European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 15, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                A Quot i a a h Clinton s welfare Reform pushes work paychecks Richard Holbrooke the . Ambassador to Germany is being promoted to a Post in Washington As part of a shake up in president Clinton s foreign policy team sources say. See Story on Page 6.va Bill advances the House has sent to the president a Bill aimed at easing the huge backlog of veterans awaiting decisions on benefits claims a Page 4confession doubted lebanese authorities Are seeking to discredit a claim by a palestinian terrorist that he blew up pan am flight 103 in 1988.�? Page 5 drug therapy pushed treating heavy cocaine users is far More effective than trying to control supplies overseas or seizing the drug a study says. A Page 7island Battle the United states is marking another a Day today As the 50th anniversary of the invasion of Saipan in the Pacific is commemorated. A Page 9sprint cuts Deal the biggest telecommunications companies in Germany and France Are buying a 20 percent stake in sprint corp., the third biggest . Long distance Carrier. A Pago 18 Index Abby Ann Landers. 26 classifieds. Comics. Commentary. .17 crossword. Education. Faces a no places. 23 focus. Horoscope. Jumble. Letters. Money matters. Sports. To listings. Weather. Washington a moving to redeem president Clinton a pledge to a Send welfare As we know it a the White House on tuesday unveiled his $9.3 billion Reform package imposing a two year limit on Cash benefits and steering Aid recipients into the work Force. A under the presidents Reform plan welfare will be about a paycheck not a welfare Check a according to a summary of the plan obtained by the associated press. The five year plan which Clinton was to announce tuesday in Kansas City to would largely be paid for by cutting social programs especially Aid to immigrants and the homeless. Subsidies to wealthy Farmers would be Cut at a savings of $500 million. A huge chunk of the Money a about $7 billion a would be spent on education training and Day care programs with Only $1.2 billion targeted for work programs. The tilt away from jobs programs is expected to draw criticism. Clinton a speech forum was to be the Commerce Bank where Harry Truman once worked As a Teller. Now the Bank is known for hiring people from training programs intended to move them from welfare to jobs. More than a year in the making and Long delayed in its presentation Clinton a plan is intended to Frame a National debate on welfare Reform a politically popular Issue among democrats and republicans alike. With health Reform already clogging both houses of Congress its doubtful that welfare Reform will be enacted this year even though there a Strong support for change. Polls find that the overwhelming majority of americans Are disgusted with the current welfare system. Most people believe it discourages poor people from finding work. Clinton said overhauling welfare is an Issue that cuts across political lines. A this is something the Bubba of America and the liberals can get together on a he said in an interview published this week by . News amp world report Magazine. The Cente piece of Clinton a plan is a two year limit on Cash benefits for single parents 18 and older. The proposal singles out the youngest women on the Rolls a those born after 1971 a for intense Job training placement and child care in help them prepare for the work Force. Parents who exhaust their Cash benefits and Are unable to find a Job on their own would be enrolled in a subsidized Job or Community service work that pays minimum wage. They would be allowed to remain in the work program indefinitely As Long As they were doing everything possible to find jobs. Anyone who refuses a private sector Job or fails to make a Good Faith Effort to find work would lose welfare benefits. Critics say the plan is phased in so gradually that it will be Well into the next Century before significant numbers of parents Are required to work for their benefits and that it writes off the generation of women bom before 1971. The administration estimates the subsidized work program would grow to 394,000 participants by 2000. That s up from 15,000 now the White House Saia. If 5 million families were still on welfare by the end of the Century As they Are now just 8 percent would be enrolled. House republicans have written a plan providing at least 700,000 Public service  from Page 1 cuss the North a announcement which heightened tensions on the korean Peninsula. The a Orcas 2 million troops Are already on High Alert. After the meeting Deputy prime minister Lee Hong Koo said the North a move would Only strengthen International resolve to seek . Sanctions a process he predicted would take two or three weeks. The Seoul Stock exchanges main Index tuesday plunged 2.1 percent its biggest one Day loss in four months. South korean foreign minister Han Sung Joo said the prospects for dialogue with the North had diminished. A we have now run into a critical juncture where decisive and firm measures Are necessary a he said a japanese foreign ministry statement said North Korea was going against a the desires of International society and asked it to reconsider. South Korea and Japan much of which is within Range of North korean missiles have agreed in concert with the United states to push for punitive Steps against the North that would gradually increase in severity. But Japan a foreign ministry said tuesday that Japan would not act prior to . Sanctions. Ruling coalition strategist Ichiro Ozawa told reporters that Japan might be asked to Stop letting North korean residents Send Money to their Homeland. The North a move monday was seen As retaliation for the United nations first forma sanctions against it Over its nuclear program suspected of being used to make nuclear weapons. The Iaea a governing Board voted Friday to suspend $250,000 in nonmedical technical Aid to North Korea. North Korea also repeated monday that . Sanctions would be considered a declaration of War. The .-led push for sanctions began after the Iaea said june 2 that North Korea had refuelled an experimental reactor in a Way that made it impossible to say with certainty that it had not diverted Plu Iconium possibly for nuclear arms. The North says its nuclear program is peaceful. Former president Carter in Seoul for talks plans to visit North Korea for four Days starting today As scheduled despite the North korean announcement the National Yon Hap news Agency said. South korean newspapers quoting unnamed government sources reported tuesday that Carter in meetings with North korean leaders would convey . Conditions for High level talks with the North on improving ties something the North has expressed interest in. Those conditions would include North koreans permission for Iaea inspections of two undeclared facilities at Yon Byon and disclosure of records on extracting plutonium in the past Seoul a mass circulation Dong a ilbo said. An Iaea demand for inspections of the two undeclared Sites claimed by the North to be military facilities prompted the Pyongyang government to announce in March 1993 it would quit the non proliferation treaty. The North suspended that decision a few months later after a series of talks with the United states but still refused full inspections. In mondays statement the North said it still was deciding whether to withdraw from the  from Page 1 maximum sentence at 30 years. A sixth juror asked for 20 years. Only the july president col. Gerald Luttrell did t recommend clemency. Schaps civilian attorney David court is in the United states and was unavailable for comment tuesday the prosecutor capt. Mike Mulligan is on leave and also unavailable. Rutherford did hot have time tuesday to discuss his decision with the stars and stripes a spokesman said. A was of right now the family has no comment a said William Cassara the Baltimore attorney for the Schap family a they just got it Rutherford s decision themselves. I la be meeting with them today to discuss if they want to make a Public  Schap is being imprisoned in the . Disciplinary Barracks at fort Leavenworth Kan. The appellate courts could further re Duce Schaps sentence but cannot add to Rutherford a sentence according to a statement from v corps. In another v corps Case this year Edward a. Ricard Iii pleaded guilty to unpremeditated murder for the slaying of is daughter Elizabeth. The a year of was beaten and thrown from the family a fourth floor Balcony window in Wurtzell a Fulda suburb. The jury imposed a life sentence but in a pretrial agreement Rutherford limited the former specialists sentence to 40years.  to this sport staff write Tim Cahill in now York 24 Baum older seniors win College Aid Baum older Germany a amps Twenty four seniors from Baum older High school recently were awarded a total of $24,500 in scholarships according to the Baum older based 222nd base support in. The scholarship Money was the result of a Community wide Campaign during the 1993-94 school year. The Campaign now in its third year raised $17,500 last year. The largest single fund raising event was held april 16 at the Rheinlander club during Western night an evening of games contests Raffles and auctions. The amount raised was $11,686. The Grants ranged from $300 to $3,000. The 24 recipients Are Kyta Brennan Sharm Bybee. Noil Walker Monique Acuna Irene Rose Donneil Jackson Gregg routes i is Bataan Kri amp to Easthom Shannon House Michael strut it Michele Murphy Stacey Montgomery. Chris Hill Theresa a ois. Rashanna Johnson Dennis cites. Victoria Grace. Phil Ftp Grissom Megan Graham Chris Juniper Chris Hairston Marcel Jones and Heather Horton