European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 31, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 6 the stars and stripes . Tuesday May 31,1994vietnam War foes facing gop Wrath Washington apr Senate republicans Are imposing a new Standard on the Clinton administration prominent opponents of the Vietnam War should not be appointed to offices dealing with military matters. a. A it might seem like a strange requirement for an administration whose commander in chief avoided the Vietnam Era draft. But in two prominent instances republicans mustered effective opposition against nominees whose r6sum6s included opposition to the War. In the latest Case Republican senators stalled Toje confirmation of former anti War Leader Sam Brown As ambassador to the Vienna Austria based conference on Security arid cooperation in Europe a key arms control Post. A vote of 56-42 on wednesday fell four votes shy of the 60 needed to close debate earlier this year. President Clinton withdrew the nomination of Morton Halperin to Lead Pentagon peacekeeping initiatives. Halperin had resigned a Post As National Security aide to president Nixon in 1969 to protest the White House policy in Vietnam. A the was a Radical anti War protester and director of the Vietnam War moratorium committee a sen. Robert Smith r-n.h., said of Brown. A is that what we want a. A. A. A / ,. A a. Sen. Alan Simpson r-wyo., contrasted Clinton personal Battle Over whether to serve with Browne leadership role in the anti War movement. A this is not a Young Bill Clinton a confused searching and Uncertain about How to react to Vietnam a Simpson said. A this is not a Case of an individuals private past being resurrected in an embarrassing Way. Rather Sam Brown became a Public figure at that time precisely because of his anti War sen John Kerry d-mass., a decorated Vietnam Veteran who later demonstrated against the War defended Brown and said his Senate critics were launching Quot a an attack on dissent a reverse form of political correctness a a a v a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a opposition to the Vietnam War did not prevent rep. Ronald Dellums a Calit from becoming chairman of the House armed services committee last year. Rep. Robert k. Dornan r-calif., an sex fighter Pilot welcomed Dellums ascension. The difference is presidential politics Dellums said in an interview. The republicans were trying to a attain political advantage by dragging up history that the nation has struggled to get beyond its unconscionable indeed Smith a Vietnam Veteran accused Clinton of an a anti Veteran Bias in his appointments. He said there is Only one Veteran,.defense Secretary Wiliiam Perry in the top seven civilian Pentagon posts. Browne a supporters ranged from Claiborne Pell d-r.i., chairman of the Senate foreign relations committee and a one time opponent of the Vietnam policy to former defense Secretary Robert Mcnamara chief architect of that policy. Mcnamara told Pell in a letter that he met Brown during the War through his children and that they eventually became friends. In the stars and stripes 10 year Sago May 31,1084 a president Reagan told air Force Cadamy graduates that a your military forces Are Back on their feet and standing tall Quot and urged Therri to accept the Challenge of space exploration. 20 years ago May 31,1974 a the House judiciary committee issued a new subpoena ordering president Nixon to yield 45 More watergate tapes and sent him a letter warning that failure to comply could become grounds for impeachment. 30 years ago May 31,1964 a . Foyt of Texas drove his front engine Watson Ford through a racing holocaust that killed two fellow Drivers to Post a record breaking Triumph at the. 48th Indianapolis 500 Auto classic. 40 i years ago May 31,1954 a two leading republicans spoke out against the Appeal by sen. Joseph r. Mccarthy r-wis., for Federal employees to dts regard Security regulations in feeding him information on possible traitors a 50 years ago May 31,1944 a it. Gen. Mark Clark with Allied troops and tanks having just repulsed overnight counterattacks by the nazis vowed that his . 5th army would be in Rome Quot before Many Days Quot world War ii 50 years ago today May 31 19.4 4 1 american troops capture Velletri Ana Monte Artemiso forcing a Gap in the new defensive line the German army is trying to form in Western Italy Canadian soldiers take Frosinoni. German rank infantry and air forces wage attacks on soviet units in Romania. Australian troops occupy Buntoum in new Guinea but japanese forces put pressure on the . Beachhead Westward along the coast. Source 2194 Days of War w. H. Smith publishers inc. The world almanac of world War ii Bison books com. 1981 ap4 slain family members mourned Florence by. A the crowd of mourners packed the Church sunday spilling out into the lobby and the parking lot. Four bouquet covered caskets stretched from Wall to Wall a one for each slain family member. The Rev John Murphy offered words of compassion and Healing but admitted that he had no answers to the most troubling question Why would an honors student allegedly gun Down the rest of his family a these things arc mysteries a Murphy said. A they also Are miracles. There is a Miracle of Healing that we will experience. We will be healed even though the scars police say 17-year-old Clay Shrout apparently went from room to room in his Home in this Cincinnati suburb and shot his family thursday morning his father Walter Harvey 43 his Mother Rebecca 44 and his Sisters Kristen 14, and Lauren 12, v. A he then went to school showed his trigonometry class his gun and told them to carry on As usual while he sat at the teach he a desk police said. Shrout surrendered after a 10-minute talk with an assistant principal. He told authorities a a in be had a bad day.�?�. Shrout who is jailed on four counts of murder did not attend the funeral at the Florence Christian Church. Among the hundreds of mourners were about 20 gymnastic teammates of a four hearses carrying the bodies of members of the Shrout family leave a Church sunday in Florence by. The surviving son. Clay Shrout 17, has been charged with their killings. The the teams two slain girls wearing purple warm up jackets. A a a Harvey and Becky were great parents whose Only fault May be that they loved their children too much a Murphy said. He said that whatever prompted the shootings it was not a parental neglect or abuse or Lack of love.�?�. The shouts taught sunday school at the Church. Becky Shrout Sang in the Church choir arid her husband was a Church elder. A the 35-minute service included the hymn How great thou Art and the 23rd psalm which begins a the lord is my afterwards the coffins were taken one by one to four waiting hearses and driven to Crown Hill cemetery in Sharpsburg about 75 Miles away. J Warrens wis. A they came they saw they lit up. And unlike president Clinton they did inhale. About 1,000 people a three times the population of this Village a gathered Over the weekend to celebrate the sixth annual feedstock festival a paean to pot. Banners proclaimed a hemp our Premier natural resource Quot and a thank you for smoking Many pitched tents and rigged plastic windbreaks for shelter. Some came on bicycles pulling makeshift trailers piled with Bedroll and cooking gear a this is a great time a said Ben Masel who organized this years festival on a 53-acre site about 50 Miles East of la Crosse a it brings people together and it gives us the Chance to educate them to the agricultural benefits of feedstock revellers were reported to be cooperative although some neighbors complained about loud music and trespassing. Monroe county sheriffs officials said St today that they had made about 20 drug related arrests and handed out 78 traffic Larscheid of Chaska minn., who brought her 12 Yorkshire terriers received one of the citations. A i was fined $150 for not having lights on the Back of my camper a she said. A they Tell me i can to leave unless i get them fixed. I guess til have to sell a couple of dogs or to in on Spokane Wash. A they say one persons trash is another a treasure but that Wasny to the Case for a garbage collector who found a stash of Cash. He got no Reward for turning in Money lost by a woman who kept $40,000 in a wastebasket that was disposed of by a Well meaning relative helping her clean House. When Joel Forrester pulled the lever on his garbage trucks trash compactor last week an envelope burst open and $100 Bills started floating out. He telephoned his Boss who asked How much Money they were talking about. Forrester paused counted a fistful of Bills and said a a in be got $2,000 in my bands right trash haulers picking through the garbage kept coming up with More and More Money. Secret service agents swooped in to see if the Bills were counterfeit. Then a customer called and told the company about the wastebasket that she had stuffed with envelopes of Money. A we recovered $39,980,�?� a Dewey Strauss president of Valley garbage service said Friday. A we were Short 2 the customer whose name was no made Public got the Money Back
