European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 20, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 2 the stars and stripes at a glance Anthony Martinez � bouncer at new Orleans nightclub knocked out Jack Mcdowell the Winner of the 1993 by Young award for the Chi Jago White sox with one punch. See Story on Page 20. Blood list issued officials with the civilian health and medical program of the uni formed services in Europe have identified 29 hospitals in Germany that received plasma products from the firm Haem Oplas. Pages . Mandate extended the . Security Council has voted to keep . Forces in Somalia until May 31. Clinton riled president Clinton says he is sick and tired of the knee Jerk Liberal Page 6 nuclear cuts approved Ukraine s parliament has resolved to destroy More than one third of Ukraine s nuclear Arsenal immediately. -pag7 beating car thieves vehicle owners Are travelling Down a High tech Highway in their bid to thwart car thieves. -pag10 Index Abby Ann Landers. 21 automotive 10 classifieds 22-24 comics. 18-19,21 commentary 13 crossword 21 faces n places. 20 focus 15-17 Horoscope 24 Jumble 24 letters 12 Money matters. 14 religion .9 sports 26-32 to listings 31 weather 11 Tours from Page 1rallying Point for a bipartisan group of House lawmakers who believe the administration is not serious about tackling the deficit. Administration officials and House leaders including House speaker Thom As s. Foley d-wash., have criticized the proposal Days arguing that it would Hurt chances for the nation s eco nomic an interview with the Washington p6st on thursday health and human services Secretary Donna Shalala also at tacked the plan s proposal to apply Media care savings to the deficit. The administration wants to earmark those funds to pay for Universal health care insurance. Pentagon officials have also weighed in. In a letter to Foley this week defens Secretary Les Aspin and chairman of the joint chiefs of staff Gen. John m. Shall Kash Vili said the military related proposals in the Penny Kasich plan would break Faith with services Erners and severely hamper readiness. They said the plan coming on top of the substantial defense cuts already made in recent years would put the military Back on the Road to the kind of hollow forces that existed in the 1970s. Moreover the Impact of the legislation on our most valuable asset our people would be disastrous they said. Saturday november 20,1993 the Penny Kasich plan will be consid ered on the House floor As an Amend ment either to the administration s re inventing government legislation or to a separate $1.9 billion package of fiscal1994 spending cuts recently proposed by Clinton. House floor debate on those Bills i scheduled to begin no earlier than Mon Day. At least two deficit cutting plans recirculating in the Senate. But Senate appropriations committee chairman Rob Ert c. Byrd d-w.va., said thursday that he plans to postpone consideration of Linton s budget cutting legislation As Well As the proposals of his colleagues until january. Boy from Page 1 dirt in the Back of the housing would not discuss details of the Accident or allow photographs saying it would be better to wait until an official investigation was Don t want people thinking that we Are terrible people who do not watch she said she has been questioned by variety of military Community officials. Adam apparently climbed on top of bunk bed to reach the window his Mother said but she would not discuss How the window might have been opened. She said her son has had Little to layabout his Brush with death. The window and i flew Are Boutall Adam has revealed she said. He re members Little More most Likely because of the medication doctors gave him when they put a cast on his right wrist she windows in the valences attic apartment like those in at least a dozen other buildings in the Marshall Heights housing area do not have safety bars. It is Standard for windows in German to open widely and not have screens. Windows in american housing areas Are required to have either safety bars or apartments like the a cintes meet safety requirements Strin gent enough for child care providers said Joan Thomas director of the child care program. The valences had the bunk be pushed up to the window ledge which is about 4 feet above the ladder had been secured so that Adam could not climb it to reach the top Babs Angel said Friday that a letter is to be issued by the com Mander cautioning residents to keep win Dows with tilt Locking mechanisms locked at All times. It also explains their opera Tion in s really shocked that he Adam lived said neighbor Angel Amales a certified childcare provider who lives in the same stairwell As the Valent Sand has a son who is Adam s age. Elaine Sanders who lives in the attic apartment across from the valences said that she had made five requests for bars for her windows out of concern for her 9-month-old daughter Tatiana who took her first eight Steps the Day Adam fell. Sanders said housing officials told Herthe army did not have the Metal to make the bars any i am very angry. I think it s Bui said Sanders who is also a certified child care provider. I would absolutely lose my mind if this Ever happened to my Daugh Ter. I Freak out if she Falls off the Sanders suggested that officials move bars from windows on the Bottom floor apartments and use them on the upper floors. She said that 15 children Between the Ages of 9 months to 13 years live in her stairwell. The previous tenant in the valences apartment had reported about a year ago that the screen in the bedroom needed Tobe repaired but it was not done Sanders said. Meanwhile Adam who his parents says ambidextrous is coping Well with the cast on his . We have one Lucky Lucky boy Sai Valente. Up in the sky he had Angels with him that Day strike from Page 1 in Boston after he was a cooked on an american flight to St. Croix in the Virgin islands Only to learn the airline had can celeb its flights to the Caribbean. American one of the nation s biggest airlines would t say How Many flights it was Able to operate. The Dallas morning news reported Friday that the Federal aviation administration said 77 percent of american jets managing to take off before 1 am. Thursday flew without passengers. The planes were hauling Only mail and cargo in an Effort to keep the system moving. By evening 54 percent of american s flights were carrying passengers it re Union the association of professional flight attendants is striking Over pay and other issues. It said at least 9q percent of its members honoured the picket lines the airline said it was closer to 50 , the Allied pilots association was voting on whether to wage a sympathy strike a Niove that would prob ably ground the airline. Results of the vote were to be announced sometime Fri Day or today pilots Union spokesman Gregg Overman said. American warned that the striking flight attendants probably would t have jobs after the strike. The airline said it had started recruiting replacements who could be trained in 10 Days. The airline also filed a $10 million defamation lawsuit thursday in state District court in fort Worth Texas claiming the Union encouraged travel agents to Tel customers that the airline s staffing Levels and training Are unsafe. Also named in the suit is the Union s Public relations firm Abernathy & Mitchell of washing ton . The Union did not immediately return Telephone Call Early Friday seeking comment on the lawsuit. American which has about 2,600 daily flights to More than 200 cities and carries an average of More than 200,000 Passen Gers daily said it would try to get custom ers onto other airlines. But seats will be come increasingly scarce As thanksgiving approaches. American spokesman Don Bedwel said it is a concern that there is a Short age of seats but we think it s going to work. We think Well be Able to operate enough flights to take care of most of them Chicago s o Hare Airport a woman carrying her wedding dress in a plastic bag sobbed As she told of a wedding trip to Antigua disrupted by the strike. She and her fiance1 arrived at the Airport at 4 . And were on standby for a passenger Ken Potosnik said american guaranteed me absolutely will Fly today. And now i m not flying. His plane to Honolulu left nov. 1, american imposed a new contract with an average 7.8 percent raise per year or 35 percent Over four years. The Union had demanded a 16.9 percent raise by july 1995, saying workers needed to make up for previous concessions. The Union also opposed changes in staffing Levels and other work rules. With the pay raise Domestic american flight attendants draw a base pay of be tween $17,000 and just More than$34,000 per year. The most senior inter National flight attendants make More than $40,000. The flight attendants strike was the largest against an airline since the machinists struck the now defunct easter airlines in 1989. First lady fours Pentagon Fries ouf Hof line Washington a Hillary Rod Ham Clinton got to try out the cold War Era hot line to Moscow during an insider s tour of the Pentagon on Friday prompting defense Secretary Les Asp to joke that she had started the the first lady laughed heartily at the Secretary s remark about her use of the hot line which was set up during the cold War for crisis communications with the leadership of the former soviet Union. Gen. John m. Shalikashvil chairman of the joint chiefs of staff accompanied Linton and the Secretary on a two hour tour of the defense department. The private visit offered the first lady an inside look at some areas normally off limits to tourists such As the National military command Center. The Center is the decision making Arena for the Mili tary leadership during any crisis. Asked about her visit Clinton said it was too Short. I enjoyed every bit of it adding she wants to return to see More of the building which celebrated its Soth anniversary this year. Be i but is ii in
