European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 12, 1995, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday september 12, 1995 the stars and stripes. Page 5 use Glove photos los Angeles a the . Simpson trial judge on monday upheld the Centrepiece of the prosecution s rebuttal ruling that jurors can see some photographs of Simpson wearing gloves similar to those found by murder investigators. .-.". Judge Lance Ito said that although i prosecutors received some of the pictures before resting5 their Case july 6, they had no obligation to use them in their main Case because the photos were meaning less without expert analysis. Ito however said he probably would not let in All of the pictures taken at nine football games Simpson worked As a commentator. I m not interested in listening to 20 people testifying about taking photos Ito said. Prosecutors intend to. Use the Glove photographs As the heart of their rebuttal Case and to repair damage caused by a demonstration fiasco earner in the trial in which Simpson had trouble putting on the gloves.  also monday the defense said it would seek to strike some of retired detective Mark Furhman s testimony in Light of an appeals court decision that led the judge to abandon an important jury instruction on Fuhrman s absence from the trial during Cross examination. In a hearing outside the jury s pres ence defense attorney Robert Blasier said prosecutors should have used the photos of the gloves in their main Cassand it was too late to use the pictures and some video in the rebuttal Case. Blasier also said the defense Case made no mention of the gloves so the evidence can t be admitted since it rebuts nothing. Prosecutor Marcia Clark responded that Many of the photos taken at nine different wintry weather football games did t reach prosecutors until after they rested their Case. Other photos obtained earlier by the prosecution had to be checked for authenticity she said. The prosecution sketched out an ambitious rebuttal Case Friday with so Many witnesses that it appears More Likely to last five weeks than the five Days the anxious sequestered jury was told to expect. Monday s hearing was designed to do. Fine the scope of the rebuttal Case regardless of the final boundaries of the rebuttal Case prosecutors can t go Forward until the defense formally rests. Defense attorneys spent the weekend mulling Over whether to rest monday. In a broadcast interview monday de sense attorney f. Lee Bailey said he thinks Simpson should take the stand. ". Could show rather quickly that whoever dropped that Glove it could not have been him Bailey said on Abc s today show referring to the Glove Fuhr Man found outside Simpson s Home. He said he s Long favored having Simpson testify. A Delegate carries her bag on her head As she walks past a chinese Soldier guarding the Entrance to the fourth world conference on women in Beijing on monday. I Chi a women s conf Ere Nee sets stance on sex abortion parents Beijing Athree difficult issues. Sexual Freedom abortion and parental responsibility were settled at the . Women s conference Mon Day and a top official predicted the meeting s ambitious plan to improve the lives of women would be approved. After four Days of bargaining delegates at the fourth world conference on women decided on language that balances the rights of children and parents on issues such As teen age Access to sex Edu cation and contraception. A committee on health issues decided that the. Child s right to information privacy and confidentiality should be taken into account along with the responsibilities rights and duties of parents in manner consistent with the evolving capacities of the  the provision on sexual Freedom if approved by the full conference would recognize for the first time that women have the right to control their own sexuality without coercion. The abortion agreement asks governments to review Laws punishing women who have abortions while not calling for legalization of the procedure. Supporters called the sexual rights measure especially significant. It allows governments and women s groups around the world to really work at the National level at How we apply human  our sexual lives said kytic., the world has been talking about reproduction in terms of population control for Over 20 years but nobody s really Ever talked about sex she said. In the age of aids she added women must be free to refuse sex. Meanwhile conference participants had More run ins with chinese Security. The chinese tried to break up a news conference by exiled tibetan women and foreign delegates sup porting their cause. And guards surrounded and tried to shoo away a group of exiled iranian women protesting on the conference grounds. China unprepared for the freewheeling debate the conference has generated has tried to keep a lid on protests in Beijing. Last week it sharply rebuked foreign delegates who had made negative comments about government policies. Monday its official news Agency Xinhua praised speakers who had followed the theme of the con Ference for their constructive  none of the previous criticism including Hillary Rodham Clinton s condemnation of the repression of human rights has been reported in the official chinese press. Democrats question Republican motive for medicare Cut Washington a the White House and a leading Senate Democrat on monday attacked Republican plans to make wealthy retirees pay higher medi care premiums to curtail growth in the troubled health care program. You can take All the smoke away. Republicans Are going to use medicare to fund the Tux Cut. It s that simple said Senate minority Leader Tom Daschle d . No one should be led to believe that in any. Way this is  a House speaker Newt Gingrich speaking sunday on Abc s meet the press said the gop proposal for re vamping medicare to be announced this week would begin Means testing for senior couples earning about $125,000 a year or More. R we May Well phase but starting at about $125,000 for a couple the subsidy from the government for the part b Premium he said. Part b is the portion of medicare that pays for doctor Bills and lab tests Daschle said Congress should first look at All the other ways we can save  Means testing is not something  necessarily opposed to hut we ought not to Lead with it he said. Gingrich said the proposal would also seek to main Tain the 31,5 percent share that seniors now must Payfor part b costs rather than allow that share to dip to 25 percent As called for under current Law. Democrats say Kee Ping the current percentage could mean the doubling of premiums now $46.10 a month. But Gingrich said the gop plan would result in extra costs of about $7 a month for each senior citizen. We think they vastly underestimated the Impact on benefits said White House press Secretary Mike my Curry travelling with president Clinton in Carbondale 111. We think there is a significant problem with the Way the plan is being  republicans arc trying to Cut $270 billion from projected medicare spending As part of their Effort to bal Ance the budget by 2002. Clinton has also acknowledged that the health care system needs Reform to Avert insolvency and has proposed shaving $124 billion from doctor and Hospital fees to help balance the budget. Clinton suggested Means testing for part b premiums last year As part of his health care Reform Campaign but has since backed away from the idea. France releases eight from yacht off Tahiti Papeete Tahiti a France has freed eight foreign lawmakers and All others who had been aboard a protest yacht seized near France Simic car test site in the South Pacific. Commandos from a French Navy vessel boarded the yacht la Rigaude on saturday after it entered an off limits zone around the muru Roa. Atoll. The yacht had been part of an anti nuclear flotilla sailing around the atoll 750 Miles Southeast of Tahiti. It was chartered by Greenpeace which had two ves Sels impounded by the French military last week for entering the zone just before France detonated the firs of eight planned underground nuclear tests on sept.5. A French military spokesman it. Col. Yves Bour Boulon said prosecutors will decide whether anyone would be charged with breaching the exclusion zone