European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 21, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 2 r the stars and stripes wednesday september at 94 at a glance Senate minority Leader Bob Dole predicts that health Reform is dead for this congressional session. A time is running out. 1 done to see anything happening this year a the Kansas Republican said. See Story on Page 6. Unhappy with exhibit the smithsonian institutions planned exhibit of the plane that dropped the atomic bomb remains tilted toward the japanese a senator said. A a a. A a pages virtually losing out / the United states is beginning to lag. In virtual reality technology a group says. A Page 0 unhealthful habits american children still eat too much fat and sugar and watch too much television a Survey says. A Page 10 rising death toll deaths from cigarettes Are Likely to More than triple Over the next Quarter Century scientists warn in a glob at Survey. A Page 11 Beijing shootout a Man opened fire on a Busy Beijing Street killing As Many As eight people before being shot in a gun Light. A Page 12 getting to work beginning next month some Oregon residents will Trade their welfare checks for paychecks. A Page 16 Index Abby Ann Landers. 24 classifieds. 25-28 comics. 22-24 commentary. 15 faces a no places. A. 21 focus. A. 17-20 Horoscope .28 Jumble. 28 letters. 14 Money matters .16 sports. 29-36 to listings. 35 weather. 13 a user Washington a president Clinton made some striking promises tuesday tax filing by phone a repaired postal service Shorter waiting times at veterans hospitals and helpful people at Federal agencies to get things done More quickly. The promises Are among a Broad array of pledges in the governments new customer service standards. Clinton said that Over the next few years they will make the Fedor Al government user Friendly and demonstrate that service can be its and vice president Al Gore presented the new customer standards in a White House ceremony As 21 Cabinet members and Federal Agency Heads travelled across the country to tout them in person. A / a the president said the new standards will Quot Force the government to respect the needs of Ordinary americans by requiring them to be treated As valued customers Quot under those standards he said there will be Short time limits to answer mail Deal with applications answer phone Calls and accomplish the work of government. The standards will build a new respect for government among the Public a one customer at a time Quot Clinton said. Space Center Houston apr Nasa directed space shuttle discovery and its six astronauts to Cali Fomia on tuesday after Stormy weather prevented a Florida Landing for the second Day in a Row. Discovery was scheduled to land at Edwards fab in California at 5 14 . Edt. The Crew began the science and space walking Mission sept. 9. Clouds Hung Over Kennedy space Center on tuesday just As they did monday. Mission control finally gave up on Kennedy after two tries tuesday and instructed shuttle commander Richard Richards to head to Edwards. Nasa prefers Florida to californians Mojave desert because it costs $1 million and takes one week to ferry a shuttle Cross country atop a jumbo Jet. A. A. A the Landing delays added More than 460,000 ? Miles to discovery a odometer. Total mileage for the trip was 4.5 million Miles. During the flight a $25 million laser machine in the shuttle cargo Bay bounced about 2 million Light pulses off Clouds for a study of global Cli mate. The Crew also released and later retrieved a satellite that focused its instruments on the suns Corona or outer atmosphere. Astronauts spent several Days mane vering an 82-foot Boom in front of discovery a steering jets to measure the damaging effects of shuttle exhaust. The information is needed before Atlantis docks with the russian Mir space station next year. The first untethered spacewalk in 10 years was conducted last week by astronauts Mark Lee and Carl Meade. The two took turns unhooking their lifelines to discovery and trying out nasal a new $7 million Jet pack. The Mission originally set to last nine Days was extended to 10 Days last week so additional laser and exhaust plume experiments could be conducted. Meanwhile at Kennedy work continued toward a sept. 30 launch of space shuttle endeavour on an environmental research Mission. Endeavour was supposed to Fly last month but its main engines shut Down 1.9 seconds before liftoff. Paris apr former socialist Premier Laurent Fabius and two former ministers Are expected to be charged later this month with complicity in poisoning Haemophiliacs who died after receiving aids tainted blood products. Reliable sources said Fabius former social affairs minister Georgina Defoix and former health minister Edmond Herd would go before the special court of Justice of the Republic. The court is the Only body Able to try ministers for possible crimes while in office. The scandal which has been dogging France for several years grew out of revelations that in the mid-1980s blood transfusion officials knowingly administered products contaminated with the virus that causes aids. More than 1,000 Haemophiliacs were contaminated and More than 300 died., leading officials of the National Cen Tel for blood transfusion already have been tried and jailed in a first Case and have been recharged in a second the decision to bring Fabius and two members of his Cabinet to trial has been expected since this summer. The prosecutor of the special court Pierre Truche opened an inquiry in july into complicity in the Quot administration of substances harmful to the the term was later converted into the judicial sources speaking on condition of anonymity said Defoix was scheduled to appear before the courts inquiry commission next tuesday Herve on sept. 29 and Fabius on sept. 30. Victims families allege that Fabius government purposely chose not to Purchase . Technology to treat tainted blood with heat or Institute an american aids test for blood donors in order to favor a French aids test still being perfected at the time. In Darmstadt Germany a amps a 35-year-old american woman died sept. 14 after an apparent Accident in her family a army quarters in Eigelsbach a military spokeswoman said. Carol Polsgrove whose husband is a Soldier assigned in nearby Darmstadt died of a head injury received after falling Down the stairs in her quarters said Teri Viedt a spokeswoman for the 233rd base support in in Darmstadt. Eigelsbach is located about six Miles South of Frankfurt. The native of Memphis Tenn. Is survived by , sgt. 1st class Wil Liam f. Polsgrove of cod 440th signal in who was Home at the time of the Accident. A. A memorial service was held monday morning in the Darmstadt Community Chapel at Cambrai Fritsch Cavern. The cause of the Accident is under investigation by the . Amy Crim Narin vesti gation come commonly referred to Ascid. Viedt said that it is a matter of procedure for Cid to conduct investigations on All deaths having military interest including apparent accidents. Army private succumbs in Vicenza Vicenza Italy a amps a a Soldier assigned to the . Army a Southern european task Force died of an apparent heart attack last weekend in Vicenza a command spokesman said. The 21-year-old Soldier pfc. Sean p. Mcnabb a fire direction specialist with Btry a 3rd in 325th inf regt airborne combat Tea was pronounced dead at 725 . Saturday at a local Hospital according to maj. Bob Mceroy a command spokesman. Mcnabb had been hospitalized after being discovered in his Barracks room at Caserma Ederle. The initial diagnosis by an italian Doc. Tor is that Mcnabb died of a heart attack Mceroy said. An autopsy was conducted monday at the Hospital but results Are not expected to be available until later in the week. Mcnabb is survived by his father Dane of Libby mont., and his Mother Heidi Hart of Nome Alaska. Army and italian police investigators arc conducting a joint investigation of the death. A memorial service is scheduled for next monday at 2 ., at the Caserma Ederle Chapel. Blaze causes $ 16,000 damage at Ben Franklin Mannheim Germany a amps a a 10-year-old girls candlelight prayer turned into a $16,000 fire saturday night when she fell asleep while the candles burned a Mannheim military Community spokeswoman said. The fire occurred in an apartment at the Benjamin Franklin Village housing area according to Lenka Warner spokeswoman for Mannheim a 293rd base support in. Residents of the building which houses 18. Families were safely evacuated she said. The child a parents reported the fire to military police about 9 . Saturday. German police and firefighters from Mannheim Kafer Tal also responded to the Blaze Warner said. The family is living in temporary lodging while waiting to be assigned new quarters the spokeswoman said. Other quarters in the building were not damaged. According to fire investigators the burning candles set flame to nearby curtains then spread to other areas of the family a quarters. A j
