European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 11, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes july 1985 House approves Aid for cambodians million to support resistance forces Washington a the endorsing a More vigorous stance in Southeast voted decisively on tuesday to authorize million in military Aid for no communist resistance forces inside vietnamese Ccu pied the sponsored by Stephen d was approved by a vote of 288 to a similar provision to Aid the cambodian guerrillas already has been adopted by the the House amendment authorizing up to million annually Over a two year period prohibits funnelling any of the Money to the forces of the Khmer widely accused of killing millions of cambodians during the period they ran the the United states has Long voiced support for the non communist forces resisting the vietnamese occupation of while seeking a political settlement to remove foreign forces and reestablish cambodian Solarz said the foreign ministers of Many Southeast asian nations will Hail the action because they believe it will contribute to an eventual solution of the the new York Democrat repeatedly denied accusations by opponents of the measure saying that it would inevitably Lead to military Aid falling into the hands of the Khmer if i believed i  vote for it Solarz the action came after the House voted by a lopsided 3862 margin to freeze foreign Aid spending authority at last years Levels while exempting funds earmarked for Israel and the amendment would hold total foreign Aid spending for each of the next two fiscal years to that is a percent reduction from the billion recommended by the House foreign affairs the panel had already trimmed million from president reagans original this is a True an across Leboard except for Israel and said Dante the committee it does not allow a Penny for Infra William the panels ranking minority endorsed Fascelli approach while cautioning that any further cuts would cause serious damage to our National by voice the House approved Broom Fields Amend ment to reduce military Aid to Turkey for fiscal years 1986 and 1987 from million to million per year to keep it More in line with million earmarked for on a 279125 Roll the House Defeated an amendment by Gerald that would have increased military Aid to the Philippines by Mil lion while reducing economic Aid by the same the House also voted to bar any economic or military Aid for Lebanon pending the release of the seven Ameri cans now being held hostage there by extremist islamic the offered by James r provided an exemption for purely humanitarian As Congress last sent a foreign Aid authorization Bill to the president in foreign Aid since then has been financed by Stopgap spending known As continuing resold under the Israel would receive a total of Bil lion billion in economic billion in military Grants plus supplemental Grants of billion to be spent to help ease the country serious economic prob Egypt would receive a total of billion in economic and military the administration opposes the Bill in its present in part because of deep cuts made in military Aid to a Large number of the Senate has approved a billion foreign Aid authorization Bill that places More emphasis on military and Short term economic Aid than the House which puts More stress on development differences Between the two measures will be resolved by a House Senate conference news updates teen pleads innocent new York a one of the four teenagers shot by Bernhard Goetz last Winter pleaded innocent Here to charges of beating and robbing an 18yearold woman at gunpoint two months James Ramseur entered the plea at his arraignment before Justice Jarold Silverman in state supreme court in the Silverman continued the bail on which Ramseur has been held since his arrest on june Bronx District attorney Mario Merola said Ramseur and an accomplice forced the woman to a roof in raped choked and beat then fled with her she was hospitalized for four Days after the air safety plan okd Athens up the govern ment has approved a mul Dimillio Dollar program to update Greece air traffic radar control sys the official Athens news Agency the program is part of an Effort to beef up Security and air safety at Athens last month the Reagan administration advised americans to avoid the Airport because of lax Security after shiite moslem fundamentalists hijacked a trans world airlines Jet leaving Dod official cautious but encouraged by Vietnam Otter of High level talks by Clint Swift Washington Bureau chief Washington the vietnamese offer to Clear up questions about missing service members in their country within two years could be a defense departments spokesman said officials will begin developing a response to the offer of High level talks when Secretary of state George Shultz and his team of Southeast Asia specialists return july 18 from a two week tour of the said Richard the assist ant Secretary of defense for International Security Shultz was in Thailand on tuesday and stopped along the cambodian Border to meet with guerrillas who Are battling the Viet namese who occupy to decide whether the two year timetable could be Pentagon experts will map out a schedule of the work that must be Armitage it would take hard work on both sides and an accelerated Effort by the Vietnam he the vietnamese offer came last shortly before their announcement sunday that they intend to return the remains of 26 More persons believed to be american serv ice members who died there during the Armitage noted if that operation is completed As it would be the largest single return of remains by Viet Nam since the fall of the South in but he declined to characterize the offer of High level talks and the return of the remains As More than a step in the right he said there were no preconditions for the offers by the who have agreed that returning the remains of the missing is a humanitarian but Armitage noted that indonesian foreign minister Pochtar Kusu Maatman a had told the vietnamese that the miss ing must be accounted for before relations with the United states could begin to re turn to Armitage also noted during the most recent meeting of the two countries casualty recovery experts july offi cers of the joint casualty Resolution Cen Ter in Hawaii accompanied vietnamese officials on a preliminary Survey of the site of a b52 crash outside he said he had no Promise from the but he did not know Why they would agree to the Survey if they were not considering an the Survey is needed to estimate the labor and equip ment needed to do an excavation of the crash a joint excavation of an ac130 gunship near last february turned up the remains of 13 service members who had crashed in Armitage said there Are several Hun dred crash Sites in but he said not All of them would take two As the pause operation the United states would offer equip ment and technical expertise in an excava Armitage he said it is important that the work be done by Armitage said there Are americans still unaccounted for in Southeast Asia 82 in six in 556 in Laos and in the Northern and Southern parts of Vietnam not including the 26 to be returned in the next six to eight the total includes 42 that compares to missing in com Bat in Korea and in world War he he said there have been 774 reports of firsthand sightings of americans in Viet eighty four percent of those reports have been resolved As persons who have returned or As he said the remaining 123 cases Are still being invest an administration study Early in presi Dent reagans first term could not Rule out that americans still Are being held against their will in Southeast he and the administration proceeds on the As sumption that at least one american is still in Captivity the vietnamese have said to their no living american service members Are in their willingly or Armitage said the administrations efforts to bring Home the dead Are part of a duty to the missing and a duty to can service members who May have to serve in a future foreign he said the administration will continue its efforts until there is a full account that is a Little like enlightenment you know it when youre he some such As aircraft Crew members lost Over the will never be he Pentagon drops civilian agencies aids notification order Washington a the Pentagon has temporarily suspended a directive that would have required civilian agencies which collect blood on military bases to divulge the names of service members whose blood contains an antibody associated with the disease the confirmed tuesday by Pentagon was made june 28 by William the assistant defense Secre tary for health the delay will pro vide time to review the concerns expressed by civilian blood collection agencies about donors said David May ers principal in the the Pentagon went ahead As scheduled on july 1 with new procedures requiring All military operated blood Banks to begin screening blood donations for the aids Newhall within those military blood the names of servicemen Oberfi who test positively will be provided to military doctors for followup testing and aids is an affliction in which the body immune system becomes unable to resist although there is now some Evi Dence that the disease is spreading to the general it has primarily afflicted intravenous drug Abus ers and because of evidence showing aids can be transmitted through blood the food and drug administration earlier this year began licensing special test kits for use by blood the screening test was developed to ensure the safety of blood sup not to actually detect the Fra has stressed a positive test Means Only that certain antibodies Are pre sent in a donors blood that indicate he has been exposed to the disease and not that he will actually contract the Pentagon had disclosed in april its intent to require testing of All blood supplies collected on military bases for the aids but it ran into unexpected opposition from civilian groups such As the red Cross to the related requirement that the names of donors who tested positively be provided to military several groups representing homosexuals also challenged the arguing that the test was fraught with possibilities for misuse and discrimination against homosexual people in the