European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 09, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 the stars and stripes . Sunday january 9,1994 train health says i by jailers by new Day Mineola . Colin Ferguson maybe men tally competent but if the train shooting suspect s own account is to be believed he s a physical  court appearance Friday in which a Nassau county judge found him mentally competent to stand trial Ferguson speaking in an even voice unleashed a Litany of complaints about health prob lems that he said were being ignored at the Nassau Tail. Ferguson who wore leg chains and stood with his hands cuffed behind him said his ailments included kidney stones High blood pressure a spinal disc problem uric acid in his blood and poor circulation in his left leg. Last week. I was bedridden for an entire weekend and denied medical treatment he told District court judge Ira b. Warshawsky. As i suffered and screamed i was told by. The prison guards that that was an extremely Good sign As far As the were concerned that they were hoping for my Swift departure from  Ferguson who also was denied a four week adjournment so that he could find a new lawyer the began describing his problems with High blood pres sure when Warshawsky attempted to Cut him . Ferguson i think you be delineated. " but Ferguson 35, interrupted the judge. Well just wish to state one More thing he said adding that he also suffers from a damaged disc and spine problem that makes walking painful. Ferguson is accused of killing six commuters an wounding 19 others after opening fire on a crowded Long Island rail Road car dec. 7. Peck said the Colin Ferguson left the accused train gunman Scase would be presented to a grand jury monday. Led into the courthouse Friday in Mincola , elderly May face cuts in Federal Aid Washington a president Clinton will pro pose cutting More than $2 billion for Public housing next year particularly slashing Aid to the elderly congressional sources said Friday. At the same time the administration will Call for boosting spending for the homeless by nearly 50 per cent and nearly doubling a rent subsidy program for the poor said congressional aides and lobbyists who spoke on condition of anon Mary. The cuts for Public housing construction and renova Tion Are certain to create an uproar among members of Congress and advocacy groups that support those pro Grams. -.-. V Clinton is putting the finishing touches on his $1.5 trillion budget for the fiscal year that begins oct. 1.and though he does t plan to unveil it until feb. 7 details Are beginning to emerge. Aides and lobbyist said other proposals include increases of nearly 3 percent for the departments of education and health and human services Al though some programs within each Agency Are Cut. The huge chapter i program that provides extra teacher for poor school districts would grow from $6.9 billion this year to $7.6 billion in 1995. Shrinking the National aeronautics and space administration s budget slightly from $14.5 billion this year to $14.3 billion next year. The space station would get about the same As the $1.9 billion it got for 1994. Increasing the budget for the National science foundation which finances Many of the country s re search scientists to $3.2 billion from $3 billion this year. V Bobbitt abused wife in 90/ group s files show look for it in the stars & stripes on thursday january 13th by the Washington Post Washington a Marine corp family advocacy review committee that hears Domestic violence cases deter mined that John Wayne Bobbitt physically abused his wife in late 1990, court documents show. Attorneys for Lorena Bobbitt who will go on trial monday for cutting off he husband s Penis recently subpoenaed re cords from the family advocacy Case review committee at Quantico Marin base a. A document dated dec. 21, 1990, states that the committee has determined that this incident is established physical abuse of mrs. Bobbitt by Lance Cpl  defense attorneys May use the finding to try to show a pattern of abuse which they have contended was the provocation that eventually led to Lorena Bobbin s attack on her husband last june. The Quantico committee also recommended that John Bobbin attend 12 ses Sions of a men s support group offered at the Marine corps family service Cente beginning in january 1991, and that his wife attend a dozen sessions of a women s support group. Neither of the bobbins participated i those groups because he left the marines on Jan. 1, 1991. Attorneys for both said their clients had never been notified of the committee s conclusions. My client never even knew she was supposed to attend the counselling ses Sions said Blair Howard a Well known criminal defense lawyer who joined Lorena Bobbitt s defense team about 2vi weeks ago. Nobody Ever informed  Gregory Murphy an attorney for Joh Bobbitt said Bobbitt twice visited a priest about the matter. The 26-year-old-bar bouncer has repeatedly denied Abus ing his wife. In november he was acquitted of marital sexual assault for a alleged attack june 23, 1993. That was castrated husband makes up with wife los Angeles a a Man and his wife who is accused of castrating him while he slept have reconciled and want the charges dropped the woman s lawyer said. Aurelia and Jaime Macias mex ican immigrants who have been married 17 years want to put the september 1992 attack behind them said Public defender Nan Whitfield. Aurelia Macias 35, is accused of severing her 39-year-old husband s Testicles with scissors Ashe slept. Deputy District attorney Law rence Longo said he would not drop the Case. Doctors were unable to reattach the Man s genitals. The night Lorena Bobbitt severed he husband s Penis. The Organ was reattached by surgeons. The records from the Marine review committee which can include social workers doctors or nurses and base Lead ers do not detail the incident in ques Tion. Lorena Bobbitt s attorney declined of elaborate. Saying he wanted to review the documents to determine whether it was one or several incidents that led tothe committee s findings. Murphy however said the confrontation occurred thanksgiving Day 1990. Rvv11 a fi6ht with Jhn Over which to show to watch and refused to serve him thanksgiving dinner and whence went outside she locked him out Murphy said. He got Back in through Aback door and had to make his own