European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 12, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes saturday april 12, 1986 Back at school a photo aids victim Ryan White 14, returns to his eth Grade classes in Kokomo ind., two hours after a judge threw out an injunction barring him from school. At right is his Mother Jeanne. Ryan contracted acquired immune deficiency syndrome during treatment for Haemophilia. A group of parents had obtained the injunction. Proposed Law would require Early live fire tests of new arms by Chuck Vinch Washington Bureau Washington All proposed Pentagon weapons systems would have to undergo mandatory live fire testing before full scale production begins under the provisions of a Bill introduced in Congress. Rep. Charles e. Bennett d-Fla., senior member of the House armed services committee introduced the Bill last month because he said the current Pentagon weapons testing program is inadequate and  Bennett said the need for such legislation was demonstrated by unrealistic testing of the sgt. York air defense gun which was scrapped after production had begun be cause it could not perform its missions adequately and recent testing of the Bradley fighting vehicle. A staff member said Bennett was not criticizing How the Bradley was tested but when it was tested it s unrealistic to have More than 2,000 vehicles delivered and then decide to give the system Field tests he said. It s much More expensive to go Back and modify vehicles that have already been built than to make the modifications while the system is still in the reproduction stage he said. I want to replace sterile computer simulations with realistic testing under combat conditions Bennett said in introducing the Bill. Weapons tests should ensure that our weapons work in combat not just in the  Bennett said thousands of american lives and billions of tax dollars could be saved by ensuring that american weapons Are truly effective before we begin buying an deploying  Bennett s Bill would create a civilian director of live fire testing to report to the undersecretary of defense for re search and engineering. The Bill would require the services to report any prob lems in new systems to the director and conduct further tests to fix them. The director would review All live fire tests and Issue Independent reports on the test results. He also would have the Power to conduct his own tests if he finds that testing by the military services is inadequate. The services would have to provide reports comparing the performance of any new weapon system with the sys tem being replaced. If the new system in t a replacement for an old one alternate systems would have to be tested. Under the Bill live fire testing would be funded with Money from the program budget of the weapon being tested. All test data would be made available to Congress. Our soldiers should t learn that their weapons Are ineffective in the face of the enemy and i Don t think the taxpayers should discover problems with our weapons Only after the contracts Are signed and sealed Bennett said. Script writer Dies los Angeles a Mary c. Mccall who wrote scripts for More than two dozen films and for television shows including Gilligan s Island and i dream of Jeannie has died at 81. Senate seeks to postpone tax overhaul Washington a the Senate showing Little enthusiasm for overhauling the Federal income tax this year declared by a 72-24 vote thursday that the whole subject should be put aside until Congress and president Reagan agree on a new budget. Finance committee chairman Bob Packwood r-ore., called the non binding Resolution demeaning and indicated it would not deter the panel from its efforts to write a tax Bill. He accused sen. Steve Symms a Idaho and other sponsors of the Resolution of using every dilatory tactic they can find to avoid considering the tax  Symms a member of the committee said there Sim ply is not time to address the major Issue of tax Reform while we still have the budget question in the  he has made no Effort to hide his displeasure with the tax Bill being developed by the panel. Different reasons senators have different reasons for wanting to delay the tax Bill. Some including Symms want to delay it because they fear it might be used to raise taxes As part of the deficit reduction Effort. Others including sen. Rudy Boschwitz r-minn., another sponsor of the Resolution want to keep the tax Bill in Reserve in Case it is needed for deficit reduction. Meanwhile Senate leaders continued to delay debate on the proposed budget for 1987. Senate majority Leader Bob Dole r-kan., and House minority Leader Robert Michel r-i11., have written House speaker Thomas p. O Neill proposing that democrats and republicans agree on a timetable for considering the budget in both houses. By Law Congress must approve a target budget by april 15. It is Clear that deadline will not be met. Deficit problems aside the vote to delay the tax Bill was new evidence of the Lack of enthusiasm in the Senate this year for major tax changes even though president Reagan has called tax Reform the no. 1 Domestic priority of his second term. Business boost of d the Resolution was adopted a few hours after the finance committee approved a major part of the Bill agreeing to boost business incentives by More than $14 billion Over the next five years. On a 12-8 vote the committee accepted a plan by sen. William Roth r-del., for calculating business depreciation deductions. Depreciation is the method by which Money invested in Plant equipment and machinery is re covered through the tax system. Packwood s depreciation provisions would have taken away about $4 billion of the incentives now allowed Busi Ness. The Reagan administration endorsed Roth s substitute which the senator hailed As the Best Compromise available. But the substitute was criticized by some senators who want to Cut depreciation incentives and by others who want to raise them even higher. When the Cost of the proposed increase was still put at $10 billion sen. John Chafee , protested that s just $10 billion More we Are going to have to pick up to get lower tax rates for individuals. This is a blow to chances of having successful passage of this  assault on productivity sen. Malcolm Wallop r-wyo., who wants to increase depreciation incentives by another $40 billion said in the name of tax Reform we Are laying assault on  Roth s substitute was criticized by several members be cause it would allow different tax incentives for the same piece of equipment depending on the use to which the equipment is put. For example backers acknowledged the provision would give a bigger tax break to a a truck used for transporting baseballs than for shipping hamburger buns. You have got to have some Trust in the administration of Law mistakes will be made Packwood said in de sense of the plan. Gunfight in Florida leaves 4 dead including 2 Fri agents Kendall Fla. A Fri agents battled a group of people Friday in a furious gunfight that ended with four people dead two of them agents and five agents wounded authorities said. Jack French an Fri spokesman in Washington said two Fri agents were dead. He refused to identify them pending notification of relatives. The agents were in the suburban neigh boyhood making a spot Check of cars in connection with an investigation into a series of Bank and armoured car robberies said Joseph Corless special agent in charge of the Fri s Miami office. Five agents were wounded in the gun Battle he said. A 32-year-old agent had Buckshot pellets in his head and was to undergo surgery for a broken  said Tom Jones spokesman at South Miami Hospital. There were no details on the other wounded agents who were taken to other hospitals. Dozens of officers including Miami police chief Clarence Dickson and Fri agents came to the scene. Some onlookers crowded onto a roof of a nearby building while others milled around the cordoned off area in a residential neighbourhood of this Miami suburb. Witnesses said they heard up to 100 rounds fired As the gunfight erupted about 9 35 . Est. One Man said the gun Bat the lasted 10 minutes. In a previous incident two Fri agents were killed in August 1979 when a de ranged Man broke into the Fri office in Al Centro calif., and began shooting French said. The Man killed himself after being wounded by a dying agent