European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 19, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Saturday August 19, 1989 the stars and stripes Page 7 Bush asks agencies to pare budgets from wire reports Washington with a Federal deficit of si40 billion projected for the next several years the Bush administration has sent a letter to Federal Agency chiefs requiring them to develop plans for absorbing a 5 percent Cut in funding next year. The congressional budget office made the $140 billion projection thursday. At the same time budget director Richard g. Darman sent a letter to All Federal Agency Heads requiring them to develop plans for absorbing a 5 percent Cut. The reductions would be reflected in one of three budget proposals Darman asked each Agency head to submit. They would not take effect until fiscal year 1991, which begins oct. 1, 1990. But key decisions about the cuts will be made Over the next few months with agencies required to sub Mit their proposals by sept. I. In updating the budget officials said it would be very difficult to reduce the deficit to Zero by the fiscal year 1993. As required under the balanced budget act. The memo docs not cover defense spending and exempts entitlement pro Grams such As social Security. But Darman suggested Agency directors might also want to propose entitlement cuts As a Way of financing any new programs or increased spending they desire. The 1991 budget will be a major policy document for the administration a senior budget official said thursday because it will be the first budget Bush and his aides develop on their own. And it is being drawn up under severe constraints As Bush tries to meet deficit reduction targets with out violating his no new taxes pledge. So far budget agreements Between the administration and Congress would not come close to meeting the 1991 deficit tar get of the Gramm Rudman balanced Bud get Law and it will therefore be necessary1 to present the president with options for further spending reductions Darman wrote. In the past agencies have submitted budget plans to the office of management and budget in the fall. Bomb officials then typically have tried to pare Down the re quests. Under Darman s plan agencies will be required to develop budget Cut proposals at the beginning of the process a move expected to strengthen the bomb s hand in the inevitable squabbling Between agencies and the budget office Over spending Levels. In addition to an Agency s Normal budget request Darman wrote All agencies will be required to submit two additional budget plans to accommodate a freeze in non de sense spending other than entitlements requiring a 5 percent Cut from the current spending level. The budget cutting plans arc being driven by the targets set four years ago in the Gramm Rudman Law under which the Federal deficit in 1991 is not supposed to exceed $64 billion. For 1990, the deficit is supposed to be kept below $110 million. Siege ends with 2 dead in California Stockton Calif. Api a Man just out of jail for child abuse held his wife and eight children seven of the children belonging to the couple hostage for More than six hours terrorizing them by playing rus Sian Roulette before killing the woman and himself police said. The children Between 1 and 13 years old. Were Safe after thursday s standoff. The gunman Dang Cha Xiong a laotian refugee died about two hours later at a Hospital. His wife Bao Cha died at the scene. A ninth child a 12-year-old boy had escaped from the apartment and alerted police that Dang was hold ing the nine hostages. The boy who escaped and one of the eight children held hostage were both family friends while the other seven children were the hangs children authorities said. The boy said Dang was playing russian Roulette with his hostages sticking a Bullet in the Cylinder of his .38-Calibcr revolver and pulling the trigger at random said it. Andy Jackson. Police spoke with Dang for several hours and he sounded cooperative said Lucian no Cluj Deputy police chief. But after Dang said he would surrender and Lay Down his gun police heard four shots. Officers rushed the apartment and found the children in a front room and the two wounded parents in a rear bed room. Police fired no shots during the siege Neely said. Dang 35, had been involved in a longstanding feud with his wife s parents nicely said. He previously had been arrested and convicted for child abuse. Sgt. Den Nis Sanford said. He had been released from jail thursday morning. Officers said a court order had restrained him from visiting the family apartment in the tyrolean Village District North of the downtown where Many refugees from Southeast Asia live. On Jan. 17, five children of Southeast asian Refu gees were killed and 30 other people wounded on a Stockton schoolyard by a Man who then shot himself. Space age help Jonathan l.ortk4, was born without sweat glands and needs a Cooling suit similar to the ones worn by Apollo astronauts on their 1969 moonwalks to keep his body from of creating while he is in his bar Yard in Whitehall vols. The suit uses an attached pump to circulate Cool water Over his body. Crowe predicts slow uneasy thaw in cold War adm. William j. Crowejr. Honolulu a although the so Viet Union seems sincere in seeking better relations with the United states the super Powers must go through an uneasy transition before the cold War thaws the nation s top military adviser said thursday. "1 am persuaded that we arc entering a period of uneasy transition which will Hope fully Lead to a new Era in the superpower relationship said adm. William j. Crowe jr., chairman of the joint chiefs of staff. But there Are Many uncertainties still on the horizon and my assessment is that Mcmay be in this unsettled male Tai a Long time Wen though that is not comforting he said. Crowe who spoke at a civic group meet ing in Hawaii is retiring sept. 30 after 42years in the Navy including four As chief military adviser to the president the Secre tary of defense and the National Security Council. After the speech Crowe urged military restraint against terrorists saying the Mili tary is built for one thing and we re trying to apply it to  answering questions from members of the Japan America society of Honolulu which sponsored the speech. Crowe said that we could level Beirut where eight american hostages Are held but that would not solve the problem. Besides Crowe said americans were not ready to Deal with the repercussions a Mili tary strike would bring. Americans Don t want to go to War Over terrorism he said. What they really want is these problems to go away in a week without a lot of Energy and  in the speech he said the . Govern ment and people must keep Cool in the face of numerous troop and arms reduction proposals from Moscow. My deepest concern is that our own impatience american impatience might tempt us to move prematurely. With Broad leaps of Hope and Faith when we encounter inevitable frustration with the Pace of bilateral developments Crowe said. We just must be patient. My own Reading of americans is that they Don t like to wait. They want a better world and they want it  Crowe who in june became the first joint chiefs of staff chairman to review soviet Domestic military forces said he is con Vinced soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev is trying to liberalize his country but May have underestimated the time and Effort his programs require. Although some cuts have been made in the soviet military Gorbachev believes de sense must be the top priority Crowe said. Even with further reduction the soviets would still have More than 4 million troops and hold the largest inventory of military hardware