European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 31, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes monday March 31, 1986 Belgium proposes Steps to Cut its budget deficit Brussels Belgium a the belgian govern ment armed with Powers to Rule by decree in economic matters has proposed a package of austerity measures aimed at reducing the country s big budget deficit officials said sunday. Before becoming Law the proposals must Clear a review by the Council of state a court which will Rule on the measures constitutionality. The Center right coalition of prime minister Wilfried Martens proposed to limit the indexation of wages until the end of next year to save an estimated $1.19 billion in 1986 and $1.74 billion in 1987. Wage indexation ties in creases in wage rates to movements in the National con Sumer Price Index. Other proposals aim at cutting projected education spending in 1986 and 1987 by a combined $180 million or More and to reorganize health care management and re Duce spending in this area. No spending Cut targets for health care were announced. Budget minister Guy Verhofstadt has set a Public spending reduction target of about $4.1 billion by the end of next year. The measures Are absolutely necessary otherwise we sacrifice the future of generations to come Verhofstadt told Belgium s Brt television after the package of proposals had been announced. It is a matter of survival for the current generation but especially for the generation of the Young he said. The government will Start discussions on this year s budget next thursday. The country s budget deficit now stands at 12 percent of Gross National product among the highest in the 12-nation european Community. The government has vowed to bring it Down to 8 percent of Gnu next year and to 7 percent of Gnu in 1989. The average rate of budget deficits to National Gnu in the dec is about 5 percent. Strike foes reopen Clark a game through the Fence a photo a . Serviceman talks to a woman at Clark a in the Philippines. Striking workers had put up barricades at the base s Gates barring american service members civilians and dependents. Clark a Philippines a about 300 bar Host esses and taxi Drivers hurling rocks and wielding Sticks routed scores of filipino workers blockading this . Base on sunday and Tore Down barricades set up by the workers in a 9-Day-old strike. Filipino police fired shots into the air to break up the clash and minutes later the first car carrying american service personnel dressed in fatigues drove through the Clark Gate which had been sealed off by the strikers. The bar hostesses and Drivers of taxicabs and jeep Neys dismantled the workers barricades to protest the strike which they said was ruining business in the entertainment District of Angeles outside the base. No one was reported Hurt in the 20-minute clash. Both sides threw rocks at each other before the outnumbered strikers retreated. The bar hostesses cheered As the first car of . Service personnel roared into the base. The Melee broke out a few hours after Union leaders and Brig. Gen. Charles Luigs commander of the 13th . Air Force based at Clark had met inside the base and again failed to reach agreement on How to Settle the Dis Pute. The strike by 22,000 filipino employees has affected Clark Subic naval base and a half dozen smaller .facilities. The strike breaking assault came 18 hours after about 1,500 bar hostesses Drivers and restaurant owners held a peaceful demonstration outside the base to protest the longest workers walkout to Ever affect . Military facilities in the Philippines. They Are very hungry and they Friiss their boyfriends Franko c. Abrillo head of the local entertainment Indus try said to explain Why the hostesses had joined in protest ing the strike. Abrillo estimated that nightclubs and bars restaurants and the local transportation Industry had lost the equivalent in $1 million in income since the strike began. The . Military refused to discuss workers demand for Severance pay until the barricades which had prevented . Personnel and their dependents from going in and out of the bases were lifted. The bar hostesses and taxi Drivers have no right to demonstrate against our strike. This is a dispute Between the . Military management and labor and it s none of their business strike Leader Roberto Flores had said after sunday s talks with Luigs. We Don t want to see filipinos hurting filipinos even though we do want the Gate open air Force spokesman maj. Thomas Boyd said. Berlin explosion injures 7 arabs Berlin a a bomb exploded outside the offices of a German Arab Friendship association injuring seven arabs two seriously West Berlin police said sunday. Police spokesman Albert Hinz said the bomb made with commercially available materials went off late sat urday night outside the German Arab society offices on the first floor of a 12-Story, mostly residential building. Two of the seven arabs injured were hospitalized in Good condition with broken Bones Hinz said. The others were treated for minor wounds and released. Hinz said there was no immediate claim of responsibility for the explosion or clues to a motive. He declined to describe the bomb. Security authorities were investigating. The German Arab society founded in West Berlin last year is dedicated to bettering relations and understanding Between germans and arabs police say. The building housing the society s offices is in West Berlin s Kreuzberg District where the City s Middle East Ern Community is concentrated. In another incident Early sunday three Small bombs exploded on a City police practice Range damaging wooden huts used by officers in training authorities said. No one was injured and there was no immediate claim of responsibility they said. Train hits truck crossing tracks kills 27 farm workers injures 20 Iraq Auto Mexico a a truck carrying farm workers on their Way to pick strawberries was hit by a train As it crossed Railroad tracks and 27 people were killed and 20 injured a red Cross Rescue worker said. The farm workers were from the town of Rancho la Garrida near Iraq Auto Mexico 225 Miles Northwest of Mexico City the Rescue worker Martin Moncada said. Moncada said the train which consisted of two locomotives struck the truck As it was crossing the railway just outside of Iraq Auto at the Entrance to the Highway to Leon. No one on the train was injured he said. Because of the Downing of . Spy plane in 1960 depicted in soviet film Moscow a the soviet Union has made its first movie about the u-2 incident 26 years after shooting the spy plane Down resurrecting cold War fears to deliver an ominous message about .-soviet relations. My of Vinaye we accuse is showing in the midst of a heated Kremlin Campaign against what it Calls anti soviet . Films that color the Way americans View this country. It seems clearly intended to Back the current official line that the United states threatens world peace and cannot be trusted. A soviet anti aircraft missile downed the u-2 on May 1, 1960, which is the International labor Day and a major soviet Holiday. Its Pilot Francis Gary Powers was captured on a farm in Western Siberia and was convicted of espionage in a trial staged before the world s press. He later was freed in Exchange for a soviet spy. Some polish cities ban growing poppies to Cut heroin production Warsaw Poland up authorities in the North Ern port of Gdansk have banned the growing of poppies in the Region from which heroin is made the official news Agency Pap said. The Agency said the local authorities in the area banned growing of poppies because the Tri cities of Gdansk Gdynia and Sopot on the Baltic coast have a far greater number of drug addicts than the average in other parts of the  the Agency did no give an estimate of the number of addicts in the area but the official figures say there Are Between 300,000 to 500,000 drug addicts in Poland who use heroin made from the poppy seeds. New zealand German teams to climb Himalayan peaks Katmandu Nepal a a five member new zealand expedition and a 10-member German team Are the latest climbing groups to obtain nepalese tourism ministry permission to scale Himalayan peaks during the Busy March May climbing season the ministry said. It said a new zealand expedition led by Martin Hunter 22, a student from Wellington will attempt the 21,080 foot mount Langsi Sari in Central Nepal. The germans headed by Mountain guide Hans Eitel 41, of Heidelberg will attempt the 22,343-foot mount Ama Ablam and the 22,235-foot mount Pantega. 4 killed As 2 planes collide Over German sport club Airfield Bayreuth Germany up two Small stunt planes collided Over a German sport club Airfield killing four people police said. Police said one of the two seater planes was about to land when it was hit by another that flew Over the Field Ata Low Altitude. Both fell to the ground killing the two occupants of each plane they said. Farm woman killed by Tiger in Indonesia papers report Jakarta Indonesia up a Farmer chased away a wild Tiger that had attacked his wife but the woman was already dead news reports said. Sumatran Peanut Farmer Mohammad 50, came Home from work on his Plantation when he saw his wife fati Mah sprawled in front of the family Home with a Large Tiger nibbling and scratching the Back of her neck the daily Kompas and other Jakarta newspapers reported. The horrified husband ran to his wife and pulled her away from the Tiger s grasp and chased the beast into nearby Jungle Kompas said. The noisy struggle attracted the attention of neighbor ing villagers who rushed to the couple s Aid. But Fatimah a Mother of four children was already dead the paper said