European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 9, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Budget Washington while House and congressional budget talks recessed Friday missing their in forma deadline for action but House majority Leader Thomas s. Foley d-wash., said the group was in the proximity of an  the group which includes Treasury Secretary Nich Olas Brady. White House budget director Richard Dar Man and the top members. Of he House and Senate budget committees had been pushing to finish by Fri Day because of Congress legislative timetable. Under the Gramm Rudman Law Congress is sup posed to finish a fiscal 199q budget Resolution by april 1s. House budget committee chairman Leon Panetta d-caif., had said he needed to finish the bargaining with the White House by Friday so thai his committee could Complete a formal Resolution this week. The congressional and while House negotiators planned to reconvene monday and a meeting with president Bush was scheduled for tuesday we re getting in the proximity of an agreement. I can t give you a time or an hour Foley said after Friday s All Day bargaining session. Several people involved in the talks said privately that the Hope was to announce an agreement at the while House on tuesday but Foley was cautious. Sunday april 9, 1989 the stars and stripes Page 7 pleads not guilty Michael r. Milken former head of the junk Bond i Prim Tel of Drexel Burnham Luton Burl inc., smiles As he arrives at new York slate supreme co dirt in Manhattan with Nneola his actor nos Arthur Liman. Milken pleaded not guilty to charges that he earned More than $1 a Lalicin thru Jih fraud and deception and violated Federal racketeering Law Milken s brother Lowell who was also a or excl executive pleaded not guilty to the same charges a third defendant Brucel Newberg who is  front a skiing Acci Dent was not in court. His lawyers have said lie will plead not guilty. Victim allowed to die murder charge possible Portland Maine a a Man who lost a court Battle to Block his comatose in Lim from being removed from life support could face a murder charge now that the Man has died prosecutors said. Mart Weaver 26, died Friday eight Days after his family removed his feeding tube and four years after the stabbing that left him in a coma. Nod Pagan who pleaded guilty to assaulting Weaver waged an unsuccessful court Hatic to keep Hirn alive to avoid risking More urious charges. We Haven t ruled anything in or out the chief of the attorney general s criminal division said uhen asked if homicide charges Wilt be sought. We re just trying 10 determine what the cadence  a medical examiner was performing an autopsy at Maine medical Center. Attorney general James a tier nay said the Laboratory tests would not be ready for at least a week and refused to comment on what kind of findings would be necessary to bring charges against Pagan. Pagan s attorney Robert Mullen said he would try to persuade prosecutors Nen to file More charges rep. Thomas s. Foley in the proximity of an agreement miss deadline i would not automatically draw the conclusion thai it is a special meeting.1 he said. We re making Good Progress but we re not there yet said sen. Pete v. Dominici of new Mexico senior Republican on the Senate budget committee. The negotiations arc designed to ensure that con Gress  meets Tramm Rudman s goal of reducing the deficit to $100 Billiton and that legis lation produced to implement the budget could pass Muster with Bush. According id administration estimates about s28 billion in deficit reduction either new revenues or spending restraints must be made to reach the goal. The negotiators have been looking 10 make die pack age about half revenues and half spending cuts with the revenues Corning in the form of asset sales user fees and changes in lax Law that Bush docs not consider As violating his no new taxes pledge. It. It unlikely that any agreement produced in the current talks would include specific tax proposals or Many specific spending reductions. Instead the group was working on a Broad outline caving details to be worked out later Between the administration and the committees in Congress with jurisdiction Over individual areas. Study links Rise of television to doubling in . Homicides Seattle a homicide Rales doubled in the United states and Canada within 20 years of the spread of television according to a psychiatrist who says his seven year statistical study shows a link be tween video and violence. Other experts cautioned however that while l of bran Don cent Crwaley study May have Merit blaming television for the Rise in homicide Rales is Loo simplistic.  s study published in the april Issue of the american journal of epidemiology is billed As the first to look at the statistical relationships Between  television and acts of  the entire  Wall s study also suggests that As Many is half of other violent crimes including rapes  arc related 10 exposure to television. Television is a Factor in. Approximately 10.000 homicides each year in the United slates said Cen Terwall a member of the psychiatry faculty at the University of Washington school of Medicine. While television clearly is not the sole cause of violence in our society and there arc Many bluer contributing factors by pathetically if television did hot exist there would he 10,000 fewer homicides a  / to arrive at this conclusion cer Terwall studied the. White population of South Africa where television was nol introduced until 1975 using statistics from j945 to 1974, he compared homicide rates among South african Whites 10 the rates among us.  the entire Canadian population. -. He found that homicides remained roughly Flat in South Africa before television was introduced. In the United states and Canada however homicide rates doubled within 20 years of the widespread in Roduco lion of television. Can Lynvall also said the homicide rate among South african Whites in 1983 i inc last year fur which Statis tics were available was 56.percent higher than in 1974, indicating a trend similar to what occurred in the United Stales after the introduction of television. Ronald pcs scr a professor of sociology at the University of Michigan said Friday that the major prob. Lem with Ceni Envall s. Ili Idy is thai when television arrives in it society Many other things conic with it la s hard to imagine when you look at what s been happening in South Africa thai the main change be tween the 1950s and 1970s has been  he said in a Telephone interview. Or. Michael Rothon Borg professor emeritus of psychiatry behavioural sciences and paediatrics not in uni verify of washing Tori. Said he believed Centerwall s study should be taken very very  Roihan Borg co author of the current edition of or. Spock s baby and child care added that people who commit murders do so for Many different reasons and " said Cuni Ervau s figures struck him As being High. He compared entire populations so the statistical study is More occur dec Rothon Borg said. But pc Ciscley because they arc entire populations there arc multiple variables. Can Torwall said regions of the United states that had widespread television before the rest of the Coiin-1 try also jaw earlier increases in homicide rates. There is a sir ont relationship Between when a re Gion acquired television and when its homicide Rales went up he said. Hans Paul verhoef arrives for i Earnis. Dutch aids victim ordered released. St. Aul Minn a a Federal judge Fri Day overrode . Immigration officials and or dered dutch visitor suffering from aids re leased from prison so he can attend a conference on the disease. Immigration judge Robert a Mikhor said Hans Paul verhoff should is enemy a from Laws barring foreigners with dangerous and communicable Dis eases from entering the country. I believe he has shown a waiver of exclusion should be granted Vinikoor said. White 1 Don t Wani to. Minimize the ask of aids the applicant has shown there is a minimal risk 16 the United states if he is admitted on a temporary basis.". . Imri Galion and Maui realization service officials immediately asked the Federal Board of immigration appeals in fulls Church va., to slay the judge s order. But Friday night the Board re fused to consider he request