European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 3, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                C High schooners make creative connections Page 3 n artificial heart saves dying Man Page 5 q Bucks beat 76ers in Aba playoffs. Sports Page 21 the stars  authorized unofficial publication for the . Armed forces vol. 45, no. 16 saturday May 3, 1986 Ond d 8693 a Senate oks trillion Dollar budget Washington Al l the Republican controlled Senate Early Friday passed a trillion Dollar fiscal 1987 budget that challenges resident Reagan s opposition on new taxes and includes si9 billion less in military spend ing than the president requested. Republicans and democrats alike said Strong support Tor the plan approved in bipartisan votes should convince House democrats and the White House that they should support something close to what the Senate did. This is the Best budget vote we be had since we had a budget process said sen. Pete v. Dominici r-n.m., chairman of the Senate budget committee. It sends a signal to the . House that something very close to this is what we ought to  majority Leader Bob Dole r-kan., held Telephone discussions on the budget Compromise with Donald t. Regan Reagan s chief of staff who is travelling with the president in the far East. Presidential spokesman Larry up cakes aboard air Force one in route to Tokyo with Reagan told reporters the Senate has developed a budget package that Falls Short of the president s requested Levels for providing a Strong defense. It Calls for additional revenues above the Levels we believe appropriate. While the president has serious reservations about individual aspects of the Senate budget Resolution we be Lieve it is important that the Senate pass a budget for 1987 and recognizes their efforts up cakes said adding the president would veto any budget  the House budget committee which had been await ing Senate action plans to move ahead with its version of the spending package next week. The Senate ended two weeks of debate Friday when it modified 66-29, and then adopted routinely 70-25, a spending plan passed in March by the budget committee. The changes dropped new taxes in the plan to si3.1 billion Down from about $1 billion but still More than twice what the president proposed. Military spending an Thori cd at $295 billion in the original plan was increased to $301 billion still $19 billion Short of Reagan s re quest. The budget committees have no authority to determine Toast at head table president Reagan toasts president Suharto after speaking at a dinner thursday in Bali Indonesia. Reagan who pledged to continue to work for free Trade practices left Indonesia Friday for Tokyo where he will attend the Summit conference of industrialized democracies. See Story on Page 28. What taxes would be raised. That is a responsibility of the Senate finance committee and the House ways and Means committee which will use the budget As an out line. Dole held extended negotiations to increase the military spending figure while casing the tax boost. To accomplish that the budget assumed lower inflation would save Money and some Domestic spending assumptions were slashed in the final package including e holding the Cost of living adjustment for retirement programs including social Security to a 2 percent in crease. Eliminating some relatively Small Federal programs. Restricting Federal pay increases next year to 2 per cent while uniformed military personnel would get a 3 percent increase. Selling the government s portfolio of education Loans. Government spending for the year beginning oct. I would total $1.001 trillion with lax revenues of $857 billion. The resulting $144 billion deficit would meet the target in the Gramm Rudman deficit reduction Law. Crisis eases of nuke Plant debate rages Moscow a radiation and fire perils at the chernobyl nuclear Power Plant were said to be easing Friday and an East West debate escalated Over what happened at the disaster site and what the soviets should have done about it. Related stories pages 3,4,7 and 28. A soviet Diplomat said three out of four reactors at the site were unscathed and could be reopened but another soviet official indirectly confirmed reports that similar reactors supplying 5 percent of the nation s electricity were shut Down As a precaution. The Kremlin insists it has the situation at the chernobyl nuclear Power station 80 Miles North of Kiev under control and the soviets have rejected offers of help from the United states and other countries. However it accepted an offer from a los Angeles based International Bone marrow transplant organization. Bone marrow destruction is a primary cause of death from radiation. Or. Robert Gale a specialist in Bone marrow trans plants arrived in Moscow Friday to help treat victims. The damage to human health from the soviet reactor Accident won t be fully apparent for another three or four weeks. Gale said Friday while passing through Frankfurt in route to Moscow United press International reported. Gale expressed optimism about the chances of recovery for radiation victims up said the soviets have said two people died and 197 were injured in the nuclear Accident but Secretary of state George p. Shultz and other . Officials said the number of casualties is Likely much higher. Top administration officials reviewed the chernobyl no see crisis on Page 28 nuclear sub ran aground Navy reveals by Norman Black a military writer Washington one of the Navy s newest nuclear powered attack submarines for reasons still unknown ran aground earlier this week while passing through the Straits of Gibraltar the service said Friday. It was the second such incident involving a nuclear pow ered submarine in less than a month. The Poseidon mis Sile carrying submarine Nathanael Greene ran aground april i while operating in the Irish sea. The latest incident occurred tuesday and involved the attack submarine Atlanta. The vessel was passing through the Straits of Gibraltar while submerged and unaccountably struck the Bottom punching a Hole in an outer bal last tank and in the special exterior dome that covers its sonar gear. The submarine proceeded into port in Gibraltar under her own Power the Navy said in a prepared statement. There were no personnel injuries nor any effect on her nuclear propulsion Plant. The Atlanta is presently in port while an inspection team surveys the damage and determines seaworthiness the Navy added. The Navy said it probably would be next week before a decision was made on whether repairs could be performed in Europe or whether the submarine would have to return to the United Stales. The service said it also had opened a special investigation to determine the cause of the Accident. The Summa see sub on Page 28