European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 11, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 28 othe stars and stripes monday november 11, 1985 Reagan signs $223 billion defense spending Bill Washington a president Reagan Friday signed legislation that authorizes j223 billion in defense spending but cuts Back sharply on the while House re quest for Star wars defense research and construction of my missiles. The Bill gives Reagan is 5.4 billion leu than he requested for the fiscal year that began oct. 1. Reagan had asked authority to build 48 my missiles but Congress approved Only 12. In addition. Congress capped the number of my missiles that can be deployed at any one time in minutemen silos at so. The president had sought $3.7 billion for work on his strategic defense initiative also known As Star wars and Congress approved j2.8 billion. Reagan and Secretary of defense Caspar Weinberger Are insisting that Congress steer budget balancing away from the administration s military buildup they say that threatens arms control talks a Reagan said Friday that although Al supports the Gramm Rudmin balanced Bud pin ensure approved by the Senate he does t Jiuji mouse s alternative plan because he thinks Twu Mart defense too much. Weinberger jars a irks at Brigham Young University in Provo if paid he is worried that defense cuts re i versions of the legislation could undermine negotiations with the soviets in the  both balanced budget measures would impose cuts in Federal spending if preset annual targets for reducing the deficit Are missed but neither plan would protect defense from those cuts. The House version empty Many poverty program from spending reductions which would make oth including defense More vulnerable to the in a time of reduced budgets the a course of action is to apply cuts where to Sam the least to protect  National Security and reduce those progcu0mrrare less urgent Weinberger said.  not allow us to do  argued for years that defense spending contribute to the Federal deficit. He maintains at Congress cannot treat the Pentagon budget As it does other Federal agencies because Pentagon needs Are measured against a perceived growing soviet threat not . Economic health. Gramm Rudman would impose uniform budget reductions without any concern for defense priorities or the Security needs of the nation Weinberger said. Significant cuts in our defense budget now could seriously undermine negotiations with the soviets in the future he said. Senate Republican Leader Roj i Hallof Kansas who met with Reagan eariy&ji10potcrreporters the president still supports  version of strict balanced budget in a Ifni declared the House democrats Al  said Reagan told gop leaders he wants to stick with his plan to exempt the defense buildup from the budget cuts. Otherwise Dole said it could be a problem for Geneva As the president sees it. He does t want to go Over there having the House put the Handcuffs on  but rep. Edward Roybal d-calif., chairman of the House select committee on aging blasted the Senate Friday for failing to exempt veterans pension and compensation programs from the cuts As the House did. It is indeed tragic that As we Honor the men and women who have served their nation we must celebrate in the Shadow of a Senate decision that Falls far Short on the country s commitment to veterans said Roybal. House Senate negotiations on balancing the budget will Likely begin on tuesday. Congress is facing a thursday Midnight deadline to act because the balanced budget legislation is attached to a Bill needed by then to raise the Federal debt ceiling to a record $2 trillion or Force the government into default. Soviet from Page 1 the save the oppressed people committee said coast guard told those on Board it was conducting a safety Check. David Finzer the owner of the boat called the Freedom Warrior earlier had agreed to stay 1,000 feet from the marshal Konev and had invited the coast guard to inspect his boat. Mcenery said the invitation had been rejected. When the coast guard later boarded the boat and began its inspection Mcenery Laid Finzer asked what Law gave them the right to Board the vessel. He was told he could be arrested for obstructing the search Mcenery said. Once the boat was released it chugged after the marshal Konev Mcenery Saidt motorists stopped their can near levees to look at the departing freighter. I just wish he d have got a Good shot at Freedom said a woman who would t give her name. With the ship already in the Channel the american civil liberties Union announced it had filed another lawsuit in . District court in new Orleans this time rep resenting the Senate agriculture commit tee which had subpoenaed Medvid. Judge Martin Feldman rejected the Law suit saying that Only the . District court in Washington d.c., could order the ship to stay within . Jurisdiction said Martha Kegel executive director of the Acle s Louisiana chapter. Later appeals to the 5th . Circuit court of appeals and the supreme court also failed. Meanwhile Yevgeniy qty urine second Secretary and Consul of the soviet embassy in Washington interviewed Medvid on saturday and helped arrange the ship s departure la new Orleans about 30 Miles from Reserve Royal gunmen kill 7 in Holdup of belgian supermarket from Page 1travolta said i m not really sure. But it would be  i m nervous. My stomach is All butter flies confessed Singer Neil Diamond one of Diana s favourites. It makes my evening joked actor Clint Eastwood a take off on his famous line from the movies go ahead make my  Eastwood said ill probably do a Little Fred Astaire  Larry Mcmurtry author of lonesome Dove almost spent a lonesome night he was initially denied Entrance to the White House until be finally managed to convince the guards that he was among the Royal guests. Charles and Diana were greeted on the North portico of the executive mansion by Reagan and the tint lady. They All then entered the White House where they were joined by the other guests. Among the other guests Marine explorer Jacques Yves Cost Csc or. Jonas Salic discoverer of the polio vaccine Peter Ueberroth commissioner of major league baseball and fashion designer Gloria Van a Arbili. The visit to the nation s capital by the future King and Queen of the British Empire has had America s elite jockeying for invitations to this and two other galas. Aalst Belgium up three gun men sprayed last minute shoppers at a supermarket with gunfire before getting away with a Small Safe containing most of the Day s receipts saturday. Police said seven people were killed and three were critically wounded. Four others were slightly injured. The robbery was a massacre a witness told television reporters. The shooting lasted something like four minutes and was aimed at everything mov ing he said. Two other branches of the same super Market Chain in the Southern suburbs of Brussels were attacked in a similar fashion in september with the loss of eight lives. The special state police unit guarding the store was about to leave and hand Over guard duty to City police when three masked gunmen stormed into the store shooting in All directions but mainly at the customers a witness said. One of the gunmen broke through to the place where the Day s receipts were stored in a Small Safe and dragged it to the Geta Way car a Volkswagen Golf. The gangsters left the store and the parking lot continually shooting a witness said. One fired at an approaching police Van before the car raced off onto the motor Way towards  police sources said the dead included a couple and their 14-year-old daughter. Their 9-year-old son was critically injured. Other victims included a Man and his Young child who were killed in their car on the parking lot. The Holdup ran True to a pattern of Ruth less violence set in previous shoot outs that have claimed the lives of dozens of people in Brussels suburban shopping Sites in the past three years. It followed bomb attacks against four Bank branches in Brussels Charleroi and Louvain earlier last week. The communist combatant cells claimed responsibility for the bombings which raised the total of such attacks to 24since october 1984. Police have reported no Progress so far in their investigations of the cases. There a a similarity Between these acts of violence against so called symbolic tar gets and the Bloodthirsty ruthlessness of these weekend shoot outs a police official said. Reagan Gerber and agree on How eliminate offensive nuclear weapons As we nuke our defensive system available to All. These Are complicated negotiations and satisfactory results will take Lona Tat work Reagan cautioned. . Negotiators Are work i Brato reach a breakthrough of do asides face what he cailedj2iwtnallenge of eliminating nuclear Reagan told the soviet people that some important parts of his recent inter View with soviet journalists were left out of accounts published in their country. He said a free press is one of americas. A. But he. For weal not threaten your Nal _ r will the president said. The Amer ican people Are tolerant slow to anger but staunch in defense of their liberties and like you their  turning to human rights an area in which the United states accuses the soviet Union of abuses Reagan said both super Powers Are signers of the Helsinki Finland human rights accords and America asks the world1 Leiden  also called upon the soviets to join the United states to help find peace Ful settlements to local and regional con in Afghanistan Africa latin to to  t terror ism he said. I  d your government to join us in  us and ensuring that no country will offer Succour or Comfort to  he joined about 50 other ship watchers As the freighter passed beneath the greater new or leans Bridge about 2 30 . Qty urine bad said Medvid was  pressed for elaboration he said i pm re peat one Hundred one million one billion times. He s  protesters believed otherwise. He is dead. He was murdered Here on . Soil and you is. Citizens Are assisting. 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