European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 30, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                R Page 6 the stars and stripes . Wednesday november 30.1994 . Yields to decision on Gay Sailor by the new York times Washington the Clinton administration said monday that it would drop its Effort to bar a homosexual from serving in the Navy and would not Appeal the Case to the . Supreme court. Government lawyers insisted that their decision in the Case of Petty officer 1st class Keith Meinhold was not intended to convey the message that the military must admit homosexuals. Rather the said it was simply a tactical decision in the Long running court Battle Between the armed services and Gay and civil rights groups Over the Pentagon s policy on homosexuality. Last August the 9th . Circuit court of appeals in san Francisco said mein hold could not be discharged merely forsaking he was Gay. The Navy had tried to in the stars and stripes 10 years ago nov. 30,1984 president Rea Gan discussed with Republican con Gressional leaders proposed budget cuts in the $40 Billon to $50 billion Range that would kill up to 25 pro Grams such As farm supports and mass transit subsidies. 20 year Sago nov. 30,1974a panel of three physicians said that ailing former president Nixon was unable to testify in the watergate cover up trial and probably would not be Able to until mid february 1975. 30 years ago nov. 30,1964 an explosion minutes after the inauguration of a new Bridge near the Central greek City of Lamia killed 13 people and injured an additional 54, 40 years ago nov. 30,1954the state department informed the Kremlin that. . Military aircraft would continue to Monitor soviet and All other ship Ping in the Vicinity of Formosa de spite Moscow s protests. 50 years ago nov. 30,1944 armed with Only a i knife and a Fountain pen a 19 year old medic performed a remark Able piece of Battlefield surgery completing a Windpipe operation that saved the life of a Soldier Grav Ely injured during a mortar barrage. I world War ii i 50 years ago today nov. 30 1.9 soviet and romanian soldiers capture Eger Northeast of the hungarian capital of Budapest and Advance toward miskolc. American forces Advance slowly in the Munnich and Lammersdorf areas near Aachen in Western Germany . Troops take the Heights overlooking Mackmiller in northeastern France. In Burma British troops occupy Plowe. Source 2194 Days of War. W. H. Smith publishers inc. The world almanac of world War ii Bison books corp., 1981 remove him under the policy in effect when Clinton took office in january 1993, that prohibited anyone who describe himself As Gay from serving in the armed services. Administration officials said that the Meinhold Case was not Worth appealing because the regulations under which the Navy sought to discharge Meinhold have since been rewritten an that the Case could therefore be distinguished from others that have begun to arise under the new policy written by Trie Clinton administration. The Meinhold decision had cast Doubton that new policy known As Don t ask Don t Tell duh t  moreover the administration last week won a different Case revolving around theold policy in a different appeals court. Government lawyers said that Victory in the Case of a former . Naval Academy midshipman Joseph g. Steffan would have the effect of limiting any damage done to the military policy by the mein hold Case. The . Court of appeals for the District of Columbia circuit rejected Steffan s argument that his expulsion from the Annapolis md., Academy was unconstitutional because it was based solely on his stated sexual orientation. Still the government May now be pre vented from taking disciplinary action against Meinhold a Navy sonar operator whom the government had tried to Dis charge after he said in a 1992 television interview that he was Gay. The government s decision not to a peal the Meinhold Case was announced monday by Joseph Krovisky a Justice department spokesman. He said it was made by solicitor general Drew Days Iii who represents the administration before the supreme court. Government lawyers said that after the Steffan decision it became Clear there was Little to be gained by appealing the Meinhold Case to the supreme court. The Pentagon rules written by the Linton administration took effect in february 1994 and permit the military to remove members who say they Are homosexuals. But government lawyers say that because the new rules Are More flexible they Are More Likely to withstand constitutional challenges. The new rules strike a Compromise Between Clinton s 1992campaign Promise to remove the ban on homosexuals entirely and the sentiments of military leaders and Congress to keep the ban in place. Was one of their own by the St. Louis Post dispatch St. Louis a handful of people interested in homosexual history gathered monday to Honor a Man they claim a theirs Baron Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben a prussian officer who became hero of America s War for Independence. Monday was the 200th anniversary of on Steuben s death. To Mark the Date eight men and a woman clustered at a statue of von Steuben erected in Tower Grove Park in 1968. An army historian in Washington said the evidence on von Steuben s sexual orientation was at Best fuzzy. But at the Park Bill Cordes spoke flatly of von Steuben As a homosexual and said that without Yon Steuben s services to George Washington s army the United states might not exist As a nation. Its extremely important that he was Gay said Cordes who owns our world too a Bookstore. If he was t Gay he would t have left  Cordes said the United states had won von Steuben services Only because he was under investigation in his native Prussia for what an earlier historian has described As famil rarities with Young men but the array historian in Washington he asked for anonymity said that nobody could know for sure whether von Steuben had been a homosexual or whether court in Trigue in Prussia had made him leave that country in such a hurry. On monday the group at the Park also heard from history teacher Rodney Wil son of Mehlville High school who recently told his classes of his homosexuality. Wilson said most of homosexual history has been taken away ignored edited or crushed. That s  to change things Wilson and others plan to form the Lambda historical society. Cordes said the group would Honor on Steuben each year at his statue. But As members shivered in 50-degree a new statue of Baron Friedrich evil Helm Yon Steuben a prussian officer who became an american general and a hero in the revolutionary War is unveiled monday in Potsdam Germany on the 200th anniversary of von Steu Ben s death. Air made chillier by a wind gusting up to 25 Mph Cordes promised that future ceremonies would be held on von Steuben s birthday. The More temperate sept. 17. Distributed by scrupps Howard news service sexy Bandit cashes in on traffic scam by newday new York the woman wearing a nurse s uniform who has been Pic pocketing men in Nassau county n.y., whom she often fondles first has been running the same scam in new York City for years new Day has Learned. The smooth talking pickpocket nicknamed the sexy Bandit by authorities has also struck in the new York counties of Westchester and Suffolk and in new Jersey according to Nassau county police. Over the weekend detectives in Levittown n.y., were flooded Withcall after a news conference in Nassau county last week where a least 15 men reported being victimized since 1991. As of monday night More than 50 men have called police to give strikingly similar stories of their or deals with a woman who fits the sexy Bandit s description. Wearing a White nurse s uniform and White shoes the sexy Bandit targets primarily Middle aged and elderly men alone in fancy cars police said. She flags Down the Driver or knocks at the window to say her car broke Down and she needs aride to her Job As a private nurse for an elderly patient. Once inside the car she engages the Man in sexual conversations Nassau county police detective Tony Letterel said. She also fondles them or rubs their legs in a suggestive manner. She distracts them Long enough to take their Wallet or Cash an aver age of $500, he said. Susan Smith s trial put off until next year Union . A Susan Smithson t be tried before next summer on charges she murdered her two Youngson a judge said monday in ruling that she does t have to undergo a psychiatric evaluation soon. Circuit judge John Hayes Iii said that the prosecutor s motion for a mental evaluation to see if Smith is competent Rostand trial is premature but that he May Rule on it again in the future. Hayes also denied the prosecutor s re quest that Smith s lawyer David Bruck reveal whether he will pursue an insanity defense. Without elaborating Hayes said he found Good cause for extending the time Bruck has to reveal his strategy. He said the trial would be scheduled no sooner than mid-1995. He set another hearing for feb. 13. % meanwhile Smith s estranged Hus band David filed court papers seeking Possession of the 1990 Mazda the boys were in when they drowned. Smith said he wanted the car to make sure it is properly disposed  the boys 3-year-old Michael and 14 month old Alex were strapped in their safety seats when their Mother let the car Roll Down a boat ramp into John d. Longlake on oct 25. Forjione Days Smith told police that Aca Jacker had driven off with her Chil Dren. The car is being held As evidence by police. David Smith could not be reached for comment. His phone has been disconnected. There was no answer at the office of his lawyer j. Michael  Smith s request was contained in a motion filed in response to his wife claims when she filed for divorce in sep tember. Susan Smith filed for divorce on grounds of adultery but her husband s response said she also was guilty of Adul Tery