European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 4, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                2 More months of production May 1977 icbms output extended Washington a defense Secre tary Harold Brown tuesday ordered the minuteman m  Ted Lisuch missile production line kept open for two More the action came Only about two weeks before the United states and the soviet Union Are Doe to resume Raflo aimed at breaking a deadlock Over strategic nuclear arms limitation Pentagon spokesman Thomas Ross said Browns order has very Tittle connection with Basalt but be con ceded later that dearly any major weapons program has something to do with in a letter to Senate and House commit tee Brown said his decision to permit production of an additional 10 minuteman Iii missiles is based upon the need to maintain an icbms production capability while a Complete review of alter natives to full missile production is being at the same Brown the production of the additional missiles would allow the More important parts to be used As spares should that Ever be Ross said there Are to plans to increase the number of combat ready minuteman Iii missiles in launch the United states now has 550 minuteman Iii each armed with three nuclear warheads which can be aimed at separate the Ford administration persuaded Congress last year to permit production of an additional 60 minuteman Iii icbms at the rate of five a the Ford administrations aim was to put them in storage As annual a Roundup planned at Nurnberg nor Bellg the annual euro Pean English speaking Roundup of alcoholics Anonymous t a members will be held saturday and sunday at the bavarian american hotel to attend the the Only requirement is the desire to Stop an a spokesman about 300 people Are expected to the weekend includes a dance with workshops and a on Friday the program starts at and the Tal Kathon at 7 work shops for Alanon relatives of a Mem Bers will be and at 6 a banquet is scheduled in the intercontinental room of the followed by the the main Alanon speeches will be held sunday the spokesman a hedge against breakdown of the Salt Congress voted million for that the Carter administration re versed direction and Mfd Congress to divert the funds from procurement of additional missiles to production of components to maintain the existing Force of 550 Brown said at the time we have lots of Hedges against a Salt breakdown with out stockpiling since that decision was the rus sians have rejected president Carters package of proposals for a new Salt agreement to replace the original pact expiring in the May 18 talks in Geneva Are aimed at exploring new negotiating Al though the Carter administration still stands on the Basic principles of its propos als calling for actual reductions in Strate Gic nuclear weaponry and a strict limitation on big missiles or a simple ratification of limits agreed on by the presi Dent Gerald Ford and soviet Leader Leonid Brezhnev at Vladivostok in another pending administration Deci Sion witha possible bearing on the Salt talks is whether to continue production of the costly and controversial by Pentagon officials have indicated that Browns recommendation to Carter will not be ready for submission to the White House until late this month at the Ross said last week that the course of the renewed Salt talks in Midway will be taken into consideration when Brown prepares his the stars and stripes Page 31 conferees of new tax deduction Washington a House and Senate conferees agreed tuesday on a new Standard deduction that would Cut taxes for a estimated 47 million persons but boost the taxes of about million single the spokesmen for the two Chambers Are working out a Compromise version of president Carters economic stimulus tax passed by the House and Senate in Dif pc rent with no they ratified the decision already made by Carter and the of denies attempting deception on Congress Washington up David Jones testified tuesday there had been no attempt by the air Force to deceive con Gress by going ahead with work on part of an so million computer system the Law makers cancelled in the air Force chief of appeared before a House appropriations sub committee which is investigating charges by two members that lire air Force showed a classic example of contempt by going ahead with work on a computer program known As project Max in Defiance of congressional the general said he would be naive to think that the air Force has not made mis takes but i assure there is one mistake we have not made and that is to attempt to deceive the con Jones said Congress allowed the air medic commits suicide Germany a medi Cal specialist committed suicide at the Bamberg health clinic a me com spokesman said the death of the specialist 4 was attributed to a gunshot the spokesman identification of the victim is being with held pending notification of relatives in the the incident is being investigated by military the spokesman Force to go ahead with an interim plan after cancelling the Overall computer known As the advanced logistics and that the service kept Congress informed of what it was John and Charles released a file of internal air Force documents last including a memo written by Robert Edge last january stating that in not Overly concerned with Unap proved work on the Jones said that Edge was referring to comments made by another air Force office and that the term unapproved had been placed in quotation Marks to emphasize the work was in fact approved interim work and that Congress should be informed of Congress was informed by letter in feb Jones he said that although the air Force has not decided whether to go ahead with full development of project it has had about 90 persons involved in trial the original computer system was aimed at keeping track of logistics opera but Jones said trying to develop it proved to be we believe it is entirely consistent with the direction of this committee and the authority it granted the air Jones to have been keeping Congress in 15 most Active in Economy did not need the conferees wrote into the Compro Mise Standard deductions used by those who do not itemize their charitable local taxes and other offsets to for single persons and for Cou Ples filing average saving Treasury specialists estimated the result would be an average saving of for 47 million but that million single who now can take a larger Standard would lose an average of the losers would in general be single persons with income above debate on the deduction touched on the quirk in present Law known As the marriage because of the Way deductions now Are set a Man and woman with comparable incomes and using the Standard deductions pay More tax if they Are married than if they share quarters without Legal the new Standard deduction would but not eliminate the marriage we cant crucify people who Russell told the con he said he knows of a Case in which marriage Cost a couple a year and Over 20 years that if you want people 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