European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 21, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Inside stripes q holidays unite yanks europeans Page 3 g Senate to probe . Air safety Page 5 o slogging through at Grafe Woehr pages 8-9 Auto sized unofficial publication for the us. Ahmed forces vol. 44, no. 247 saturday december 21, 1985 i 00.1 a is nov d 8693 a deficit Cut Issue snags Congress Washington a Congress held itself hostage Friday its year end adjournment blocked by arguments Over a three year $74 billion deficit reduction package that White Louse officials said president Reagan would veto anyway. We would Volo the. Bill in its present form presidential spokesman Larry up cakes said Friday. At Issue was a tax in the package required by the budget Congress adopted last August to finance the superfund toxic waste cleanup program. But up cakes said the president also objected to an import surcharge included in the measure and a provision giving Federal royalties from offshore drilling leases to several states the Senate convened \ riday morning about nine hours after it recessed. But it appeared legislators were no closer to finding a solution than when they decided to take a break about 2 . The House was waiting to Sec what the Senate would do. The Rev. Richard c. Halvorson the Senate chaplain opened the session with a prayer that the Senate could find a Way out of its problems. It is almost As if it the Senate is a victim of its own Power the chaplain . It was just after Midnight when rep William ii. Gray 111, r-pa., chairman of the Louse budget committee pleaded with his colleagues on the House Mimir. Vote so we can go Home and say that we did reduce the deficit. The red Ink is drowning this  but each chamber twice rejected the other s version of see Congress on Page 28 Kennedy ouf of 88 race for president Boston Asen. Rdward m. Kennedy d-mass., said Friday that in creasing speculation about his political plans forced him to Speed his decision not to run for the presidency in 1988, even though he fell he could have won the democratic party s nomination. In his first appearance since a videotaped announcement on the decision was Broad cast on Boston television stations Kennedy said at a news conference that he would not accept the nomination if drafted by his party. Not my life Kennedy had said in the paid political announcement televised thursday that i know that this decision Means that 1 May never be president but the Pursuit of the presidency is not my life. Public service  politicians said Kennedy s decision not to enter the race showed political class and portended a hot contest among the new generation of democratic presidential contenders. Kennedy said various oils including one by his staff indicated he could have ruptured the parly it d. He said increasing second guessing about his plans prompted him to make the decision now rather than after the 1986 elections As he had planned. Second withdrawal it was the second time that Kennedy 53, has withdrawn from a presidential race. In 1�82, he called a news conference in Washington to say that although he wanted to be president his overriding obligation was to his three children. This Lime Kennedy chose the unusual format of a videotaped political announce ment to say he Felt his place was in the Senate where he would run for re election in 1988. School fulfils mural responsibility by Tony Nal Roth Nuernberg Bur in to . Germany for 1 ears folks driving past Nuernberg american High school in Christmas have seen murals in the school windows. For just As Many cars. I in have craned their necks to get a Mctier look while saying in t thai nice1.1 i Bonder who did  the answer this year Joseph Serin. And Sandra Ingemansen. Serino is the High school irl teacher Liach september he assigns ins students to create a design for the a panels of the three Story window in the facade of the school s main building. Serino and school administrators pick the Best of More than 100 ideas this year s proposal came from i a Vear old National Honor society member Sandra Ingemansen. Her mural shows a huge Angel with Long sweeping Multi coloured Robes on the right Side of the picture. On the left a girl in a pretty Blue dress is giving her favorite Leddy Bear to an african girl in tattered rags. I started with three ideas Ingeman sen said. Christ giving a gift to the girl the Little girl giving the Bear away with out the Angel and just the Large Angel. I decided to Combine  Serino said each year s idea must be appropriate to the season artistically appealing and practical to execute. Once the decision is made students from All of his classes work on individual panels. Some take two Days he said. Mure complicated ones take two weeks " the material is a translucent gel like paper that Serino buys in Kiernun stores. The completed picture goes up two Days be fore thanksgiving and comes Down Jan. V Serino said the Range of ideas is wide open although he suggests Christmas themes such As peace on Larth thankful Ness or brotherhood. Sandra s idea is the lesion of Sacri fice he said. Sis photo do Sandra Ingemansen and Joseph Serino in front of mural shi1 designed. Howitzer Salute keys ceremony for crash victims fort Campbell by. Up howitzers boomed a Roll Call Solute across the snowy Parade ground of fort Campbell Friday in a final tribute to the 248 soldiers killed in the crash of a chartered Jet in Newfoundland. Snow during the night left a half Inch Blanket of White on the oar de grounds 20 football Fields Long by 10 foot Ball Fields wide. The six 105mm howitzers lurched backward with each shot to Honor the soldiers who died dec. 12 when a plane returning them Home for Christmas after a six month peacekeeping tour in the Sinai crashed at Gander Newfoundland. Michael Slack a private was the first of 248 names read by capt. Stephen j. Pohlchuck of King of Prussia. Pa., because Slack described by his Mother As a free spirit had the lowest rank of the soldiers killed. Pohlchuck stood in the blowing Snow near the howitzers Reading one name per minute. The Reading of Cash name was followed by the Boom of the howitzers. The list ended with it. Col. Marvin Jeffcoat task Force commander of troops aboard the plane. The Salute was timed to end precisely at 2 p.m., with a memorial service on the fro in Parade ground by 20.000 civilian mourners and 17.000 fort Campbell soldiers including 234 soldiers who returned from the Sinai thurs Day. The ceremony ended a week of memorial services including a i it by president Reagan and Nancy Reagan who came monday to Comfort 279 immediate family members who lost their loved ones in the crash. The memorial ceremony is As much for the living As the dead in help us  said capt Michael Phil lips