimes it takes something like this to drive a Point  As events would have it there were any number of ways for the lugers to accomplish that. The attack on. Kennedy made the front pages of most German newspapers. A a shameful act Quot one daily labelled the attack. Apologies from top German sporting officials poll Ticiano across the Region and the townspeople poured into the . Luge association and alongside them promises of tighter Security. The tiny town of oberhoff worried about the Interna-., tonal uproar sent a letter of apology to president Clinton this week. A we assure you that the incident was not caused by local oberhoff youths and has met with disapproval and indignation of Abc roofs population a the letter says. The attack has drawn a warning from the . State department and revived fears of rampant rightist extremist violence in Germany. Sixteen people including oberhoff mayor Hartmut Goebel Ana leading local citizens signed the letter and sent it by Tel fax to the White House. Blood scare in Germany triggers free aids testing Bonn. Germany a patients who got blood or plasma transfusions at German hospitals since the Early 1980s should get aids tests some officials said wednesday As they searched frantically for contaminated blood products. A scandal that began oct. 3, when it was reported that 373 patients got his contaminated blood in the 1980s, has spread with reports last week tha tainted blood was still in circulation. The Western German state of Nieder Sachsen will offer free aids tests to about 1.2 million people As it seeks to reassure people who underwent operations at hospitals in the state in the past 10 years said Thomas Steg state social welfare ministry spokesman. Hospitals and doctors offices have been flooded with Calls from people seeking tests Steg told a news conference wednesday in Hannover the state capital. Walter Altherr Deputy Leader of the health committee in the Federal parliament said anyone who got a blood transfusion since 1980 should be tested. He said the health ministry or hospitals should pay the costs at least 15 million Marks about $9.1 million in Niedersachsen alone. The Federal ministry had no immediate comment on whether it thought mass his testing was necessary. In Darmstadt officials sought a recall of All products of the Bio test and us plasma pharmaceutical companies. Bio test headquartered outside Darmstadt has acknowledged it distributed some potentially contaminated plasma in 1990 because of a failed his test. Prosecutors have arrested four officials at us plasma in Koblenz which fell under suspicion because three patients using its products have tested positive for the aids virus since late 1992. Muslims take croatian town Sarajevo Bosnia and Herzegovina apr thousands of civilians fled in panic wednesday As troops of Bosnia a Muslim dominated govenis ment stormed an isolated croatian town in Central Bosnia. The Battle for Vares about 20 Miles North of Sarajevo appeared to Climax weeks of fighting that undid ethnic relations in what had been an area of Calm and relative tolerance. A there was not much. Resistance in the City a said Niels Pedersen a . Spokesman in Sarajevo. A that More or less leads to the conclusion that the City has  said government forces reportedly destroyed the croats boy brigade which Nad been blamed by i officials for the massacre of Muslim milians in a nearby Village last month. The Muslim led troops also captured two schools where muslims had been held prisoner he said. Vandals Burn Down Paris restaurant Paris up a be Guy Savoy one of Frances most renowned restaurants was destroyed wednesday by a fire set by vandals. Police said the vandals broke a Street Side window entered the restaurant doused the seats with alcohol and set them on fire. No one was injured. A restaurant employee said the establishment had not received any threats. The restaurant owned by famous chef Guy Savoy has two stars in the Michelin guide and 19 out of 29 Points in the Gault it Sillau guide