European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 28, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 2 the stars and stripes wednesday june 29, 1994 1 at a glance members of the aids coalition to unleash Power protest on new Yorkus fifth Avenue in a March that sprang out of sundays commemoration of a 1969 bar riot that ushered in the Gay rights movement. Sec Story on Page 6. Health plan studied Congress is exploring a scaled Down alternative to the Clinton administrations health Reform Bill. A Page 4 drug abuse found one in four mothers on welfare abuses alcohol or drugs according to a study that urges action to get them a Page 6 vets get checks coloradans who participated in the persian Gulf War Are getting Small thank you checks. A Page 8 a i air Quality improved a four Day Experiment in Southern Germany ended sunday with significant improvements in air Quality. A Page 9 notebook 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 14 Index Abby Ann Landers. 21 classifieds.22-26 comics .18-19,21 commentary .13 computers. 10 crossword. 21 faces a places.20 focus. 15-17 horoscope.24 Jumble. 24 letters .12 Money matters .14 sports.26-32 to listings. 31 weather .11clinton from Page 1 one has earned greater respect at both ends a the president said of his new chief of staff. The White House is at one end of the Avenue Congress in the Capitol at the other end. Clinton said he would nominate Alice Rivlin Deputy head of the office of management and budget to replace Panetta. David Gergon a former Republican adviser who joined the White House staff a year ago to help Deal with a spate of negative publicity is moving to the state department As a a special adviser to both the president and the Secretary of the White House also confirmed that Richard Holbrooke the . Ambassador to Germany is being recalled to head the european Bureau of the state department. He will succeed Stephen Oxman who is expected to be named to an ambassadors Post. _ Mclarty one of Clinton a oldest friends has been criticized for his management of the White House. Critics on Capitol Hill and inside the White House complained that Mclarty a Well liked Southern businessman was not Tough enough with his staff and Clinton a opponents Panetta a Veteran House member before coming to the White House earned a reputation As a deficit Hawk forcing Clinton to Majce Tough cuts in a lean Federal budget. 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. A a they re coming in from everywhere a 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-Acie Blaze in the san Bernardino and Angeles National forests about 60 Miles cast of los Angeles. Ten Homes in Pinon Hills were destroyed Over the weekend and damage was estimated at $2 million. Officials be live the fire sprang saturday from a campfire near a boy scout Camp. A a it a Lucky we weren to killed a said a woman who lost her Home giving Only her first name Robin. A it looks like a War zone. Its 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. A a it a in some Peoples Back Yards but we Haven to 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 and 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 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 . Simpsons 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 a 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 think.�?�. 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 Simpsons Mother the report said. Previous reports said the glasses were her own. Nicole Simpson was last known to be alive at about 11 p.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 10 minutes from Nicole Simpsons townhouse preparing to leave for a business trip to Chicago. Bailey reiterated that Alibi. A the 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 could t have done it could he a in other developments in West los Angeles on monday Abc to asked a judge to release sealed documents in . Simpsons 1989 wife battering Case. Simpson pleaded no contest to Misdemeanour Battery. Municipal court judge Ray Hart held a 4,5-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 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 a 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 a a you did no to give 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 which the germans pay for construction at installations that the United states plans to keep to offset the residual value of properties that arc being returned. To Date such agreements have amounted to about $198 million still Only a Small portion of the . Claims of residual value. A this is definitely an important Issue for the committee a said a House staff member referring to the House armed services committee. A we believe in fighting to get our Money a Worth to get a return on the taxpayers investment in these facilities. A but realistically its a Tough situation. We re leaving these facilities and the germans know that. It s a buyers Market a she said the committee is mulling Over 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. Part of the problem can be traced to the different philosophies of the germans and americans about How to handle . Facilities that Are 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 Quot the Gao said. The Gao report said . Negotiators still consider the estimated $3.4 billion claim of residual value in Germany to be the base figure for the negotiations. But the Gao quoted state department officials As saying that $3.4 billion is a 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. 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 a payment in kind agreements to get at least some payback for returned facilities. Since 1993, the . Army has reached agreement with the germans on projects totalling $135.2 million. The . Air Force negotiated a $62.5 million Deal to have the germans fund various projects at Ramstein a to offset the residual value claim of facilities being returned at Rhein main a. H in a
