European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 10, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes wednesday november 10,1993 at a glance Lorena Bob Boft who has admitted cutting off her husband Penis. Leaves his trial on charge of Mari Tal sexual assault she is joined by her attorney James. Lowe and an unidentified Friend. For details on the latest testimony see the Story on Page 5. Fire suspect held a 17-year-old who reportedly was fooling around with matches has been arrested in connection with a California wildfire. Page 4 Clinton official quits the state department s second highest official Clifton r. Wharton has become the first top level Mem Ber to quit the Clinton administration. Food ads criticized saturday morning television has bulked up on ads for High fat foods aimed at youngsters a study shows. Page 9 plane gambling sought Northwest airlines has asked con Gress to allow gambling on International routes. Page 13 Index " Abby Ann Landers. 21 classifieds. 25-27 comics. 21-23 commentary. 15 crossword. 21 faces a places. 24 focus. 17-20 Horoscope. 27 Jumble. 27 letters. .14 Money matters. 13 sports. 29-36 to listings. 35 weather. 16 i correction because of an editing error a Story monday incorrectly stated when the responsibility for handling the payroll for overseas school employees in the Mediterranean Region was transferred fro Torrejon and Spain to Ramstein a Germany. The switch occurred during the 1992-93 school year. Cuts from Page 1 service members will have taken advantage of these benefits during the three year period ending in 1994. A separate program allowing military personnel to leave Early with reduced retirement benefits will affect 13,068 More. The cutbacks have been sizable by an measure. From its Peak of 2.174 million troops in late 1987, the military has shrunk to just More than 1.726 million a 21 per cent reduction. By next year the total will dip to 1.62 million. About a third of the cuts has come from layoffs or Early  have resulted from Normal attrition and from holding Down the number of new recruits to just More than 200,000 com pared with 316,000 new entrants a year in1987. By contrast with a few exceptions the number of discharges has remained about the same at Between 300,000 and 330,000eachyear. They be managed the situation pretty Well said Martin Binkin a Brookings institution military manpower expert. They Veblen pretty successful at minimizing the Impact of the  department officials conceded that the widespread perception is that the military is jettisoning career personnel and in t taking in Many new members is hurting recruiting and morale. A lot of teen agers seem to think that the military in t accepting any new people at All and that just in t True Edwin Dorn assist ant defense Secretary said. And Binkin asserted that there is a lot of concern among the troops that career prospects in the military maybe dimming despite what the aggregate figures seem to show. People Are uneasy he said. Naftal Nemesis Ross Perot leaves the Abc studios in Washington on tuesday after an appearance oath today show. He and vice president Al Gore were slated to debate the North Amer ican free Trade agreement later tuesday. Because of the time difference fall cover Afef the debate Wilt appear in thursday s stars and Stripe. Congress seeks say on troops Washington a House an Senate negotiators have agreed on a $241 billion defense spending Bill that embraces resolutions giving Congress a say on president Clinton s use of troop sin Somalia Bosnia and Haiti. Lawmakers agreed on the appropriations package Over the weekend. The legislation which the House an Senate Hope to vote on this week is $13.5 billion below last year s level and$511 million Short of what Clinton  nine Days of contentious de Bate last month the Senate approved two nonbinding resolutions that risk from Page 1 that of those treated elsewhere new comb said explaining that the army obtains most of its blood products in Europe from its own blood donor Center in Lan Stuhl. Asked whether the army also obtained some blood products from us plasma he said we Don t believe that we did but we re researching  undertaking a burdensome clerical task the army is trying to track Down All the military affiliated . Patients who have been treated in the affected Ger Man hospitals since 1985, and to notify them about the possible contamination. A German news Agency reported Las week that us products found their Way into medical facilities in several other european countries including Italy where . Forces also Are  told about that report Chong said the command probably would have to expand its efforts accordingly to notify affected former patients treated outside Germany. Amounted to a Compromise betwee lawmakers and Clinton on sending . Troops abroad. Frustrated by the Clinton administration s foreign policy senators had moved to impose limits on the presi Dent s Power As commander in chief to use american forces. The administration fought off the challenges and the Senate adopted overwhelmingly the resolutions that Lack the Force of Law but state the presi Dent should get Congress authorization before sending troops to Haiti and to Bosnia and Herzegovina. The other measure endorses Clin possible hospitals affected Hera is a partial list of Gentian hospitals that received us plasma products and that have treated americans filing civilian health and medical program of the uniformed services champs claims since 1990, according to . Army Europe Headquarters. Hockstatter Krank Enhaus Fried two Stadter Inkenhaus bad nauheim Evange Tissnes Krank Enhaus Miesten Stadter Inkenhaus Frankfurt Hoschst District Paracelsus Kunik Mart Stadter Inkenhaus Offenbach Stadter Inkenhaus Hanau stadts Liniman Fulda Sank Agnes Krank Enhaus Bocholtz Sank Vinzens Krank Enhaus Atteln Sank Elizabeth Krank Enhaus waders Hohe Warie Krank Enhaus Raymith Kreiser Inkenhaus trails Mim Kreiser Inkenhaus Burg Wengenfeld Albertines Krank Enhaus Hamburg a Linimum Bayreuth Bayreuth Klikum Steglitz. Berlins a ton s March 31 Date for . Troops from Somalia but also cuts off funds for the operation on that Date. Despite the defense negotiators action the House is still expected to vote separately on Somalia this week. Approval of the Overall legislation comes after House and Senate conferees agreed Friday on a $261 billion de sense authorization budget for the fiscal year that began oct. 1. The authorizing Bill Grants the Penta gon Power to spend defense dollars on weapons and other programs. The appropriations Bill provides the funds. Tests show company sold infected blood Frankfurt Germany a tests have confirmed that a German company sold romanian and German plasma contaminated with the virus that causes aids a prosecutor said tuesday. Norbert Weise the Koblenz prosecutor leading the investigation into the us plasma blood Bank said two out of 2,000tested units had turned out his positive. The units were the Fust tested from20,000 seized from Koblenz based us plasma which was shut Down oct. 28after authorities said it had sold blood products without testing for the human immunodeficiency virus which causes aids. Weise said one of the infected units came from a frequent donor whose tainted blood donations in Frankfurt an Fulda had infected three people. In a related report Vox television said East Germany exported prisoners blood to the bavarian Branch of the Redcross in 1985 and 1986. The Cable net work s report was attributed to East Ger Man secret police files