A prep course for the month-long World Cup soccer tournament, a worldwide pheno

another doctor outside his clinic in Wichita , Kan. , last summer . `` No person

 seeking medical care , no physician providing that care should have to endure h

arassments or threats or obstruction or intimidation or even murder from vigilan

tes who take the law into their own hands because they think they know what the 

law ought to be , '' Clinton said . The law , which has been a priority for the 

abortion rights movement , makes it a crime to block access to clinics , damage 

their property or injure or intimidate paitents and staff . Approved by the Sena

te 69 to 30 this month , following a 241 to 174 House vote , it calls for jail t

erms and stiff fines . It was enacted after the Supreme Court ruled last year th

at an 1871 civil rights law could not be used to halt antiabortion protests and 

a Justice Department review concluded existing statutes were inadequate to deal 

with the growing problem . Abortion rights supporters say there have been 3,000 

incidents of violence , vandalism and harassment at abortion clinics since 1977 

. Antiabortion activists argue that the law punishes them for legitimate civil d

isobedience and for expressing their religious views . The National Right to Lif

e Committee accused the president of allowing abortion rights supporters to `` c

rush peaceful protesters ' free speech with federal lawsuits . '' Randall Terry 

of Operation Rescue , the group that has blockaded clinics across the country , 

said the law `` shows the ever growing anti-Christian persecution that is coming

 from our government . '' But the American Civil Liberties Union called the law 

`` a milestone in congressional protection for reproductive freedom '' and said 

it protects `` peaceful protest and free speech . '' Clinton acknowledged `` gen

uine and deeply felt differences on the subject of abortion '' but said it was `

` time to turn away '' from expressing those views through violence and `` verba

l extremism . '' Responding to critics of the legislation , he said , `` This bi

ll is designed to eliminate violence and coercion . It is not a strike against t

he First Amendment . '' The signing of the bill is the latest of several changes

 the Clinton administration has made on behalf of supporters of abortion rights 

, who spent the previous 12 years battling efforts by the Reagan and Bush admini

strations to limit abortion rights in Congress and the courts . Since taking off

ice , Clinton has lifted the moratorium on federal funding of research using fet

al tissue , reversed the prohibition against abortions at military facilities , 

undone the `` gag rule '' prohibiting federally funded family planning clinics f

rom providing information about abortion , and just last week lifted the ban on 

importation of RU-486 , a drug that induces abortions .

 On CBS ' `` 60 Minutes '' this Memorial Day weekend , Andy Rooney will report a

 full segment on impostors who claim to have been awarded the Congressional Meda

l of Honor , the nation 's highest military award . Rooney and producer Robert F

orte tracked down some of the 500 living Americans who say they got the Medal of

 Honor but in reality did not . The medal is given for heroism far above and bey

ond the call of duty , and , in all U.S. history , has been awarded fewer than 3

,500 times . It is against the law to falsely claim to have been awarded a Medal

 of Honor and Rooney shows us pathetic people who crave the recognition of havin

g done extraordinarily brave acts . While the Defense Department recently approv

ed the sale of military medals to anyone who wishes to buy them , the one medal 

that still can't be purchased is the Medal of Honor . -0- Former Vice President 

Dan Quayle , whose book `` Standing Firm '' is No. 2 on this Sunday 's New York 

Times best-seller list , talks with David Frost on PBS Friday night , looking ah

ead to a 1996 presidential bid . When Quayle 's 1992 `` family values '' issue i

s raised , he says Hollywood `` got my message and they also got Bill Clinton 's

 message , because Bill Clinton today is talking about family values . I 'm grat

ified he 's come full circle . '' Frost asks Quayle if he regards Clinton `` as 

one of your disciples . '' Quayle says : `` I certainly would not go that far , 

and neither would he . '' -0- Prolific Hollywood composer Henry Mancini talks to

 Bob Brown on ABC 's `` 20/20 '' Friday night about Mancini 's recently diagnose

d inoperable cancer . The illness , the 70-year-old Mancini says , `` changed my

 whole work attitude . I used to get depressed about the dumbest things , as mos

t professional people do . You know , you think , ` Oh , God , when am I gonna g

et out of this ? ' ' ' Now , `` even when I didn't feel well , I would drag myse

lf to the piano upstairs and I would write . It was some of the easiest writing 

I 've ever done . '' -0- The U.S. government should pay for cable TV for those A

mericans who cannot afford it , says Turner Broadcasting Chairman Ted Turner . H

e was responding to concerns at the National Cable Television Conference in New 

Orleans about how the poor would be left behind on the information superhighway 

. Turner suggested broadcasters be taxed for the air waves they are licensed to 

use . -0- Last week 's national Nielsen ratings came out Thursday , showing `` T

he Late Show With David Letterman 's '' 5.8 rating beating `` The Tonight Show W

ith Jay Leno , '' which increased its rating to a 5.2 . Letterman also edged out

 ABC 's `` Nightline '' ( 5.6 ) . Each national Nielsen rating point equals 942,

000 TV households .

 The Clementine spacecraft the first scientific mission to the moon in 22 years 

has discovered craters at the lunar south pole that appear to lie in eternal sha

dow . If the craters never see the sun , scientists say , they may stay cold eno

ugh to hold water that was delivered there eons ago by crashing comets . If furt

her studies confirm the presence of water in the craters , it would be the first

 ever found on the moon . Such lunar ice could one day be mined by explorers to 

supply their bases with water or split into hydrogen and oxygen gas to make rock

et fuel . `` Don't imagine it as pure cube ice you could put into your martini ,

 '' said Eugene Shoemaker , of the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff , Ariz. `` It

 's very dirty ice , but it 's cold enough . '' At more than 400 degrees below z

ero , maybe too cold . Clementine was launched into a lunar orbit Jan. 25 . A co

mputer malfunction on May 7 canceled plans to send it off to photograph an aster

oid on Aug. 31 . But scientists say the spacecraft relatively cheap at $ 75 mill

ion has accomplished 99 percent of its scientific mission . Among other Clementi

ne discoveries described Thursday at the American Geophysical Union meeting in B

altimore : The deepest impact crater ever found anywhere in the solar system , a

 7.5-mile-deep basin 1,500 miles across . Called the South Polar Aiken basin and

 located near the moon 's south pole , it was punched into the moon 's surface 4

.5 billion years ago by an object 155 miles across . Extremes of high and low al

titude on the moon twice as great as previously believed . Scientists have found

 a span of more than 12 miles from the highest and lowest spots . That 's about 

the same difference seen between Earth 's deep ocean trenches and highest mounta

ins . `` It turns out the moon is a much lumpier planet than we expected it to b

e , '' said Johns Hopkins University geophysicist Maria T. Zuber . The apparent 

perpetual shadows on the moon 's south pole were discovered after photographs of

 the pole were animated into a kind of movie . Shoemaker said Clementine 's pola

r orbit allowed it to take repeated photographs of the polar region during two f

ull rotations of the moon . That allowed the photographs to show the craters ill

uminated from all directions . Because the sun 's angle at the pole is so low , 

however , the bottoms of the polar craters appear to remain in the shadows of th

e surrounding mountains throughout the lunar day . No water has ever been found 

on the moon , and any that once existed in the open there has evaporated into sp

ace . But scientists have said since the 1960s that any water molecules that rea

ched the moon from cometary impacts might stick to the surface if they landed so

mewhere that was always shaded from the sun . During its two months in orbit aro

und the moon , Clementine gathered more than two million images of the lunar sur

face . Split by filters into 11 different wavelengths of light , the images have

 already begun to reveal previously unknown details of the moon 's mineral compo

sition and geological history . Clementine has produced the first reliable topog

raphic map of the moon , showing its surface contours in a multi-colored map tha

t is accurate to within 330 feet . A companion map showing where the moon 's gra

vitation pull is strongest will help scientists figure out the moon 's interior 

structures , providing clues to how it was formed and evolved . ( Optional add e

nd ) The May 7 computer malfunction caused the spacecraft to fire its attitude c

ontrol jets , and they kept firing until their fuel ran out . Without fuel to po

int its instruments , Clementine 's journey to the asteroid Geographos became im

possible . Controllers have since fired Clementine 's larger maneuvering rockets

 and returned the craft to an Earth orbit , where Pentagon scientists will conti

nue to flight-test its systems . Stewart Nozette , of the Ballistic Missile Defe

nse Organization , said Clementine was designed to test new , lightweight satell

ite systems under development for the Strategic Defense Initiative , or `` Star 

Wars '' program .

 WASHINGTON President Clinton has decided to include in his welfare-reform plan 

a proposal to allow states to deny additional benefits to women who have childre

n while they are on welfare , according to administration officials . Immediatel

y , an unusually broad coalition of 85 civil-rights and religious organizations 

, including abortion-rights and anti-abortion groups , said it will challenge th

e `` child exclusion '' policy in federal courts . Civil-rights activists compla

ined that the policy would `` punish innocent children , '' anti-abortion advoca

tes said it would encourage abortions and abortion-rights supporters said it wou

ld punish welfare mothers who exercise a personal choice . The decision at a Whi

te House policy meeting Tuesday to allow states to impose `` family caps '' on w

elfare mothers as a means of discouraging illegitimate births will be contested 

in any state that enacts the policy , said Deborah Lewis , legislative counsel o

f the American Civil Liberties Union , one of the coalition 's sponsoring groups

 . Lewis said the administration 's decision to include the provision in the wel

fare proposal it is preparing to send to Congress in June will `` open the flood

gates '' of legislation aimed at punishing welfare mothers . At the same time , 

she said , it will do nothing to discourage out-of-wedlock births , which are es

timated to represent nearly a third of all births in the United States . Under c

urrent law , states cannot implement such `` family cap '' changes in the Aid to

 Families With Dependent Children program without obtaining waivers of provision

s of the AFDC law from the Department of Health and Human Services , which often

 is a long and complex process . Only three states New Jersey , Georgia and Arka

nsas have received approval for `` family cap '' plans , while applications from

 California , Maryland and Wisconsin are pending . The ACLU and the National Org

anization for Women have joined to form the Child Exclusion Coalition , whose me

mber groups range from the National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action Leag

ue to Feminists for Life and the Seamless Garment Network , an umbrella of sever

al hundred groups that oppose abortion . The ACLU and NOW already are contesting

 New Jersey 's family cap policy in federal court . Also opposing the extension 

of `` family caps '' are a number of large religious organizations , including t

he National Council of Churches , Catholic Charities of the United States , the 

National Council of Jewish Women and the Washington headquarters of the Presbyte

rian Church ( U.S.A. ) . The `` child exclusion '' provision one of the most exp

losive parts of the Clinton administration 's welfare-reform proposals is believ

ed to be the first issue to bring together abortion rights and anti-abortion fac

tions of the women 's movement . Groups both supporting abortion rights and figh

ting against the procedure came together earlier this year to help defeat a `` f

amily cap '' provision in a welfare-reform bill in the Maryland legislature . Go

v. William Donald Schaefer , D , vetoed the bill Thursday because it did not con

tain a family cap . `` We 're surprised the president thinks he can make politic

al gains on this proposal . It 's just going to upset everyone , '' said Lewis .

 `` It 's not a compromise . It 's an open invitation to the states to punish in

nocent children . '' Anti-abortion advocates complained that the policy will enc

ourage welfare mothers to seek abortions rather than risk losing additional bene

fits , even though the additional benefits typically range from $ 57 to $ 64 a m

onth for a new child . Noting Clinton 's health-reform proposals would cover the

 cost of abortions , Sharon Daly , Catholic Charities ' deputy to the president 

for social policy , said , `` The government is saying ` We will pay for your ab

ortion but we willn't pay you $ 64 a month if you have a child . ' That sounds t

o us like a pro-abortion decision . '' Abortion-rights supporters maintain that 

if a woman has a right to exercise a personal choice about having a child , she 

should not be punished simply because she is receiving welfare . An administrati

on official said Clinton decided on the new policy `` because he genuinely belie

ves , as a former governor , in giving states the maximum amount of flexibility 

possible . He believes in allowing governors and legislatures to decide what wor

ks best in their states . '' However , the official acknowledged that withholdin

g additional benefits from welfare mothers who become pregnant has become an eve

n more emotional issue among liberals and children 's rights advocates than the 

proposed two-year time limit on welfare , which is the centerpiece of Clinton 's

 plan to `` end welfare as we know it . '' The administration 's self-imposed de

adline for releasing its final welfare-reform package has been postponed several

 times , partly because of disagreements over how to finance the package and par

tly because no decision has been made on what will happen to families who pass t

he two-year time limit in a work-training program but are still unable to find j

obs in the private sector . Administration officials said the Clinton welfare-re

form bill will be introduced after June 9 , when the president returns from comm

emorating the 50th anniversary of D-Day in Normandy . They said Clinton wants to

 spend $ 9.3 billion over five years to implement the reforms , with $ 7 billion

 coming from cuts in other social programs and the rest from excess corporate ta

xes collected for the Superfund environmental-cleanup program .

 WASHINGTON Many child safety seats and restraints that are sold as approved for

 use on airliners are ineffective and some are dangerous , according to research

 done for the Federal Aviation Administration . In the first comprehensive crash

-dummy tests using simulated aircraft interiors , the FAA 's Civil Aeromedical I

nstitute ( CAMI ) in Oklahoma City found that all of the forward-facing seats fo

r 20- to 40-pound children that it tested produced injuries because they could n

ot be sufficiently anchored to prevent a child 's head from striking the seat ah

ead . And harnesses and backless booster seats were found to be dangerous , acco

rding to Van Gowdy of CAMI 's Biodynamics Laboratory , who performed the researc

h . Gowdy said the institute found that one type of restraint performed consiste

ntly as advertised : small rear-facing seats for infants below 20 pounds . `` I 

think these should be encouraged and endorsed by the FAA and the airlines , '' h

e said in a telephone interview . The research , which was completed late last y

ear but not released , adds another element to one of the most emotional safety 

issues in aviation . Until now , safety seats have been certified as approved fo

r both automobiles and airliners , but the CAMI research indicates that airliner

s may be sufficiently different from cars to require different standards . Gowdy

 said a major problem is that airline lap belts , unlike automobile seat belts ,

 often do not properly secure a safety seat , allowing too much forward movement

 . Even when the forward movement is within federal standards , a child 's head 

can hit the seat ahead . Of eight forward-facing seats designed for toddlers wei

ghing 20-40 pounds , six produced severe head injuries in crashes and two were c

lose to the maximum allowable Head Injury Criteria . Some of the seats are too l

arge for confined airline seats , making them even harder to mount . `` We have 

found a number of these seats that are incompatible with airline seats , '' Gowd

y said . Gowdy said harnesses also allow too much room for movement . And child 

booster seats without backs can result in serious injury , he said , because air

line seat backs are designed to rotate forward . In a crash , this could crush a

 child between the booster seat and seat back . Airlines officials estimate that

 40,000 to 50,000 children under 2 travel on airliners daily in the United State

s , but there are no statistics on how many use safety seats . Jane R. Goodman ,

 a spokeswoman for the Association of Flight Attendants , said few parents ever 

use child safety seats on flights . The safety issue has been weighed and debate

d in and out of Congress and the federal bureaucracy for three decades . It took

 on added urgency following the crash of United Airlines Flight 232 at Sioux Cit

y , Iowa , on July 19 , 1989 , in which two infants were ripped from their mothe

rs ' arms on impact . One was later found dead , while a second survived after s

he was heard crying in crash debris . Current FAA rules allow children under 2 t

o be held in parents ' laps , and airlines generally allow them to fly for free 

. The FAA in 1992 ruled that airlines must allow use of safety seats , but the a

gency has stopped short of requiring them . Such a requirement would increase tr

avel costs for families , who would have to pay for a seat . The National Transp

ortation Safety Board , the Association of Flight Attendants and the major airli

nes have called for their mandatory use , pointing out that small children are t

he only objects that are not required to be secured on takeoff and landing . `` 

It 's totally illogical if we 're tying down coffee cups that we 're not restrai

ning these kids , '' said Jo Ellen Deutsch , manager of government affairs for t

he Association of Flight Attendants . Spokesmen for those organizations said the

 CAMI study would not cause them to change their positions . They advised that p

arents use existing safety seats until better ones are designed . `` The seats ,

 while there may be imperfections , are better than nothing , '' said Christophe

r Chiames , spokesman for the Air Transport Association . FAA officials in Washi

ngton declined to discuss the research . Spokeswoman Sandra Allen said the agenc

y has not had sufficient time to review the study internally . But sources in th

e Washington aviation community said major differences have surfaced between age

ncy officials over the issue . Linda Daschle , the FAA 's new deputy administrat

or , is said to be adamantly pushing for a child-restraint requirement . Among t

hose opposing her is Anthony J. Broderick , the FAA 's longtime associate admini

strator for regulation and certification . Broderick is said to have been convin

ced partly by an FAA-sponsored study by Apogee Research indicating additional ch

ild deaths would result from parents ' decisions to drive rather than fly at gre

ater expense . The safety board has criticized the Apogee report as based on fla

wed information . Congressional efforts to impose child-restraint requirements ,

 led by Rep. Jim Lightfoot , R-Iowa , have been thwarted every year . Rep. James

 L. Oberstar , D-Minn. , chairman of the House Public Works aviation subcommitte

e , opposes the requirement . Since 1985 , all new child safety seats bear the s

tamp , `` This restraint is certified for use in motor vehicles and aircraft . '

' But the FAA does not routinely test the seats , ruling in March 1985 that any 

seat would be considered approved for airline use if it met applicable Federal M

otor Vehicle Safety rules .

 WASHINGTON Two of the newest combat ships in the U.S. Navy fleet high-speed , s

hallow-draft vessels known as Coastal Patrol Craft are on their way to Haiti to 

try to intercept small boats violating the international embargo against that na

tion by hugging the shore as they sail from the Dominican Republic . The USS Cyc

lone and the USS Tempest will each carry eight Navy Seals , or nautical commando

s , trained in taking over ships and inspecting suspect cargoes , Pentagon spoke

sman Dennis Boxx said Thursday . Deployment of the Cyclone and Tempest increases

 the prospects for cutting off small vessels heading for Haiti 's 672-mile coast

line , but it also increases the risk that Navy personnel might be targets of sm

all-arms fire from smugglers on shore trying to protect their lucrative traffic 

, experienced Navy officers said . The Cyclone and Tempest are the first two of 

13 Coastal Patrol Craft ordered by the Navy for use in the limited-scope , post-

Cold War conflicts the U.S. military expects to be engaged in around the globe ,