European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 22, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Inside stripes d 10,000 soviets dead in afghan War . Says Page 8 d the  and Downs of the Dollar Page 9 d Broncos beat sea Hawks in nil Battle Page 21 the stars  vol. 44, no. 248 sunday december 22, 1985 ice. Som., d 8693 a lawmakers leave with Job undone Washington a a tired and frustrated Congress adjourned for the year Friday after failing in a Long Bank to pass a $74 billion deficit reduction Bill the Cen Ter piece of its 1985 budget cutting Effort. In a final Day of mane vering with Many lawmakers already on their Way Home. I he Senate refused for the second and third times in two Days to pass the House version of the massive package of spending cuts and taxes. The House had removed from the package a new tax to pay for the superfund toxic waste cleanup program. The Senate Hon approved on a voice vote a separate House passed Bill to extend some expiring lax provisions until next March. It was the last measure needed be fore the adjournment of Congress. Senate leaders telephoned president Rea Gan at Camp David. My. To notify him Congress was leaving. Congress returns Jan. 21. Sen. Bob pack nod r-orc., said the Senate would return to conference with the House in january and revise the budget Bill. But be Drew Sharp criticism from democrats and republicans who said Congress needed to act this year to Cut the huge fed eral deficit. It s a Way to let Reagan avoid facing  said sen. Robert c. Byrd of West Vir Ginia the democratic Leader. We Send this Back to conference that s the end of this  in s a new form of presidential veto said sen William Armstrong a Colo. But Packwood and Senate budget com Mittee chairman Pete v. Dominici r n.m., won out after arguing that it was better for Congress to clean up the Bill and gel what it could. The Senate could have revised the Bill Friday but House majority Leader Jim Wright a Texas said the House was unable to act in pan because so Many members had left there were no longer enough representatives for a quorum. We have completed our  said Wright standing in for speaker Thomas p. O Neill or. D-mass., who already had left. We re just waiting for the Senate. So we can catch the air planes  rep. Bill Fronzel r-minn., said the Bud get Bill was a dead  the House seeking to give the Senate a Way to adjourn convened briefly Friday afternoon to pass the separate package to simply extend some expiring tax provisions until March 15. The Bill would retroactively renew the cigarette tax which technically dropped to 8 cents at Midnight thursday after con Gress failed to act. It also would restore two medicare Cost control Laws that expired one setting the rate at which the govern ment reimburses hospitals fur in tiling see lawmakers on Page 28 envoy Wafe makes plea to briton s captors Beirut. Lebanon up1 Church of England envoy Terry Waite dropped out of sight saturday in Beirut to present proposals to the kidnappers of four americans. He also asked for a meeting with the can tors of a briton who appealed for Freedom. Wait s request was prompted by a 10 minute videotaped statement by kidnapped British journalist Alee Collett made Public saturday in which Collet broke a seven month silence and urged London to take action to get him released. I assure that time is Short both for me and the socialist moslem revolutionary organization said Collett 64. Calling for Britain to free a number of arabs believed jailed in 1982 for trying to kill israeli ambassador Shlomo Argov. As i am Here i would like to meet face to face with the people who Are holding Alec collect. And i Hope that they will Contact me Waite said later in a message to reporters. He did not say How he could be reached. The one line message to reporters was the Only Contact saturday from wait who went to a hideout in West Beirut late Friday in a bid to set up a meeting with the kidnappers of the americans he is working to get released. I have very reasonable proposals to put to the captors of the four americans Waite 46, picture from tid Cotapo shows Alee Collell asking Britain to release Arab prisoners. Said Friday on arrival in the lebanese capital for the third time in As Many months. "1 shall be. 1 Hope dropping out of  the envoy declined to say where the proposals came from or to comment an Arab reports that he met kuwaiti officials last week in Geneva Switzerland. Kuwait ims publicly re fused to negotiate with the kidnappers. On the videotape delivered to the offices of Beirut s an Nahar newspaper late Fri Day. Collet wished his american wife Elaine and his children a Happy Christmas and said he was being treated Well ind Wasin Good health. The journalist who was abducted March 25, called on British prime minister Margaret Thatcher in. Secretary general Javier Perez do Cullar and the British people to ensure thai the prisoners in London were re leased. British officials declined to confirm that three people were involved members of the hit squad dispatched to London by palestinian terror Boss Abu Nidal. Collect said his captors gave him a sol emn oath and undertaking that on the same o a the prisoners were sent to Alge Ria South Yemen Nicaragua Cuba or Ethiopia he would be handed Over in the Southern lebanese port of Sidon. Gis survivors7 benefits increased by Chuck Vinch Washington Buret Washington the families of the 248 military victims of the Arrow air dc-8 crash in Newfoundland dec. 12 will receive an increase in the Serviceman s group life insurance and other survivor benefits that were not scheduled to take effect until Jan. I. Congress passed a Bill late thursday making the insurance increase retroactive to dec. 11 for the families of Active duty . The increase raises the limit of the coverage from $35,000 to 150,000. At the same time the Bill also authorizes a hike in the death gratuity of $3,000 for families of  who die while on Active duty to include an additional two months of housing allowances. The insurance provision was offered by rep. . Sonny Montgomery d-miss., the chairman of the House committee on veterans affairs. Rep. E. Clay Shaw r-fla., a supporter of the Mea sure said there is nothing that we can do for these men and women who perished in this crash other than to give them a decent burial at this Lime. But we do have an obligation to their families to do everything that we possibly can to relieve their loss which they will feel for the rest of their  the death gratuity change was introduced by rep. Patricia Schmo Cdr a Colo. Previously the gratuity provided for a $3,000 pay ment immediately after the  s death to help defray a variety of expenses until government and private insurance benefits could be paid. The chilling tragedy in Gander Newfoundland focuses on an oversight in the Law that should have been corrected Long ago Schmo Cdr said. She noted that families of deceased service members living in government quarters can remain there for up to 60days, but they must pay rental charges. " f Hose who arc off base obviously must continue to pay the landlord she said. These families Are under enough stress and financial Strain without having to Scurry for their  Schmo Cdr s Bill provides two months Worth of Basic allowance for quarters and variable housing allowance to the dependents of a service member who died on Active duty after dec. 1 1. Most of the victims of the Gander plane crash were e-2s, e-3s and e-4s," she said. Their dependents would have to pay $300 to $500 per month for housing. These arc Young families with Low income. Not having to pay for housing will Case i hair already painful transition. This Benefit is Long overdue and pcs i a Cratchy  Epa Dingell vie for last hoho to Washington not truly satisfying re Venge is rarely achieved and almost never acknowledged in the Washington bureaucracy. But both sides seemed to win in the Exchange of Christmas greetings and zingers Between the environmental Protection Agency and rep. John d. Dingell a Mich. Year in and year out. Dingell As head of the to orgy committee asks the Agency for meticulously detailed information on the wide Range of its activities that concern the committee. This month however. Dingell made a slip and officials at i Heep saw i hair Chance. Dingell had sent a Christmas card to William d. Ruckelshaus addressing him As Epa administrator which he is no longer. Dingell sent no card to the current administrator Lee m. Thomas. So Agency officials composed and sent to the congressman a i rec Page letter with a list of 18 requests for detailed information. They included see Epa on Page 28