European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 19, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 2 the stars and stripes sunday december 19,1993 at a glance he i 66% a Europe a Arian rocket lifts off from Kourou French Guiana on a Mission that placed in orbit Thailand a first telecommunications satellite and a pioneering . Sat Ell Ltd. See Story on Page 12. Cleanup nearly finished officials at Ramstein a Germany expect to Complete this week the biological treatment of soil contaminated More than three years ago when a c-5a Galaxy crashed. A Page 4 shortfall shrinks senior Clinton administration officials produced improved inflation estimates showing that a $50 billion Pentagon shortfall had shrunk to $31 billion. A Page s Kelso defended adm. Frank b. Kelso ii the Navy s top officer would not have allowed misconduct to continue if he had seen it at the 1991 tall Hook association convention a former assistant Navy Secretary said. A paged Racetrack damaged history was turned into ashes when a fire swept through the new Orleans fair grounds Racetrack. A Page 9 Germany makes cuts Germany trimmed unemployment benefits and other programs in an of fori to combat a budget deficit. A Page 13 a merry season merchants Are anxiously watching to see if last minute Christmas shoppers buy enough to make this year a retailing Success. A Page 20 i Index l Abby Ann Landers 17 classifieds .2427 commentary .15 faces n places .17 horoscope.26 letters. 14 Money matters.20,23 Mutual. .21-23 sports. 29-36 weather .16 0 in Wear seat belts report says Washington a a record number of americans strapped on scat belts this year a trend advocates attribute to tougher restraint Laws in some states the department of transportation said saturday. The 1993 figure was 66 percent an increase Oyer 62 percent in 1992 and 59 percent in 1991, the first year the Survey was done in the current format. Transportation Secretary Federico Pena said the Rise translates into 500 lives saved and More than 14,000 serious injuries avoided in 1993. ,. A a untold pain and suffering and More than $1 billion in health care and other costs to society also were avoided a he said. Pena said his goal is to get 75 percent of Drivers and passengers to use seat belts by 1997. He is scheduled to travel to North Carolina on monday to highlight that state s aggressive enforcement policy known As a Click it or Brian of Neill president of the insurance Institute for Highway safety said compliance in North Carolina is about 80 percent due in part to a four week Cam Paton involving random checkpoints. A the thing that makes the difference is the Law and the extent to which that Law is enforced a of Neill said. He said part of the National increase also was due to an upgrade in californians seat Belt Law that made it Quot primary a meaning Law enforcement officers could Stop a Motorist simply for failure to Wear a seat Belt. Only 10 states have the so called Quot primary Laws. They Are California Connecticut Hawaii Iowa Mississippi new Mexico new York North Carolina Ore gon and Texas. Other states have Quot secondary Laws meaning police officers can cite Drivers or passengers for failing to Wear a seat Belt Only if they Are stopped for other reasons. Georgia is the. Exception a its seat Belt Law is primary for children and secondary for adults five states have no restraint Law at All. They Are Massachusetts Maine Kentucky new Hampshire and South Dakota of Neill said. _ a handing out tickets is what you need to do to increase safety Belt usage a said Judith Stone president of the advocates for Highway and Auto safely. A and awareness is letter bomb rips yugoslav family s Home in Germany Hannover Germany apr a letter bomb in the form of a radio exploded saturday after members of a yugoslav family unpacked it and turned it of police said. Five people were injured. The bombing resembled a series of letter bombs mailed to people involved in refugee or minority affairs in Austria. It would be the first time one of the bombs had exploded in Germany but inspector Anita Kamp said police were at a loss for the moment for a motive for the bombing in Melle West of Hannover in Niedersachsen this was a very Normal family that had lived Here for years and were Well established a she said. Quot when they received this package they did no to suspect anything evil. Four people have been arrested in the austrian bombings including two with links to Neo nazi groups. One of the victims in Melle a 32-year-old Man lost his hand and several fingers from the other hand said Kamp. Packwood from Paget no comment. Three democratic senators who earlier called for Packwood a resignation a Robert a Byrd of West Virginia Daniel a Inouye of Hawaii and Barbara Boxer of California a were joined by six More Friday a Survey by the associated press found that senators Harris Wofford of Pennsylvania Hrry Reid of Nevada Paul Simon of Illinois Russ Feingold and Herbert h. Kohl of Wisconsin and Joseph i. Lie berm an of Connecticut agree Packwood should resign. A number of women including Senate employees and lobbyists have accused Packwood of making unwanted sexual advances some said Packwood tried to intimidate them into keeping quiet. The Justice department and the Senate select committee on ethics have subpoenaed Packwood a diaries and the committee went to Federal court to enforce its demand. Although . District judge Thomas p. Jackson is not expected to Rule until next year the court took custody of the diaries thursday. Packwood a former Secretary who transcribed the diaries from tapes said in a sworn statement that the senator altered some of the tapes when he suspected a subpoena was on the Way last fall. In addition to the sexual misconduct Somalia from Pago 1 sen. Bob Packwood. Accused of sexual misconduct allegations the committee is considering whether the alleged tape alteration amounts to obstruction of a congressional investigation a i believe we be wasted enough taxpayers Money on Bob Packwood a Reid have issues of crime health care immigration that we should be devoting our Energy on and we should Deal with the general Economy of the country and not the Economy of Bob and Sudan according to Oakley. Oakley served As . Envoy to Somalia during the initial stages of . Involvement in the East african nation. He was recalled to duty earlier this fall after the administration decided that continued hostilities against the forces of somalian warlord Mohamed Farrah aided were counterproductive. Oakley who has since resumed his retirement spoke to reporters Friday about the yearlong International involvement in Somalia particularly the missteps that he said were made Between june and october. In contrast to the Early months when there were relatively few casualties among either the peacekeepers or the somalis there was widespread bloodshed Between june and october. Oakley said that somalian casualties numbered Between 6,000 and 10,000, and that there were about 80 among the . Peacekeepers. Starting last Spring the . Forces and aided a a troops a began to consider each other the enemy a Oakley said. This he said was in Clear violation of Quot the first axiom of peacekeeping a done to make he credited president Clinton with changing course in october when he convinced the . Security Council that it would be better to enlist aided in a process of National reconciliation. To from p age 1 slapstick Western. Quot this shows the Absurdity of trying to measure violence in this fashion a said Betsy Hoffman Fox spokeswoman in los Angeles. A much of this debate has been misdirected a said Preston Padden senior vice president of news corp., owner of Fox television. Quot it would be More productive for the television Industry and the government to work cooperatively to address the larger problem of violence in our the Survey was conducted by 109 students at Concordia College in Moorhead Minn. They viewed 150 hours of prime time network television taped from sem 28 to oct. 4. Each segment was scored by two people working independently using grades established by the National coalition on to violence. Violence was defined As Quot the deliberate and hostile use of overt Force by one individual against the Survey also rated 12 Cable channels during prime time oct. 27, As Well As saturday morning children a programs oct. 7. Dorgan said the Survey Wasny to intended to be exhaustive but rather to demonstrate How a to report card might work. Results showed the four commercial broadcast networks showed More violent acts per hour a an average of 11.3 a than the 12 Cable channels which showed an average of 8.4 violent acts per hour. Fox got the worst Grade among the networks broadcasting five of the 10 most violent programs. The Survey counted 352 violent acts on Fox compared with 224 on Abc 187 on Abc and 172 on lbs. The second most violent program during the one week Survey was Beverly Hills cop a 1984 movie aired on Abc Abc spokesman Stephen Battaglio noted that unlike a series the film Isnit on every week. A there is very Jit tie violence in most of abcs prime time lineup a he said. Quot when we do have programming that has any violence scenes in them we have viewer advisories. We also have a phone number that viewers can Call where they can find out if there is any Type of
