European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 24, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday november 24,1993 Page 2 the stars and stripes i a at a glance a frustrated . Aid Driver sits in his Rig is yugoslav official throw new bureaucratic Roadblock at re Lief deliveries to Bosnia and Llone Golna. See Story on Page 14.deadline nears vehicle owners with defective License plates in series new a or pc have until tuesday to Exchange the plates or face a $30 fee. Pages travellers relieved Holiday travellers looked to Friend Lier skies tuesday after a strike by american airlines flight attendants ended. Page6 jumper hits plane a Veteran sky diver clipped a plane with his ankle causing the air Craft to crash and to kill All four peo ple aboard. Navy to pay women a 20-year-old sex discrimination suit against the Navy has ended with a $1.05 million settlement. Pages dui Effort graded the United states has earned a a minus in dealing with Drunken driving an advocacy group says. Page 10 Paramount Given time Viacom inc. Has extended its Friendly Cash offer for Paramount communications inc. By two Days. Page 18 Index j Abby Ann Landers 26 classifieds 27-29 comics 24-26 commentary 17 crossword 26 faces n places 23 focus 19-22 Horoscope 29 Jumble 29 letters 16 Money matters 18 sports 32-40 to listings 39 weather 15 Defeated deficit cutting May return in 94, n say by Chuck Vinci Washington Bureau Washington advocates of a draconian deficit reduction plan that narrowly missed being approved by inc House on monday night arc not ruling out another Effort to repackage at Leas some of their proposals next year. Reps. Timothy j. Penny d-minn., and John r. Kasich a Ohio led a bipartisan group of about 30 House lawmakers who devised the $90 billion budget cutting proposal. But they saw their initiative which included a freeze on annual Cost of living adjustments for future military retirees fail by 219-213. It s too Early to say what might Hap pen next but the close vote is being taken As a Clear sign that deficit reduction remains an important Issue with Many legislators on both sides of the aisle said an aide to Penny. The House ultimately adopted a proposal that would Cut the deficit by $37 billion Over the next five years mainly through cutting the number of Federal jobs by 252,000 As outlined in the Clinton administration s reinventing govern ment blueprint. The proposal also would trim about$2.5 billion from various fiscal 1994 fed eral spending Bills. The Penny Kasich plan had aroused anxiety in Many quarters of the administration and among an array of interest groups. A House budget committee staffer said undecided lawmakers were subject to a Blitz of Calls and faxes in the hours before the final vote. Some undecided legislators received visits from Junior military officers .As-1 signed to the legislative affairs offices of their respective services the staffer  of the officers were from congressional districts with facilities that the de sense department claims would have been scaled Back or shut Down under Penny Kasich. Military personnel Are barred from lobbying members of Congress but Pentagon officials portrayed the visits As Rou Tine. We Don t lobby one official said. The Pentagon sent information pack ets to lawmakers Friday that outlined the potential Impact of Penny Kasich on the military. The ensuing visits by legislative affairs staffers were made to ensure that the information was delivered properly and to give lawmakers a Chance to ask questions Pentagon officials said. The administration s overriding con Cern was that the plan would have applied an anticipated $34 billion in saving from reduced medicare spending to the deficit. Administration officials want Touse the funds As seed Money for the health care Reform initiative. Defense Secretary us Aspin mounted High profile attack on the military re lated aspects of the plan which include relatively modest cuts in some weapons modernization programs. Aspin said the wording of the plan would have forced the Pentagon to Cut thousands of More service members than planned sparking More Force Structure cuts and base closures. The House budget committee staffer said concerns about deeper defense Cut Sand the Prospect of stalling health care Reform were the two major factors that allowed opponents of the Penny Kasich to prevail. Clinton Kim seek to crisis Washington a president Clinton said tuesday he and South korean president Kim Young Sam Are not eager to seek . Sanctions against North Korea but both vowed to pursue a final solution to the crisis Over nuclear inspections. Clinton denied that he or Kim were softening their policies toward North Korea which has so far refused outside inspection of All of its nuclear facilities. The communist regime denies it is build ing weapons. We have not relaxed anything Clin ton said after meeting at the Whitehouse with Kim on a Range of Security and economic issues. We will make thorough and Broad efforts to bring this Issue to its final conclusion Kim  said the United states and South Korea Are ready to resolve once and for All their differences with North Korea if the communist regime resumes talks with the South and allows inspect  said the North koreans Are the ones after All who Are out of Lin with International Law and their own  of state Warren Christopher indicated at an asian Summit in Seattle last week that sanctions were a viable of  president Kim nor i Are eager to go to the United nations and ask for sanctions against North Korea Clinton said. That is not a particularly attractive  As a party to the nuclear non proliferation treaty North Korea is obligated to forswear development of nuclear weapons and to permit International inspections of its facilities. Clinton said that if North Korea aban dons the nuclear option the door will be open on a wide Range of issues not Only with the United states but with the rest of the  Bill from Page 1 lawmakers agreed to extend jobless Bene fits for 1 million americans and approved $18 billion to Complete the government bailout of the savings and loan Industry. And the House completed action on Amajor Campaign financing Bill. Clinton asked tuesday morning if the Brady handgun Bill was dead said  pressed if he thought the legislation would pass ht1 added i Hope so we re working on  into the wee hours tuesday morning the House approved 238-187, a Compromise version of the Brady Bill which would Force a wait of five business Days for handgun purchases. But the com Promise ran aground in the Senate blocked by angry republicans. Clinton urged Congress to resolve their differences on the measure quickly telling news conference monday. "1 would love it if the Congress could give the Brady Bill to the american people for  chants charts and even a Clown s hat sported by rep. Bob Livingston r-la., to mock one democratic measure the House gave final approval to a Bill providing the final $18 billion instalment on the Gigantic savings and loan  it narrowly dealt conservatives a setback voting 219-213 to kill a $90 Bil lion package of spending cuts that relied heavily on medicare  can join the team that represents change rep. John r. Kasich a Ohio who helped write the cuts vainly be scheched his colleagues before the final  of approving the conservative backed spending cuts representatives approved a measure containing $37 billion in reductions written by democratic Lead ers and the White  to let go of Brady Senate democrats were scheduled to return to the measure tuesday. Mitchell a Maine even threatened to Call senators Back to the Capitol after thanksgiving i need be to break the Brady deadlock. Democrats were hoping that a Public weary of mayhem on the streets would Force the gop to relent on the measure. By the time they get All those letter Sand phone Calls they might change their minds said rep. Jack Brooks a Texas chairman of the House judiciary com Mittee. But angry republicans favouring a sen ate passed version that could phase out the five Day waiting period in tour years instead of five As in the House version teemed determined to hold out. Are we going through a political Cha Rade or do you want a Bill sen. Ted Stevens a Alaska a National Rifle association member told democratic bar gainers. If you want a Bill accept the Senate  supporters have tried for seven years to pass the Brady Bill named for presi Dent Reagan s press Secretary Jame Brady wounded in the 1981 assassination attempt on Reagan. Cadavers used in crash tests to report says Berlin a a prestigious University has been using human corpses in automobile crash tests German news Media said tues  at Heidelberg University have used 200 human Ca Davers in their tests since the 1970s, and eight of them were children s bodies the Adf television network said tuesday night. Adf quoted Germany s largest automobile club adar As Call ing the tests with children s Bod ies morally irresponsible. Researchers used the children bodies with permission of the parents the Mainz based television network reported. It said the automobile Industry had commissioned the studies to determine the effects of a crash on human beings. Daimler Benz a.g., the maker of Mercedes luxury cars called the tests with cadavers unavoidable but said the company itself has not carried out such experiments