European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 2, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes saturday May 2,1987 democrats berated for defense cuts by Norman Blacka p military writer Washington the Pentagon s no. 2 executive declaring the passage or an adequate defens budget the most important Issue facing the nation accused House democrats Friday of Gross irresponsibility in proposing new spending cutbacks. Chairman los Aspin of the House aimed services Commil Tec intends to present a deeply flawed authorization Bill to the House said Deputy de sense Secretary William h. Tall in. Americans will have Taft less defense and be required to accept a greater risk to the nation s Security. It remains Only to say hat the irrational and unreasonable defense budget he pro poses is an irresponsible one As  Tali s speech delivered before he University club of Chicago and released at the Pentagon was  for its personal invective. Taft also made sarcastic observations about the congressional process and made it Clear the Reagan administration had concluded the do Moralie Coni rolled Congress was belching on a commitment to forge a consensus on  Telephone Calls to Aspin d-wis., seeking comment were not returned immediately. Noting the past to Pentagon budgets had not included enough Money to cover inflation Taft said president Reagan decided to submit an austere budget this year hat reflected our experience of the last to years and proposed spending at the minimum level  president Reagan proposed a very modest 3 per cent real growth in defense. Since this budget req Ucol reflected the congressional leadership s Call for a lower figure we believed it would provide an Opportunity for a consensus on defense and thus avoid he kind of arbitrary and damaging cuts made in the  when the House armed services committee first reviewed he proposal Taft noted it wrote a Bill authorizing a defense budget of 1306 billion for fiscal 1988, compared with the �312 billion sought by Rea Gan. Appo Oid meeting of the Waters the her. Mark banal left feat a prices in co him Evaa Gallou lutheran Church of America delegates to bus Ohio As Bishops Dvid Preus will Herzfeld hid the first convention of the new Church were Otot Friday do from vie and iras in Urey Jan symbolically mix to elect Bishop Herbert w. Chilstrom of  oilers rear Mentona three lutheran churches that presiding Hashop who will Lead the third largest protes Meg cd into a 53 million member  the Tel denomination for Iti first four Cara perhaps the Shock of finding out that the presi Dent s budget was about right after All was simply Loo much for it Tafi said. Aspin has now agreed to follow the guidance demanded by the House budget committee by chopping another j17 by lion from the bit dropping i 1� thes 289 billion being spent his year. Tall noted. The House is expected to consider that proposal nest week. Ladies and gentlemen there is no More important Issue on our National Agenda today than the defense budget Tafi declared. America s Security needs have not changed. The threat presented by the soviet unions indeed greater than Ever. Even he recent Progress in arms reduction Alks while it could reduce the threat we face. Olters Little Prospect of smaller defense budgets. Conventional forces arc far More expensive than nuclear  Taft suggested that in electing Reagan in 1980 ands984, americans cast their votes for strength and  yet the House is now threatening a return to he discredited practice of adopting artificial spending Lim its without any basis in strategy As if the excursion into the real world of defense requirements was a Miv Lake he said. Victim testifies of Goetz trial new York a one of the youths shot by Bomhard Goetz faring the subway gunman for the first time since the gunfire More than to years ago testified Friday that Goetz told him you All can have it after he asked for Money. Troy Canty said Goetz was the first person he a i walked up have five dollars ? Canty testified. He said he stood three feet from Goetz who was Silling Down. What were you doing asked assistant District attorney Gregory Waples. I was miking to him Canty replied. Did you have anything in your hand he asked. No said Canty adding thai Goetz Ihen stood up and said you All can have it " during a break in the testimony Canty stared at Goeriz who spoke loudly with defense attorney Barry Slotnick. Goetz 39, is charged with attempting 10 Mur Der Canty James Ramseur Barry Allen and Parrel Cabey with an unlicensed .38-Calibcr pistol. Slotnick has promised at least two Days Cross examination when Canty finishes his testimony part of his strategy of putting he shooting victims on trial Goetz has said that Canty now 21, sparked the shooting when he asked for the Money. In a ape statement played wednesday Golz said he believed the teen agers were about to Rob him. Canty an aspiring chef is ending an 1 8-month stint at a drug rehabilitation Center. Aids linked to tuberculosis increase cd says Atlanta a the spread of aids seems linked to the first significant increase in tuberculosis in the United Stales since 1953, according to the National centers for disease control. From 1981-1984, the number of re ported new to cases declined an average of 1,706 a year but dropped Only 54 m1985. In 19s6, the number of cases Rose by 374 to 22,575, an increase of 1.7 per cent. This indicates to us that we have a Ery serious problem we need to pay attention to his or. Dixie Snider director of the cd s tuberculosis Divi Sion said thursday. National reporting of to cases was not fully implemented until 19s3. Snider said the cd s 19s6 figures Are preliminary May end up slightly higher and do not include to cases brought inform other countries. The report said to and aids Regis tries were matched in 24 states and Lour cities with a finding that 4.2 percent of the i Isi aids patients who were matched also had to. Not All states match aids and to registries but the relationship Between aids and to would be better under stood if they did the cd said. Aids or acquired immune deficiency syndrome destroys the body s ability to fight disease and is considered fatal. It has been diagnosed in More than 33.000 americans. More than 19,000 have died. Last july he journal of the Ameri can medical association said aids patients often suffer severe and unusual forms of to and said the disease should be seen As a signal of possible aids infection. A Survey of 134 new Jersey aids patients found 29 of them Hajts it said. While to is usually confined to the lungs in aids patients it appears in Bones the Hean lining the nerves Lymph glands or rectum the Magazine said. The jumps in to cases Are highest where aids is More of a problem Snider said. In new York City he said to has increased by 40 percent in two years. There is very clearly a to epidemic in new York he said. Snider said he most dramatic increase is in neighbourhoods with High instances of aids cases and among men age 25 to 44. We have Good circumstantial Evi Dence that aids is responsible for a great part of it he said. Other populations where an increase in to has been noted he said include minorities the homeless and the for eign born. The Fate of tuberculosis has been higher among minorities Ihan non minorities for years and the Gap is get Ting worse,1 Snider said. He said minorities often have poorer housing and nutritional habits and loss Access to medical help. The same applies for the homeless he said. People born abroad May conc fro areas where the to Rale is hundreds of times what in is in the United states bringing he bacteria with them an developing the disease after hey arrive he said. This usually happens within a year or  he said other illnesses such As mycobacterium Vium intracellular an ailment that has similarities to pneumonia show up in about a third of aids victims. It was rare before the aids epidemic increase he said adding hat it tends to slay with aids patients and not infect the general population. The important thing to remember is that the tuberculosis problem is Dif Ferent in hat other people Are susceptible to  he said tuberculosis in new York City will spill outside the aids Community  said the breakthrough in the fight against to came in the late 1940s with he discovery of the Antibiotic  spreads when a person who has it coughs sending the bacteria out in water droplets. In ii contagious but difficult to spread