European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 4, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Inside stripes n Tramm Rudman hits old soldiers Home Page 5  Phil sea Early  8 Simms passing gives pfc 28-24 win in pro bowl Page 21 vol. 44, no. 291 auth Omilo unofficial publication tuesday february 4, 1986 Jim . Armijo Pouch be of Olav 420 billion defense authorization this year but Congress ably will respond with the largest defense Cut. In . History according to the chair Nan of the House armed service committee. Relate Story Page 5 up. Los Aspin d-wis., said win user can expect to receive no More than $260 billion Fol Scal 1987, beginning oct. I because of the severe Limm posed bythe Gramm Rudman deficit reduction plan. He Aid cuts in defense authorization could Range from $60 in in to$90 billion or More. Cuts of that magnitude will Force Congress to the foundation stones of Reagan administration defer and National Security policy questioning for example the nation s continued ability to pay for extended . Military commitments around the world or for the Pentagon s drive to build a 600-ship Navy Aspin said. In a freewheeling interview Aspin who has headed the armed services committee for the last year appeared to relish the consequences of Gramm Rudman contending they were brought on by the Reagan administration s attempt to play politics with the looming Bud get deficit. Referring to the defense Secretary by his nickname Cap Aspin said old Cap is up there smoking about $320 billion. How do you get through to the Guy we re going to go Down to $260 billion. Yoo Hoo. Cap Here we  you believe where they Are Aspin asked Wisp laugh. They just have got themselves in an awful shit s unbelievable. This is going to be the most a darting year you have Ever  or i am taking More than a perverse Tufly in this Aspin said responding to More Qucsai Oyer i m really angry at them. I Thop Piney played real fast and Loose with defense a Hying in lieu a wit Gramm Rudman. They in Dpi Ruramb Kun Diun for political reasons to get the in group n the deficit Issue. And anybody Wood meat is just n t serious about defending the country anybody who Caf Lasee these numbers and play out these  Gramm Rudman would mean just enormous los in defense he said. You can t Tell me that Anardy who is serious about defense would do that. My Fly it s really pretty  ten ugh administration sources said president Rea will propose a fiscal 1987 budget calling for defense a Kiwi Busy week ahead president Reagan the first lady and their dog re return to the while House after a weekend at Camp Darld the presidential Retreat the president hit Congress with both barrels this week is state of the Union address tuesday and his 1987 budget on wednesday. Spending of $282 billion pain contended Weinberger i seeking defense  of some $320 billion. In Aspin s a Falls Large cuts will now be made Indefenso Thuya to regardless of whether the automatic  of Gramm Rudman Are triggered Large because of political factors inside Congress. Lar the Gramm Rudman formula automatic i the Board reductions go into effect unless con r Gross either raises taxes or strikes a bargain with the president to make other spending reductions to meet the Gramm Rudman deficit reduction  the automatic reduction plan half of the cuts come from defense and half from non exempted social programs a proportion to which Aspin referred As the k50-50cut." Aspin contends that even if attempts Are made inthe absence of new taxes to adopt a congressional budget Resolution reducing spending in any other Way than by taking so percent the cuts from defense and 50 percent from All other programs it will be in someone interest to make sure that budget Resolution never takes  we try and pass the kind of Resolution which Cap wants to do which leans to defense and saves de sense does anything that s less than a 50 percent Cut in defense. Well liberals in the Congress Are going to want to filibuster raise hell whatever you have to do to make sure the budget Resolution never happens Aspin  the other hand if we try to Cut defense by More than 50 percent then the conservatives of the world would raise hell filibuster and do whatever to make sure that the budget Resolution never happens he  Only Chance a budget Resolution has of passing is if it does the same split As the Gramm Rudman Acques ration. Because once you move off of that in any action somebody s going to be  said the Only Good news in that for the Pentagon is Thal a reductions Are made by Congress instead of by Gramm Sidman the ability exists to pick and choose among Defenso programs of higher or lower  the Grams Fudman cuts take effect each item in the budget is slice bully with no consideration Given to its relative defers importance janitorial services being Given equal weigh Wui strategic  has said Heinss to hold Congress to its Promise last year to provide has inflation increases of 3 i on Page 28 bad Booster May have caused explosion Cape canaveral Nasa officials increasing can identify the cause of Ter and Fly again soon b the right rocket Booster ithe explosion that destroys killed its Crew. 1 Nasa source App Arcifa solution to last tue Fla. A they Are talking about Fly confident they As i a Longcr s disease a rupture in have triggered the shuttle and june if the testing Andures Are completed. A flight that had Bee shuttle Columbia for june he Jhc earliest possible i j sources speaking Only on condition to feel so close to Inot be identified say investigators Are s tragedy that most certain that the spurt of fire from a in As Earl proce by the appeared to Booster rocket seen on launch films sparked the blast that Tore apart the shuttle s fuel tank taking the orbiter with it. Nasa s interim investigating Board too time out from its probe sunday to attend Morial services for the challenger credit the Marshall space flight Center in . If it search teams fighting Strong Atlantic currents continued to spreading debris inc rocket fragment. Theed to More than 40,000 we re finding today said it cmdr coast guard spoke Maithe apparent rup Tui in challenger a 10,000 Pound area was extend ire Miles. Of empty Ocean Mes Simpson a in the Strong Rock see Booster on Page 28 .-soviet spy Swap to free Shch Aransky Washington not Reagan administration officials said sunday that american and soviet negotiators had reached agreement on a prisoner Exchange that would include the release of the soviet dissident Anatoly b. Shch Aransky to the West. The officials confirmed and elaborate Don a report published monday by the West German Dally Bild which cited information obtained from Moscow Kremlin  the officials cautioned that details were still being worked out. But they said the agreement called for the release of Shucha Ransky and three or four Western Intelli gence operatives held by the russians i Exchange for the freeing of an equal num Ber of Eastern bloc agents jailed in the West. A total of eight to 10 people will be involved in the Exchange an official said. Two american officials said the Exchange is scheduled for feb. 11 on the Glie Nocke Bridge dividing West Berlin fro East Germany the site of several previous exchanges. American officials in Washington and incest Germany expressed puzzlement about the apparent willingness of soviet officials to talk to the Bild about the arrangements. The jailing of Shch Aransky a 37-year-Oldjewish human rights activist brought a storm of protests from the West in 1978.he was sentenced to 13 years in prison and labor Camps for treason espionage and anti soviet  at the time president Carter assure soviet Leaden that Shch Aransky had no links of any kind with american Intelli see spy on Page 28