European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 2, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes s. A thursday december 2,1993 at a glance an Amtrak locomotive lies on its Side after hitting a stalled tractor Traller near intercession City Fla. See Story on Page 7. Touch of Texas six f-16s based in Texas arrived at Aviano a Italy a wednesday and began preparing to Fly sorties Over Bosnia and Herzegovina. A Page 4 revised nato plans defense Secretary Les Aspin and his nato counterparts Are expected to revise Alliance plans for its Post cold War Force Structure. A pages retrial ordered a judge has granted a new trial to a 15-year-old Girt whose journal entry of Quot dear diary. I kilted my Little sister fed to a murder conviction. A Page 6 a /. A buying up guns the Brady Law and the crime Bill moving through Congress have convinced weapons enthusiasts to get their guns while they can. A a. A Page 9 a \. A a teacher killed palestinian gunmen sprayed an israeli car with automatic weapons fire in the occupied West Bank killing a kindergarten teacher. A Page 10 threat of War North Korea s refusal to comply with nuclear safeguards has increased the danger of War on the korean Peninsula the commander of . Forces in the Pacific said. A Page 11 c Index Abby Ann Landers a. 21 classifieds. 24-27 comics. Commentary. .17 crossword. .21 faces a places. 20 Horoscope. .26 Jumble. .26 letters. A. 16 Money matters. 15 sports. 29-36 to listings. Weather. 14 by Marian Hamilton Mediterranean Bureau. Naples Italy a most civilian employees in Italy Are beginning to receive Jos. Allowance payments for the first time in nearly a year. The Post allowance which is similar to the Cost of living allowance being received by service members in Italy has been extended to qualifying american civilians working full time for the department of defense at All Sites in Italy except for four that already qualified for the payments. For those who qualify the payments will generally vary from about $80 to $190 a month. The Post allowance was instituted in Italy for the first time on sept. 6, 1992, but stopped on nov. 28, 1992, in All but a few places because the dollars value against the italian lira Rose sharply. By a Quot quirk of the computing system employees in those four communities a Milan Florence Genoa and Turin will have their payments Cut by half. Whether an area qualifies for Post allowances is made by the state department. The new Post allowance went into in effect on oct. 17, 1993, although Many employees have not yet received it. Those who have not will eventually get payments going Back to that Date according to Navy officials. Teresa eur Ito personnel assistant in charge of travel and allowances at the human re sources office the naval support activity Naples said that All full time american appropriate fund employees will be eligible to receive the Post allowance. Some full time no appropriated fund employees will also receive the payments but not necessarily All. Quot with Naf employees it depends on their command a one said. A it was not immediately known How Many employees in Italy will be eligible for the payments. In Naples the number is 425, eur Ito said eur Ito said that several factors influenced the state department decision to reinstate the allowance including a Market Basket and Quot living pattern surveys which detail the Cost of items americans buy off base. A the Cost of living at various italian communities compared with the Washington , area. A the Dollar lira Exchange rate. The allowance was restored even though the Dollar has been steadily climbing in value against the lord. In november 1992, the average value of a Dollar was 1,219 lira. This november it was 1,697, eur Ito said. Quot the other factors must have outweighed it the lira rate a she said. Surveys from March 1993 were used in determining the allowance she said. The new allowance has been set at 10 percent eur Ito said. That Means an individual will receive an amount equal to 10 percent of what the surveys show is Typ winds blow hitch into Cape canaveral Fla. A High winds forced Nasa to scrap wednesdays launch of shuttle endeavour on its Long awaited Mission to repair the Hubble space Telescope. Liftoff was rescheduled for Early today Quot we re going to go pay homage to the wind gods a commander Richard Covey said before climbing out of endeavour. The National aeronautics and space spa administration had the countdown clocks at the nine minute Mark Early wednesday in Hopes the weather would improve and then worked Down to five minutes before giving up. _ Crosswind gusts of up to 22 Mph were Well Over the safety limit in the event of an emergency return to the launch site. Intermittent rain and Low Clouds added to Nasa s problems As Well As a ship that briefly strayed into the restricted Booster recovery area. Lenses. Already received the allowance the rate was Cut from 10 percent to 5 percent. Who gets what depends on salary and location. Quot a gs-5 military dependent claiming no dependents and making about $20,000 a year would receive $44 per pay period a she said a married gs-12 with two children making $44,000 a year would receive $87 per pay  Mission better weather was expected for the planned 4 27 . Launch today. The. Launch attempt must be a half hour earlier with every passing Day with Only about an hour to get endeavour off each time because of the precision requited for a rendezvous with Hubble. If endeavour in t off the ground by the end of next week Nasa plans to wait until january rather than work through Christmas. Congress from Page 1 535,000 troops under the Bush admin is to ration a outdated Quot base Force plan. Aspinw a Bottom up review assumes a strategy that Calls for fighting two major Regio Yil wars nearly simultaneously. Lawmakers have become increasingly sceptical that the Clinton administration s Force Structure blueprint for the Post cold War military can accommodate that  at a storm congressional hearing in october that blueprint came under bipartisan attack after Pentagon and  officials talked of having to take Quot a calculated risk Quot that there would be enough troops to win future wars. \ Edward Warner Iii assistant Secretary of defense for strategy said the military a the army in particular a faces a Quot Tough Challenge Quot in cutting personnel while taking on additional peacekeeping missions and also keeping enough combat firepower in Reserve to support the two contingency defense strategy. A army officials at the hearing said that the number of soldiers on operational missions has doubled in just the past year and that such missions Are sapping funds for modernization base operations and facilities maintenance. Rep. Ike Skelton d-mo., chairman of the House armed services committees military personnel panel said he was worried that the army a troop strength is Quot going South too fast and too  army officials have become bolder in recent weeks about criticizing the Force cuts planned for their service. _ Quot the army can t be anywhere and everywhere with the kind of end strength numbers we re seeing Quot said one Simce official. Quot we just can to do it a Lafit Uit Ernal army memorandum leaked to the Wishington. Post last month said the administrations military plans would leave the service Quot substantially  the memo was approved by. Gen. Gordon r. Sullivan army chief of staff. It warned that the result of planned defense budget cuts Over the next five years Quot May be a future Force that does not possess the technological superiority required to prevail Over All potential conflicts arising from the changing world  the memo was included As an addendum to the army a classified program objective memorandum which outlines the services proposed spending plan through the end of the decade a House armed services committee staffer said the fact that such a strident memo surfaced publicly Quot is a Good indication that there a some vicious1 backroom battling going on at the Pentagon. As such the authorization Bill report said lawmakers do not believe army end strength can go below the planned level of 540,000 soldiers in fiscal 1994 if the service Quot is to continue its various peace keeping missions and maintain its capability to respond to two major contingencies nearly simultaneously. Speech from Page 1 a minute before the Man was ushered out by Security guards. Clinton said he was not bothered by the incident which occurred Afier the president had visited with aids patients be said he would rather have the Man a screaming at me than have Given  Quot part of my Job is to be a lightning Rod Quot the president said. Quot part of my Job is to lift the Hopes and aspirations of the american people knowing that As Long As you try to lift Hopes and lift aspirations you can never fully close the Gap Between what you re reaching for Ana what you re actually doing and knowing for sure that there a no Way 1 can now keep everybody alive who already has aids a Clinton visited Georgetown As part of an administration Effort to dramatize its commitment to the fight against aids. We be been at it a Long time. We have an incredibly King Way to go Quot said 7, Tine Gebbie head of the administration s fight against aids. Quot a health Secretary Donna e. Shalala and surgeon general Joyelyn m. Elders donned aprons and dished out scrambled eggs and sausages to homeless men fighting both poverty and the deadly infection. At Georgetown medical Center Clinton visited with several aids victims including Larry Singletary 38, who grabbed the president s hand and said he s hoping Quot for the Best and hoping that you appropriate lots of Money so research can be  later in his speech Clinton said the nation must fight everyday against aids