European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 30, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                March 1985 the stars and stripes Page 7 Tom Bickham Breaks for Freedom in new Orleans wednesday after escaping from a foiled escape a photos group of prisoners being escorted from court by charged with is restrained by Deputy Gilbert cot ton in dark uniform and another Bickham was booked with simple resisting arrest and Battery on an insists on Domestic cutbacks Stockman says Dod budget cuts possible Washington not David the director of the office of management and says that presi Dent Reagan was prepared to accept some reductions in the military spending proposal he had Given even Stockman warned that reducing the Federal after All options were depended on reducing Federal Domestic As the administration has we must either undertake a thorough housecleaning of the accumulated baggage in the governments discretionary sector or run the risks posed by massive structural budget Stockman said in a speech at the National press the remarks about reagans willingness to Compromise on military spending paralleled statements made last weekend by Reagan and his White House chief of Donald Stockman declined to comment when asked what military areas Reagan would be willing to saying some adjustments would be made but it was too Early say How much they would Stockman also said the administration was in close communication with Senate Republican who have been at tempting to negotiate a budget plan for the fiscal year although Stockman said that encouraging Progress was being he cautioned that no agreement was commenting on those efforts Bob the Senate majority said quiet Progress was being made by Senate and White House at the press in his pre pared remarks and in answers to questions presented a Bleak summation of options for Congress to reduce the As he warned that the nation has reached the fiscal razors asserting the deficit would exceed billion in the fiscal year ending this sep he said All time for debating and delaying has the fundamental economic future of this nation obligates its elected officials to now commit the act they instinctively resist even loathe declare themselves on the Basic fiscal choices in unequivocal and Public Stockman said that included in the list of the inadequate options was the recent reduction package approved by the Senate budget the across the Board program for is popular because it appears he but it appears painless basically be cause it wont Cut the even with the military and social Security included in the a step Reagan Stockman said savings would reach Only billion at Best in 1987 and billion by what that would leave after you did it is a billion deficit by 1988 and it would add Over a half trillion dollars to the National debt Over the next three he that is hardly the Stockman also made these observations even with a robust Economy in the remaining half of the fiscal the deficit is still Likely to exceed billion by the Start of fiscal year the deficit will not have shrunk by even a dime and is still he discussion of increasing taxes had a number of including the opposition of Stockman stands totally against it in Concrete which will not at most bookstores