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Southern Newspaper CIRCULATION IIMJMIIAIIY SUNDAY Wednesday February 24 1993 COPYKKiHT ISM TIMES MIRROR COMPANY DAILY 75 AN I KM (' Till- UK AMsMJiS TIMES Nature Leaves Another Calling Card Under Pressure Clinton Vows More Cuts in Spending Economy: President reacts to growing criticism after Democrats force delay in action on his stimulus dan White House Congress forge a new legislative schedule By WILLIAM EATON and KAREN TUMULTY times staff writers In a concession to mounting criticism President Clinton pledged Tuesday toTind cuts" in federal spending while an insurrection among Democratic lawmakers forced congressional leaders to delay action on the short-term stimulus plan "I'm looking for Clinton White House to Back Standards for Education DONBARTLETTI Laa AiwrfcaTuna Clemente in Orange County destroying at least five houses and buying a told the UB Chamber of Commerce am sure after almost five weeks in office that there are more cuts Although Clinton has said repeatedly in recent days that he would consider additional spending reductions in his overall economic plan statement marked the first time that he actually has promised to find more In move intended to reassure voters and members of Congress who fear that new taxes might be passed while cuts in spending cm popular programs are forgotten the White House worked out a deal with congressional leaders and restive junior members of Congress to vote first on a budget resolution setting overall deficit-reduction targets and goals for spending cuts The President's economic stimulus package will be voted on later Both Clinton's pledge and the change in schedule reflect public pressure on lawmakers to make deeper reduction! in federal spending as part of the President's economic recovery plan Member of Congress newly elected in November' have felt that pressure particularly Intensely and have complained that Clinton's package does not cut spending sharply enough His proposals would boost taxes by 1274 billion over four year and cut qrending by 8223 billion Clinton also picked iq one of Ross Perot's suggestions pledging that he would periodically "make reports" to the public about the Flcaae see CLINTON AS Clinton UN Chief Plan Bosnia Airdrop Balkans: US planes may begin delivering supplies next week to 100000 Muslims Serbs and Croats land near Despite bellicose statements by some Serbian leaders who have said the drops could spark wider conflict private assurances from the Serbs to American officials have been the official said Asked before the meeting with Boutros-Ghali if he thought the mission might lead to wider fighting Clinton said he did not "What we're discussing ia very different has no combat con notations whatever and it's purely humanitarian and quite he said Administration and UN officials Pleass ase AIBDBOP AS Military Doctors Say King Took Multiple Head Blows By DAVID LAUTER TIMES STAFF WAITER WASHINGTON-President Clinton met Tuesday with UN Secretary General Boutros Boutros-Ghali aa the Administration prepared final plans for a limited largely symbolic airdrop of food and medicine to besieged villages in eastern Boania-Herzegovina Under plans being worked out with US allies and likely to be made final this week American cargo planes flying far above ground to reduce their vulnerability to antiaircraft fire will begin dropping supplies as early as next week to aa many aa 100000 people in villages controlled by each of the three warring parties in the Bosnian civil Muslims Serbs and Croats No combat escorts will accompany the supply planet and no American ground forces will be involved officials laid The "judgment of our military experts" is that the operation will be a relatively low-risk affair said a senior American official speaking to reporters after the meeting between the President and Boutros-Ghali "We do not believe that air cover would be needed and we do not contemplate" any use of combat planet the official said The decision to include airdrops to Serbian villages and to avoid using combat escorts is in part designed to forestall Serbian retaliation against the airlift UiL officials said But the move ia also a concession to logistic realities: Given the height at which the planes will fly US pilots will have limited control over which villages the cargoes Rains set off a landslide in San COLUMN OWE Nice Work If You Can Get It Thousands vie for jobs in the new Administration One offers to he photographer of Socks the cat Another ships a streudeL But connections still count the most By ALAN MILLER TIMES STAFF WRITER jobs jobs" candidate Bill Clinton promised talking of course about providing them to help boost the ailing economy But now that he is President tens of thousands of individu- sis are pulling out all the stops to get him to personally The fledgling Administration more so than any in recent memory has been besieged by job applicants Many have campaign otcapilal if not bluehip that are the real keys to a successful search in a city where personal ties and political fealty are the coin of the realm Others however are turning to good old American ingenuity Take the Californian who applied to be house photographer for Socks the cat Or the Miami Beach man who mailed in a cant-miss 2 Vi -foot-by -3 Vi-foot laminated resume Or Mr Determination who aent 10 copies of his resume daily between Nov 4 and Christmas Then there are the letters from adolescents seeking to be Chelsea Clinton's companion for those with a policy the children's representative to the Cabinet Scores of would-be FOBs Friends of Bill) have sent photos of them-' Please see JOBS A7 ENVIRONMENT Up a and So Is Plan for Housing Project "A tree grows in and to make sure it keeps growing William LeRoy has taken up residence in its branches It seems the city wants to cut down the 90-foot tall century-old eucalyptus to make way for a senior citizen housing project- But to LeRoy and a small cadre of backers the tree has come to symbolize the well roots of the historic city on the Sacramento River Delta As one supporter says: rebellion really goes way beyond this one tree There's a sense that the historic parts of our town are in Story B4 By ELIZABETH SHOGREN TIMES STAFF WRITER In its first major initiative on education the Clinton Administration intends to establish national academic standards for American schoolchildren so that the performance of students from all social levels and regions of the country can be gauged against the same uniform goals The standards would attempt to merge what is now a patchwork at vastly different and in some cases standards in school districts and states across the country Education planners said the initiative would enable educators and governments to identify countless trouble spots that are now escaping attention and determine what improvement ia needed Education Secretary Richard Riley intends to outline the plan to Congress today in his first exten-ave testimony on the Clinton Administration's education agenda While moat other Administration programs for youth are still in the rhetorical or pilot-program stage this one is being shaped into Please aeo EDUCATION AS Those disputed by the will figure prominently in the trial in which opening statements are expected to begin this week During last year's state trial of the same defendants there was no conclusive medical testimony to support th? notion that King had been struck time after time in the face or other parti of the head Although California Highway Patrol Officer Melanie Singer Mid she witnessed several blows to King's head her testimony waa challenged as being inconsistent with the videotape of the beating and with her written accounts of the incident The new medical evidence which goes well beyond that offered In the state trial could be a crucial building block in the federal Please sec KINO AT JIM MENDENHALL Loa AiyrtaTMIM Weemes Elementary School 8- 1 section of Amtrak line Stay B1 Two Compton Officers Slain in Traffic Stop By DAVID FERRELL and ROXANA KOPETMAN TIMES STAFF WSITEtS Two Compton police officers who pulled over a red pickup truck were shot and killed late Monday night in a storm of gunfire marking the first shooting deaths of on-duty officer! in the Police Department's 65-year history authorities said The slayings of officers Kevin Michael Burrell 29 and James Wayne MacDonald 23 by at least two assailants who remained at large drew tears and outrage Tuesday in the largely blue-collar crime-marred suburb southeast of Loa Angeles Many regarded the killing! as an especially painful blow to a town struggling to overcome its reputation as the murder capital of Los Angeles County "Everybody thinks that Compton because it has a high crime rate is used to this but this has never happened here before" a crying LL Gary Anderson a close friend of Burrell said at a City Hall news conference where police disclosed only sketchy details of the attack MacDonald a reserve officer who had been recruited from Cal State Long Beach in 1991 was working his final day with the Compton Police Department He had been hired by the San Jose Police Department and was scheduled to start work there March 8 according to a Compton police spokesman Burrell a full-time officer since 1988 joined the department as a 15-year-old Explorer Scout He was described as a devoted policeman who knew every street and seemingly every resident in the city of 90J0Q "He knew all the young jieople said Anderson Plessssss COMPTON AS GUN CONTROL Message Has Added Impact for LA Students On Monday in Los Angeles a high school student waa shot to death at school On Tuesday former White House Press Secretary James Brady gave children at another Los Angeles school a living example of the dangers of guns Brady came to Weemee Elementary School to help bunch the Straight Talk About Risks curriculum The program is designed to teach students how to stay safe when encountering a gun how to resist peer pressure to carry guns and how to tell the difference between real-life and television violence Story B3 Northrop Bribe Probe Dropped by Justice Dept By RALPH VARTABEDIAN TIMES STAFF WRITER After a five-year investigation the Justice Department is dropping its probe into allegations that Northrop Corp and Its key executive! bribed South Korean officials in an effort to sell the F-20 jet fighter according to legal sources and Justice Department correspondence Welko Gasich retired executive vice president of the Los Angeles-based company was notified by Justice officials late last week that he "is no longer under thereby clearing him of any wrongdoing in the tangled matter Please see NORTHROP AS Dateline California By JIM NEWTON TIMES STAFF WRITER A team of military doctors after reviewing an array of reports and analyses of the police beating of Rodney King has concluded that King was struck at least five times in the head and bee with baton or similar instrument" according to' government documents obtained by The Times In addition another medical expert who examined the case for prosecutors concluded that King was subjected to "multiple blunt but focal impacts to the head and face" according to a copy of his preliminary report obtained by The Times Dr James Benedict of San Antonio is expected to testify during the trial of four Loa Angeles Police Department officers charged with violating civil rights James Brady with students at LA's William LeRoy talks to supporters by radio from perch in tree TERRY SCHMITT ForThrT-ic TT.