European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 17, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page j t 17, it13 defense la Kokkos. Ii Kofman a military writer Washington i a i a senior fir Fonse official a Vonc Day accused  Kress of Mufic Ini the readiness of the present armed forces m favor of clamorous new weapons such As a want nuclear powered aircraft earner this official who preferred to remain Anonymous said s2 billion voted by the mouse for a new Carrier opposed by the Carter administration would displace funds for needed supplies of bombs elec tronic equipment repair and overhaul of warships planes and other purposes. We have a serious problem of degrading our military capability below what it would otherwise be in order to procure some particular weapon system that seems attractive to some in Congress the postal strike probable if pact rejected Denver up postal workers Union delegates have voted to require their Union president to Call a nationwide strike if the current contract offer is rejected and negotiators cannot reach agree ment on a new pact within five  president Emmet Andrews said delegates overwhelmingly approved the Resolution on a voice vote tuesday. If the contract ratification is rejected by the membership the president is authorized to go Back to negotiations and if it cannot be negotiated within five Days he is required to Call a nationwide  an Drews said. And it will be  Andrews again predicted Union Mem Bers would ratify the contract proposal. If 1 had to bet on it. I d bet the contract will be  he said. Mailing deadline the deadline for mailing in ballots is Midnight aug. 23. Prospects for ratification did not look Good monday As delegates voted unofficially by a 5-1 margin to reject the proposal. In a two hour Roll Call under a complicated formula that allows More votes than there Are delegates the final vote was about 8,500 against the contract and  favor. When asked if the voice vote was an Indi cation of How the official mail vote would go. Andrews said. Certainly  Andrews was booed at the podium Mon Day by a minority of postal workers representing about 25 percent of the Conven Tion s 3,000 delegates. The demonstrators were sometimes heckled by Union Mem Bers who remained seated. The voice vote was the second major rejection of the proposed contract the National association of letter carriers a smaller postal workers Union overwhelmingly repudiated the offer in an unofficial vote in Chicago two weeks ago. Refugee shot trying to flee East Germany. Hannover. West Germany a a would be refugee was apparently killed by automatic shrapnel fire while trying to escape across the communist death strip into West Germany Federal Border police said. The victim apparently triggered one of the automatic guns fixed to the Metal Fence along the East German Side of the Border and was Cut Down by the explosion of Sara pc. Police said East German soldiers with floodlights searched the area near the town of win Rustedt and were seen taking away a body police said. No other details were Given. Dod official Carrier could Sas $2 billion voted for a amorous of Beffer be used for needed s the l told my re i  d a t think Woc a afford that m it u l  to Liddu there Haic born persistent but univ Fri h d reports that president Carter is con a Derma vetting the defense budget authorization Bill if it reaches him contain my billions of dollars for a new Carrier and other items he opposes. In voting a s2 billion appropriation for a huge new Carrier the defense official said. The House Cut deeply into allotments pro posed or research and development and for strengthening . Forces committed to the North Atlantic Alliance. Operation and maintenance funds for All the services were hit pretty badly to the tune of half a billion  the senior official said. Operation and  fund 1 � used in kick Navy Hyps. Air Force planes. Army tanks and All other equipment in running order As ii result i years of con Gressional trimming of those funds the services developed a major backlog in this work and a shortage of spare parts that Sinousy degraded readiness. The Carter administration has Given  priority to correcting this readiness problem and officials have said that considerable Progress has been made in the past yearn other matters the defense official said it is very Likely that the United states will build an advanced intercontinental ballistic missile that could survive attack by increasingly accurate soviet  he said i Don t know if the administration will he in a position that i e a to proceed into Star trek returns to screen All right. Star trek fans you re in for a treat. From left to right William Shat Ner capt. James t. Kirk. Leonard Nimoy or. Spock and de Forest Kelley or. Bones Mccoy will resume their familiar roles in Star trek the motion  notice the change in uniforms. A pm judge says boy in coma must say on Respirator Dedham mass. A a judge ruled tuesday that a comatose 12-year-old boy must remain connected to life support equipment despite a petition from his father to unplug him Norfolk county probate court judge Jeremiah Sullivan claimed that evidence was not conclusive that thu brain of Louis Stone was dead he had been in a coma since july 2 when struck in the heart by a by accidentally shot by  father the boy is at Day he wanted the boy removed from do. With seeing him like  Myra Stone Louis Mother had said she wanted her son to remain on the equip ment. M f or. Milton Brougham chief surgeon at Carney Hospital testifying for the parents said some of Louis a Mexes still persisted and the boy had not sustained total brain death 2 Cai � a i dings fall kill in Cairo i to is of Cost and methods of Basing Thust system Are still unresolved. I the official said that adequate Atnafe weapons to deter possible soviet 2 and avoid an imbalance in no cleanup Power have the highest  said that we ought to Oprah option for a new inter radiate Iab missile that will be based in Europe Tost recently deployed Mobile soviet Fol called the ss20. T the ss20, with a Range of More fall000 Miles can be fired from the its Union against Western Europe the sent . Perching missile in euro Range of about 490 Miles. Meany Marl 84th year reminiscing Washington a a floor Dent George Meany shared some Mart his longevity is he celebrated Dkl birthday tuesday night with a us friends including vice preside m Mondale. The Basic foundation was w brought up on Oatmeal and potato the Bronx bom plumber who Baa Tail Only president the labor fed entail known in its 23-year history. And now he adds the credit also a an occasional Martini and keeping mind As Busy As a machine. I never Stop thinking even when i go to bed said Meany. Fit ways thinking of what i la be doing w Row. Either that or i m doing mental Al  no contradiction one of the Best things about my said was that i can talk about woj pwned in 1910 and no one dares Cento  As for growing old gracefully Aily. The outspoken labor Leader Only bought half of that  _ but Meany was very quiet abort fat his birthday party attended1" thine associates business and ers members of Congress Tabor Secretary Ray a Secretary James Schlesinger members of an administration be been hesitant to criticize. "1 never work on my a is Menny waving aside with his Ever Frt Cigar questions about his i a complaints that the White Houma a Jujj labor and that Carter was a festive president. Carter reportedly was Meany s remarks and marshal chastised him last week for wife tary called unwarranted attack ministration. But in the party ballroom festoon red. White and Blue balls being  president sent a _. For Meany praising his eff01" better stronger More Ria Merica. Goals i share wit Najj Mondale said Meany was great labor Leader but a pot the Young the old. The sick said Marshall Meany is if mine. We might have our they re minor. There s Nolenia any Patching  the birthday dinner or love an organization that Mui programs or children " missing or killed in action Asia and for hospitalized i pc Tveraas of the Vietnam War