European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 1, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes sunday october 1, 1978 urges Neutron bomb production i Senate oks $3 billion for a arms Washington up the Senate voted 68-1 saturday to authorize spending of $3 billion for nuclear weapons develop ment including a recommendation for production of the highly controversial Neutron bomb. President Carter announced last april he would defer a decision on whether to build the so called people killer bomb and see what the russians might offer i return for scrapping it. The matter has remained in limbo since then. But the very Prospect of Neutron War Heads deployed in Central Europe has stirred up an International ban the bomb drive backed by the soviets. The Senate Bill would authorize $612 Mil lion for actual production of conventional nuclear warheads and for the development of new systems including the enhanced radiation Neutron weapon that is de signed to kill people while minimizing property damage. Although the Bill itself simply authorizes that funds be spent for continued work on this and other weapons it was accompanied by a Senate armed services commit an array of lobster traps crowds the Shore and fishing boats lie at Anchor in the Fleet s in the Calm Waters to form a peaceful set Ting at Bass Harbor which is situated on it. Desert Island along Maine Scenic coastline. _ a photo tee report strongly recommending that the Neutron bomb Start into production for deployment along nato s soviet bloc fron tiers. A positive vote on legislation is usually considered tantamount to endorsing the accompanying committee recommendations. The Lone dissenting vote was cast by sen. William Proxmire d-wis., who objected to the production recommendation and took Issue with the panel s assertion that the Neutron warhead would help deter nuclear War. I find this rationale completely unconvincing Proxmire said. He also protested the committee s approval of $32.5 million for production of the new b-77 Gravity bomb to replace the highly radioactive b-43 strategic bomb. Carter had not asked for b-77 production funds. The legislation was sent Back to the House which passed a similar Bill earlier. House Senate conferees will probably have to Iron out the differences. The armed services committee report noted that Carter deferred a Neutron bomb production decision partly in Hopes that the soviets would agree to meaningful reciprocal restraints on nuclear arms. However recent soviet statements seem to constitute a refusal to undertake any such reciprocal armaments restraints the report said. For that reason it said the committee urges that enhanced radiation warheads be procured for use in Lance missiles Andin artillery shells. The Neutron bomb is actually a Short Range tactical warhead designed to offset the vastly Superior numbers of tanks and troops the soviet bloc could throw into european invasion. It kills primarily by intensive radiation and causes much less blast heat and fall out damage than the nuclear warheads i would replace. The committee said the existing War Heads and howitzer shells would cause so much damage that they become less credible and less effective As deterrents to attack. This in turn might permit the Warsaw pact to use tactics that would make a de sense with Only conventional weapons less possible thereby increasing the risk of nuclear War the report said. The authorization Bill covers National Security and military nuclear weapons programs under the jurisdiction of the Energy department. It authorizes the expenditures but the funds must be obtained under a separate appropriations Bill writing backfires on nominee to head the Leaa Washington a Norval Morris ably take us the matter thic i is a _ Norva nomination to head a top Federal criminal Justice Agency is running into trouble for a reason Morris stated succinctly in testimony before the Senate judiciary commit tee i have written too damned  when president Carter picked the 54 year old Dean of the University of Chicago Law school who is also a noted criminal Justice scholar to head the Law enforce ment assistance administration the Nomi nation was expected to sail through the Senate. All this however was before senators began Reading reprints of some of Morris views on gun control and other issues circulated by the National Rifle association and other foes of the nomination. Using the reprints judiciary committee members peppered Morris with questions in a two Day hearing that ended Friday with prospects for his confirmation Uncer Tain. Sen. Orrin g. Hatch a Utah who pre sided Over the hearing said he still had made up his mind. Sources said the committee would prob ably take up the matter this week but Hatch and others indicated any action might be put off until january. Morris could have an easier time next year since his most outspoken supporter during the hearing sen. Edward m. Ken Nedy d-mass., becomes chairman of the judiciary committee next january. Most of the controversy was prompted by passages from a 1970 Book called the honest politician s guide to crime control which Morris co authored. Some of the politicians on the judiciary committee did t seem to think it was much of a guide. For example sen. Strom Thurmond of South Carolina the committee s ranking Republican who is also in a race for re election said he had become deeply concerned about Morris advocacy of removing criminal penalties from such things As drug use homosexual relations Between consenting adults Public drunkenness an gambling. Morris explained that he now thinks he overstated some of his positions in the Book and has changed his Rind about others. He no longer thinks for instance that drug use should be completely decriminalized. He said it was an author s Aberra Tion for him to write that there can be no right of privacy in regard to armament " and he said that while he still thinks acts of prostitution should probably be legalized he is inclined to think brothels should be illegal. But he is for strict gun control is an unregenerate and unreformed opponent of capital punishment and believes police should spend More time fighting violence and less time on so called victimless crimes. Newton guilty on two gun counts Oakland Calif. A Black pan ther Leader Huey Newton has been acquitted of a 1974 assault charge but convicted on two counts of handgun Possession in court proceedings marred by outbursts from Newton who called Superior court judge Joseph Karesh a Southern Cracker for denying him bail on the gun Possession convictions and ordering him held in the Alameda county jail pending sentencing on oct. 27. Newton faces a jail term of up to two years on each weapons count. Newton had also been accused of pistol whipping his tailor Preston Callins in 1974. Callins refused to testify in the trial but the prosecution said Newton had beaten him for calling Newton  Karesh scheduling a hearing for Satur Day to reconsider the bail Issue. The 36-year-old Newton who was free on $80,000 bail faces a murder trial in no vember stemming from the fatal shooting of an Oakland prostitute in August 1974