European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 24, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Inside strides q free non prescription drugs on Pentagon in s hit list Page 3 n Airport Security systems found lacking Page 5 a St. Louis takes 3-2 world series Lead sports Page 21 the stars Andis ripes  unofficial publication of Tim 11,1. Armed Forcel vou6.no.1b9 saturday october 24, 1987 ,e.-.i- d 8693 a Reagan lawmakers will talk Over deficit from press dispatcher Washington in a bid to Calm the Freguy in the world s financial markets president Reagan announced thursday that he would meet with congressional leaders to negotiate ways to reduce the budget deficit with everything on the table including Possi ble tax increases. Fighting to restore Confidence in his leadership the president conceded at his nationally televised news conference thursday night that if people panicked and postponed Normal purchases because of volatility in the markets in could bring on something of a races  but he said thai there was no need for a downturn and repeatedly appealed for Calm. White House chief of staff Howard Baker said Fri Day that the meeting probably would take place Mon Day or tuesday and he expected a Compromise on the deficit reduction to be reached by the end of the week. Reagan also said he believes soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev will visit the United slates this year to sign an arms reduction treaty. But he said he has no firm won thai the meeting will take place. During his news conference. Reagan also defended the . Naval presence in the persian Gulf we Are not there to Start a War he said. We Are there to protect Neutral nations snipping in International  although he was pressed again and again Reagan declined to slate whether he would accept a tax in crease of any kind remarking that congressional Lead ers will find out when i sit Down  he offered neither a prediction of what would happen to Stock prices in coming weeks nor any detailed Agenda to reverse what he called a Long overdue  Reagan also announced at the news conference his first in Washington in seven months that the deficit for the fiscal year ended sept. 30, amounted to 1148 billion considerably less than had been expected. The see Reagan on Page 28 Safe chief wants both sides heard on spouse harassment  is photo 6 0 by Daryle.  Bureau Ramstein a Germany the Safe com Mander expects the Blue ribbon panel looking into Mil itary pressure on spouses to hear arguments on both lion of the Issue during ils four base visit to Germany and England. We can show examples All Day Long of very Success Ful military member whose spouses have had a full time Job the whole time Gen. William l. Kirk said Friday. We can also probably come up with very senior colonels who believe that they were denied the Opportunity to command a unit because their wife was working Kirk who took Over Safe s top Job in april also Heads nato s Allied air forces Central Europe. He discussed issues facing the air Force in Europe in an interview with the stars and stripes at Safe head quarters. The spouse pressure Issue tint came to Light in july after iwo officers wives at Grissom fab tnd., complained that commanders had pressured them to quil their Job to support i hair husband s careers. The air Force created the panel visiting Europe in response to the complaints. Kirk said it would be inappropriate to comment further until the panel finished its investigation but he said he thought the air Force was family oriented. I have been in the position of placing senior Colo Nels in command positions he said. I give you my continued on Page 28 president Rich gun at press conference. Disappearance of test Pilot is a mystery by Dave . Bureau British aerospace officials Don t know what happened to he lest Pilot who ejected from his new harrier Jet More than an hour before the plane crashed into the Atlantic Ocean. Searching aircraft helicopters and Hill trek Ken failed on Friday to find any Trace of a test Pilot who ejected from a Jet lighter somewhere Over Southwest England. Missing is the civilian test Pilot. Terry Scoll and his or. My 5 harrier ii ground attack Jel the third of its kind and one of 62 destined for service in the Royal air Force by 1990, Accord ing to John Goddyn a spokesman for British aerospace the plane s builder. Royal air Force and Royal Navy Rescue teams late Friday were still searching the plane s known flight path for the Pilot. No Trace of the Pilot or the wreckage has been found but he was assumed to have fallen either in the sparsely populated me dip Hills of Somerset or Bleak exmoor in North Devon or in the Bristol Chan Nel North of the Somerset and Devon coast. The Raf said no distress Call from the Pilot was received no emergency signal rockets were sea Pilot on Page 28 5 top soviet generals killed in air crash Moscow a five generals who served on the general staff or in com Mand positions of a soviet army group were killed in an air crush the defense ministry newspaper hid Friday. The report in the newspaper red Star said the five generals and two flight offi cers died monday. It did not say where or How the crash occurred. Obituaries for the iwo flight officers a helicopter Pilot and his technician indican Dihe aircraft was a helicopter. The newspaper carried obituaries on col. Gen. Vladimir p. Shutov most recently listed As Deputy chief of a main directorate of the military general staff headquartered in Moscow and it. Gen. Kiri n. Trofimov Deputy chief of communications of the soviet armed forces. Red Star also listed obituaries on u. Gen. Yuri i. Riabinin who it said had served in responsible positions on the general staff maj. Gen. Erlyn v. Porfi Rev. Chief of staff of the Southern group of the armies and maj. Gen. Vladimir , who recently occupied a responsible position on the general staff of the soviet armed  Porf Iryes i position with the Southern group suggested the crash occurred in the Southeast Border Region which includes the Border area Between the soviet Union and Afghanistan. A Western diplomatic source who spoke on condition of anon Mil told the associated press that information he had received about the Accident ruled Oul Afghanistan. Where the soviet Mili tary has been fighting rebels for nearly eight j care. But he said the Southern army s area of operations covers a wide area hat encompasses pans of Eastern Europe As Well. Asked How he knew Afghanistan was Noi involved the source who has Aix ii to i j Nous Western intelligence re ports Saidi i can l Lell of