European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 6, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday april 6, 1986 the stars and stripes Page 7 Deaver denies trading on Reagan Friendship Washington a Michael k. Deaver former Deputy White House chief of staff Friday denied that he is using his government contacts and Friendship with presi Dent Reagan to help his clients. There s no question that Ronald and Nancy Reagan Are very dear friends of mine and have been for 25 years he said in an interview on the Public broadcasting sys tem s Macneil Lehrer news hour. What i m saying is i would t tread on that Friendship on behalf of a client and frankly i m insulted that people think that s All i have to offer he said. Deaver joined Reagan s staff during his first term and left 11 months ago to set up a Public relations firm Michael k. Deaver & associates. His clients have included the governments of saudi Arabia South Korea and Canada and defense contractor Rockwell International. In the interview he denied any impropriety in his recent meeting with James c. Miller Iii director of the office of manage ment and budget in which they discussed Rockwell s by bomber. The defense contractor is pressing the government to buy More of the bombers when the initial contractor 100 is fulfilled in 1988. I went to the meeting purely on an informational basis. I did t ask him for any action or opinion Deaver told interviewer Jim Lehrer adding i did that to let him know Deaver where i was coming from and per haps give him some information he had t been Able to get from other  questions about Deaver s lobbying on behalf of Canada prompted rep. John Dingell d-mich., to ask on dec. 10 for an investigation by the general accounting office the congressional watchdog Agency. Dingell wants to determine if Deaver while he was at the White House was involved with the acid rain Issue. Federal conflict of interest Laws prohibit former top officials from lobbying the agencies where they worked for one year after they leave. Additionally officials Are barred from lobbying on issues they handled while in office. Deaver said he has not talked to any administration officials about acid rain since leaving government but acknowledged he had attended two meetings where the subject was discussed when he worked at the Whitehouse. Acid rain is Only one of the Many things on which he advises the Canadian government he said. . Plans simulated Beach assaults in May by Norman Black a military writer Washington the United states will demonstrate its ability to project Mili tary Power into the Caribbean Region next month by simulating Beach assaults on the Island of Grenada with related operations in South Carolina and in puerto Rico according to the Pentagon. The exercise dubbed Ocean venture 86," will involve roughly 20,000 . Serv ice members the Pentagon said. The exercise will Start april 28 and run through May 11, the Pentagon added. The exercise is designed to demonstrate the capability of the United states to project military Power when necessary to protect its National interests by supporting Friendly neighbors in the Caribbean the Pentagon said. A Small number of soldiers from five is land nations in the Region which have formed a regional Security Force will join . Troops in the exercise. About three dozen jamaican soldiers also will participate. The Force will thus be similar in composition to the .-led Force that invaded Gre Nada in october 1983 to overthrow a cuban backed government. More than a dozen americans were killed. The last . Troops were removed from the Island last summer. The Pentagon said the exercise on Gre Nada would occur primarily Between May 6 and 9 and would also involve air support counter insurgency exercises and Maneu vers by special operations forces. Attack jets will also receive training Dur ing an air assault at Vieques puerto Rico. Marine amphibious landings will occur at Vieques and also at Onslow Beach n.c., the Pentagon said. Among the . Units participating will be the 101st airborne the 6th Marine amphibious brigade the 22nd Marine amphibious unit and air Force planes from the tactical air come the military Airlift come and the strategic air come. The exercise will not involve any sea based aircraft on Navy carriers however. With the exception of one . Destroyer and a British vessel All the ships participating in Ocean venture 86 will be amphibious Landing vessels or support ships according to the Pentagon. The exercise will be commanded by rear adm. Ted c. Steele the commander of . Forces in the Caribbean. Countries in the area participating through the regional Security system include Dominica Grenada St. Lucia St. Christopher Nevis and Antigua Barbuda. Keeping up a photo Secretary of the Navy John f. Lehman jr., a Jet Pilot in the naval Reserve is shown at Camp Pendleton calif., where he is fulfilling his annual training requirements. With Lehman is Marine col. Michael Mulqueen. Soviets won t observe nuclear test in Nevada Washington a the United states plans to conduct an underground nuclear weapons test in the Nevada desert tuesday apparently without the presence of soviet monitors who were invited by president Reagan to verify that the blast is within 1974 treaty limits. However a senior . Official said Rea Gan s 3-week-old invitation to soviet Leader Mikhail s. Gorbachev extends to another . Test at the end of the month. So far we Haven t heard from them said the official who spoke Only on the condition of anonymity. Tuesday s test the second by the United states this year will coincide with a fare Well visit to the White House by former soviet ambassador Anatoly f. Dobrynin who was recalled last month. He is to take a major Post in the Central committee of the soviet communist party. Reagan and Secretary of state George p. Shultz Are expected to ask Dobrynin whether Gorbachev intends to attend a Summit meeting Here this summer and about the virtual stalemate in .-soviet negotiations to curb nuclear weapons. We would like to see that the soviets Are following up on the pledges or. Gorba Chev and president Reagan made in Geneva namely that they Are going to Start buckling Down to the serious work in arms control and set a Date for the Summit said Kenneth l. Adelman the director of the . Arms control and disarmament Agency in an interview Friday. Adelman stressed that the soviets a d accepted Reagan s invitation to Gorbachev at their fireside meeting last november in the Swiss City. The soviet delegation agreed then to a meeting in june . Officials said. Since then the administration has suggested that late july also would be accept Able while the soviets have indicated that they would rather hold off until toward the end of the year. The United states has no ruled out any Date. Referring to Dobrynin s visit Bernard Kalb the state department spokesman said i cannot speculate about what he might of might not be  in Moscow two . Congressmen said Gorbachev definitely wants a Summit meet ing with Reagan but it was not Clear what agreements he expected to be reached atthe meeting. Rep. Dante b. Fascell d-fla., the chair Man of the House foreign affairs commit tee and rep. William Broomfield of Michi Gan the ranking Republican on the panel met for nearly three hours with Gorbachev in the Kremlin. He said that he s still interested he still wants to go that he feels confident we can get there and that he would like something substantive out of it Fascell told reporter sat a news conference. Groceries Are a bargain for americans Survey claims Washington a americans allocated less of their spending for groceries than anyone else in the world in 1982, an analysis by the agriculture department shows. In 1982, the most recent year examined the average american earmarked Only 12.1 percent of his total spend ing for food eaten at Home the department s economic research service says in a report. This reflects both the relatively High incomes and Low food prices in the United states the report says. The figures were derived from total private expenditures which were $8,644 per person in the United states in 1982, the report says. Of that amount $1,050 was spent for food at Home. If beverages Are included the average food Bill in 1982 was about $1,245, or 14.4 percent of total spending the report says. In contrast Over 18 percent of Canadian consumer expenditures were for food and beverages with food accounting for almost 15 percent the report says. The shares for British Consumers were 17.8 percent for food and beverages and about 15 percent for  Italy topped the list of seven developed countries with Consumers spending 28.8 percent of their total expenditures on food and beverages including 26.7 percent for food. Others on the list include West Germany 23.2 percent for food beverages not available France 20.1 percent for food and beverages including 17.6 percent for food and Australia 22.3 percent and 16.9 percent. Food spending figures have been used for Many years by us a to substantiate claims that americans have a bar gain when it comes to food. But economists also Point out that those Are Only averages and that poor families use higher share of their spending Money to eat