European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 3, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday october 3, 1990 the stars and stripes Page 5budget Compromise in spotlight Bargainer try to sell bitter Medicine e Washington api a president Bush and congressional leaders of both parties began the Tough elec Tion year task monday of Selling their painful $500 billion deficit reduction Compromise to wary rank and file lawmakers and to the Public. Democrats said the task of building support for the package of tax increases and spending cuts would be Elped greatly if Bush would deliver a television address explaining to americans Why the nations Economy needs such bitter budgetary Medicine. A we in Congress can to prepare them a said sen. Wyche Fowler d-ga., a participant during most of the four months of budget bargaining this year. A it is Only the president going on National to who can convince the Public it is in their Long term Best interest. If he convinces them of that it will  democrats had asked Bush at the White House on sunday to make the speech participants in the meeting said. Bush told reporters in new York that he had not yet decided whether to go on television. A but if it would help i would be glad to do that a he said. Bush meanwhile signed a Stopgap spending Resolution to keep the government going for five Days while details Are resolved. He called the Compromise a the right package at the right time and a your Best Chance to get the deficit under  Wall Street reacted favourably. The Dow Jones average of 30 industrials Rose 63.36 Points. The leaders sales Effort was dealt a blow when one of the leading conservatives in Congress rep. Newt Gingrich r-ga., announced that he would oppose the package. Gingrich had left the White House on sunday shortly before Bush and congressional leaders announced their five year plan. On monday Gingrich complained that the plan a the largest deficit reduction package Ever a would enact permanent tax increases while leaving spending cuts up to Congress to enact in the future. He said it contains too Little help for business. A we can do better for America a said Gingrich the no. 2 House Republican. A this package will lose jobs raise taxes and deepen the  the plans $134 billion in new taxes on gasoline alcohol tobacco airline tickets incomes of the wealthy and other items have angered Many republicans. They also complain that proposed cuts of up to $182 billion in defense spending Are too deep Ana that Domestic programs have not been pared enough. Numerous democrats done to like the packages $105 billion in spending reductions for Benefit programs such As medicare. Others complain that Many of the new taxes a such As those on gasoline and alcohol a take a deep bite out of poor Peoples incomes. Lawmakers of both parties expressed anger that Home heating Oil was among the Petroleum products that would be subject to a 2-cent-per-gallon tax. Sen. Lloyd Bentsen a Texas said he insisted at the last minute that the heating Oil Levy be included As a matter of regional equity since westerners would pay where taxes would Rise gasoline 10 More cents a gallon to 19 cents in july 1991 tobacco 8 cents More a pack to 24 cents in 1993 Beer about 16 More cents a six pack to 32 cents luxuries new 10 percent excise tax on items like yachts and expensive cars. Plane tickets tax increased to 10 percent from 8 percent deductions taxpayers with incomes Over $100,000 would lose some deductibility medicare amount of wages taxed would increase to $73,000 from $51,300 source . Times a amps Wes Booher much of the higher gasoline tax. That angered lawmakers from cold weather states. A the just better not come up to the Northeast. There a a Bounty on that Guy a said rep. Silvio Conte r-mass., who said the heating Oil tax would Lead him to oppose the plan. A the Guys got no  a obviously it is not a proposal that most members of Congress want to Rush out screaming in the streets with Joy about a House speaker Thomas Foley d-wash., said of the Overall plan. The president in new York to give a speech at the United nations said a like most compromises it is certainly not going to satisfy everyone. But this is the time to move beyond these individual concerns and exercise leadership for the Good of the  Bush and vice president Dan Quayle began Tele strange sometimes noisy aircraft reported flying Over California Washington apr several explaining whether they were aircraft in it described at least 14 sight ii lamp Fig relatively Fri Fitt Rijh Loullar wine. Fli fit it cd  or mar Flo or nil Croft ool Lorf aka Ltd Mil part phoning gop lawmakers in an Effort to round up their support for votes on the budget package. The vice president and other administration officials also met privately with House republicans. Quayle told reporters afterwards that if an incumbent votes against the package a there will be a lot of heavy water to carry on the Campaign  a a he a supporting it a said rep. Silvio Conte a mass. A a he a telling people what the consequences Are if you done to support it a you go to  sequester is the technical name for the $85 billion in automatic spending cuts that would have been triggered monday the beginning of fiscal 1991, without a budget agreement. Those automatic cuts a enough to stagger Many Federal agencies a were Only delayed for five Days. The reductions will be postponed further if Congress begins passing legislation that implements the budget agreement. Bush and congressional leaders have said that to protect lawmakers from attacks by their political opponents the budget legislation would need a majority of votes from members of both parties in both the House and Senate. As the sales Job to the rank and file began some leaders were not brimming with Confidence that they would meet their goal. A fall we can do is try a said House majority Leader Richard Gephardt do. A this is a big decision for members. It s a very Tough Call and a close  but after private separate meetings with their own members Senate majority Leader George Mitchell a Maine and Senate minority Leader Bob Dole r-kan., took to the Senate floor to say they were lining up majority support for the Compromise. In a Public opinion Survey conducted by Abc news on sunday evening the hours old agreement was panned by nearly two thirds of those polled. Thirty two percent of those questioned considered the pact Good and 1 percent called it excellent. But 65 percent responded unfavourably. Large majorities of those surveyed opposed the increased taxes on gasoline the cuts in Domestic spending and the higher medicare premiums. Most people favored the higher levies on alcohol tobacco and luxury items and the cuts in Pentagon spending. The Telephone Survey of 508 people had a Likely margin of error of 5 percentage Points either Way. Groups representing the elderly protested the deals Impact on medicare saying the plan puts an unfair Burden on older americans through Higner premiums and deductibles for the health care program. A the budget Summit ers have declared War on seniors and the disabled a said Ron Pollack director of families Usa a lobbying group for senior citizens. A those that wage this War  expect older americans to be pacifists on election  medicare spending would be reduced by $60 billion from the amount it would otherwise have grown Over the next five years. Washington apr several Large relatively quiet triangular win shaped aircraft of unknown origin have been spotted in the air near air Force bases in California and elsewhere in the West aviation week and space technology Magazine said  different aircraft whose roaring engines produce a rocket like sound also has been spotted the Magazine said. The air Force declined to confirm or deny that the sightings represented new warplanes. The publication reporting in this weeks edition says the triangular aircraft Are possibly prototypes of the air Force b-2 or Navy a-12 aircraft. The a-12 is a new fighter under development which has not been displayed. The b-2 is the a a stealth bomb a t which has been displayed and its shape is Well known. Aviation week published what appeared to be pictures of the a-12 without Esq Laining whether they were aircraft in flight artists conceptions or models. The Magazine said the triangular Craft did not resemble the production b-2 with its distinctive sawtooth Wing trailing Edge. It quoted a Well qualified observers As reporting that the aircraft Are a fairly Flat and triangular shaped with a a rounded nose rounded wingtips and probably no vertical Tail surfaces. The observers were not otherwise identified. One observer in Nevada was quoted As saying the shape of the aircraft was a like a Manta Ray. The Magazine said there have been at least 11 sightings of the triangular aircraft near Edwards fab in California and one near Fresno Calif. It said there have been other sightings of similar aircraft in Central Nevada near ranges operated by the air Force and the Energy department. It described at least 14 sightings of the loud Craft called the a pulse re from the pulsating nature of the sound varying in intensity once or twice a second plus other reports of the sound often at night. It said that the pulse aircraft Are seen flying a Southwest to Northwest track near Edwards fab and the China Lake naval weapons Center. A this routing would suggest the aircraft Are returning from test ranges or work areas off the Western . Coast where airline pilots have reported seeing very High Speed vehicles at altitudes above 50,000 feet a the Magazine said. A companion article said research aircraft flying from Nevada Sites include a both manned and unmanned hypersonic capable aircraft designed to perform strategic reconnaissance and other less conventionally defined  some aircraft were said to have a exotic propulsion and aerodynamic schemes not frilly understood at this  of Wiilie Ivin the stars and stripes 40 years ago today. Oct. 3, 1950 a French troops in Vietnam claimed Victory in a Battle for the communist stronghold of thai Nguyen As they marched North in search of the main Boay of resistance.30 years ago today. Oct. 3, 1960 a president Eisenhower demanded the release of two american airmen held by the soviets before he would meet with Nikita Khrushchev to discuss United nations concerns.20 years ago today. Oct. 3,1970 a the Colorado state patrol said 32 people were killed when a plane carrying the Wichita state University football team crashed in the mountains near the Continental Divide. There were 12 survivors.7 0 years ago today. Oct. 3,1980 a the . House of representatives voted 376-30 to expel rep. Michael Myers d-pa., the first member since the civil War so harshly punished for misconduct in connection with the of big a a scam bribery investigation