ILi *rni Weather Tonight: Cloudy, chance of snow, glow 32'. Tomorrow: Chance of snow, high 40. One hundred four years of editorial freedom Tuesday March 28, 1995 , ,Iuyii7 -- - -- ----- -- ---- > Clinton announces latest WASHINGTON - With a vow to slash the cost of government with- out resorting to "a mean spirit or a (neat ax," President Clinton yester- day announced another set of spend- ing cuts in federal agencies. Clinton said the latest reductions will save $13.1 billion and eliminate nearly 5,000 federal jobs over the next five years at the National Aero- nautics and Space Administration, the Small Business Administration, the Interior Department and the Federal emergency Management Agency. The savings will be used to help pay for Clinton's $60 billion middle- class tax cut, which he announced in December to counter much larger Republican tax reduction proposals. Clinton insisted that his stream- lining efforts are not only more real- istic than those of his GOP rivals, they are more "humane and decent." He noted that his government-cut- ting plans would preserve summer jobs programs, subsidized school lunches and the national service corps, all targets of Republican budget-cut- ters on Capitol Hill. The newest budget cuts will be deepest at NASA, which will lose $8 billion and 2,000 jobs over the next five years, representing roughly a 10 percent cut in budget and personnel over that period. At Interior, officials are planning to turn over to states and American Indian tribes the job of collecting oil and mineral royalties on publicly owned land. Spinning off that func- tion will save an estimated $69 mil- lion and 700 jobs over the next five years. The agency also will close the Office of Territorial and International Affairs, a relic of America's brief tenure overse Pacifi tories War I Island Th fice to Int land a ways pense Parkw Clara Suitlai spending cuts as a colonial power. The office ernment will contribute to their main- -es relations with a number of tenance over the next three years and c islands that became U.S. terri- then phase out the payments. under U.N. mandate after World Overall, Interior will contribute I, including Palau, the Marshall $3.8 billion in savings and 2,000 in s and the Marianas Islands. job reductions over the next five years. e savings from closing the of- The SBA, by making banks and 3tals $5 million over five years. borrowers pick up the cost of process- erior also will turn over to Mary- ing loans while closing a number of nd Virginia several scenic park- regional offices, will contribute $1.2 now maintained at federal ex billion and 500 jobs. - the Baltimore-Washington FEMA will chip in $100 million ay, the George Washington and by reducing its payroll by $305 and Barton Parkways and the using state employees and volunteer nd Parkway. The federal gov- workers to pick up the slack. Clinton's Plan As part of the plan ,. to reinvent government, the administration proposed more spending cuts to various federal agencies yesterday. NASA: cut $8 billion and 2,000 jobs by 2000. Interior. save $3.8 billion by releasing numerous functions to the states. The plan also closes the Office of Territorial and International Affairs, but preserves school lunch and summer jobs programs. f 1 AR% n AT k riendly Rape hearing starts; victims give testimony s P roject Smile's weeklong program of feel-good events began yesterday with plans to bring 'random acts of kindness' to campus. See story Page 3. I.., _ Z d 4,: Police, medical experts also take stand on first day of preliminary exam By Frank C. Lee Daily Staff Reporter Washtenaw County Prosecutor Brian Mackie began presenting evi- dence and testimony yesterday at the preliminary examination of an ac- cused Ann Arbor serial rapist - try- ing to convince 15th District Court Judge Ann Mattson that defendant Ervin Dewain Mitchell Jr. should stand trial. Mitchell, 33, is charged with one count of first-degree murder and four counts of first-degree criminal sexual conduct. The prosecution called po- lice officers, medical personnel and the Ann Arbor rape victims to the stand during yesterday's seven-hour examination. The examination is ex- pected to last until at least tomorrow. Mitchell - also known as Michael Darryl Jones, Alvin Jackson and Ervin Jackson - faced the husband of one of the women he is accused of killing when David Gailbreath, widower of former University employee Chris- tine Gailbreath, took the stand. Mr. Gailbreath described how his wife was walking to a nearby drug- store to return bottles when she left him at their home on the morning of May 7, 1994. When his wife did not return after an hour, he and his father searched for her. Some nine hours after his wife left, a police officer arrived at the couple's apartment to investigate. Ann Arbor police officer Peter Stipe testified he was dispatched to the couple's apartment that night to pick up a photo of the murder victim and later accompanied Mr. Gailbreath along a walking path leading to the drugstore when he discovered the body. "When we got approximately two- thirds along the path, I noticed an umbrella, backpack and grocery items," Stipe said. "It was evident there was some foul play." Mr. Gailbreath became both sub- dued and hostile when cross-exam- ined by Mitchell's attorney, Washtenaw County Assistant Public Defender David Lankford, who re- peatedly asked him about the weather conditions that day in effortto pinpoint the time of that day's activities. <