European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 19, 1981, Darmstadt, Hesse Pago 10 the stars and stripes february 1981 billion for new bomber foreseen in defense budget Washington up defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger revised budget for rearming America will include a billion outlay during the next two years for developing a new manned officials defense is the Only area that will see its budget increase in president reagans new spending one of the items in what Pentagon sources said will he a billion defense outlay for fiscal which begins will he the new manned the air Lorce estimates Selling he plane operation Al by the mid 9kos will add billion to the defense budgets of the next two a Pentagon spokesman said tuesday the administration is definitely going to go for a new manned bomber to replace the aging b52 As the manned airborne leg of the strategic nuclear the other legs of the defensive tripod arc intercontinental Ballis tic missiles and submarine launched mis Weinberger will decide during the sum Mer which one of four options should be chosen As the bomber of the 1990s in his plan for rearming the spokes Man Weinberger is to present his weapons shopping list and its costs to ingress next Pentagon brass worked through the Holiday weekend on the budget Rockwell International built several prototypes of the by a possible b52 the most comprehensive tax guide written exclusively for members of the armed forces now available at most stripes bookstores but president Carter cancelled the project in 1977 because of costs million for each of the swinging the options open to Weinberger Are to continue development of the consid ered unlikely because of technological advances since 1977 to build an updated ver Sion the Pentagon Calls the by variant to stretch the fb111 swept Wing bomber or to build a new stealth Type stealth has been described As technology that would make a plane All but invisible to air Force chief of staff Lew told the Senate armed services committee 6 the godhead for a new bomber would Cost billion Over the next two he called it a robust funding re it would include another million for the fiscal 1981 billion for the year beginning 1 and billion for fiscal Pentagon sources also have said the billion supplementary defense budget for fiscal 1981 is expected to be increased by about Holbrook gets assignment with defense Agency Washington a James whom the russians allegedly attempted to recruit As a spy while he was assigned to the embassy in has a new assignment with the defense intelligence a Pentagon official said an army originally had been tapped for possible assignment to the office of vice president George but officials said the major requested that he be Given another Job there was no explanation of Why he did he left Moscow 17 and took Over his assignment with the intelligence Agency on officials Exon ask hike in farm props Washington a far state senators say that with no immediate end to the soviet Grain embargo in the Rea Gan administration should quickly boost government Price supports to ease Farmers financial in View of the distressing Price situation because of the said James we should immediately raise the loan and target prices or set a deadline of 30 to 60 Days to do Bob if there is a decision to delay a and its obvious there there should be an increase in loan Exon and Dole were part of a bipartisan group of 29 Senate and House members who met tuesday with president Reagan to discuss the embargo imposed by the presi Dent Jimmy Carter months ago in response to the soviet unions military intervention in the lawmakers came away from the nearly hour Long meeting saying Reagan seemed to be waiting for concessions from the soviets before fulfilling his Campaign Promise of ending the the president said there should be a quid pro quo from the soviets in Exchange for our lifting the said Nancy who sought the meeting with Reagan two weeks said what that Concession might be is still unclear and that it could come in a couple of a couple of a couple of a number of senators indicated that mounting tension Between Russia and Poland has forced Reagan to delay lifting the but Kassebaum said the presi in discussing the foreign policy implications of such a also mentioned tension in Romania without elaborating and Secretary of state Alexander Haig later cited problems in Central French Trade up Moscow up soviet French Trade for 1980 was 35 percent higher than the previous the Tass news Agency cuban undesirables franc fed fort Chaffee refugees reported desperate fort up con Vinced there is Little Chance of resettling the remaining undesirable cuban residents near fort Chaffee say it has become a tense prison Camp for the desperate and resettlement officials have said up to 200 refugees primarily those who Are Nie tally ill or antisocial will never obtain most of the cubans know they Are hard to which com pounds the officials since the first of the two cubans have been stabbed to death at the officials attribute violence to a growing uneasiness among the who have been behind the towering fences since there getting said Dave local director of the Catholic which helps find sponsors for the they know there not going there out of the and there out to take out others with aides to Frank White said White Hopes to discuss the Camps problems with Federal officials at the upcoming National governors association but peo ple who live near fort Chaffee Are not i dont think anything can be said Wayne Wier of nearby unless they find someplace to dump them there going to be Down that May be six a year or also of agreed the refugees have Hurt their own Ever time people read the theres something going on out he said it hurts the chances for even the Good i really dont know what can be but there should be some Way to take them to the naval base at Guantanamo Bay and push them through the there just not our kind of Barling mayor Jerry Barley said efforts by the state department and Volunteer agencies to find sponsors for the cubans had faded the family units Are about the juveniles Are about he its Down to Young homosexuals and they ought to go ahead and make it a Federal Penitentiary and get it Over
