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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 10, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Rowers say German asparagus not contaminated. Page 3 q Over Supply of . Cocaine threatens Europe Page 5 n Laker rockets Clinch Aba playoff serles.,sports1 Page 21  Knop Picut. Quill cation fou the  �1�eo to acct vol. 45, a 23 saturday May 10, 1986  and d 8693 a fire out at says schoos in Kle v for Ose Early because of Chern Fayr disaster. Residents of Klet stand in line to undergo Check for exposure to radios Chic Mil totals. Kiev. . A an International atomic Energy Agency official said Friday the fire Al the chernobyl nuclear reactor has been put out and the mayor of Kiev said a car scr Mil Ion children will leave school  year because of the devastating Accident. Tic Agency official Morris Rosen told a news conference in Moscow an adjacent reactor Iti the ukrainian facility was not damaged by the fire und was not in danger of releasing radiation.-. In Stockholm Sweden a swedish official said satellite photos taken Friday showed no intake coming from the damaged re actor. Kiev mayor Valentin Gursky said schools attended by a Quarter million of i he City s children will close May is several weeks Early because of the Power Plant Accident. He said the move was not an emergency  arc simply advancing the Normal school Holiday a i Idle bit Gursky told a group of foreign reporters ukrainian health minister Anatoly Romanenko was quoted earlier As saying on Kiev radio that schoolchildren would be moved out of the area As a precaution Kiev the nation s third largest City is 80 Miles South of the nuclear Plant. Ukrainian Premier Alexander Lyashkov old reporters thursday authorities did not order the major Par of the evacuation until  after the Accident and wailed for two Days to inform Moscow of the full scope of he worst disaster in the history of nuclear Power. At the Moscow news conference Rosen said workers were trying to Seal off the no. 4 reactor lit the chernobyl facility where a chemical explosion occurred april 26, set Ting Tiff a fire and spewing Radia i Ion Over Europe. The  to encase the whole fourth unit in Concrete and work has begun to place n Concrete foundation under the re actor he said. Lyashkov said thursday Crews still were trying to put out the reactor fire. Theol acc Lor of he  International atomic Energy Agency Hans Blix flew Over the reactor thursday and said on soviet television that smoke was coming from it. But Rosen an american who is director of the Agency s division of nuclear safety said Friday the smoke was Light Gray and appeared to come from soldering Sand Lead Boron and Dolomite thrown Over the re actor 10 smother the fire. Me said smoke see fire on Page 28 panel oks deficit cutting $994.2 billion budget Washington a the demo cratic controlled House budget committee pushed aside Republican complaints thurs Day and approved a fiscal 193? budget that would stash military spending freeze or. Trim most Domestic programs and embrace a lax increase to reduce he deficit. By a parly Tine 21-11 Vole the panel agreed la the s994.2 billion spending plan proposed by committee chairman William h. Gray lit a a. It would reduce the deficit next year to 5137 billion s7 billion below the Senate budget passed last week and Well within the statutory limit of 1144 billion. Action by the full House is expected within iwo weeks. The democratic plan would Cut military budget authority Nam year to s2ss billion si.8 billion below the present level and s3. Billion of thai would be held in abeyance until the Pentagon agrees to in audit of How past years increases were spent. The Senate approved a 1301 billion Bud gel for 1 he military while president Reagan requested s320 billion in budget authority which includes some Money incl rally spent Over several years. The Low House figure would constrain new military programs but actual outlays of Cash during the year would Rise $6.7 billion to $276.2 billion. Even before the committee s Rina Volc defense Secretary Caspar w. Weinberger blasted the package As designed far Politi Cal bargaining without regard 10 the greatly improved , military posture that adequate resources during the last five years have  in a statement released by Pentagon spokesman Robert Sims Weinberger said the proposal would destroy the recent and impressive momentum we have made in rearming America by squandering part of the dollars invested in defense in the past five  Weinberger said the committee action rep resented a decline from last year s level of military spending that would plunge the de sense department Back into the chaotic unstable roller coaster defense budget trends which led to previous inefficiencies and caused Large weapon unit Cost increases rep. Marvin Cath a Tsas a conservative who often sides with Republican on defense issues said controls Over the Mili tary spending buildup of the past few years were weak and Congress has not been told where urge inflation increases have gone. Several republicans said the budget should include enough Money to cover inflation is in the Senate blueprint. As a series of gop amendments to sharply alter the plan were Defeated rep. Delbert a Latla of Ohio the panel s senior Republican complained we were getting. Rolled Alt Day by the democratic majority. However Gray defended the plan saying it would result in a lower deficit than the Senate plan and achieves this by spreading the cuts More equitably. Spending cuts Art divided almost equally Between defense and Domestic  contrast that with the Senate budget which places 86 percent of the cuts on the non military Side of the  said House majority Leader Jim Wright a to Iasi a member of the committee. The committee did agree to an Anicod sea budget on Page 28 libyan Rad Renews . Youths f Nee rest in military by Dick Hodgson  Bureau Ramstein a Germany Gen. Andrew p. Osue commander of the air Force s air training come says the . Raid on Libya sparked new interest among american Joath in military careers. Noting a historic trend of increased enlistments in limes of National crisis lose said the same phenomenon occurred when the . Marines were involved in the Beirut Lebanon crisis. When something happens in the world of u military nature we see changes in interest and in enthusiasm he said people come to the recruiting offices and ask More questions about the options available to them. Generally speaking it was a very positive response across the nation he said it in t As if they lined up us they did in world War i and world War i when the balloon went up and we Don t have any definite figures on the number of enlistments but the interest was definitely increased lame whose command is headquartered at Randolph fab to Cajias is responsible for All air Force recruiting he is Louring Allied and . Training units in Spain Italy Turkey and Germany through sunday. He said in an interview that the surge in interest b indicative of a change in the attitude of the american Public toward the military. We arc blessed i guess in the armed forces in Gener Al but not to the degree that we in the air Force arc. In being Able to attract outstanding Young men and women he said. And it was an  phenomenon. Three or four years ago we were predicting some doom and gloom because of demographic changes and the Economy is Good and that historically has meant recruiting is Tough but 1 think some changes have taken place same intangible ones he said. One is that there is generally More support for the military today than there has been from Counselor principals and so  while Roth detachments were being thrown off . Campuses in the l�6ds, 60 schools now Are waiting sea military on Page 26  
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