European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 04, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes tuesday january 4,1994 at a glance country music Star Tammy Wynotte is no longer attached to a life support machine. See Story on Page"10. Inman being praised defense Secretary Les Aspin has t even left the Pentagon yet. But some top officials Are already talking up. The qualities of Bobby Ray Inman who has been nominated to be replace Aspin. Page 4 costs ballooning the Cost of administering welfare programs is rising More than twice As fast As the number of people on the Rolls Federal investigators say. Page . Groups flee two . Aid agencies deserted their Monad ism offices monday amid a wave of attacks on humanitarian groups in Somalia. Page some taxes climb High wage earners and better off retirees will have to Shell out More to Uncle Sam under new tax Laws. Page 14 Index Abby Ann Landers. 15 classifieds. 23-25 comics. .15,18-19 commentary .13 computers 9 crossword. 15 faces n places. 10 focus 20-22 Horoscope 25 Jumble 25 letters 12 Money matters. 14 sports. 27-32 to listings 31 weather 11 correction Clinton kicks off big what s broken with health care. V. Washington a president Clinton on monday launched his 1994 drive for health care overhaul predicting con Gress would finally enact a National health plan after decades and decades of false starts and lame  a Pep talk to his revamped health care Reform team was the first item of business Clinton s Agenda for the year. He told n audience that included first lady Hillar Rodham Clinton this will be a year when we attempt to fix what s broken with our health care  asked at a picture taking session How much he was willing to Compromise with Congress Clinton said that we re going to see a fleshing out of All the alternatives in the coming Days. But he said the Bottom line remains comprehensive benefits that can never be taken  that leaves a whole lot of room for working out the details Clinton said. He was not As talkative when asked about his personal finances. Clinton brusquely turned aside a reporter s question on his relation to a failed a Kansas savings and loan and its head a for Mer Friend political ally and business partner of the Clinton some republicans have called for appointment of an Independent counsel to investigate Clinton s possible links to the Madison guaranty savings and loan association which was headed by James me Dougal. Federal investigators Are looking into whether any funds from the Thrift were Ille Gally diverted to the Whitewater real estate venture half owned by the Clinton. The White House has turned relevant files Overto the Justice department. It was Clinton s first full Day in the Whitehouse after a Winter gab and Golf getaway. He had a series of meetings planned to plot Domestic strategy for the new year and to prep for a trip abroad to a nato Summit and a Moscow meeting with russian presi Dent Boris n. Yeltsin. The president leaves saturday on the 10-Day, five nation trip that will take him from the nato Summit in Brussels Belgium to a meeting with syrian president Hafez Assad in Geneva. Mexican from Page inmates freed by the rebels from a local  " a statement from the governor s office said the rebels also seized firearms an ammunition from the prison. Fourteen rebels fleeing san crist6bal in a minibus were killed when they ran into an army patrol from a nearby Mili tary base. Six soldiers were also killed in the gun Battle. Ten rebels were killed in another fight near san Cristobal. No Timex said five police were killed in Las margaritas on saturday. Rebels were still holding the towns Oflas margaritas Altamirano and Chanal on monday. Roman Catholic Bishops have asked for a truce. The rebellion came As the North american free Trade agreement be tween the United states and Mexico took effect at the Start of the year. A statement by the rebels complained of foreign domination. The rebels also say they Are protesting abuses by mexican authorities against indians in the Region. The indians have complained that they Are losing their land to swindlers and that their tradition Al Way of life is being destroyed. The rebels said they Are from the a Patista army of National liberation previously unknown group. The group is named after Emiliano Zapata a hero of the 1910-17 mexican revolution. It was the first sign of organized guerrilla activity in Mexico since the 1970s. Witnesses spoke of peasants in re bandannas looting stores wrecking government offices and burning official papers in rampages. There s shooting bombs grenades machine gun fire said Jose Luis Ruiz an oco Singo resident. A while ago it was Hor Rible. We Are under the bed at  this whole thing has been terrifying Forus said Hernan Pedrero manager of the Santo Tomas hotel on san crist6baps main Plaza. Surplus from Page 1 amounts that support and sustain Tomor Row s army in Europe Thompson said. The More than 14,000 trucks trailers and other rolling Stock that crowd the re serve storage activity at Sermersheim South of Heidelberg Are Only some of the items slated for departure. Similar Rollin Stock items numbering Well above 20,000 Are in Reserve storage activities at Kaiserslautern Germany and in Luxembourg. Thompson termed the amount of Materiel As significant but provided no estimated Dollar value. Most of the equipment will go Back to the states he said. Some of it will be transferred to other North Atlantic treaty organization countries and some will be sold to other countries through the foreign military sales  nato members Greece Turkey and Spain Are some of the countries that will receive the equipment Thompson said. Nato countries accepting the equip ment must buy it and pay to move it from the storage activity. The equipment is available Only As is and carries no War Ranty he said. Some of the equipment has been offered to . Officials including 600 pieces ear marked for the . Missions in Somalia and Macedonia Thompson said. Some equipment will be handed to de sense re utilization and marketing office officials for sales and auctions through out Europe. The redistribution of excess equipment involves four Steps Thompson said. First we have to identify equipment not needed in the theater. Next we classify condition and then determine the end user. Finally the equipment is loaded upon ships and sent to the end  some of the equipment forms the Cornerstone of the army s prep afloat pro Gram under which items Are stored on ships throughout the world. The equipment is targeted to resupply army troops in com Bat. More than 27,000 pieces of rolling Stock were received and redistributed by the european storage activities in 1993. Such transfers began in 1990. Usa eur officials expect the final figure of rolling Stock redistributed to exceed 87,000 pieces. Also scheduled to be returned to stateside army units Are 233,000 tons of ammunition. More than 533,000 tons of ammunition have been sent to the states since 1990. The return of the equipment could slow or Stop if the world and political Cli mates change said col. William Kyle Iii the 29th area support group commander. The support group oversees army storage activity operations in Germany and Luxembourg. A shortage of trained personnel has hampered the movement of the equip ment to the United states Kyle said. The shortage resulted from the pullout of thousands of army troops from Europe but the expected arrival of 10,000 army reservists into the support group to server few weeks at a time this year will allow the flow of equipment to continue Kyle said. Because of an editing error an incorrect list of foreign currency rates was published in monday s paper. See Page 14 for an updated list of rates. Airliner from Page 1 Man for the state committee for Emer gency situations. Then he radioed again and said that the engine was completely out and they had lost control of the air plane. Then it just disappeared from the radar  the plane crashed in a snowy Field at a livestock farm seven Miles outside Irkutsk a City of 650,000 people. Russian television reported that Farmer was killed in the explosion and fire fed by the plane s fuel tanks which had been filled for the five hour flight to Moscow. But the committee on emergencies a Russia site of crash aps a government Agency that deals with Natu ral disasters and major accidents said it had no knowledge of any casualties on the ground. Doctors rescuers and civil defense troops rushed to the crash site but there were no survivors Gleeova said. The aircraft crashed and burned completely she said. Authorities said the Jet was carrying nine Crew members and 111 passengers including 10 germans four mongolians and one person each from Japan India and Austria. The victims names were not immediately released. Russian president Boris n. Yeltsin is sued a statement expressing his most sincere condolences to the victims families. The soviet made tu-154, a three engine Turbofan Jet that can carry up to 180passengers, is a mainstay of civil aviation in the former soviet Union. In the previous air disaster on dec. 26, a chartered an-26 Jet crashed in heavy fog in the armenian town of Lyumn killing 35 people. Only one person sur Vived