European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 10, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes wednesday August 10,1994 h. At a glance agriculture Secretary Mike Espy has won support from the Whitehouse Over. His contacts with a major poultry producer. See Story on Page 6. Pageant takes new step the swimsuit Competition at this year s miss America pageant will have contestants frolicking Barefoot in a Beach theme production num Ber. Rage 5 principal transferred the Alabama High school principal who opposed interracial dating at the prom has been reassigned after a fire destroyed the school. Page 8 aids vaccine pushed an aids vaccine still offers the Best Hope for stopping the epidemic the . Government s top aids re searcher says. Page 10 Disney plugs in the Walt Disney co. Is teaming up with three regional phone Compa Nies to deliver video programs and services into Homes. Page 14 Jacksons to share newlyweds Michael Jackson and Lisa Marie Presley Jackson will do Nate $120,000 to finance a liver transplant for a 4-year-old hungarian boy. Page 20 Index Abby Ann Landers. 21 classifieds. .22-25 comics. V., 18-19,21 commentary. 13 crossword. 21 faces it places /. 20 focus. 15-17 Horoscope. 24 Jumble. 24 letters. T2 Money matters. 14 sports. 27-32 to listings ,. 31 weather. 11 crime Bill will pass lawmaker predicts. � i Washington a the democrats chief vote counter in the House said monday that he has enough demo cratic and Republican support to get the $33.3 billion., crime Bill through the House but a less optimistic White House was still scratching for votes. The democrats have the votes wit the help of some of our colleagues from the other Side of the aisle and we will pass this Bill majority whip David Bonier d-mich., told reporters after meet ing with president Clinton. But White House chief of staff Leon Panetta said he was not As  s Good to hear David have that much Confidence he said with a laugh. This looks like the same kind of Tough vote we face time and time again. I think Well get there. But very frankly it is really going to take both republicans an democrats alike to pass the Bill. Turning up the rhetorical heat he added i think there s something wrong when it takes six years to pass a crime Billand yet. The average violent criminal is Able to walk in four  the Bill among other things would ban assault firearms and help pay to put 100,000 More police on America s streets. Rep. Christopher Shays r-conn., said tuesday that 10 to 20 Republican planned to vote with the majority democrats. Rep Marge Roukema of new Jersey one Republican who plans to vote for it said i Don t know How anybody can. Sink this Bill because that Means you devoting against judicial Reform three strikes and you re out you re preventing the Aid for Community policing prevent ing the Federal Aid for new Ansons. And i m for All of  Clinton House speaker Tom Foley and other Bill supporters cranked up their Arm twisting monday. Clinton also kept up Public pressure on the National Rifle association and other groups trying to prevent the Bill from get Ting to the House floor so they can change the package devised by House and Senate conferees. That Bill has been held hostage for 11 Days by certain special interest groups Clinton said. The six year measure would authorize $11.1 billion for state and local Law enforcement including Money to help hire100,000 More state and local police $10.5 billion for state and local prisons $8.9 billion for crime prevention and drug courts and $2.8 billion for Federal Law enforcement. It also contains provisions to sen some third time felons to prison for life  let some nonviolent first time drug offenders avoid mandatory 10-year sentences. The weapons ban would affect 19named types of firearms and scores of others that the government characterizes As assault style and it would limit mag Azine capacity to 1 rounds. At the same time it would exempt 650 named fire arms and All guns legally owned when the Law took effect. Cuban says boat hijacked officer killed Miami a a cuban Navy lieutenant was killed in the Hijack ing of a boat docked in the port of Mariel and four sailors were forced off the ship a cuban Diplomat said tuesday. The cuban government reported the hijacking to the . Govern ment tuesday morning and demanded the return of those who commandeered the vessel. People that came from land boarded it and attacked and killed this lieutenant Aid Rafael Dausa political officer of the cuban inter est Section in Washington. The boat left port monday afternoon stopped to pick up Pas sengers and then headed for the United states 90 Miles away. Dausa blamed the hijacking on delinquents and vandals references to cuban dissidents. A . Government source identified the boat As a military gun boat but Dausa said it was a civil Ian boat leased by the cuban Navy. Coast guard Crews operating be tween Florida and Cuba were advised to watch for the boat. But the coast guard . Immigration officials to be prepared to process a group of cubans in key West. On Friday cuban president Fidel Castro threatened a replay of the Mariel boat lift of 1980 if the . Government did t crack Dowson illegal immigration. Mysterious envelope discussed Simpson defense prosecutors meet privately with judge los Angeles a both sides inthe of. Simpson Case met privately tuesday with a judge to discuss the con tents of a mysterious yellow envelope turned Over by defense attorneys Las month. During an evidence hearing before the closed meeting attorneys sniped at each other about press leaks but found them selves Allied against the Media arguing about Simpson s Rij Fht to a fair trial  Public s right to know. Addressing one of the most tantalizing developments in the sensational Murde Case Deputy District attorney Marcia Clark said discussing the envelope s con tents in open court would be unfair to Simpson. Defense attorney Robert Shapiro agreed. The sealed envelope was turned Overby the defense july 1. The contents were unknown. Speculation ran wild with peo ple wondering if it contained the missing murder weapon. Superior court judge Lance Ito Rule that he would meet privately with the de sense and prosecution to discuss the envelope and decide later whether to re lease a transcript. Simpson is charged with murder in the deaths of sex wife Nicole Brown Simpson 35, and her Friend Ronald Goldman 25. In other developments authorities disc fused that Simpso was moved Friday from a 9-by-6-foot cell on the second floor of the los Angele county jail to the ground floor in order to save overtime costs. Defendants in the special Section re served for High profile defendants Are Al Lowed no Contact with each other and can t leave their cells Deputy Matthew Rodriguez said. Or. Simpson is being housed within one cell on a Row of seven cells. Each of the other cells is vacant Rodriguez said. Of. Simpson continues to receive his meals in his cell and he is periodically Al Lowed to exercise alone on a stationary bicycle. A Public Telephone is available to him during his exercise  acting Secretary of state Tony Miller sent a letter to the judge expressing concern that a televised trial could Dis tract voters from the november elections. He asked for the trial to be recessed on election Day nov. 8, and the Day before. / the judge said tuesday that he would weigh the request. \ plan from Page 1 on the democratic health plan she Sai Gramm had been ranting and raving about socialized Medicine on television but backed off like he d touched a hot stove when asked if he wanted to repeal medicare the government s health plan for the elderly and disabled. Sen. Jesse Helms , said that haste does make waste and introduced a Resolution urging Congress to put action off until next year. Mitchell said the senators would vote on the amendment this morning. On tuesday morning sen. Christophe Bond r-mo., held a news conference with business organizations saying the Mitchell Bill would take employers out of the decision making process in healthcare. /.  to Bond and a group of businesses called the voluntary purchasing cooperative coalition said they would fight the Mitchell plan s requirement that All Busi Nesses with fewer than 500 workers offer their employees a Chance to buy insurance through  insurance Purchas ing cooperative. While the plan  initially require employers to contrib Ute to their workers insurance the coalition argues that those who do provide insurance would see their role i negotiating Good Premium prices disappear. " the 1,410-Page Mitchell plan would overhaul insurance rules and provide subsidies to help millions of american buy private insurance. It would require employers with fewer than 500 workers to offer wide choices of health plans including the option of buying coverage through Community rated cooperatives. Larger firms could self insure but would also have to offer choices Between fee for service care and managed care. If 95 percent of americans were hot covered by 2000 and Congress failed to take other action employers with 25 or More workers would be required to pay half their insurance premiums starting in2002 in states with More than 5 percent uninsured. The congressional budget office was to deliver to Mitchell on tuesday its offi Cial verdict on the costs of his proposal. Mitchell has said it would be deficit Neutral. Mitchell planned no votes before today at the earliest. Tuesday s curtain Raiser was solely for opening rhetoric from Bot sides