European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 02, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 a a a the stars and stripes saturday february 2 1991 governors bite the Bullet to combat budget deficits . News by the associated press governors in new York Massachusetts and Rhode Island revealed plans thursday to combat multimillion Dollar budget deficits with tax hikes and deep spending cuts.  .���. A. A a. A a a new York gov. Mario comp proposed a $51.9 billion state budget for the next fiscal year that included cuts major tax increases and the Prospect of Selling the Aqueduct horse racing track to remedy what he called the worst state fiscal crisis since the depression. Cuomo who is starting his third term As governor is struggling to close a budget Gap that could grow to $6 billion. A. A in Boston Massachusetts gov. William Weld unveiled a $2.7 . Re  calling for spending cuts Lind a 15 percent hike in fees for most state services. Rhode Island gov. Bruce Sundlun sent the legislature a revised budget with $36 million in new taxes including a 20 percent income tax increase to close a $200 million deficit. In Maryland it. Gov. Melvin Steinberg Ujj Piid this past week he will submit an $800 million tax plan to the state legislature along with a 1992 budget proposal that will feature massive cuts. Ohio gov. George Voinovich facing a $120 million deficit Cut the staff at his official residence by half saving the state $ 104,000 a year he said. Quot Cuomo said Cash strapped new York state could raise up to $100 million by Selling the Aqueduct race track near new York City to the new yorker new Jersey port authority. It would be closed to make Way for sex pension of Kennedy 1 . It. A a a get it All Corte this year a Cuomo said. A bite the Bullet. Take the  newlywed astronauts could be first couple on same Mission Cape canaveral Lla. Up newlywed astronauts Mark a Lee and Jan Davis Are assigned to a september 1992 shuttle flight raising the Prospect of the first Luis band and wife team to Fly in space together officials have said. Quot Mark and Jan Are married. They be been married for several weeks a said Nasa spokeswoman Barbara Schwartz at the Johnson space Center in Houston. Quot this is unique Mark Lee because we be never assigned a couple of astronauts w to Are married to the same Crew. A  under review but there a nothing forthcoming right now a she said. A the marriage apparently caught a some top level Nasa managers by Surprise and it was not immediately Clear it the Agency would allow the couple to blast off together on the same Mission or whether one might be assigned to a different flight. Lee and Davis were not available for comment and it was not mown when the couple got married. Jan Davis to ready Atlantis for Takeoff is running ahead of schedule. The goal of Atlantis a Mission is to launch the Gamma Ray Observatory which is made up of four instruments to study High Energy Hidia Tion from deep space. The flight also features the first Post challenger spacewalk. Lee 38, first flew in space aboard the shuttle Atlantis logging 64. Orbits and 97 hours during a successful Mission to launch in other developments Nasa engineers pressed on with plans to launch the space shuttle discovery in Early match on the first of seven flights planned for 1991. I lie flight a been scheduled for eco. 26, but work to replace the Ete aking rocket thrusters has pushed the launch into the first week of March. While discovery a flight has slipped a few Days the next Mission in the sequence might be moved up from april 4 to around March 29 or March 31because work the Magellan Venus radar mapping probe on May 4, 1989. Tivis 37, is a shuttle flight Rookie wh6 joined the astronaut corps in 1988. _ both Are assigned to the seven member Crew of the new shuttle end Cavour for a space lab science Mission sponsored by Japan that is scheduled for launch in sep Tern her 1992. Only six other astronauts or cosmonauts have married each other in the history of the space program. Cosmonaut Andrian Nikolayev who flew in space in �?1962-a and 1970,-Nia r r incl yellow cosmonaut a Vii ent in a Teres Kova who became the first woman to orbit the Earth in a june 1963 flight. Nikolayev was the seventh human to Fly in space a the third a Tviet a while Teres Kova was the 12th. 0ln the United states Robert a a Hoot Gibson is mar ried to fellow astronaut Rhea Seddon and former astronaut William Fisher is married to Active shuttle flier Anna Fisher. All four Are shuttle flight veterans although none has been assigned to the same Mission. More sought for drug War by Charles Holmes Cox news service Asl ung 1 on a the White House on thursday presented its latest Battle plan for the War on drugs including an. Ii percent increase in spending and new emphasis on drug treatment and Aid to latin americans Light against the narcotics Trade. A i he proposal released by president Bush and. Part. Of. The $1.4 trillion 1992 budget to be presented to Congress on monday would provide $11.7 billion for the drug fight in fiscal 1992, which begins oct. 1. Current Federal spending on drug control is $10.5  National drug control strategy an annual up Date of administration plans to o Battle drugs maintains the framework of programs Lor International and Domestic Law enforcement programs drug interdiction treatment and prevention., a your strategy is comprehensive our strategy is sound our strategy works and the thrust of our strategy remains the same cutting Down the Supply and then suppressing the demand a Bush said. Bush stressed that his latest spending request rep resents an 82 percent increase since the Start of his administration and the creation of the office Oil National drug control  a the Bottom line is this nation simply must succeed in this fight a Bush said. Rep. Charles Rangel d-n.y., chairman of the House select committee on narcotics abuse and control and a Sharp critic of the administrations drug policies said the White House plan fails to provide state and local governments with sufficient help in treating drug addicts and preventing abuse. A i m not  seems As though the strategy is a rehash of the old strategy w hich is no strategy a Rangel said. Bush and drug policy officials underscored a $100 million increase in the administration s request for drug treatment triple the increase provided by Congress for 1991. States would share in the drug treatment Grants. But officials of the office of National drug control policy said specific guidelines of How the Money will be distributed have not been worked  three Plant closings to Idle 62,000 workers a a a a trom wire reports a a a a Detroit a the big three automakers have announced plans to shut Down 24 car and truck Assembly plants this coming week temporarily idling More than 62,000 workers because of a shortage of dealer orders. General motors corp., Ford motor co and Chrysler corp. Have been trying for More than a year to balance production with slipping demand. Closing Assembly plants frequently Means shutting Down some of the thousands of supplier and component plants. Employees covered by United Auto workers Union contracts receive benefits equivalent to 95 percent of their regular pay when their plants Are closed because of sales  regrets Emark Tallahassee Fla. A gov. Lawton Chiles says he was Only looking out for women when he called them the a weaker sex Quot thursday but joked later that he would see a dentist to  foot out of my  the reference came during a talk with students at Shanks High school about parenthood. He was urging Young men to have More respect for women. Manhood does no to involve a being Able to brag about whether you Are Able to sire children or  Chiles told students. A being a Man is allowing the weaker sex a women a to have a say so and to have their own control a he said. Quot Chiles said he was trying to reach Quot All of the male Machost when he used the term which he Saiof was a poor Choice. Son sought in murders Bernards township . Shotgun shells labelled a pm oms and a a dad were found at the scene where one of the country s leading Parkinson a disease experts and his wife were killed. Police Are seeking the couple s son in the Case. Matthew Heikkila 20, was believed to have fled the country Somerset county prosecutor Nicholas Bissell said. His Mother s car was found at Newark International Airport.  team located the expended shells that we believed were used and one had a Momy written on it and one had a dad written on it a Bissell said. Police discovered the bodies of or. Richard. Heikkila and his wife Dawn in their Home after mrs. Wilcik Kila a co workers became  sled race Nome Alaska a organizers of the first sled dog race from Alaska to the soviet Union announced thursday that the soviets have Given their of and plans Are in place for the race to be run this Spring. Mushers will drive teams of alaskan and Siberia huskies hitched up to Drig sleds for a 1,200-mile trek from Nome on alaskans Bering sea coast to Nadyr on the soviet Side of the Bering Strait. A. / a. The race named the Hope 91 International intercontinental sled dog race is scheduled to Start april 5 with 36 teams that will include Alaska s top mushers and teams front the soviet Union. Mushers from Norway Japan and Switzerland also were expected to be entered in the event. Three forced to resign new Haven Conn. A a Lay minister business manager and a trustee of a roman Catholic Church were forced to resign their positions because they participated in the wedding of a former pastor Church officials said. Osl eve John f. Whealon archbishop of Hertford sought the resignations Jan. 14 because a wanted a a scandal to i avoided in the Parish Community said the Rev. Thomas Barry diocese spokesman. A forced to resign from St. George Church in suburban Mudford were trustee Shirley Girioni Jonn j. Bowes who directed a Church outreach  pro Viding Aid to the poor and Judith Knutine Shattuck the Church s non Catholic business manager