European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 2, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday january 2, 1986 the stars and stripes Page 7 Miller at Center of top Domestic Issue bomb director James c. Milter ill Washington up when Jamea a Miller Iii stepped Liuo the shoes of Dani Stockman to run he of fice of management and budget in october he put him self Al the Center of lha biggest Domestic Issue on the Agenda for 1986 forcing the government to live within its Means. On feb. 3, Miller will formally Issue the  1987 budget proposal that under tie nov Gramm Rudman act will have to Cut More than s50 billion from Domestic spending without calling for new lines. In an interview Miller Tan coded that he will have less Power than Stockman had when he was in virtual com Mand of administration economic policy. Because Grant Tudman sets a budget ceiling and generally outlines which programs must be Cut Miller said it limits him in very important ways. But an the other hand that s what the president wants he said. To comply with the Gramm Rudman limitations the administration is expected to urge Congress to make the drastic cuts in social programs Reagan has proposed and it has rejected before. In addition to Likely cuts in housing health and transportation the budget proposal is expected la Call for the Sale of government agencies to the private sector including such previously sacrosanct unit As regional Power administrations naval Petroleum reserves and perhaps even the postal service. Miller says he is relishing the Prospect of compressing a $193 billion deficit into the mandatory $144 billion deficit. An original Ria Vanaut Supply aider fresh from the conservative american Enterprise Institute Miller was in charge of regulatory Reform at bomb for the first eight months of the administration in 1981, he is widely believed to be the official responsible for recommending that Ketchup be classified As a vegetable far purposes of determining nutritional value of federally subsidized school lunches. That Rule never was put into effect. For the past four years Miller was head of the Federal Trade commission diluting Many of the regulations that Agency was set up to enforce. Miller a 43-year-old georgian avoids interviews but makes appearances at news conferences staged by the White House. He was the official who in Early december pronounced from the while House press room that the government was a few Days away from armageddon with Congress not having yet approved a debt increase or a temporary spending Bill. The measures were passed As they always Are without catastrophe but the performance marked Miller s tart manner of speaking. Miller so far seems to have served the president Well from his old executive office building suite that features a pastoral painting of gracing cattle. Those arc the sacred cows he explains. Unlike past years Gramm Rudman has changed the rules of the budget game. Previously the president and budget chief told agencies How much to Cut the agencies appealed to the budget director and then if necessary to the president with Congress and special interests hav ing the final say. This Lime however administration officials say Cabinet officer and other Agency Heads were intimidated from the Start against appealing with no More than the number than you can count on one hand reaching the Oval of fice. Ever cautious Miller would not speculate on congressional reaction la the budget proposal although one cab inet official was quoted As saying it would come to Cupillo Hill laughable on  Union Washington state agree at Lith hour comparable Worth settlement totals $482 million Olympia Wash. A Union offi. Rials and the stale struck an 11 ill hour Worth plan to end wage discrimination against Washington s female employee the w82 million settlement ends a Legal Battle that already has sparked debates in Congress and Legislatures nationwide. It adds hundreds of dollars a year to the pay envelopes of nearly 35,000 previously underpaid workers mostly women Trie plan does not however include any Back pay As . District judge Jack Tan Ner had ordered in late 1933 when he found he state guilty of systematic and purpose Ful wage discrimination against women. Tanner s ruling was overturned by the 9th us. Circuit court of appear. Rather than Appeal to the . Supreme court the Union decided to accept a negotiated settlement. The plan still needs state legislative and Federal court approval. If that occurs the first pay boosts will come on april i by 1992, wage disparity should be largely erased negotiators said Al a joint news con Ference. This is a fair settlement for stale work ers and for the taxpayers of this stale vacationing gov. Booth Gardner said in a message relayed by his budget director Orin Smith. George Maslen chief negotiator for the Washington federation of suite employees termed it a very major Victory for those of us who Are committed to the cause of comparable Worth and pay  he said Many of the affected stale work ers Are Low income sole providers far their families. In terms of Justice equity and financial assistance the importance of ibis settlement to these workers cannot be under slated Masten said. Washington joins is other Stales with comparable Worth plans  said Helen Castrilli of Tacoma a Secretary at Western state Hospital and one of the orig Inal plaintiffs was jubilant. She. Said Shell get an extra $ 100 a month. I m ecstatic overjoyed she said it gives us Money now Money to pay Bills to raise children to put Back into the slate s  state rep. Jennifer Belcher who chairs the legislature s panel on comparable Worth said it is a fair settlement both for the worker and for the slate and it won t break the  the legislature Wils be delighted it s done be added. I think you la see Good bipartisan  Belcher said Shell push for ratification of the contract in the first two weeks of the no wic Sion which opens Jan. 13. The settlement came on the last possible Day. That deadline was set by the legis lature earlier in the year in the budget Bill that provided s41.4 million to begin implementing a plan. The appropriation would have reverted to the Treasury if no agreement was signed. Actual distribution will be through a Complex formula. Those with the greatest wage disparity will be Given proportion icy higher increases. A clerk typist ii position now paid 25 percent below its evaluated Worth would go from the current ,120 a month to 51,230 in april. Future increases would be calculated on the new higher base. Nurse practitioner ii now paid about $18,900, would go to �21,900 in april and about 124,200 by 1992, not taking into account regular pay hikes and Cost of living increases. Pair barred from contacting air crash victims7 survivors Clarksville Tenn. A an attorney and an investigator from Houston Hove been barred by a judge from contacting Tennessee relatives of victims of the plane crash hat killed 24s soldiers of the army s 101st air borne div. Mon Gomer county Chancellor Alex Darnell issued a temporary order monday barring attorney Andrew Lay Man and inc Ligator Robert Hollen from contacting Vic Tims survivors concerning possible lawsuits against Arrow air of Miami operator of the jetliner that crashed dec. The plane crashed shortly after Takeoff at Gander Newfoundland killing eight Crew members and the sol Diers who were returning from a peacekeeping Mission in the Middle  judge s order came after l. Raymond Grimes part Idem of the local bar association complained Hal Ouw f boat attorneys were involved in what he called unethical Lolic lations. These two Fellows Are nol the Only ones soliciting cd cilia but they Are the Only ones we can get our bands on. Grimes said. In a petition filed this week the bar association argued that neither Layman nor Hollen is in Possession of or holds a License to practice Law in the state of Tennessee and their Acu constitute the practice of  the two have been engaged in and Are currently engaged in the solicitation of the victims of the air crash the petition claimed. The practice is nol illegal in Tennessee but is unethical under local canons of conduct. Grimes said. James r. Dodson of Clarksville identified in the Peti Tion As a Friend of mrs. Rayvon Johnson widow of staff sgt. Rayvon a Johnson said molten called mrs. Johnson s House dec. 23 and identified himself As an investigator with the Shellon and Goller Law firm in Houston. He stated that his firm would like to represent mrs. Johnson in a lawsuit against Arrow air Dodson said in an affidavit at no time did or. Hallen say he was investigating anything. He gave me the impression that he was nothing More than a Bird dog soliciting for the Shel Lon and Goller Law firm.". An Effort by the associated press to reach Layman and Hollen by Telephone at the Law firm was unsuccessful attacks define in Texas prisons huntsv1lle, Texas a attacks on in mates in Texas prisons declined by 40 percent in 1985 from the year before but the number of homicides Rose from 15 to 27, authorities reported. Stale prison officials credit tighter Security Mea sures and a crackdown on inmate gangs for the reduction in violence a Lota of 216 inmates were attacked in slate prisons during 1985, department of corrections spokesman Phil Guthrie said compared with 404 in 1934, the most violent year in the system s history. In september prison director Lane Mccotter or dered about one half of the toc s 38,000 inmates temporarily kept in their cells to thwart a rash of in mate attacks Mccotter then separated suspected gang members from the general inmate  state also set up a special team la help counties with prisons to prosecute inmates involved in violence. The department has agreed to a $100 million building improvement program