European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 12, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the. Stars and stripes Friday August 12, 1994 at a glance Yasser Arafat left and Yitzhak Rabin have agreed to step up discussions on making More West Dank areas autonomous. See Story on Page 11. Haircut ahead k Shannon Faulkner says she s ready to have the Buzz Cut that the Citadel gives its first year cadets. Page 6 Simpson operation . Simpson was hospitalized briefly thursday for minor surgery then returned to  Page arson ruling made investigators blame arson for the fire that destroyed a Rural Alabama High school which has been the Cen Ter of racial unrest. A Page 9 student keeps Cool an honors student survived a 14 hour ordeal in which an escaped killer kidnapped her shot his Girlfriend and killed himself after a Chase and crash. Page 10 Coffee plan brewing Pepsico inc. And Starbucks Coffee co. Have signed an agreement to develop Premium cold coffees. Page 16 Index Abby Ann Landers 23 classifieds 26-30 comics 23-25 commentary. 15 crossword. 23 faces n places. 12 focus. 17-20 Horoscope. 29 Jumble. 29 letters. 14 Money matters. 1.6 sports. 30-36 to listings. V 35 weather 13 Gephardt health Bill seeks iffy Washington a House majority Leader Richard Gephardt is pro posing that the government pay a hefty health insurance subsidy for Early retirees not yet eligible for medicare As part of his health Reform legislation. Under his Bill filed late wednesday the government would pay half of the employers health insurance contribution for workers who retired Early and Are be tween 55 and 64 As of january 1994. Gephardt delivered his Bill As the Pace of health Reform appeared to slow in the House. Although debate had been scheduled to begin monday aides indicated. There would be a delay of one week and possibly longer., it was unclear whether lawmakers would be allowed to return Home to Campaign or whether the House would stay in session to debate other pending legislation. House speaker Thomas Foley d wash., told reporters that the House s schedule depended on the congressional budget office s ability to review competing Bills so lawmakers have Access to de tailed information. The speaker emphatically branded As false any suggestion that a shortage of support was responsible for any delay. Moderate and conservative democrats have been critical in recent Days of the leadership s Bill which would require businesses to pay. 80 percent of the Cost of insurance for workers and families. Democratic aides concede they Are Well Short of the votes needed to pass it. Foley said an announcement on the schedule would be made later in the Day. The Early Retiree provision in Gep Hardt s measure was a Bow to powerful lawmakers who represent Large Auto and steel worker constituencies. To qualify for the subs cry Early Reti Rees could not be working full time and could not earn More than $30,000 a year for an individual and $40,000 a year for a married person. Pay from Page 1 on the Senate version. In conference lawmakers eventually decided not to in clude the measure in the Compromise de sense authorization Bill. Instead they agreed to a Vaguel worded Accord that would gradually in crease pressure on the bosnian serbs to accept a settlement with the muslims and croats. The other Holdup that delayed final approval of the Bill was funding for the b-2  Senate version of the Bill contained a measure that would have authorized $150 million in fiscal 1995 to keep the b-2 alive even though Congress Al ready has voted to kill the program after 20 planes Are built both democrats and republicans on the House Side joined to oppose the sen ate provision with rep. Ronald Derums a Calit chairman of the House armed services committee calling the plane cold War  even defense Secretary William Perry has said More b-2s Are unnecessary. In the end however conferees authorized $125 million in funding related to the b-2 next year $25 million to stud the nation s bomber needs and $100 million to be paid to various b-2 subcontractors to keep the production line warm although no one on the House an Senate armed services committees publicly opposed a higher pay raise for serv ice members support for the increase solidified after a vocal Campaign by republicans on the House committee. The pay Issue has sparked a High level debate within the administration with 4op Pentagon officials arguing that the administration should abandon its plan to hold Down military pay raises in the face of obvious congressional opposition. It s evident that Congress is going to keep putting the Money Back in there anyway said a defense department official who spoke on condition of Anonym Ity we might As Well just include it in our own budget  Perry has proposed a plan to link Mili tary pay raises to the inflation rate Over each of the next five years. In separate legislation lawmakers still have not resolved the fiscal 1995 pay raise for Federal civilians. The House has approved a Bill to give All Federal employees a 2 percent pay raise As Well As the second annual install ment of stateside locality pay which is due to be gradually phased in Over the next few years to compensate workers in particularly High Cost areas of the United states. A Senate Bill however approved a raise of just-1.6 percent and contains no Money for the second locality pay in crease. House and Senate conferees will meet Early next week to resolve that Issue a they Craft a Compromise version of the legislation formally known As the fiscal1995 Treasury postal service and general government appropriations Bill. Strike from Page 1 significance will occur wednesday or any time soon Fehr said. Ravitch repeated thursday the theme of the owners argument that the need control Over player costs and that a salary Cap would do it. We guarantee the players they will make no less. But we need control Over the player costs Ravitch said on Abc s today show. Fehr who also appeared on the pro Gram repeated the Union s Contention that the owners were trying to resolve their Revenue sharing problems by. Mak ing the players pay for it. If the owners have problems the have to solve them not the players Fehr said.1 even before wednesday night s games Cincinnati reds players were wearing to shirts that said on  a walkout would imperil the final 52days and 668 games of the regular sea son. And it would threaten the world series which has been played annually since 1905. It would be the eighth work stoppage since 1972 in an Industry that pulls in$1.8 billion a year. With no Progress at the table players made plans to go Home today. Some clubs that were off thursday said they would t travel to the Sites of today s scheduled games. Dodgers manager Tommy Lasorda gave his end of season speech after Losa Eigeles beat Cincinnati 6-3 wednesday night he just thanked us for putting him in the position he s in manager of the first place club in the West dodgers first baseman Eric Karros said. Hopefully Well hear another Farewell speech this  player representatives told teammates not to work out during a strike. The Best thing to do is just to getaway and realistically not prepare to play California Angels Pitcher Mark Langston said. American suspected in Bank robbery by Mark Kinkade staff writer Heidelberg Germany military investigators think an american was be Hind a robbery tuesday that netted More than $16,000 from a merchants National Bank Branch in Sermersheim according to a police source. Police on thursday released a Compo site sketch of the suspect a muscular Black male aged 25 to 35, with a medium to dark complexion Brown eyes and Black hair. He is about 5 feet 5 inches tall and weighs Between 150 and 170 pounds. A witness said the Man was wearing military looking pants at the time of the robbery said Heidelberg Community spokesman Pete dressier. The Man reportedly made off with $6,300 and 15,200 German Marks about $9,870. He apparently entered the Bank at Sermersheim army depot about 2  with a Small Caliper  ordered a Teller who was alone inthe Bank to lie on suspect the floor the bound the Teller according to a 26th area support group statement. The robber told the Teller to remain silent and fled the statement said. Dressier said the Teller a woman was not harmed. No alarm was sounded Dur ing the robbery. Karlsruhe military police on routine patrol discovered the bound Teller about 2 40  the statement said. Anyone with information about the robbery can Contact the Heidelberg criminal investigation come at 370-7941/7332, or civilian 06221-57-7941, or the Karlsruhe command at 376-7336/6259, or civilian 0721-759 7336/6259, Heidelberg military police can breached at 370-6400/8800, or civilian 06221-57-8800. The Karlsruhe my Tele phone number is 376-6123, or civilian 0721-759-6111