European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 22, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday december 22, 1993 the stars and stripes Page 5attacks on Clinton sad first lady says Washington apr first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton said tuesday that allegations about president Clinton s extramarital affairs As governor were Quot outrageous terrible stories Quot spread by Clinton foes. She said the stories were being spread by two Arkansas state troopers for Quot political and financial  in an interview with the associated press Hillary Clinton said Quot for me its pretty sad that we re still subjected to these kind of attacks for political and financial gain from people and that it is sad that a especially Here in the Christmas season people for their own purposes would be attacking my  she said the attacks seem to come whenever Clinton a political fortunes Are blossoming a such As his solid showing in the new Hampshire primary and a recent jump in opinion polls. V "1 find it not an Accident that every time he is on the verge of fulfilling his commitment to the american people and they respond out comes yet a new round of these outrageous terrible stories that people Plant for political and financial . On monday the White House said Clinton telephoned an undisclosed number of his state trooper Security detail to Quot find out what was going  but officials denied that Clinton was trying to quash stories from two Arkansas state troopers who now say they were asked to facilitate Clinton a alleged sexual affairs. A a longtime member of president Clinton a Security details when he was governor contacted the president with information that the prospects of Large sums of Clinton approval rating jumps to 58% Washington Cap president Clinton a Job approval rating shot up 9 percentage Points in the past month to 58 percent buoyed by americans new enthusiasm for his handling of the Economy said a Washington Post Abc news poll released monday. Quot. A the 58 percent figure with 40 percent disapproving was Clinton a Best performance rating in the poll since the end of april when he had a 59 percent positive rating. His Low Point came in late june when his performance met with 43 percent approval. The poll involved Telephone interviews with 1,000 people dec 1519. It carried a margin of error of plus or minus 3 percentage Points. Replies to questions about specific policy areas showed that Clinton won increased support especially in the areas of the Overall Economy International Trade and attention to the problems of crime and violence. In recent weeks economic indicators showed new strength the North american free Trade agreement and a worldwide Trade pact were concluded and Clinton signed the Brady handgun control Bill and made repeated comments on the need to attack crime and  were being dangled before several members of his former Security detail for stories a without regard for their truthfulness a to discredit the president and his family Quot White House presidential adviser Bruce Lindsey said in a statement monday night. A president Clinton expressed disbelief and asked Why anyone would do something like  the trooper told Clinton Quot that at least one trooper Roger Perry was unhappy since he had written to the president asking for a Federal position and had received no response a Lindsey added. State troopers Larry Patterson and Perry told Cable news network on sunday that they helped facilitate surfs up a and gaining fast Honolulu lifeguards Bra Keaulana standing and Derrick Stratton at the Banzai pipeline on the the Island of Oahu. Life Doemer race a 20-foot wave during a recent surf Rescue Demon guards nowadays use Jet skis to make dangerous rescues. Extramarital affairs while working for than gov. Clinton. Their allegations which do not include the names of any women Are also the subject of a lengthy article published monday by the american Spectator a journal of conservative commentary. More than a dozen present and past Security officers were contacted monday by the associated press and several said they knew of no trysts and doubted that the accusations were True. Quot i just done to believe it was True Quot said Bob Walker a gubernatorial Security staffer in 1984-88. Quot i believe these Guys Are mad at him for one reason or another Quot he said of Patterson and Perry. Yeltsin shuts Security unit Moscow apr russian president Boris n. Yeltsin on tuesday dissolved the powerful Security ministry and created a new internal Security Agency saying the successor to the Kab had proved to be "unrcformablc.&Quot. Yeltsin a decree was his first major move in response to the defeat of reformers at the hands of Ultra nationalists in parliamentary elections dec. 12. The ministry had been blamed for not warning Yeltsin of voter support for extremist Leader Vladimir v. A Mirinovsky. It was not immediately Clear How the new body would differ from its prod cacs Sor. The head of the dissolved Agency in Kotai Golushka was named to head the new one the Federal service of counterintelligence. Quot at the present time there is a Lack of a strategic concept for the slate Security of the russian federation and the ministry of Security. Counterintelligence activity was weakened Quot Yeltsin a decree said. Lebanese blast raises fears of renewed terror attacks Beirut Lebanon apr Rescue workers tuesday found a baby a body in a House next to Phala Gist party Headquarters devastated in a car bombing the evening before. The infant boys death raised the toll to three killed and 130 wounded in the worst attack in Lebanon in almost two years. Both Christian and Muslim political leaders voiced fears that the bombing might signal a return to factional terrorism three years after the end of Lebanon a civil War. The 15-year War ended in 1990. A the civil War is Over but this bombing is evidence that terrorist methods of the civil War Are still in practice Quot said Karim Pakradouni the Secretary general of the right Wing maronite Christian party. The statement by Pakradouni who was vacationing in Paris was broadcast by Christian controlled radio stations. Tammam Salam the sunni Muslim Leader of the saudi funded Mak Assed philanthropic organization spoke of a return of the a Black hands of  he urged authorities to chop them off. Police said a 440-Pound Remote control bomb in a parked car ripped through a conference Hall during a weekly meeting of phalanges leaders. The body of 3-month-old Samuel Deeb the son of a maronite family was found tuesday in a Home near the two Story phalanges building. The blast also killed phalanges politburo member Antoine Baaklini 45, and a Man unaffiliated with the party who was nearby. No one has claimed responsibility for the bombing. Police and phalanges officials said they Hau no leads. 0 bomb threats disrupt . Rail lines London apr police closed More than three dozen train stations in Southeast England and suspended service on two London subway lines after receiving bomb threats tuesday. Thousands of commuters and Christmas shoppers were stranded or delayed by the closures which started before 9 a.m., during Rush hour. Scotland Yard said police received a series of coded Telephone warnings it would not elaborate or speculate whether the Irish Republican  was responsible. Members of Scotland Yards anti terrorist squad and the British transport police were searching the stations and More than 200 Miles of tracks. A police spokesman speaking anonymously in keeping with British custom said All 40 train stations on the Busy 21-mile British rail line Between London and Sevenoaks were closed. All six London railway stations served by the line a Victoria Blac friars London Bridge Charing Cross Cannon Street and Waterloo East a were also closed. On the London underground service was halted on the Central and Northern lines two of the busiest lines into the business and shopping districts. The London Sevenoaks rail line also was dosed much of sunday following an Ira bomb warning and cmdr. David Tucker head of Scotland Yards Antiterrorist Branch warned travellers to be vigilant. The Ira is expected to announce a Holiday cease fire on Christmas eve As it has done since 1990