European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 12, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 4 the stars and stripes May House demos expect disagreements with Senate Over budget Washington a now that the Republican led Senate has completed work on the 1986 the Democrat con trolled House is ready to take its with leaders predicting major disagreements with the Senate Over social Security limits and defense spending House budget committee chairman William Gray said defense spending restraints contained in the Senate passed budget do not go far enough toward limiting Pentagon outlays even though the Senate sharply pared Back president reagans original his panel is tentatively scheduled to begin work on the budget House speaker Thomas Oneill signalled his opposition to perhaps the most controversial element of the plan approved by the Senate Early Friday on a 5049 vote denying social Security recipients next years Benefit Oneill said Friday that if a vote were held in the House on the social Security restrictions right it would go Down by a two or thre Toone the National Council of senior citizens said the nations elderly had been double crossed by the Senate and ironic that while americas elderly arc being once that they must make a sacrifice for the Good of the a the Senate has voted a full cos of living increase for the military budget in 1986 and provided for 3 percent above inflation in 1987 and hut director of the Washington based said in a democratic members of the House Bud get committee have come up with a plan of their own that would trim about billion from the Federal deficit next the House plan would accomplish Sav Ings largely through a mix of spending freezes on most including de and spending cuts in a variety of Reagan initially had sought a defense increase of 6 percent above the rate of inflation for fiscal the Compromise approved by the Senate would allow Pentagon spending to Rise next year with inflation enough for an increase of the president on Friday formally embraced the Senate plan but added that he would not tolerate any further reductions in his defense the calling for billion in spend ing cuts in 1986 and billion Over the next three provides More than 90 percent of what we have asked for in the Reagan told reporters in Portugal before he returned to mercy killer denied Bond lawyers to Appeal sentence fort up lawyers Are pressing appeals to lift the conviction and life sentence Given Roswell Gil who said he killed his wife of 51 years to end her suffering from the ravages of terminal a jury of 10 women and two men convicted of first degree murder thursday for shooting his to death March circuit judge Thomas Coker sentenced him to life in at a hearing Coker denied Bond and refused to order a new trial for defense lawyers then said they would explore three options to get the Silver haired re tired Engineer out of the first was Fil ing an Appeal to the fourth District court of Appeal at West Palm another option is an application for executive clemency from Bob the third is filing a writ of Hareas Corpus in Federal court on grounds that Florida has no right to hold Gilbert without Bond pending his Coker ruled Friday that Bond not permitted by Law in convictions involving capital after the Coker allowed Gilbert to meet privately with his mar tha before she returned Home to Hes a very Strong i Hope he holds up Moran said up photo Uri in soviet Singer Tatjana Khokhlova applauds a guitarist in an Atlanta soviet visitors in seek goal of Friendship big up a group of i i soviet citizens on a Friendship tour of the United states Hope to meet for Mer president Carter in North georgias the from the soviet Republic of Are in this country in an Effort to reduce the Chance of a nuclear they left Atlanta Friday for the Mountain our values Are certainly different and we come from different philos said Gela presi Dent of a Friendship Force group in the Republic of but All of us Are concerned about the future of our children and the continuation of the these Are the values we have in com Mon and we can Friendship founded eight years is a people people Campaign to bring citizens of different nations to Gether in search of a common Friendship that will reduce world the foreign visitors will get acquainted with residents of the Georgia Moun including Carter and his who have a Cabin near Ellijay and plan to join the visitors for a the contingent from the Republic of Georgia and a second group of 20 Sovi ets from the Ukraine and Latvia spent thursday touring Yuri a Moscow said he paid his own Way to the United states because he feels it is important for the citizens of the two superpowers to get the world is getting very Small and i want to know the Koceiko said through a we Are caught Between two our future de pends on what happens Between these letter wont undermine mormons say Salt Lake City a the mormon Church has denied that an 1825 letter in which founder Joseph Smith discusses the practices of Folk magic undermines the Church divine historians said the which was released by the Church this weekend and is the earliest writing by Smith known to have would Force a reevaluation of the Man who said he established the Church in 1830 under the Tutelage of god and Jesus in the letter to Josiah Stowell Smith described digging for Money and treasure guarded by some Clever he told Stowell to Cut a Hazel stick and if a trea sure were the pieces would draw and join Ogeth the Church governing first presidency also re leased Friday the texts of two letters written 18 years later by Early mormon convert John Fullmer and by Josiah Stowell son of the prosperous new yorker and later mormon who hired Smith in 1825 to find buried the letters testify to the Good character of who was assassinated by an anti mormon mob the following year in i never knew him to get Stowell wrote of but i believe he would now and then take a during his Smith maintained that As a boy of 14 in god and Jesus Christ appeared and told him he had been chosen to restore their True he an Angel named Moroni told him where to find buried Gold Smith said he later translated ancient writing on the plates into the Book of which along with the Bible form the scriptural Cornerstones of the 3 million member Church of Jesus Christ of Latte Day Smiths critics to this Day have variously labelled him a Money Digger and an imposter with a Lively Here you have for the first time in Smiths own hand his Complete involvement in magic and the said Sandra Tanner of the Utah Lighthouse which publishes works critical of she called the Church release of letter a Clever move because copies of it had been circulating among historians for More than a the average Church member sees that and if the Church is willing to own up to it must not be that Tanner in a statement from the first Church officials called the letter an interesting historical document which merely confirms what Smith said later about his work for the letter Speaks of a procedure that we in our time would refer to As similar to the use of a dowsing the statement Marvin a historian at Church owned Brigham Young said the letter no doubt genuine was it shows that Joseph was deeply into some of the Money digging and it forces a lot of historians to reevaluate the Many accounts of Josephs Moneydig Ging activities prior to getting the Book of mormon Hill he Many mormon historians believed accounts of Smiths Money digging were said out of spite and were therefore the recent release of a letter written by Early Smith Follower Martin Harris and the Smith epistle contain some of the first references to Folk magic from sources not considered historian Brent who has helped authenticate other mormon said the letter connects Smith with Early 19thcentury Church officials declined to disclose How or when the Smith letter was obtained or what it but George president of signature books in san said he understood Gordon second Counselor in the first purchased the letter in 1983 from a collector after authentication by chemical and handwriting scholars have estimated its value at to and one unidentified source quoted by the Salt Lake Tribune on Friday said Church officials paid
