European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 11, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 28 the stars and stripes saturday july 11,1987 Reagan orders new cuts Washington up president Reagan Friday ordered All Federal agencies to slash their budget in an Effort 1o save up to $ is billion As part of he govern ment s midyear review his spokesman said. Marlin Fitzwater told reporters the cuts Are required by changes in original budget assumptions. Fizz Waitr said thai All . Agencies including the Pentagon will be affected by the order and Are required to submit their budget cuts to the office of management and budget by july 17. We will need to make savings of 110 billion to si5billion," fizz Waitr said to meet the Gramm Rudman Hollings budget reduction target of $108 billion. But Filz water did not specify where the reductions part of a midyear review will be made. We will hive to review the entire package he told reporter. When in was pointed out that the congressional budget office has said $27 billion More in cuts Are needed to meet the target Fitzwater said if we need Marc than that Well go after  in his memorandum to the government agencies the president called for significant reductions1 to save  for raising taxes Fitzwalter said Reagan remains opposed to such increases. North from Page 1 gave him a ready Reserve of Cash for use in Covert activities other than the Contra assistance. The fund was lapped to procure a ship equipped wit facilities to broadcast onshore to a hostile country North said in an apparent reference to Nicaragua one committee member sen. William Cohen a Maine called that a gov pm mint outside the government without congressional ratification or even presidential approval the atmosphere in the ornate hearing room seemed cordial in contrast to the frequent Legal sparring earlier in the week. At one Point North jocular asked Senate lawyer Arthur Liman if he was criticizing his shred  eyesight has suffered from Reading what you left behind Liman said provoking laughter."1 deserved that North replied smiling. Even  he answered questions North was engaging in and quite possibly winning a Battle for Public sup  placed two Slacks of telegrams on the witness table. And officials at the White House and Capitol said Call were running heavily in his favor his confessions about talc Mpinga cover up  have no political ambitions North said at one Point. I m not running for anything and i m certainty not running from  White House spokesman Marlin fizz Waitr obviously the administration is pleased that much of the Story on our support for the con Lias and Central America is being portrayed by col. North to audience thai Are appreciative and  Fitzwater said the president is watching the hearings with  around the hearing room was tightened after a Ireat was received against North s life said a committee aide who spoke on condition of anonymity. The nature of the threat and who made in was not  other developments North said that on a secret negotiating session in Iran in 1936, he personally recommended accepting an iranian proposal to release iwo hostages in Exchange for a previously agreed upon shipment of arms. He said former National Security adviser Robert Mcfarlane who led the delegation rejected the offer and said he would turn Over the weapons Only if All remaining hostage were released. Officials Al toe Capitol and the White House to ported a Large volume of Telephone Calls m North favor while sen. David Boren dokla., said in a broadcast interview Lale thursday that lawyers bad spent too Long interrogating the witness and it was tune for lawmaker to Lake , dressed for the fourth straight Day in his Marine officer s uniform with six rows of ribbons testified As his wife Betsy sat behind him. Replying to questions about a widely publicized event. North Sid he once gave a whip House Lour to u. Col. Ollerer North Urf his wife Betsy Confer oot Wethe congressional hearing room thursday. An iranian official who had been flown to this country secretly. He said he did so because he wanted to show his Contact the Nobel peace prize awarded to presi Dent Theodore Roosevell in 1906 for his role in ending a russian japanese  was reminded that the committee has heard testimony that Secretary of state George Shultz Secre tary of defense Caspar Weinberger and Mcfarlane were opposed to the arms for to slags Deal. To that North added that Tike some of my older activities the opposition that i heard was far More ruled while we were doing in than it Ever was after i failed Afler it was exposed it was not Clear How Long North testifying with a limited Grant of immunity from prosecution would be required to answer questions. Initially the panel had Hope to wrap up his interrogation by the end of the Day. Bui none of the 26 lawmakers on the joint House Senate investigating panel has yet had a turn to ask questions and in seemed certain that North will be Back in lie witness chair when the committees meet again next week. The testimony about arms sates marked a turn fro where the committee left off on thursday. Then Norelli spent much of the afternoon describing attempts 10 fashion a cover up to protect the president from political damage As the Iran Contra affair was be coming known. In a stunning disclosure he said he shredded documents under inc noses of Justice department investigators who had come to his National Security Council office to read files. They were working in their projects i was working online North wid thursday at a congressional hearing referring to the aftem con of last nov. 22 when Justice department officials William Bradford Reynolds and John rat Antoon were in Bis office As part of their inquiry into secret arms shipments to Iran. The Justice department denied the account. St i Rean president Kuitsen jihad of party Seoul sought Tetra a president Chindoo Hui announce Friday thai he will step Down immediately As Hesiod Cut of the ruling democratic Justice party ,. Chun said he wanted 10 is Pul his dunes Schief of stale from a  position a new party president was Nom Mcd immediately but in was considered lit tic Post would to to Roh tac woo who now pcs As party chairman.  july i Chun accepted sweeping a Refl by Roh Tor political change including presidential elections. Ron s eight Point Pat bowed to virtually Alt opposition demands. Assailant Breaks wrist of Goetz s attorney new York a be hard Roctz s attorney his left wrist broken by a baseball bal Wield my assailant says he Hopes the attack was not linked this successful defense of the subway gunman. Police Friday were trying o determine Why the Man repeatedly hammered Barry Slotnick with the Bat thursday afternoon outside Slot Nick s Manhattan office. Swolnick who defended Goetz after he shot four teen agers in a subway in 1984, said a concerned Golz called his office after the incident and Roy Innis president of the Congress of racial Equality and a Goetz supporter came to secs Olnick at Beekman downtown Hospital. Slotnick also suffered cuts and bin secs on both arms and his Back and a puncture wound to his right hand in the assault said or. Ronald in Mck. An orthopaedic surgeon. Slotnick had left his office at 4 15 . An was getting into his car when he was attacked. I thought the Guy was running to open thedoor for him said Roberto Dasilva Swolnick s chauffeur who saw the attack from the  he attacked him i saw this Man run behind him and Start hitting  attacker wearing a motorcycle helmet chased Swolnick into City Hall Park before jump ing aboard a waiting motorcycle driven by a Sec Ond Man and fleeing Dasilva said. Meese accepts no blame for his business dealings Washington a an unapologetic at Torney general Edwin Meese Iii refused to accept blame thursday for hit failure to meet financial disclosure requirements of the Federal ethics Laws telling Congress that his ties to businessman involved in the we tech corp scandal were proper in All  legitimate questions existed the proper and More responsible course of action and theone required by Federal Law and regulations would have been to ask me directly Meese Toldie Senate oversight of government manage ment sub Comminie earlier thursday ethics office director David Martin told the subcommittee that Meese still on tin compliance with ethics Laws despite the attorney generals year late disclosure monday that he mad nearly $40,000 in profit on 23 highly speculative one Way Stock grades in l9months.mecse Songinas investment was $54,500. Martin said Meese must provide additional detail on the transactions and Amend his Finan Cial disclosure forms to add the information. Slovik from Page 1 squid Jan. 31, 1945, about a year after be was drafted. The 24-year-old army private was buried in a numbered grave among the Graves of 94 other american Oldie a who were hanged for rape an murder during the War. Burial was planned for 10 30 am. Sat urday in Detroit next to the grave of his wife. Antoinette. She died in 1979 after spending Yean trying to have her Hus band s name cleared with a presidential Pardon. Slovik i troubles with authorities began when be was 12, growing up in the polish enclave of Hamtramck he was arrested for breaking and entering in foundry. Uter he we convicted of embezzle ment from a drug store and tent to Pris on. He was paroled after Lervig Sumontha but was linked to a stolen car and went tuck to prison. He was parole again married in 1942 and drafted Jin 3,1944. Stovik we declared a deserter user thai year a Day Amer he reported As i replacement in an infantry company. Hews absent without leave for 43 Days resumed to Bis unit and then deserted again the army has said. There is no convincing evidence to show thai he was mentally incompetent unable to adhere to the right or so emotionally unstable that he was unable to control his actions a Pentagon review Board found in 1977. The Board determined thai Slovik execution wat justified four Yean Uter Calka look up the matter and has spent about 15,000 to Fol the Renzini Back to mite Fin. Hereid he wanted Slovik s remains Back in the United slates before seeking a presidential Pardon. In a letter to president Reagan dated july 7, 1987, Calka a member of the Macomb county Board of commission Era wrote that Stovik t burial in the United slates will ease the Yean of pain for the Slovik  appealed to Reagan s sense of for Givens to find it in your heart to Grant presidential Pardon. A Pardon that merely removes Lite firing squad sentence and Cherget. Tort alone will serve As a sym Bolic  you look at the present world circumstance and the pardoning of deserters draft avoider especially in the Vietnam Era is it Loo much to ask that the blot against a polish kid who from his teen age Days was in rouble be give final a cult