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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Sunday, May 22, 1994

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     European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 22, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes sunday May 22,1994 Fth at a glance Mustafa Dirani a Muslim guerrilla Leader was abducted by israeli commandos who flew by helicopter deep into Lebanon. Sec Story on Page 12. A army eases rules the . Army Europe has loosened eligibility rules for civilian workers separation incentive pay but a new Law tightens restrictions for those who later return to civil  Page 4 Navy offering jobs. The . Navy in Europe will invest about $300,000 to hire Young men and women for this years summer hire  pages slurs at Citadel alleged cadets at the Citadel were berated with racial slurs and for being a weak As a woman a former Cadet testified in a trial testing the school s All male admissions  Page 7 no precise figures the Energy department says its convinced none of the plutonium produced for . Nuclear weapons was stolen but acknowledged it does no to know How much of the radioactive material was produced., \ a a pages Yemen truce collapses Northern Yemen abandoned its cease fire just hours after it took of feet. Quot  a / _ i a a a / a Page 13 Back to work a judge in Philadelphia ordered striking Conrail employees Back to work 13 hours after they walked off the Job claiming lax safety standards put their lives in Clanger. A Page 20 i Index i Abby Ann Landers. ,16 classifieds it. 24-28 commentary. 15 faces a no places. .16 Horoscope. 27 letters. .14 Money matters. 20 mutuals.____20-23 sports. 29-36 weather .17 lawmakers resist Calls for further defense cuts Washington a although the defense budget being debated in the House trims $1 billion from president Clinton s request lawmakers Are sending a Clear signal they want no deeper cuts. Attempts to scuttle two  weapons system were turned Back Friday As the House Defeated a bid to kill the Navy s Trident ii d-5 missile and a committee saved a plan to finance an air a Craft Carrier.,. A -. A with president Clinton lobbying hard behind the scenes the House cast two Roll Call votes that spared the missile from cancellation and preserved a Navy plan to convert eight Trident nuclear missile submarines to carry the More Modem d-5.meanwhile the House rules committee rejected an Effort to have the chamber consider a measure that would effectively Cut $3.7 billion for a nuclear powered aircraft Carrier when the House continues work next week on a $262.7 Bil Hon defense plan for 1995. A this is a pleasant Surprise a said rep. Herbert Bateman r-va., whose District is the main beneficiary from Carrier construction funds. A i think we would have won on the floor but i am not disappointed that we done to have to do  the Carrier which carries a total Price tag of $4.5 billion would be built by Newport news shipbuilding amp dry Dock co. In political terms the actions showed the continued unwillingness of the House to Cut deeper into a defense budget that has. Declined steadily since 1985. Earlier in the week lawmakers refused to Cut further from the Pentagon a ballistic missile defense program. A we still have a very dangerous world a said rep. Duncan Hunter a Calif. A we have one remaining Strong survivable part of the strategic triad and that a the undersea part. The d-5 missile is the  rep. Ronald Dellums d-Calif., chairman of the House armed services committee and a frequent critic of Pentagon policies called the d-5 a relic and said lawmakers were refusing to recognize that the cold War was Over. A we now have a marvelous window of Opportunity. That window of Opportunity is to Stop the old arms race a Dellums. Said. / Quot a a in a 226-169 vote the House gave the Navy the option of fitting eight Trident nuclear missile submarines stationed in the Pacific with d-5 missiles. That could Cost an estimated $3 billion later. The Pentagon which is reviewing its entire strategic Force May choose the less expensive option of upgrading older c-4 missiles already installed on those submarines. A act Leader assails education for Blacks Summerton . A Blacks Are getting inferior educations nationwide four decades after the . Supreme court declared segregation unconstitutional a act Leader Benjamin Chavis said  there Isnit a school District in America that is treating our children fairly a he said. A v. Chavis marked the 40th anniversary of the historic Brown is. Board of education of Topeka ruling in the Small town that once forced out Blacks who fought for de segregation. The 1954 ruling was the result of four lawsuits including Briggs is. Eggs by i Ltd Elliott filed by residents of summer ton about 50 Miles Chavis Southeast of Columbia the state capital. Board members of the National association for the advancement of coloured people holding an annual meeting in Symth Carolina ate breakfast with some of the people who brought the Case. They met in the dilapidated gymnast  of Scott s Branch High school which has 565 Black students and just two Whites. The school District Clarendon 1, has the lowest percentage of White students and one of the two worst academic reputations in South Carolina. A the educational dilemma in this county is a direct result of the history of this struggle a Chavis said. A it goes to the heart of whether we re going to allow a system where private schools or people that have the economic wherewithal will isolate themselves from the rest of the Public and Only educate a few at the expense of  after the local Case was argued by a act lawyer Thurgood Marshall Summerton a White business owners fired Blacks who were members of the civil rights organization. Many Blacks who relied on Whites for credit or loaned farm equipment were unable to earn a living and moved away. When the schools began de segregating Many White parents started sending their children to other school districts or to an All White private school in town. Starting next year students at Scott a Branch move across town to a new $7.5 million building. They leave behind a cramped school on the predominantly Black Side of town where students had to share one sparsely equipped science lab and carry All their books in backpacks because the hallways Are too narrow for lockers. A a. The Money for the new school comes from an $11 million Bond Sale approved by voters and Many in the town Call it a sign that Black White relations Are improving. Many Blacks Are waiting to see if Whites will take another step and support the school by sending their children there. . Rep. James Clyburn , whose District includes Summerton said the successful Bond vote was a sign of unprecedented  suspected at kindergarten Bonn Germany up a fire that gutted a German turkish kindergarten near Bonn on sat urday was probably caused by arson police said. A police spokesman said arsonists had previously set fires near the kindergarten which opened last week for 40 German and turkish children in the town of Sieburg. He said fire officials had not determined the exact cause of the Blaze but that arson was suspected. Firefighters said no one was injured in the Blaze which caused damage of More than 1 million German Marks More than $610,000. Graves vandalized in Wurzburg area Berlin up rightists Are suspected of smashing gravestones in a jewish cemetery near the bavarian City of Wurzburg police said saturday the third such attack in Germany this month. A police spokesman said there were no leads to who carried out the attack in which 13 gravestones in the Hochberg Village cemetery were damaged or destroyed. In recent weeks jewish cemeteries in Dresden and bad Kissinger have been vandalized and painted with nazi  Page 1 has brushed off a number of questions on North Korea. Senior National Security advisers met in the White House on Friday and decided that it was time to resume talks with North Korea that were broken off by the United states late last year. An administration official said no Date has been set for the new round of talks. A a we a continue to have the same basis for dialogue with North Korea in the new round. That Hasni to changed a the official said those conditions include that North Korea open its nuclear Sites to International inspection work to keep the korean Peninsula nuclear free and engage in talks with South korean nuclear issues. A White House press Secretary Dee Dee Meyers travelling with the president in Cau Fornata said reports that North Korea had stored the removed fuel rods in water rather than reprocessing them were encouraging. She said the adminis i afr9n,was weighing a formal reaction to that information _ the latest problem arose when North Korea removed spent fuel rods from a nuclear reactor before the arrival of  nuclear inspectors. That brought Stem new warnings from the Clinton administration that Pyongyang must safeguard the spent fuel rods Tor mature inspection. The breach in the nuclear safeguards agreement could have resulted in . Sanctions against North Korea. . Officials say it appears that All of the fuel rods Are accounted for and that none was diverted to a bomb making program. The Iaea said earlier saturday the North Korea had sent it a telex expressing a readiness to receive an Agency consultation  n. A team of a senior safeguards officials is expected to arrive tuesday in North Korea for the talks the Iaea said  
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