European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 25, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Saturday january 25, 1992 the stars and stripes a Page 3russia s Tough plan called Only solution Moscow apr russians economics chief presenting a budget to lawmakers Friday said tight Money and High prices Are the Only possible Way to solve the country a economic woes. But a top legislator complained that the government plan presented by economics official Yegor Gaidar was less a budget than an incomplete collection of documents. He urged lawmakers to reject it. The budget presented in the russian legislature covers the first three months of the year and reflects the free Market economic reforms that president Boris Yeltsin initiated Jan. 2. The reforms have increased prices in food stores several times and angry Consumers face Bare store shelves. Meantime Yeltsin a government is trying to sharply Experiment goes awry on shuttle space Center Houston a discovery a astronauts worked Friday to overcome a Snag in an Experiment involving growing a pure Crystal that could be used to Monitor radiation at nuclear Power plants. Seven Crew members have been working on experiments non Stop since the shuttle roared into a 187-mile-High orbit wednesday. Mission control said Friday that it had been a a fairly quiet  a no major problems or any problems of significance have been reported by the Crew overnight or seen by flight controllers Here a Mission control said. But the Crew did run into some trouble in one of 42 experiments planned growing a Mercury iodide Crystal inside a Bell Jar. Instead of growing larger the gleaming a a seed Crystal of Mercury iodide began getting numerous Small crystals growing in lumps around its base. Bob Lessels spokesman at Marshall space flight Center in Huntsville ala., said scientists on the ground instructed astronaut Ulf me bold to reduce the temperature to try to dissolve the Small crystallites and allow the larger Crystal to grow. Scientists had anticipated growing the main Crystal for about 100 hours. Crew members Friday worked on separate experiments examining the effects of Low Gravity on fruit flies and plants. Astronaut William Readdy also tested a new computer workstation designed to be easily used in space. The astronauts Are splitting 12-hour shifts during the we Klong Mission scheduled to end wednesday at Edwards fab in California. Mission control offered birthday greetings to Readdy who turned 40 Friday. A you May be younger now through relativity a Mission control joked. On thursday Nasa television caught me bold in an embarrassing moment when he was shown with his pants Down around his Knees. Cameras snowed him in White briefs with his Back turned. Cut Back the number of rubles in circulation. Virtually unrestricted printing of rubles in the final years of soviet Rule built High inflation into the Economy. Gaidar in remarks reported by the Tass news Agency said the government was determined to press ahead with its reforms. Despite the firestorm of Public protest the Price increases were a the Only possible and responsible decision a Tass quoted him As saying. A any other policy could have been extremely dangerous dooming us to an automatic twist in the inflationary  even so he said the budget took into consideration that inflation would be about 400 percent. He termed that estimate a extremely conservative Quot Tass said. Gaidar said total military expenditures would be Cut by 4.5 percent and outlays for new equipment would be 7vi2 times smaller. He also announced cuts in other government spending including projects using foreign credits unless they could guarantee immediate results. Between 2.7 percent and 9 percent was slashed from subsidies on Industrial and farm products and to Law enforcement. But the budget ran into immediate trouble with criticism from Alexander Pochinok chairman of the legislative committee on budget planning taxes and prices. He said that the government should be Given the authority to spend 519.8 billion rubles but that the documents presented to the legislature were far from representing a real budget. Tass did no to say what Gaidar a budget would allow lawmakers to spend and the report did not indicate when legislators would vote on the spending plan. It wont Hurt army or. It. Col Mike had arson examines a haitian girl held by her Mother thursday. A Mobile medical dental clinic was set up to care for haitian refugees living on the . Base at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba. Buyer pays $4,000 for painting with nude Bush Frederick my. Apr somebody paid $4,000 for a painting of George Bush in the nude. Well not just George Bush. The painting also features portraits of Dolly Par ton also naked retired army Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf and Republican sen. Jesse Helms of North Carolina each wearing breastplates and Little else and Saddam Hussein clothed but kneeling beneath Schwarzkopf. The painting titled a peace treaty and the new world order was sold this week to a buyer who wishes to remain Anonymous said Melinda Wimer executive director of Delaplaine visual arts Center. The work by austrian artist Josef Schutzenhofe has caused an uproar since it went on display a week ago at the Center in Frederick about 45 Miles West of Baltimore. A everybody is talking about it Quot said Royd r. Smith a local state legislator. A a it a either pornography or its the Best thing that has Ever happened to the Delaplaine visual arts  the county a legislative delegation responding to a Public outcry has delayed introducing a Bill that would provide $500,000 in state Money to help the arts Center renovate a nearby  by High school students declining Survey says Atlanta up Only about a third of american High school students get enough exercise to keep them physically fit and the trend is toward less exercise officials reported thursday. Girls Are getting even less exercise than boys according to a 1990 Survey conducted by the National centers for disease control. Twenty four percent of girl students exercise vigorously compared with 49 percent of boy students. A racial breakdown showed that Only 17 percent of Black female students took part in vigorous physical activity. A a we re concerned about the relatively Low Levels of vigorous physical activity among High school students because of the implications for the future a said or. Michael Pratt of the cd. He said researchers had found that exercise habits of students frequently carried Over into adult life when Lack of physical activity poses the risk of heart disease diabetes and High blood pressure. A 1984 Survey showed that 61 percent of students in grades 10-12 participated in vigorous physical activity for 20 or More minutes three or More Days per week. Only 36 percent of students in those grades reported a similar amount of exercise in the 1990 Survey. The cd said student participation in school physical education also May be decreasing. Pratt said researchers have not determined Why so few students exercise or Why the number is declining. The 1990 Survey consisted of a representative sampling of 11,631 students in grades 9-12 in the 50 states the District of Columbia puerto Rico and the Virgin islands. Students were asked about How Many of the 14 Days preceding the Survey they had had at least 20 minutes of hard exercise that made them breathe heavily and made their hearts beat faster. The Survey also showed that students who were vigorously Active spent less time watching television than those who did not exercise