European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 06, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                A Page 4 the stars and stripes. Sunday january 6, 1991 by the Bahin orc Sun Washington a even if War can be avoided the persian Gulf crisis will Force most . Military services to deplete their funds for spare parts fuel food and other operating expenses by june according to the head of the general accounting office. A this will require Congress to give the Pentagon much More than anticipated in supplemental appropriations later this year All of which a will add directly to the deficit just like the Cost of the savings and loan bailout a said . Comptroller general Charles a. Bowsh or who Heads the auditing Agency. Bowsher appearing Friday before the House budget committee also predicted that prolonged . Military operations in the Region would upset congressional and Bush administration plans to Cut defense spending Over the next three years. Regardless of How much foreign contributions might defray . Expenses the Pentagon is certain to seek More Money for operation desert shield he said. A the peace dividend we were looking for is basically going to be spent in the next year or two a Bowsher said. The Pentagon already has received $2 billion in extra funds from Congress to cover the costs of Gulf opera Lions from lain August to oct. When the current fiscal year began. In the past week Pentagon officials said they still Hope to offset additional costs with More contributions from . Allies and modest budget transfers from other defense accounts. Secretary of defense Dick Cheney is planning to ask Congress for supplemental funding Early next month probably when the administration sends its annual budget to Capitol Hill Pentagon spokesman Pete Williams said. Official Cost estimates will be released at that time he said. Bowsher urged the House panel to provide supplemental funds throughout the year As the actual costs of operation desert shield become clearer. A because of numerous uncertainties in the Cost Esti mates we believe it would be inappropriate to provide a Lump sum payment now a he said. Me said that Marine corps funds for operations and maintenance Are being obligated so rapidly that the entire 1991 appropriation a $1.9 billion a will dry up by mid april. A. The service projected it would spend half of its operations and maintenance account by the end of last month he said. A the of amp a account part of each military services total annual budget pays for training spare parts and supplies the maintenance of military facilities and salaries of civilian workers. A army officials told us that they expect to obligate their entire fiscal year 1991 of amp a appropriation of $21.5 billion by sometime in april or May a Bowsher said. He said that the air forces account should be depleted in june. \ the Navy which budgets enough to keep ships at sea Tor 45 Days every three months does not expect to use up its operating funds until july at the earliest he said. Bowsher endorsed recent unofficial estimates that the Gulf crisis would Force the department of defense to spend an extra $30 billion this fiscal year noting that some Pentagon officials told the Gao that the figure is a in the Ballpark of their current projections. A the Cost estimates will go up very very rapidly if we go into full fledged conflict a he said. Lawrence Korb a former assistant Secretary of defense for manpower told the panel later that a War against Iraq could Cost the Pentagon up to $2 billion a Day. A is a  a a j. A a ? defends actions sen. John Mccain r-ariz., and his wife Cindy meet with reporters Friday after Mccain testified before the Senate ethics committee. Mccain defended himself against suggestions of impropriety in dealings with Charles h. Keatingjr. And his Lincoln savings and loan. _ Minnesota High court gains female majority , Minn. Up1 a departing gov. Rudy Perpich has appointed Sandra Gardebring to the Minnesota supreme court making the state the first in the nation with a majority of women on its High court. I he democratic governor made the appointment Friday his last full workday in theoffice. Gardebring joins. , m. Jeanne Coyne and Esther Tomljanovich in the majority on the seven member court the minority consists of . A a Sandy Keith Lawrence Yetka and John Simonett. A i done to know if they the women justices will change the locus of the court but 1 do believe we will feel a dil Terence a said Cara Lee Neville a Hennepin county District court judge who becomes president of the National association of women judges this year. Neville credited Perpich with shattering a kind of a quota system for women judges with his unprecedented appointments. Previously she said there had been an Assumption that if a particular court had one or two women that was enough. _ Kim Mesun a special assistant attorney general and president of Minnesota women lawyers said she believes the supreme courts female majority could give cases involving families and children a the status they be been  i could see the focus of the court changing Quot Mesun said. A a a a a a. A a. A a a a a a a a Gardebring 43, has been a judge on the Minnesota coir t of appeals since july 1989. She served As commissioner of human services director of the. State pollution control Agency and head of the metropolitan Council before becoming a Jurist. A Miteel like in a joining a court of extraordinary peo pie she said calling the Job  Keith said  pleased by the appointment. A she brings a very new different and very interesting perspective a he said. A a she a a new generation. She a 20 years younger than most of us and she a had quite Dif Lere it experiences from those of us on the  says drugs led to Elvis Memphis,.ten n. Apr a pathologist who helped perform the autopsy on Elvis Presley says the King of Rock a no Roll died of drugs and not heart disease. Or. Eric Muirhead said that although Presley did have some problems with his heart it was a deadly mix of drugs that killed him. �?o1 done to deny that the Man had some coronary artery disease and an enlarged heart a Muirhead said Friday. Quot but he did no to even have enough to have a  Muirhead iras remained largely silent on the subject in the 13 years since Presley died though he has been described in the past As privately disagreeing with the finding that Presley died of heart disease. In an interview in saturdays editions of the commercial Appeal he said he decided to speak publicly about his opinion following the recent release of the Book Quot the death of Elvis what really happened a Quot in which Muirhead says he was quoted anonymously. He said Media accounts that the drugs in Presley a body were sedatives and Tranquili Zers Are True. The Shelby county medical examiner or. Jerry Francisco who was in charge of the autopsy ruled that a heart attack killed Presley and said Muirhead agreed at the time., Francisco said he asked Muirhead on the Day of the autopsy about releasing the cause of death As heart disease. Quot he said that a Fine a a Francisco reported. Muirhead said he based his opinion on Presley a Hospital stays and history of drug use he also said the official cause of death should have awaited drug screening toxicology tests. Presley died at age 42 on aug. La 1977, at his Graceland mansion. The autopsy was performed at Baptist memorial Hospital. After Presley s death several Media inquiries turned up evidence that the Singer had taken Large amounts of prescription  at school bus girl wound teammate Bourne mass. Apr a sniper fired at a school bus near this Cape cod town saturday killing a 14-year-old girl and critically wounding another girl authorities said. Two cars also were hit. The bus carrying a girls High school basketball team from new Bedford was fired on around 9 . As it travelled South on state route 25, said state police trooper Barbara Bennett. The girls were rushed to Tobey Hospital in Warel Tam where one was pronounced dead on arrival. Authorities did not immediately release the victims identities. -. Bennett said the girls were from new Bedford a vocational High school but an employee of the City a Public school system said they were from new Bedford High school. The employee refused to give his name. Fourteen girls a coach and Driver were on the bus. Bennett did not know where it was headed. _ a. _. Gunfire also hit two passing cars but no one in those vehicles was injured. State police trooper Deborah Bruce said. Teams of state and local police searched the Woods along state route 25. A a rest area has been cornered off. We Are using helicopters dogs and officers to search the area a Bruce said. R the bus was travelling southbound on the state Highway around 9 . When it was hit by the sniper fire Bruce said. 1 Here were no immediate suspects. -1. Bennett said authorities also were trying to find any witnesses doctor to 3 presidents Dies in los Angeles los Angeles not retired vice . George g. Burkley a doctor to three presidents has died at a nursing Home in los Angeles. He was 88. He died a of pneumonia said granddaughter Rita Dunlea of los Angeles. Burkley who specialized in internal Medicine and cardiology sen Edas the personal doctor to presidents John f. Kennedy and Lyndon b. Johnson and was the doctor in charge at the Navy operated presidential Retreat at Camp David md., when Dwight d. Eisenhower was president. He also accompanied Eisenhower on an 11-nation tour of the far East in 1959