European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 28, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes tuesday june 28,1994 at a glance members of the group aids coalition to unleash Power protest on new York s fifth Avenue in a March that sprang out of sunday s commemoration of a 1969 bar riot that ushered in the Gay rights movement. See Story on Page 6,i a f 1health plan studied Congress is exploring a seated Down alternative to the Clinton administrations health Reform Bill. A Page 4drug abuse found one in four mothers on welfare abuses alcohol or drugs according to a study that urges action to get them  a page6vets get checks coloradans who participated in the persian Gulf War Are getting Small thank you checks. A Page 8 air Quality improved a four Day Experiment in Southern Germany ended sunday with significant improvements in air Quality. A Page 9notebook Advance owners of notebook computers now have the Means to control a desktop Model while they Are in Remote locations. But there Are some complications. A Page 10 Dollar criticism the Clinton administration is under growing criticism about its response to the declining Dollar. A Page 20 Index Abby Ann Landers 21 a a t i a 1 classifieds. 22-26 comics. 18-19, 21 commentary. 19 1 a 1 1 1 1 a w computers. 10 crossword .21 faces in places. 20 focus. 15-17 Horoscope. 24 Jumble. .24 letters a a a a a a a a a a. .12 Money matters. .14 sports. 26-32 to listings. .31 weather. 11 suit from Page 1 prime court opinion related to former president Nixon which found that presidents Are immune from being sued for official actions taken while they Are in office. The lawsuit filed May 6 by Paula Corbin Jones a former Arkansas state employee alleges that Clinton made a lewd sexual Advance while he was governor in 1991. It is not Clear whether presidents can be sued for actions taken before becoming president. Quot if the president were required to prepare defences and consult with counsel in connection with moving to dismiss the complaint on grounds other than immunity the very interests that immunity seeks to protect will be lost Quot Bennett said. He also argues that the constitutional principles calling for separation of Powers Quot require the court to restrain from exercising jurisdiction Over this matter until president Clinton is no longer in  Jones attorneys have told the judge that she Haa a right to see a formal response to the allegations. Clinton has denied the allegations by Jones who in 1991 was working for the Arkansas Industrial development commission. She alleged in her lawsuit that Clinton asked her for sex in a room at a Little Rock hotel where the stale Agency was holding a conference for which the former governor was a speaker. She claimed that she suffered retaliation on the Job after rejecting Clinton a advances. Fire Crews journey to California blazes los Angeles a fire Crews from neighbouring states converged monday on Southern California to help Battle Brush fires that have destroyed 10 Homes and charred thousands of acres Quot they re coming in from everywhere Quot said Rita Nolan a spokeswoman for Angeles National Forest. Crews came from Oregon Washington Idaho Arizona and new Mexico. The most devastating fire so far was a 2,500-acre Blaze in the san Bernardino and Angeles National forests about 60 Miles East of los Angeles. Ten Homes in Pinon Hills were destroyed Over the weekend and damage was estimated at $2 million. Officials believe the fire sprang saturday from a campfire near a boy scout Camp. Quot its Lucky we weren to killed a said a woman who lost her Home giving Only her first name Robin. Quot it looks like a War zone. Its unbelievable a More than 1,300 firefighters battled to contain the Blaze Early monday the . Forest service said. Flames were visible monday in the resort Community of Wrightwood South of Pinon Hills. But Only about 80 Rural residences were ordered evacuated in the town of 3,200. Quot its in some Peoples Back Yards but we Haven t lost any Homes yet in Wrightwood Forest spokeswoman Dianne Cahir said. The fire was 50 percent contained monday morning she said. An additional 600 firefighters tried to contain a 3,000-acre fire in the Soledad Canyon in the Angeles National Forest that had been burning since saturday. The cause of the fire was not known. A third Blaze charred 1,500 acres South of Anza in Riverside county. State investigators believe the Blaze May have been started saturday by a vehicles backfiring department of forestry spokesman will Donaldson said. In san Diego county a Brush fire scorched 2,000 acres Ana headed toward the Community of Mesa Grande on an Indian reservation in the Cleveland National Forest about 20 Miles Northeast of downtown san Diego. An undetermined number of people left their Homes voluntarily. About 500 firefighters battled the flames which began sunday afternoon. A it la be Daylight before we can see what a really burned a forestry department spokeswoman Audrey Hagen said sunday night. A the bad news is our Crews will be battling the same conditions 105-degree temperatures humidity so Low erratic winds. It wont be much different from the  from Page 1 degree murder in the slaying of Simpson 35, and Goldman 25. Reportedly blood found at the scene is of the same Type As the former football stars and blood was found in . Simpson s Bronco and in his driveway. Prosecutors Are pinning much of their Case on the results of Dan tests from blood samples Bailey said. A if the Dan comes Back and is not a match then the police had better get Busy opening the investigation they May have prematurely closed Quot Bailey said. But even if it is a match Bailey said monday on Abc it a is not going to Settle the matter conclusively As everybody seems to  Nicole Simpson and her Friend a waiter at a trendy restaurant were found slashed and hacked to death. The coroners report said a White Enve Lope containing a pair of eyeglasses Lay at Goldman a feet. The glasses belonged to Nicole Simpson s Mother the report said. Previous reports said the glasses were her own. Nicole Simpson was last known to be alive at about ltp.m., when she spoke to her Mother on the Telephone about the glasses the report said. About that time Simpsons lawyers say the football legend was at his mansion some 30 minutes from Nicole Simpsons townhouse preparing to leave for a business trip to Chicago. Bailey reiterated that Alibi. Quot he says he was at Home waiting for a limousine to take him to the Airport a Bailey said in mondays new York times a so if he was Home he  have done it could he a in other developments a in West los Angeles on monday Abc to asked a judge to release scaled documents in . Simpsons 1989 wife battering Case Simpson pleaded no contest to Misdemeanour Battery. Municipal court judge Ray Hart held a a 45-minute hearing focusing on Media freedoms and fair trial rights and then said he would Rule later. A in new York City on sunday a group of activists and politicians rallied to demand that corporations work to curb Domestic violence criticizing companies a including Hertz and Abc a a that kept Simpson on the payroll after his no contest plea to wife beating in 1989. A the new York Post said monday that Nicole Simpson had an affair with a restaurant executive in 1992 while she was separated from . Simpson and that Simpson once found them having sex on a Couch when he visited his wife s Home. . Simpson was referring to that incident last october the paper said when he was caught on a police 911 tape Yelling at his wife Quot you did no to give a a obscenity about the kids when you was obscenity in the living  the restaurateur Keith Zlomsowitch told the Post that he and Nicole Simpson had a close relationship but would not say whether they had an  from Page 1 its options for applying pressure to the German government so that these residual value claims can be resolved. She offered up a recent amendment by rep. Barney Frank to the House version of the fiscal 1994 defense authorization Bill which was approved by a wide margin As an example of the kinds of things the committee can do in that regard. The amendment by the Massachusetts Democrat called for pulling . Forces out of Europe if the allies done to agree to increase gradually their share of the support costs for those troops. In april 1993, the Gao reported that negotiations Between the United states and Germany Over Cash payments for returned facilities had deteriorated to a deadlock. Part of the problem can be traced to the different philosophies of the germans and americans about How to handle . Facilities that ate no longer needed because of the draw Down the Gao said. The defense departments View is that the germans should pay the residual value of the investments and improvements made to various facilities while . Units occupied them. But the germans believe that the potential future use of such properties should determine their value. That Market driven approach has led German negotiators to balk at paying the residual value of facilities that they say will have Little or no future usefulness the Gao said. The Gao report said . Negotiators still consider the estimated $3.4 billion chum of residual value in Germany to be the base figure for the ongoing negotiations. But the Gao quoted state department officials As saying that $3.4 billion is Quot significantly More than the United states can expect to receive at the end of the negotiating  in talks with Gao analysts defense and state department officials acknowledged that it is probably unrealistic to expect the germans to cough up Large Cash payments for . Facilities. State department officials noted that the German government is under severe financial constraints partly because of assistance it is giving to Russia Ukraine and Eastern Europe. Since negotiations Over Cash payments reached an impasse last year the major military commands in Europe which act As the executive agents for the United states in such negotiations have used the Quot payment in kind agreements to gel at least some payback for returned facilities. Since 1993, the . Army has reached agreement with the germans on projects totalling $135.2 million including various infrastructure upgrades at the Hohrn fils and Grafe Vohr training areas a child care Center in Mannheim and modernization of Barracks in Schweinfurt. The . Air Force negotiated a $62.5 million Deal to have the germans fund various projects at Ramstein a to offset the Resk Lual value claim of facilities being returned at Rhein main a. The Gao said the United states plans to continue focusing on payment in kind arrangements in future negotiations with the German government