European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 06, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 the stars and stripes . Thursday january 6,1994 delay hinted in Clinton welfare plan Washington a president Linton May let his plan to overhaul the nation s welfare system slip this year As he pursues health care Reform administration officials and welfare experts say. A senior administration official speak ing on condition of anonymity said the president is genuinely undecided about How aggressively to push welfare Reform while Congress is wrestling with health Reform. There Are ongoing decisions within the administration about the timing of welfare Reform and no decision has been reached the official said tuesday. One possibility is to pursue both  second possibility is to delay introduction of a welfare Reform Bill until health care Reform is at least through the major  but another source said democratic leaders in Congress have advised the president to choose Between health care and welfare Reform warning that it would be too Tricky to move both at the same time. The same congressional committees that have jurisdiction Over welfare the Senate finance and House ways and Means committees also have jurisdiction Over health care Reform. Clinton s Call to end welfare As we know it and Cut off welfare benefits after two years for Able bodied parents was one of his most popular Campaign promises and helped define him As a new Democrat. Delaying welfare Reform could be politically risky in 1994, an election year they really seem to be flirting with disaster by procrastinating and doing every thing to avoid carrying that pledge out said Robert Rector a welfare expert with the conservative heritage foundation. They re looking for a minimum Fig Leaf cover.-.".  moderate and conservative democrats in the House see welfare Reform As a sure fire re election Issue and have been pressing the president to keep his Campaign promises and to take up welfare re form this year. But there have been other signs recently that welfare Reform May be taking a Back seat when Clinton outlined his Agenda for the new year he spoke of his commitment to guaranteed health care safer streets and a stronger Economy. He mentioned the need to Reward work Over welfare but without the same kind of  los Angeles times reported Las week that White House officials have quietly shelved plans to announce the president s welfare Reform proposal in his state of the Union speech this month. Also the 1995 Federal budget due to be unveiled in february is Likely to Lack any allowance for starting a welfare Reform plan.  -. Astronaut Story Musgrave right moves about the endeavour cargo Bay during deployment of solar panels dec. 91993, on the final Day of spacewalks to repair the Hubble Telescope. Afro Laufs report Good indication that Hubble works space Center Houston a the astronauts who successfully installed replacement parts on the Hubble space Telescope compared their work to an Early hit in a Ball game it Ain t Over till it s  the $3 billion Hubble was hauled aboard the shuttle endeavour on dec. 4, and four space walking Astro nauts spent the next week installing 11 new parts including two sets of optics designed to Correct the Tele scope s nearsightedness. New guidance and Power systems and an upgraded computer memory also were put in. We have Good indication that it works astronaut Claude Nicolhey said at a news conference tuesday. I expect Good news about the optical components but Wedon t have the final answer  the astronauts said All they can do is wait we knew when we did our part that that was no enough. A Home run does not win the Ball game. You be got to win the game said payload commander Story Musgrave. Every single morning we Call the Hubble project to find out How the Check is  Hubble scientists said tests so far have found the instrument to be in perfect working order but it will be late this month or Early february before final results Are in. The Hubble was launched in 1990 with a primary Light gathering Mirror ground too Flat along its edges prohibiting the Telescope from clearly seeing stars atthe Edge of the universe. Aside from the two sets of corrective optics that were Story Musgrave gestures while talking tuesday to re porters in Houston about the Hubble repair Mission. Installed the other repairs had been planned As part of maintenance scheduled throughout the Hubble s expected 15-year lifespan. Nasa spent $629 million on the Mission. After a year of lost satellites and funding fights fully restored Hubble is Likely to mean a badly needed image boost for Nasa. Endeavour commander Rich Ard Covey said his seven member Crew did t set out to repair the Agency s reputation but he Hopes that will be a fringe Benefit. Thomas ally Book to Tell of Hill showdown Washington a a . Senator says he s not trying to prove in a new Book whether Anita Hill told the truth when she accused supreme court Nomi Nee Clarence Thomas of sexual harassment. What it will show is that when a person is destroyed it s not a Good thing said sen. John c. Dan Forth a to. It s a very very awful thing to  Danforth who As Missouri attorney general in 1974 hired Thomas out of Yale Law school and later made him a top Senate assistant said the Book will be a min Ute by minute highly personal account of Thomas 1991 confirmation hearings. F it s a recounting of the experience of the last three weeks before the vote As we lived it meaning Clar ence and his friends Danforth said in a interview. It just is what we did and thought and lived  Thomas narrowly won Senate confirmation despite allegations by Hill a University of Oklahoma Law pro Fessor that he had sexually harassed her when they worked together at the education department and the equal employment Opportunity commission. The bit Ter hearings touched off National debate about sexual harassment. The Book will show How Thomas personally returns to life after winning confirmation and being sworn in As a supreme court Justice Danforth said. Postal changes set to protect privacy Washington a the postal service is Chan Ging its mail forwarding system to help protect people such As battered women who Don t want their new address Given out. Postmaster general Marvin Runyon told the Agency s governing Board tuesday that the Post office i launching a pair of changes in its rules to help protect people. K clearly there Are troubled individuals who could use our system of address changes for malicious Pur poses. I want to make sure that does t happen Runyon said. R he said officials Are studying ways to modify the cur rent system under which an individual can go to the Post office of someone who had moved and obtain the new address of that person by paying a $3 fee. The system is expected to be changed by Spring after comments and suggestions from the Public Are re viewed Runyon said. In addition he said the postal service will no longer automatically provide address corrections for mail sent to persons under court Protection such As battered women. New address information for such individuals wills ill be used to Forward their mail. But it will not be in Ciu aed m address correction services provided by the Post office. Board chairman Bert h. Mackie meanwhile noted that discussions Are continuing on plans to raise Post age rates but said no final decision has been reached. The Board is expected to make a rate announcement within the next month or so