European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 2, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 28 the stars and stripes saturday August 2.1989o panels fall Short of budget goals Washington not House and Senate committees fell Short of their targets of i9.2 billion in savings thursday As they completed action on separate198 7 deficit reducing packages. The Senate panel s package is about 11.1 billion Short of the target. In the House the cult fall about $1.5 billion Short. The full House and Senate Are expected 10 try to make up he gaps when the packages arc debated on the floor. Senate majority Leader Robert Dole r-kan., is expected to push for a package of Revenue increases  both make up the shortage and allow for the removal of the 8-Ccnt-a-pack increase in the cigarette lax that is now in the proposal. The cigarette lax which would raise about $1.6 billion. Could cause to steel plants shut Down As talks fail Pittsburgh a the first work Stop Page in 27 years by  at us corp. Began As a contract expired at Midnight thurs Day with inc Union Colling the action a lockout and inc company saying the 42,000 Worken Are on strike. The labor dispute was prompted by the com Pany s refusal to continue bargaining under the old contract. The United steelworkers had offered to continue working under the old con tract but us said work could continue Only under the terms of the company s last offer. Negotiators for both sides reportedly met late thursday afternoon but failed to reach  Union negotiators were meeting with local Union presidents at 11 . To update them on negotiations and advise them on picketing. The lockout is on. We re in for the Long haul Union spokesman Gary Hubbard said lat thursday night. It s going to be a Long fight. Nobody wanted this strike. Company spokesman Michael Koff said the steelworkers had terminated the labor agreement and had authorized a strike so inc company which until recently was known As . Steel corp ordered a shutdown. Operations at All struck facilities have ceased Koff said late thursday night. The Union asked thursday to continue work ing under a 40-month-old contract and give us a 48-hour strike notice while talks continued. But us chief negotiator j. Bruce Johnston flatly rejected the offer. The real purpose of your offer seems trans Parent it attempts to convert the coming strike by the United steelworkers into a Legal fiction of lockout thus aiding Union member claims for unemployment  i Restrike Johnston said. Johnston said the Union s last offer rep resented a substantial Retreat from the Union s position tuesday night which he said included a suspension of Cost of living provisions and a Small reduction in us s hourly employment costs. The Union had no immediate comment on the letter. We were so desperate to react an agreement. We were witling to risk our tradition of no contract no work said Gary Hubbard. Hubbard admitted thursday s last ditch offer was a strategy of frustration that could prompt some state labor relations boards to Rule the work stoppage a lockout rather than a strike if the company refused 10 accept an Extension. All we re interested in is getting unemployment compensation. Out of nine Stales if we can get half of them Why not Hubbard said. A lockout ruling by any of nine states with us plants would qualify pickets for unemployment compensation Hubbard said. Technical problems because of electrical difficulties at our printing Plant some of the pages for today s stars and stripes Nuy have been repeated. We apologize for any . Lit icat trouble in North Carolina where the republicans arc fighting to keep a Senate scat. In the House democrats on inc ways and Means committee tentatively decided thursday to offer a amendment including the a cent increase in the cigarette lax As Well As an increase i n the tax on wine. The deficit reducing Bills Are an annual exercise in which Congress attempts to reconcile projected Federal spending and Revenue to inc goals established in the budget Resolution. The reconciliation package usually raises new reve nue or restricts who is entitled to benefits under Var ious Federal programs. May of these entitlement pro Grams us Well As some discretionary spending Are covered in the appropriation for the departments of labor health and human services and education. Thursday the House approved an appropriation of j103.7 billion for those three departments. It also approved an $8.2 billion appropriation for the Interior department. In another development the Republican controlled Senate Defeated a proposal to repeal the new budget balancing Bill 69-30. The amendment was proposed by sen. Gary Hart t col. The Senate reconciliation package was approved by the Senate budget committee thursday afternoon. Among the proposals being considered to make up for inc cigarette lax increase if in is removed Are an in crease and Extension of the 3 percent Telephone excise tax and an Oil import fee. Rehnquist from Paga 1 team of the Vermont restriction described it As quite obnoxious and said he would ask his lawyer in ver Mont to have it removed. On the Phoenix property Rehnquist told sen. Edward Mkennedy a mass i simply can t answer whether i read through i he deed or not. One relies on title  he said that the whiles Only covenant while very offensive. Has no Legal effect. This is the biggest red herring of All shouted  g. Hatch Rulah a leading Rehnquist supporter on the committee. Everyone understands that such covenants Are illegal. I think it s ridiculous tomake such a  i Don t know if it s ridiculous at All sen. Howard m. Metzenbaum a Ohio Athis individual was a Justice department official a Legal counsel of the Justice department in 1969 when he sold the Phoenix property Kennedy said. Sen. Patrick j. Leahy d-vt., who first questioned Rehnquist about the restriction on his summer Home told him thursday there s nothing in your Back ground to suggest anti semitism. I m glad you re going to rewrite that  Leahy said the existence of the covenant does t suggest anti semitism on Rehnquist s part. Rehnquist also Drew support on that Point from another committee Democrat Arizona sen. Dennisd Concini who said i wonder How Many of us on this committee could say we never owned property that carried such restrictions. Senators seemed to skill around the sensitive matter of Rehnquist s health never asking him directly about his use 01 a prescription sleeping Pill to counter chronic lower Back pains medication that resulted in his hospitalization in december 1981. The reason for the delicate handling became apparent when sen. Strom Thurmond , the commit tee chairman announced that an agreement had been reached for an Independent physician to review Rich Nuisl s medical records and speak with Bis Doc Tor reporting Back to the committee before its scheduled Vole aug. 14. While Justice Rehnquist is perfectly willing to answer questions about his health the committee has reached an understanding that his health records shall remain confidential Thurmond said. Under questioning by sen. Howe i t. Heflin d-ata., Rehnquist said that he would not have accepted president Reagan s nomination if he Felt that his health was not up to the task. Jenco has message for Reagan London up1 the Rev. Lawrence Jenco i carrying a Secrel message to president Reagan from the moslem captors of 15 Tio stages including three other americans kidnapped in Lebanon. Jenco was released saturday after in months in Captivity. He declined to comment on the contents of the message before his meeting Friday with Reagan. Jenco was to leave London s Heathrow Airport on a . Military Jet Friday morning. Terry Waile a personal envoy of archbishop of Canterbury Robert Runcie said the note to Reagan is different in character from those he relayed earlier to Pope John Paul ii and Runcie. Waite was in Lebanon when Jenco was released and flew to Rome with him to Meel the Pope wednesday and to London thursday to meet Runcie Jenco 51, of Joliet iii., a member of the roman Catholic Servile order was seized in Beirut Jan. 8,1985, As he drove to his Job As director of Catholic Relief services in Lebanon. Despite Jenco s frail physical condition he has history of heart problems Waite said Jenco insisted on personally delivering the messages his captors gave him for the two religious leaders and Reagan. He Felt himself be wanted to do it personally tomake sure absolutely that there was no doubt at All in the captors1 mind thai he had kept his Promise Waite said. Virginia electrocuted murderer Richmond a. A _ a condemned murderer and rapist who spent More than eight Yean on death Row was executed in the electric chair Thun Day Lea than an hour after losing a last minute Appeal to the . Supreme court. Michael Marnell Smith 40, bad been convicted of raping. Stabbing and drowning a divorced Mother of two who was attacked on a Riverside scroll near Jamestown in 1977. Shortly before Smith s death the . Supreme court on a 5-3 vote turned Down his Appeal. The justices action at 11 10 . Allowed rejections earlier in the Day from a Federal District court and a Federal appeals court judge. Smith s lawyers had asked for the stay until the supreme court can Rule on a Georgia Case in which a Black death Row inmate has said juries Are More Likely to recommend the death penalty for those convicted of killing Whites. Smith is Black his victim was White. After . District judge John a. Mackenzie in Norfolk denied Smith a stay of execution his lawyer appealed to judge Dickson Phillips or. Of the 4th . Circuit court of appeals who upheld the Deci Sion. The supreme court without giving a reason denied review of Smith s Appeal with justices Harry a. Black Mun William Brennanjr. And thu go d Marshall dissenting said court spokeswoman Kathy Arberg. Jus Tice John Paul Stevens did not Lake part in the decision. Smith who had spent More time on death Row than any of the stale s condemned prisoners was pronounced dead at 11 42 . At the state Penitentiary said corrections department spokesman Wayne far Rar. Smith had been pleasant cooperative and very much in Contact Wilh reality As he awaited his execution said Dwight Perry operations officer at the Vir Ginia slate Penitentiary. Smith earlier thursday was visited by Al least three clergymen and a brother and was Calm and composed and ordered a final meal of Fried shrimp Fried Obj text Clam cakes Cherry pie and juice drinks said ferry. Smith spent most of his hut Days Reading his Bible. Marie Deans executive director of the Virginia coalition on jails and prisons said he s turned everything Over to  Smith s execution was the 62nd since the . Supreme court allowed the states to resume the death Penally in 1976, and the 12th this year. Four other people have died in Virginia s electric chair in the past nine years Wilh the most recent being executed in june 1985. Smith s execution was the 1 241st in the slate since Virginia began elect routing condemned prisoners in 1908. "