European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 19, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Inside stripes n services defend casualty 3 n cartoon stars Aid african 5 n space program yields 6 the stars and stripes 92 authorized unofficial publication for the armed forces july 1985 rally Ano d 8693 a budget talks collapse denounced by Regan Washington a White House chief of staff Donald Regan angrily denounced the ridiculous Bud get deadlock in Congress on thursday As lawmakers Pon dered How to produce a major deficit reduction the Federal the worlds largest the strength of the free is about to go into a new fiscal year without a Regan said in a breakfast appearance before the chamber of How ridiculous can you be Senate majority Leader Robert who called fellow Republican senators together to consider their next said of the budget everything up in the nothings on the Dole said no Quick solutions were in adding it would take two or three More conferences be fore we decide where we want to House speaker Thomas Oneill said he Hopes the Senate will return to the we think its kind of childish to be walking Oneill All it takes is the Art of Pete the Republican chairman of the Senate budget recessed budget talks Between the House and Senate on wednesday after rejecting a Bot Tomline offer from the the administration and congressional leaders have said they Hope to enact a plan that could slash the annual budget deficit to billion by 1988 about half the current different budget plans have been worked out by the president and each House of and they must eventually be budget negotiators have been struggling to find a for Mula that meets widely differing demands the presidents firm opposition to tax increases for reducing budget deficits the senates insistence on deep Domestic spending cuts and the houses opposition to freezing costo living increases in the social Security wednesdays meeting ended after the senators said the House offer did not go far enough toward making serious Domestic spending cuts and violated an agreement with presi Dent Reagan by providing too Little for military in his lambasted Congress for the Bud get with his voice and his anger he did we not submit a budget we where is it now it has not been passed by the he no budget has been passed by the Why not he said that at the current rate we will have no budget at All by the time Congress is to begin a monthlong summer recess at the beginning of the new fiscal year begins regans solution to the impasse is Cut Federal spend ing Cut Federal spending Cut Federal Security Wear a photo Peggy an employee of securities of donned an old fashioned Gas mask for her walk to work in downtown Cedar she was seeking Protection against a toxic Cloud that drifted Over the City from a soldering fire at a plastics business As usual in Hospital a photo president Reagan laughs with vice precis room at Bethesda naval Hospital in Lignante tumor was removed from his silent George Bush Center and Donald it was the presidents first Colon in a july 13 see Story White House chief of in meeting with the two men since a Maon Page Barbarossa travel contract upheld again by Charlie Bowden staff writer the general accounting office has Dis missed for a second time an american express Appeal protesting the army award of an exclusive concessionaire con tract to the Barbarossa travel the Gao issued the decision july stating that the award of the contract did not fall under existing procurement the decision was signed by Robert Deputy associate general and cites May and june 1985 in those the Gao ruled that buying travel services docs not fall under procure ment an Agency official according to the ruling on the american express Case competitive selection of a contractor to make travel arrangements for Federal employees is exempt from the procurement statutes and thus not subject to protest under gaos bid protest the contractual arrangement is Only a manage ment vehicle to obtain travel which themselves Are exempt from procurement officials of the company Branch head quarters in Frankfurt said they had heard rumours of the Gao decision but had not been officially notified by the Agency that the Appeal had been we have not been told by the Gao on what grounds the protest was said John general manager for american express military travel operations in Piznak could not say what the Compa nys next move might if lawyers for american express have see Barbarossa on Page 28