European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 10, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse The stars and stripes thursday november 10,1994 at a glance Matilda Kayc Crabtree pretending to be burglar who had broken into her Home was shot to death by her startled father. I love you daddy were Matilda s last words to him. See Story on Page 7. Embassy return by the end of december the . Government expects to reclaim its former embassy building in Vietnam. Page 4 Clinton aide quits Republican David Gergen has submitted his resignation As a top presidential adviser saying acrimony and anger have reached new lows in pages gun ban supported the Clinton administration is urging the supreme court to reinstate a Federal ban on Possession of guns within 1,000 feet of schools. Page 6 diet advice for kids parents who want Normal weight children should t try to control How much youngsters eat a study says. Pages abortionist wounded a Canadian doctor who performs abortions was wounded at his break fast table tuesday by a sniper. Page 24 . Raises proposed Federal workers should get raises ranging from 2.64 percent to 4.27 percent next year a Council has recommended. Page 25 Index Abby Ann Landers. 32 classifieds. 33-38 comics. 30-32 commentary. 29 crossword. 32 faces a places. 26 Horoscope. 37 Jumble. 37 letters. 28 Money matters. 25 sports 38-44 to listings. 43 weather to. 27 sex congressman Hubbard gets three year term for misuse of funds j i Washington a former rep. Carroll Hubbard was sentenced to three years in prison wednesday by Federal judge who said the sex Congress Man had obviously and seriously jeopardized the Public s Confidence in government. Seven months after pleading guilty Tomi spending Campaign contributions and trying to hide it the Kentucky Democrat declared himself contrite broken remorseful and hard pressed to pay $153,000 in restitution ordered by . District judge Louis Oberdorfer. -.,. /. i accept full responsibility for my actions said Hubbard who served 18 years in Congress. I ask for the judge could have Given Hubbards much As 41 months in prison under Federal sentencing guidelines. Hubbard spent Campaign Money on hairdressers Cable to and other family expenses said assistant . At Torney Thomas Eicher. He also arranged to funnel some contributions for his political coffers to his wife s Campaign for Congress Eicher said. Former rep. Carroll Hubbard leaves Federal court with his wife Carol in april. A a v Hubbard was depicted by his attorney John Bray As a congressman buried under tuition expenses for his daughters College education and the Cost of paying for residences in Ken Tucky and Washington. He was trying to make ends meet in a terribly expensive world Bray Strain was Oberdorfer agreed to ask that the Bureau of prisons incarcerate Hubbard at Maxwell fab ala., near the Home of one of his daughters who is a lawyer. The sex congressman was ordered to Start serving his term Jan. 2, one of the biggest writers of Check overdrafts in the House Banff scandal Hubbard was Defeated in a democratic primary in 1992, he pleaded guilty in april to conspiracy to defraud the . Government by lying to the Federal election commis Sion theft and conversion of govern ment property and obstruction of jus Tice. Avav His wife Carol 53, pleaded guilty in april to a single Misdemeanour count of using her husband s congressional staff ers on her own 1992 failed House Campaign. She was placed on five years probation. Is a a fighting the flood soldiers and Rescue workers strengthen Banks of the to River at dated hundreds of villages in Northern Italy. Flooding in the re Monticelli d angina Italy on tuesday. The swollen River inn Gion has left scores dead and 10,000 homeless. Leave act gets Little use studies find by the Washington Post Washington the family an medical leave act which went into effect aug. 5, 1993, is getting its one Yea review and some of the reports Are not Good. Several new studies indicate that Busi Nesses Are not complying with the Law and that workers still Aren t sure of their rights and Are not taking advantage of them. The Bill a which had the support of labor family and women s groups was finally signed into Law last year by presi Dent Clinton after years of Republican administration resistance. Under the act employees who work a least 25 hours a week Are supposed to get 12 weeks leave to care for children ill relatives or their own debilitating medical conditions. Although the leave is unpaid employers Are required to allow it with out retribution continue the employee s health care benefits and give the employee the same or an equivalent Job on re turn from the leave the Law allows businesses to exempt the top ranking 10 percent of their employees. Companies with 50 or fewer workers also Are exempted. The labor department has receive some 1,000 complaints about violations most of which have been settled but there Are Early indications that employees and their Bosses Are not As familiar with the Lawas they could be. According to one study by 9 to 5, an advocacy group for working women Only about half of the workers surveyed had gotten any information about the Law from their employers and some got it Only after repeated requests. Two third who took leave said they had difficulties with their Bosses. A study by the University of Californi Aat Berkeley of several Hundred Compa Nies found that 40 percent of them said they had failed to comply with All parts of the Law. And a study by Washington University in St. Louis said that the Law did Spur companies to take a closer look a their leave policies but that employees were not availing themselves of the leave Law. More than half of the personnel Man agers and others surveyed said no employees had taken time off under the reason most people can t afford it either financially or professionally. The Fla could be categorized As Amajor legislative no event said Ray Hil Gert a Washington University business professor who conducted the study. De spite the hoopla it has t done
