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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 4, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Inside stripes d Sac Tak control of 1st 10 mrs Page 2 d evidence sight in . Race Case Pago 5 d Browns beat jets in nil playoffs Page 21 author Leto unofficial poll tuition for Thi . Akmid foiiceivol.45, no.261 sunday january 4, 1987 int to d 8693 a 49 die in crash of brazilian Jet in West Africa Abidjan Ivory Mccasl a a brazilian Varig Boeing 707 airline crashed and burned Early saturday in a thick Forest near Abidjan soon after take off and the airline said Only two of the5i people Board survived. The Abidjan fire department said the10 survivors of flight 797 bound for Rio de Janeiro Brazil were badly injured. A Varig official in Rio said the jetliner carrying 39 Vanengers and 12 Crew members took off from Abidjan s por Bond Airport at 1 . And crashed about 4s minutes later. The airline raid the Jet which wat purchased in 1968,Wax sold recently to Brazil s air Force. The official Marcelo Corrca Lima identified the survivors As an Ivory coast National and a French National although other reports identified the second survivors bring from Lebanon or Brazil. Lima said the dead included an Amer ican a briton a German a Frenchman a chilean a peruvian an unknown num Ber of brazilians and citizens of the Ivory coast and Lebanon sgt. Ngu Esso a Sou of the Abidjan fire department who went to the scene Early in the morning told the associated press that the plane crashed in thick for est about 300 Yards from the la me River. Rescue squads had to travel on dirt roads and then on fool to reach the site he  first rescuers were four French see crash on Page 28 budget to exceed Gramm Redmon Washington a the record$1,02 trillion budget president Reagan plan to submit to Congress monday exceed by 119 billion the deficit ceiling required by the Gramm Rudman Law a congressional report says. La study released Friday the con Gressional budget office said the $42 Bil lion in cuts and other savings to be pro posed by Reagan would not meet the j108 billion Gramm Rudman deficit tar get for fiscal 1988, which begins oct. I. The administration has predicted that with the proposed cuts the new budget would Meel the $108 billion deficit requirement. Story photo on Page 4. Edwin l. Dale jr., a spokesman forthe office of management and budget said the congressional estimate differ from the White House projection be cause it uses less optimistic assumptions sea budget on Page 2b sea Wall splash a Boio Don Cloonan left and Tim Moyniha Nare clobbered by a wave As they stand an a sea Wall i Revere mass High tide during a a incr storm caused coastal flooding on Friday. The storm and Hue caused hundreds of residents to leave heir Homes to seek higher ground. Be Story on Page 28. Aspin has Tough questions for Weinberger Washington up the chairman of the House armed services committee has asked defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger to come up with specific answers about the administration s National Security policy. Rep. Lex Aspin d-wis., sent a letter to Weinberge Friday asking the Pentagon chief to present the com Mittee next week with details of the administration National Security policy As Well As the fiscal 19ss Bud get specifically Aspin said the committee wanted an Swers on policy regarding strategic nuclear forces nato the persian Gulf and Korea. Weinberger is scheduled to testify before the com Mittee thursday. A j Aspin has our asked him to disclose National Security strategy As required by the defense reorganization act passed last year. Aspin told Weinberger the questions he wants an swered Are Tough bul they re far from facetious. In fact if you can t answer them there s just no Way that you re going to be Able to come up with sensible National Security policy much less a budget that s based on anything but Sand Aspin conceded that the obviously sensitive nature of some of these issues will require some of the hear Ings to be  among the questions raised in the letter in regard tothe strategic defense initiative known As Star  Aspin asked Weinberger to spell out the most pressing needs for a nuclear deterrent until and if ski succeeds and whether the plan for ski is to protect 1cbm silos or to actually Stop an enemy attack with physical Means instead of the threat of Retalia Tion. Another Aspin question also asked whether administration policy relics on launch an gaming or Lavundi on Atlar " in regard to Jato Aspin asked the potential Osnato nations o Cope with an attack by the Warsaw fact countries without resort to nuclear arms reliability of the Eastern european countries in such a War Ami barring conventional Force reductions what improvements and additions arc needed for a Succes Fulton nuclear defense of  Aspin also asked the prospects of defeating an at tempt by the soviet Union to take Over the Oil Fields inthe persian Gulf what is needed to create a non nuclear defense in that area and the administration s As sumption of help in such a conflict from nations de pendent on Oil from hat Region. He asked Weinberger whether South Korea could withstand an attack from North Korea what the weak Nesses Are in the South korean defense and whether in the event of another War the United Stales would have to commit additional manpower to the area in the event of an invasion. Aspin also asked whether the administration consid ers the soviet Union capable of fighting a two front War. Whether North Korea is More Likely to attack i the United Stales is involved in another area and the Cost of enlarging the . Defense to Eccl simultaneous advances. Penn of. Wins Battle for no. 1 sports .  
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