European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 29, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Pago the stars and stripes saturday. October 29,1980 88 Federal deficit Rose $5.4 billion Washington api the Reagan and ministry lion a riday said the Federal budget deficit was si55.1 billion in the just completed budget year up 3.6 per cent from a i Al i a 7. The administration s Lynal accounting for Lite budget year that ended sept 30 showed inc imbalance by Wicen revenues and spending Rose s5.4 Hillion from Liim sear when it was iw.7 billion. The office of management and budget previously reported inc a deficit it s150.j billion but with the release of Friday s report re figured it at $149.7 billion. Ilia inc budget s up Walls hit a below inc All Lime record of j221.1 billion set in the 1986 fiscal year. Hed Ink for inc year exceeded both the initial administration projection of si46.7 billion issued in february and the updated estimate of $152.3 billion. Released in july. It nil the concessional Hudgel office projection of is 55 billion nearly exactly. In a joint statement the Treasury department and the White mouse s office of management and tied gel attributed s3 billion of the overrun to spending by Lite Federal Home loan Hank Hoard the Agency hat res cues insolvent savings institutions. In spent $8.1 billion in 1988, s3 billion More than expected at Midsummer. The Agency in a spate of activity from mid August through the end of september pledged More than $16 billion to Rescue 60 associations. However much of the spend ing does t show up on the budget. The Federal government spent a record j 1.064 tril lion during the 12-month period up 6 percent from 1987, receipts were Rcw billion up 6.4 percent from a year ago. The administration is predicting a budget deficit for the current iwo fiscal year of 1145.5 Liillian but most private analysts expect even less Progress tic flood of government red Ink Lias been blamed fur the nation s chronic Trade imbalance for holding interest Rales above historic averages and for helping to trigger last year s Slock Market crash. President Kea gun and congressional leaders struck a Budge pact last Winter after the crash that has held the deficit almost to last year s level. Jul economists say there won t be additional shrinkage without pain Ful budget cuts or a lax increase a Blue ribbon bipartisan commission Mcl this sum Mer and after the election will offer the new president its recommendations. However Republican George Bush has promised to reject the recommendation if in includes a Las increase. Democrat Michael Dukakis has promised to consider the recommendations but has proposed no ins increases and few spending cuts.  Divinny Mil Sam 4, kill acquainted recently Willi a big Dinosaur. Anil bin is the Only word to de checking it out scribe la Dinosaur final which will be is fuel All 26 feel wide und 55 feet Long. The flout sponsored by Burger King will be in the 100th an Nual tournament of roses Parade on Jan. 2 in Pasadena Calif. Navy ships confuse Jet a erf system Washington a airliners testing new collision Abi dance systems sometimes have been unable to Tell the difference Between Ait oncoming plane and a Navy ship silting in the water below a Fedrial aviation administration official said Friday. The problem is with electronic signals being Scal out by Navy ships said Joe fee. Manager of Iii Faa s airborne Colli Sion avoidance ind data systems Branch. Despite the testing difficulties however. Fee said the problem can be corrected before mandatory traffic Alert and collision avoidance systems Are installed on All larger . Passenger aircraft be ginning late next year. The systems which arc designed to automatically Alert pilots when another plane is near will be required on All planes carrying More than 30 passengers in the United Stales by the end of 1991. The system reads signals from trans ponders aboard other aircraft and is de signed to supplement nol replace air i raft in control systems on the ground. The problem with ship signals was first reported in he current Issue of the electronics Industry newsletter military avionics. The times Union & journal of Jack Sonville. Fla., reported Friday that a Piedmont Airliner testing the equipment last year found thai inc system went Hay wire As the plane was Landing at Jackson Ville International Airport warning the Pilot that he was in close proximity to five other aircraft. It was picking up signals from ships at the nearby naval station Mayport the report said. Mushroom poisoning victim gets new liver Portland. Ore. At one of five people who ale death Cap mushrooms at a dinner party is recovering from a liver transplant and a nationwide search is under Way to find liver donors for two others. Tic remaining two members of the dinner parly who ale the mushrooms saturday ure being evaluated hourly to determine whether they will need transplants. Or. C. Wright i Nison director of the liver trans Plant program at Oregon health sciences University estimated the chances were "50-50" thai enough donor livers could be found for All five. Even if they All undergo transplants the could suf Fer permanent brain damage doctors said. At u news conference thursday in Portland. 1 Inson said inc patient who underwent surgery and the to who arc awaiting transplants had sufficed irreversible liver damage when such damage occurs he said the patient usually Dies in two to four Days. Even when you list a patient at a very High priority. As we be listed our patients it lakes an average of 3 Days to find a graft so you see we have some inherent logistical problems he re Pinson said. Or. Emmet pc cafe chairman of the committee that determines who will get liver transplant at Oregon health sciences University said doctor believe Only three liver transplants had been performed in inc United states because of death Cap mushroom poisoning. All three people survived lie said. Preston Alexander president of the Oregon mycological society identified the mushrooms As Amanita Phal Loides. Which doctors said Are the most deadly of All Mush rooms. Among other things the Poison prevents the liver from producing Proton. Basically the liver just Dies off said pal Forsyth spokeswoman for the univer sity of California san Francisco medical Center. The species is common in Europe but has been found Only in recent year in the Western United states. Doctors had to speak at length Westli physicians in Europe to learn More about the Poison. Pinson said. Eating fewer than  of Lii mushrooms can be fatal Alexander said. Or. Mohamud Daya. Assistant professor of emergency Medicine at Oregon health sciences University said the five who became ill ale a total of at least 10. John and Teresa Duncan of Portland were the hosts of the dinner party where the mushrooms were eaten. Alexander said the duncans daughter told him that some members of the dinner puny had picked the mushrooms while searching for chestnuts on the Washington Side of the Columbia River Gorge. The mushrooms resemble a variety thai is sold in the Orient he  Sabolyk. 4of Clackamas underwent trans Plant surgery thursday Al the University of California san Francisco medical Center. Or. Nancy Ascher head surgeon during the operation said the new liver appeared to be functioning Well. Doctors were searching fora donor liver for mrs. Dun can 43. Who was in critical condition at Oregon health sciences University Hospital. Her husband was m serious condition Al inv Kaiser Hospital in Poland where Doc tors said he Haj improved thursday. A fourth patient was at the san Francisco Hospital awaiting a suitable donor and the fifth was being evaluated Al University Hospital