European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 23, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday november 23, 1993 . The stars and stripes Paga 5 limits ii Campaign spending debated by the los Angeles times Washington with the final hours of this year s legislative session running out the House began debate sunday night on a Bill setting voluntary Campaign spending limits for House can  both houses of Congress have passed similar Campaign finance re form measures in the last. Few. Vears this Marks the first time that one if passed i Likely to be signed into Law. The House voted 220-207 to take up the measure after several hours of Arm twisting by the democratic leadership who had to quash an Effort by republicans and some democrats to Block consideration of the Bill. Both groups had sought unsuccessfully to Force a House vote on additional proposals for Campaign Reform. The Bill was expected to come up for a House vote  the rules of Campaign finance is the top priority of the congressional Reform Agenda. House speaker Thomas s. ,d-wash.,-said that runaway spending is at the heart of our concern about Campaign  but critics said that the Bill was attest a half step to Ward fixing the problem. Rep. Mar tin t. Mechan d mass., described i Foley As " the easy Way out. Incremental changes when what we need is a drastic  ostensibly the Bill would offer Candi dates Strong incentives to limit their Campaign spending to $600,000 per , certain exemptions and an inflation Factor built into the Bill would actually allow Many to spend close to $1 million. Those who were willing to live within the limits would be eligible for partial Federal funding of their campaigns in the form of vouchers with which to mix radio and television time postage and other Means of communicating with the Electo rate. However the Bill s authors have yet to come up with a Means of providing that funding a crucial question considering that the entire Bill cannot take effect without  Bill also would put a first Ever limit on the total contributions that a candidate could accept from political action commit tees also known As pics. They would be allowed to take a maximum of $200,000 from pics whether or not they agree Tolive within the spending limits. Rep. Mike Synar d-okla., a popular lawmaker whose views on Campaign finance Reform carry significant weight at tempted to Block consideration of the Bill because leaders refused to allow a vote on his proposal which has sharper restrictions on pics and none on total spending. Synar contended that if the Bill passes As expected not one congressional race will be any cheaper or any fairer. We can do better. We should do better. We must do  however Synar s bid to Stop the Bill fell Short. No patrol work no pay City tells pregnant officer Humble Texas a the City has refused a pregnant police officer s request for a desk Job until she gives birth saying that if she can t do patrol work she won t get paid. I Don t know what they expect me to do. Go on welfare officer Bonnie Hyde said. I think they ought to have a Little compassion instead of putting me out on the Street when i m two months  As of last week Hyde 31, was not patrolling and not earning her $2,351 monthly salary. City manager James Baker said Humble does t have a policy for placing its police officers on Light duty. Her Job is a patrol officer. If she can t perform her duties she can t work he said. We gave her the Opportunity to Wear a shoulder harness or any other acceptable method of carrying a weapon he said. Hyde said that would t protect her from getting into fights and other dangers. Hyde is qualified As a Field training officer and is an Fri trained fingerprint expert. Patrol officer Bonnie Hyde awaiting birth of a child says her request for a desk Job was unfairly denied. Bailey defends role As adviser to Libya new York up f. Lee Bailey who rep resents five families of victims in the bombing of pan american flight 103 Over Lockerbie Scotland has been advising Libya on turning Over the two men suspected of carrying out the bombing the National la journal reported monday. Bailey denied it was a conflict of interest. He said he travelled with the permission of the . Government to Libya to provide advice on the Legal system in the United states the Justice systems in other nations and the effect of surrender in one country Over another. Bailey said he saw no conflict in advising the libyan son what the Means of surrender should  the families would be in favor of that Bailey  purpose of my going there Libya was to facilitate their the suspects return to  the Legal newspaper however said at least one fam ily member has questioned Bailey s action. I m finding it difficult to believe he would do something that would jeopardize the victims he represents said one family member who requested anonymity. But i just Don know Why he did t Contact us before he  the family member said it sounds like it s a conflict  United states and Britain have accused the two alleged libyan intelligence agents Abdel Basset Ali Allegra i and Lamen Khalifa Fahimah of the bombing and demand they be turned Over for  blast dec. 21,1988, killed 259 people aboard the 747 jetliner and 11 on the  said he was prepared to Tell his clients of his trip but did not because the visit did not become Public. He said he was mindful of hot working for the suspects. Man commits suicide after slaying 4, wounding 1 new Orleans a a Man whom friends de scribed As a religious zealot shot to death his Girlfriend their 4-month-old twin daughters and her 9-year-old daughter and wounded her 10-year-old son before kill ing himself police and neighbors said. The woman s son was hospitalized in critical condition. Police did not release the victims identities. The family lived with Walter Palmisano who identified them As Dwayne Parker 28 his Girlfriend Anna Smollen 29 her children by a previous marriage Alex Reading 10, and Sita Reading 9 and twins real and Zare Parker. Palmisano said he was awakened sunday morning by gunfire and found Parker when he came downstairs. He s sitting there with a gun in his hand and i realized he killed them Palmisano said. He told me this is for real " Palmisano said Parker told him he thought Smollen was having an affair. Parker said god did t want it to be this Way Palmisano said. Palmisano then went upstairs to Call police. As police arrived Palmisano said he heard a final blast. Parker was found dead on a sofa bed next to Smollen with a pistol in his hand. The twins were in a crib next to the bed. Postal workers convey gripes on Bias safety by the Washington Post Washington National Survey of postal workers has found what senior postal officials describes an alarming rate of racial sexual and Job safety complaints. Nearly one in three minority postal workers reported experiencing racial discrimination in the past year and nearly one in five female postal employees believe they were subjected to sexual discrimination. One in five workers Felt they Are not Safe on the Job a finding that May reflect anxiety from Well publicized killings of 34 postal workers on the Job. In a letter monday to the nation s 680,000 postal workers postmaster general Marvin t. Runyon called those rates too High and promised to make cutting them one of his top priorities in 1994. I am very troubled by this he wrote in the letter. None of us can do our Best when we feel put upon unfairly treated and physically at risk we must Cre ate a comfortable working atmosphere where we treat each other with respect and  Runyon told reporters that the Survey of 512,818 postal workers indicated that they were demanding More change from the radically restructured Organiza Tion. We be got to change our culture faster Runyon said. How you change faster in a 680,000-person organization is what we re groping for.". The results especially the complaints of racial discrimination May also increase Runyon s problems with some members of Congress who have criticized the reorganization for reducing the number of jobs for minorities and women at the Agency s Washington head quarters. The employee Survey showed that 31 percent of All minorities and 14 percent of no minorities believed they were discriminated against in the past year. The Survey also indicated that anxiety Over Job Secu Rity is rising among postal managers because of the massive reorganization that led to 48,700 retirements. The restructuring appears to have eased those Sam concerns among Union employees . Police officer kills self by the new York times new York an off duty new York City police officer lulled himself in an Atlantic City hotel saturday becoming the eighth to commit suicide this year the police said sunday. Officer Frank Astralla 24, a three year Veteran died of an apparently self inflicted gunshot wound to the head. He had been assigned to a Queens precinct. Astralla left no note said sgt. Frances Haimeck a new York police spokeswoman. She said that police officials were investigating Why the officer a newlywed. Shot himself Why he was in Atlantic City and who if anyone accompanied him. New York police officials have said that none of the previous suicides was related to police work but had Arisen from Domestic difficulties