European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 02, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page the stars and stripes wednesday August 2, 1978 balanced would have required state plans budget gets Senate of Washington a the Senate. In an unexpected move monday voted 58 to 29 to require a balanced budget by the be ginning of the 1981 fiscal year a goal once espoused by president Carter. The proposal was adopted after Only Brief debate As an amendment to a $1.7 billion funding measure for the International monetary fund. The if Bill then was approved 69-16 and sent to a House Senate conference committee. The Treasury department has Esti mated a budget deficit of $53 billion at the end of this fiscal year. Carter bad sought to balance the budget by 1961. But budget director James Mclntyre or. Has said he now expects a $20 billion deficit that  digit info Tina the Senate measure was proposed by sen. Harry f. Byrd . It would re quire the 3.s. Government to operate with out a deficit beginning on oct. 1,1980, the same deadline Carter had once set. Byrd said he was concerned about Dou ble digit inflation adding we cannot get the Cost of living under control until we get government spending under  while it was unclear whether the Byrd amendment would survive in the Confer ence committee sentiment in the House for spending cuts also has been growing. Since passage of California s proposition 13, which slashed property taxes More than one third of All House members have signed As co sponsors to several pro posed constitutional amendments requiring a balanced Federal budget. Most of the House proposals would pro Hibit budget deficits except in times of War or National emergency. Pakistan names chief of staff Rawalpindi Pakistan up air marshal Mohammad Anwar Shamin be came chief of staff of the Pakistan air Force in a change of command ceremony at its Headquarters in Peshawar. Panel kills no fault Bill Washington up the House Commerce committee tuesday killed legislation that would have required states to set up no fault Auto insurance plans. Rep. Bob Eckhardt a Texas sponsor of the message said the 22-19 vote spelled the end of Federal moves to encourage no fault automobile insurance in 1978. He said he would try again in 1979. No fault has been debated in Congress for 10 years twice passing the Senate and panel s Star witness failing once. The narrow committee vote was the closest such a Bill Ever has come to winning favourable House action. Eckhardt blamed the loss on members who wanted to cast a Safe vote against the Bill in the expectation that even if the Bill passed the committee it was still doomed either on the House floor or in the Senate. Had the Bill been enacted into Law said Eckhardt it would have diverted at least insider gives View of organized crime Washington up a confessed loan shark arsonist and narcotics trafficker who is also a suspected underworld hit Man tuesday gave the Senate permanent investigations subcommittee his insider s View of organized crime. What we Are about to hear Over the next several Days should Alert and alarm us All said committee vice chairman Sam Nunn d-ga., in a statement for what we will hear is not a play to show nor a movie. It is the Way the real criminal world  Gary Bordach Star witness of Nunn s five hearing series was declared a dangerous special offender in a 1976 Federal court order that said there is Little doubt he has been a Hitman As Well As a shy  his Superior was Phil Kovolick a lieu tenant of Meyer Lansky and closely associated with members of the old Lansky Sie gel murder inc. Crowd said . District judge Norman c. Roettger of fort Lauder . Nunn said Bordach now in the Federal witness Protection program because of his cooperation also will testify about arson and intimidating witnesses and about con Traband in the Atlanta Federal Penitentiary while Bordach s base was South Florida Nunn said his cronies have been identified with organized crime activity across the nation. During a year of investigation the sub committee became convinced Bordach tells the truth Nunn said. Bordach has passed lie Detector tests and has been vouched for by the Fri and the Miami organized crime strike Force he  is through the cooperation of or. Bordach that the . Senate and the peo ple of the nation can see beneath the sur face of our society and into its under world Nunn  is ruthless Nunn said. It is cruel. It is without mercy. People Are intimidated maimed and they die horrible deaths. A better understanding of the fear the terror and the hopelessness of spirit of those enmeshed in organized crime be they the victim or the perpetrator will re sult from these hearings Nunn said. With one Undine gear wheel damaged and the other car Wheeling through the air a plane piloted by Grace Page con a flying Saucer tints in flight following an accidental collision with a speeding Auto during a stunt at to air show in evermore Calif. The Pilot of the plane escaped injury but the two occupants of the car suffered minor injuries. Up $1.6 billion a year from lawyers to Acci Dent victims. Consumer organizations reacted angrily to the outcome and to the heavy lobby ing against the Bill by the american trial lawyers association. They named four members of the panel As being swing votes responsible for the loss Paul Rogers a Fia. Doug Walgren  Bob Gammage. A Texas and John Dingell a Mich. Brooke won t be charged with perjury Boston a the Suffolk county District attorney announced tuesday he would not bring perjury charges against sen. Edward w. Brooke it-mass., in connection with the senator s Stormy divorce  attorney Garrett h. Byrne said he agreed with a report by his special prosecutor Jacob j. Spiegel. In his report Spiegel said i am impelled to the conclusion that or. Brooke s misrepresentations although pertinent to the inquiry into his Fenanda liabilities an not to be construed As material misrepresentations that could have influenced to reasonable degree the determination of final settlement. Consequently i am of the opinion that or. Brooke s misrepresentations do no constitute  Brooke has admitted making false state ments on sworn documents filed in connection with his 1977 divorce proceedings. Clean matter up hopefully at least this clears this mat Ter  Brooke told a news conference after Byrne announced his decision. I Hope the press will sensationalize what was said by Byrne today As much at they sensationalized the beginning of tha Case he said. The senator said he will continue to co operate with two other ongoing probes of his financial affairs one by the Senate ethics committee and the other by the state department of Public welfare. Middlesex probate judge Lawrence Perera referred the ease to Middlesex District attorney John j. Droney who said any possible perjury offence occurred not in his jurisdiction but in Boston where the sworn statements were taken. Brooke said during a deposition that hewed Boston liquor dealer a. Raymond Tye $49.000. He later admitted he owed Tye Only $2.000. And an estimated $37,000 was owed the estate of the senator s late Mother a Law. Spiegel found that Brooke who is seek ing re election to a third term had Over stated the amount of his liability by $9,000. Whatever its  however he found it is difficult to con clude that his overstatement amounting to. Han 4 percent of or. Brooke s totall abilities would have had a tendency to affect to a reasonable degree the final financial settlement of the parties  crucial to a finding of perjury is the ele ment of materiality. Because the false statements were not material to the Cou ple s final property settlement. Spiegel found there could be no perjury within the meaning of state Law. Honnecker ends Russia trip Moscow a _ fast German Leader tech Honecker left for Home after spend ing a two week vacation in the Crimea at we invitation of the communist party Tass reported