European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 17, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes june budget tops Congress Agenda this week committee leaders say agreement stiff far off Washington a House Senate negotiators intensify their efforts this week to produce a Compromise 1986 but committee leaders say action on a final spending plan still could be weeks although both House and Senate Bud gets purport to shave billion from the nations billion plus deficit next there Are fundamental differences Between the two versions differences conference leaders say they Are finding harder to re solve than they once the 26member bargaining panel met for three Days last week but made Little Prog Ress toward a final spending it deadlocked four times Over relatively minor and still ahead Are the big items of con Tention the Senate passed oneyear freeze on social Security benefits and deep cuts in president reagans military buildup approved by the democratic led i Haven seen any real Daylight said Pete chair Man of the negotiating if we cant even reach agreement on items that Are not that that dont involve defense or pensions or people i dont know How were going to get a real William Gray who leads the 17 House members on the Confer ence is More optimistic than Domenici about getting Progress is a Little but there Are a lot of new youve got to get to know one another in not discouraged Gray we have to walk through this thing there Are some major policy differ but i think Well get something by the fourth of he on the conference committee is to try to resolve differences in amounts set aside for the program for cleaning up the nations abandoned toxic waste the House version spells out a More Agres Siye calling for billion More in spending Over the next three years than does the Senate complicating efforts to reach agreement was the report last week by budget director David Stockman that deficit projections for 198688 Are higher than the administration earlier due to a sluggish econ even the Senate plan which the administration favors would not reduce Federal deficits much below billion by Stockman senators and administration officials had said the plan would halve the to roughly by the new figures prompted Lawton the to ranking Democrat on the conference to say that figures being used by the committee can no longer be relied upon including the claim that the measure would Cut billion from the deficit in Chiles said actual using the Les optimistic economic come closer to weve got our Heads in the Chiles were All playing with num Bers that Arent valid any in addition to cancelling next years so Cial Security costo living the Senate plan would terminate 13 Federal while the House version would scrap just one Revenue the Senate Bill would allow defense spending authority to Rise with the rate of inflation the House Bill would freeze it at 1985 in other congressional action this the House takes up a Bill authorizing de sense department programs for fiscal which begins major Battles Are expected Over nerve the my missile and the administrations strategic defense up photo an apology and a diploma recent High school graduate Susan Sha of who sparked an uproar last year when she refused to stand during the pledge of holds her diploma and a Public apology from the superintendent of her is at the family told a press conference it agreed to drop a lawsuit filed against the town and the school system in april in Exchange for the Shapiro missed More than a month of school because of saudi Oil minister urges open to follow quotas new York up saudi arabian Oil minister sheikh Ahmed Zaki Yamani warned fellow open members that world Oil prices could fall below a barrel if his kingdom raises Oil output in the face of widespread overproduction and Price Dis counting within the Petroleum intelligence weekly reported in an exclusive interview with the authoritative Oil denied that saudi Arabia specs largest producer is threatening to flood the Oil he said saudi whose Oil production declined to a 20year Low of less than million barrels daily in has no alternative but to step up output because the kingdom has a serious shortage of Oil revenues and natural Gas is a byproduct of Oil saudi Arabia has the capacity to pump More than 10 million barrels a Yamani said if saudi Arabia in creases its Oil prices will begin falling unless other members of the organization of Petroleum exporting countries reduce their output to official quota Levels and Stop offering illegal Price we do not think that prices will come Down to or a the saudi Oil minister prices will drop sharply to something below official open prices Range from to a but most of the cartels 13 member nations Are offering some Oil at a Yamani said it is in the Best interest of Maverick open members that Are exceed ing their quotas such As Ecuador and Nigeria to abide by production these open states will derive More revenues by producing within their quotas at current Price Levels than at maximum out put with Oil Selling for Only to a he Yamani said saudi Arabia would like to give up its role As specs swing which Means the kingdom must raise or lower output to defend world Oil prices de spite widespread violations of Cartel guide lines by other there is no room whatsoever to swing Yamani i am not Happy with this swing i dont think we should Call saudi Ara Bia a swing producer he we have reached the level where we have to understand that saudi Arabia should at least produce its quota like any other coun if open is forced to reduce Overall production below its official ceiling 16 million barrels a Day each member should share the Burden of cutting Back on output to match changes in Oil he Macdonald thinks often of slain family Best Sellers up former Green Beret doctor Jeffrey awaiting a decision on his murder said in a published interview sunday that it is a rare Day he does not think of his slain convicted of killing his preg Nant wife and daughters Kirn and made his comments in a Telephone interview with the Richmond time dispatch from the Federal correctional Center in Macdonald said he cannot forget As he enters Middle age that his daughters would be Young women its Macdonald i have fair Days but its a rare Day i dont think about Little anecdotes come to on birthdays or i feel i get a lot of mail from College and High school kids who do i realize there the age of my daughters its very it takes your breath away for a who contended his family was slain by drug crazed was first charged by the army in 1970 for the deaths at fort he was honorable Dis charged after the allegations were initially declared but the Justice department continued the leading to Macdonald conviction in Macdonald argued that the second in the District court in was double jeopardy and unsuccessfully appealed to the supreme the latest to the 4th circuit court of appeals in suggests there is new information that should Nave required District judge Franklin Dupree not to hear the Macdonald lawyers suggest that Dupree should have disqualified himself be cause his Soninlaw was the former prosecutor who directed the governments Early investigation into the you Start what is going on Here Macdonald am i the decent person i think i am then you have to fight the humiliation and shame and the psychological thing of not having defended your who suffered superficial Stab wounds the night his family was now claims the court should consider confessions from people associated with a dead woman named Helena Stokeley who said before she died that she was with the killers when the family was Macdonald told the newspaper theres no question that Stokeley was the woman in a Blond boots and floppy hat he saw with the killers in his House that the government has not yet filed a response to Macdonald compiled by the new York times fiction cider House rules by John Irving the dream by Barbara Taylor Bradford Hunt for red october by Tom 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