European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 7, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Inside stripes h tips on flying Home for the holidays daily Magazine q astros name Lanier new manager Page 21 d Poland s Gen. Jaruzelski resigns Page 28 the standi stripes vol. 44. No. 203 thursday november 7. 1985 ask Dally and Sut d 8693 a soviet defector headed Home . Convinced it s his Choice Washington a Vitaly Yurchenko. The soviet spymaster who claimed he had slipped from the Cia s grasp after three months in America was cleared to return to rus Sia on tuesday after he assured . Authorities that he was t being forced by the soviet Union to go Home. Yurchenko clenching his hands Over his head like a victorious Boxer left the stale department after a half hour meeting and declared yes Home when asked if he was heading Back to the soviet Union. State department spokesman Charles Redman said it appeared that you. Chenko s action was a personal  with four soviet diplomats on one Side and six state department officials including a doctor on the other Yurchenko had his first face to face meeting with . Authorities since he walked away from their custody Over the weekend after three months in the United states. Yurchenko had appeared at an extraordinary news con Ference at the soviet embassy on monday charging that he was abducted in Rome drugged and pumped for secrets in Cia hideaways. The state department denied the charges saying Yurchenko voluntarily defected. As a result of his meeting on tuesday the United states government has decided that or. Yurchenko s decision to return to the soviet Union was made of his own free will and that he is now free to leave the United states Redman said. The doctor found no evidence that Yurchenko had been drugged which could affect his behaviour or that he was not competent to make his own a Cuison to return to the .s.r.," Redman added. He said the doctor made no direct physical examination of Yurchenko but was completely  the . Delegation at the Brief meeting was led by William m. Docs scr. The acting chief of he Bureau of european and Canadian affairs. Victor f. Isakov the third ranking Diplomat at the soviet embassy led the other Side. There was no immediate official word on when yur Chunko would leave the country but lbs news reported tuesday night that a soviet aircraft would arrive at Dulles International Airport outside Washington on wednesday to take Yurchenko Back to the soviet Union. Meanwhile the top two members of the Senate Intelli gence committee said the panel will investigate the Cia s handling of the Yurchenko Case. Yurchenko. Identified by . Intelligence experts As the head of the Kab s american Section came to the United states in Early August and was in the custody of see defector on Page 28 Kenneth Ochowicz is Tring at Abb spinal in so humming Austria. Rescued aftei/23 Days on la or spy coup Furns embarrassed end a us Lysis by William we Washington la whatever his reason return to the soviets of High level Kab defector Vitaly Ivchenko is . Intelligence Community with egg on its face the chairman he Senate  says. A know Tull Story and . Experts fall into two from raft and wort reports sch Edming Austria an r civilian working for the army in Hyk Lberg is in Good condition in a i Here after surviving 23 Days with Bacn leg on an austrian Glacier. Kenneth Thomas Cichowicz 38, began a Solo climb of Dac Stcin Mountain near Bertraum in Nonh Centra Austria about 35 Miles from Salzburg on of 11. Two Days later he fell while Travon the Hal Staetter Glacier and broke a i authorities said. Despite his  see rescued on Page 28 no one but Yurchenko Camps those believing him to a soviet Plant placed the United states and a cry Reagan and soviet Leader m a Man who genuine faced remorse for of there Are two us intelligence going out of his i possibility is of them thatch in a Cia of his Wil feet in a Public display aimed at embarrassing he upcoming Summit meeting Between president "  Perhaj Pul Sicly defected three months ago. Then his wife in year old son and his country. Said sen. Myrick Leahy d-vt., the vice chairman of the first u that of Latasa double agent All along and now u Embarrass the United Flatt As much As possible. The second i going Back he wants to go Akk and he has to invent a Story for they will beige it. Newi conference at the soviet in Flauy Yurchenko accused the and drugging him three months ago Ihk me holding him against Onia use House and threatening his life Jaid he never told any. Unless he did so unknowingly while drugged 14 that he managed to his captors Over the weekend. Be state department dismissed his allegations and said Yurenko was free to in to the soviet Union once the United states was assured that Mas doing so of see spy Coupon Page 28 includes funding for Star wars chemical weapons Senate panel approves Dod appropriation Bill Washington a the Senate appropriations committee on tuesday approved a Bill appropriating Al most s3co billion for the defense department setting the suge Tor congressional floor fights Over spending for Star win research and chemical weapons. The Bill fives the defense department $299.6 Bil lion enough for the current fiscal year to cover the expected inflation Rale but less than the $320 billion  requested by president Reagan. This is probably the last year Well see any support for the president s modernization program for a while Given toe budgetary constraints and deficit fears round Here said sen. Ted Stevens a Alaska chair nun of the panel s defense subcommittee. The democratic controlled House last week gave overwhelming approval to a Bill appropriating most of a projected $292 billion Pentagon budget including $2.5 billion for Star wars research and nothing for chemical weapons. The version passed by the Senate panel on a voice vote includes $2.9 billion for Star wars known for Mally As the strategic defense initiative and $163 Mil lion for the first . Chemical weapons production since 1969. Moves to eliminate nerve Gas and Cut Star wars Are expected to be made when the full Senate votes on the Bill. Stevens said he wants to spend $2.7 billion on Star wars this year but asked for $200 million More strictly As a negotiating  a House Senate con Ference committee Wilt work out differences Between the House Bill and the measure which eventually passes the Republican controlled Senate. Stevens also predicted that chemical weapons will survive the conference committee. The Bill approved last thursday originally proposed a $302.5 billion Bud get but Stevens won approval to Cut the proposed spending on military retirement from $18.2 billion to $16.3 billion. That reduction would cover a proposed Cut in Mili tary retirement mandated by a separate Bill already approved by Congress which authorizes the defense budget. The Senate Bill contains no restrictions on testing of . Anti satellite weapons compared to the limit of three tests which is part of the House legislation