European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 17, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                D panel urges restructuring . Educational a Ste m Page 9 n celts top Bucks for 2-0 Lead in playoffs ports Page 21 Nice Dollar through tuesday buys 2.20 Marks rate Page 27 the stars a stripes Utho Aileo unofficial Puiri coition for the . To Meo of Sci vol. 45, no. 30 saturday May 17, 1986 of Simba q 8693 a House slashes Dod s 87 budget Washington a the House ignored presi Dent Reagan s protests thursday and approved a s994 billion fiscal 19k7 spending plan that slashes his Pentagon budget and joins the Senate in embracing higher tuxes. By a nearly Parry line 245-119 vote the House agreed to the plan drawn up by democratic leaders. The Senate on May 1 adopted its version of Llic budget blueprint for Itic fiscal year beginning oct. I. Reagan called the package a breach of Faith with our common duty to protect this  in a letter sent to the House minority Leader Robert h. Michel r 111. Before the final Vole i he president complained this Radical anti defense budget would tear Down much of what we have built together these past five years Senate votes focus pensions for future is Washington a the Senate voted Over whelming thursday to Cut pensions for future . Mili tary personnel As part of the congressional Effort to reduce budget deficits. The 93-1 vote Send the Issue to a House Senate Confer ence committee that will reconcile differences Between the Republican controlled Senate Bill and the measure that passed the democratic dominated House three weeks  House passed its version 399-7. Sen. Alfonso d Arnato tt-n.y., cast the Only dissenting vote although he did not immediately explain Why. Neither Bill would reduce the checks received by any of the 1.4 million americans now drawing pensions or the see pensions on Page 28 nuke death toll 13, still climbing Moscow of death has claimed More radiation victims including men who fought the chernobyl reactor fire for hours to prevent an irreparable nuclear disaster news reports and an american doctor said Friday or. Robert p. Gale who has said he expected Many of the most seriously injured to die indicated Friday the toll had risen to 13 four More than the number he gave journalists a Day earlier the Bone marrow transplant specialist from los an Kyles also told . Television correspondents in Moscow see nuke on Page 28 and return us to that Era of the 1970s when the National defense was neglected and our country paid worldwide and dearly for that neglect.". However during the budget Debute. Rep Dan Rostenkowski d-lll., chairman of the As writing ways and Means committee said the president must realize that he will nut gel his Way on defense and foreign Aid without participating in a balanced  to deficit reduction which includes  the plan adopted by the House would set Pentagon spending authority at s2b5 billion com pared with $301 billion in the Senate plan and s320 billion requested by Reagan. Add 17,3 billion in unspecified higher taxes to the sport Aid kicks off Sudan is runner Omar Khalifa departs from a re Lief Camp Friday near Khartoum Sudan an he begins he sport Aid International run. Us aim is to raise Money and awareness for Africa s drought and famine victims. See Story on Page 28. S5.9 billion in minor Las increases Reagan has recommended. The Senate package assumes the same level of revenues but applies the increase to help finance Pentagon spending. The House would set aside s4.7 billion of the increase for reducing the deficit. Leave a deficit of is 37 billion s7 billion below the $144 billion target required by a new deficit reduction Law. The Senate plan carries a $144 billion deficit. Restrain spending on most Domestic programs including Rocc is and cuts of up to 20 percent m some cases. Through the end of the decade Domestic savings in the Senate plan would be about $12 billion greater. Like the Senate plan assume a full Cost of living see budget on Page 28 mount Hood hiking Accident leaves 9 dead Portland. Ore. A two teen agers who sur Vived More than three Days buried in a Snow Cave on mount Hood with six companions were reported slowly improving Friday and doctors said they were optimistic. But h would recover. Their companions two adults und four youngsters were pronounced dead thursday after being found in the Cuve. That they had dug in an Effort to escape a Savage Snow storm that enveloped Llic Mountain during an annual school Outing. The Cave was discovered by a rescuer who poked through four to five feel Tif Snow on the treacherous slopes. 3,300 feel up the 11,235-foot Mountain and Strack a see Hood on Page 23 German group welcoming is by Wendy Bourland staff writer Mainz Germany the chairman of the Rheinland Pfalz hotel and bar owners association Friday used Flowers and Champagne to assure americans they Are Welcome in German establishments. This is a demonstration of Solidarity and appreciation of the ame Jeun presence Here in troubled limes when terrorists have designated bars and discos us targets for their cowardly attacks Alex Jacob told it. Col. J. Steve see German on Page 28 january go pay raise sure thing. Congress staffers say by Chuck Vinch Washington Bureau Washington congressional staffers say a pay raise effective Jan. I for service members and Federal civil ians is virtually assured but inc House and Senate Are at Odds Over exactly How Large that raise should be. The Senate which already has passed its version of the fiscal 1987 budget has approved a 2 percent raise while the version approved by the House budget committee Calls for b 3 percent raise. Even a 3 percent raise would not match an expected 4.2 percent jump in comparable private sector salaries next year said a Pentagon compensation official. Military pay currently lags 8.3 percent behind private sector salaries he said the Reagan administration originally requested a 4 percent raise for  effective oct. I the Start of the fiscal year and a 3 percent raise for Federal civilians effective Jan. 1,1987, said the House staffer. The congressional budget office had recommended a 3,3 percent raise for  and Federal civilians to Lake effect oct. 1, the House staffer said. The Senate s 2 percent raise is based on an expected increase in the consumer Price Index said a Senate Bud gel committee staffer. The rationale was that a pay raise should be equal to any change in the cell and we re assuming the cp1 will go up about 2 percent next fiscal year he said. The House plan for a 3 percent raise was an evolve ment of a number of options that were considered said the House staffer. We i clued around a lot of figures 2 percent 3.5 percent inc estimate from the co the president s re quest he said. It really was just a Compromise fall the other numbers. Three percent is a Nice Lound figure that has been used in past  the Senate budget plan would give the Pentagon s30i billion in budget authority next fiscal year �19 billion less than the Reagan administration request of s320 billion. But that would still allow defense spending to grow by about 2 percent to 3 percent above inflation said the Senate staffer. The House budget committee plan would give the Pentagon 1285 billion in budget authority for fiscal 1987, reducing defense spending from this your s Fig ure of slightly More than 5285 Billian the House staffer said