European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 18, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes tuesday March 18, 1986 Senate plan to Cut debt turned Down Washington a the future of an $18 billion deficit reduction package left Over from last year was further clouded monday when House democratic leaders rejected the version that the Senate passed last week. House majority Leader Jim Wright d Texas said the amended legislation approved by the Senate on a voice vote last Friday was unacceptable to a great Many members of the House maybe a  the measure would make permanent the 16-cent-a-pack Federal tax on cigarettes and Clear the Way for the government to distribute about $2 billion in offshore Oil revenues to the states. Also included is a provision allowing to Bacco Farmers to write off nearly $1 billion in past Loans. Backers of the complicated measure said changes made by the Senate were necessary to win president Reagan s acceptance of the measure. But Wright said we re not going to buy that let the White House write  he indicated that House leaders would try to Send an earlier House version of the measure Back to the Senate. Squabbles delay action the deficit reduction portions of the legislation were required by the budget con Gress adopted last August and should have been in place for the Start of the fiscal year last oct. 1, but squabbles among the House Senate and White House have held up final action. Originally the legislation was to have provided three year savings of about $74 billion. But As the bickering went on Many of the savings either were enacted in other legislation or diminished in value As time passed. The Bill now is Worth about $6 billion a year in savings Over the next three years. The impasse Over the legislation has let the cigarette tax fall to 8 cents a pack As of last saturday. The House and Senate along with Reagan have endorsed keeping the cig Arette Levy at 16 cents. There was a temporary lapse in the tax last december when the deficit reduction Bill first stalled. Congressional leaders have said that when the tax is restored to 16 cents it will be done retroactively to last saturday. 19 afghan refugees killed Islamabad Pakistan a a land mine blew apart two pickup trucks filled with afghan refugees on their Way to a wedding killing 18 women and one Man according to guerrilla sources and newspaper reports. Hat Check Bee Bee a German Shepherd owned by 7 Fence and attempts to grab Missy s head year old Missy Anthony of Murjoy Hill gear As she passes by in the snowy Maine reaches Over his outdoor pen weather. Bee Bee has a habit of hanging a photo Over the top of the Fence and trying to snatch the hat or gloves of anyone who happens to come along. Few americans predict nuclear War will occur in this Century poll finds new York a most americans believe the soviet Union is a military threat to the United states but not Many think nuclear War with the soviets is Likely in the next 15 years according to a Media Gener Al associated press poll. In fact Many americans believe relations Between the soviet Union and the United states Are improving the poll found. In the nationwide Telephone poll of 1,512 adult americans 47 percent said relations with the soviet Union have improved under president Reagan while Only 10 percent said relations have declined. Thirty eight percent said relations have stayed about the same under Reagan and 5 percent were unsure. About half the respondents said relations would continue to improve under soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev. Only 6 percent said they Felt relations would decline and 34 percent said they would stay the same. However 69 percent said the soviet Union was a military threat to the United states. Of those 34 percent said the threat was increasing 6 percent said it was de creasing and 58 percent said it was staying about the same. One Quarter of the respondents said the soviets were not a threat. On the question of nuclear War nearly three quarters said it is not Likely to occur with the soviets in the next 15 years. Eight Een percent said nuclear War is Likely and the rest were unsure. Young people said nuclear War is Likely More frequently than did older people. Women also were More Likely than men to think nuclear War will occur. And 34 per cent of Black respondents said nuclear War with the soviet Union is Likely within the next 15 years compared with Only 17 per cent of Whites who Felt the same. Most of the respondents had a vastly Dif Ferent impression of american relations with China once a . Foe. Only 26 per cent said China was a military threat to the United states while 64 percent said it does not pose a military threat. Eighty four percent of the respondents did not think a nuclear War with China is Likely in this Century. Respondents in the Media general associated press poll included a random scientific sampling of 1,512 adults across the country feb. 1-8. As with All Sample sur Veys the results of Media general a Tele phone polls can vary from the opinions of All americans because of Chance variation in the Sample. For a poll based on about 1,500 inter views the results Are subject to an error margin of 3 percentage Points either Way. That is if one could have questioned All americans with telephones there is Only one Chance in 20 that the findings would vary from the results of polls  As this one by More than 3 percentage Points. The results could differ from other polls for several reasons. Differences in exact wording of questions in the timing of inter views and in the interview methods could also cause variations. Media general inc., a communications company based in Richmond va., pub Lishes the Richmond times dispatch and the Richmond news Leader the Tampa Fla Tribune and the Winston Salem journal in North Carolina. The company s television stations Are Weflin Tampa a cd in Charleston s.c., and woks in Jacksonville Fla. First the Avon lady dropped by then a plane sidled in Vancouver Wash. A Sha Ron Dingman says she was sitting at her Kitchen table chatting with her Avon lady when they looked up and saw a four passenger air plane heading sideways for the Kitchen window. The two women dived for cover and sustained Only bumps and bruises when the plane landed against the window Sun Day. The plane a Maule Light aircraft which had taken off from the nearby Clark county Airport bounced once on a Street bounced again on a neighbor s pickup truck then flipped Over and landed against the window of the Din mans House. He came in sideways said capt. Dan Rosenstiel a fire department spokesman. He said the plane apparently did not have enough Speed to sustain flight. The Pilot Scott Sarkinen 23, of Battle ground and two passengers Tod Koski nem 26, of Vancouver and his wife Brenda 20, were taken to Bess Kaiser Hospital in Portland where they were treated and released. The Driver of the pickup truck James Brown of Battle ground was not Hurt tank said sheriffs sgt. Billy Langfitt. Dingman said she was somewhat bruised from the experience while the Avon representative Beth Engel had swollen Knees. We were talking about my order sit Ting at the Kitchen table right there when we heard a loud noise Dingman said. That was the plane hitting the truck can Opy. Beth looked up and screamed and she threw herself toward the living  Dingman threw herself behind the Kitchen counters and remembers trying to grab a fish from a shattered tropical fish some Man slapped the fish out of my hand and told me to get out that there was Gas leaking All around she said. Dingman s husband Larry who had been in the living room watching to rushed to the Kitchen to help and the three left the House taking the Din mans poodle. The crash ripped two posts from the Kitchen Wall collapsed the Kitchen win Dow Frame Tore the surrounding plaster Board and damaged a Crystal Light fixture. Firefighters spent about three hours cleaning up and mopping up spilled fuel