European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 28, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes . Tuesday june 28, 1994welfare substance abuse found High Washington apr one in four mothers on welfare abuses alcohol or drugs according to a new study that says a getting them unhooked must be the Central element of welfare Reform. The report released monday by Columbia University Scenter on addiction and substance abuse also finds that mothers on welfare Are three times More Likely than other mothers to be substance abusers. By the centers count More than 1 million of the 4,2 million parents on the Rolls of Aid to families with dependent children in 1991 were alcohol and drug abusers or addicts. Among the youngest parents on the Ardc a the group targeted for Job training and work programs under the Clinton administrations new welfare Reform proposal a the rate of addiction and abuse is 37 percent. A if we Are serious about getting them off welfare we have to be serious about getting them into treatment programs and after care a said Joseph Califano chairman and president of the Center and a former Secretary of health education and welfare. Clinton a welfare plan would pour billions of dollars into education training work and child care programs for Young mothers at risk of Long term welfare dependency. Califano argued that a none of this stuff is going to take until they get off alcohol off drugs. Getting them unhooked must be the Central ingredient in any welfare Reform  but a senior administration official speaking on condition of anonymity said Califano s report May backfire Given the mood of Congress which voted earlier this year to kick drug addicts and alcoholics off the Federal disability Rolls after 36 months. The a natural Assumption a the official said is that the mothers Are using welfare benefits to Purchase illicit drugs or alcohol to feed their habits. The study which also found that half of All women on welfare Are smokers did not address How welfare recipients paid for drugs and alcohol from their meager in comes or the reasons for their substance abuse. It was based on Federal data and the Center said it May underestimate the problem. Califano s group defined alcohol abuse As drinking five or More drinks at a sitting two or More times a month. Drug use is defined As using illicit drugs during the past year. Clinton administration officials using a More conservative definition found the rate of substance abuse among welfare recipients much lower. According to their calculations 4.5 percent have serious impairments and need treatment and 10.5 percent use a drug or get drunk once a week. A we want to see welfare recipients who Are drug and alcohol abusers get treatment so that they can become productive members of the work Force a said Avis Lavelle a spokeswoman for the department of health and human services. A however we believe the problem is not nearly As Large As the Casa study would leave one to believe. Therefore it is not  r in the stars and stripes 10years ago june 28,1984 a president Fidel Castro announced the release of 22 americans from cuban prisons following a More than eight hour meeting with democratic presidential contender Jesse jackson.20 year Sago june 28,1974 a president Nixon flew into Moscow to a warm Welcome from the Kremlin leadership and thousands of soviet citizens waving paper flags of the two nations.30 years ago june 28,1964 a president Johnson ordered additional Fri agents into Mississippi where an intensive search continued for three missing civil rights demonstrators the White House disclosed.40 years ago june 28,1954 a the anti communist a a liberation radio declared that columns of invaders were driving unopposed on Guatemala s capital City expecting to cover the 48-mile distance within a matter of hours.50 years ago june 28,1944 a it. Gen Walter von Schreiben commanding the germans Garrison at Cherbourg France surrendered from his Bunker 30 feet underground but refused to surrender his troops Stilt fighting above ground. World War it 50 years ago today june 281.944 finnish soldiers stubbornly resist the soviet offensive on the Northern front but red army troops capture Petrozavodsk on the Western Shore of Lake Onega and reach the Murmansk railway North of the Lake. In France British forces Cross the Odon River along a two mile front near Mondrian Viive to Normandy the propaganda minister for the Vichy France regime Philippe Henriot is assassinated in Paris. Source 2194 Days of War w. H. Smith publishers inc the world almanac of work War ii Bison books corp., 1981thousands of Gays rally proudly new York apr led by a mile Long Rainbow Banner hundreds of thousands of homosexuals marched sunday along a a path of Freedom to commemorate a bar riot that ushered in the Gay rights movement 25 years ago. They marched in the Shadow of aids Arm in Arm hand in hand out and proud under a sunny sky a and with a plea for tolerance. A it s amazing that in 25 years we be come so far from when you  get out of a Gay bar to where you fill the streets proudly a said Jerry Clifford who helped carry the giant Nylon Banner along what he called a a continuous path of  City officials said it was the biggest gathering in a decade bigger even than the statue of Liberty Centennial Celebration in 1986. Police chief John Timoney called it a the busiest Day in the police departments history a with thousands of extra officers called out to control the crowds and traffic. Marchers ranged from the City a Republican mayor Rudolph Giuliani to Annalize Mannix Blackner a lesbian Mother from key West fla., who came with her Lover and their 7-month-old son. The rallying Point of the Gay liberation movement came in 1969, when rioting broke out at the Stonewall inn a Greenwich Village Gay bar where patrons fought off a police raid. Although the 25th anniversary was billed As a Celebration of Gay Unity it also illustrated divisions in the movement. Most of the marchers headed up first Avenue past the United nations toward a Central Park rally to protest Gay rights abuses around the world. A smaller contingent focusing on the fight against aids started at Stonewall and marched up fifth Avenue. They had no City permit but police closed off fifth Avenue to traffic and did not interfere with the March. The fifth Avenue March was led by Sylvia Rivera a transvestite who fought police at Stonewall. Rivera had dropped out of sight in recent months and was feared to be dead. A i m Here to see that we still have the guts to Lake fifth Avenue Quot said Rivera who wore Black pumps a Gold dress and red Nail polish. The March up first Avenue dubbed Stonewall 25, was As peaceful As Stonewall �?T69 was violent. There was Little or no hazing from the sidewalks and no scrapes with police. Most marchers wore nothing More pro homosexual marchers wave their mile Long Rainbow Banner on new Yorkus first Avenue on sunday to commemorate a 1969 bar riot that kindled the Gay rights movement. Vocative than shorts and to shirts. A number wore medals from the Gay games a sports festival that ended saturday. There were a couple of exceptions to the general sartorial Rule a number of Bare chested men wearing Short pleated Rainbow coloured skirts and the Radical faeries a group that included six naked men and a dozen topless women. Quot this is about Unity and Harmony with the Earth a said Matt Whitney who had a Sheet wrapped around him. A a it a about having a fabulous  William Camerino of fort Lauderdale fla., w Ore a to shirt bearing a picture of a Young Man that said a Timothy Gallups 1961-1992.�?� a a in a keeping his memory alive a Camerino said. A the would have loved this. To be proud of who he  then Camerino began to cry. Another Marcher held a sign that asked a How Many of us will be alive for Stonewall 35?�?�