European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 1, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday july 1, 1994 . The stars and stripes Page 9 Washington apr the House ways and Means committee recorded a major Victory for Prest Dent Clinton a health plan thursday approving a sweeping proposal to insure every american by 1998 and requiring employers to foot the Bill. A this Bill will guarantee from birth to death. That All americans will never lose their health care a said rep Sam m. Gibbons a Fla acting chairman of the panel. A the 20-18 vote made ways and Means the third congressional committee to approve legislation overhaul my the country a health system and insurance Laws. It guarantees a vote by the House later this summer. It the action came barely an hour after the Senate finance committee turned its Back on compulsory health insurance for workers. The panel dumped from chairman Daniel Patrick Moynihan a Bill a requirement that employers kick in for health insurance if other Mea sures fail. Earlier president Clinton went on the attack against sen. Bob Dole s substitute proposal which is supported by 39 of the 44 Senate republicans. A it is politics As usual a said Clinton. A it does a Little bit for the poor it leaves All the powerful vested interest groups with everything they be got and it walks away from the Middle class and Small business a Clinton said of Doles plan. Ways and Means first rejected on a party line 24-14 vote a Republican alternative to help the uninsured with insurance reforms and subsidies but to requirement that employers or workers buy insurance. A we have the answers but you have the votes a said rep. Bill Thomas a Calif. The ways and Means Bill would require employers to pick up 80 percent of premiums and make employees pay the other 20 percent. Some 60 million americans the poor now on medicaid the jobless Unin seedless variety Dick casseday checks an apparently huge Watermelon in and their daughters. Heather and Hope painted their 500 the backyard of his Home outside Morgantown w.va., on gallon propane tank recently. They got the idea alter seeing tuesday. Casseday said he supervised As his wife Carolyn a similarly painted tank in Tennessee. California budget deadline looms Sacramento Calif. A California is speeding toward its new fiscal year without a budget As the Republican governor clashes with the Democrat led legislature Over welfare cuts and tax increases. Thanks to a stubborn recession California faces a $4 billion shortage and May have to pay its Bills with ious. For the second time since 1992. Gov. Pete Wilson and legislative leaders planned to try for a Compromise before Midnight thursday when the fiscal year was to expire. The Senate a ranking Democrat Bill Lockyer promised to Block any budget that contains Only cuts. A we can test that tomorrow the next Day the next week the next month As Long As you want to stay Here a he  Assembly spokesman Phil Perry was equally Adamant a absolutely no Way will they vote for a tax increase.�?�. Wilson a $57 billion spending plan is the nations largest state budget. The governor wants to Cut welfare by 25 percent in six months eliminate some medical programs for poor people and get rid of an income tax credit for renters. Even with those cuts Wilson a plan still requires $4 billion in Loans. Democrats agree the state is in fiscal Straits but they oppose Wilson a tax welfare proposals and cuts. Sure and Low wage workers in firms with fewer than 100 employees a would get government health insurance through an expanded medicare program. In the finance committee All nine republicans and five democrats joined in the 14-6 vote against a provision in Moynihan a Bill that would  required employers to cover their workers within a few years if voluntary measures fell Short. A the Bottom line is that this is a tax. A delayed tax a Sard Dole a . Kent Conrad d-n.d., said the panel faced Grid lock if it did not abandon compulsory insurance for All employers. The finance committee then adopted 12-8, a proposal to let a National health commission recommend remedies to Congress unless 95 percent of americans Are insured by 2002. But the experts advice would not be binding. Usi in by the los Angeles times los Angeles a the judge in the Menendez Brothers murder Case signalled wednesday that he wants the two to be tried together and before one jury unless he a Given a compelling reasons otherwise. Defense attorneys told los Angeles county Superior court judge Stanley Weisberg that they want separate trials or at the least separate juries. The prosecution argued for one trial and a single jury. Weisberg put off ruling until at least next month ordering both sides to file More Legal briefs on evidence they expect to be significant at the retrial of Lyle and Erik Menendez. But he said a this Case can be tried with one Jirry. That a my  the Brothers from Beverly Hills Are accused of murder in the aug. 20, 1989, Shotgun slayings of their parents. At their first trial which ended in january Lyle and Erik Menendez told separate juries that they had killed their parents in the to room of the family a Beverly Hills estate. They testified that they had lashed out in fear and self defense after years of physical emotional and sexual abuse. Prosecutors contended that the Brothers killed out of hatred and greed. After six month spa trial the separate juries one for each brother deadlocked Between murder and lesser manslaughter charges. Prosecutors immediately announced that they wanted a retrial and would again seek the death penalty. Lyle Menendez 26, and Erik Menendez 23, remain in jail without  had been dui wednesday to fix a Date for the retrial to decide whether the Brothers would be tried together or apart to pick Between one jury or two and to decide whether the retrial will be held in Van Guys or another county courthouse. None of those issues was decided. Instead after ordering More Legal briefs Weisberg set another hearing for july 22. But he said wednesday that the two jury system from the first trial produced a Many problems Quot and left him with such lingering concerns As the possible sequestering of one or both juries and the Issue of keeping one jury a decision secret from another still in deliberations. Florida deports convicted foreigners under new Deal Miami apr Florida sent 24 foreign criminals Home wednesday the first Batch of alien inmates deported to free up space in the states prisons. The prisoners were granted clemency and then put on planes Home under an unprecedented agreement Between the state and Washington. A if 1 keep them Here then in a having to turn out a violent floridian or . Citizen a gov. Lawton Chiles said. A for millions of people around the world arrival on these shores has been a ticket to a better life but for criminal aliens who prey on our citizens the Only ticket we offer them is a one Way trip Back to their own  fifteen men in Handcuffs and Street clothes were paraded single file in front of the governor and reporters then taken to the Airport. Nine women prisoners were handled separately. Seve no a hers of the first group came from Colombia the rest were from the dominican Republic Grenada Jamaica Bahamas Honduras Peru Mexico and Nicaragua. All were drug offenders. They were serving sentences ranging from three to 15 years. The criminals receive clemency in Exchange for agreeing to be deported and never to return and to waive any pending Legal Challenge. No one will be deported against his or her will said Chiles spokeswoman to Miglino. The clemency Means they done to have to be jailed in their homelands. A the Host countries have All been notified a Chiles said. A they have treaties with the United states. This is not something done without their in effect  Florida has 2,700 aliens behind bars at a Cost of about $60 million a year. Chiles said that he Hopes half will be eligible for the program and that 500 could be deported m the next year. So far 113 deportations have been approved. The deportations involve Only nonviolent offenders. A they did not live within our Laws and we done to want them to live within our country a said Chiles a Democrat who is running for re election. If the prisoners return to the United states they will be subject to Federal charges for returning illegally and will be sent Back to prison. They will also lose credit for any time they served before they were deported