European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 17, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars Ano stripes u.8. Whf Ludm. No Vemta 17.1993 some fear health debate beyond first lady s scope by the new York times Washington a it is easy to Overlook because. The fight Over the North american free Trade agreement has been so All consuming but an ominous sense of Drift is creeping into the administrations health care Campaign. Some democrats who Are committed to overhauling the nations health care system and who believe that Clinton a presidency could Rise or fall on the Issue Long for the appointment of a health care Czar a or at least a grand Duke reporting to the czarina Hillary Rodham Clinton a to oversee the drive. Names such As that of Harold m. Ickes a new York lawyer political operative and Clinton Campaign Veteran have been on the Rumor circuit for Days. At this Point several democrats close to the administration say the health care Effort is being run in Large part out of the first lady a office by people such As Maggie Williams her chief of staff and former associate from the children a defense fund. Tra c. Magaziner a senior Domestic policy adviser to the president who supervised the drafting of the plan remains another major locus of Power while Clinton a Veteran political advisers such Stan Greenberg the pollster and Mandy Grunwald the Media consultant sit in on regular strategy sessions. But the bumps and embarrassments of the past month suggest this lineup is not enough there was a and is a the Long wait for the actual health care Bill still missing after the presidents speech to Congress on sept. 22. There was the struggle to climb Down from testimony by Donna e. Shalala Secretary of health and human services that 40 percent of americans would pay More under the Clinton health plan which generated a spate of memorable headlines. There was the initial Success of the republicans a and some democrats a in portraying the Clinton plan As dangerously bureaucratic. And there is the continued difficulty of  Nistra wrestling with a problem imitators of japanese sumo wrestlers get the giggles but otherwise get nowhere As they struggle with inflated suits during a Homecoming shindig at the University of Mississippi in Oxford. Jennifer Graham left of Bartlett tenn., and Paula Dobbs of Ackerman miss might better have called their act a balloon Ballet. Crash victims Kin win millions Chicago apr families of two Connecticut executives killed in a 1986 plane crash have been awarded $62.5 million in damages lawyers said monday. Francis do Addario of do Addario industries and Ivan smejkal of environmental waste removal of Coal City 111., were among five people killed in the March 5, 1986, crash of a Mitsubishi Marquise aircraft near Aurora Iii. The jury ended a two month trial by awarding $55 million to do add anon a family and $7.5 million to the smejkal family. The suit was filed against Mitsubishi aircraft and air i to inc. Of Bridgeport. Shalala Rodham Clinton Tion officials in responding to queries on just How the plan would work along with the repeated revisions on How much the plan would Cost the average american each May be More accurate than the last but even Clinton allies worry that the process undermines the administrations credibility. A i few dispute Hillary Clinton a skills in waging the Public Campaign for the health care Bill. She has shrewdly used the office of first lady to rally support around the idea of health care Reform. She also has used the office As a bully pulpit a and a heavily protected one a to engage critics of the Clinton plan such As the health insurance association of America. Former gov. Richard f. Celeste of Ohio is also helping with the Campaign outside Washington. But the health debate is entering a phase that also demands vast skills in coordination and negotiation Between the White House and Congress among the various Power centers on Capitol Hill and among the Federal agencies Suchias the department of health and human services and the office of management and budget. Baltimore eyes Tough curfew for preteens by the Washington Post Baltimore a City Council members alarmed by the number of children shot in drug related gun Battles proposed stringent new curfew restrictions that would keep preteens off the streets from dusk to Dawn. The measure proposed monday also would subject parents of curfew violators to $300 in fines and up to 60 Days in jail. A if this is harsh its for the Protection of our children a said Mary Pat Clarke president of the City Council and one of several sponsors of the measure. The proposal which has been endorsed by at least seven of the City Council a a 19 members reflects the growing frustration among cities across the country in dealing with growing crime and violence. Many cities have enacted curfews to combat violence Only to have the courts strike them Down or put limits on them. Clarke and other sponsors acknowledged that the proposed legislation would put new burdens on already overworked police officers. Enforcement would be spotty As it has been under the City s existing but More lenient curfew they said. The Baltimore proposal regardless of its Good intentions May violate first amendment rights of free Assembly Susan Goering Legal director of the american civil liberties Union of Maryland said monday. The new proposal would impose a curfew from Sundown to 6 . Seven Days a week for children younger than 13. It also would raise the curfew age for older teen agers to 17 and move the Start of the weekday curfew Back an hour to 10 . Baltimore s existing curfew generally prohibits children younger than 16 from being on the streets from 11 . To 6 . On week nights and from Midnight to 6.. On weekends. Juveniles accompanied by adults or attending approved educational athletic and other events Are exempt. The ordinance also fines parents up to $100 if their child is cited twice in one year for violating the  curator casts doubt on 3 More Rembrandt from wire reports Washington a a curator at the National gallery of Art says two More paintings in the museums collection attributed to Rembrandt were actually painted by the dutch masters students according to a published report. A t the curator also concluded that a third painting was a collaborative Effort by the 17th-Century dutch artist and one of his students Legal times said monday. Athe analysis by curator Arthur whee Ock an expert on Northern european baroque painting brought to five the number of works in the gallery s collection that he believes Are inaccurately attributed to Rembrandt Legal times said. Earlier this year Wheelock raised questions about whether two other paintings in the gallery s collection were ascribed accurately to Rembrandt. Wheelock was not available for comment. But gallery spokeswoman Ruth Kaplan said the. Museum had maae no decisions to change the attribution of the five paintings in question. Such changes must be approved by the gallery a Board of trustees. House passes flood Bill Washington a some people living in flood prone areas of the Midwest could move out of danger with Aid from a $105 million disaster Relief Bill passed by the House. A a most of them done to live in the flood Plain because they want to a said rep. Harold l. Volkmer d-mo., a prime architect of the Bill. A they live there because that Sall they can  the legislation sent monday to the Senate on a voice vote provides $105 million for victims of this Summers devastating floods in 11 midwestern states. A a. The Bill increases from 50 percent to 75 percent Federal Matching Money for people to relocate and boosts the amount available for so called buyouts within the Federal emergency management  found in air cleanup Washington three years after the clean air act was overhauled in a bid to improve the nations air Quality the government is woefully behind in curbing toxic chemicals that create pollution problems a congressional Survey says. A almost half of All americans still breathe unsafe air and factory stacks still spew toxic smoke and we have done less than we could to Stop it a said sen. Max Baucus d-mont., chairman or the Senate environment and Public works comic Pittee which put out the report. To top environmental Protection Agency official said Lack of Money May Force the Agency to look at a More streamlined regulatory process that would lower the health Protection Standard for airborne toxins in the Short term. Epa assistant administrator Mary Nichols said tuesday that she agreed with the reports Basic criticism. A i think we can do better she said after the Epa announced an updated implementation schedule for scores of clean air  women s risks noted new York a Black women who get hysterectomies face greater risks of Long hospitalizations and dying in the Hospital than White women do a study suggests. Black women were nearly three times As Likely to remain hospitalized for More than 10 Days and three times As Likely to die in the Hospital researchers found in analysing More than 50,000 patients. It the reasons for those disparities and others found in the study Are not known said study coauthor Kristen Kjerulff. But further study might illuminate important racial differences in health and medical care of women she said. She said the data could not reveal whether differences in health care or socioeconomic status played any  s suspect gets boil Rochester  a retired police officer Thomas of Connor arrested in connection with last years $7.4 million brinks armoured car heist in upstate new York was ordered released on a $500,000 Bond. Magistrate judge Kenneth Fisher in Rochester Federal court ordered that of Connors Home be put up As Security for the Bond