European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 15, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 28 the stars and stripes sunday december 15, 1985 tacks . Position arms talks Brussels. Belgium a nato fatten ministers Friday strongly endorsed the . Position storms negotiations with the soviet Union and said Prospect .-soviet agreements have improved. The ministers at the close of two Days of talks at nato Headquarters said the Western Alliance is United in seeking Radical cuts in nuclear arms and a Broad improvement in East West relations. Lord Carrington the nato Secretary general . Allies encouraged by last month s Summit null Geneva Switzerland Are now anxious for Jar of Malc rial Progress toward agreement to Cul ski evils. The superpower negotiations on nuclear Papace arms arc to resume Jan. 16. Secretary of state Georji Shiltz said president Rea Gan is serious in seekina0greement at the arms talks but Fie feels no  a Deal before next year s . Soviet Summit. We will search hard  that is possible Shutlz told rent do iut of course we will not be put in a  deadline or the Prospect of be meeting pause us to agree to something that ,  Aid his nato colleagues stressed during their de door discussions that a Quick arms agreement of Winot be expected. In a joint Seal went issued after their regular year end meeting the 16 Sjo foreign ministers said they strongly support /wfarts" in the nuclear and space arms negotiations in Geneva in separate remarks to a Potete. Italian foreign min ister Guilio Andreolli said he Belof Esthe chances of a breakthrough in the arms talks  since the november Summit. He said the most porn Frog areas for agreement Are the talks on medium Range nuclear arms and separate negotiations to ban chemical weapons. The nato statement did not specifically mention the Reagan administration s strategic defense initiative to research the feasibility of erecting a space based defense against soviet missiles. But Hans Dietrich Genscher the West German foreign minister said the ministers agreed that nato would undertake a major review of the role of sd1 in ill Ince strategy. When asked about the Lack of an explicit endorsement of ski in the official nato Sla Lemenski Ultz said the research program was not an Issue in the Alliance. Shultz flew to Bonn later Friday. He was scheduled to Confer saturday with West Ger Man leaders before flying to West Berlin in the afternoon for his first official visit to the Western outpost. Pentagon from Page 1 Down to the Law s $172 billion limit. The Bill was named for its sponsors. Sens. Phil Gramm a Texas and Warren Rudman . Sims said Secretary of defense Caspar Weinberger will try to protect the programs Reagan has made his priorities in defense strategic defense readiness Navy ships and personnel. But the Pentagon needs immediate Sav Ings for fiscal 1986, difficult to find in a department that buys its big ticket items Over several years. For example trimming ii out of this year s spending on tanks or planes might mean cutting out $2 to spend in the next two or three years. So much procurement and military construction spending is the result of commit ments made in earlier years that Dod officials and congressional staffers involved in Gramm Rudman say planners will have to scrutinize the personnel account whether they like it or not. Obviously if you have to make cuts in outlays immediately you must look for pro Grams that pay off in the Short term those Are in the personnel area etc.," Sims said. But those decisions just Haven t been  in october sen. Sam Nunn d-ga., the ranking minority member of the armed services committee estimated that had Gramm Rudman been in effect More than $2.5 billion could have been saved by eliminating the Jan. I 1984, military and civil Ian pay raises. He said laying off 100,000 soldiers would have saved Only half that amount. Items that will be examined closely in clude payments such As bonuses for enlist ment or re enlistment special assignment pay even dining Hall supplies. However the department is not now considering cutting those categories Sims stressed. The process has not gone that far he said. While some discretionary spending categories leave the department some flexibility entitlements such As base pay housing and subsistence must be paid to All who qualify. To Cut the Cost of entitlements you have to Cut strength he said. But you May also pay a Price in strength if you Cut discretionary payments and it makes Mili tary service less attractive to potential re  whether the cuts could Force troop Lay offs depends at least in part on How much Federal spending Congress approves. Negotiators from the House and Senate were in conference Friday Over a Bill to set this year s spending level. For half a dozen government agencies including the defense department. Until that measure is signed Pentagon planners won t know the Baseline from which to consider cuts. Automatic cuts from the level the Senate approved tuesday could leave the defense department with nearly 10 percent less than the $275.4 Bil lion it had to spend last year. Sims said Weinberger has not decided whether it would be better to reduce forces and improve their readiness or to spread the Cost of the cuu Over a larger Force. I think that s the kind of question he would have to spend a lot of time with the joint chiefs of staff on if he has to make some Tough decisions like that he said. If Reagan chooses to protect defense personnel this year he will have to find half of the needed $12 billion savings by cutting other defense accounts by this Spring. In succeeding years the Law takes away the discretion to protect personnel or other favored programs. The Law Calls for Auto Matic across the Board cuts at whatever percentage it takes to reduce budget deficits to the gradually decreasing limits specified by the Law. In the future the Specter of those largely uncontrollable cuts might bring the administration and Congress to Settle on a budget that is within Gramm Rudman limits meaning that the cuts would not be Trig gered and pay raises and troop strengths not jeopardized. When Reagan signed the Bill thursday he said he did not intend to raise taxes and still would ask Congress to give him defense spending increases of 3 percent above inflation during the next two years. That would mean the administration would have to look for $50 billion in cuts next year. Probe from Page 1 faulty fuel sabotage mechanical failure and the possibility that an accumulation of ice on the aircraft could have impaired the plane s ability to climb or clogged its engines according to transport Canada officials who say nothing has been ruled out As a possible cause. Airport manager John Pittman said the plane was not de iced before Takeoff even though freezing rain fell for the first 40 minutes of the plane s Iio minute slay in Gander. A freezing drizzle changed to Light Snow about half an hour before Takeoff Boag said confirming that the plane s wings were not de iced. But he said it had not been determined whether the icy wings were significant. Authorities impounded fuel from the Batch that supplied the aircraft and re viewed a special weather briefing issued on the morning of the crash. They were Busy Friday tagging fragments of the wreckage and analysing positions of the bodies and debris. The chief investigator said autopsies on Pas in Gers and Crew members had not be in contrary to earlier reports. Christianc a Paulini the safety Board s chief spokeswoman said during a news con Ference Friday morning that doctors had started performing autopsies. After Boag contradicted her she told reporters that she had been misinformed. Another government spokesman Rich Ard Pepper of transport Canada said no autopsies were expected until All bodies had been delivered to the temporary morgue in the Airport hangar. Mai. Gen. John s. Crosby the . Army s Deputy chief of staff for personnel said 224 aluminium Transfer cases were delivered to Gander on Friday for transport ing the bodies but it was not Clear when they would be put to use. We Don t know when we will take them to the United slates but we Hope it will be soon he said. About 100 officers of the Royal Canad an mounted police and 140 Canadian sol shake i from Page 1 Given dependents and retirees is provided at military facilities. The remaining 25 per cent using civilian doctors or hospitals however must pay a Small annual deductible plus either 20 percent or 25 percent of their Bill. The remainder is paid by champs. Which is funded by taxpayers. Champs pays subcontractors such As Blue Cross Blue shield to process the claims. In fiscal i986. Champs is expected to Cost roughly s1.5 billion. Mayer was unavailable fridays us new initiative. A  who agreed to discuss the matter if not identified said Mayer Waist wrongly pushing the idea and had emt established a schedule for putting out a request for bids by late next summer and activating the new system by the Middle of 1987. This source said Mayer has dubbed the new program project imprint standing to improved medical programs Ana Ken facts immediately not  said Mayer has grown Jase emed Over   indecent years. His pc Iuga tp7r%�j notes that one of Elk few maj head in scare purchasers still and hospitals on a basis with few incentives for Effi ten Cost consciousness and Cone of the Dupount Teay ment requirement arrangements now to widely available to prudent buyers of civilian health  that system of paying what a doctor or Hospital charges differs from medicare ing a Lar which has now switched to a system of pre set payments to hospitals depending on the patient s diagnosis. Rather than explore such a switch to pre set payments for. Champs. Mayer Sam Fame system in one step and _ linage of the Competition within i marketplace the source said. The source stressed that Mayer does not want to eliminate any options for dependents and retirees. The Winner of a National contract would probably be asked to establish a network of health maintenance organizations or preferred provider groups where beneficiaries would receive care and avoid All or a Large pan of the current co beneficiary wished to continue using a physician the individual could the was willing to continue pay to of the doctor s Bill. Diers worked in the freezing Snow covered Woods supervised by 40 investigators from the aviation Board. Crumpled and blackened pieces of the plane rested among charred Birch saplings in the Rocky Valley just South of the Airport runway. The largest was a 20-foot portion of the fuselage a painted american Flag still Visi ble on its blackened exterior. Thousands of smaller nieces were strewn Down to the Shore of Gander Lake some hanging in tree branches. Police cordoned off the morgue but re porters who got past guards Long enough to look into the hangar said bodies were Laid out on sheets of plastic on the floor. . Army officials said at least 44 of the soldiers had been identified. The Pentagon said initially that 250 american soldiers were on the plane but reduced the number to 248 on fonday. All the plane s engines were found in the wreckage and Are being examined. The team from the safety Board plans to assemble the aircraft from its carefully tagged pieces either in a Laboratory in Ottawa or on the site the spokeswoman said. The Pentagon dismissed a claim made by an Anonymous caller in Beirut to a Western news Agency that the fundamentalist group islamic jihad islamic holy War was responsible for the crash. Temperatures december ii l h 37 31 73 v 31 17 � 63 46 tl54 a i 15 59 60 -3 13 36 39 30 34 74 76 64 r 40 u ii 19 36 31 35 36 79 3 -6 75 -5 is 31 35 i 14 -10 t 35 46 64 t3 36 31 31 33 63 ii is 34 46 31 35 Albany Albuquerque Anchorage Atlanta Atlantic ally ban Mort bin Iris Birmingham Boise boil it Buffalo Burt Englon Charleston so. Charleston . 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