European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 5, 1981, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes february Jones asks boost in defense funds to 7 of the Gnu from press dispatches Washington the United which now spends about 5 percent of its Gross National product on should boost that figure to As much As 7 percent As soon As the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff told Congress air Force David who was accompanied by the uniformed chiefs of the air Force and Marine testified at a House armed serv ices committee hearing on the Bil lion military budget for fiscal 1982 submitted by former president Jimmy Samuel noted that the armed forces have said they need tens of billions of dollars to fill out the convert a Navy to a three Ocean Navy and build the my strategic missile is it realistic that we can actually expect to get that kind of Money Stratton i dont believe its up to us to decide How much to spend on but i would remind that throughout much of the 1950s and we spent More than 10 percent of the Gross National product on defense and weve been Down to 5 Jones Jones said he would like this increased to perhaps 7 percent As soon As Neutron weapons he was asked at the hearing about a statement tuesday by defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger that Ronald Rea Gans administration very probably will want to deploy the Neutron weapon in eur Jones replied that he favors reconsideration of the Neutron weapon but he believes the deployment of Long Range nuclear systems the ground launched cruise missile and the Pershing ii missile Are of More immediate in suspended production of the weapon while ordering the manufacture of some critical Jones said that that there would be sub Stantial advantages in having the Neutron system and that the weapon Issue should be in doing he we have to be very careful that we do not jeopardize what is a higher priority the deploy ment of the cruise and Pershing ii mis the pentagons financial Jack said that the defense department wants to end the unrealistically Low inflation projections that have caused headaches for military planners in recent since the White House budget office has required All Federal agencies to use a measure known As the Gross nation Al product Price deflator to project inflation in their spending Borsting agreed that this measurement has caused Large financial headaches for the he said since taking his Post last he has had frequent discussions with the bomb and the congressional Bud get office on ways to develop a More accurate projection of defense defense is really different from other Federal agencies because we use 95 per cent of the for that the fed eral government Borsting army officials had already complained to Congress that neither the current nor requested budgets can make the service combat ready or achieve conventional Mil itary parity with the soviets by the United states has entered a dangerous and Complex decade perhaps the most dangerous since the end of world War h in which the importance of conventional forces has again moved to the said a report by army Secretary John Marsh Ana the army chief of Edward the report to the Senate foreign relations committee called for a vastly improved 24division army to counter grow ing soviet threats against As Well As third world areas such As latin Amer Southwest Asia and sub Sahara Afri where there is a proliferation of sophisticated soviet in addition to the growth of russian conventional forces in the Sovi ets have increased their ability to project military directly and indirectly and through beyond the traditional confines of their land the report in a separate Meyer told the committee that forces in Alaska and overseas Panama As Well As the army components of the new rapid deployment Force Are generally ready for but he said Many army units in the Continental United states Active National guard and army Reserve by virtue of personnel and equipment Only marginally some other units Are dismally untre Meyer the Mars Meyer report noted on our Active end strength of will not support 16 divisions at their full wartime on aver our units Are authorized Only 90 per cent of their wartime More serious is the fact that we have attained our Active combat posture by trading off important support units we now have an imbalance in the Active Force undermanned combat organizations backed by an inadequate Active support in a real said we did Rob Peter to pay he called for reinstatement in the de sense budget of plans to build the first nerve Gas Plant since 1969 at Pine it was dropped last the estimated fiscal 1981 army budget is and the request for fiscal 1982 is compared to billion approved for fiscal that is not Meyer told the among other he the 1981 and 1982 budgets do not pro vide for the necessary acceleration of modernization to even achieve parity with the soviets in Kidnap victim Safe Ron Hocum right holds his 17month ends and told them where she say old daughter Lori after Sho was found eng she was too pretty to at left old daughter Lori after she was found unharmed in a shopping Center parking lot after her kidnapper called her Par is Jefferson Parish sheriffs detective Craig a photo too pretty to kidnapped baby found Safe after phone Call a a 17month old girl kidnapped from her Home by a gun Man was found unharmed tuesday night after a Man telephoned her parents and said the child was too pretty to the girls father he called and told us she was at Lake Forest shopping he told us Slie was such a Beautiful otherwise he would have wasted said Ron father of the kidnapped Lori police said the child was taken by a Man who apparently had intended to burglarized army is driven to buy new trucks from japanese fort a the army has bought 40 fuel efficient trucks from a japanese but base officials said there not taking All their business away from after scouring the Market for vehicles meeting Federal fuel the army bought 40 Dat Sun pickups for from a midwestern its not that the army set out to buy base spokesman John Rasmuson told the Lowell its just that the american car makers dont make what we under rules of the general services Federal agencies must meet strict fuel standards in the vehicles they when army officials looked for trucks to replace aging three Quarterson trucks that Cost a year in they found nothing to suit them at it really has put us in a bad said Milton chief of the Gas Light vehicle for years weve been asking them manufacturers to manufacture Small they just Haven been Able to do Rasmuson said the Purchase did not mean the army was not concerned about the plight of Chrysler making our tanks for he the Hocum Kathleen Landry of the Jefferson Parish sheriffs department said the Man broke into the tied up a maid and stuffed the toddler in a Box wrapped like a Christmas the Hocum House is in a suburban new Orleans neighbourhood just a few doors from the residence of David the girls father went on television soon after the kidnapping and begged the gun Man to be careful with his i ask you to please take care of Hocum keep her warm and give her some the sheriffs spokeswoman said the girls parents were Middle class and not especially the gunman made no imme Diate she adding that the Fri had been the gunman knocked on the front door of the Home and when the maid he pulled a Landry the girls parents were not the Man forced himself into the he tied up the maid and he stole a he had a big Box that was wrapped up like a Christmas he put the Little girl in the Box and he took her and Landry russian seeks Asylum Malta up a soviet citizen has taken Refuge at the embassy in Malta and is seeking political the embassy an embassy spokesman identified the russian As Badri chel Idze and said he entered the embassy