European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 27, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 28 the stars and stripes saturday october 27, 1990budget creeping toward finale Washington up a Senate Republican Leader Robert Dole cautioned Friday that budget negotiations were Quot creeping along Quot and w arned that the Keg Voight agreement could fall Short of the five year. $5% billion goal in deficit cuts. A the budget process is still creeping along Dole said. A a Quot there Are a number of issues major issues still to be resolved a in Brief Senate remarks. Dole said w e re losing some of our savings in the last Days of the budget negotiations. A some Are saying we can to reduce spending a Dole said. A if we re going to reduce cuts in spending we May not wind up with this magic s500 billion in five years. A we Are going to insist of if we fall Short on the savings Side let s also take some taxes out Quot Dole said. Among the issues that have not been settled Dole said Are some problems with the proposed new tax rate of 31 percent for the wealthiest taxpayers and at what stage the should lose deductions and exemptions. However the Senate Republican Leader remained optimistic that an agreement could be reached by Nightfall and that Congress would quickly pass the package and adjourn for the year. Quot negotiators failed to reach an agreement despite late night talks thursday. Putting together the crucial details to the framework of a package that seems to have the backing of democrats and the administration. Sen. Ovd Bentsen a Texas chairman of the Senate finance committee and rep. Dan Rostenkowski d-i1l, chairman of the House Wrays and Means committee worked into the Zariv hours Frida to tie up Loose ends in taxes and medicare cuts. While president Bush appeared willing to embrace the plan White House chief of staff John Sununu warned congressional leaders against hiding any surprises among the final details. A there s a lot of mischief that can be done in the details and we done to want to commit to something and discover an accumulation of mischief that undermines the agreements that have been made a Sununu said after spending 2vi hours trying to rally support for the package among rebellious House republicans. Sununu sounded positive about the chances the House and Senate would approve the package once it is finished. Bentsen said that a a we be got a lot of work to do before the Deal is set. He did say the Senate had agreed to Cut medicare by about s42 billion Over five years embracing the House proposal and slicing s7 billion from the Senate Bill. Among outstanding issues said House budget committee chairman Leon pan Etta d-calif., were a a huge number of tax issues including whether to extend some expiring business tax Breaks and whether to agree to language in the Senate Bill granting new tax Breaks to encourage of drilling. A i have a feeling it May be More controversial than some of the other stuff a pan Etta said of the Oil drilling Breaks. Senate tax negotiators also sought to raise the deduction limitation to 4 percent on income Over 5125,000, up from the 3 percent for income Over $100,000 contained in the House version and Sodom alterations in the House personal exes Tion phaseout plan. Pm the final deficit reduction package the Cornerstone of congresses Effort Quot the deficit by s500 Bissex will include Many tax increases who Broad Impact 11,1 the current 9-cent-a-gallon gasoline tax is expected to use a Nickel the Currem 16-cent-a-pack cigarette tax will to univ 4 cents in 1991 and another 4 cents 1 1993 and alcohol taxes will Rise by i cents for a six pack of Beer and by about 25 cents for a bottle of table wine. Taxes on the wealthy will increase Sev eral ways m an Effort to make the tax code More progressive and ease the Impact on lower and Middle income taxpayers. The income tax rate for the wealthiest americans now at 28 percent will Rise to 31 percent. At the same time upper mid dle income people paying a 33 percent tax rate will see a reduction to 31 percent. In addition the wealthy will see their tax deductions and their personal exemptions limited. P folks Back Home to turn Back time the american family ritual of changing the clocks comes around again this weekend meaning family and friends Back Home will get an extra hour to sleep or whatever it is they like to do in the wee hours of sunday morning technically the change occurs at 2 . Local time which becomes 1 ., and an hour is repeated. Or in the words of the uniform time act which set up the system of switching Between Daylight and Standard times clocks Are a retarded an hour at 2 . On the last sunday in october. Whatever you Call it done to forget that the folks Back Home Are falling Back an hour. Defense spending Bill sent to Bush after Senate approval w a Clit Kinta to Titto i r. Barry from Page 1 edged dependence on alcohol and prescription drugs. But he had never previously admitted taking illegal Street drugs although his lawyer had called him an a a occasional user. Prosecutors based the Case against Barry on the testimony of former girlfriends friends allies from the civil rights movement and City employees who testified that they had used drugs with the mayor and supplied him with them. Former Model Rasheeda Moore who participated in the Fri sting that produced the mayors arrest testified that she had used drugs with Barry More than 100 times during a two year period. Jurors a and television viewers around the world a also saw the Fri videotape of Barry smoking crack cocaine in Moore s hotel room just minutes before government agents rushed in to arrest him Charles Lewis another key witness told the court he supplied Barry with cocaine and marijuana in the District of Columbia and during trips the mayor took to the Virgin islands. Gorbachev starts tour opens talks in Spain Madrid Spain up a soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev travelled to Spain on Friday and immediately embarked on negotiations to receive about $1 billion Worth of credits in Spanish consumer goods desperately needed by the beleaguered soviet Economy. Gorbachev accompanied by his wife Raisa landed shortly before 1 . At Madrid Airport where he was received by socialist prime minister Felipe Gonzalez and foreign minister Francisco Fernandez Ordonez. Gorbachev was received by King Juan Carlos and both stood at attention As National anthems were played. The six Day european swing will also take Gorbachev to France. Washington up a the Senate approved and sent to the White House Friday a $268.2 billion military spending Bill to meet the Post cold War challenges to the United states. The Bill which imposes the largest single year Cut in defense spending since the end of the Vietnam War was passed 80-17. The House gave its approval 271-156 earlier this week. The Senate also approved and sent to the White House a lean 5288 billion Bill that authorizes the expenditures in the spending Bill and outlines funding for future military projects. The vote on that Bill was 80-17. The Bill provides 54.1 billion for the b-2 stealth bomber a the futuristic air plane that has been designed to penetrate its target without being detected by radar. It also authorizes $2.3 billion for procurement and $1.8 billion for research and development. The Compromise legislation does not Tell the Page 1 make peace with iraqis kurdish minority. The kurd have in the past been the target of Poison Gas attacks and forced relocation by the iraqi government. Saddam a reported bid to reconcile with the kurd comes several weeks after the iraqi president made peace with another longstanding foe Iran so he could move tens of thousands of troops from the iranian Border to occupied Kuwait and the saudi arabian Border. It was not immediately Clear Why Saddam would want to placate the kurdish minority but he May want to eliminate All internal opposition to prepare for possible combat with the multinational Force arrayed against him. In another development the iraqi forces Page 1 Turkey to the stuffing a Darsch said. Also in the works is something called the Long life ration packet a throwback to the Vietnam Era Long Range patrol rations. The new name capitalizes on the old abbreviation for the rations lip which the troops called lures. The new variation offers eight menus featuring freeze dried lasagna Chili con came and beef or Chicken Stew to name a few. The new lures will include a Cereal bar beverage base and probably commercial Candy Darsch said. Sample shipments will go out to saudi Arabia this week to gauge troop acceptance. Force what to do with the 52.3 billion in procurement however the Senate has said the Money should be used for two More planes and the House expects the Money to be used for Cost overruns on the first six planes authorized m previous budgets. The Bill includes s2.9 billion for the strategic defense initiative a space based air defense system. The authorization Cut $1.8 billion from the administration s request. It was the first time that Congress appropriated less than $3 billion for the project. X Congress denied funding for the proposed Basing of my missiles on railway cars and established a a a poor of $687 million for research on the my and mide Etman missile projects. In the most visible sign of the new military posture be Biu Cut Overall troop Levels by 78,500 and pulls 5u,u00 troops out of Europe. The measure also requires an annual 5,000 Cut in the number of troops in Japan if Japan does not pay More for housing . Forces. Kuwait have arrested two americans who had been Hie my in the occupied emirate to avoid internment a human Shields a Western diplomats disclosed Friday. Uwe Jahnke 47, of Washington depot conn., and Joh Stevenson 44, of Panama City fla., were brought to bag dad on oct 22, a Day after their arrest in Kuwait said the diplomats who spoke on condition of anonymity in Britain meanwhile former prime minister Edwan Heath told legislators that Saddam is ready to use Chemick weapons if the predominantly american multinational Force in the Gulf attacks him the press association reported Friday. Heath met with Saddam on sunday and negotiated tto release of 32 britons. Britain a Domestic news Agency said Heath was under stood to have told conservative party lawmakers at a Pri vate meeting thursday that Saddam said he also would mistreat foreign hostages if attacked. One old Soldier who tasted both lures and res made his Choice. Robert Wallace the senior vice commander of the million member veterans of foreign wars recently turned from a four Day visit to saudi Arabia where ate meals with the troops. »1/�?~jhcrei"0 Way you can Call res a delicacy a s Wallace. But the rations that we ate in the Field Vietnam were hardly what you a Call a delicacy Eithe k-ij1 a i a there a Ever been a Field ration that fits t bin. And it s something of a military tradition to cd plam about the food. To. J to say i did no to think the res were that b l liked the tuna and noodles. But id imagine if i Hac too a or seem every Day id get sick of the a nothing compares to my wife a
