European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 16, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes May Weinberger Hopes to use Pentagon savings by Norman Black Washington a defense Secretary Caspar mounting a new Effort to Salvage his fiscal 1986 says the Pentagon has managed to save billion Over the past three years and that Money should be used to mitigate deep spending most of the savings were attributed to overestimates of inflation and  contracting Weinberger said the Money is now available to avoid unnecessarily damaging National Security through budget but he also warned that he is considering a request for a supplemental appropriation even if Congress Grants permission to use the billion in fiscal the defense in a prepared said the 1986 budget Levels set by the Senate last week can not be accommodated without seriously impacting the defense he said some Way must be found to mitigate the Impact of the senates budget cuts on vital National Security Weinberger is recommending that Congress use these savings to minimize program thereby avoiding additional future costs from uneconomical buys to avoid unnecessary readiness cuts in areas such As spare parts and support equipment and to finance essential elements of compensation and Quality life the Pentagon Clyde a senior Pentagon budget said Weinberger is not telling Congress How to use the savings on specific but rather asking simply that the Money be added to the Senate but democrats on the Senate armed services com Mittee criticized the announcement of the administration budget officials and Weinberger Are making us look like complained John it strains credibility that this Money was suddenly found last Alan and Edward also questioned the timing of the billion Glenn said the Pentagon wants to use the Money to create a billion slush fund and suggested that it should be used instead to reduce the Federal the criticism came As the panel began trying to Cut the Pentagon budget by billion to bring its defense spending Bill into line with the senates vote last week to limit defense spending increases next year to the inflation Weinberger unexpected disclosure of savings follows the senates passage of a fiscal 1986 spending plan last the plan passed by just one vote it now must be considered by the where further cuts Are con the Senate plan would give the Pentagon authority to spend by Weinberger and Rea Gan had asked initially for billion in spending president Reagan said last Friday that he had agreed to accept the Senate figures Only after being assured that he could request More funds if he found that the National Security was being the statement released by the Pentagon on tuesday indicates Weinberger has Al ready decided the Senate went too the Deputy assistant Secretary for program reinforced that View during a Brief news Confer he said Weinberger had not ruled out asking the president to submit a supplemental request even if con Gress agrees to use the billion to maintain defense spending rather than to impose further Glaister said it would be a fair statement to say the Pentagon had just found the but stressed that the defense department had reported such savings to Congress during each of the past three Glaister said most of the savings could be traced to Nowerth unexpected inflation rates in fiscal 1984 and 1985 a new estimate for the inflation rate in fiscal 1986 and Betterto unexpected results in awarding con tracts through such things As competitive the Pentagon statement said some billion was inflation related savings for the past three with another million attributed to a lowering of the inflation estimate for another billion is attributed to slower rates of program savings from management improvements and savings from con tract it Dodson accepts apology from former accuser new York a Gary facet face with the woman whose rape accusations sent him to prison six years told a National television audience wednesday he has accepted her i More or less had to get some things out and meet the said Dotson during an interview on abcs today show with Cathleen Crowell who has recanted her assertions that Dotson raped a different Shes a different person today than eight years and 1 just had to meet he both said they had talked tuesday night in a meeting arranged by their it was a Mutual Mutual Webb of it was a Friendly asked if he accepted her Dotson replied we Shook Webb said despite James Cathleen Crowell Gary Dotson As they appeared on abcs a photo Thompsons refusal to Clear Dotson rape i believe the people of America know Gary Dotson is Hes not a he Doest have the character of a the meeting followed High level Jock eying by the Abc and Abc television networks for the first interview with the two Side by with today winning a Battle Over abcs Good morning America arrangements for the meeting were made after Thompson on sunday com muted Dotson 25to 50year sentence to the six years already claims she lied now 23 and the Mother of two has lobbied for Dotson free Dom in recent months telling a the governor and nationwide television audiences that she lied when she said he raped her in she said she fabricated the Story be cause she feared she was pregnant after having sex with a teenage Captain returns Home to Aid probe of slayings a an air Force Captain returned to his Home tuesday to help detectives trying to discover who raped his then killed her and two of his daughters by stabbing them and slitting their air Force Gary who had been in Ala Bama for spent about two hours in the House where the victims were found said chief of detectives for the Cumberland county sheriffs we took him to the House and let him walk around for a while to see if he could help us find out said who declined to provide further details of the a spokesman for the sheriffs Harold said investigators so far have no motive or suspect in the thursday slayings of Kathryn and her daughters and the bodies were found after neighbors heard the cries of another 18monthold there and now there Little said of detectives working around the clock on the the fact that its hard just makes them More East Burns nude body was found with Erins in the master Karas body was found in another and Jana was found unharmed in a crib in a third Little autopsy reports showed the three died from multiple Stab wounds and Slit throats and that Eastburn had been sexually the living room showed signs of a we assume it was a spontaneous Type he chief of air traffic control at Pope near fort had been attending an eight week train ing course at Maxwell fab in neigh Bors said he had been gone four or five Julie the East Burns baby said Eastburn had been getting a Bunch of Crank phone Calls since her husband left for she really kind of worries me because he says really obscene Czerniak fort Bragg was the scene of the 1970 slayings of the wife and two children of former Green Beret physician Jeffrey he was convicted of murder despite his claims that a band of drug crazed hippies killed his family and wounded were certainly not doing anything to lend any credibility to comparisons Between the Little a ninth Grade said monday that she has corresponded with Macdonald since doing a Book report on 8thlargest Bank cuts prime rate to 10 new York a Bankers the eighth arg est american commercial Cut its prime lending rate wednesday by half a percentage Point to 10 its lowest level in More than 6vi analysts had been predicting a Cut in the prime rate for several weeks because the interest rates set in the Money where Banks get a sizable portion of their bendable have the reduction by Bankers the first in the Industry since put the widely watched interest charge at its lowest level since october the prime rate is a Benchmark against which Banks measure rates on Short term Loans to Small and medium size Large businesses Are often Able to borrow at rates below the prime while Many smaller borrow ers frequently must pay the prime rate is also important to third world Bor Many of whom pay interest rates pegged to the prevailing prime the prime has been falling since when it was Cut to percent from the 13percent level that had prevailed for three the last previous Cut in the prime rate was when it was reduced by a Quarter percentage Point to r