European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 29, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Pago 4 the stars and stripes Legal fee still the limit in v a Appeal Washington up the supreme court on Friday upheld a civil War Era Law preventing military veterans from paying lawyers More than to Challenge a veterans administration denial of disability in a 63 the justices said if veterans hired lawyers to fight for disability they would lose part of those Bene fits to Legal and lawyers thus could become More it is scarcely open to doubt if vet Erans were permitted to retain compensated the Day might come when it could be said that an attorney might in supreme court Roundup deed be necessary to present a claim prop Erly in a system rendered More adversary and More Complex by the very presence of lawyer Justice William Rehnquist said in his majority in other the court ruled 54 that state agencies cannot be sued in Federal court for discriminating against the handicapped in the Case of a California Man who was denied a Job be cause he is partially held 63 that a Rock v Roll fan who bootlegged Elvis Presley records cannot be charged with violating the National stolen property unanimously ruled in a Kentucky Case that a state is not liable for attorneys fees in a successful civil rights suit against government employees sued Only in their personal the a brought the leg Alfees Case to the High court for a review of a lower court ruling that overturned an 1864 Law aimed at keeping lawyers from gouging veterans in disability the Case was first brought by a variety of individuals and veterans including the National association of radiation which represents survivors of the nuclear cleanup of the japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and witnesses at nuclear the fee limit was rejected by a Federal judge in san Francisco in june 1984 after she decided the limit was preventing Veter ans from mounting viable challenges to a rulings on various but Rehnquist stepped in at the Vas request in september 1984 and reinstated the Cap while the full court considered whether to review the the Federal Law was established when a limit was first imposed in 1862 to pre vent unscrupulous lawyers from charging exorbitant fees from civil War veterans for relatively simple disability in the limit was raised to lawyers face criminal penalties if they accept More than from a Veteran for preparing and arguing a benefits denial a peal before the veterans groups say the Law prevents them from hiring lawyers to fight Complex cases involving injuries from the defoliant agent other chemicals and Post traumatic stress Arizona ambiance up photo the setting Sun just misses dramatically Apache Arian an area in the temperatures in the area have been Hov Silhouette my a Lone Cactus on a Hillside at Goldfield mountains East of ering around a High of 104 Stockman explains to White House Why he spoke out for tax increase Washington Tuph an Washington up an upset budget director David Stockman went to the White House armed with his to explain a report on an speech he made saying that a tax increase is needed to solve the budget stockmans Edwin Dale said Friday the budget directors comments were completely and he took Issue with the reporting of the of there Cord speech Stockman made before the directors of the new York Stock Exchange june the speech was reported in the new York times the times said Stockman has sounded a new alarm that Federal budget deficits have become intractable and that sizable tax increases May be the Only solution consistent with fiscal Stockman was quoted As saying if the securities and Exchange commission had jurisdiction Over the executive and legislative branches in such Many of us would be in Dale said Stockman was upset Over the publication of his remarks Ana claimed that the times report completely distorted what he Stockman attended the senior staff meet ing Friday morning at the White there was no immediate reaction to the times Story from the Dale said Stockman Only mentioned taxes in the address in the context if the House int going to Cut spending do they ought to come clean and acknowledge that taxes have to be some of the quotes Are right Dale adding that the times did not mention that the House must come clean and Cut asked about Stockman Friday at a luncheon with Community Lead ers in Chicago responded vehemently he didst say the Story is we have the we know what he this has been a definite and deliberate Reagan also said he intends to keep Stockman on As his budget the times obtained a copy of the off the record speech and reported that several guests at the dinner have confirmed the accuracy of stockmans in the Stockman pointed out that the House had Only proposed cutting billion out of billion in Domestic spending and billion to billion in the defense responsible people must also acknowledge that billion to billion is Nec Essary for consistent fiscal sanity and must be made up with More Stockman As a policy it is obvious enough to close this threatening billion budget we must either massively Cut spending or raise taxes by unprecedented magnitudes by the lights of enact a sweeping mixture of Stockman has been in hot water with the White House before for remarks he has made concerning the in the december 1981 Issue of Atlantic monthly Stockman said he believed suppl Side economics was a Trojan horse that ultimately would Benefit the he offered to but president Reagan instead called him on the a meeting that using a phrase from his farm characterized As being taken to the May balance Trade deficit is second largest Ever Washington up the balance Trade deficit was billion in the second largest on the Cen sus Bureau said in a separate government economists said the composite Index of Lead ing indicators Rose percent in May after two previous months of presenting a mixed picture of the Economys the main factors affecting the Trade Defi Cit were reduced sales overseas by Ameri can Farmers and increased purchases by americans of electronic gear from the census Bureau the Large amount of red Ink on Trade ledgers suggested the american Economy was still Labouring under a heavy Load of import Competition in the april june quart the Mam reason growth in the first Quarter was a nearly motionless in earlier projections of a stronger second Quarter with growth running at a rate of government economists had assumed Trade deficits would ease not the deficit in april was meanwhile the Upan Down gyrations of the leading intended to foretell changes in the have been Little help to fore casters trying to figure out whether a rebound is under in 12 months the Index has pointed Down six analysts have looked to the other government report to Tell the the Flash projection of the Gross National which suggests the Quarter just ending grew at a percent annual 10 times the growth of the first the indicators Index reached com pared to a 1967 average of the Bureau of economic analysis additional data showed the april Index went Down percent instead of the Origi Nally reported and the March Index slipped percent instead of increasing by the same former Arco exec Dies i a John a retired executive of Atlan tic Richfield has died of cancer at the age of downtown Peu Esmau