European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 31, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse Pirjo it the 8tars and stripes . Monday january 31,1994 jobs program May soar we fare Law could put 2.3 million on Public payroll Washington a requiring welfare recipe Nils to work could mean creation of a huge Public jobs program Lor 23 Neil Loii people according to one preliminary Clinton administration . That figure has been discussed Al the department of health and human services administration officials said saturday hut they insisted the number has Little significance. The 2,3 million number is irrelevant and mislead ing said department spokeswoman Melissa Skolfield. A senior administration official speaking on Condi Tion of anonymity said the figure was discussed Al a Jan 14 meeting Al the department the 2,3 million number was based on the initial run of the computer Model and it did not account for the effects of current policy health Reform or for other policies the official said the Clinton administration still does not know How Many parents will be a shed into a Job after two years on the welfare Rolls the official said adding it s certainly not going to be 2.3 president Clinton has said health care Reform will re the welfare Rolls by 1 million families. Many parents choose welfare Over work because unlike Many minimum wage jobs it comes with health insurance. The new York times reported sunday that the 2.3 million figure was circulated in a confidential paper and if accurate would require three to four times the number of jobs the administration appears willing to create. The newspaper quoted an unnamed official who said they be always said this program is going to work so Well that they would t have that Many people hit the two year Wall. Now they re beginning to see that this a real first lady on hand As club opens doors to its first ladies Washington a Hillary Rodham Clinton helped break the gender Barrier at the Alfalfa club As the i year old club opened the door saturday night to its first women members and guests. President Clinton and the first lady were guests for dinner As the organi Alion inducted its first three female members supreme court Justice Sandra Day o Connor former transportation Secretary Lili Abele ii Dole and former Washington Post co. Chairman Katharine Graham. As is traditional the president was among the speak ers on hand to entertain the crowd including his predecessor George hush the club whose sole Mission is to Host a Light hearted off the record dinner for the elite of business and government once a year has about 200 members each of whom is allowed to bring two guests. The club s outgoing president sen. Charles s. Obb a a pushed to bring women into the organization. He said there was never any prohibition on women they just never got invited. I guess the principal objection for some of the male members most of whom have been a Little on these Nior Side was they did t want to feel like they had to bring their spouse each Lime he explained. Last year several female members of the Clinton administration were invited but none attended because the president had a weekend Retreat for his Cabinet at Camp David my. All members of the Cabinet and supreme court were among the invited guests this year. The Alfalfa club is so named because Alfalfa sends its roots far in search of liquid refreshment. Alter the dinner the Clinton motorcade stopped at the Post civil War pension building and the Clinton went inside where hundreds of fellow arkansans were holding an annual Blue Jean Campus murders burglaries foil but other crimes Rise Survey says Washington a reports of robbery As Sault and motor vehicle theft on College campuses Rose last year but there were fewer burglaries and murders than a year earlier according to a Survey of 771schools, the chronicle of higher education Analy eng an Imal Security statements filed by the schools reported saturday there were 1,353 Campus robberies in 1993, up about 12 percent from 1992. The College reported 3,224 cases of aggravated As Sault up from 3,, and 7,350 thefts of motor vehicles up from 7,159, burglaries dropped about 4 percent to 2i.47h, the newspaper said while the number of Mur Deis fell by one to 17. The colleges also reported 6 rapes and 44k forcible cd Ollen ses but the chronicle said those figures could not be compared with data from the previous year be cause of changes in the definition of sex crimes. Federal Law requires the schools to prepare annual Security reports and distribute them to students and staff. The newspaper said there is confusion among col lege officials about the requirements of the Law and critics say some schools deliberately under report crime on licit campuses Kather than promote reporting the Law has promoted rather Clever mane vering about How incidents get reported Patricia a. Mcguire president of trin Ity College in Washington d.c., told the newspaper. My under reporting crime we Are increasing the likelihood that the Nia Lily of safety on Campus is deteriorating not sex charges dropped against 2 in . In walk , a All charges have been Diop cd against the last two men set to stand trial for the j9h9 sexual assault of a retarded Hen Ridge teen Ager prosecutors said saturday. The action was requested by the victim s parents l sex county Pioss Cuylor Clifford j. Minor said. On Friday a judge granted minor s motion to Dis miss charges against Richard Corcoran jr., 24, who was scheduled to go on trial today. He faced up it 50 years in prison if convicted of Hist degree aggravated sexual assault and other charges. Superior court judge r. Cohen also Miv cd a single conspiracy charge against John Maher 23, who was accused of trying to lure the victim Back to the Jenc of the assault the next Day. Her parents emphatically slated they did not be Lieve it would be in the Best interests of their daughter in the Cal of the Imily to proceed with the prosecution minor said. He would not elaborate. Corcoran s attorney Anthony Mautone said he would file a Federal lawsuit saying that Corcoran s civil rights were violated with the indictment. The victim who was 17 at the time of the assault pcs tiled at the trial of four co defendants that Corcoran had inserted a wooden stick into her Vagina. Corcoran s Case had been severed from his four co defendants who were convicted last March of nine counts of first degree aggravated sexual assault and other crimes. The four were accused of forcing the woman to perform Oral sex and of inserting a Bat Broom handle and stick into her Vagina. The woman has an to of 64 and the social skills of an a year old. Christopher Archer his twin brother Kyle and Kevin Scherer were sentenced to 15-year prison terms. Bryant Grober was convicted of third degree conspiracy. Museum director Robert Rasmussen Points to the word Midway on the nose of a dauntless dive bomber that was pulled from Lake Michigan. Rare Wii plane recovered from Lake Michigan Pensacola Flo. A a Bullet riddled dive bomber flown by the Navy and Marine corps during historic Battles in the South Pacific has been pulled from Lake Michigan where it crashed on a training Mission 50 years ago. Since its recovery off Chicago in Early january officials at the National museum of naval aviation have Learned the Douglas sad dauntless participated in the Battle of Midway and Sank a japanese warship during an earlier engagement. We knew it had a historic significance when we pulled it up but we weren t really quite sure How historic museum director Robert Rasmus san said. This is probably one of the More significant air planes that we or any other museum in this country have been Able to stick Rasmussen pointed to a spot that had been cleaned off to reveal Midway painted on the engine Cowling. It was based on Midway Island and flown by Marine pilots in 1942. Only a handful of combat flown planes of any kind from world War ii still exist and no others from Midway Rasmussen said. It is among about 20 planes the museum has recovered from the Lake in recent years. The dauntless Complete with three machine guns arrived at the Pensacola museum Jan. 22 for refurbishing and eventual display. Museum officials have also found the Pilot who won a Navy Cross for sinking a Light Japa Nese Cruiser March 10, 1942, while flying the plane Bureau no. 2106, from the aircraft Carrie Lexington. Retired Navy capt. Mark Twain Whitlick said in a Telephone interview from his Home in car Mel calif., that he had no idea what had become of the plane until museum officials notified him of its recovery. His log Bop confirmed he had flown it on numerous missions but the most memorable was the bombing of about a dozen enemy ships anew Guinea. We caught them still in the Harbor Whittier recalled it was like dropping a Pickle in a bar i a i however he was unable to see the damage his1,000-Pound bomb had caused. The Guys behind me said they saw it hit right after the funnel and the ship came out of the water so they could see the propellers Whittic said. It rolled Over and
