European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 12, 1981, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes january 1981 Hodgepodge of improperly equipped units interservice rivalry is ref problem by John Fialka Washington is the first major defense problem to confront the Reagan administration will probably be the status of the rapid deployment a concept which has become the subject of an increasingly bitter interservice rivalry at the top Levels at the compounding the according to civilian and military officials who Are grappling with Are overstatement of the capabilities of the Force by Carter administration officials and a failure to understand the unprecedented complexities of mounting a rapid expeditionary strike to protect vital interests Halfway around the several Well placed sources said that some of the logistical problems of delivering and sustaining a sizable military Force in the Oil Rich Region against a welf equipped enemy have been finessed away during recent Pentagon command Post exercises by preliminary assumptions that current shortages of sea lift and communications equipment have resolved before the simulated conflict As military planners working for the joint chiefs of staff started to take a harder look at some of these the sources the closure or the projected delivery dates for units earmarked for the have been repeatedly moved some for weeks and even one of the things they Reagan officials Are going to look at very care fully is the said a senior Pentagon official involved in the they Are already questioning How rapid is maybe one of the first things we should do is look for another some press accounts of the growing conflict Over the Anatomy and nature of the ref have pointed to a personality feud Between the commander of the Marine and the head of the army readiness vol Ney the readiness come has peacetime command authority Over Kelley and the both generals Are regarded As extremely competent leaders by their sources close to both of them now say that the rift goes much deeper and broader than a question of it is rooted in the differing combat doctrines of the two serv and it is being worsened by a Rube Goldberg like ref command the conflict is built almost As if somebody set out to lets see can make this thing awkward or maybe even said a senior Pentagon player involved in the the incoming Secretary of Cas Par who has been having daily briefings on the status of the ref and related gave the Senate armed services committee a hint of the problems surrounding the ref last he said the Carter administrations efforts to put into effect the persian Gulf commit ment had been extraordinarily Clumsy and when he examines the problem More Weinberger will discover that some Marine officials Are under the impression that the army is attempting to solve the command problem by conspiring to harass and Rem Ujj army officials strongly suspect the of planning a coup using the corps1 Superior leverage in Congress to take Over the entire Mission of the the feuding and the faulty planning have led to some truly funereal views on the prospects for the the risks of deploying a Force As Large As this on faulty assumptions Are just said a senior Pentagon what do you do if you make a mistake and the Force is destroyed do you go to tactical nukes Small yield nuclear if you do can you Stop i literally Wake up at night worrying about the present rapid deployment Force is a standing invitation to military a disaster from which the military reputation of the United already battered by 30 years of defeats and miscarry probably could never said Jeffrey a former military analyst for Sam in a detailed study of the ref under the auspices of the Institute for foreign policy which will be released next record Calls the ref a Hodge podge of improperly equipped and Struc tured units lumped together under a Price warns of soviet threat to vast Region Singapore up the head of the House armed services committee called on All nations sunday to watch out for a rus Sian threat to the area from Japan to the Middle Democrat Melvin Leader of the 14 Man congressional told a pred Par Ture Airport news conference that the United states was aware of the increased soviet presence in the there is a common need for All coun tries to share the surveillance and Burden of a potentially greater soviet threat in the Price Price said that cooperation with All the free world is necessary to Check the in creasing menace caused by the soviet Republican William Dep Uty team said that the increased soviet traffic in these Waters and the use of vietnamese bases by the soviets have caused great fused command apparatus rent by unusually vicious and debilitating inter service As record and some outside observers see the refs Basic problem is the As sumption that a credible military Force could quickly inserted into the persian Gulf from bases in the United states with much of the needed equipment coming in the initial stages by it is a doctrine much different from any the United states has Ever used in world War for a Long period of we literally dumped stuff into eng land and sorted it out after we got to launch the Normandy record in Vietnam it was much the same we had huge this is differ it All has to be every thing has to be the right things have to arrive first or there wont be any second inaugural Parade sea of Young faces7 to escort new president Washington up Ronald Rea Gans inaugural Parade led by a police horse unit and closing with the mormon Tabernacle choir will include participants and present the new president with a sea of Young officials the Parade a tradition that began As a Way for a new presidents friends to escort him from the Capitol to the White House will include 21 High school and College 10 military 28 horse a unit of three alaskan and three including a Mobile stage carrying the mormon Parade officials told a news conference a total people will take part in the a and r depending on the weather some May turn out along washing tons wide avenues to watch Terry vice chairman of Ina Gura Parade activities and a Veteran of 20 years with the tournament of roses a said saturday the Parade bearing the theme a great new begin Ning should take about an hour to pass in much Shorter than the 3vzhbur Parade that followed Jimmy Carters Ina both Reagan and the television networks want a Short and Chambers said it 6 rightist guerrillas killed in Nicaragua Nicaragua a six rightist guerrillas were killed and four Cap tured in a clash with Security forces 90 Miles North of the Interior ministry a spokesman identified the guerrillas As members of Loma a Small Organiza Tion made up of diehard supporters of Dic Tator Anastasio who was Over thrown by a leftist revolution on july 1979 and subsequently news update gasoline glut los Angeles up there is a possibility of a gasoline glut in the Spring even though fuel prices Are still but the situation is clouded by the Ira Iran says the respected Lund Berg the Oil Industry newsletter said prices have begun a Rise that will probably be and amount to 20 to 25 cents per gallon by the end of the prices Are rising As a result of open Price hikes and graduated Oil Price de but refiners have announced Al locations and surpluses will be Well in excess of what the Public will buy in heating fuel Oil stocks Are sufficient for the Winter but the question is whether gasoline supplies will build to glut proportions in the news letter publisher Dan Lundberg Salvador Aid pondered Washington up the United states is still considering the re sumption of military Aid to Al suspended after the assassinations of four american the state department the suspended military Aid included six several million Dol Lars Worth of equipment and a team of military counterinsurgency advis All Aid to Al Salvador sus Pended 5 after four american women three nuns and a Lay worker were murdered reports linked salvadoran Security forces to the slay economic Aid was resumed a state department spokeswoman said at that time we indicated we would be following developments in Al Salvador with regard to certain areas of especially the continued Progress in the investigation of the murders of the four american the Washington Post reported sat urday that the state departments latin american despite opposition by Secretary of state Edmund has recommended immediate resumption of the military has been structured so Parade watchers will not lose As for keeping to the time said if he Reagan decides he Doest want to move As fast As i want him to the Parade will take longer than Chambers said the Parade will build a sea of Young faces for Reagan the aver age age of the military band members is about he said four of the mounted units will display the history of the cavalry uniform from the revolution through the and an Arizona unit will Wear Buckskin britches and Coonskin Caps to portray Western Indi the with retired Omar Bradley As the honorary grand has been organized into with units from the Northeast marching followed with those from the South and the nations mid the last units in the Parade Honor ing the former California governor will be from the Snow has fallen in Washington on 20 just six times in the past 30 years it snowed for the Kennedy inauguration and there was a Small snowfall before Carters Chambers was asked what Parade plan ners Are doing to Cope with any possible snowstorm this were asking an awful lot of he looking toward the Snow isolates villages in Northern Spain Spain up Snow fell Over Large areas of North and Northeast Ern isolating closing Moun Tain passes and cutting the main Road link ing Madrid to the Northern province of in the catalan capital of four teams of firemen came out overnight to Clear approach roads to the by morn the Snow had lightened considerably and City Hall workers covered roads and pavements with in the adjoining province of Heli copters dropped food to Mountain villages Cut off by deep Snow local officials said one had been isolated since when a first wave of bad weather caused five deaths across the a temperatures u h 7 20 30 37 20 40 14 23 2 14 3 1 1 14 5 is 31 49 41 82 45 40 34 44 54 Anchorage Atlanta Boston Chicago Cincinnati Cleveland Detroit port Worth Honolulu Houston Las vegas los Angeles l h 45 49 7 4 32 55 5 17 34 43 12 23 52 79 5 is 30 31 42 50 31 59 10 24 21 Beach Minneapolis new Orleans new York Orlando Philadelphia Phoenix Pittsburgh Salt Lake City san Francisco Seattle Louis Washington