European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 14, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Pago the stars and stripes tuesday. April u. 937 Senate panel oks 2% pay hike Cap Chiles budget plan faces debate b Chuck Vinch washing inn Bureau Washington the so Nail budget committee approved a spending plan ale last week thai would Cap next year s pay raise for military and civilian personnel at 1 percent. The budget plan which would Cut the Pentagon s request for fiscal by 2j billion was approved by Hie committee along straight party lines with the democrats approving it and the republicans voting again it. The plan was drawn up by committee Chat Man sen. Lawlon Chiles a Fia the full scale will debate the measure Afler the easter recess a committee staffer said. The Senate will consider a Iasi three other spending plans although the Chiles plan is in Only inc that was approved by the committee. The outer Are included in the commit tee s report Hul with no recommendations. Among the alternatives is a plan offered by sen. Ernes mailings d-s.c., that would Cul the administration s request by Only a Hill inn ant would allow for a .1 percent pay raise for military and civilian personnel. President Reagan s defense budget of $312 billion and a sequester budget which shows whal would happen to the budget if the automatic cuts under the Miramm Rudman Hollings deficit reduction Law were enforceable Are also in Llie committee report. Those automatic cuts were ruled unconstitutional last year. A general political analysis of Fth Bill would be that the committee realty could t make any definitive statement said a committee staffer the committee made one i . Iii Audril i Lew alternative plans Anil to let Lite Lull san in Debute Chr  menthol the plan the full House passed i hi1 House Cudgel commit tee s a mind of the Federal budget last week by n Vole of 230-l 2. That Hill would Al the administration s request by $2.1 billion the same Amolins As the Senate budget t him Nihleen Bill. Once the Sena i e approx veil a spending plan a Confer ence committee still Iron  Between the mouse and Senate Bills. When a Ianul Resolution is approved Only the spending limit is binding on the armed sen ices and appropriation committees that work out details of the Pentagon budget. Those Tommil tics Are free to make changes in the pay raise recommendations of the budget committees. Panel issues revisions on Justice code Washington a Many Feder Al prison inmates would serve longer terms under a new set of sentencing guidelines issued monday that abolishes parole and makes other significant Revi Sions in the . Criminal Justice system. The guidelines drafted Over inc past year and a half by the . Sentencing commis Sion Are designed to reduce inc wide Dis parity in penalties now imposed on Crimi nals convicted of similar crimes. The guidelines do this by reducing inc discretion of judges in sentencing offenders. The commission approved the new sen  on a 6-1 vote Over the week end and in now will be reviewed by con Gress before going into effect. The panel s work is part of a revamped Federal sentencing system embodied in the comprehensive crime control act of in so that eliminates parole boards to which convicts traditionally have turned i n order to gel their sentences reduced. Under the new rules the Burden of sentencing criminals Falls totally on judges. Convicts would serve their full sentence less a Small amount of time earned for Good behaviour. The commission devised a scheme in which each Federal crime Falls into one of 43 different Levels. Three crimes were assigned level 43 and automatically draw a life sentence first degree murder treason and aircraft hijacking resulting in death. The length of inc prison term is deter mined by the prior criminal record of the offender As Well As by the seriousness of the crime. Commercial bribery is assigned level 9, and an offender with no prior convictions is sentenced to serve four to 10 months in prison. Feeling the heat of the Job a phom of Enn , help a fellow fireman Enlil off after he Gol a Little too close Losi practice fire. The fireman who had Heen retrieving some equip ment my the burning Structure was uninjured in the sunday incident. Was mice s Brushy Bill the infamous Billy the kid h1co, Texas api Pur years. Ollie l. Brushy Bill Roberts claimed he was Billy the kid. The Mur ilu1 world his True identity and obtain the Pardon promised him by the governor of the stale of new i in Garrelt failed Billy the kid in 1880, but before his scheduled hanging he escaped in i so i. Two deputies were killed in the escape. Garrelt was credited. / a. Idrous outlaw who supposedly was shot to death by Mexico. We believe his Story at 1 Pray to god for the Ulie were Kille t the escape. Carre it s credit scrim Al i Arreol in new Mexico in 1881. Forgiveness he solemnly asked for the plaque says. With tracking him Down two months later near Hon  use new evidence includes the discovery Sumner. Of an empty grave where Hilly the kid was supposedly Christine Mcclure who played the piano at Rob buried m fort Sumner. . Affidavits from Sis pen ens funeral said Ilie remembered seeing ins scars Roberts during the v  he lived Here told mum s about trying to avenge the death of a rancher who had employed him. And tic waved a Campaign to Clear his name. Now several townspeople say Ihen pc compiled con cluiivecmdcnu1 thai bilk the kid and Roberts who died of a heart attack in l l 50 at age w. Erc one and the same. If had to put a percentage on it. I d May the believers Are so percent and the non Bali com Are 20 per cent said Justice of the peace Bob Hefner who say he started the historical probe two years ago. The people who made a memorial saturday to Billy the kid arc believers according to inc plaque mounted on Concrete and surrounded by s red Brick Walkway he spent the last a s of his life trying to prove to pie who claimed la have known Billy and Roberts As tin1 same person similar physical descriptions of the two and Hubert detailed knowledge of a new mexi co cattlemen s Power so Ruggli in which his employer was ambushed. Billy the kid. We Csc real name was Henry Mccarty. Went to new Mexico from the 1 am Wilh i Nim her in 1s7j and settled in Silver City. He shot a Man in a quarrel and became a fugitive under the alias William h. Bouncy. After the rancher who befriended him was killed in 1878, Billy the kid began a career of crime lie once boasted of 21 killings. From gunshots and other violence that he touted As proof. He had a lot of scars on his body that an Ordi nary Man would not have she said As she watched hit dedication ceremonies attended by Almusin 500 people saturday at the same time the town is trying to prove its link to Billy the kid. To is bringing up evidence Hal he was t As murderous As his legacy. I know of no serious him Orian that credits a ill with More than five  Hefner said. Retired Hico school superintendent Harold Walker Ai t Bill the kid killed in order 10 stay