European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 11, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes wednesday september 11, 1985 White House requests $2 trillion debt limit Washington a the Reagan administration tuesday asked Congress to raise the National debt limit to just above $2 trillion saying that without new borrowing authority the Treasury will be broke by oct. John 1. Nieh Cnoc acting assistant Secretary for Domestic finance tele4 a Senate subcommittee that the request was merely a recognition of obligations Al ready made by the government. He asked that the sen ate approve without amendment the $2.078 trillion debt ceiling adopted by the House when it approved the fiscal 1986 budget on aug. 1. But members of the panel made it Clear that the Senate won t approve the new limit without strings attached. White House spokesman Larry up cakes said the administration has contingency plans As always to shut Down government agencies. He said the administration will be prepared to do so if there is not congressional action to raise the debt  sen. Steven d. Symms a Idaho said he would con Sider leaving the debt limit where it is and have the attorney general Rule that the president can t spend any Money that he does t have and Congress could go  but he said Congress might More realistically impose new spending restraints and a More limited debt hike. Niehenke said the Treasury will reach the current debt limit of $1.824 trillion sept. 30, and its Cash re serve of about $20 billion will dwindle quickly after that. By oct. 15, he said the coffers will be dry unless Congress acts. The administration estimates a debt ceiling of $2.073 trillion will be needed to meet government obligations in the fiscal year beginning oct. I., about $5 billion less than the new limit passed by the House. Niehenke said the administration is supporting the House proposal to expedite the matter. The House then would need to consider the matter again Only if the Senate make changes. But amendments arc almost cd rain to come on the Senate  told the Senate finance subcommittee on taxation and debt management that More than $170 billion a year More than half the revenues the trea sury collects in individual income taxes is used to pay off the National  senators said that was  beside further spending cuts the Senate could approve amendments on almost any Issue related to the debt ceiling or not. One frequently mentioned Amend ment would give president Reagan authority to veto individual items in spending Bills a measure that failed earlier this year As a separate Bill. House members Are prepared to make changes of their own once the Bill returns to the House. Fair Trade legislation is one item that might be tacked on. Sen. Robert Packwood r-orc., chairman of the sen ate finance committee said he would try to keep the debt limit Bill from becoming a catch All Bill. Bui he said i m not so naive to think this is going to make it to the floor and whisk on  mrs. Reagan 18 other first ladies to discuss drugs Washington a the first la Dies from 18 other nations including the wife of nicaraguan president Daniel Ortega Are planning to attend the second International drug conference to be hosted next month by Nancy Reagan the White Buee announced monday. President Reagan and Ortega have had Sharp differences Over . Policy toward the leftist sandinista. Reagan has often sharply criticized the leaders of that coun try As being puppets of the soviet Union who Are seeking to spread their revolution in the Western hemisphere. Once Reagan a clotted Ortega As the Little dictator who went to Moscow in his Green  Ortega went to the soviet Union in the Spring to seek financial Aid. Ortega s wife Rosario Murillo is one of 18 women to respond affirmatively to the invitation. The others include the wife of the . Secretary general. Invitations to the session scheduled oct. 21 in new York City were sent to All the first ladies of those countries attending the 40th anniversary of the . Assembly according to Elaine Crispen mrs. Reagan s press Secretary. Mrs. Reagan wants to put aside Politi Cal animosities in order to help Battle drug addiction among youth around the world Crispen said. She s hoping that the Mother to Mother policy will bring about Accord said Crup in. It s to be strictly woman to woman not  the meeting is being called an Exten Sion of the first conference which Wai held in april at the White House and wit attended by mrs. Reagan and first Ladia from 17 other countries. Coke defies judge keeps Cap on secret formula Wilmington Del. A coca cola co. Has refused to obey a Federal judge s order to turn Over its cola formulas saying that revealing the ingredients even under a protective order could Lead to pub Lic disclosure. Is. District judge Murray m. Schwartz had ordered the formulas turned Over in a lawsuit brought by 40 bottling companies against coca cola. The bottlers Are in a dispute with coca cola Over the prices of syrups it supplies. Attorneys for coca cola said in a letter to Schwartz on monday that disclosing the formulas which arc among the Best guarded secrets in the world would subject the company to grave  the company has concluded that disclosure of its secret formulae regardless of the terms of any protective order could Well Lead ultimately to Public disclosure the attorneys said in the letter. In that event the Gravity of the harm to the company and its bottling system. Would be incalculable and  Schwartz issued the discovery order last month in a 1983 Case in which 40 bottling companies claim that coca cola should sell them syrup used to bottle diet Coke under the same pricing Structure As the flagship Brand syrup. The companies argued that to prove the claim they needed to show that the two products Are he same except for sweetness and Schwartz ordered the company to turn Over its 99-year-old original formula. Judge rejects leniency metes out 2-year term in Navy code card Case san Diego a a Federal judge dealt the most severe sentence allowable to a 25-year-old Man who pleaded guilty to a role in the theft and attempted Sale of top secret Navy code cards. . District judge Earl Gilliam ignored pleas for leniency by the defense monday and exceeded a prosecutor s recommended six month prison sentence by ordering Dale Irene to spend two years in prison. The sentence was the Slif fast possible under the plea bargain in which Irene pleaded guilty to two Misdemeanour counts of receiving stolen government property. Defense attorney Jerry Leahy had argued for probation saying his client was remorseful. Irene in a statement to the judge said i did show very poor judgment. I Don t know Why 1 took the curds. I let my family Down. I m just  assistant . Attorney Joan Weber said the remorse did t go far enough. I heard him say he let his family Down and his friends Down but i did t hear him say he was sorry he let the country Down she said. Irene was charged with Petty officer 3.c. Michael to Bias Tobias younger brother Bruce and Francis Nav tar Pizzo in a scheme involving the theft and attempted Sale of cryptographic cards last year. The cards were stolen from the Peoria list 1183. Michael Tobias was a crewman on the ship responsibility of shredding the cards which Are used in the Navy s worldwide communications network and contain information on the location and movement of . And foreign vessels. Prosecutors said the four tried to blackmail the secret service into buying the cards Back by claiming a foreign Power had offered $100,000 for the information. Culture cub s boy George teams up with Singer Dionne Warwick for an episode of solid Gold i Terri Sloo music show. The two do unique rendition of Golden voices App Lolo Warwick s classic hit say a Tittle prayer for  they re shown during the recent Pine of the scam latin los Angela