European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 04, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday August 4, 1978 the stars and stripes Page 5 assails High taxes gop s Crane enters race for presidency Washington a conservative Republican Philip m. Crane entered the 1980 presidential race wednesday with Promise to liberate the american people from confiscatory taxation and  at a news conference in a room across Ahall from the Senate chamber the Illinois congressman said his candidacy was commitment to the future. A restoration of the american dream to its proper Custodi an the american  a commitment that As a free people. Liberated from excessive government we can achieve and together embark on the greatest and most exciting productive Century our country has Ever known Crane said. He thus became the first announced candidate of either major party for the 1980 nomination. Self doubts Crane said the nation s leaders appear filled with self doubts about the future. Our institutions Are working to deny individual fulfilment through confiscatory taxation and excessive  making an Early leap into the 1980 Campaign Crane said he was taking a Les son from the political Success of Jimmy Carter in 1976."if we Learned nothing else from Jim my it s that an Early declaration is Benefi Cial to your candidacy Crane told report ers Days before his  can be Only one nominee and i think i m the front runner As soon Asimake my declaration said Crane who scheduled the news conference to make i official. While technically Correct Crane also i aware that he is bucking Ronald Reagan s powerful Appeal among  is expected to make one More try for the White  chairman of the american conserva Tive Union Crane has built a constituency in the right Wing of the Republican party during campaigns to defeat the Panama canal treaties to Cut Federal spending and to take tougher stands in . Negotiations panel favors Cut of $8.3 million in Dod school funds rep. Philip m. Crane. Vows liberation with the soviet  that same constituency is consid ered overwhelmingly Loyal to  Reagan supporter who asked not to be identified said he is certain that the for Mer California governor would run and i Don t think Phil s candidacy will have much Impact on the decision one Way or the  is Likely to take the real hard right with him and that would probably push Reagan closer to the Center. That could be a plus for  47, Crane is 20 years younger than Reagan a fact that could be the biggest silent Issue in his Campaign. While Crane publicly minimizes age As an Issue the fact remains that Reagan would be 69 at the time of the 1980 Republican convention. By John Hart Washington Bureau chief Washington Sis the House appropriations committee has recommended slashing the defense department s Over seas dependents schools Dodds budget request for fiscal year 1979 by nearly $8.3 million. The committee is recommending an appropriation of 1298.6 million for operation of the 285 schools in the new fiscal year be ginning oct. 1.according to a committee report the Pentagon request of $307 million for the new fiscal year is a 32 percent increase Over the $232.2 million appropriated for the schools in the current budget year. There is probably not a school District in the United states that could expect its operating budget to be expanded by 30 per cent in a single year the report said. Requests excessive the Dodds request for textbooks and Library books in by 1979, according to the report is  in by 1979, Dodds requested to spend$11.3 million for books a $6.4 million in crease Over the current appropriation for that purpose. There is simply no reason to change Al the textbooks in the system at the rate proposed in the new budget according to the report. The committee recommends an appropriation of $8.1 million for the textbooks and Library  the area of repair and maintenance of school facilities and equipment the com Mittee trimmed $5 million from the Penta gon request of $16.7  committee believes that the $11.7 million it recommends for repair an maintenance is sufficient to help reduce the major portion of the backlog of projects from years past which have accumulated in  another action the committee recon burial of pub tainted cattle begins Lansing up the Michigan supreme court wednesday gave state officials the go ahead to Bury thousands of pub contaminated cattle in a special Clay lined pit. Within hours the first of the Ani Mals were buried in the Remote Region Neaomio. Morris Mcdowell information office for the department of natural resources said it would take at least several  3,000 to 4,000 animals were Bur Ign. Late tuesday officials buried 107 bar. Res containing the remains of pub con laminated cattle. The barrels had Bee kept in cold storage in warehouses around the state while the burial dispute Cas dragged on. Once the animals already slaughtered Are buried Mcdowell said officials will begin bringing live contaminated animals to the site for Slaughter As humanely As possible and  suit to Block the burial was brought by uie Oscoda county pub action committee. Violinist Kolisch Dies at 82 Watertown. Mass Iasi Rudol Kolisch. Austrian violinist and artist in residence at Boston s new England conservatory of music died at the age of 82. He was known As one of the world s bes left handed violinists which argued that land and water near the pit could be contaminated if the toxic chemical seeped from the Clay lined , a flame retardant was accidentally added to livestock feed in 1973 and has of time aug. 4, 1948 american pilots flew the equivalent of almost zoo times around the world in supplying blockaded Berlin Dur ing july the army and air Force said. Al g. 4, 1958 in Tampa fla., a county judge urged using the whipping Post for Wile beaters juvenile delinquents and non support offenders. Al g. I 19fi in Athens Greece a court of misdemeanours ruled itself in competent to try three greek journalists accused of offending the memory of ancient greek philosophers by describing Plato Sophocles Buci Didey and Solon in an article As prominent  been blamed for the deaths or Force Slaughter of tens of thousands of farm Ani Mals in the  High court on a 5-2 decision said the burial could Only be blocked if there was reason to believe the environment would be poisoned or  presented by the state showed that the chances for accidental contamination of water and land near the pit were almost  therefore the court said there were no grounds on which the court system could Stop the Buri Al. The pub action committee sought Mohave the courts order the animals to be burned As an alternative to burial. Opponents of the planned burial have picketing outside the 2.2-acre site since Early  court judge Allan c. Miller had recommended that the state be allowed to Bury animals Only or six months to give it a Chance to develop an incineration plan but state officials said there Are no incinerators that could handle the Job. And construction of one in Michigan would Cost $1 million spokesman for the state department of agriculture said about 1,200 condemned animals were slated for immediate burial at the site of that number about 400 have been slaughtered and were being kept in cold storage at warehouses around Testate. The remaining 800 were being kept alive at slate expense on a private far near Fremont. Mich mended the deletion of $18,000 that Dodd requested for bus monitors in Spain and  in those countries requires that adult monitors be employed on Ever school bus. The bus Monitor s Job is to assure the students conduct and  committee questioned the use of taxpayers Money to hire monitors to keep order on the buses. We Don t hire bus monitors in our school systems at Home i in the stat Sand the committee sees no reason for hiring bus monitors for american students in overseas locations the report  committee said that parents of the Dodds students should serve As Volunteer bus monitors. The committee s report on by 1979 de sense appropriations is expected to be considered by the House of representative during the next Day or two congressional sources said  Senate appropriations committee has not yet completed its Mark up Andreport on defense appropriations. Several weeks remain before the final version of the defense appropriations Bill including the Dodds budget for by 1979.is known. Justice quits in misconduct Case in mass. Boston up chief Justice Robertm. Bonin. Criticized for attending a fund raising meeting for alleged homosexual of fenders resigned wednesday from the Massachusetts Superior court. He is the first Massachusetts chief jus Tice to be forced from the Bench for mis conduct. Hie 46-year-old Jurist gave his two Page letter of resignation to gov. Michael Duka Kis two hours before the govenor s Council was to consider his ouster. History will judge i believe that our world has lost its civil courage and Here has succumbed at elastin Large part to the political pressures of an election year and to homophobia. History will judge  he said in the Resigna Tion. His mention of homophobia referred to the state supreme court s finding that Bonin was guilty of judicial misconduct for attending a lecture allegedly held to raise funds for 24 men awaiting trial in the Supe rior court system on charges they engaged in homosexual relations with adolescent  had been censured by the Massachusetts supreme judicial court and was or dered off the Bench earlier this week when the legislature approved a Resolution of address calling for his ouster. Dissident sentence deplored Washington up the slate department deplored the 15-year sentence Given to ukrainian dissident lev Lukyanenko for monitoring soviet compliance with the human rights provision of the 1974helsinki agreement. The United states deplores this action As we have others in which activists have been sentenced for seeking to assert Funda mental human rights As expressed in the Helsinki  the department said in a written statement