European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 11, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes thursday August 11,1994 to at a glance confessed spy Aldrich h. Ames says More frequent polygraph test ing by the Cia would have caused him to think twice about spying for the soviet Union. See Story on Page 8. Cruise ship Accident a cruise ship ran aground wednesday in Southeastern Alaska and leaked Hydraulic fluid. Page 5 internet newscasts set news and regional reports in 15 languages will be available on inter net a global network of computers beginning monday the voice of America says. Page 7 a act investigation the a act says it cannot verify a columnist s assertion that the group s executive director settled a sexual harassment suit to avoid Dis closure of an adulterous relation ship with a former employee. Page 10 iranians sought a judge in Buenos Aires Argentina has ordered the arrest of four iranians in the bombing of a jewish Community Center that killed 95 peo ple. Page 13 China policy backed the House has upheld president Clinton s decision to continue a nor Mal trading relationship with China. Page 14 Index Abby Ann Landers. 21 classifieds. 24-28 comics. A. 21 -23 commentary. 17 crossword. 21 faces n places. 20 Horoscope. 26 Jumble. 26 letters 15 Money matters. 14 sports. 28-36 to listings 35 weather. 15 military building funds of d Washington a the Senate on wednesday passed and sent to presi Dent Clinton an $8.8 billion military construction appropriations Bill for fiscal 1995 tha cuts funding for Active forces while providing More funds for base clo sures. In separate action the Senate also re fused to Cut funding for the Mil Star satellite nuclear War communications system and the Trident d-5 missile. The Bill passed 95-5, represents a Compromise Between House and Senate negotiators. The final Bill comes in $490 million below Clinton s request and $628 million below this year s military construction budget. Faced with rising costs associated with consolidating military bases and cleaning up closed military Sites Congress reduced construction projects for the Mili tary by nearly $1 billion and increased base closure funding by $501 million. The votes on Mil Star and the d-5 mis Sile rejected amendments to a separate Bill the 1995 defense appropriations measure which would provide $243.6 Bil lion. Sen. Dale bumpers d-ark., a Mem Ber of the Senate appropriations defense subcommittee has attacked these two cold War programs annually As relics of a time when the soviet Union dominated military thinking. Conceived in 1981 to enable the Mili tary to communicate in a six month nuclear War Mil Star could end up costing a total of $30 billion the. Pentagon has Al ready spent $12 billion and launched the first of six satellites earlier this year. Bumpers proposal would have can celeb the last four Mil Star satellites and begun investing $12 billion in a new communications system. He said it would save $3.5 billion Over the next several years compared with Mil Star. The 1995 defense budget contains $607 million for the air Force to continue development of Mil Star. Everybody knows that even if it were in place right now and the United states and the soviets had a 3,500-warhead Exchange there is not going to be anybody left with whom to communicate bump. Ers said. Moreover the sound Quality provided by Mil Star communication makes generals speak Donald Duck he said. Defense Secretary William Perry lob bied against the bumpers proposal say ing that Mil Star has been revamped into a communications system that will be use Din conventional wars. Mil Star is a critically important pro Gram that supports the combat potential of current and future military forces Perry wrote in a letter to sen. Daniel Inouye a Hawaii chairman of the sen ate appropriations subcommittee. Inouye said that in an age of uncertainty it was premature to kill a communications program considered vital by military planners or to eliminate a mod Ern missile system at a time when Russia is both politically unstable and armed with nuclear weapons. Fight from Page 1 Ings in medicare and a plan to triple medicare part b premiums for Retiree with six figure incomes. President Clinton had wooed Harp leaders for months to endorse his Bill but the Harp group resisted his Appeal while backing Universal coverage Cost containment and the addition of Long term care and drug benefits to medicare. The Harp plans to run newspaper ads and activate its network of 250,000 volunteers to lobby for the Bills. The Harp endorsement came a Small and Large businesses geared up for a fight to Block the Mitchell Bill which would aim to cover 95 percent of Ameri cans by 2000 and possibly add a mandate on some businesses to pay half their workers premiums in 2002. The Senate on wednesday rejected a Resolution by sen. Jesse Helms , that called for deferring action until next year unless the Senate got a full Opportunity to debate the health Bill. Republicans huddled to map strategy and denounce Clinton and his reforms. If the president stays on the path he is on he is going to lose said sen. Phil Gramm a Texas. Bill Clinton s intransigence is the greatest impediment that we face in reforming health  House minority whip Newt Gingrich r-ga., said House and Senate demo cratic leaders were still rewriting their Bills even though the Senate debate has begun. He said the leaders were playing Midnight games with exhausted legislative  Mitchell opened the debate tuesday evening reciting a Litany of the problems that America s 39 million uninsured and others face in coping now with sickness and soaring medical costs. Why is our society willing to allow people to experience the degradation of begging for care after a lifetime of work and personal responsibility Mitchel demanded. There Are people in great need in America rejoined Senate minority Leader Bob Dole but the problem is figuring out How to help those people without damaging the greatest health care system in the  smoke Billows from a korean air Jet after it crash crashed wednesday on the Southern Island of Cheju. All 160 people on Board escaped a from Page 1 children crying she said. People began evacuating from the front rows. Paik said she shouted for order to prevent the Back passenger from pushing Forward. Another flight attendant Kim Youngmi said everyone was evacuate through a front Hatch because there was no time to open the Side doors. One witness reported flames at the front of the plane and Kim said she saw smoke coming from the Tail Section. Kim said the Airliner Shook violently As Strong winds buffeted it during the Landing attempt. It crashed moments after the Pilot tried to take off again within two minutes the 152 vacation ers and eight Crew members who had boarded m Seoul scrambled Down the escape Chute korean air officials said ten Small explosions rocked the plane within minutes after passengers and Crew had escaped to safety wit Nesses said. Firefighters were unable to control the Blaze in the rain and wind. Only the Tail and cockpit were intact after the flames died out nearly two hours after the crash. A typhoon warning was in effect in Southern South Korea at the time of the crash. Typhoon Doug later weakened into a tropical storm but it still dumped up to 7 inches of rain across the South wednesday. The runway is Only about 100 Yards from a Dock and officials said there probably would have been Many casual ties if the plane had crashed at sea where Waves reached 25 feet High