European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 14, 1995, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday september 14, 1995 the stars and stripes Page 5 rejects Washington a the Senate on wednesday derailed a conservative drive to deny additional Cash to single mothers who have More children while on welfare. Moderate republicans sided wit democrats to approve an amendment by sen. Pete Domenici 66 to 34, to strip a National family Cap policy from the gop blueprint to overhaul the country welfare programs. Conservatives argued that the govern ment if it Ever intends to bring Down theorising rate of illegitimate births must Stop subsidizing the reckless irresponsible behaviour of poor single women who continue to have children and expect tax payers to foot the Bills. If we Don t Deal with out of Wedlock births then we re really not dealing with welfare Reform said Senate majority Leader Bob Dole a Kan. But gop moderates warned that the family Cap an emotional Flash Point in along list of issues to be settled by Law makers As they write a historic welfare Bill could encourage abortions Amo Gyoung women and increase the misery of poor families. Domenici . Said there is also no evidence that ending the Bonus pay ments would discourage women from having larger families and he told Law makers wednesday that if they believe that you believe in the tooth fairy. It just in t going to  Dole has said he Hopes to pass his Billy today. But if lawmakers Aren t snaking Progress on the legislation which Send responsibility for designing and operating welfare programs to the states Dole May fold it into a larger budget Bill. Dole had agreed last week to the de Mand s of conservative republicans and the Christian right to add a family Cap this welfare Bill. But Dole s decision an gered gop moderates who said a family Cap punished poor children despite wednesday s vote to strike National family Cap from Dole s Bill states still could choose to adopt the policy As a dozen have done already. Sen ate a p p roves s p e n Ding Bill to eliminate some House cuts Washington a a Senate panel approved a Bill wednesday to restore some Money to education Job training and health programs that the House had Cut. The decision came a Day after pres ident Clinton and republicans said they want to prevent a Federal shut Down precipitated by their budget differences.,.the crunch comes sept. 30 the end of the fiscal year when the govern ment appropriations run out. Solar Congress has not sent Clinton any of the regular 13 appropriation Bills for the Fis Cal year beginning oct. 1. The administration has threatened a presidential veto of some of the measures. Tuesday s White House meeting took place As Senate panels continued to Rush through. Spending Bills. The House has completed the initial ver Sion of most of the measures. On wednesday a subcommittee of the Senate appropriations committee approved a Bill providing $62.8 billion for next year s labor health and Educa Tion programs. The measure would pro vide $9.2 billion less than Clinton wants but $1.9 billion More than the Rhory conservative House provided. It also would eliminate More than a dozen legislative provisions the House approved including restrictions on medicaid paid abortions and on lobbying by groups receiving Federal Grants. Show of support . Defense Secretary William Perry left and it. Col. Gray Guldner escort albanian president Sali Berisha wednesday during a full honors ceremony in washing ton. On tuesday president Clinton praised Berisha for his country s economic and democratic reforms but urged him to make More Progress on greek minority rights. Clinton offered to help establish a program to provide professional training for judges prosecutors and police in the formerly hard line communist nation one of the poorest in Europe. Fid. Democrat won t seek 4th House term Tallahassee Fla. A three term demo cratic congressman Pete Peterson said wednesday that he has decided against seeking re election to a seat considered one of his party s safest. Peterson,.60, did not immediately give a reason forgot wanting a fourth term though his decision comes three months after his wife Carlotta died of cancer. The one paragraph announcement from Peterson s Washington office surprised staff workers at his District office in Tallahassee As of tuesday we certainly thought he d be run Ning again said Tom Pitcock a District worker. But Peterson s chief of staff Suzanne Fanner said the representative had not enjoyed his years in Washington. She said Peterson would return Home to Mari Anna after completing his term but had no other plans. Peterson a retired air Force Pilot who spent several years in a North vietnamese prison Camp Defeated party switching incumbent Bill Grant in 1990 eve though Grant had Campaign help from then president Bush. Peterson easily won re election twice in the 2nd Dis. Strict which is entered in the capital of Tallahassee and stretches West to Panama City and East nearly to Jacksonville. Republicans have a 15-8 advantage in the Florida delegation to the . House but Peterson s scat had been considered one of the democrats safest. Each newly open seat increases the difficulty of trying to re verse the republicans advantage currently 233 House seats to the democrats 201 seats. The House also has one Independent. Earlier this week California democratic rep. Nor Man Mineta a japanese american who went from a world War ii internment Camp to Congress announced that he would leave the House next month mid Svay through his Lith term. Illinois rep. Mel Reynolds also a Democrat will leave oct. 1 after he was convicted of having sex with teen age Campaign Volunteer. Ito will permit testimony on new dam test los Angeles a the judge in the . Simpson trial ruled wednesday that jurors can be told of a new Dan test result showing genetic markers of Simpson and a victim in a bloodstain found in Simp son s Ford Bronco. Superior court judge Lance Ito in the latest setback for the defense said the test result did t arrive too late to be used by prosecutors against Simpson. The prosecution delay. Was not deliberate and for the purpose of sandbagging or otherwise obtaining some tactical advantage Ito wrote. In another ruling Ito rejected the defense s request to loosen the Tough sequestration policy for jurors and let some panellists go Home at night. Prosecutors failed to show up for an Early hearing and Ito fined them $250, when prosecutor Marcia Clark complained that defense attorneys have showed up late without a Fine Ito increased the Fine against prosecutors to $1,000. Meanwhile Clark said the prosecution Hopes to Fin ish its Case today calling five More witnesses including three scientists. The defense confirmed reports that it wants to Call Fri agent Frederic Whitehurst who claimed he was pressured to change his testimony to favor the prosecution in the 1993 world Trade Center bombing Fri toxicologist Roger Martz testified for the prosecution in july that blood on a sock from Simpson s bedroom and from the crime scene showed Only vague signs of a preservative which he said could have come from any number of sources. The defense maintained that the blood was planted and said the presence of the preservative proved it. Before jurors were brought Back into court Ito convened a hearing on whether the jury can be told about the rarity of carpet fibres from the Bronco. In a Victory for the defense Ito upheld an earlier ruling saying the prosecution cannot use the evidence. The Dan test ruling allowed prosecutors to Call state department of Justice scientist Gary Sims who handled the Dan test that placed the genetic markers of Simpson and Ronald Goldman in the Bronco. Goldman and Simpson s second sex wife Nicole Brown Simpson were stabbed to death on june 12, 1994. Ito did not respond to another defense request to dismiss a single juror who was told by Ito that the county might be Able to compensate her for Money she is losing on a vacant rental property that she said requires her immediate attention. Arguing what he called a very difficult motion to make defense attorney Robert Shapiro asked that a juror be dismissed because the judge offered to look into her financial problems and possibly help her