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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 25, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 28 the stars and stripes May 86 budget approved by House Washington a the democratic controlled House has approved a leadership backed 1986 Federal budget that would Cut spending by billion without raising taxes or curtailing social Security the vote was a House Senate conference committee will have to reconcile differences Between the spending outline it approved thursday with the version approved earlier this month in the Republican run the Senate budget would also save roughly billion in but through deeper cuts in Domestic programs including elimination of next years social Security Cost of living by the House budget takes a billion deeper bite out of defense final passage came after two Days of floor debate Dur ing which democratic leaders successfully fended off efforts from those in both parties to make major modifications in the on a 37256 vote earlier the House turned Back a plan by a group of conservative and moderate democrats that would have chopped billion from the deficit through a mix of spending limits on social Security benefits and a 15 percent minimum tax on Cor even a watered Down proposal by Mary Rose d expressing support for a minimum corporate tax but leaving details to the tax writing ways and Means com was rejected As it drove toward final passage of the the House rejected 329102 a plan offered by Delbert Latta of senior Republican on the House budget to make the democratic plan More like the one that passed the of opted Senate last while not including the most controversial feature of the Senate plan elimination of next years social Secu Rity costo living increase Lattas proposal would have made deeper cuts in Domestic programs than would the democratic leadership while restoring about billion in military spending passage of the democratic drafted budget was predicted in Advance by leaders of both the plan backed by House speaker Thomas Oneill of Massachusetts and other democratic leaders cuts deeply into president reagans defense budget while Safe guarding social Security Benefit increases and Low income programs such As medicaid and food but gop Leader Robert Michel of Illinois protested that the budget blueprint had no reason no logic no policy no sense to while conceding that majority democrats have the votes to get their Oneill told reporters he was bitterly opposed to the social Security i Hope that my party will stay with in comments aimed at the 1986 midterm congressional the chairman of the democratic congressional Campaign Tony of issued a statement making a political Case for the demo cratic by our cutting billion in the republicans can hardly claim were big we did it with out cutting social so were fair and unlike the he Coelho also predicted that republicans will be trying to catch up with the democratic crackdown on the Mili tary and noted that the plan provides for no tax we Are poised to do Well in he my from Page 1 the White House and Pentagon come up with a Basing Mode that is Mobile and this is a major Concession on the part of the it was obvious Nunn had the to stave off de they made he the move was a significant Retreat from reagans initial drive to win 100 deployed 123 for testing and there significant objection to Basing them in existing silos that some argued put the United states into a launch on  pos Nunn argued that the number of missiles he proposed deploying would hold several Hundred soviet targets at risk and nudge the administration into looking at other Basing systems and accelerate work on a planned Mobile missile and a new Trident submarine temperatures May 23 l h 44 74 48 87 40 68 66 77 55 63 59 59 42 88 61 73 59 88 54 61 46 74 40 75 68 87 60 62 40 73 51 66 52 66 63 83 44 74 51 77 42 72 46 71 50 80 47 74 69 77 67 86 52 77 71 88 52 88 66 97 54 76 Albany Albuquerque Anchorage Atlanta Atlantic City Baltimore Billings Birmingham Boise Boston Buffalo Burlington Chicago Cincinnati Cleveland Worth Denver Des Moines Detroit Fairbanks Fargo Hartford Honolulu Houston Indianapolis Jacksonville Kansas City Las vegas Little Rock l h 62 81 54 88 56 76 79 85 56 63 55 68 68 78 59 67 62 77 54 82 59 81 61 69 57 61 71 101 52 64 43 69 43 69 59 74 55 70 64 81 48 86 47 77 75 91 56 84 63 71 55 74 55 73 44 71 64 95 59 68 51 82 los Angeles Louisville Memphis Miami Beach Paul Nashville new Orleans new York Norfolk Oklahoma City Omaha Orlando Philadelphia Phoenix Pittsburgh Pittsburgh Providence Raleigh Reno Louis Petersburg Salt Lake City san Diego san Francisco Seattle Syracuse Tucson Washington Wichita european weather forecast for saturday partly to mostly Cloudy skies with Gusty winds and scattered Light rain Over the extreme remaining areas will have fair to partly Cloudy skies with morning High temperatures mid 60s to Low 70s lows Low to Sunset saturday 918 Sunrise sunday Outlook Tor sunday partly Cloudy skies in the North and fair to partly Cloudy skies with morning fog in remaining temperatures Little temperatures recorded Friday p p p p p 4am 4pm 75 85 45 64 60 57 50 63 45 65 48 69 85 75 4am 4pm p 42 59 p 45 68 r 52 57 p 46 72 f 41 68 p 48 m p 57 79 Florida starts work to save Fimber a wild fires that torched More than acres and destroyed 200 Homes have been con but the work to save fire ravaged Timber is just officials weakened Trees need to be removed quickly to claim at least some of their Tim Ber value and to save forests from infestation by disease and insects in the Wake of the said Harold assistant director of the Florida division of weakened Trees attract Wood damaging which could then infest healthy he sawmills near burned areas will begin working overtime to handle the damaged Mikell the state Senate approved 320 and sent to the House a Bill that would reduce property taxes for people whose property was destroyed in the wave of lightning sparked a few new fires but they were quickly contained after burning about 500 we Are doing pretty Good in All parts of the said Larry a division of forestry i dont think there Are any fires that Arent palestinians still hold Camp under heavy shiite assault Amison said Crews Are finishing their final Popup in Flagler and along the Central Atlantic where some 200 Homes were destroyed and another 400 to 500 Homes were damaged by the blamed on High winds and the abnormally dry have been burning on and off for about six but they grew to major proportions last causes have not been determined in most but officials said lightning and accidents All probably Seaman from Page 1 Beirut a a handful of Palestin ians Friday made a last stand in Beirut Sabra refugee Camp As hundreds of shiite moslem militiamen backed by lebanese regulars closed in under a ferocious barrage of were fighting foot by foot there put Ting up a hell of a a shiite amal militia officer said in a smoke filled alleyway through a Block of Bullet scarred a lot of the palestinians sneaked out last night under cover of they left these Guys Here to fight i think there dead he said the palestinians apparently slipped through the shiite lines by a network of tunnels they Are known to Nave built years ago under Sabra and the neighbouring Cha Tilla Camp in West amal militiamen said they believe the palestinians went to the sprawling Bour Baraj Neh Camp 1 6 Miles to the South to join hundreds of their fighters encircled the palestinians in the three Camps have held out for five Days against the shiite but it seemed Clear that the pales Tinian rearguard in Sabra cannot hold out for a palestinian who declined to be said in a Telephone inter View this looks like the final assault in amal is closing in behind a murder Ous barrage of 6th brigade tank weve lost Large chunks of the police had no estimates of casualties from fridays but at least 100 bodies from earlier Battles were brought from the Camps by civil defense teams and taken to Hospital morgues already filled with that raised the known casualty toll to at least 326 killed and wounded since the Battle of the Camps started backed by 6th brigade has also pushed deep into storming squeezing the palestinians into a Small area where they Are being pounded with rocket propelled grenades and recoilless in heavy gunfire and explosions thundered echoing through the darkened where the smoke and Ash smothered the Light to an opaque Shell cases littered the Dusty ground beside piles of garbage stinking in the been involved was recalled to when the elder Walker was the Fri said a soviet National attached to the soviet embassy in Washington was seen in the although it is not Clear whether the official recalled to the soviet Union was involved in the an Fri spokesman said the package Walker dropped contained a treasure Chest of information for us on soviet instructions on How agents pass chief Fri spokesman Bill Baker said the Bureau anticipates More arrests in the Case involving and his i who is accused of passing Navy secrets from the ship to his Baker said evidence indicated the walk ers had help in funnelling the classified material to the and another Fri offi Cial said the espionage conspiracy is larger than just those he officials said earlier that the elder Walker May have been providing information to the soviets for As Long As 15 to 18 Long before he retired in 1976 As a chief warrant partly Cloudy of far by Del 7th weather sept Plet from Page 1 critical but stable suffering from predictable lung and liver hey Are All on doctors said the remaining infants have a 5050 Chance of As we have said All these first 72 hours Are Carrie director of the neonatal intensive care unit at childrens Hospital of Orange said at a news conference after examining the infants a tear eyed who has joked his Way through much of an ordeal he called an emotional told reporters he was excited to see my Little the a High school English teacher who took Fertility drugs in Hopes of add ing to the mormon couples family they have a 1yearold son has Only seen the babies on videotape from her room at Josephs they Are across the Street at childrens embassy from Page 1 As Well As training in code to be used in contacting his Headquarters in he was then sent Back to the agent was eventually instructed by code to explode the car which was earlier sent into at 2 wednes Day May the statement this Peak hour was chosen so that the explosion might hit As Many people As the statement did not say flatly that the agent was but it was carefully worded to imply he was in police  
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