European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 25, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Saturday january 25, 1992 the stars and stripes b Page 3russia oks tight first Quarter budget Moscow apr russian lawmakers Friday passed an austerity budget for the first Quarter of 1992 after the country s economics chief told them that tight Money and High prices Are the Only Way to solve russians economic woes. The spending plan passed despite Tough criticism from russian legislators and a complaint by a top lawmaker that it was less a budget than an incomplete collection of documents. Reports by the Tass and inter fax news agencies did not give a vote total for the budget which the economic chief Yegor Gaidar presented to the lawmakers earlier Friday. Varying reports put the size of the budget at either 420 billion or 520 billion rubles and there was no Way immediately to clarify the reports. In the Many Exchange rates available now in Moscow a Ruble is Worth no More than one . Cent. Gaidar s budget reflected the free Market economic reforms president Boris n. Yeltsin pressed on Russia on Jan. 2. The reforms have increased prices in food stores several times. Bare shelves have not filled and Consumers Are angry. At the same time Yeltsin a government is trying to sharply 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 Tass said the government was determined to press ahead with its Reform. Despite Public protest raising prices was Quot the Only possible and responsible decision a Tass quoted him As saying. Quot any Otner policy could have been extremely dangerous dooming us to an automatic twist in the inflationary  even so he said the budget built in an Assumption that inflation would be 400 percent. He termed that estimate a extremely conservative a Tass said. Gaidar said total military expenditures would be Cut 4.5 percent. But within the military budget outlays for new equipment would be Ivy times smaller he said. He also announced cuts in other government outlays including projects carried out with credits from foreign governments unless they guarantee immediate results. Cuts of Between 2.7 percent and 9 percent were announced in subsidies Tor Industrial and farm products and in Law enforcement. Stuttgart filling station won t reopen by Joseph Owen Stuttgart Bureau Stuttgart Germany a Stuttgart military Community contractor removed underground fuel storage tanks this week from an army and air Force Exchange system filling station that closed in october 1990 because the tanks were leaking. The station near Robinson Barracks will not reopen. Community officials decided there is no need for it because military Community residents can buy gasoline with cafes coupons at an Esso station a few blocks North of the cafes station said Community spokesman George Huettig. Also the old station constituted a traffic Hazard because of its location on a Busy two Lane Street near a main approach to Robinson Barracks Huettig said. The stations obsolete single walled 13,000-gallon tanks which workers removed wednesday and thursday were installed in 1953. A Frankfurt based company is testing the soil at the station to determine whether a cleanup is warranted. The Community also commissioned soil tests at two other local cafes filling stations closed in late 1990 a one at Stuttgart a Patch Barracks site of the . European come he and one at the Pattonville housing area in Ramseck. The Patch underground tanks which Date to 1945, also were leaking at the time. The Pattonville tanks installed in 1952, were damaged but not leaking. The Pattonville station will remain closed Huettig said. The Community replaced that service in october 1991 by yielding two army motor Pool Gas pumps at nearby Wilkin Barracks in ludwigs Burg to cafes for retail sales. Information about the Patch Barracks stations future was not immediately available. It wont Hurt army or. It. Col Mike hade son examines a haitian girl was set up to care for haitian refugees living on the . Held by her Mother thursday. A Mobile medical dental clinic base at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba. Buyer pays $4,000 for painting with nude Bush Frederick my. A 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. Quot everybody is talking about it a 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 a 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