European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 09, 1995, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes . Saturday september 9, 1995 Deal on welfare Bill Washington a conservative republicans Are claiming a breakthrough in their drive to rewrite the party s Wel fare Bill to deny higher benefits to Moth ers on welfare who have More  Deal improves the Bill s prospects for passing the Senate. The agreement was struck thursday in a closed door meeting of Senate republicans whose differences Over illegitimate births helped stall debate earlier this summer on the party s welfare overhaul its  Issue. In a related move the Senate voted 91 6 Friday in favor of an amendment by sen. Rick Santorum  that would allow Law enforcement agents to Check local welfare lists for the addresses of fugitive felons. Santorum said that there Are More than 397,000 felons being pursued by Law officers nationwide and that Many Are Hying on welfare. Privacy rules however prevent police from checking local Wel fare lists for the addresses of those wanted criminals. Sen. Phil Gramm a Texas and other conservatives had pushed hard for a fam ily Cap a policy to end the automatic increases in Cash benefits that mothers on welfare in most states receive when they give birth to another child. Gramm said Senate majority Leader Bob Dole a Kan his rival for the gop presidential nomination had agreed that single mothers should be denied More and More Cash. For having More and More children on welfare ,.v under the Compromise states would be allowed to decide whether to give such families in kid benefits such As vouch ers for diapers and formula to care for their youngest children Gramm said. Anti abortion forces had sought the vouchers based on their fears that end ing support would encourage More abortions. _ -. .".--./. Gramm said the Bill would Reward states that reduce rates of out of Wedlock to is eager  at informer says Washington i a an undercover informer his identity obscured in a Senate hearing room Testi fied Friday that White separatist Randy Weaver told him that he could Supply me with shotguns All Daylong and offered to do so regularly. Kenneth Fadeley was the informer for the Federal Bureau of alcohol tobacco and firearms to whom Weaver sold two sawed off shotguns. At officials live disputed Weaver s claim that he was set up for the illegal Sale saying he took the initiative. The Sale began a Chain of events that ended in the deaths of Weaver s wife and 14-year-old son and a Dep Uty . Marshal at Weaver s Idaho Mountaintop Home in August 1992. _ l Fadeley who previously testified in open court at Weaver s trial in Idaho appeared before the Senate judiciary subcommittee behind a Glass and plywood parti Tion and his voice was altered digitally to protect his identity. 7 he recounted How he met Weaver at a meeting of the aryan nations White separatist group in Idaho and discussed racist and anti semitic views with Weaver. In a meeting in october 1989, Fadeley recounted Weaver said he could Supply four or five sawed off guns Aweeky. -7. / ,. " " " i would really like to go to work for you " fade Ley said Weaver told him. This took me by Surprise be cause we had never talked about going to work or doing anything  the informer said Weaver told him that he could Supply me with shotguns All Day Long and that there would be no paperwork involved Weaver ultimately was charged with Selling two illegal shotguns to Fadeley but was acquitted in 1993. The standoff at Ruby Ridge began when Federal marshal s deputies encountered members of Weaver s family As the deputies scouted his property to prepare for arresting him. Weaver was sought for failure to appear for trial on the Shotgun charge. Weaver s wife Vicki his son Sam and Deputy . Marshal William Degan were killed in a shootout. Top Clinton adviser faces traffic charges Washington a White House senior adviser George Stepha Nopulos faces charges of leaving the scene of an Accident and driving with an expired permit after allegedly crunching the fender of a parked car outside a Georgetown restaurant. Steph Nopoulos 34, was arrested at 11 45 . Thursday police said. He was released a few hours later. Police spokesman Joe Gentile said Friday that Steph Nopoulos car struck another vehicle As he was leaving his parking space causing minor  in an interview outside the police station Ste thanopoulos said he was at dinner in George town and was parallel parked when he brushed the car a Nissan Pathfinder in front of him As he tried to leave the parking space. He would not elaborate. Chilled Chimp Maggie a 4-year-old african Chimpanzee cools Down on the water sprinkler at Marina world Africa Usa in Vallejo calif., on trails Day. Temperatures in the Northern California City reached 90 de Grees thursday. Cell defect May help explain Side by Scripps Howard news service researchers have discovered a cell defect in babies who died of sudden infant death syndrome they believe May explain Why the Chil Dren suffocated a report says. Or. Hannah Kinney of Boston s children s Hospital and Harvard medical school and other colleagues compared brain tissue from 45 infants who died of Side with a control group of 32 infants who died from other known causes. The control group included 18 who had chronic breathing  .,.__ " _ Side is the leading Post Natal cause of death among infants under 1 year old with an estimated 6,000 babies mysteriously ceasing to breathe in their sleep and succumbing. Yet medical experts Are Uncertain Why some babies suddenly have so much difficulty breathing particularly when they sleep prone on their stomachs. Kinney and her co authors theorize that Side babies Are deficient in chemical receptors in the part of the brain that controls the function of the heart and lungs. They caution that the cell deficiency May simply Mark a More fundamental cause of breathing dysfunction an not be a cause itself. Their study was published thursday in the journal science. Birth without increasing the number of abortions. He said the legislation seeks to dismantle the Federal welfare bureaucracy As it shifts programs for the poor to the states in Lump sum payments known As Block  was hot nearly As specific telling the Senate think most of the differences have been resolved on our Side be cause we be tried to base our Bill on three principles creating a real work require ment returning authority to the states and restraining welfare spending. We think these Are the principles that Are necessary if we re going to provide the dramatic Reform to provide Hope and Opportunity to the americans in  Powell s wife worries about safety if he runs new York a Colin l. Pow Ell s wife says she does not want the re tired . Army general to run for presi Dent and would fear for his safety if he tried because he is Black. Powell interviewed with his wife Alma on the Abc news 20/20 program airing next Friday in the states said his wife s feelings May be decisive in deter mining whether he tries for the Whitehouse. He would probably be at much More risk than any other candidate because of being a Black Man in this society. A lot of crazy people out there Alma Powell said. But she said if Powell decided to run i will  we Are a team Powell said of his wife of 33 years. And whether it s Public life or it s private life Alma will be 50 percent of that  exactly 50 percent in Alma s Case it s probably 51 per cent responded Powell. In the stars and stripes 10 years ago sept. 9,1985 the soviet Union has offered to reduce its strategic missiles and bombers by 40 percent Over the next five years if the United states bans tests of Star wars " weapons during that period. 20 years ago sept. 9,1975 police in Boston made More than 100 arrests when . Marshals backed by National guard troops helped get the buses rolling As a new and extensive  ing program came to the nation s oldest Public school system. 30 years ago sept. 9,1965 Hurricane Betsy crashed through the Florida keys. With 140-Mph fury killing at least three people and leaving South Flor Ida in a tangle of destruction. 40 years ago sept. 9,1955 West Germany s Chancellor Konrad Adenauer flew into Moscow for talks with Kremlin leaders that May prove a turning Point in East West relations. 50 years ago sept. 9,1945 in Guam 1,200 prisoners of War including 89 americans who survived the death March on Bataan were liberated by the . 7th Fleet the Navy reported