European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 30, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Q air crash victims buried with honors Page 5 q pats giants Advance in nil playoffs Page 21  the stars and stripes vol. 44. No. 255 monday december 30, 1985 lie doily Ond s 0 8693 a budget officials urge Broad military cuts Washington not White mouse budget officials under pressure from a new anti deficit Law have urged president Reagan to Cut Back a scheduled military pay increase payments to weapons companies for Basic research and other Pentagon spending plans in the budget he will Send Congress in february. Pentagon officials however say defense Secretary Cas Par w. Weinberger insists on a budget of $314.7 billion. Caspar Weinberger. Wants More funds about 10 percent higher than Congress appropriated for the current year. Weinberger has argued that such a increase is needed to catch up to the level Reagan and Congress agreed on in May Long before passage of the Law to eliminate the deficit by 1991. Reagan in signing the anti deficit measure dec. 12. Said he intended to avoid cuts in defense that endanger our National  but officials said at the time thai he had not necessarily ruled out some trims in the military budget request for the 1987 fiscal year which begins next oct. I. The Law sets annual targets for reducing the deficit that pm be met by cutting spending or raising taxes. If the targets Are missed spending is to be Cut under a statutory formula with half coming from military programs. Some experts believe the effects of the new Law on the military will be so wrenching that Congress will relent either amending the anti deficit measure or making cuts cd saw Here. For the defense department the problem of restraining spending poses particular problems because Many of its outlays come is part of multiple year contracts. To Cut say $100 million in 1987 might require cancelling a $300 million contract and Pentagon appropriations arc made in terms of the budget authority for the Long term figure. The first blow to the defense department is expected to come in the 1986 fiscal year which began oct. I. The budget approved by Congress for the current car allowed the military just enough to stay even with inflation. On March i the first automatic spending Cut is scheduled with a maximum Cut of j5.85 billion for the Penta gon outlays rep. Los Aspin d-wis., and chairman of the mouse armed services committee said in an interview Friday thai this would translate to a reduction of $10 billion to $13 billion in budget authority a figure that could be reduced in the unlikely event thai Laws Are enacted to reach this year s deficit target of s171.9 billion. The Law requires that the automatic cuts be spread broadly across most military programs. The following year when the deficit must be reduced to $144 Bullion is expected to be tougher. A congressional see budget on Page 28 How bout a Short game Bret Jones 1-1 months Peers Over a Ball to the Distant Basket at Frankfurt s Balcuns nest gymnasium. He s taking the Chance to get in a Little practice Between Gumes of he fourth annual women s Frankfurt Champagne basketball tournament. See Story on Page 25. Officials fear More attacks by terrorists Rome up1 police certain the Arab terrorists who attacked Rome s Leon Ardo a Vinci Airport had accomplices searched sunday for the terrorist hideout that provided their weapons. Intelligence officials in Germany and Italy predicted new attacks in Europe within the next few Days. See related Story Page 28. The death toll from the Rome attack and the nearly simultaneous raid at Vienna s sch Chat Airport remained at 18 sunday. A dozen people were reported in serious condition Hospital officials said. Both raids were directed at Israel s 1 1 Al airline. The israeli Cabinet me Sunda to hear a report on the raids and despite . Pressure to avoid any action Thul might Hurt the fragile Middle fast peace pro Cess an israeli Cabinet minister promised the perpetrators will be punished in Germany he Bild am Sonning newspaper which has going intelligence sources reported that a palestinian terror group supported by  an Leader col. Moa Nuu khad Afy has sent several com Mando is . In Liu rope to launch attacks similar to the Rome and Vienna massacres. Italian secret service director i a Lujo Martini in an interview with a Rome newspaper predicted a new wave of terrorist attacks within the next few Das probably outside Italy. Martini a 1st  authorities had Learned the terrorists who struck in Rome were trained in Iran and arrived in ital from Damascus. Syria. Other senior anti terrorist investigators. However said they were certain of Rel one fact thai the four Man commando squad had help after it arrived in Italy the investigations will neither be Brief nor  said one senior investigator. There Aren t any rabbits in be pulled out of the hat. But we have Une or two elements in hand Wanh which we Hope to Trace Back the help that the terrorists cer Tain had in  police sources said Thev were scouring the Civ and nearby suburbs for the hide see attacks on Page 28 army medical units hard to deploy panel says Washington Dpi the army has deployable medical units the 1980s version of a  it May not be Able to use the lire saving facilities quickly in War because it lacks equipment to erect them in the Field a House armed services committee report said sunday. Chairman los Aspin. A wis. Said the study Points up several weaknesses in War time medical readiness the units scheduled for use in Forward Battle areas Lack the equipment needed to move and Creel hospitals Aspin said. In other words these deployable Hospi tals Are not very deployable which is deplorable. The Marine corps on the other hand has designed deployable hospitals that Don t require special erector gear Aspin said. The panel s ranking Republican Bill Dickinson of Alabama said the emphasis on peacetime medical care has meant skills Are skewed toward family oriented medi Cine rather than Battle oriented treatment. Thai s perfectly understandable he said. But it could prove costly in the event of Wir. Lor example right now the army has 41 percent of its wartime requirements for orthopaedic surgeons but 5,409 per cent of the paediatricians needed in War  Aspin said the peacetime military medi Cal system exists so there will be a medical system ready to meet the needs of a sudden War. But i m concerned he said that in recent years there s been too much emphasis on providing peacetime medical cure for the standing forces and not enough emphasis on planning for wartime medical  some of the problems lie said Stem from the Lack of joint service planning. Tor 10 years until just rec nil the army s plans called for placing casualties in an air Force Hospital a Hospital the air Force planned to abandon at the Start of War because it considered the location  the staff report called for immediate work on a medical master plan to eliminate see medical on Page 28