European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 19, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday december 19, 1993 . The stars and stripes Page 5 estimate of Dod deficit reduced to $31 billion by the new York times Washington a senior administration officials Friday produced More optimistic inflation estimates showing that a $50 billion Pentagon shortfall had shrunk to $31 billion. It was seen by some As an Effort to put to rest a Public dispute Between the Pentagon and the White House before retired adm. Bobby Ray i mantakes Over As defense Secretary. A top White House official also said that president Clinton is determined to maintain the Pentagon strategy of preparing to fight two regional wars virtually at once and to buy the aircraft carriers and maintain the army divisions and air Force wings necessary to carry out inc strategy. A the president said he is committed to funding the strategy Anthony Lake the National Security adviser said Friday after a amp net with Clinton defense Secretary Les Aspin and budget director Leon e. Panetta. A that will be the Assumption a the comments by Lake and other top White House and Pentagon officials were intended to strengthen ties with the military and rebut Republican assertions that Aspin was leaving because of budget cuts that would undermine the armed forces. A the economic assumptions that reduced the shortfall for the Pentagon a five year plan were developed by the Council of economic advisers whose estimate is More optimistic than the one the Pentagon had been using to develop its budget for 1995-1999. The Gap stems from the decision to raise military pay and from faulty inflation estimates developed earlier this year. With the administration committed to reducing the deficit funds that go to the Pentagon to help make up its shortfall will come at the expense of other agencies including hard pressed Domestic spending programs. Top Pentagon and White House officials gathering in an unusual display of Unity summoned reporters to disclose the latest White House inflation estimate. But the officials refused to say How much of the $31 billion shortfall which the Pentagon had originally estimated at $47.5 billion would have to be absorbed in new Pentagon cuts or if the defense department would have to reopen its comprehensive a Bottom up review of military spending. They said the budget Issue still needed to be worked out. The officials also declined to say whether the Pentagon would receive More funds if the White houses lat Cost inflation estimate turned out to be Low. Not a creature was stirring president Clinton reads tvs the night before Christmas to Washington area elementary pupils Friday in the state dining room of the White House. The president sat in a Wicker rocking chair in front of a roaring Are As he read Clement Clark Moore a classic Christmas poem to the  killed self Linton officials discuss next strategies for Haiti from wire reports Washington a the Clinton administration is exploring new options for ending the political impasse in Haiti now that its Hopes for a National conference among haitian leaders have been dashed. Top officials met late Friday to discuss ways of bringing additional pressure to Bear on Haiti a military leaders but there was no immediate report on the outcome. Additional meetings arc planned for the weekend. Meanwhile military representatives from the United states France Canada and Venezuela arc preparing a visit monday to port a Prince Haiti a capital. . Officials said the officers will inform army chief Raoul a Todras in their military to military encounter of the conditions he must meet for an easing of International sanctions against Haiti. They also will warn Cidras that the sanctions May be tightened unless he agrees to abide by earlier promises to step Down and to allow the return of exiled president Jean Bertrand  Case declined Washington the . Supreme court on saturday declined the request of a Public guardian in Chicago to order a hearing in the Case of a pregnant woman who doctors say needs a caesarean Section to save her fetus. Justice John Paul Stevens received the application Friday night from Patrick Murphy the fetus court appointed Public guardian said supreme court spokeswoman Toni House. A Justice Stevens referred it to the full court and at 9 15, entered an order denying or. Murphy a application a House said saturday. _ _ the 22-year-old woman a pentecostal Christian says she is leaving it up to god to deliver a healthy baby. Doctors at St. Joseph Hospital in Chicago say the fetus which is \ i weeks shy of full term is being deprived of oxygen and must be removed  rap lyrics rapped Washington a Black women a groups urged a National crusade Friday to persuade the music Industry to clean up violent gangsta rap Quot lyrics that they said demean and threaten women. In nearly two hours of speeches they called for picket lines around stores Selling violent rap but stopped Short of asking for a formal Boycott of a Ofil Tnya rap records and the radio and television stations that air them. Do Lores Tucker head of the National political Congress of Black women said the groups will put pressure on producers and distributors of rap music to a Stop the wholesale marketing of this kind of music across  execution Date set Chicago a the Illinois supreme court on Friday ordered serial killer John Wayne Gacy executed May 10. Gacy was convicted in 1980 of killing 33 Young men and boys a More than anyone else in . History. The court issued a one sentence order directing that Gacy be Pul to death by lethal injection May 10 and said the order is effective immediately. Gacy a part time Down and democratic precinct Captain was convicted of luring his victims to his suburban Chicago Home having sex with them and then strangling them. He buried most of the youths in the crawl space beneath his Home. Earlier this year the . Supreme court rejected the last of Gacy a appeals diary of official Mav Aid probe of Fri paper says i $500 million gift pledged 1 b # Washin finn _  Walter ii. Washington apr the Justice department looking into possible wrongdoing at the Fri is questioning investigators who reviewed a personal diary of Deputy White House counsel Vincent Foster jr.1 after he killed himself the Washington Post reported saturday. The diary which Foster s lawyer wont let the Justice department see May be relevant to an inquiry into the of big a conduct after Fosters death the Post said in saturdays editions. The inquiry also touches on Fri actions during a controversy Over the White House travel office the Post said. The Justice departments office of professional responsibility is looking into an allegation contained in a torn note found in Foster s briefcase after his july 2u death the Post said. The note suggested that the Fri a lied Quot in an unspecified report to attorney general Janet Reno. The newspaper said that eight Days after Foster committed suicide two Park police investigators reviewed Fosters personal diary kept in the office of his attorney James Hamilton. The Post said Hamilton is refusing to cooperate with the Justice department probe apparently on the grounds that it would invade Fosters privacy. So the department is resorting to interviewing the two Park police officers who did see the diary the newspaper reported. Hamilton last week declined to discuss the matter with the Post. Washington philanthropist Walter h. Annenberg pledged $500 million Friday to improve Public education and Stem the violence eroding the nation s schools. At a White House ceremony be challenged others to join him saying a at this Point i can t see any other Way to guarantee our nations  president Clinton said Annenberg s gift a the largest Ever toward Public education a a could not have come at a better  Annenberg a former ambassador who made his Fortune in publishing and communications said he was deeply troubled by school violence and concerned that if it continues unabated it will have a devastating Impact on american life