European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 11, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes saturday january 11. 1986 Reagan to protect military personnel from budget cuts Washington a president Reagan mid Congress Friday the Pentagon will slush its operations weapons buying and research accounts rather than reduce personnel spending to comply with it new balanced budget Law. The president decision was disclosed by while House spokesman Larry Scakes and Pentagon sources subsequently agreed to elaborate in condition they Nal be identified by name. The sources said Reagan exercising a special Grant of flexibility that applies Only to the current year s budget had decided to protect roughly j67.7 billion out of the 167.9 billion authorized by Congress fur military personnel. Tile sources said the president decided to do whatever Wax necessary to avoid cuts that would Force reductions in the nation s troop strength. By leaving Only about �245 million in the acc aunt unprotected the Pentagon will be Able to maintain its current strength of 2.1 million Active duty person Nel and  million Active reservists the sources added. One source said the �245 million that will be sacrificed to the Gramm Rudman deficit reduction Law will result in longer Tours for i Small number of individuals by reducing the budget for Transfer and mov ing expenses. Some soldiers who Are not re in listing might be released a month or two Early the source said and there will be a Small Cut in funds Tor Reserve training pro Grams. F the president had not acted to protect the personnel account Trie Pentagon would have been forced under the Law to slash an estimated s2 billion from Hie account. Such a Cut would have forced a reduction in a live Duniy personnel although the Pentagon has never said exactly How Large that reduction might have been. By placing military personnel in a hands off category the president has assured substantially larger cuts will h it to be made this year in the Pentagon s remain ing major budget accounts operations and maintenance procurement and re search the sources said. If the president had not protected Mili tary personnel those remaining accounts would have faced an average j.2 percent budget reduction one source explained. Since the personnel account will be protected the average Cut in the remaining three accounts will average Between 5 per cent and 5.1 percent the source said. The Pentagon s fiscal 1986 budget authorizes spending of $289.5 billion. Of thai amount an estimated �254.4 billion would actually be paid out in fiscal 1986, with the remainder to be spent in future years. The Grimm Rudman Law will require a reduction of about $5.2 billion in actual Pentagon spending this year. Because so Many of the Pentagon s weapons buying programs Are stretched out aver several years the defense department now will have to scrap or delay dozens of pro Grams to reduce actual outlays by s5.2 Bil Gramm Rudman seeks to eliminate the Federal deficit by 1991, and provides for automatic budget cuts if Congress and Rea Gan Don t meet deficit reduction targets. The first big round of cuts is to Lake effect March i. In fiscal 1986 Only the Law provides the president with some flexibility in Parcelin out cuts to the Pentagon s budget. Besides the personnel account it states the Penta gon May protect some programs within accounts. For example Money earmarked for Star wars research May be protected if the Pentagon is willing to reduce funds for other research projects to a greater extent. Late night fire in Boston an unidentified child hearing pyjamas also gets to near u fireman s helmet As he is taken from a 36-fw apartment building in Boston. The late night electrical fire forced hundreds of people into the Street in Bitler cold weather. Exercise May help girls avoid cancer As adults study finds Boston a a new examination of the benefits of exercise suggests that girls May be Able to Cut their risk of several forms of cancer later in life by participating in sports. We conclude that Long term athletic training establishes a latest Pic that some How Lowers the risk of breast cancer and cancers of the reproductive system the study said. The study compared women who played team sports in College with those who did not. It found that the less Active women had about 2vi limes As much cancer of the Uter us ovary cervix and Vagina and nearly twice As much cancer of the breast. Together these tutors account for More than 40 percent of All female cancers. The results suggest that women have to Start exercising Early in life to obtain the apparent cancer Protection. Or. Rose a Frisch who directed the study said 82 percent of the College ath letes played on teams in High school or ear Lier. In College they competed in such team sports As basketball Crew Field hockey softball and Tennis. The important Point is hat it s some thing that Young people can participate in she said. It s moderately intense regular exercise. It in t on the level of Marathon running the study published in the december Issue of the British journal of cancer was based on a study of 5.398 women who graduated from 10 . Colleges Between 1925 and 1531. The researchers said they believe their work is the first to examine links be tween physical activity and the risk of can cer in women. How exercise might protect against can cer is not Clear. But the researchers theorize that it influences the women s secretions of the hormone oestrogen which plays a role in the development of some female cancers. The athletic women were leaner than the non athletes and lean women make less oestrogen than do fatter women. There May be a lower risk of cancer because these athletes Ray have lower lev Els of oestrogen said Frisch a researcher at Harvard s school of Public health and Center for population studies. Most of the former College athletes continued to work out through life at the Lime of the Survey three fourths of the former athletes exercised regularly compared with half of the non athletes. The effects of body composition and exercise on oestrogen secretions have been the subject of considerable study Over the Las decade. An earlier study of women runners and swimmers at Harvard found that Young athletes go through Schual maturity at a later age. Every year of athletic training delays Mcna Chc the first menstrual period by five months. In the latest study tie athletes had me Narche a few months later and menopause a few months earlier than the non athletes. The variation in cancer Rales could not be attributed to differences in the women family histories of cancer or their Fertility. These factors were similar for both groups. The research was based on questionnaires distributed to graduates of Barnard Bryn mawr mount Holyoke Radcliffe Smith Springfield Vassar and Wellesley colleges and the universities of Southern California and Wisconsin. Among lie co authors of the report was Tunley Albright who won the olympic Gold medal for figure skating in 1956. She is now a physician at new Kingland Baptist Hosoi Lal in Boston. Wholesale prices up 7.8 percent last year . Records lowest 3-year inflation rate in 20 years Washington a wholesale prices in the United states Rose a modest 1.8 percent in 1985. Giving the nation its lows so i rec year inflation rate in 20 years the government said Friday. For december the labor depart men said in its report wholesale prices Rose just 0.4 percent a marked slowdown from the 0,9 percent recorded in october and the 0.8 percent posted in november. Ucli at the credit for the december rate went to an easing in the rates of increase for food and gasoline prices. For 1986, economists predict a slight up Ward Mercep in wholesale prices As inflationary pressures caused by a declining Dol Lar and an edging up of farm commodity prices Are expected to offset declining Oil prices. Last year s increase while up from the 7�0,j pm erases recorded in1983 and 1984, respectively was so a far Mctaw the rates posted through the 1970s and Early 1930s. Last year s moderate Overall rate was Lares in the result of u slowdown in food Price in creases. Those prices Rose Only 0.3 percent after a 3.5 percent Rise in i9s4. Food Price actually declined in six months last year.  were up 3 Pef a year. For december he pick up was 2.8 percent Down from november s 3,7 per cent reflecting in part the collapse in Oil p""5 Vijai resulted from a chaotic meeting of the organization of Petroleum exporting countries