European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 10, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes May 1985 House panel trims 86 Pentagon budget no increase except for inflation cuts in my Washington a the House armed services committee approved a 1986 Pentagon spending plan wednesday which provides no increase in defense spending apart from and includes cuts in military retire ment and funding my nuclear sources the panel also voted for new chemical weapons and ordered the air Force to referee a Competition be tween two Jet fighters next year with an Eye toward buying both planes in the said the speaking on the condition that they not be the decisions came in votes during closed sessions As the panel finished two Days of no vote totals were the panel authorized the Pentagon to spend billion next the sources which provides no apart from a 4 percent Rise top count for the expected inflation president Reagan originally requested a percent hike Over to a total of the package now goes to the floor of the democratic controlled whatever finally is approved there will have to be reconciled in a conference committee with the version passed by the Republican controlled the working on an Overall budget has also tentatively approved a freeze in defense but has yet to take up the Issue of authorized Pentagon the House ignoring a warning from defense Secretary Caspar voted to slash billion from the j billion the Pentagon had requested be set aside in fiscal 1986 for military the sources but the panel accepted an amendment proposed by Bill which would phase in major changes in the retirement system Over a fou year period rather than permitting Sharp reductions in the sources none of the million current retirees or the million people now in uniform would be affected by pension budget the sources people can retire after 20 years in the service and draw half their base up to a limit of 75 percent of base pay after 30 critics Call that too generous and say it needs to be Cut because of the massive Federal Les who chairs the authored the billion arguing that it is the Only Way to Force the Pentagon to come up with reforms in the Weinberger wrote Aspin that changing the system would be ill advised and would have a devastating effect on recruitment that would be Felt almost the blueprint approved by the panel also includes million for the army to begin preparations for a new generation of nerve the Only weapon denied Reagan during the Pentagon buildup of his first the Senate armed services committee has also recommended nerve Gas the United states has not built chemical weapons since but Reagan says they Are needed to offset a growing soviet chemical the panel voted to Cut reagans request for funding for my missiles next year from 48 to the sources following a similar recommendation by the Senate armed services Reagan wants 100 of the 10warhead missiles deployed in silos in Wyoming and Congress has already approved funds for 42 my weapons in increasingly close votes Over the past two but Only after intense lobbying from critics Call the weapon vulnerable to a soviet first in another the panel voted to Tell the air Force to oversee a Competition next year Between the general dynamics f16 and Northrop f20 the along with the is one of the top air Force Northrop built the f20 for foreign mar but has been unable to sell any of the planes and is now trying to persuade the air Force to buy Northrop has offered 396 f20s to the Pentagon for million less than the million Cost of a in directing the the panel turned Back an Effort to simply order the Pentagon to buy f20s next the sources air Force officials have told Congress that they would look at the f20 with an Eye toward buying the Jet in future but they say it is too late to put the planes into the 1986 urinalysis conviction set aside Mac flights by Dave Diehl Bureau Raf England first conviction of an airman in a drug abuse Case based solely on evidence sup plied by urinalysis has been set and a mistrial has been Legal officials at Raf Mildenhall said wednesday that the mistrial was declared by the trial judge april 15 after reviewing the Case because a member of the jury violated orders of the court during the court martial in the conviction of Wilfredo assigned to the 313th Aerial port so was set aside because Morales constitutional rights were put in jeopardy after one of the Steven of failed to follow the rules of the the officials assigned to Mildenhall 306th strategic and one of seven court martial contacted a Laboratory worker at the air Force Hospi Tal at nearby Raf Lakenheath to get in formation on urine sampling procedures and also discussed that Contact with fellow according to the record of the which was signed by Steven und the judge in the the record also stated that Hendrick a 14year air Force revealed his vote on the cases verdict to at least one person during the week after the trial had Linder said in his decision that Hendrickson did All this despite my instructions and repeated warnings to the contrary and my specific warning to him immediately after the according to the Hendrickson asked the unidentified lao worker whether urine samples could be Cross referenced by an individuals blood the worker told him that it was not Hen Erickson passed that on to fellow Linder said because the evidence was not brought up by either the prosecution or the it could not be consid ered in the he added prejudice exists regardless of the As Hendrick sons disclosures made the mat Ter an Issue before the members of the Linder said that mistrial was the Only suitable remedy available to the jeopardizing of Morales constitutional Legal officials said wednesday that no decision has been made on whether mor ales will be tried his which included forfeiture of Over a period of two months and a months hard labor without was dropped because of the he was originally convicted 8 of wrongful use of Morales Case was Legal officials because it was the first Opportunity for Safe prosecutors to convict an airman of a drug offence with Only evidence from a forensic the prosecuting attorney in the Phillip said at the time of the court martial that material evidence or witnesses Are usually added to lab re sults to gain a military officials say this Type of conviction will be More common in future because military labs have tightened their procedures in testing urine the lab changes came about after a 1983 study by toxicologists and Legal specialists looked at ways to improve verification of lab results involving urine Morales Sample tested positive at an army Laboratory in where urine samples for the air Force in Europe Are the Sample was taken in a mandatory urine Check in Morales squad Ron last an official Here said that regardless of the the precedent set by the Case is still important to future prosecutions in similar flights from Page 1 he that office would make transportation arrangements and serve As the Stu dents under that stateside military personnel offices and transportation often working had to handle most of the administrative said Stuart Upson of the army military personnel students often were not near military installations and communication with them was he Many parents did not know when their children would be arriving with a new Central office at the military personnel Center to handle the overseas commands and Stu dents and their parents have a single Contact Point for the program in the Upson the office can be reached free by calling commercial 800 5825552 or Auto on 2218979 or in the phone number is 703 3258979 or and the office will accept collect Calls from Points within the Upson the office also can be reached by electrical the system has not changed sponsors still initiate the paperwork through a request at their regional person Nel Only the system in the states is centralizing control of the program Here will improve the service the student receives and will 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