European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 28, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes . Wednesday september 28.1994 Mitchell gives up on 94 health Bill by Karen Tumulty and Edwin Chen los Angeles times Washington Senate majority Leader Georg Mitchell on monday  pronounced health care Reform dead for the year a final verdict reflecting a reality that had been apparent for weeks. Yet there was a poignancy to the moment As the re tiring majority Leader having forfeited a Chance to Beon the supreme court so he could fight for a Bill he saw As the crowning achievement of his legislative Ca reer conceded the combination of the insurance Industry on the outside and a majority of republicans on the inside proved to be too much to  although some of his allies had urged him to continue to push for health legislation Mitchell a Mairie said he feared that the Effort would jeopardize the remaining business before Congress most notably an International Trade agreement which gop leaders had put in the position of being hostage to health care leg  president Clinton vowed to renew his drive next year despite the fact that an expected surge in the number of republicans in Congress could make it even More difficult. This journey is far far from Over he said in statement. Mitchell s decision effectively dooms House Effort Sas Well since no legislation can be passed without both houses. -.".  -.-, Clinton handed off the Issue to Congress a Littlemore than a year ago offering As a starting Point a 1,342-Page Bill produced by a task Force that had Bee headed by first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton. It has preoccupied Capitol Hill Ever since to the exclusion Many democrats and republicans concede of most other meaningful accomplishments in the Latte half of the term that is scheduled to end in two weeks. It began As an Effort to produce the most important piece of legislation since the great depression on that would revamp one seventh of the . Economy and provide health coverage to the almost 40 million americans who now Lack it. In the end warring factions were unable to agree upon even a modest set of changes in insurance Indus try practices that Are almost universally condemned such As those that make it impossible for people wit known illnesses to get coverage. Along the Way interest groups poured by even conservative estimates $100 million into the  expenditures alone accounted for More than both major presidential candidates spent in 1992. Mitchell tried to put the blame squarely on gop opposition in obvious Hope that the Issue would return to haunt republicans in the fall election. Although the democrats hold a majority of votes they do not have the 60 they would need to Block a filibuster. Even the democrats themselves were sharply Divide Don the Issue however and it was far from certain that Mitchell could have garnered even the 5.0 votes needed to pass any of the alternatives he was considering in re cent Days. In the stars and stripes 10 years ago sept. 28,1984 House and sen ate conferees agreed to a defense authorization Bill that included a 4 percent pay raise for servicemen Bers beginning Jan. 1. 20 years ago sept. 28,1974 president Ford opened a Washington Summit con Ference on inflation by again ruling out wage and Price controls and condemning those who seek to take advantage of economic uncertainty 30 years ago sept. 28,1964 Lee Harvey Oswald alone murdered president Kennedy the presidential commis Sion headed by chief Justice Earl Warren concluded. 40 years ago sept. 28,1954 a special sen ate committee recommended unanimously that the upper House Cen sure sen. Joseph r. Mccarthy r wis., for contempt of the Senate and for abusing an army general. 50 years ago sept. 28,1944 struggling against a Hurricane of fire from nazi 8.8s, tank cannons and machine guns the last survivors of British air borne troops who held the arnhem Netherlands Bridgehead for nine Days were ferried Back to the Allied lines during the night. World War it 50 years ago today sept. 28 . Marines from Pel Eliu land on Nege bus Konga uru and other nearby islets to defeat japanese artillery positions on Pel Eliu american troops begin a bitter weeks Long Battle to Clear out isolated but heavily fortified japanese Strong Points. In France Canadian soldiers Battle into the outer defences of Calais. Soviet troops attack into Yugoslavia from Bulgaria. Source 2194 Days of War w. H. Smith publishers inc. The world almanac of world War ii Bison books corp., 1981 san fein s Adams meets Rosa Parks Detroit a Irish nationalist Leader Gerry Adams paid tribute to american civil rights Pioneer Rosa Parks on monday thanking her in per son for civil rights inspiration that spread far beyond . Shores. \ Adams is president of the. Sinn fein party the political Wing of the Irish re publican army. He is making his first . Tour since the Clinton administration lifted a travel ban issued against him because of Ira terrorism. The Ira last month declared a cease fire As efforts toward a Compromise among Britain the Irish Republic and the two sides in Northern Ireland progressed.  " we have in Ireland right now a very great Opportunity to build upon the peace process Adams said. The Black civil rights Battles of the 1960s in the United states inspired a Parks Adams tin lists in Northern Ireland Adams said. " ,. As a teen Ager in Belfast we took Succour from the people in this country who struggled for civil rights he said. The voice of the Rev. Martin Luther King or was brought into our Homes through the medium of  he also spoke of Parks refusal in 1955 to give up a bus seat to a White Manj which sparked the Montgomery Ala bus Boycott and opened the mod Ern civil rights movement. That sent a message of How one per son s action can Start a whole mass movement Adams said. At a City Hall ceremony in Detroit dams gave Parks a Waterford Crystal bowl i m very Happy to receive this bowl said Parks 81. I applaud the civil rights struggle in Ireland and Here inthe United  sinn fein and the Ira seek to incorporate British ruled Northern Ireland into the Irish Republic. The Republic is predominantly Catho Lic while Northern Ireland has a protestant majority. Britain retained Rule Over the More industrially developed North when the Irish Republic was granted Independence in 1921, " Torrny accused of Stea fad est. ". Hanover a. A a Nanny accused of stealing More than $100,000 from the families she worked for was arrested after months As a fugitive the died in her sleep in jail. Diana Conrad was accused of stealing from families in Ohio California and Florida. She was arrested sunday night in Bowling Green after a Motel clerk recognized the 6-foot-2, 400-Pound woman from a segment saturday on the television show America s most wanted Conrad 44, died in her sleep and was found at 6 . Monday in the Hanover county jail said state police sgt Douglas Hendley an autopsy was scheduled for tues Day. Hendley speculated that she May have died of a heart attack she a 400 pounds he said. She was huffing and puffing and hav ing a hard time getting around Conrad used up to a dozen aliases As she obtained jobs through newspaper advertisements gained her employers Trust then stole their Money and fled said sheriffs it. Bob Bratton in Ottaw county Ohio. Arlene Osmond and her husband Gary who live in Perrysburg Ohio hired Conrad in 1992 after she identified her self As Diane Chambers. She disappeared in february with $90,000 of the Osmond Cash and credit cards police said. Arlene Osmond had mixed feelings about Conrad s death since the Nanny was loved by the Osmond family. But i also feel cheated because i m never going to find out what happened she said. Conrad s sister in Law Nollie Mohr said Conrad was a Loving Mother but snapped after her divorce in the mid 1970s. In the late 1970s, Conrad left her four children at a shelter and disappeared. Hendley said that when he arrested Conrad she told him she saw herself on America s most wanted in Jacksonville fla., where she was taking care of an elderly Man and immediately fled. I. Pc. Wal Mart sees doonesbury outstrip critics Fayetteville Ark. A a newspaper near Wal Mart Headquarters that pulled an episode of doonesbury because it satirizes a town s Battle Over one of the discount stores reinstated the cartoon monday after readers complained. The Northwest Arkansas times in Fayetteville 20 Miles from Wal Mart Headquarters in Bentonville received an overwhelming number of Calls asking for the cartoon managing editor John Walker said. The comic strip was to resume tues Day when both monday s and the regularly scheduled strip were to run he said. The cartoon normally runs on the opinion Page. On monday other features were used to fill the space. The newspaper offered copies of the strip at its office and by fax. Normally a very funny topical humorist cartoonist Garry Trudeau sometimes goes beyond acceptable limits for commentary and this is one of those times publisher George s. Smith wrote on monday s editorial Page. Residents of Sturbridge mass., Are fighting Over plans to build a Wal Mart there saying it will destroy the historic flavor of their town. Wal Mart citing a firestorm of let ters in support of the store said Mon Day that it was proceeding with plans to build the outlet. In the strip Wal Mart pledges to re Spect the unique agrarian character of a Community by planting soybeans on the store s roof. In the final Frame monday a Moo from an unseen cow comes from atop the store. Universal press Syndicate which Dis tributes doonesbury said it received no other complaints. It depends on whose of is being gored editorial director Lee Salem said. I thought it was a pretty funny