European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 1, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page the stars and stripes saturday october 1.1988 House oks defense budget measure Bill includes 4.1 % military pay hike Washington up1 the House passed a 528.1 billion defense spending Bill Friday thai included s27 million in humanitarian Aid through March for the Nicaragua Contra rebels and a  per cent pay raise for uniformed military. The huge measure adopted 327-77 in the House and rushed to the Senate for final approval and relay to president Reagan for his signature at a premix night ceremony puts Money into the Pentagon s Bank accounts to cover its Bills in fiscal 19s9, which starts sat urday. The measure mirrors the $299.6 billion defense authorization measure signed into Law earlier Friday by Reagan. The authorization Bill provides the Brond Legal authority for Pentagon programs and the appropriations Bill actually puts Money into Pentagon bunk accounts. The spending Bill is lower because not All projects arc finished during the year and do not need All of he Money at once. Also to other appropriations Bills to taling is 7.6 billion for military construction work and defense related projects at the Energy department were covered in he larger authorization Bill. Although the while House earlier declared the Contra Aid plan was Only marginally acceptable because it had no guaranteed military assistance there was not a word of debate about it when the Bill was on he floor. Congress Cut off military Aid feb. I but humanitarian assistance including food clothing shelter medical services and supplies has continued and the Bill allows it to continue through March 31 Al the Rale of about $4,3 million a month in late March of this year Congress approved $17.7 million in humanitarian Aid to the rebels a similar amount for Aid to children injured in the fighting and $10 million Tor verifying the peace Accord. Restrictions on freeing $16.5 million in previously approved but now Frozen military assistance make it virtually impossible the Money can be released. Cagan would have to Tell Congress before it adjourns that two of three Crite Ria have been met Nicaragua has launched an unprovoked attack on the contras the sandinista Are Blan lastly violating the Central american peace accords and that Moscow is providing an unacceptable level of military Aid to the nicaraguan government. Both the House and Senate would then have to vote to release the Money. The package was rammed through inc scale by frustrated democrats after at tempts to reach a bipartisan package Tell through. The appropriations Bill contains $4.1 billion for inc Star wars strategic de sense initiative missile defense research Effort j2so million for the Mobile sin Gle warhead mid Gilman missile and about $600 million for a rail Mobile my missile with $350 million of that held Back until feb. 15 so the next president could shift it to the midget Man if he wished. The Bill includes $1.3 billion for a new Trident ballistic missile submarine and si.9 billion for the new is missile for those submarines $1.5 billion Tor inc first in a new generation of attack sub marines to be called the so Avoir class and is billion for four c-17 transport jets. Court rejects move by North to end Case Washington a a Federal appeals court on Friday rebuffed an at tempt by Oliver a North and two co defendants to Slop their prosecution for diverting the proceeds of  arms sales to inc Nic antiguan Contra rebels. A three judge panel of the . Circuit court of appeals said it would Only con Sidur arguments that the defendants congressional Leslin Iony was illegally used against them after convictions in the Case. Except for a very limited number of cases. Appeals in criminal caws must await the termination of the proceedings by final  wind circuit judges James l. I Ickley Douglas 11. Ginsburg and David Sentelle. If appellants bims May effectively judge finds Fri unfair to hispanics Elpaso Texas a a Federal judge Friday found the Fri discriminated against hispanic agents in promo Lions and working conditions often As signing them to tedious wiretap monitoring or pulling them off major cases. Ruling in a lawsuit brought by most of the Agency s hispanic agents . District judge Lucius Flinton said in a sum Mary of his opinion this court has found a pattern of practice of discrimination and condition of employment in promotional opportunities As to the plaintiff s  however Bunton did not find that the Fri had retaliated against those involved in inc lawsuit according to the sum Mary attached to his 97-Page opinion. Chris Clark an Fri attorney had no immediate comment. The decision will be forwarded to Fri Headquarters and officials May have a comment later he said the matter of remedies will be decided in future court hearings. Bunion wrote adding thai it might be sufficient simply to order the Fri to improve ils internal discrimination complaint pro Cess and promotion practices and pay Spanish speaking agents for their special ability. Be reviewed on Appeal from a final judgment of conviction there is no justification for departing from inc general prohibition against piecemeal review the court said of the defense Challenge thai was joined by the american civil liberties Union. North a former National Security Council aide former National Security adviser John m. Poin Dexler and arms dealer Albert Hakim contended hat be cause of widespread publicity grand jurors and witnesses were exposed to the congressional testimony the defendants gave under limited immunity from prosecution. Prosecutors arc buried from using the immunized testimony thai it witness gives Congress As evidence against that defendant in court. While the court did not Rule on inc merits ofic Appeal the judges a Iid the defendants claim that the congressional immunity affords them a right not to be prosecuted at All is ill founded the three defendants had appealed . District judge Girhard a. Gesell s preliminary determination thai prosecutors and grand jurors had nol relied on the immunized congressional testimony As evidence to return the indictment. Gesell s decision to hold Only a limited pretrial hearing on the Issue of grand jury taint was also a subject of the Challenge. The appeals court also rejected a re quest thai it order Csell to either Dis miss the indictment or hold a More extensive pretrial hearing on the immunity Issue. Do i hear an opening bid the setting of course is Beverly Hills. Whew Nisi worm ii 4h7,4&