European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 11, 1995, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 2 the stars and stripes monday september 11,1995 at a glance bad boy Vladimir a Mirinovsky started a fight saturday in Russia s lower House the Duma instructing colleague Nikolai Lysenko Center to rip a Crucifix from the neck of lawmaker Gleb Yakunin with Back to camera. Another lawmaker right tries to break up the Battle. See Story on Page 8. Wall deaths probed German prosecutors Are investigating the deaths of a least 20 Chil Dren slain by former East German Border guards. Page 3 stirring up gop debate Pat Buchanan reminded religious conservatives saturday that presidential rivals Bob Dole and Phil Gramm voted for two Clinton administration supreme court nominees who support abortion rights. Page 6 Iran rebuffed a top . Navy commander on saturday rejected iranian claims that the buildup of american the Gulf had destabilized the Region. O Page 8 France seizes yacht the French military seized a pro test yacht saturday carrying eight legislators from Australia Japan and Europe after it violated an exclusion zone around France s muru Roa atoll. Nuclear test site in the South Pacific. Page 10 . Sues Douglas the Justice department is taking Over a whistle Blower lawsuit against Mcdonnell Douglas corp., accusing the defense contractor of routinely. Rnischarging11 labor some air plane contracts.1 Page 16. Index Abby Arm Landers. 17 classifieds. 24-27 comics. 17,22-23 commentary. 15 crossword 22 faces n places. .12 Horoscope. 25 Jumble. 25 letters 14 Money matters. 16 sports. 28-36 to listings. 35 weather 13 of claims the yer City of his own diaries is in Dou Washington a sen. Bob Packwood forced from the Senate by charges of sexual misconduct and abuse of Power said sunday his diary is littered with inaccuracies and won t help jog his memory. Appearing on go so face the nation Packwood repeated his qualified apology to women who accused him of unwanted sexual advances. Am i sorry of course. If i did the. Things that they said i did. Am i sorry do i apologize yes but it is time to get on and not look pressed to explain Why he still questioned the veracity of the accusations Packwood said he cannot remember most of the instances even with the Aid a personal diary dating Back 25 years. I have discovered there Are Many in accuracies in the diary he said. I have discovered since this came up that a number of the things that i put in it were inaccurate some of them simply were not True. I did t know it. At the time but they weren t Packwood r ore., said he re counted conversations that did t happen and quoted people saying things they never said. He has previously attributed his memory loss to alcohol ism Packwood said one of the inac Cura l i cies came in a diary Ackwood passage about a 1992 meeting Vsmith sen. Phil Gramm a Texas. In a March 6, 1992, taped diary entry describing a meeting with Gramm who then chaired the top s Senate Campaign committee Packwood said the texan promised to funnel.$100,000 in party soft Money to Packwood s Campaign. Soft Money can be used Only building activities such As get out the vote drives and phone Banks and cannot legally be used to assist individual Candi dates. " what was said in that room would be enough to convict us All of something Packwo Dvaid Dri tape. On sunday Packwood said of the diary entry that was totally Gramm a presidential candidate has denied wrong soloing. T Packwood gave up his Long fight to save his scat after the Senate ethics committee voted 6-0 wednesday to recommend his expulsion. The panel re. Leased More than 10,000 pages of Materi Al gathered in the y course of its investigation detailing sexual advances made against unwilling women changing personal diaries the panel had sought As evidence and intervening with lobbyists to provide employment for his sex wife. Under pressure from democrats pack Cpd stepped Down As chairman of the powerful Senate finance committee and agreed to leave the Senate on oct. 1. From Page 1 no announcement of his own presidential intentions until the end of the year. He has stated that he would take a pass if Powell were to run As a Republican but in any Case is leaning against entering therace / v but i think that there is frankly just enough of a desire for somebody who is aggressive and articulate and willing to Lay out boldly where we need to go that i can t quite close the door at this stage he said. Gingrich said it s inevitable for there to be some sniping among the declared gop candidates but it s important they make sure their political Battles Don t disrupt the Republican Agenda on tax cuts and welfare and medicare Reform. If we allow ourselves to get pulled apart in the next 30 or 40 Days we re going to look like idiots and frankly we re not going to elect anybody next year to the presidency and we might lose the House and Senate he said. In the meet the press interview Gin Grich also revealed some details of the gop plan to restore fiscal integrity to medicare including a proposal to apply affluence testing to couples earning More than $125,000. ,. He said he is ready to meet this week with president Clinton and Dole to work out a bipartisan plan for medicare and complimented Clinton for his stand on the need for Reform. He did the country a service by being Blunt and honest about the need to change medicare Gingrich said. He said the medicare Reform package House speaker Newt Gingrich r-ga., Points to reporters As he talks with children about what it s like dealing with the Media during a1 Spina Bifid association of Georgia Outing saturday at the Atlanta zoo. To be announced by House republicans this week would maintain the 31.5 per. Cent share seniors must now pay for medicare part b costs As Well a Means test for senior couples car inc $125,000 or More. 7 under current Law the seniors share of part a the portion of medicare that pays doctor Bills and lab tests would drop to 25 percent. Democrats say keeping the current percentage could mean the doubling of premiums now at s46.10 a month. Gin Grich said the gop plan would result in extra costs of about $7 a month for each senior said the Republican plan to save medicare from insolvency also includes giving seniors greater options in health care including staying with the current system moving into health management organizations staying with group insurance plans or joining medical savings accounts. Gingrich slams Sheehy s list of affairs Washington a responding to a Magazine article that accused him of a series of past affairs House speaker Newt Gingrich said sunday the author of the article Gail sheeny was a vicious Liberal who was out to damage his career. Gingrich r-ga., interviewed on Abc s meet the press would not comment on allegations published in vanity fair that he d had extramarital affairs during the 1970s, saying he would not get involved in trash but he said Sheehy s article was a despicable hit piece by a person who has virtually no he said he knew after his Book knocked Sheehy s Book out of the no. 1 spot on the new York times Best seller list that we would get a mean spiteful Nasty he qualified that by noting thai the article was written before his to renew America replaced her new Pas sages at the head of the list. Szechy was unavailable for comment sunday. Gingrich said the Effort to link him to scandal was part of the process and he was t worried about effects on his Politi Cal future. Gingrich said his second wife Mari Anne who was interviewed for the piece in vanity fair s september Issue was also upset about the article. It quotes her As saying she will publicly undermine everything if Gingrich runs for president. She did t mind the junk about 20 years ago nearly As much As the fact that Gail sheeny had manipulated her and had misused her words he said. He noted that his wife has stated that she does t want him to run for president and she will be in the door in late no vember when he makes a decision on being a candidate. Gingrich has refused to comment on past allegations that he had extramarital affairs while running a family values Campaign in 1978. He later divorced his first wife
