European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 08, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 12 the stars and stripes . Thursday december 8,1994 Clinton challenges gop to a contest of ideas7 Washington a warming up for Bat Leswith the new gop Congress president Clinton says he s ready to Cut deeper into the deficit and Federal bureaucracy but eager to make Clear that he started the efforts republicans claim As their top priorities. In a spirited defense of his performance and Agenda tuesday night Clinton said he was open to bipartisanship but in an apparent counterpunch to re cent criticisms from incoming House gop Leader new Gingrich said let s have a contest of ideas. But let s Stop this demonizing and get on with the business Clinton speaking to a democratic leadership coun cil gala also had some Blunt words of advice for his own party particularly those in the centrist Organiza Tion who have been critical of him and his administration. As they responded to their heavy losses in the mid term elections Clinton said democrats and particularly policy shops like the Council have a responsibility. It isto join me in the Arena not in the Peanut gallery Clinton said. In the Arena and fight and Roll up you sleeves and be willing to make a mistake every now and Clinton did not refer to any specific criticism. But hours earlier the Council chairman Oklahoma rep. Dave Mccurdy called Clinton a transitional figure and said he had undermined the 10-year Effort of democratic moderates to loosen the party from its Liberal moorings. A. While Bill Clinton has the mind of a new Democrat he retains the heart of an old Democrat said Mccurdy. The result is an administration that has pursued elements of a moderate and Liberal Agenda at the same time to the great confusion of the american Mccurdy Defeated last month in an Effort to win election to the Senate was among a handful of dec leaders summoned to a private White House meeting before the president spoke at the organization s 10th anniversary gala. In his remarks Clinton lamented that the most frustrating aspect of the democrats midterm defeat was that Blue Collar Middle class workers had deserted the party in favor of republicans. In confusing economic times the very people you try hardest to help Are the ones who turn away Clin ton said. But he said democrats could win them Back. The answer is not to reverse what we have done but to build on it he said. Give up after 9 years of hiding out Chicago a on the run from charges of trying to help a puerto rican terrorist blast out of prison two of the Fri s most wanted fugitives hid for nine years behind false names Middle class lives and charitable activities. Claude Marks and Donna Willmott surrendered to Federal agents tuesday i Chicago ending negotiations that began last Winter. They were jailed pending hearing next week. The two were placed on the Fri s 10most wanted list in 1987. The fugitives settled in Pittsburg Hunder assumed names and raised Sepa rate families with children ranging from 3jo 4vyears old. According to their attorneys Marks,45, was a video producer who coached Little league and repaired bikes for underprivileged children. Willmott 44, was a nurse s assistant who helped found a paediatric aids program. " Marks and Willmott said in statement that their surrender was linked to a change of heart. We were deeply affected by the Colo Nial situation of puerto Rico which continues to this Day. Our decision to sur Render Sterns from our desire to again participate openly in Public efforts touring about much needed social change the said. Marks and Willmott were charged in1986 with plotting to use rockets and Frand grenades to blow up part of the maximum Security Leavenworth Niten diary in Kansas then help the Leader of the puerto rican terrorist group fall escape by helicopter. Marks also was charged with trying to buy plastic explosives in Louisiana to use in the seller was an undercover Fri agent. _ the Man they Are accused of trying to Spring Oscar Lopez is still serving a 55-year sentence for a 1981 conviction on seditious conspiracy. Two others involve Din the escape plot were convicted. After the plot was foiled prosecutor said Marks and Willmott returned to California in a car that contained a listening device. They found the Bug and fled with their spouses settling in Pittsburgh seven years ago under the assumed names Wil Liam Gregory Peters and Joann Elliott. Sen. Jesse Helms tells reporters in Winston Salem n.c., that his joking remarks about president Clinton were never intended As a threat. Helms says paper twisted his comment on glint in by the Washington Post Washington sen. Jesse Helms , on tuesday accuse the news Media of intellectual dishonesty suggesting that a North Carolina newspaper had distorted his remark that president Clinton better have a bodyguard if he visited a military base in the was never a threat and everybody knew that Helms told dozens of reporters and photographers in Winston Salem n.c., As a meeting., ,._. A Helms has said the remark made in a nov. 21 interview with the news and observer of Raleigh was a mistake. The newspaper reported the comment in the i4th paragraph of its Story but the resulting storm of publicity sparked demands by some democrats that Senate republicans deny Helms chairmanship of the foreign relations committee inthe next Congress. you were suckers for the Raleigh news and observer Helms told reporters according to wire service reports. The news and observer took the word jokingly out of their Mike Yopp the paper s Deputy managing editor said Helms charge was not the word jokingly never appeared in the dispatch from our correspondent and was never taken out Yopp said. He added our reporter Jim Rosen having some knowledge of Helms and How he expresses himself did t really attach the same importance to the quotes was seized on afterwards. Helms dismissed critical editorials that followed his remark As the work of self righteous editors who Rose to the height of Pilot lands after Light indicates de icing trouble from the associated press Chicago an american Eagle commuter Airlane made an emergency Landing late tuesday after reporting that a cockpit Light indicate problems with the plane s de icing of the plane s 16 passengers or three Crew members was Hurt. The atr-42 in route from Dayton Ohio was approaching o Hare International Airport for Landing when it reported the malfunction and declared an emergency said Federal aviation administration spokesman Don Zochert mixed rain and Snow was falling Over Chicago at the atr-42 is a smaller version of the atr-72. An american Eagle atr-72 crashed oct. 31 Nea Roselawn ind., killing All 68 people aboard. Since that crash the National transportation safety Board has recommended arts not Fly in known icing conditions. Police mow Down Bandit san Francisco a Man who showed up Ata downtown Bank with two fake hand grenades was shot and killed by police tuesday after he lobbed one of the disarmed explosive devices. Officers responding to a silent alarm fired at least50 rounds in less than two minutes said witness George Hughes. No employees or customers were injured at the Bank of America Branch. Police would t identify the suspect crash hurts 28 students Alorton ill a school bus overturned tuesday on a foggy Highway causing mostly minor injuries to Mort Nan two dozen students Riding thebus Home from Junior High school. Hospitals reported treating 28 students ranging Inage from 12 to 15. At least seven were being kept overnight and the others were released. None of the students from Martin Luther King Junior High school in East St. Louis appeared to have Bee seriously Hurt officials said copycat Dies in Accident Tracy Calif. A 20-year-old accidentally killed himself in front of his friends while imitating the suicide of Rock Star Kurt Lyle Senac propped a 12-gauge Shotgun on the floor and Knelt with his Mouth Over the barrel said sgt. Jim Hanson. He was t intending to Hurt himself Hanson isaid. He put the gun up to his head and said look i m just like Kurt Cobain and the Gim went. Senac died instantly in his , Leader of the grunge Rock band nirvana shot himself in the head with a Shotgun april 27. No stomach for smuggling Trenton . A Man who smuggled drugs into Miami by swallowing 4.8 condoms filed with heroin has been sentenced to 32 months in Javier Zarn Brand 28, of Christobal Venezuela got less than the five year mandatory minimum sentence for trafficking because he was a first time offender said assistant . Attorney Kevin Smithr Zambrano weeping apologized to his family during the sentencing monday i he was ordered to repay More than $26,000 to memorial Hospital of Burlington county in new Jersey where he had emergency surgery to remove the 440 Grams of heroin. \. District judge Garret e. Brownjr. Ordered that Zambrano be deported after serving his term Zambrano s scheme was uncovered when he went to the emergency room july 18, complaining of severe abdominal pain and told the staff he wanted the packets removed. Doctors found the condom when they operated. Tot drowns in Washer Rosemead Calif. A 2-year-old drowned after crawling on top of a running washing machine and falling inside. An autopsy tuesday determined that Robert Moreno s death was accidental said sheriffs Deputy Jeff Cannon. The lid on the washing machine had been propped open because of a faulty mechanism authorities said. Robert s grandmother found him about 10minutes after he fell into the machine sunday night. He died shortly after arriving a a Hospital
