European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 24, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 2 the stars and stripes monday january 24,1994 at a glance director Steven Spielberg Long overlooked for prestigious honors won top awards saturday for his film Schindler s list at the Golden globes in Beverly Hills Calif. See Story on Page 20. Hazards reported some children in Day care centers and Foster Homes Are exposed to raw sewage scalding water and other hazards Federal auditors say. Pages Dod dropping test the defense department will scuttle a $20 million clinical trial of an experimental aids vaccine. Page Jackson settlement pop Star Michael edly is on the verge of privately settling a civil suit against him relating to child molestation charges. Page 8 Germany faces probe Germany is being summoned be fore the . Human rights com Mission and the chief complaint against it centers on anti foreigner attacks by rightist extremists. Paged seafood safety the food and drug administration is taking Steps to prevent food poisoning that will require the seafood Industry to test its products at every Point on their journey to americans dinner plates. Page 14 Index Abby Ann Landers. 21 automotive 10 classifieds. 22-25 comics 21-23 commentary 13 crossword 21 faces n places. 20 focus. 15-17 Horoscope 24 Jumble. 24 letters 12 Money matters. 14 sports 26-32 to listings 31 weather. 11 most freshmen plan to seek graduate degrees Survey says Washington a not satisfied with the Prospect of a Bachelor s degree 65 percent of ., College freshmen including record numbers of women plan to attend graduate school according to a Survey of first year students. For the first time in the 28 years of the Survey More women than men said they were Likely to seek advanced degrees. It s an indicator of the massive social change we be undergone in this country in the last 20 years said David Merko Witz spokesman for the american coun cil on education which sponsored the Survey. Colleges and universities Are going to have to undergo significant adjustments to accommodate these women who Are aspiring to advanced the Survey of 220,757.freshmen at 427 colleges and universities found a higher share of women than men 27.3 per cent is. 25.8 percent planned to Pur sue doctoral medical or Law degrees. In 1967, three times More men than women aspired to these degrees. All told 65 percent of those surveyed planned to go to graduate school up from 55 percent last year. The Survey was conducted by the higher education research Institute at the University of California los Angeles. Among the Survey s other findings the percentage of students inter ested in business majors declined for the sixth straight year to 16.1 percent while those interested in majoring in engineering dropped to 8.7 percent. Politically the percentage of Stu. Dents describing themselves As Middle of the Road dropped from 53 percent last year to 49.9 percent this year. Just under 23 percent put themselves on the political right while 27.2 percent put themselves on the political left. Bosnia from Page 1 ment when it comes apparent it cannot fulfil its Secretary of state Warren Christopher arrived in Paris on saturday for talks with senior French officials who in the Pas few Days have openly revealed their frustration Over what several have called the humiliation of French peacekeeping forces. . Officials travelling with Christo Pher said the situation in Bosnia is Only one of Many topics on his Agenda but statements from French officials and re ports in european newspapers suggest that Washington and Paris will find it difficult to agree on military tactics in bos Nia. ". -. We Don t have any idea what the French Are talking about one Offi Cial said. The United states is not inter ested in acting on a French Call for a thorough review of the allies policy inthe former Yugoslavia he said because they conducted just such a review and is sued a communique about it Only 12 Days ago in Brussels Belgium. That communique called on the . Protection Force to draw up urgently plans to ensure that dutch troops can re place canadians stuck in the serbian besieged Muslim enclave of Srebrenick in East Bosnia and to examine How the air port at Tula can be opened for humanitarian Relief purposes. The blocked troop rotation appears Back on track according to Official Sand . Secretary general Boutros Boutros Ghali who was due in Paris on sunday. But the United states France nato military planners and . Troops commanders appear to be in disarray Over what to do about the serbian besieged Airport at Tula a Muslim con trolled City in northeastern Bosnia. France which has More than 6,000 troops among the 26,000 . Peace keepers in Bosnia and Croatia has been calling openly for Ground troops to go into Tula to secure the Airport after nato airstrikes have silenced the Serbi an guns in the Hills above. But senior Officials insist there is no Chance of that happening for several reasons the United states is disinclined for political reasons to Send ground troops to Bosnia for any purpose. . Troops would help operate the Airport if it were open for humanitarian Relief flights a senior official said but they Are not going to shoot their Way in. Airstrikes aimed at opening the Tula Airport Are a bad idea to begin with because most humanitarian Aid in that Region is distributed by Road and an attack on the Airport would Only provoke the serbs to close the roads. Making it impossible to distribute any Relief sup plies Landing at the Airfield. Even if the operation were politically and militarily desirable . Command ers have not drawn up a feasible plan for carrying it out. In the nato planning scenario the Military role would be limited to conducting the airstrikes not to provid ing the ground troops a state depart ment official said. Health from Page 1 has delivered so far and then Lay out the Steps that he believes Are still needed. The overriding goal is to convince people that he is keeping his commit ment to them a senior White House official said and to demonstrate that what he s doing matters to the speech will Center on themes that Clinton has used to unite his Agenda and Appeal to the Broad political Center work Community service economic Opportunity and family Security. Echoing a Well received address he delivered in Memphis tenn., last novem Ber the president will Call for new efforts to fight violence and crime by building communities and strengthening families. And to show that the White House is looking out for Middle class americans Clinton will list accomplishments he believes will Benefit them greatly two new Trade agreements the family leave act the Brady measure on handgun control and efforts to trim the deficit. Clinton s two earlier addresses to con Gress on his economic and health care plans were generally Well received. The Job he faces in this one is daunting. He must set the stage for a year that May bring decisive Battles Over his initiatives on health care welfare Reform Job train ing and crime. Last year Clinton was cleaning up the plate on a lot of issues that were hanging around from the Bush Reagan years said Tony Coelho a former California Congress Man who now advises the White House. This year he will be moving onto issues that will be defining for his regaining the momentum on health care will not be easy. Congressional and business opposition has hardened since the president unveiled his 1,342-Page plan last fall with a slow Down in the spiralling costs of medical care easing the Sens of urgency for Reform. And sensitive to the Public s increased concern about crime Clinton has been say ing that the nation needs to move beyond the Brady Law. His speech is Likely to in clude a Call for anti crime measures that he has recently embraced including a ban on assault weapons and an end to parole for violent repeat offenders. Clinton also is expected to Call for Swift enactment of the anti crime Bill. One aide hinted that Clinton is contemplating calling for other Steps As Well but declined to disclose them because we want to save something for a efforts from Page 1 ters were relatively Short and orderly sat urday. At a disaster Center in North Holly Wood Fema director James Lee Witt and housing Secretary Henry g. Cisne Ros said problems had been worked out. We Are now dealing with the largest mass assistance to people in an Urban setting in the history of the United states Cisneros said at a news Confer ence. Checks Are already arriving at people s Homes from the Fema process ing centers As we Richard Andrews director of the state office of emergency services said that by Early saturday 13,317 people had registered by toll free Telephone Calls and in person at assistance centers. Before the news conference Cisnero strolled across the sprawling Valley Plaza recreation Center where National guard troops erected tents for hundreds of homeless families. Art Agnos mayor of san Francisco when a major earthquake struck in 1989, said he was amazed at the improvement in Fema s performance. This Earth quake is twice As bad and the Federal response has been twice As Good he said. National guard troops spent saturday pounding stakes and tugging Guy lines erecting tents to Harbor those who have lost their Homes and the thousands who refuse to go Back indoors until the aftershocks end. The tents Are intended to shelter 6,000 people temporarily. The exact number of people displaced by the earthquake is elusive the red Cross estimates 25,000 dwellings Are uninhabitable. City officials estimate that 14,000 people were sleeping in Parks and that thousands of others were camped in Yards parking lots and on the front Steps of their crumbling buildings. The quake which measured 6.6 on the Richter scale killed at least 55 people and did $30 billion in damage according to preliminary Federal estimates
