European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 20, 1981, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes february Pentagon exempt from freeze on hiring of civilians Washington a the of fice of management and budget has granted the defense department an exemption from the civilian employee hiring freeze imposed by president Reagan shortly after his officials said As a Pentagon manpower officials have notified the military departments and the various defense agencies that they May hire civilians needed to execute the approved 1981 defense program and to assure people do not suffer from hardship due to the suspension of firm commitments made on officials said the freeze had been imposed on the Pentagon pending a decision on the Overall level of civilian employees that would be permitted by the new admin bomb has now set a ceiling of civilian employees for the defense depart that leaves room for hiring at least More according to the most recent there Are about on the the thawing of the freeze will also permit the Pentagon and its various branches to replace workers who resign or very police say 10 killed As bus sails Over Side of Bridge a skies were Clear and the roads were dry when a com Muter bus bound for the Washington suburbs went sailing Over the Side of a killing 10 and investigators say there baffled about what might have caused the the one person who might have been Able vegas Busboy faces 8 counts of murder Las a a 23year old Busboy was formally charged with first degree arson and eight counts of murder thursday in last weeks fire at the Las vegas Hilton the criminal complaint filed in Clark county Justice court alleged that Philip Bruce Cline set the fire Gunlaw maliciously and killing eight the District attorneys which filed the thus rejected Clines alleged confession in which he claimed he touched off the fire accidentally while engaged in a homosexual act near an eight floor Eleva the nine count complaint specifically named the eight people who perished in the fire seven dying of asphyxiation and one from injuries suffered when he leaped to his death from a hotel belgian jobless rate rises Belgium a the number of jobless Rose by 479 or percent in the first two weeks of february to 673 or percent of the the belgian labor office to help the bus Carl Earl of Stafford was its very said trooper who was investigating the Accident along interstate 95 that sent 14 people to area police said Early thursday they believed the 10 killed and the 14 Hurt accounted for All who were aboard the d and j transportation bus when it plunged Down an 80 foot embankment and into a during the evening Rush hour Many of the dead were government workers from Fredericksburg and the sur rounding according to medical examiner the bus had come from he said some of the victims suffered fatal head while some May have drowned in the according to state police Paul who was driving behind the Gray and White bus at the time of the 5 the bus was bearing right from the lefthand Lane and just kept on he just went airborne Over the Side of the said Wayne a truck Driver who saw the All of a sudden he just kept going to the right right into the skimmed the hit the Corner of the Bridge Over the just like a piece of paper being blown by the the bus ended up on its Side its engine still its front some passengers trapped in a foot of water in somethings funny vice president George Bush standing left speaker of the House Thomas Oneill laughs and applauds and president Reagan smiles As he pre pares to deliver his economic message to a joint session of a photo Reagan expects tax Cut opposition Washington up president Reagan said thursday he suspects some members of Congress May try to dismantle his economic program by Messing with the proposed tax but he is convinced most americans support his recovery while Reagan headed to California to begin a fou Day vacation at his ranch in Santa the White House an the Chopo Tamsic Creek on the sprawling bounced 95 percent of the phone Calls and Marine base the passengers were screaming but not most of the people that were alive were in Richey traffic on the heavily travelled interstate was backed up for at least two hours during Rush hour As police closed the southbound the Edge of the Highway was turned into a temporary morgue As the bodies were car ried up the Hill and Laid out in a Row on covered with yellow telegrams it received support the presidents see Page of Calls to the White House since reagans speech outlining the economic program wednesday were there were 926 positive Tele Grams and Only seven negative Dep Uty press Secretary Kama Small Reagan told 125 newspaper and Broad cast editors at a White House breakfast meeting that the four parts of his plan tax and regulatory cuts and Sta Nevada oks gaming License for Sinatra Las a the Nevada gaming after praising Frank Sinatra for his charitable works and chastising the news Media for reporting the entertainers alleged ties to organized voted thursday to Grant the enter Tainer a state gaming the vote was 41 to approve a gaming which Sinatra lost 18 years the dissenting vote was cast by Carl who said he was not voting against licensing Sinatra but wanted to retain a gaming control Board recommendation that the License be limited to six the License approved by the commission carried no commission chairman Harry Reid said ble monetary policy must be approved together to make it i almost sense that one of their plans is going to be to not criticize the spending cuts at but to see if they cant wipe out the tax part of the Reagan Senate democratic Leader Robert Byrd of West Virginia said democrats would support Reagan on some spending cuts and would approve a tax but not this tax which Byrd called Reagan said he is convinced the Ameri can people will be his strongest ally in the fight for congressional passage of the we believe that the main source of strength in this country is going to be the people he we believe also that they Are ready to support a great reagans meeting with the editors was part of his plan to sell the economic pro Gram to the Media and the american peo his key advisers went on network Tele vision shows thursday morning to stress that the tax cuts and spending reductions Are part of an integrated package that eight Days ago he would have voted against must in Sinatra but after Reading the results of the control boards exhaustive 13month in i have to be very candid and honest in saying that i was totally appeared to sigh in Relief after the Board the president asked press Secretary Jim Brady to bring him reports in California of Media reaction to his and he instructed congressional Liaison Max Friedersdorf to let him know what key democrats were