European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 16, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Inside Stripe d Poison Gas leaks from i v Plant d How that Strong Buck is affecting 9 d Mcaa tourney gets under Way Page 21 the authorized unofficial publication for the armed forces 331 March 1985 1se Tauy and 0 8693 a Belgium gives cruise godhead 16 to be deployed this month Brussels a prime minister Wilfried Martens said Friday that Belgium will deploy this month the first 16 of 48 nuclear cruise missiles to be installed there in Solidarity with the nato in an address to the Martens defended the godhead for the say ing that the soviet Union has continued its deployments of both medium Range nuclear ss20 missiles As Well As other Short Range missiles that also threaten Western related Page Martens said the remaining 32 cruise missiles would be fully deployed by the end of 1987 if there is no East West agreement to limit medium Range nuclear missiles throughout if there is a limited he Belgium would approve a limited deploy if the United states and the soviet Union agree to remove any existing missiles president reagans so called Zero option every necessity for Belgium to deploy would he if the East West arms talks which resumed this Are still going on by the end of the deployment of the 32 missiles would be delayed for a period of six if there is no agreement during this the deployment would be carried out automatically without a new deployment decision being the new Geneva arms talks cover discussions on limiting medium Range and strategic nuclear missiles As Well As space based Martens said foreign minister Leo tin demand asked the soviet Union this week not to let its opposition to reagans Strate Gic defense commonly called Star hinder Progress in the area of medium Range nuclear talks in Lindemans was in Moscow this week for the funeral of soviet president Constantin he talked for 45 minutes with see cruise on Page 28 86 budget gets vote of approval from Senate panel Washington a the Senate budget committee voted final approval thursday for a 1986 budget that recommends a reduction in reagans defense buildup and cuts in Many Domestic pro Grams to trim billion from the but even As the Republican controlled panel gave its approval on an 119 the White House said Reagan was disappointed with parts of the billion spending if Many republicans declined to embrace the democrats were Quick to turn on vowing to fight the social Security change among other and complaining that republicans were overstating the deficit we can do said Daniel we had better do bet with budget action in the House still sever Al weeks William chairman of the House budget said the key to cutting red Ink lies with Rea does he want a fair and honest deficit reduction package enough to agree to a reasonable Compromise Gray Gray also criticized Reagan for what he said was a childish statement wednesday when the president told Congress to go make my and Send him a tax increase Bill to the president should play the role of not Clint Eastwood and dirty acting Macho int going to get a budget passed or reduce his Gray the Given tentative approval wednesday night in an part line provides for no tax increases while projecting the deficit to decline from billion next year to billion in without the deficit is estimated at billion in fiscal which begins republicans said they would lop nearly billion off deficits Over three this would be done by cutting roughly billion from reagans defense sus pending costo living increases for social Security and other government programs for one freezing numerous Domestic see budget on Page 28 new artificial heart a photo William chief of the Divi Sion of artificial organs at the Milton Hershey medical displays a air powered artificial heart be has the government has approved use of the device to keep critically ill patients alive until a natural heart can be found for a Way of Admiral not necessarily by sea by Norman Black Washington a the navys historic emphasis on sea duty As the path from Ensign to Admiral is being changed to produce Sailor businessmen who can Deal with defense contractors and the modern Industrial Navy Secretary John Lehman accompanied by the navys ranking James announced thurs Day the service is creating a new career path that will allow officers to specialize in various management Fields without harming their chances for the new Materiel professional program Wilt include about or 40 of the navys 253 slots for Lehman experienced officers will no longer have to shun jobs in weapons spare parts or logistics in favor of ship commands for the new system is the most far reach ing change in Navy personnel policy in the last 100 Lehman it has been endorsed by defense Secretary Caspar he and will create a cadre of professionals who have the exper Tise to handle contracts Worth billions of it serves notice that defense contractors Are going to see across the table from them a steadily increasing level of experience and Lehman the new system was immediately endorsed by the chief of naval of he said the current procedure of rotating officers among sea and Shore based normally every four has made it almost impossible for a naval officer in uniform to come up to what i would Call an acceptable level of business management in the modern Industrial the Navy has always stressed an ability to command at sea As the basis for promo Tion when in fact Only a very Small percentage of those advancing in rank will serve the Navy from that Point on in a War fighting Watkins under the new an officer who has been with the Navy for roughly 16 is a commander or Captain and has demonstrated his management ability can apply for the Materiel professional assuming he successfully passes a special screening he will be Given the Edu cation he needs to specialize and devote the remainder of his career to Materiel maintenance and most the officer will be assured that he can move up in rank As fast As his counterparts with sea Corn see Admiral on Page 28