European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 2, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes saturday. May 2,1992 panel saves  Wolf subs by cutting ski b-2 funds by the  Washington the Scute appropriations committee rated thursday to preserve two  Wolf submarines president Bush wanted to Emma Nat but still Cut $424 million More in Federal spending than the  had proposed. The action reflected conflicting trends. Members of Congress Are forced to demonstrate support for programs that provide jobs. But they also want to appear to be greater cutters of pork barrel spending than the president and to Back a balanced Federal budget. Bush proposed four Bills by which Congress would take Back Money it had already appropriated covering More than 100 programs totalling $7.86 a film the Scute panel voted 19-9 to augment those cuts known As rests sons with additional cuts of $189 Mil too in Domestic spending. $172 motion in International Aid and $63 Milhon in Mort Niy spending. The committee decided to go ahead with constructing the  Wolf submarines at a Cost of $2.9 Fotioo by cutting so billion in strategic defense initiative research and $1 billion in b-2 bomber expenditures instead. Among the hems Cut by the committee were excess defense department inventories and executive salaries As Wel As hundreds of thousands of Dolan Worth of Federal Grants including some for studies Tike one on the mating behaviour of swordfish and another on ways of measuring patients fear of dentists. The committee decided to Cut permanently $39 million in military Aid to pent which the administration had suspended in protest of president Alberto k. Fujimori s dissolving his country s Congress and Jedi Day april $. Sen. Patrick j. Leahy d-vt., said that Money could go toward paying compensation to the family of an airman who was killed when peruvian combat planes opened lire on an american Luthary aircraft last week. The hottest debate was Over the two submarines part of the  Wolf program being phased out by the Admonis to ratio. Several republicans argued that m the pos Gold War world the United states needs sophisticated anti missile defences in the sky far More than sophisticated submarines under the oceans. But the democratic majority disagreed in part because the  Wolf program provides More jobs. The submarines Are to be Buot in Groton conn., by electric boat division of general dynamics corp. Tape reveals officer s wife had husband gun on mind Sty Randy Pruitt Hanau Germany a �?o1 was playing with the Shotgun the other Day Quot the voice belonged to Gathlyn Brewer Strain a military spouse who has been dead since aug. 26. Her words laughter and song filled a courtroom wednesday afternoon and brought tears to the eyes of the Man accused of of flow her. For 1st la Christopher Strain it was a voice from the grave. Strain sobbed quietly As he listened to a cassette tape his wife had made january 1991 while he was in saudi Arabia. The tape however was never mailed and Strain who returned to Germany in May had never heard in until wednesday at his murder trial the tape became an unusual and spec Bindrim piece of evidence that May have helped Lead to Strain s acquittal thursday. Asks where he keeps the shells. But Brewer Stein does no to dwell on the gun. She talks about Many other things like their dog Andy getting into the garbage her trip to a thai restaurant the laundry and a possible vacation to Greece when be returns cram the desert. A a you be Only been Gooe a Little Over a month Ash said on the tape. A it seems like inc year. A a in a doing better than some of these other women. They re freaking out or crying Al the time. A ooh babe i can to wait until you get Home. A its no fun going to bed. Nobody to tuck me in no Boydjr to turn out the lights. Room of the couples Neuberg apartment the a How a the same one to which she referred in the tape recording Strain claimed he found his wife a woman with a history of mental problems in the bathroom cutting herself with a knife. His sawed off Shotgun was nearby. He told authorities that when be tried to remove the gun she grabbed the barrel and pulled it to her Chest Caus ing it to discharge. Mitt any investigators confiscated the tape along with other evidence shortly after the Strain s civilian attorney said his client has had Access to the recording but found it Loo painful to hear. On wednesday the 45-Mmutc tape spoke to the court. It portrayed a lonely frightened woman who missed her husband and feared be might be killed in Battle. Her Worth also revealed an angry depressed personality that was having trouble coping with life. At the same time the tape unveiled a Side of brew a Strain that was fun Kwong and Piaf us. On the tape she tells Strain repeatedly that she Lores him and at one Point mentions the Shotgun. She also a atm lonely. In a Nusen ble without you. In a scared. A a it a hard being Here without you. Its hard being anywhere without you. A i did make the bed once since you were Gooe but mostly the sheets Are up around my ears. F want to reach out and touch your foot but there s no foot a at least my heart is with you. My heart is with you every second every moment of every thy and Ari Nute Jim a Retner there. 1 just Hope you  she asks what bide passage Strain was Reading before he was deployed to Southwest Asia As a chemical officer adding a i really want to know. Quot i Kave not been deeping that great Honey and when i do sleep its Hondo suddenly she puts on some music a collection of songs from the 1960s. She mentions that she tries not to watch the television news. Against a backdrop of Sonny and Cher singing / got you babe she talks of a television special she watched dedicated to service members in the Gulf. �?o1 cried during the whole thing. It was really moving. A i just want you Home now. In a so scared of losing  her voice is pleading almost a cry rear 1 Snail a Chris i swear never take you for granted a come Home to me. You be got to come Home to  she stops the music and sings a song to her husband. Its a strange song to come from a troubled woman but she sums it with feeling. Its titled pm rhe happiest Girt in the whole u . Santa Cruz looks Law protects homosexuals Tom wire reports Santa Cruz grief. A the of Tyr a new  few wont protect people a i bind weird hair Ais or tattoos but it does Inatio based on other physical characteristics such As height and weight. A this by serves As a statement that bigotry will not be talented in Santa Cruz a gone Drummond said of the few which was 5-2 on tuesday night by the City Gouak drum mood 23, said he was beaten up last month because he b Gay. The a looks few prohibits employment or housing discrimination on the basis of height weight sexual orientation or physical characteristics. State and Federal Laws already forbid discrimination on the basis of age gender race color Creed religion National origin marital status or disability. Twenty two local churches signed a letter opposing the Law because it protects homosexuals. Stubborn Man was dead key thought def Elva Fla. A 78-Yearold West his _ _ Mcalfee the other had Heim dead on inc Mcm Mooc 10c to Nom Nso poach sol Thomas Warren tuned Hii Milf in far psychiatric treatment at Defoe Hospital after police discovered the body of 43-year-old Whf Fin Everett Delaney on thread. A i guess he might have had some kind of mental Block where he Dodart want to believe the Guy was  said police detective Duke Yannacone. Wane told police that he recalled Delaney Felling in the Kitchen about two or three months ago. He said he often asked Delaney if he wanted food or drink or if he needed to go to the Hospital. A the said the Guy was very stubborn and  answer hmm Yannacone said. Police were called Fay a welfare worker who had gone to Check on Warren. A suspect has to take rap Greensburg a. A a High school student has been arrested on a burglary rap a laterally. Police who stepped Adam p. Walton. 18, of Greensbury on april 7 for an alleged traffic Vio Baioa said is car contained $1,500 Worth of stolen electronics Etmo Pernt and a homemade none video confession. Wagon raps on the videotape about How he p�8ed Down a Waff to enter a store and meal the Pri Pocta he used for a record Detec few w3kum said. Wagon a senior was area nod wednesday on charges of burglary theft and receiving stolen property. Warning labels urged Washington a a consumer advocacy Paup thursday said it wants the Etui amino to retune a warning Label on nicotine gum and patches saving that bring them is dangerous for someone who a staff Sanur puff he Mctere asked that the food and drug  Abo require manufacturers to ten Consumers that such products have Only been proven effective when used As part of a larger program to quit smoking. The gum and patches Are supposed to Hefe wean smokers off tobacco by Gyvia source of the moot me they crave. _ Rignie Tea and the patches can care a lab Deufem Pun. Mental co Afusia and vomiting Quot a Public a Tinea petition  training exercise in Eastern Germany cancelled by the stars and Stii pre a a Cuong training exercise involving members of the 3rd inf div and a German unit in former East Germany has been cancelled a division spokesman said Friday. Maj. Steven w. Shively said lie trip to Eastern Germany scheduled for monday through Friday was cancelled because Quot we could t justify the expense in Man i transportation of going Dawn doing some thing with a unit we c a official partnership  hours and transportation of there and a a done to have Twenty five officers foam the do Sioa a 3rd engr brigade headquartered in Wurzburg were to meet with soldiers from the 80th Pioneer brigade at Kun Che Sec Cavern in Satkow located Southeast of Bertin. The 80th brigade is an Engineer unit made up of soldiers from the former East German army and the German Federal army. The planned partnership Opportunity stemmed from Ducu Moas involving the staff of 3rd engr a Reade Shively said. A we thought we were Cacner to Fri fcb ing a training  Shively said he did not know whether the . Unit Wili try to reschedule the training. The . Soldiers initially were to ride the train to Sorkow and stay on Kuchen Sce Cavern where they would be Brief cd on the German unit and its urn of former beat bloc Equi Prarat the ached be a chafed Toady my local terrain red Dac Tufeg group Nkru saner Ufeo so cml tre to no wry by each nation Aho were planned. The 3rd inf div has partnership training tire with the German 12th a Amer do and the French 5 the army div Shively said