European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 8, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 stars Ano stripes wednesday december 6,1993 a i at a glance a it s Christmas at the White House and every visitor knows it for starters there Are a or Fiche a me Norah and no fewer than 22 festive Christmas Trees. Then comes the House of socks an enormous Gingerbread White House. Above first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton shows off a tree. See Story on Page 8.nato partnership a nato officials plan to discuss ways to pay for the proposed partnership with their former enemies. A Page 4gun warning issued . Surgeon general Joycelyn elders has a message for parents Quot toy guns Are not child s  a Page cosmetic concerns american women should face up to skin problems caused by makeup dermatologists say. A Pago 9russian pay boosted with sunday s National elections approaching president Boris n. Yeltsin has nearly doubled the monthly minimum wage for government workers. A Page 11films tie up talks . And european negotiators remain deadlocked Over film and to show exports in their bid to open the Way for a 116-nation Trade pact. J a Page 16 Index Abby Ann Landers. 24 classifieds. 25-27 comics. Commentary. Crossword. Faces in places focus. Horoscope. Jumble. Letters. 14 Money matters. Sports. 30-36 to listings. 35 weather. 13 Denny attacker gets 10 years los Angeles apr a judge gave the maximum 10-year sentence tuesday to the Black Man convicted of beating White truck Driver Reginald o. Denny and attacking other motorists at the outset of last year s riots. Damian m. Williams 20, will receive at least two years credit for time served since his arrest and for Good behaviour since then meaning he could serve eight years at most. The defense had asked for probation in the april 29, 1992, attacks on Denny and other motorists. But Superior court judge John Ouder Kirk Toldt Williams a it s intolerable in this society to attack and maim people because of their  before announcing the sentence the judge played a videotape of the riot attacks at Florence and Normandie avenues in South Central los Angeles. The riots followed the acquittals on most state charges of four White defendants in the 1991 videotaped police beating of a Black Motorist Rodney g. King. Two of the four were later convicted on Federal civil rights charges. Williams was convicted of felony mayhem for attacking Denny and four Misdemeanour As saute counts. The mayhem count carried a maximum eight year Terin p Williams each Misdemeanour count six months. Ouderkirk said he would sentence co defendant Henry k. Watson to probation until 1997 and to 320hours of Community service. Watson 29, was convicted of Misdemeanour assault and pleaded guilty to an assault count against trucker Larry tar Vin. Williams sentence inevitably was to invite comparisons with the 2w-year Federal prison terms Given to two White police officers in the King beating. As a precaution against possible Vio ence police opened an emergency operations Center and went on standby Alert. For some Black activists the Denny attack soon became the ideological answer to the King beating. Danny Bakewell Leader of the los Angeles based brotherhood crusade was frustrated last week when he was not allowed to testify that the beating of Denny and others was an angry answer to verdicts in the King  Page 1 department tuesday is considerably larger than previously thought. Before tuesday s announcement the government had announced 826 nuclear tests since 1945, Energy Secretary Hazel of Leary said the nuclear test data Are Quot just a beginning to the process of releasing hundreds of formerly classified documents and data from the department s nuclear weapons program. The department also planned to release information on the quantities of weapons a Rade plutonium stockpiled at government Acil tics and promised to reveal information about experiments on humans who were deliberately exposed to plutonium radiation More than 40 years ago. Of Leary said she planned within seven months to release More information about the experiments conducted on 18 people in an attempt to determine the effect of plutonium radiation. She also said More details would be released by june on an estimated 800 experiments conducted on More than 600 individuals As part of a weapons program Over the  existence of these experiments had previously been disclosed in a con bus signal report and other documents it few de Taus Are known. Of Leary said she was Quot appalled shocked and deeply saddened Quot to learn about the experiments on the 18 individuals who she said did not know the extent of the health Hazard. These experiments also have been reported previously. The Energy department did not elaborate on any environmental effects of the formerly disclosed 204 tests. O Leary said the department was beginning a systematic de classification of documents and also was easing the often cumbersome process by which information would be made available. Speaking earlier on Abc of Leary called tuesday s release Quot a very big deaf but it is of course just a foot in the Bathtub Quot since the Energy department has about 32 million pages of classified documents on testing and production. Private researchers and nuclear weapons proliferation experts have kept their own rough count on weapons tests and plutonium inventories. R Quot its a first step Quot said Tom Collina a nuclear weapons researcher at the Institute for science and International Security Quot hopefully it will set up a process that will Lead to More  Page 1 the stars and stripes protesting that they want to listen to Limbaugh. And rep. Robert k. Doraan r.-calif., got 70 House republicans to sign a letter to de sense Secretary los Aspin last month also protesting the absence of Limbaugh on an. Arts officials previously said that format and demand not politics had prompted them to turn Down shows by Limbaugh who regularly bashes a Femina Zis Quot and Hillary Rodham Clinton besides other liberals. Emergency supplies dropped to 3 Sites by Chuck Roberts staff writer Rhein main a Germany Allied planes air dropped 54.9 tons of emergency Relief supplies monday night to the towns of Baglaj Desanj and Bra Dina in former Yugoslavia according to a . Spokesman. Baglaj and Desanj have been Cut off from food convoys since late october because of a blockade by bosnian serbs said Peter Kessler a spokesman for the . High commissioner for refugees in Zagreb Croatia. Baglaj and Desanj 50 Miles Northwest of Sarajevo Are jammed with 100,000 displaced people. Prior to the october delivery the last Convoy to reach the two cities was june 1, when three , workers and other bystanders were killed Kessler said a Convoy tried to enter the two cities last week but was turned away at gunpoint after three Days of attempting to pass serbian soldiers. One of the soldiers put his gun to the head of the Unher team Leader negotiating with the serbs Kessler said. Also hindering the Convoy was the refusal of the serbs to Clear the Road of land mines buried throughout the area in the Snow and ice Kessler said. The Convoy consisted of four trucks carrying wheat and flour and an escort of two vehicles carrying medical supplies. The monday Airdrop were made by  Page 1 people who could be assigned to the operation the sources added. Currently the base plays Host to 30 aircraft dedicated to provide Promise including . Air Force c-130 Hercules transports and German and French c-160 tra Salls operation officials said 562 . Military people Are assigned temporarily to the base to support the operation including Crew members Load masters and peo sle who package the supplies for Ighel about 200 people permanently assigned to Rhein main also support the air deliveries. The United states has spearheaded the operation since july 3, 1992, flying supplies to Sarajevo Bosnia a capital. In february aircraft began parachuting supplies to smaller towns and villages in the Eastern part of the War ravaged Bosnia because Supply convoys were being stopped by serbian forces. On most Days aircrews flying the c-130s from Rhein main take six plan loads of food and supplies into Sarajevo. An additional six to eight aircraft drop Aid packages Over Bosnia five nights a week a . Official told the stars and stripes on thursday. Opening the Airport at Tula could create a Supply line to nearly 300,000 people in the surrounding area said a spokesman with the . High commissioner for re Fuge e s.  c-130 Hercules and two c-160 German tra Salls working with the United nations As part of operation provide Promise. The cargo consisted of food except for 1.96 tons of Holiday gifts loaded with the food bundles As part of operation provide Santa the huge response to operation provide Santa produced about 65 tons of Candy clothing and toys that kept rolling in after the nov. 30 deadline said chaplain capt Steve Schaick. Roughly 15,000 pounds of donated items have been air dropped to Bosnia and Herzegovina and airlifted to Sarajevo the capita. The preparation and packing of the donated items will end Friday. But Schaick said the delivery is expected to continue for three weeks. The chaplain said provide Santa was an absolute Success. Quot it reminds me and lot of the people involved that there s a real sense of generosity embedded in All of us a he said