European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 31, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday december 31, 1993 . The stars and stripes Page 9 Orah Mae Miller right lying Down and Bobbie caller work on a Butterfly wednesday for the Rose Parade. To Stem Pasadena Calif. Apr the Rose Parade turned into a Blooming headache a again a for organizers of the new year s tradition. For 104 years All decisions regarding the private nonprofit new years Day tournament of roses have been made by an executive committee made up entirely of Whit men. But this year embarrassed by criticism and demonstrations in the parades Host City where More than half the residents Are minorities the committee opened its ranks to women and members of minority groups. Quot the tournament has always hoped the Parade rings in the new year with the Hopes for better understand ingot each other a said spokesman Bill Flinn. Parade organizers have taken a lot of hits in recent years. Indian groups criticized organizers As racially insensitive for naming a descendant of Christopher Columbus grand marshal of the 1992 Parade. For the past two years activists protesting general motors use of animals in crash tests have tried to storm the automakers float As it cruised by to cameras. This year citing budget problems pm Isnit Fielding a float. In november after months of pressure the five member executive committee was expanded to include two Black men a hispanic Man an asian american woman and a White woman. The move followed pressure from the City councils in Pasadena and los Angeles a rally featuring the Rev. Jesse Jackson and a traffic blocking Horn honking demonstration outside tournament Headquarters during the Coronation of this years Rose Queen. Mark Ridley Thomas the los Angeles councilman who sponsored a move to pull the City a float if the tournament did no to diversify its leadership predicted the controversy wont spoil the spectacle Quot people will go out there and have a Good time and Root for their team to win a he said. Saturday s 105th annual Parade will feature a 5vz-mile procession of 56 floats 21 marching bands and 30 equestrian units. The grand marshal is William Shatner of Star trek. Some 1 million people were expected to watch along the Parade route and television will bring the festivities to 450 million others worldwide Wisconsin will face the University of California at los Angeles in the Rose bowl football game after the Parade. Clinton join at Hilton head Hilton head Island . A its not everyone who would want to spend the Christmas Holiday sitting through Long Windea discussions about death mistakes and dieting. But then Bill Clinton is not your Ordinary vacationer. The president and his family arc Back at Renaissance weekend for their 10th consecutive year of Dawn to dark socializing and philosophizing about everything from coping with death to leave if of be Avis and Butth cad some 335 families Are taking part this year. Clinton arrived at dusk wednesday in time for the retreats opening reception. But he skipped the evenings Lead off panel discussion whoops mistakes their lessons and consequences participants had to get along without the unique insights that might come from an up and Down first year in the Oval office. The perspective of a year in the White House could come in Handy for first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton she a one of three panellists for a session today titled hard choices. % other topics on the Agenda this week what i be Learned about love adventure travels the new tax Law the better life diet a health and the situation room International crises a peacekeeping. The Retreat was started in 1981 by Phil and Linda Lader. Phil Lader is a one time real estate Developer on the Island who went on to become Clinton a Deputy chief of staff at the White House. Quot the sole objective is personal and National re new at Quot Lader wrote in a fact Sheet about the gathering. That suits Bill Clinton Fine the peripatetic first vacationer is not one to curl up with a Good Book and hibernate in his downtime. He hopscotch cd across Arkansas visiting family and friends for three Days before flying to Hilton head. And As soon As he arrived he took a 40-minute jog Down the Beach a darkness and Nippy weather notwithstanding. V although still keeping up a Busy schedule the Percsi it is clearly in a vacation Mode. He a getting his daily it ional occur it briefings on paper these Days and Dent National Security briefings doing Little other work. He spent the flight from Fayetteville ark., to South Carolina engaged in a game of Spades with his wife and their 13-Ycar-old daughter Chelsea. Renaissance weekend started As a House party for 60 families intent on seeing that their new year s Holiday was More than a lost weekend. The concept gradually grew in popularity. Interest skyrocketed alter Clinton returned  year As president elect. Man with aids jailed in Case involving kids Portland Ore. A a Man accused of trying to give aids to nine children through sex pleaded no contest to reduced charges wednesday and was sentenced to 16 years in prison. Adam Lee Brown who has aids showed no emotion As he entered pleas to three counts of sodomy and one count of reckless endangerment. District judge William keys accepted the pleas. The 31-year-old Roseburg Ore Man wildfire Beer Bash lands 25 in trouble los Angeles a Twenty five sheriffs deputies who started a Bonfire and had a Beer Bash while on standby duty during the Malibu wildfire were suspended without pay. Quot it was unprofessional. These people certainly understood or should have understood what they were doing was wrong Quot sheriff Sherman Block said wednesday. The officers were on special Reserve duty a available if needed a when they held the party nov. 4 As the fire burned hundreds of Homes. The deputies partied from about 2 . To 5 . The suspensions ranged from five to 30 Days Block said. Nineteen deputies got 15-Day suspensions. Had been charged with 43 counts including attempted murder rape and penetration with a foreign object and laced up to 300 years in prison if convicted on All counts. / none of the children has tested positive for the virus that causes the disease. Authorities said Brown brought the children into his Home in summer 1992 and plied them with drugs alcohol and pornographic videos. The children ranged in age from 2 to at least 8. The Mother of some of the children said she was upset that Brown  be tried on All charges. A a in a totally disappointed and extremely angry Quot she said. 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