European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 19, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The stars and stripes Friday june 19.19b7 Bill ties 88 defense budget to new taxes Washington Nytz a is tril lion budget proposed by House and sen ate democratic leaders will require president Reagan to accept All their tax increases in order to get a higher budget for the military. The congressional leaders after is weeks or negotiations agreed wednes Day on the ii trillion Compromise Bud get Tor 1988 that puts them on a collision course with the White House Over taxes and Pentagon spending. The new budget is expected to be approved in both the House and the sen ate. It would raise si9.3 billion in new taxes in the fiscal year 1988, which be gins oct. I. The types of tax increase Are not specified in the plan but democratic Leaden Are considering increase in liquor cigarette and other excise taxes and increase in estate taxes. If Reagan accepts the tax increases the Pentagon budget would be $296 Bil lion $16 billion below the president s request and just 16.4 billion More than the current military budget. The pro posed increase would not be enough to cover rises in costs brought on by inflation. If the president does not accept the tax increases the Pentagon budget would be held to $289 billion just below this year s level. Under the democratic plan non Mili tary spending would be reduced by is 1 billion with the major savings in foreign Aid farm programs and medicare the health care program for the elderly. An other $7.2 billion would be gained from the Early payoff of High interest Loans to Rural electric cooperatives from the Rural electrification administration. The budget fight Between Congress which is controlled by Democrat and the Republican while House is expected o become one of the major Battles of this year and a major Issue in the elec Tion Campaign next year. The agreement was reached Days after Reagan in a nationally televised speech accused the democrats of failing to move ahead on a budget. He also denounced them for rejecting Hie priorities of higher military spending and no tax increases. On tuesday Reagan said be would veto tax increases and told Republican senators that using uses to cure Defi cits1 is like using leeches to cure Ane  the president also said some in Congress arc caving in to its old temptation its old a and spend  the democratic leaders House speaker Jim Wright of Texas and Robert c. Byrd the Senate majority Leader from West Virginia pushed for the Compro Mise this week partly in response to this criticism. They also were smarting from a growing perception that the democrats who now control the House and the Senate for the first time in the Rea Gan presidency could not govern be cause they could not agree on a budget. This is a budget which i think achieves the priorities of our party reaches he needs of the people provides for a Strong National defense and pays for it Byrd said. The Compromise reached wednesday followed the rejection of offers by the House and then the Senate in the Ian several weeks. To he Embarrass men of the democratic leaders what was predicted to be an easy conference Over the budget bogged Down in a dispute Over the military budget. And because republicans in the House and the Senate could not be counted on for sup Lort just a few democrats were Able to scuttle the earlier com Promise attempts. In the end the House moved a lithic More than Halfway to the Senate on the military and it took a plea from Wright for Unity to win support in the House budget committee. Riots rage in s. Korea Hope offered for talks Seoul South Korea up thousands of protesters in the nation s two largest cities fought with Riol police for a ninth straight Day thursday amid signs the government May yield to demands for new debate on the Constitution. Students in Seoul and Pusan engaged in run Ning Street Bailies with riot police. In Seoul Stu Dent overwhelmed about 100 policemen beat ing them up and burning their Shields helmets and Gat  pro government Kyun Ghynn Shimun Laid in a front Page Story the ruling party had concluded the Public wanted it to reconsider president Chun Doo Hwan i decision april 13 to end debate on the Constitution. The new papa quoting government party soured said party members have made such proposal As putting Chun s decision to a nation Al referendum. They also have proposed holding negotiations with the opposition to discuss the term of office of the next president and re opening debate on constitutional change 15 of 16 iranian diplomats expelled from England London up Britain announced thursday the expulsion of All but one iranian Diplomat and a reduction in the British Mission in Tehran to a single caretaker Diplomat Stop Ping just Short of breaking relations. Fifteen of 16 iranian diplomats in Britain were ordered out by june 30. Prime minister Margaret Thatcher s govern ment said it was taking the drastic action in response to unacceptable iranian behaviour thai began May 28 with the 14-hour detention and beating of Britain s no. 2 Man in Tehran Iran s failure to offer an explanation or an apology for the abduction and dealing of Diplo mat Edward Chaplin by fran s revolutionary guards led to a series of retaliatory expulsions by both governments. Chaplin was abducted apparently in Retalia Tion for the arrest of iranian vice Consul Ahmad gha Serai in Manchester on shoplifting charges. Iran later claimed Ghassemi was beaten by Manchester police. Palace coup surprises United Arab emirates Abu Dahabi up leaders of the seven United Arab emirates plunged into the worst political crisis for the Ujj year old Gulf federation thursday sought an explanation fora pal Ace coup in one of their states. Arab and Western diplomatic sources con firmed late wednesday that Sheik Sultan bin Mohammed Al Nassimi ruler of shariah and member of the seven member United Arab Emi rates ruling Council was overthrown by his brother sheikh Abdul  Aziz so has been the strongman in shariah As chief of its National guard. Beirut frown a  1_ his coverage of the 985 hijacking of a Twa jetliner to Beirut Germany is holding one of the alleged hijackers who seized the Airliner Mohammad Ali Hamadi and ii considering a . Request for the 22-year-old suspect extradition. Ard a National German television network note Glass was near the commandeered Twa aircraft Ai it sat on the ground at the Beirut Airport in june i 985. Therefore Security officials in Beirut presume thai he was kidnapped to prevent him from testifying against Hamadi the alleged Hijacker who is now under arrest in West Germany the Ard news an bouncer said the network did not cite sources for the report which came on the network s nightly newscast. Earlier Germany s second National television net work. Adf reported lebanese official believe there May be a connection Between Hamadi and Glass kid napping. While registering concern for the missing men and their families the stale department said we will no yield to terrorist blackmail. Glass would be the ninth american held hostage in Lebanon and the first Westerner kidnapped in to country since Syria sent 7,500 troops to West Beirut on feb. 22 to quell factional fighting. Glass who is from los Angeles was a correspondent for Abc to from March 1983 until last March when be left the network to work on a Book about the Middle East Glass has continued to do free Lance work for Abc a network spokeswoman said. We have no Independent confirmation that he has been kidnapped Abc spokeswoman Elise Adams said in new York. We do know that he has t kept several appointments in the last 24 hours nor has Fie been seen. Glass wife Fiona said she had no confirmation of tit kidnapping so far i Don t know anything except the Rumor. That he was kidnapped last night she told lie associated press in London where he and Glass live with their five children. One source speaking on condition of anonymity. Hid Glass was kidnapped by gunmen who intercepted my fat a chauffeur driven car in Beirut suburb of Qunyu a stronghold of iranian backed shiite moslem  area is policed by the syrians. Glass arrived in West Beirut four Days ago to gather information for his Book sources said. He visited the a s Beirut office at noon tuesday and did not la where he would be travelling. From there he went in a chauffeur driven White Volvo to the alumni club of the american University of Beirut where he had lunch with Osseiran. Friends say Glass later travelled to Sidon for an appointment with Osseiran s son. Osseiran s daughter said Glass and her brother left Sidon together for Beirut at 10 . Local Lime wednesday in her brother1 car. "1 Haven t seen Ali since then i Haven t heard from him. But it is not time for Ali not to keep in touch she said by Telephone from the family s borne in Sidon. I Don t believe he is missing or kidnapped she  voice of free Lebanon a Christian radio Sta Tion in East Beirut said Ali Osseiran was taken by the kidnappers along with  foreigners including the americans Are missing after being kidnapped in Lebanon in the past two years. Also missing is anglican Church envoy Terry Waite who disappeared in Lebanon while on a Mission to negotiate the release of  moslem groups Allied with Iran have claimed responsibility for several of the kidnappings. No group has claimed responsibility for wait s disappearance. Duty from Page 1 giving imminent danger pay to he marines in Leb anon and that support was overwhelming an aide said. We re pretty sure we can get this Bill  the Bill Calls for making