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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Tuesday, January 21, 1986

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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 21, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday january 21, 1986 the stars and stripes Page 7 budget s death reports exaggerated director predicts congressional support Washington up budget director James Miller paraphrasing Mark Twain says reports thai nest year s budget is dead even before it Geti to Capitol Hill Are greatly exaggerated and predict Congress will support it. But two senators gave every indication Bundy that this year s budget Battle will be no less intense than past skirmishes. Reagan will Send his budget to Congress on feb. J under the Shadow of the new gear no Rudman budget balancing Law which mandates automatic across the Board cams if Congress cannot reduce the Federal deficit to $144 billion in fiscal 1987. La Miken say it to dead some lawmakers particularly rep. Los Aspin d-wis., chairman of the House armed services committee have said the budget is dead before it arrives in con Gress. Miller when asked on Abc s meet the press to respond to such criticism said let me say As Mark Twain would have said reports of the budget s death arc premature and greatly  he said Congress will accept the presi Dent s budget because we re going Loar tic ulate our position very  the Gramm Rud imm Law he said re quires that the budget be reduced and that is the incentive for Congress to pass Rea Gan s package. But Sens. Phil Gramm a Texas and copter crash kills 2 troopers in Baltimore Baltimore a an emergency medical helicopter crashed in a City Park sunday and killed the two state troopers aboard after they delivered an accidental shooting victim 10 a downtown Hospital. The helicopter which was returning to its Home base in Frederick took off from the University of Maryland Hospital s Shock trauma unit Al about a ., but Siatt police did not begin searching until after 6 30 ., when the Day Crew for the Heli copter reported for wort and found the Han Gar empty. Cause Imes listed the cause of the crash was nol Luion and was being investigated by slate police and the National transportation safety Board said stale police spokesman Chuck  identified the victims As Pilot Gregory Alan May 31, of Hagerstown and aviation trauma technician Carey Suzanne Pool Man 28, of Manchester. Police said the last patient transported by the helicopter was Michael David one a 20 who accidentally shot himself in the head while cleaning a .32-caliber re Volver Al about 3  Sunday. Police said the Bullet ricocheted off his Skull he was reported in serious but Sta ble condition at the trivium a Center. . Defense spending $350 300 250 200 150 100 50 1976 78 80 82 8477 79 81 63 85 87" estimate estimates based on Gramm Rudman Chat to titans Chan sources office of management and budget and Chicago Tribune news reports in billions of dollars per fiscal year Daniel Patrick Moynihan d-n.y-, who appeared on the same program gave every indication that this years budget Bailie will be emotional. Pretty Good chances Gramm one of the authors of the Law and a member of the armed forces com Mittee said Reagan s spending plan has pretty Good chances of passage because of the automatic cuts Ontso called sequel  think you re going to see a new response from the Congress because now it s one thing to throw rocks it s another la propose Concrete alternatives Gramm said. Moynihan a member of the Senate budget committee who voted against the Grumin Rudman Bill said i think sen Ator Gramm is right that we Are going to move to that automatic sequester pro Cess but added it s not my idea of gov  would be a tragedy Moynihan said automatic budget cuts would be a tragedy and have an Adverse effect on  control. Listen Amtrak is one thing find the agriculture Extension program is one thing he said but a nuclear agreement to bring Down those heavy missiles on both sides that s everything and we re going to lose  that prompted the following Exchange Gramm to show you what miracles there Urc in Gramm Rudman. We have on one Side Here one of the strongest support ers of the notional defense in the country ii and one of i lie  name a Bill Moynih in of wait. Wait. Wail come on Friend. Name ii Bill. Name a  Gramm and yet now suddenly we re having All of the democrats who have not supported the president on defense who Are saying by god Gramm Rodnum is going to decimate defense Well it s not going to decimate defense. We re filing to Matte hard choices because were not going to have any  Moderator interrupted program Moderator Marvin Kalb tried to ask Gramm another question bul was interrupted by Moynihan Moynihan Marvin i m not going 10 allow my voting record to be misrepresented. You re one year in the Senate Fella and you Don t do hot to another senator. I have voted with one exception for every defense appropriation Bill since i be come to the Senate. And this year under Gramm Rudmann for the first Lime in 15 years the Dollar amount of defense spend ing is going Down. First time in 15 years under your Bill of would not misrepresent you. Don t you misrepresent  White House displeased with Cia s Job Fri May take Over Detector program Washington a the White Home May Transfer primary responsibility for East bloc defectors to the Fri following what officials say was the Cia s mishandling of former soviet Kab agent Vitaly Yurchenko a senior White House official and several outside experts said the proposed expanded role for the Fri is one of a variety of measures under consideration to entice potential defectors and to avoid another  Simi Lar to the Yurchenko affair. The options include granting High rank ing defectors an automatic permanent in come reducing the five to 10-year wailing period for the conferral of american citizenship and the creation of a think Lank comprised exclusively of defectors the sources said. Such an institution they said would pro vide a Pool of Wisdom on which government policymakers could draw. The procedures for dealing with defectors have been under review for some Lime and were Given impetus last november when yur Chenko who defected in july fled from his Cia handlers to the soviet embassy. He re turned to Moscow four Days later. Nobody could have handled that Case worse than the Cia said Donald Jameson a former Cia official who has dealt extensively with defectors. Yurchenko himself maintained he was abducted drugged tortured and held incommunicado. Others have said Yurchenko May have been a Kab Plant and that his actions were aimed All along at Embarrass ing the Cia. But the prevailing View among government and outside experts is that Yurchenko was a bonafide defector who decided to return for reasons of his own. A while House official speaking privately last week called the proposed shift of responsibilities to the Fri a great  he said defectors invariably have been Able to establish much closer rapport with Fri personnel than with Cia officers. White House spokesman Edward Dacre Jian acknowledged that the procedures for dealing with defectors were being reviewed but he declined comment on the options under consideration. Fri and Cia spokesmen refused to discuss the Issue sen Malcolm Wallop a Wyo who has taken a special interest in the defector Issue said the Cia has made defector re settlement a dead end career  he advocates giving Fri the leading Rale for dealing with defectors. Several other experts who spoke on the condition that they nol be identified said a permanent income for defectors would be the Best Way to compensate them for the valuable information they provide the government. Because of Cia reluctance to provide a lifetime income to most defectors their principal fear is that they will fall off the economic ladder one observer said. He said one defector who had provided extremely useful information to the Cia was Al the paint of fleeing to South Ameri Ca because of his disgust with the Agency s refusal to give him an assured income. Nicolae Horodincu a romanian defector expressed profound disillusionment with the Cia contending the Agency broke promises to provide him with a Job a House life insurance and medical insurance. The Cia makes zombies of  said Horodincu who has had no Contact with the Agency in More than four years Vladimir Sakharov a soviet defector said the Cia repeatedly ignored his Aca Demic accomplishments and sent him to a Motel management school. After the school went bankrupt the Cia recommended he sell shoes clothes or cars he said. Sakharov broke with the Cia three a car ago and said he was doing Well on his own. He lectures frequently and is writing a Book another soviet defector Yelena me Rikhi in said her experience indicates Fri person Nel Are far More sensitive than Cia officers. Jameson said the Cia had urged she become a Secretary after defecting even though she is an authentically Brilliant woman ignoring the Cia s advice Melr Khina attended whirl on school of business completing her studies Well ahead of Lime while caring for her two children Jameson said. Aids Monitor in bus Ness despite claims it s a rip Oft Angeles up dip let Oil win Thau is Ethe lying an dedicated to slopping the spread of me Mua T it  is partners have tested negative for the antibody to the virus thai causes acquired immune deficiency syndrome. But the City Council has passed an emergency measure calling for an investigation into the firm which will charge j100 for an aids test and a three month card and i for a renewal. Councilman Joel Wachs n vocal Backer of Many Homo sexual causes said it is the grossest kind of attempt to try to make a Buck off another person s  customers who test negative for the aids antibody will be issued a tamper proof identity card with their photo \ signature expiration Date the words National Jia Tion for aids awareness and the letters of. There is nothing on the card that says or implies that they Are aids free said Lawrence cry part owner and executive director of awareness. Wachs and other critics claimed the antibody test alone is not conclusive enough to select the aids virus. Besides the card is Only As Good As the last sex act said Wachs who authored the City s anti aids discrimination ordinance. Awareness spokeswoman Bloom was criticized in a weekend report on Cable news network for misleading actor Richard Dreyfuss and others into giving statements on aids that were later used in a promotional news tape distributed by the company  
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