European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 18, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Inside stripes Wor Tsenes preview Ron Darling mets Bruce 1 Iii rut Boston. Game i starters q pre series analysis d series stats d Odds weather update see sports pages 21,22.23 soviet woman allowed to leave to Aid ill brother Moscow a soviet authorities Friday gave final approval for a Soviel woman and her husband Togo to Israel so she Tan  Bone marrow to lick leukaemia stricken brother the husband said. Related Story and photo i he 3. Viktor flour of told the associated i Russ by Tele phone that he had Jum left the soviet visa Agency. Ovir. Where he was Given a card certifying he a permission to leave the country. He said it would take a lout two weeks to Complete All the documents that must be turned in to Ovir before passports and tickets arc issued to him and his wife Ines a. He said he did not know exactly when they would leave. Mrs. Fleurat s brother Mikhail Shirman who lives in Israel is suffering from leukaemia. Doctors say his life May be prolonged of mrs. Fleurot donates Bone marrow for a transplant. Soviet authorities granted tit a visa to leave the coun try for Israel on aug. 20, but had not granted permission to her husband because his father would not sign a Finan Cial waiver. All soviets must obtain such waivers from their parents before hey can emigrate. Mrs flour a refused to leave without her husband. Fleurot said Friday that he never got the paper signed and that the authorities gave him permission to leave anyway. On oct. 8, police detained the flu rows for two hours when the couple tried to unfurl a Banner Reading Don l separate our family near communist party Headquarters in Moscow. Is  us vol.45,no. 163 author died unofficial Fuji cation to the a. Armed f0kces saturday october 18, 1986 undo id Tat d 6693 a Congress oks spending plan Washington a after a half million Feder Al workers were sent Home. Congress on Friday gave final approval id a $576 billion spending Bill for fiscal 1987, ending a stalemate brought on by lawmakers disagreement on Money issues. Final clearance came not Long after the Senate had cleared the Catchall spending Bill to finance operations in the new budget year which started oct. I and sent it Back to the House to work out minor  spending Bill a principal obstacle to adjourn ment of the 99th Congress had been held up for 24 hours by new York s senators in a Battle to secure business for a Long Island defense  delays forced the government which had been operating under a series of Stopgap measures since Oci. 1, to Send All non essential personnel Home. The latest of the Short term Money Bills expired at Midnight thursday lawmakers were working two weeks past their Oci. 3 target for adjourning and Many were eager to leave the City to hit the Campaign  could be out of Here if we just resolve this Issue said Senate majority Leader Bob Dole a Kan. We Don t have thai much work to  majority Leader Jim Wright a Texas. Criticized president Reagan for heading off on a Campaign trip instead of staying in Washington to help resolve see plan on Page 23 a dream that did t come True Niagara University students Michael Viscust left and Hurt Klel Swira for Leneir Lim Fer tast minute change of mind about going Over Niagara Falls in � Baitel. Viscose 21, and Kallet 20, were headed for the rails in an aluminium  barrel when their oxygen Supply failed and they bailed out. They swum 100 Yards to a Rock and Clung there until helicopter plucked them out of the water in hour later. The barrel was found smashed to pieces at the Bottom of the my. Defense Bill Calls for cuts in officer strength by Chuck Vinch Washington Bureau Washington cuts in officer strength a family member dental insurance program and belter employment opportunities for military spouses Are among the personnel issues contained in the fiscal 1987 defense authorization Bill. Expressing concern Over the fact that the officer corps has grown at More Ihan twice the Rale of the Lota Force in the past five years. Congress has or dered the Pentagon to Cut officer strength by 6 percent Over the next three fiscal years. The plan Calls for a Cut of 1 percent this fiscal year or about .1,100 officers 2 percent next fiscal year and 3 percent in fiscal 1989, but it will allow Secretary of defense Caspar Weinberger to de cide How to allocate the cuts among the services. A Pentagon spokesman said it s too Early to Tell How those cuts will be made. We have to look at balancing officer accessions with selective Early retirement and see what ratio of officers to enlisted personnel we want to main Tain in the various services he said. Congress has provided j18 million to fund a voluntary denial program for family members. The program was contained in last year s Bill but was no funded by the appropriations commit tees. Under the program service members would have up to �10 per month taken out of their paychecks. In return the insurance company would pay 80 per cent of the Cost of routine fillings and appliance repairs. The Bill expands Job hiring prefer ence for military spouses. The military family act of 1985 said spouses would receive hiring preference for jobs in the grades of gs-7 and above. That s been see Bill on Page 28