European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 19, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 2 r the stars and stripes wednesday january 19,1994 at a glance Charles and Rosic Gore Check out the record 19 inches of Snow that buried Louisville ky., on monday. They were far from the Only ones to feel the freeze. See Story on Page 8. Woman beats Citadel chief Justice William h. Rehnquist has cleared the Way for Shannon Faulkner to become the first woman to attend Day classes at the Citadel. Page 4 threat reported a psychiatrist says Lorena Bobbin reported Only Days before she Cut off her husband s Penis that he had threatened her. Pages Boycott makes gains Cincinnati has lost two conventions since residents voted to repeal an anti discrimination Law for homosexuals. Pages soviets got pos several dozen american service members were taken to the soviet Union from korean War battlefields in a Kremlin intelligence operation a study concludes. Page 7 Mission questioned the departing commander of . Forces in Somalia says the operation May never be Able to leave the Afri can nation with a lasting peace. Page 9 wind rules protested Mobile Home makers say new fed eral wind standards will blow away Many people s Chance of affording a Home. Page 16 Index Abby Ann Landers. 24 classifieds. 25-27 comics 22-24 commentary 15 crossword. 24 faces n places 21 focus 17-20 Horoscope 27 Jumble 27 letters. 14 Money matters 16 sports 29-36 to listings. 35 weather 13 reformer reportedly quits As russian stance hardens Moscow a finance minister Boris Feodorov reportedly resigned tuesday the second major reformer to step Down amid signs that president Boris n. Yeltsin is backing away from Radical economic Changde in another signal that Yeltsin is alter ing course foreign minister Andrei v. Kozarev said Russia needs to maintain a military presence in the Baltic states and the other former soviet republics to protect russian interests. Both developments appear to be in response to the Strong showing of communists and Ultra nationalists in december selections. The Ruble tumbled to a record Low tuesday amid uncertainty Over the shape of Russia s economic future. Deputy prime minister Yegor t. Gai Dar architect of Russia s free Market re forms and the favorite target of hard liners quit sunday warning that recent government decisions had put the course of economic reforms in danger. Prime minister Viktor Chernomyrdin was expected to announce his new cab inet on tuesday after meeting with Yeltsin. Feodorov s departure which had Bee expected after Gaidar s announcement was reported by the itar Tass new Agency and by radio station Echo Mosk by. The reports could not immediately reconfirmed. Olga Leonova Feodorov s press Secre tary told the associated press that Feodorov had rejected an offer of a ministerial Post in the new Cabinet saying he wanted to remain a Deputy prime min ister As Well. Leonova said she could no confirm whether her Boss had quit. Feodorov s personal Secretary Valery Volga Rev said he would have no com ment so far on the report. A Yeltsin spokesman also declined comment. Feodorov 35, an advocate of fiscal an monetary restraint said earlier that he would remain in the Cabinet Only if two conservatives including the chairman of the Central Bank were replaced. Itar Tass and Echo moskva said the prime minister had rejected those de mands. Yeltsin who last week told president Linton that Russia s reforms would continue accepted Gaidar s resignation monday. In comments tuesday to russian ambassadors to the Baltic and the other former soviet republics Kozarev said russian troops must remain on what has become foreign soil to prevent a Security vacuum.", we should not withdraw from those regions which have been the sphere of russian interests for centuries and we should not fear these words about the military presence he said. A Security vacuum will emerge As soon As russian troops withdraw fro former soviet territory and that vacuum will be inevitably filled in by Force which Are often not Friendly and in Many cases hostile to russian interests Kozy Rev said. His comments were especially Surpris ing because of their source. He is consid ered a pro Western reformer opposed to the angry nationalist rhetoric of such politicians As Vladimir v. A Mirinovsky. Inman from Page 1 began to shift pretty said he suspected but could not prove that Dole had asked that a More partisan look be taken at my record and and encouraged negative Media report about Inman. Dole s office said there was no truth to the allegation. Again without offering proof Inma said he was told that Safire had agreed to write columns criticizing Clinton s invest ment in a controversial Arkansas real estate development if Dole in turn took a More critical View of Inman s nomination for the Pentagon Job. There were re ports which both will probably deny that there was a Trade Between or. Satire and senator Dole Inman said. That if sen Ator Dole would turn up the heat on my nomination that Safire would turn up the heat on the Whitewater development co. about Inman s allegation that he. Worked out a Deal with Safire Dole told a news conference in Colum Bia . He s probably not qualified to be Secretary of defense if he has fantasies like that. I Don t work for the newspaper. He has the right to say anything he probably did t want the asked directly about the Deal the senator said he does not have the habit of working out deals with the new York Nancy Nielsen a spokeswoman forthe new York times said Inman s withdrawal and news conference came a news to us. We Are looking into every thing he said and it will take us a while to reconstruct the incidents he said took place. At this Point we really Are jus looking into Inman said he became convinced in carry january that some re publicans were out to get him and that he would not have the bipartisan support needed to implement dramatic changes at the Pentagon. On tuesday he said republicans had assured him that was not the Case but that his mind already was made up. Inman said however that his Nomi nation was covered fairly by the daily newspaper and television journalists. Nonetheless he said he was concerned in this new Era of modern mccarthyism with the columnist who is afforded the pages of the newspaper and the syndication and the talks shows to carry on attacks with no one Inman said however that he himself had decided not to respond to Many of the criticisms i be already Given 30 years of service to my country Inman said. I am simply not prepared to pay the current Cost of Public service in distortion of my yet Inman said he was confident he would have been easily confirmed Possi Bly by a unanimous vote. He said rewrote his resignation letter Jan. 8 but did not deliver it to the White House until Friday. Inman 62, said that my family was not enthusiastic about my return to Public he said his wife had specifically asked him to Promise that a former Domestic worker would not be embarrassed be cause the inmans had not paid required social Security taxes an Issue that Cameto Light shortly after Clinton announced the nomination. Reality from Page 1 West Side to downtown despite a Detour around a collapse on the Santa Monica freeway. Traffic is really Light. I though tit was going to be messed up said com Muter Matthew Keife who took the Santa Monica freeway. Schools were closed and police chief Willie l. Williams asked businesses to re main shut to reduce traffic. But roads were clogged in the san Fer Nando Valley s Newhall pass where interstate 5 and state route 14 were Bot closed by collapses forcing eight lanes of traffic onto a narrow surface Street. Ann Diamond used the Metrolis commuter train from Fontana to reach her medical office Job about 40 Miles away. I was kind of leery about using the freeway today. Because of the quake she said after stepping off the train at Union station downtown. Hundreds of aftershocks including on measuring 5.3, rolled through after the quake hit at 4 31 . Monday. One at7 23 . Tuesday registered 4.7. The lingering threat kept Many people from returning to their Homes overnight especially in Northridge the neighbor Hood at the quake s epicentre. We could sleep in the apartment tonight but we re not taking the risk said Juan Magal lanes who drove his Van onto the base Ball Diamond at Reseda Park in North Ridge. This is the worst Day of my the state emergency Agency sent about300 search and Rescue teams to find peo ple dead or alive in the rubble. The teams were equipped with High tech listening devices and cameras that can be lowered into crevices. Crews pulled a 16th body from the rubble of a North Ridge apartment House on tuesday. The two top floors of the three Story Wood and stucco building smashed the ground floor Flat. There were no reports of any one from the building missing. All the bodies we found were in did t have a Chance to Wake up City firefighter John Hanson said. A dusk to Dawn curfew was in effect a police and the National guard patrolled to prevent looting. About 75 people we rearrested in the first 24 hours for Earth quake related crimes said officer do Cox a police spokesman who said the scene was largely very we were prepared for a whole lot but we did t get it Cox said. The California National guard said that by tuesday it had mobilized More than 2,000 troops Many awaiting orders at armoires. At least 500,000 Homes remained without Power and at least 200,000 had no water. Phone line worked on and off. Without Power Many filling stations were closed and Cash machines did not work. Officials said most Power should be re stored tuesday. But water remained a bigger question because of damage to key pipelines and aqueducts. Residents in some areas were advised to boil water incas of contamination. The quake was Felt from san Diego 125 Miles to the South to Las vegas 275 Miles to the Northeast. But it still was t the Bigone expected to strike the san Andreas fault in the desert to the East downtown skyscrapers were barely damaged and Busy tourist spots such As Disneyland an Universal studios were untouched. But in the Valley the ruins of More than 40 houses soldered from fires started by Gas or Oil main ruptures. President Clinton declared Souther California a disaster area opening the Way for Federal Relief
