European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 17, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday. December 17, 1066 the stars and stripes pages Reagan scaling Back defense request supplemental increase planned for by 87 by Norman Black Gress Tor the current year. A military writer previously Weinberger has insisted on Basin j Washington the Reagan administration each new annual budget submission on what lie hid in an unusual Bow to congressional pressure has requested the previous year even though it had not decided to submit what will be its smallest request been approved by Congress. That has resulted in a yet for an increase in defense spending next year officials said monday. In the process however president Reagan will request a supplemental increase to the Pentagon s fiscal 1987 budget totalling Between $2 billion and s3 billion added the officials. Also to be sent to Congress is another 1987 supple mental request for More than $1 billion in additional funds for foreign military and economic assistance the sources said. The officials who agreed to discuss the matter Only if not identified by name said the defense department and the president s office of management and budget recently settled on a fiscal 1988 Baseline request of Between 1308 billion and $309 billion in budget authority. The actual request will total about $312 billion but the difference represents the Pentagon s portion of increased spending authority that All Federal Agen cies must request because of changes to the Federal employees retirement system As Well As new social Security rules governing reservist the sources said. The decision to Start the congressional budget Bat the with a base of around $308 billion is significant say the officials because it Marks the first time de sense Secretary Caspar a Weinberger has agreed to Peg his new request to the total approved by con targe and growing differential Between administration desires and congressional authorizations. For example for fiscal 1987, the Pentagon re Quested budget authority totalling $320.3 billion arguing thai would provide a 3 percent increase after inflation. Thai total was derived in part however by ignoring More than is i billion that bad been Cut from the 1986 budget by the Gramm Rudman balanced budget Law. Thus the actual increase nought Wai 11.9 percent. As it turned out Congress ignored the Pentagon s calculations and approved a 1987 budget totalling $289.4 billion. In the fiscal 1988 budget which will be forwarded to Congress on Jan. 5, the defense department once again will request a 3 percent real growth increase but will use the 1987 total approved by Congress As its base. Congressional leaders have been telling the administration the Pentagon will be Lucky to win enough of a budget increase next year to match inflation. In response say the sources budget director James Miller and. While House chief of staff Donald Regan argued the administration could play a More effective role in the upcoming budget Battles if it started with a More realistic Pentagon proposal. Weinberger according to the sources still does not accept that reasoning but he has agreed to try the new approach As Long As a 1987 supplemental budget to also submitted. There will be a supplemental totalling Between $2 billion and s3 billion and the details Are. Being worked out now Taid one High ranking official. And by scaling Back the fiscal 1988 request Weinberger Hope the Congress will View the Penta gon As submitting a reasonable budget proposal and respond accordingly by approving it. The sources added the fiscal 1988 request will continue to stress financing for the programs Reagan has focused on for the put seven years including Star wars research modernization of strategic nuclear forces and increased procurement of conventional weapons such As planes tanks and ships. The new proposal also will emphasize the desirability of enacting a two year budget plan and will spell out a full blown request for fiscal 19ss As Well As fiscal 1989. Congress directed the Pentagon ear Lier this year to prepare budgets for the next two fiscal years but has made no commitment to actually approve two spending plans at once. The officials said the military services Are in the midst of scaling Back their individual requests to meet the new $308 billion top line. The army Marine corps Navy and air Force had been proceeding on the basis that the administration would once asking for at least $518 billion and thus now must shave billions of dollars from their spending plans the sources said.  House chef Sal pud to shown off tit  Home be  Hukki. Al is Nimat left and Marit Geog Jato paid to i Ftp 8-foot-Tauhobstajboitoa Imir Riott copay Ataee botel a week was it a did to Complete the project commission recommends pay hikes for highest ranking Federal officials Washington not a presiden tial advisory commission monday recommended substantial salary increases some More than 80 percent for Federal judges members of Congress and executive Branch officials. Cabinet officers members of Congress and Federal judges would get respective pay raises of $71,200, $57,600 and $49,000 a year atop the annual 3 percent boosts going to All Federal workers. The panel also said it feels strongly real in return for higher salaries members of Congress should be barred from getting honorariums and other earnings for speeches and Public appearances. The recommendations which will prob ably be revised by president Reagan and which Congress has the authority to reject with his assent include a 60 percent raise for Federal District judges to $130,000 a year. Members of Congress would make s13s,000 they Are now paid j77.400. Saying that financial compensation is becoming a Strong negative Factor in attracting qualified people to top positions in the government the nine member com Mission on executive legislative and Judi Cial salaries concluded unanimously that significant salary increases for top Federal officials Are essential but Ralph Nader the consumer activist said monday that he saw no urgent Nee for such raises. It s basically the Rich and powerful recommending huge increases tothe powerful in government Nader said. Procedure by it a a monstrosity. What you have Here is a commission holding no Public hearings holding no news conference to answer questions and then recommending to the president an outlandish figure so that he can Cut it Down to an outrageous  congressional officials Taid they expected Reagan to scale Back the increases consider ably before he delivers his budget message Early next month. The salary recommendations he makes then would take effect in30 Days unless both houses of Congress rejected them in a joint Resolution requiring the president s signature. Robert m. Tobias the president of the the salaries of lower level officials. The statutory mandate we have Only involves the lop 3,000 people said Chandler l Van Ort an the executive director. He added that Tower level workers were doing pretty Well in comparison to senior officials. The average general schedule employee has Tost less than 6 percent of his earning Power due to inflation whereas a member of Congress has lost 40  Van orman said. Top officials in the executive Branc would get raises of 55 percent to 75 percent under the panel s report in the stars and stripes 40 years ago today. Just Drain u not limited to Only senior executives and members of Congress he said. The report of the commission which was established in 1968 and meet every four years did not make recommendations for a Dee Doo Dah Christmas cast to Russia from transmitter a in Munich. The new transmitting facilities will replace the state department operations in Algiers to be shut Down at the French government s request. 30 years ago today. Dec. 17, 1956 despite opposition from other Arab slates and soviet rus Sia iraqi Premier Nuri Al said said Iraq would stay in the Baghdad pact 20 years ago today. Dec 17,1966 Jacqueline Kennedy sked the new York supreme court to ban publication of death of a presi Dent by William Manchester. Kennedy claimed Manchester had violated a agreement not to publish the manuscript without her approval. 7 0 years ago today dec 17. 1976 a Federal judge or dered former president Richard Nixon to pay damages to the former National Security Council planning group chief Morton Halperin. He Baa sued Nixon and others for tapping his phone