European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 21, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sweet on nutcrackers 5cc Page 3 q learning lessons of City War pages 13-15 q expos reds Swap 6 players Page 21 n first woman gets artificial heart Page 28 the stars and stripes vol. 44. No. 247 saturday. December 21. 1985 8693 a _ _ Congress oks budget rushes to adjournment Washington aim Congress passed a $368 billion spending Bill thursday and pushed toward passage of $74 billion in reductions of the govern ment deficit in a  hurry to get out of town. The two issues that dominated both houses the entire Yea spending and deficits were the last ones hanging. The spending measure was written to Grant the defense department s2s1.2 billion for the fiscal ear a $5.7-billion increase Over 19k5, not counting another sfi.3 billion in transfers from earlier years. Spending fur Many in Nestic pro prams would be fro in or Cul. The mouse of representatives acted first on the Bill adopting it 2m -1 37, and sending it to the Senate where it was swiftly approved on a voice vote. At the White House spokesman  Scakes said president Reagan would sign the measure even though it provides slightly less for defense and Mure fur Domestic programs than he wants. Officials also said the president would sign a s52-billion farm see budget on Page 28 aids study compared to a bomb project Washington a president a while hous Reagan was told thursday that the . Mint was offered government s aids research program May Aid. The acting ass produce so much information for scientists in the departing that it May one Day be viewed As the services air fit meeting at which health equivalent of the Manhattan pro Macef Mcdan update on aids or abject which produced the atomic Boneh immune deficiency syndrome and a sum Ial said the assess us for Foj Brut government agencies arc documents and unidentified government of Aid n.uwdorf1 " doing about the disease. Finals reported sunday that a draft of the health the official who attended the meeting Keagan administration s fiscal 1987 budget but asked not to be named said no rcom proposes to cancel $48 million of i he s2.is emendations for new policy and no new million Congress already has appropriated icy requests were presented to Reagan. For aids treatment and research in the ent w York 7 . Quoting Budge see aids on Page 28 Joy sadness mixed As soldiers of 101st return from Mideast fort Campbell. By. A the final contingent of . Soldiers finishing a Middle East peacekeeping tour arrived on two air Force jets thursday the Joy of their Homecoming muted by the deaths of 248 comrades in an airline crash. The 234 members of Hie 101st airborne division the screaming eagles stepped off two air Force c-m1 Sta Lifler jets and were taken to the base gymnasium where about 100 relatives waited to be reunited with them after their six month tour. We Are All Happy to be Home but i did t want it this Way. Being without our friends said maj. John Loscaro of los an Geles referring to the division members killed dec. 12 when their Arrow air Jet crashed just after Takeoff following a re fueling Stop at Gander. Newfoundland. After the crash the army asked the air Force to provide transportation for the rest of the returning 101st airborne soldiers. It s a lot better on air Force transport said pfc. Ervin Hawkeswood of Monterey. Calif. I never want to Fly Arrow air  although there were tears for lost com rades there were Happy hugs and kisses from wives mothers and children. All 1 wanted to do was be in his arms Losero s wife Suzanne told reporters who were kept out of the gym As Losero held his 3-year-old daughter Colleen. It s Guing to be the Best  Brenda Harrington of Lake cily fla., will be spending her first Christmas As the wife of pfc. Eric Harrington. 20, who was scheduled for the Arrow air flight out of Egypt but was left behind because he had lost his passport. They married june 14. I was praying he would gel Here All right. I told him i loved him and missed  she said. I m just thanking the lord that he got Back of. Harrington did not speak to  but his Mother Jonnie Harrington said he never did find that  Sharon Romos 19, of Evansville. Ind., the wife of sgt. Carlos Ramos drove the 21/ hours from Evansville to be at the air port with her 23-month-old son Eric. I m so relieved it s not a charter she said As she waited for the flight. I thought. They could t use a Charier air plane on this flight " the bittersweet Homecoming was a pre Lude to a memorial service scheduled for Friday. It was expected to draw All 17,000 fort Campbell soldiers and up to 25,000 civilians from this military Community and nearby towns. Among the military dignitaries expected were army chief of staff John a. Wick Ham or. And Secretary of the army John Marsh. It was possible that vice president George Bush also would attend. President Reagan and his wife Nancy travelled to fort Campbell on monday to meet with relatives of the crash victims. The soldiers who returned thursday Afler stops in Sicily and at Mcguire fab. N.j., during their 18-hour trip from Cairo spent about two hours turning in their knives guns and other equipment. After Friday s service they will have two weeks leave the Standard for soldiers just Back from peacekeeping duties in the mid dle East said maj. Jim Gleisberg the base spokesman. Lived to Tell about it Rebecca Smith 31, cuddles her 2-year old son Mitchell in the paediatric intensive care unit at Butterworth Hospital in grand rapids mice. Smith s car plunged off a Rural Road and landed on its lop in the Coldwater River but she pulled her child from the partially sub merged vehicle. I m still not sure How i got him out she told reporters. The boy k Lisl Ihl in satisfactory condition