European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 19, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Inside stripes o grading of guard worrying Pentagon Page 2 g smokers ranks Are thinning Page 5 d Hearns retains middleweight title sports Page 21 the St nip ipes author died unofficial publication for Thi . Ahmed of icel vol. -15, no. 184 sunday october 19, 1986 we a d 8693 a Reagan signs spending Bil Washington up president Reagan sat urday signed a massive $576 billion spending Bill the biggest in american history giving the government authority to spend Money for the next year. Reagan signed the Bill at Camp David. Md., after Congress passed the comprehensive measure con Taining Money for most Federal departments on Friday after the government shut Down for six hours when it ran out of Money. Since the fiscal year began oct. 1, Congress to pass four temporary spending Bills to keep the govern ment operating. Passage of the 12-month spending Bill broke a stalemate that kept lawmakers in session Long after hey wanted to return Home to Campaign for re election. The Bill contains Money for every Section of the government including such controversial items As $100 million in military and humanitarian Aid to the nicaraguan rebels known As contras approval of the spending Bill paved the Way for adjournment of the 99th Congress expected later sat urday. When scale approval of the Bill finally came Fri Day the House quickly agreed to changes made by theother chamber and sent the Bill o Reagan. The Mammoth Money measure is the largest in american history. The agreement that broke a Senate filibuster an cleared the Bill s path was a torn Promise in providing Money for the air Force t-46a Jet Krainc aircraft. Sen. Alfonse d Amato r-n.y., staged the Tal Kathon be cause the Jet is manufactured in his state and he did not want it eliminated. The Compromise however came Loo late to prevent the administration from starting to shut Down he government at noon Friday about 500,000 Federal workers across the country were told logo Home. Essential operations such As the kicking up their heels a phom sports fun in Barcelona Lake to the streets to Cele brate Friday s announcement that Spain s second largest City will Host the 1992 summer olympics Barcelona beat out five other contenders far the Honor giving Spain its first experience As an olym Pic Host. Military and safety matters were not included in the order and the postal service kept running. Meanwhile Congress Only relatively minor legislation remaining and Many members especially those up for re election were expected to leave before the final Gavel fell on the 99th Congress. So anxious were some to get out adjournment was originally set for oct. 3 that they parked their Carat the foot of the stairs leading Down to the Broad Capitol Plaza from the Chambers. Many legislators staffers reporters and lobbyists sported White and red buttons Reading free the 99th Windup of major business also signalled an end to the career of House speaker Thomas tip o Neill d-mass., who served in Congress for 34 years and led the House for a decade Story photo Page 3. Another key obstacle to adjournment was removed see Bill on Page 28 guard f-4 p/7of flew too close to air Force one Washington up1 the fighter Pilot who intruded into air Force one s airspace is a combat Veter an who said he look evasive action after Static caused him to miss a first message about president Reagan splane a military official said saturday. The Pilot of the f-4c fighter interceptor. Col. James Cook and his co Pilot la. Col. James Burdick were flying from their air National guard base in Niagara Falls n.y., to an air show at Tyndall fab ha., Friday when they approached air Force one Over Ellwood City penn., maj. . Kutschera Heads the i07lh fighter interceptor group at Niagara fails and Burdick is head of operations. In peacetime the air National guard is under com Mand of the state governor Kutschera described Cook As an experienced senior air commander who flew combat missions in South Korea and Vietnam. Rep. Guy Molinari Friday said Federal aviation administration head Donald Engin told him the Pilot failed to heed iwo requests from a Cleveland air traffic controller and replied gel the other plane id move after a request from the controller air Force one changed course. Aircraft Are supposed to remain five Miles apart at the same Altitude. The Faa said the fighter closed to within 4.3 Miles of air Force one. Although the Faa spokesman said the close Call was in no Way a dangerous situation the planes might see Pilot on Page 28 officials say soviets want monopoly Rome a defense Secretary Caspar Wein Berger on saturday accused the soviet Union of trying to destroy America s Star wars research while pressing ahead with its own program of the space shield defense against nuclear missiles. Related stories on pages a 28. He charged that the soviet Union been working on a space defense program for More than 17 years and made considerable they have Uteri defensive system already deployed around Moscow Weinberger told a news conference. " yet they want to maintain their monopoly on Strate Gic defense at the same time they Are saying. That it is an erroneous strategic theory and things of that kind. Italian defense minister Giovanni Spadolini also said it cannot be denied that the soviet Union been working on a space shield project for years t probably before the United the soviet Union repeatedly denied having a space weapons program. Weinberger winding up two Days of talks with spa doling and other italian leaders responded to questions ranging from the recent Summit Between presi Dent Reagan and soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev in Iceland to International terrorism. . Officials have said the soviet insistence that the United slates confine ski research to the Laboratory pre vented the Summit from reaching formal agreement on elimination of All Long Range nuclear weapons in voyeurs. The president is determined that we Wilt proceed with research on strategic defense and if that research proves feasible and we strongly believe it will we will deploy the system Weinberger said. We want to have it thoroughly understood. That we will maintain a Strong military retaliatory capability that we will work vigorously to achieve Strate Gic defense and that we stand ready at All times Lamake very deep reductions in nuclear missiles and to try to get the soviets to agree to these reductions so Long As the agreements Are completely verifiable in offensive weapons he said. But he said the United states will not give up the Hope for Mankind that is embodied in the president s strategic defense Weinberger arrived in Rome on Friday after visiting China India. Pakistan and Egypt. He held separate meetings with Spadolini Premier Betlina Praxi and foreign minister Giulio Andreolli and paid a Courtesy Call on president Francesco Corsiga. After spending a Day at Spadolini s Villa near for see soviets on Page 28
