European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 16, 1981, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes january 1981 More defense funds asked Congress gets huge budget from press dispatches Washington president Carter thursday sent Congress a billion fiscal 1982 budget with an increase for defense but warned Ronald Reagan still More Money for arms will not further strengthen National the Carter soon to be rewritten by Reagan and the 97th projects a 1982 Federal deficit of Carter said the deficit was higher than he would have liked due to economic con but it is half the billion now estimated for this fiscal Pentagon increase by far the biggest real increase after inflation would go to the some reductions proposed in social said i do not propose that we break Faith with the american people by arbitrarily or unfairly reducing entitle ment programs payments to i Dividu these programs developed independently and they should be made less More consistent and More Carter said in his budget Mes the budget proposal for the year Start ing i would provide billion for defense a billion increase in Actu Al it includes funds to strengthen Nat related and strategic nuclear forces and provide greater military flexibility to meet crises in other there will be advocates for higher de sense Carter but after care Ful review i do not believe that higher spending would add significantly to our National defense Secretary Harold Brown said Dod should use targeted military pay raises to Bce up retention in critical skill areas rather than give across Leboard pay we ought to plug those leaks rather than make the whole barrel Brown told reporters thursday during a Pentagon briefing on the defense Brown said before Dod considers giving any big new Blanket pay raise it needs to Sec what effects last years including such things As a variable housing will have on the Market May be the Best judge of How adequate the compensation Brown noting the services had done better last Brown said Dod has proposed a per cent military pay raise to be effective in the budget contains no across the Board tax which Reagan is certain to and Carter renewed his Call for a i0centpergallon gasoline tax rejected by the 96th i continue to Carter that Large inflationary individual income tax cuts Are neither appropriate nor Possi ble however popular they might appear in the Short Carter renewed proposals for selective tax cats to revitalize the these include faster depreciation write off for a bigger investment tax credit and an income tax credit for business and individuals equal to 8 percent of social Security taxes but he proposed delaying effective dates of some of these to hold Down the deficit a proposal Likely to be unpopular with total government spending would in crease about 1 percent in real terms after adjusting for defense pro Grams would get a percent real in crease total no defense a percent real one Surprise was a proposal to Congress that the government Stop using the consumer Price Index As its Standard for automatic Coston living in creases in dozens of Federal rang ing from social Security and Federal retirement to the biggest defense budget item is billion for operations and Maine that includes fuel and the costs of keeping the military machine primed to go to its billion increase is the big Gest of any item in the defense the Carter budget seems destined for a turbulent debate in which in creased the 1981 defense procurement budget by percent last Reagan and congressional conservatives have emphasized the need for combat readiness and new weapons to keep up with soviet advancements and threats to interests in vital defense Secretary designate Caspar Weinberger and his Frank Carluc told the Senate armed services com Mittee recently More Money must be spent to ensure preparedness to intervene in the persian Gulf to counter soviet techno logical gains in sophisticated no Money has been allocated for a new bomber to replace the aging Carter scrapped the by bomber in but the new backed by Senate armed services committee chairman John could revive a derivative of the by or an improved version of the swinging although billion has been ear marked for the Purchase of new weapons the second biggest budget item the amount appears to have been set deliberately Low in anticipation Congress will Al locate additional the increase Over 1981 was but the procurement budget does in clude nearly billion for the new my to be deployed among hide an seek underground shelters in Utah and Nevada to protect them from a soviet first the cruise missile accounts for billion of new weapons Carter asked Congress to increase for eign Aid in fiscal 1982 to reverse a two year slide in the nations assistance As Israel and Egypt would be the chief recipients of although the exact totals for individual countries will not be listed until motorized speedster Joe Tupy of zips nearly 60 Mph on a contraption he built its a Motorbike in along ice covered Lake Kohlmeier at from Worth of excluding the Gine fitted to a handmade a Gay ouse of from of after Appeal fails up admitted Homo sexual staff Harold Bryant was Dis charged from the air Force an appeals court in Washington refused to Block the i am disappointed by the courts Deci Sion but i am still optimistic about the final outcome of the Case the 13year vet eran said As he left Macdill air Force 1 believe that we will ultimately prevail on the Bryants attorneys said they will seek Bryants an administrative Board recommended last month be Given a less than honorable discharge because of his admitted the commander of Macdill air Force base concurred in that but the commanding officer of the 9th air Force upgraded it to a general an action which leaves Bryant eligible for vet Erans the District court in Washington refused to Block the discharge but the appeals court granted a stay and or dered briefs filed in the in denying the injunction the appellate court 3 ancient statues found underwater near Naples Italy a archaeologists diving with scuba equipment said they found three ancient each 19 feet on the Bottom of the sea near the underwater ruins of Cicero the statues apparently portray mythological monsters like the on eyed who imprisoned Ulysses and ate several of the soldiers who travelled with dissolved the the thing that bothers me most about the air Force regulation is that it purports to reflect the attitude of the entire air Force Bryant 1 think that anyone who has followed my Case from the beginning can see that this simply is not Bryant also said air Force officials have dictated that anyone who knowingly associates with known homosexuals or bisexuals is also unfit for military service and subject to punishment under the same regulation he was discharged this is guilt through Mere he in this Era of Liberal social attitudes concerning sexual i find it hard to believe that such Mccarthy style regulations still he the government does 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