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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 30, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes april 1977 Ausa asks restoration of draft setup by John Hart Washington Bureau chief Washington restoration of the selective service system now is seen As a Way of strengthening credibility of deterrence to a conventional says the association of the United states army in a 31page report released Friday the Ausa said that an operational selective service system has the advantage of providing a practical remedy for the inability of the Volunteer concept to Supply the manpower needed in Ausa said the selective service system has withered to the Point where it can no longer be expected to meet the crucial de sense manpower needs in the Early months of a future a Pentagon official said Friday the Volunteer system is but we feel there is a need for a mechanism of Early callup in Case of an the defense department is working with the selective service system in devel Oping procedures and alternatives Tor such he since the draft ended several years ago the selective service system became Dis mantled by the charges Ausa in its report called manpower for the Mil draft or Volunteer the selective service system was to remain in a standby read Togo according to the system became fair game for those Hunt ing Economy and supposed when the draft Ausa pointed out that the system has dwindled from paid employees with a budget of million in 1973 to 100 men now with a million plus it is Clear that the dismantling of the selective service system has seriously jeopardized our ability to carry out our Basic plans to Cope with a major stated the associations appraisal of the system As it exists now is that it can not Supply inductees for training until four months after mobilization the Ausa report Calls on the administration and the Congress to make a Deci Sion either to provide the resources needed to maintain a ready Al Volunteer Force with the numbers and Quality near sports diving area demanded by or to change course and install the most equitable draft possible for the Active Ausa said the selective service system and presidential induction authority should be restored immediately in either the Ausa in its report also makes an Appeal to All services and the depart ment of defense to make a sus fallout Effort to retain the present Quality of military to protect competitive military compensation and to prevent further erosion of these Are indispensable ingredients of a successful military manpower program either for a Volunteer or draft stated dirt Oil spill spotted off coast of Florida no Gas guzzler problem Here Heather of All dressed up including Hopes for a ride in the Surrey with the fringe on the car is a Gas saving reproduction of a 1902 Model a Cadillac on display in the car has no emission con tool systems and no Shock absorbing but it gets 0 Miles on a gallon of Gas and is powered by an i horsepower lawns Power photo key up a 60mile 1milewide dirty Oil spill was Dis covered in the Atlantic off the Florida keys just a mile from one of the worlds prime sports diving its a big said Pilot Robert Hub Bard of the Island City flying who flew Over the i was flying feel High and  see either Side of its a Brown the closer to the originating Point the thicker it he a coast guard plane spotted the spill be tween key Largo and Marathon at 9 the cause of the spill had not been spokesman Dave Tail said the coast guard dispatched two cutters and two air but could not determine if the seven Miles would reach the he said Easterly winds at 14 threatened to bring the spill to stretching Southeast of Miami from Mara Thon to key the coast guard strike a team of Oil cleanup was notified and was ready to be dispatched to the theres a possibility it could reach Shore we thought it might at first but we just dont know he the spill was being pushed slightly North and parallel to the Tail said the spill was but we cant say How deep it there Are a lot of globules in Hubbard said it was in the main ship Ping about one mile away from an offshore Coral reef used extensively by divers and sports theres a big concentration Down at the South coast guard Noris Turner the sea action int separate panel oks Compromise on budget Washington a a Compromise budget Resolution to replace the one rejected by the House was approved Friday by the House budget u Calls for a deficit in the year beginning u includes million As partial re placement for funds Cut from the defense department on the House had adopted an amendment to re store the full billion defense spending and the amendment was cited As a major reason Why the House later Defeated the whole the House is scheduled to take up the Compromise Resolution next the new versions billion deficit is billion less than the deficit that would have been projected if first As had been it is nearly 12 billion More than president Carters deficit the revised proposal Calls for spending of billion against revenues of Omar who sponsored the amendment to add billion to the military said the new figure is not High he said he has not decided whether to try again in the House for More nor whether he would vote for the Resolution if it contained the Compromise chairman Robert n told he budget committee u had to strike a Fine balance Between defense and Nondic sense the he was to get enough support from demo who split on the to adopt a budget since few republicans could be counted on to vote for House majority Leader Jim d said of the it will Well make it the Compromise Bill would add Mil lion to the Law enforcement Section of the before rejecting the earlier Reso the House had amended that Sec Tion of the budget Resolution to add million on the grounds it was needed to help fund the Law enforcement assist Ance which makes Grants to state and local both figures were in addition to the Carter administration requests for Law enforcement adding the figure to the budget Resolution would make room for in creased appropriations in the next fiscal but the actual funding would depend on passage of an appropriation Tail said the cutters and aircraft at the Slick were searching for the vessel responsible for the it has to be a but so far we Haven found the one that caused Tail a Oil Tanker was responsible for another Large Oil spill in the same Gulf Stream area in july leaking More than theres a lot of Tanker activity in that Tail record lows chill menace crops by United press International record breaking cold chilled a Broad Belt of the East and South a freeze or Frost nipped tender Young vegetable plants and threatened blossoming fruit Trees in parts of the mid surface floodwaters subsided after Surg ing through the streets of and facing a few families from their More than seven inches of rain fell late thursday and Early showers and thunderstorms broke out along a front from the Central Plains to North but subsided in the mom new Low temperature Marks for april 29 were set in at least 14 cities from wisc on Michigan and new York to records were tied at several other report ing u degrees in Pennsylvania the Mercury dropped to 16 above Zero at and 21 at land lakes and Frost whitened a wide Section of the Purdue University agricultural weather Center said temperatures in the upper 20s and lower 30s in Northern and Central Indiana were close to critical thresholds for tree fruits and probably damaging to ground level fruits and vege u said truck Farmers and fruit growers would have to adopt a wait and see Ricardo Cortez Dies at 77 new York up Ricardo a screen idol who got top Billing Over Greta Garbo in the swedish Beautys first died Here at  
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