European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 6, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday january 6, 1936 the stars and stripes Page 5 retired . Workers to feel Pinch first of hers could follow As budget tightens Washington a retired . Government workers will be the first to fuel the bile of the new by decl Balane ing act but within weeks drastic Culi will be ordered throughout the government unless the supreme court intervenes. The Gramm Rudman act is designed to eliminate the Federal deficit by 1991. The act sets a series of increasingly sum Cal deficit reduction targets until a balanced budget is achieved setting the stage for major spending confrontations Between the White House and Congress. The act stipulates that if Congress is unable to meet the deficit targets either through spending cuts a lax increases then automatic across the Board cuts will be triggered. One Early casualty of Gramm a adman is j7i million that Congress voted to be paid to the world Dank far increased Loans to developing nations the office of management and budget is holding up the funds pending a determination of the Enlen of the March 1 cutbacks. Barring court action. President Reagan a poised to order an is 1.7 billion govern Menf Vic Cut in Federal spending to Lake effect on March i according to White House budget officials. The Cut will affect nearly every Federal program except social Security and a few other exempted areas. The reductions will fall equally Between defense department and Domestic spending. The result could be layoffs at some agencies but Mure Likely  be n Freire on new hiring especially at regulatory agencies and the Federal Bureau of investigation according to . Officials. Federal aviation administrator Donald  last week ordered a freeze on Hir ing except fur air truffle controllers Safe in inspectors and Airport Security workers. Retired Federal workers will be the first to t eco the Impact of the new Law. They won t gel scheduled Cost of living increases in their pensions Elliis month. Congressional budget officers Are expected to estimate a current deficit in the Vicinity of s20u billion Mug Lily $30 billion Over this year s target making Aulo malic spending culs this year a near certainly. However for this year Only automatic Euls arc limited by Law to is 1.7 billion. These cuts will be ordered by Cagan on feb. I Anil will take effect automatically on March i unless Congress in the mean Lime pusses 3 separate package of $11.7 billion inputs. The plan being assembled by the while mouse according to those familiar a Ith it includes drastic cutbacks in Federal Aid to slates and cities and in housing health and muss transit programs. It also proposes the elimination of Aboul 24 Federal programs. A economists contend that Gramm Rud main. If left standing will have Only one possible ramification u major tax in crease possibly As Early As this year despite the Reagan administration s Oft repeated vows against such a coarse. Young afghan amputees getting new limbs in . Boston a four afghan children who lost limbs in attacks by soviet or government forces will be fitted with artificial arms and legs this week by a Boston doctor thanks to a Rug dealer who found the children in refugee Camps. I could t live with myself and ," said Charles Brockunier a Cambridge importer who did Busi Ness in Afghanistan before the soviet intervention five children arrived in Boston on Dee. 17, four of them had lost limbs and one had suffered disfiguring facial Burns. Four More waiting we have four More waiting to come As soon As we raise More funds Brockunier said. Three of them arc double  Mozafar and Utmar Khil both 10 and from villages Between Kabul and the Pakistan Border lost to licit right arms when their villages were bombed Brockunier said. Zarmina 4, who lived in a Village about 30 Miles from the soviet Border lost her right leg when her Village was levelled. Shafi Ullh 7, lost his left Arm during a bomb ing of his Village on the outskirts of Kabul Brockunier said. Zur Mcna was accompanied by her father Mozafar and Utmar Khil Gul Ranga 6, suffered severe Burns during an artillery attack on her Village also near Kabul Brockunier said. Brockunier said the children like Many afghans do not use surnames. Me said some afghans use the name of their Village or tribe. Doctor donates time these Are some of the toughest but most Well mannered kids i be Ever seen said or. John m. Snowdon chief of Prosuh tics at Massachusetts general Hospital. Snowdon is donating his Lime to til the children with artificial limbs it is remarkable Hal hey can smile after All they have been through he said. Doctors Al the shrink is Burn Institute in Boston have reconstructed half of Gul Ranga s face and her right Eye. A Phon Mohammed Hawaii with his daughter Zarmena and from left to right Mozafar Ulmar Nihil and Shafi Utah. Study finds cocaine in peruvian Tea Washington a the food and drug administration will look into a scientific study thai concluded thai a peruvian Tea sold in the United slates has cocaine in it an Agency spokesman said saturday. The Tea called health inca Tea has been sold in grocery and health stores and by mail order since i of performed the study said in a letter published m the current site Folh journal of the american medical association. The researchers said drinking two cups of the Lea a Day Wulc Csc no ill effects could provide the Drinker Wuh mmssat10n.mood Elevation a Jan increased puke rate. They said some people have reported chewing the Tea tag or smoking the Leaf fragments in cigarettes or up the researchers also reported Ihal some addicts say i held them withdraw from cocaine use. And that at least one ocl"a7mcn. Center which the scientists did rot name gives patients the Tea As a cocaine substitute. The Tea listed ingredients include  coca leaves and ills promoted As providing a natural stimulant without caffeine Tho scientists said but the researchers said that chemical analysis and visual inspection of random samples sold through the United slates uncovered no evidence that cocaine had been removed from the leaves. They said that in fact the Lea has cocaine concent rations within the Range of 0.13 percent to 0.68 percent which is normally found in untreated cultivated  the Tea is packaged in Peru and exported by an Agency of the peruvian government the National Enterprise of coca. An estimated 1.5 million teabags have been sold they said. Fra spokesman William Grigg said the Agency Learned of the study from the Ama journal one of several that government officials Monitor to learn of scientific developments. Well take a look at the findings of this group to Sec if any action is  Grigg said. The scientists said drinkers of the Tea should be warned that traces of the Tea s ingredients May show up in urine tests. The letter said South americans have been drinking coca Leaf Tea for hundreds of years with no ill effects and some medical benefits. Surgery is scheduled his week on her lips nose and car. Soviet and Afghanistan s marxist government forces have been fighting rebel forces since 1979. Bruc Kumur s group the free Afghanistan Alliance a non profit group of 20 people includes soviet emigre Yuri Turim a close Friend of the family of soviet dissident Andrei Sakharov.  in Kabul having lived in the afghan capital of Kabul for sever Al years before the invasion Brockunier Saiid he was compelled to a Clairn i Sec How tie country was faring. Be sneaked in four limes la observe the resistance to Ovici forces and visited refugee Camps and hospitals in Pakistan he said. I gut a bit of a feel for the vast extent of the refugee Camps lie said in a Telephone interview. Based on what i be Wen i d estimate thai h1q.ooo children have been killed or  Bruc Kuncir said the Vitlem suffering of the people really gave Nie no Choice but to raise funds for medical treatment. Si2,0 10 in donations with $12.000 in donations from the free Afghanistan Alliance Brockunier began searching pakistani refugee Camps for injured children wlm could be helped in the United states. As my Contact. In refugee Camps improved we Gath ered up children he said. Sponsors will keep u close Eye on the children when they return to the pakistani Camps. We want them to go to school so Ulicy will get the kinds of jobs and acquire skills that will Lessen their physical handicaps Brocku Nier said. Sands of time in the stars and stripes 40 years ago today. Jan a 1746 chinese communist and government leaders have reached an agreement on procedures for end ing hostilities and restoring communications in China it was officially announced in chunking after Gen. George c. Marshall the . Envoy met with leaders of both delegations. 30 years ago today. Jan. 6, 1056 Prince Rainier lil of Monaco announced his engagement to . Film Star Grace Kelly through an official communique in Monte Carlo. 20 years ago today. Jan. 6, 1966 in los Angeles actor Ronald Reagan stepped into the race for the Republican nomination for governor of California. Reagan has never before bought Pablic office 10 years ago today Jan. 6, 1976 British and French government officials said a . Rejection of the concorde supersonic transport might trigger retaliation against America s air lines and aircraft Industry