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. Pago 5 Dod dropping test the defense department will scuttle a $20 million clinical trial of an experimental aids vaccine. Pages Jackson settlement pop Star Michael Jackson report edly is on the verge of privately settling a civil suit against him relating to child molestation charges. Page Germany faces probe Germany is being summoned be fore the in. Human rights com Mission and the chief complaint against it centers on anti foreigner attacks by rightist extremists. Pages 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. 18-19,21 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 degree 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. 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. Susan Ferrence a freshman majoring in visual arts at Penn state University said she is looking toward graduate school and an advanced degree in medi Cal illustration. Asked if she believed a graduate de Gree was necessary to get a Job she this Day and age i d certainly say our society and our Economy is placing heavier emphasis on advanced Educa Tion and in Many Fields the master s de Gree has become an entry level requirement Merkowitz said. Among the Survey s other findings tuition costs were a significant Factor in freshmen s decisions about what col lege to attend. 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. The percentage planning to major in a health Field Rose for the sixth straight year to 15.8 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. The Survey conducted by the higher education research Institute at the University of califor riia los Angeles said 75.1 percent of the freshmen thought it was very important to go to College to be Able to make More Money. That s up from 73.3 percent last year and 49.9 per cent in 1971. Eighty two percent said col lege is very important to get a better questionnaires were administered last fall to 296,828 new freshmen at 602 two year and four year colleges and universities. The Survey s authors used the sur Veys of 220,757 students in 427 schools to compute a National Norm for the 1.7 Mil lion College freshmen. Bosnia from Page 1 talks to decide what to do next. As the latest gruesome reports came in of Sarajevo children killed in shelling at tacks Christopher said the United states remains firm in its refusal to inject its own troops into the ground War. The nato leaders earlier this month directed . Commanders to develop plans to open the bosnian City of Tula a key receiving Point for humanitarian Aid and also to provide for the rotation of Canadian troops who Are trapped in Sre Renica and Are to be relieved by the dutch. The United states has pledged to Fly in technical support in the event that it is needed to help keep the Airport at Tull open. Nato s commitment to a new hard line against serbs who have overrun about 70 percent of Bosnia comes As commanders in the . Peacekeeping Force openly criticize the . Security Council and Secretary general Boutros Boutros Ghali for failing to Back up their Mission adequately. There has been talk of a possible withdrawal by the French or other participants in the . Military Force. At the Summit in Brussels Belgium president Clinton and the leaders of the 15 other North Atlantic treaty Organiza Tion countries warned the serbs of a new determination to order airstrikes if needed to relieve embattled Muslim enclaves in Bosnia specifying Tula Airport and Srebrenick. Boutros Ghali has the authority to order those attacks but in the Case of Tula . Officials cite a . Study that More peacekeeping troops will be needed on the ground to keep the Airport open and that will pose problems if the euro Pean nations Are unwilling to suppl them. 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 Nas 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 sense 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 m 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
