European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 6, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Pm Sam amp St mss  by Honnam crisis in the Golf related stories and photos pages 2,3,13,14,15,28 the  Pes authorized unofficial publication for the . Armed forces vol. 49, no. 175 saturday october 6, 1990 25 daily and sunday d 8693 Ahouse votes Down budget Bush won t sign emergency Bill Washington apr the House ignored pleas from president Bush and congressional leaders and reacted a $500 billion deficit reduction plan Early Friday. The White House said the president would not support an emergency spending Bill to keep the government operating. The president scheduled an afternoon Cabinet meeting a to discuss the budget and the possible shutdown of the government at Midnight tonight a said presidential spokesman Marlin Fitzwater Fitzwater said the president was disappointed with the vote but remained firm in his opposition to a Short term spending Bill. He said the president was hopeful Congress would take another try later in the Day at passing a five year $500 billion deficit reduction plan. On Capitol Hill leaders prepared to Rush an emergency spending Bill through Congress to keep the government operating. However Fitzwater said Bush had decided that if Congress sent him such a Bill he would simply ignore it a neither signing it nor vetoing it. However that would have the same practical effect As a veto Fitzwater said noting that the president has 10 Days to consider whether to veto a measure. That would mean a Golemme twide shutdown beginning at Midnight Fitzwater said. A a we be got 10 Days to consider the veto. Not signing it would amount to vetoing it in an immediate sense. We would close Down the government at Midnight a Fitzwater said. Fitzwater said the president stayed up to learn the outcome of the vote which came shortly after 1 . Edt. Only hours after the House rejected the Compromise see budget on Back Page David Rienour a member of americans against tax hikes demonstrates on Pennsylvania  formally ends allies rights the new parliament of Bonn Germany a United Germany ratified an International treaty Friday that Grants full sovereignty to the nation officially ending the special rights of world War ii a victors. The 663-member bundestag in its first working session also rescued plans for nationwide elections dec. 2 by approving a new balloting Law. The meeting at the bundestag building a Humble Structure that once served As Bonne a waterworks followed a symbolic session thursday in Berlin and came two Days after East and West Germany became one. Berlin is the new capital but Bonn will be the parliamentary seat. A i warmly Welcome you to the waterworks a parliamentary president Rita Siihsmuth said jokingly to 144 new Lawman it ers from now dissolved East Germany. The treaty ratified Friday formally ends special rights conferred on the United states the soviet Union France and Britain after the allies Defeated and divided nazi Germany in world War ii. Under the rights the Allied Powers controlled transit Between sectors of Berlin and could veto any Laws in the City. The treaty was signed in Moscow on sept. 12 by West and East Germany and the four world War ii allies. The new election Law was approved by a Broad majority of government and opposition lawmakers in a simple Snow of hands. The legislation replaces an election treaty that was rejected by the supreme court on sept. 29. The court said the old treaty gave unfair treatment to Small parties. The overruled treaty would have required a party to win 5 percent of the vote across Germany to earn a seat in the bundestag. Fridays new Law in effect sets up two separate elec Tion areas in the United Germany. Lawmakers in former East Germany will have to receive 5 percent on their the own turf rather than polling that amount across the United country. That will give smaller parties such As the former communist party now called the party for democratic socialism a better Chance of winning parliamentary seats. Nonetheless the party voted against the new plan saying it opposes any minimum vote for winning parliamentary seats. Such a system party Leader Gregor Gysi said a manipulates the will of the  parliamentarians needed to reach agreement quickly a it sched on an election Law so the vote could be held As used dec. 2. The government of the United Germany has also see rights on Back Page sgt.  Reels in desert fish with bogey bait by Vince Crawley staff writer with the . Marines saudi Arabia a Marine gunnery sgt. Randy h.  Iii tries to live up to his name. Recently he took a Convoy of trucks carrying soft drinks chips cigarettes and chewing tobacco for three hours across the arabian desert and sold most of it to a Bunch of marines who Hadnot seen a Post Exchange in weeks. The sergeants 26-letter name Means a the eyes that pull the heavens Quot a hawaiian phrase for a Ray of sunlight breaking through the Clouds. In his Case the sergeant is a bit of civilization breaking up the Monotony of the Sand. The 39-year-old Honolulu native Calls himself Kekipi for Short and that a what a written in the much too Small name space on his military identification card. He lets the troops Call him Gunny sgt.  The Mobile Field Exchange one of sue Kekipi runs in the desert just got started. Once he receives some additional help from his unit which belongs to the marines Field service support group he believes the Mobile stores can make weekly visits to Field units. Kekipi was on the Golf course at his Home base a Marine air station at Kaneohe Hawaii when he found out head be heading for saudi Arabia. A i was on the ninth Hole trying for a Birdie when they brought the news to me a he said a a a sgt. K., you re going to a bigger Sand  a unlike the other services the Marine corps does no to let civilians run its Exchange system in peacetime said Kekipi who manages a 24-hour convenience store at the air station that grosses about $350,000 a month. Sales Are pretty brisk in the desert too. A the kids out Here like bogey bait a bogey Kekipi said using Marine corps Slang for Kab a chips sodas Candy  snap sgt. James d. Jackson a 37-year-old Marine from Long Island n.y., said the Mobile Exchange sold about $5,000 Worth of such bogey bait during its recent trip to two Marine battalions. Except for getting a Little Sand in the pocket calculator Jackson was using to ring up sales the operation ran smoothly. For three hours marines roamed in from their fighting positions and lined up behind two of Kekipi a trucks to buy armload of snacks and other goods. Items for Sale included Shower shoes socks washcloths Boxer shorts and to shirts lip Balm potato chips lighters soap cigarettes be continued on Page 3