European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 26, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes saturday april 26,1986 Senate votes to end Revenue sharing plan despite local appeals Washington a the Senate refused to extend the popular Federal reve nue sharing program As it ended its first week of budget deliberations. More attempts to boost Domestic spend ing and military programs Are expected next week when debate resumes. And since some May win As happened wednesday Senate leaders arc intensifying their efforts to find new ways to meet the $144 billion deficit ceiling. The Senate on thursday voted 54-41 to table in effect kill a proposal by Sens. Daniel Patrick Moynihan d-n.y., and John Heinz r-pa., to continue Revenue sharing for the next three years at $4.6 billion a year. Last year s budget had called for terminating Revenue sharing with local govern ments but the budget committee approved $1.8 billion to phase out the program More gradually in the first half of the fiscal year starting oct. 1. Mayors and county officials lobbied hard to maintain the full Dollar flow. But sen. Slade Gorton r-wash., said there were literally dozens of Federal pro Grams that Are higher in priority to this senator than this  he said Revenue sharing by definition paid for programs that local governments Are unwilling to finance  even if no More amendments pass the Senate would need $19 billion in new taxes to cover its planned expenditures to avoid exceeding the $144 billion deficit limit in the Gramm Rudman Law. Under that Law designed to reach a balanced budget by fiscal 1991, missing the target by $10 billion or More would require automatic cuts. Budget committee chairman Pete v. Domenici r-n.m., on thursday said con Gress should look at a combination of a $2.50-a-barrel Oil import fee and a 6-cent increase in gasoline taxes to raise More than $10 billion a year. A congressional budget office report re leased thursday said an Oil import fee would raise Money and reduce dependence on Petroleum imports without hurting the . Economy. It also would help Domestic producers Domenici said. Meanwhile Senate majority Leader Bob Dole r-kan., joined sen. Bill Roth r del., in calling on the congressional budget office and the office of management and budget to update the february economic estimates on which the budget is based. Some lawmakers Hope the recent drop in Oil prices and interest rates will reduce government costs and make it easier to reach the deficit target. Cheerful after surgery a photo sen. Paula Hawkins r-fla., gives the of sign from her Hospital bed at Duke medical Center in Durham , where she is re covering from surgery to relieve Back and neck problems. A basketball fan Hawkins is wearing a Duke to shirt demos ask probe of sex Reagan aide Deaver s lobbying Washington a five Senate democrats led by sen. Joseph r. Biden of Delaware have asked attorney general Edwin Meese to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate the lobbying efforts of former White House aide Michael Deaver. In a letter delivered to the Justice depart ment thursday the senators argue that allegations against Deaver a close Friend of presi Dent Reagan Are specific enough to warrant the appointment of a special counsel to con duct an Independent investigation according to Peter f. Smith Biden s press Secretary. Presidential spokesman Larry Speakes said Friday he did t know anything about the Democrat Smetter. There s a procedure for it at the Justice department he told reporters travelling with Reagan aboard air Force one in route to California the first Stop on the trip to the Tokyo economic Summit. Deaver set up his own lobbying firm sign ing foreign governments and Large corporations As clients after he resigned As White House Deputy chief of staff in May 1985. Smith Biden s spokesman said that the senators letter to Meese cites concern about Deaver s activities on behalf of four clients Canada South Korea puerto Rico and Rockwell International. The other signers All members of the Senate judiciary committee Are Senate minority Leader Robert c. Byrd of West Virginia Paul Simon of Illinois Howard Metzenbaum of Ohio and Patrick Leahy of Vermont Smith said. Biden is ranking minority member of the committee. Under the ethics in government act Meese must within 30 Days of receiving the letter make a recommendation to a three judge panel of the . Court of appeals for the District of Columbia which would then decide whether to appoint the prosecutor. In the House rep. John Dingell d mich., chairman of the Energy and com Merce committee has decided to hold sub committee hearings into Dea ver s activities an aide said thursday. At Dingell s request the general accounting office is examining whether Deaver violated conflict of interest Laws. The Gao Congress investigative Arm has indicated it would Complete its report on Deaver by the week of May 5, Barrett said. Subcommittee hearings Likely would be scheduled for that week or the following week he said. Among the areas to be examined during the hearings Barrett said Are Deaver s advice to the government of Canada on the Issue of acid rain his activities with the Federal communications commission on behalf of lbs when the network was fight ing a takeover attempt by Ted Turner and his work for Rockwell which was trying to persuade the government to buy More by bombers. Federal Law prohibits former top officials from lobbying for two years on issues in which they were involved during their ten ure. The Law also forbids officials from participating in decisions affecting an outside interest with which they made arrange ments for future employment. The Washington Post reported Friday that Deaver talked to Canadian government officials before he left the White House about signing Canada As a client for the Public relations firm he planned to establish. Study to consider developing new Mobile missile new York a president Reagan has ordered a study to decide whether the United states should develop a new Mobile multiple warhead missile that is about the size of the 78,000-Pound minuteman administration officials told the new York times. The new weapon could be developed As a complement to others in the land based missile Arsenal or it could be developed in place of a 37,000-Pound version of the mis Sile dubbed the midget Man the times said in Friday s editions. We re keeping our options open it is not an either or Type of question an administration official told the newspaper. The request for the study is contained in a classified directive signed by Reagan that also makes a provisional Call for Dis mantling two Poseidon submarines to and Here to the limits of the a ratified second treaty on limiting strategic arms according to the times. According to the directive the Poseidon submarines which Are near the end of their useful life would be Cut up in accordance with procedures under the Salt ii treaty. Officials told the times they expected Rea Gan to Issue a formal order for the dismantling soon after hearing the views of allies. Defense department officials have urged Reagan to Stop abiding by the treaty. Some government experts told the newspaper the request for the study May be intended to make the president s decision on the treaty More palatable to the defense department. They expressed scepticism the study would actually Spur the development of a new mis Sile. Company won t give sculpture its stamp of approval Cleveland a the artist who designed a giant baseball Bat for Chicago and a giant Clothespin for Philadelphia has created a sculpture of a rubber stamp to go in front of Standard Oil co. Head quarters and the company s new chair Man in t pleased. We Hope to find another location Forit Robert b. Horton said thursday at the company s annual meeting. I Don twant to destroy a work of Art but i Don t think the symbolism is  Claes Oldenburg who Rose to Fame As pop artist said he was told of the decision thursday in a letter. He called the Deci Sion a breach of contract but he refused to say whether he planned to sue. The fact is that there is no other place to put it he said. It is very much like censorship. It is a very arbitrary  a Fine arts advisory commission had chosen the design for the 48-foot, Pink and Maroon sculpture which would have faced downtown Public Square. Said Edward b. Henning former chief curator of modern Art at the Cleveland museum said there is far More to this stamp than repeating a mindless order. I think that Ohio asserted that it was not rubber stamp company in commissioning that  Standard Oil acknowledged that the decision would raise objections. The sculpture is in pieces at a found Yin Illinois