European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 22, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday. January 22. 1990 the stars and stripes Page 9dod budget tops Congress Agenda Washington apr reduced last West tensions Are prompting Congress to weigh possible cuts in defense As lawmakers resume their search for ways to turn Back a tide of red Ink in the Federal budget. Also High on the Agenda As lawmakers return to Capitol Hiil on tuesday Are ethics Egi it lation. Campaign finance Reform. President hush s push to Cut tin capital gains to. And foreign polity Lor a rapidly changing world. But crafting a military budget at a time when americans percent a lessening soviet threat and increased need to reduce the deficit is expected to dominate the 1990 congressional session. A my constituents ask. Quot in t the Beilin Wall now i Speed Hump a said rep Patricia so under. A Cdo. A member of the House armed Seucs committee. A they really Are thinking How do we get out of debt. They just Aren t buying that we need  already a handful of lawmakers including Liberal reps. Barney Frank. Of mass. And George Miller. A Calif. Are talking about How to spend the so called a peace dividend Quot that remains. Sen. James Sasser. A Tenn. Chairman of the Senate budget committee says the Bush administration s defense plan for the fiscal year that begins oct. I will not produce such a dividend. But Sasser said Bush s proposal which includes cancelling the h-2 stealth bomber the advanced tactical fighter and the v-22 Osprey till Rotor transport would save $93 billion from 1991-1994. On Jan. 29. President hush will probably submit a package totalling about $292 billion. 2 percent less than what is necessary to keep this years $287 billion spending level at Pace with inflation. Hut with the soviets loosening their grip on pastern Lur pc. Domestic pro giants clamouring for Cash and a nagging budget deficit Calls for substantial defense reductions Are sure to be heard in Congress. A the budget that tomes to us in in Days is ill undoubtedly be  House armed Scrues chairman the defense budget is being looked upon As the Cash  a sen. John Warner Les Aspin d-wis., said in a speech i thursday. He urged the hush administration to delay production of costly High tech weapons such As the adva Mcd tactical fighter and concentrate instead on research. Weapons systems that have taken huge chunks out of the budget a the strategic defense initiative the h 2 stealth bomber and land based nuclear missiles a will probably be the focus Lor lawmakers who want to Cut defense spending. A the defense budget is being looked upon As the Cash Register  sen. John Warner. Rva said Congress will have other issues to tackle on then return. They must weigh the ethics problems of i i members including five senators who intervened with banking regulators on behalf of Charles h. Keatingjr. The owner of the failed Lincoln savings and loan. Also facing congressional inquiries Are three House Mem Bers no used of improper sexual behaviour. Lashes with the administration Are expected Over hush Scall for a reduction in the Cap ill gains tax and his rejection of a proposed Cut in social Security taxes. Democrats who narrowly Defeated the capital Gams proposal in 1989. Say a Cut would he a Windfall for the Rich. However Many concede prospects for passage this year Are Good. A Rollback in the social Security tax proposed by sen. Daniel Patrick in Onihan. In a. Is being condemned by hush As a charade that would Force a hike in other taxes Ora Cut m retirement benefits. Hut Moynihan s plan has put the administration on the spot gaming wide support and fueling election year claims that hush is espousing a capital gains break for the Rich while rejecting Relief for poor and Middle class americans. I he foreign policy debate will Center on an Aid package for new democracies in Eastern Europe. A number of regional hot spots also head the foreign policy Agenda. In Central America the gated states must mend fences with nations angered by the . Invasion of Panama. And Many lawmakers Are critical of the administration s overtures to the repressive regime m China. C ingress will also weigh hush s veto last year of a Bill that would allow More than 30.000 chinese students to remain in the United states. The students visas will expire soon forcing them to return to their Homeland. An override of the veto is possible in the House hut its Fate in the Senate is  guards arrive in West on All fours Bra Man. West Germany apr out of work and with Bleak prospect1 for getting enough Bones Back Home the first Batch of last Germany s Border guard dogs arrived Here saturday. Last germans is putting about 2.500 of the dogs up for adoption said the animal Protection Agency in Bremen. Some 6.500 guard dogs used to patrol the Berlin Wall and the Border to West Germany but they be been out of work since last Germany opened us once formidable Borders to the West in nov Ember East Gorman officials have said the canines Are too expensive to feed and care for in a country saddled with an economic crisis. West German animal Protection director Wolfgang Apel said the first 10 guard dogs arrived by truck in Bremen on saturday and were taken to a local shelter. The others he added will arrive at shelters throughout the country in the near future. Ape said Only about 2.000 of last Germany s guard dogs were trained to attack i he others accompanied communist Border troops As decoys to scare away would be escapees. The attack dogs have been distributed to regular police and custom officials m least Germany. Apel vial most of the others will probably be Given to last germans West germans who want to adopt one of the dogs must pay about $91 for a veterinary examination and shots. Giscla Luh Risius of Verden w est Germany scratches Niveo at a Bremen shelter. She a adopting the former Berlin Wall  Aurelius to ride again a but indoors Rome apr after a one year a so acc. Marcus Aurelius and his Graceful Steed arc returning to the capital s heart but pollution a ravages have condemned the bronc Symbol of eternal Rome to life indoors. The equestrian statue of the ancient roman emperor and stoic philosopher was removed in 1981 from the Michelangelo designed Camp Doglio City Hall Square for cleaning and restoring. Car exhaust in the heavily congested heart of Rome had been eroding the statue. Since the completion of restoration More than a year ago. Experts and politicians have been arguing Over whether the statue could withstand the corrosive air if the 1.800-year-old treasure was put Back on its Pedestal in the Center of the Square cultural commissioner Paolo Hallis to i on saturday announced the classic italian solution to Slicks situations a a Compromise. The statue will come Back to the Camp Doglio but will be placed in one of the Square s palaces with a copy going outdoors. Hatli Stu i Hopes science will someday create a product to protect the original from pollution so that the statue could be placed outdoors again on the Pedestal that Michelangelo made especially for it. The statue will be put in the Palace by april 21. The 7.743 anniversary of the foundation of Rome. Marcus and his Noble horse arc considered the most magnificent bronc equestrian statue to survive an earlier ravage of Rome a the barbarians. Legend says that when the gilding on it vanishes so will Rome. There Are Only a bits of the original Gold coating left with the rest of the gilding added during restorations through the Ages