European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 19, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Inside stripes l King Cruger s letter from London Page 3 q getting a taste of the Middle Ages pages 14,15 q super bowl contest ends today pages 21, 23 vol. 44, no. 245 thursday december 19, 1985 d 8693 a Congress passes last minute Bill to keep . Government afloat Washington a Congress struggling to Hack a path through the year end legislative Thicket tuesday approved a Short term spending Bill needed to keep Many Federal agencies afloat and prevent disruption of govern ment services. President Reagan signed the Bill. White House spokes Man Bill Hart said. Truly the system has broken Down complained Rea Gan administration budget director James c. Miller Iii As first the House and then the Senate passed their third emergency Stopgap spending Bill since late september and the second in less than a week and sent it to the White House. Hut lawmakers said there was plenty of blame to go around and privately faulted administration officials for failing to push for passage of a Long term 5370 billion spending Bill including a Large defense spending increase. That Bill suffered an overwhelming defeat in the House late monday night. The Long running drama Over the spending Bill resumed while the House gave Reagan a major Victory by passing a massive tax overhaul Bill by voice vote. That sent the Bill to the Senate for consideration next year keeping alive the top item on Reagan s second term Domestic Agenda. The measure was sidetracked last week by rebellious republicans but an intensive drive by Reagan including a monday visit to Capitol Hill gained enough gop con verts to win passage. With Congress already Well beyond its original adjourn ment target lawmakers expressed frustration Over the length of the session. The new adjournment target seemed to be wednesday night. The Senate spent tuesday morning debating a variety of presidential appointments confirming Anne Graham by voice vote to the consumer product safely commission and former sen. James Buckley a new York Republican As a Federal judge by an h4-11 vote. The House approved legislation permitting former see Congress on Page 28 caskets met by mourners special guard  Spidel. A Mcm bar Honor guard stood Vigil at a hang tuesday As the Flag draped caskets of mor military victims of a plane crash in new fou Midland were returned to . Soil. Sec related stories pages 2, 5. A cargo plane carrying 35 bodies landed Al mid morning. Three More planes carrying 35 bodies each were to arrive later tuesday said army Cape. Ken Smith. A pcs chartered from Arrow air crashed thursday at Gander newfound land killing the Crew of eight and 248 members of the 101 St airborne div. The soldiers were returning Home after six months of duly with the International peacekeeping Force in the Sinai. Two shipments of 10 bodies each arrived monday. A few mourners were on hand for the first arrival during which an army band played hymns and officers extended condolences in a solemn one hour ceremony in the huge hangar known memorial Hall. There a Ere no speeches for late Vals but the same band Clavij teach subsequent half hour Ceres my and the entire Honor guard reared on duly to Salute the return incl mesh victims. President Reagan and his wife Nancy attended a Tii orial service monday Al fort Cai Proell. Ky., the Headquarters of the its airborne. No bodies Are being brought to Dover. An Honor guard is present As crash victims1 bodies arrive at Dover fab Del. Ofca Jse the base houses the largest Mili tary mortuary. The remains will be identified autopsies will be performed and the bodies prepared for burial and Transfer according to the wishes of the soldiers families base officials said. In monday s ceremony. Army officials praised the soldiers for their service in the Middle last. Their duty As soldiers took them far from Home and family. Their tasks were difficult arid demanding and they did them superbly. They were great  said army  John. Marsh. Our hearts our loves our prayers go out to those who suffer the most by such a loss. We shall seek to Comfort them aware we can never fully thank them or assuage their  he said. Army chief of staff Gen. John a. Wickham said the army was deeply saddened that the soldiers trip Home fur the holidays ended in tragedy. He called their deaths the ultimate sacrifice and added that soldiers who follow behind them will know of their dedication patriotism and  the base mortuary handled casualties from the Vietnam War the marines killed in a terrorist bombing in i9k3 in Beirut Lebanon and the bodies of Jim Jones cull members who committed suicide in Guyana in 1976. Health Pfar Nof for overseas Dod says insurance Confra in proposal. Liei mixed to . By Clint Swift Washington Bureau Washington the proposal to seek a single National health insurer to provide care to military Reti Rees and family members at a fixed Cost probably never will have any effect overseas the Pentagon s t health official said tuesday. In fact the defense department s desire Jumore surgery and other Complex my Dicalin lures in its clinics and Send retirees and Faroul Mcm bars to civil Ian physicians for routine pm wobbly can t be instituted overseas said q fail learn Mayer assistant Secretary of defense for Calth affairs. Seas should be Able to see an american doctor. Sure we can have contract american physicians bul the idea of maybe entering into a More business like relationship with major parts of the american medical Community is contemplated at this Point just in the United  Mayer wants to take advantage of the growing com petition among health care providers in the United Stales to serve military families tirces and their Mayer  one Strong pocket of resistance to is ilk. Families at less Cost to taxpayers and beneficiaries than initiatives overseas would be what he called a consid a Der champs the civilian health and medical Crable feeling in Washington thai americans Over see Dod on Page 28 Mayer is a Spondin Toff to Destin about whether american Civi Rai  family members on foreign  Giuld be As willing to seek medi Cal   As they arc in the in language Ditrow is and differing Stan Ards and practices of care. It will not be possible to take Mastffa triad Vantage of the civilian sector of Medicine in count no i upside the United Stales if we had such a  scheme in this country Mayer said