European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 13, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes sunday november 13,1994 at a glance Newt Gingrich the Georgia Republican who May become the next House speaker holds a copy of president Clinton s health Security act alter its release last year. Gin Grich warned Clinton that republicans won t Compromise on some key issues. See Story on Page 6. Playing Safe some residents of a new Jersey Community want to prohibit anyone attending or participating in a town sponsored sporting event from fight ing verbally abusing or threatening people at the game including the Umpire. " /. Page6 vets Are few veterans Are seriously underrepresented in senior Clinton administration positions a study by veterans interest groups says.  page8 crisis feared California s proposition 187 is Al ready scaring illegal immigrants away from clinics and could create a health crisis critics of the anti illegal immigration ballot measure say. Pag9 a ton of reasons one in five american teens is Over weight the government reports and experts Are blaming everything from junk food to baggy clothing. Page 10 Short lived euphoria investors have concluded that Al though having More business Friendly republicans in Congress might be Good interest rates Are heading up and that is bad news for stocks. Page 12 Index Abby Ann Landers. 20 classifieds. 24-28 commentary 23 faces a places 20 Horoscope 27 letters. 2 Money matters. 12-13 Mutual 13-17 sports 29-36 weather 21 allies jittery after in embargo by the Washington Post the Muslim led government in Sarajevo hailed the . Decision to Stop blocking Bosnia bound arms shipments in the Adriatic sea but european allies reacted with alarm and dismay saying the Ameri can move could escalate the bitter Balkan War and scar .-european relations. Officials in Washington and Europe appeared to agree on one thing at least that the . Policy change which went into effect at Midnight saturday is unlikely to pro vide any material boost to Bosnia s under gunned army which has received most of its arms imports by air. Out of 42,000 vessel challenged in the Adriatic by nato ships Over the past two. Years Only three were found to be ferrying arms to Bosnia and Herzegovina according to the Pentagon. We Don t see massive amounts of arms coming in As a result of the . Move said bosnian vice president Ejup Ganic. But the unilateral american action brought to a head lingering divisions in the agonizing debate Over what the International Community should do about Bosnia. Numerous european officials said they fear the . Move could shatter Hopes of sus Taining a trans Atlantic consensus on How to promote peace in the Balkans. . Officials sought to play Down the prospects of a lasting rift in the Alliance stressing that american forces would continue to participate in other nato actions meant to contain the War and provide humanitarian Relief. The . Move officials said was meant to signal the Strong political sentiment in Washington for lifting the embargo thereby increasing pressure on bos Nian serbs to sign a peace settlement. It is a Way of making Clear that the United states regards the arms embargo against Bosnia As inappropriate and unequal in it effect a senior defense official said. Congress voted last summer to Stop fund ing . Enforcement of the arms ban if bosnian serbs did not sign a peace settlement brokered by the United states Russia and three West european countries. But senior . Diplomats also portrayed saturday s action As reflecting washing ton s frustration Over ineffective Allied air strikes and Europe s failure to take stronger measures that would compel bosnian serbs to accept the peace agreement the proposed agreement would split Bosnia s territory roughly equally Between serbian nationalists on one Side and the muslims and their croatian allies on the other. V.,- defense ministers from the Western european Union a nine nation defense group with the ambition of becoming the Securi Yarm of the european Union called to emergency meeting for monday to discus the implications of the . Decision. They were expected to consider Steps to compensate for the withdrawal of american ship and aircraft from the interception Effort. Shipping in on from Page 1 ments to military personnel rather than alerting local transportation officials that there were problems he said. The defense department spends about $1 billion a year to move More than 700,000 household goods shipments. Service members file damage claims on almost 20 percent of those shipments compared with a private sector rate of 11percent or less according to interstate Commerce commission figures. Moore cannot pinpoint the reasons for that discrepancy. The Industry usually says that we Aren t willing to pay As much As the commercial sector does he said. But i be also had people in the Indus try Tell me private sector rates Are so heavily discounted that our rates Are roughly comparable. That s one of the things we want to look at How do we Trade off Quality and costs the military traffic management omd will focus on re engineering the entire household goods shipping process which now is too cumbersome complicated and heavy on paperwork Moore said. We want to move toward larger con tracts that package what we need in the Way of services Moore said. We d like something More comprehensive than the piecemeal system we have  the command has put together three teams that will spend roughly the next six months looking at the Domestic and International shipping programs As Well As data base upgrades that might help streamline the system. Whatever revisions Are eventually approved will be incorporated into future contract solicitations issued by the com Mand Moore said. He recently went to san Francisco to Brief members of the household Good forwarders association. They re recep. Tive to revamping and simplifying this program he said. Command officials Are not going into this process with preconceived notions of just what changes need to be made Moore said. Agency officials plan to talk with service members of All ranks and Mil itary transportation officers in the Field As Well As Industry representatives. We want to get everyone s input he said. The byword Are Quality and simplification. We need a program that Pecan administer More easily with less Man  to oppose Rome a about 1 million pro testers converged saturday on Rome in the latest Union led March against pen Sion cuts. It was Italy s biggest protest of a tense autumn. Prime minister Silvio Berlusconi s conservative government replied by saying it would press to slash the budget. Italy s three big labor confederation chartered thousands of buses hundreds of train cars and even four ferries to mobilize students workers the unemployed and retirees from North to South. " we won t Swallow it was a popular slogan for demonstrators who marched to three piazzas including Rome s ancient circus Maximus for speeches after the two hour March. It s probably the biggest Union rally of the postwar period said Ottaviano Del Turco head of the Small socialist party. Union leaders claimed a turnout of More than 1.5 million but Rome s police head quarters estimated 1 million. No arrests or injuries were reported among the marchers but italian news agencies reported a few scattered Clashe Between police and demonstrators from outside the organizing unions. The rally echoed earlier although smaller rallies in Rome and elsewhere this fall. Transport and other strikes Over the Bud get cuts have also been staged. Berlusconi says cutting social services including rigorous overhaul of one of Europe s most generous pension systems i needed to reduce the deficit and keep Italy competitive. Would change his policies. Italy snares escaped mafia Boss Rome a police on saturday captured a convicted mafia Boss five months after he escaped from prison with the help of 10 men disguised As police. Police in Turin said Felice Maniero was arrested without resistance in a apartment on a main Street. Maniero and five other prisoners slipped out of a top Security prison in Padua on june 14 with the help of gang members armed with pistols and sub machine guns who had been allowed in after showing false papers identifying them As police. When Maniero escaped he was on trial in nearby Venice on charges of kidnapping extortion drug trafficking and criminal association. " two weeks later he was convicted in a sentia and sentenced to 33 years in prison. Visit from Page of the embassy and gave to one of its officials. He said that people living near former Clark a and Subic Bay naval facilities Are getting sick from toxic contamination and that Washington should pay their medical Bills and order a cleanup. The . Embassy says the bases were cleaned before service members finished the departure from the Philippines a for Mer . Colony. The president will press for lower Trade barriers and expanded world Trade when he meets in Indonesia on tuesday with 17 other leaders at the Asia Pacific economic cooperation forum. The lame Duck . Congress is meet ing at of North s lend to vote on a new world Trade agreement and Clinton said it would be a defining decision for America As we head into the next Cen  i believe that members of both parties will put aside partisanship to do what s right for our country and our future an approve the Accord he said. Clinton s visit to the Philippines is a follow up to ceremonies in Europe Las june marking the 50th anniversary of d Day. Today Clinton will tour Corregidor the Island fortress in Manila Bay seized by Japan in 1942 after Gen. Douglas Macarthur escaped to Australia in a patrol boat while pledging i shall  in a scene captured in a famous photo graph Macarthur fulfilled his Promise oct. 20,1944, wading ashore at Leyte is land. Macarthur completed the Recap Ture of the Philippines on july 5,1945