European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 20, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                July 1985 the stars and stripes Page 7 Weinberger says military must have secrets by Norman Black san Francisco a defense Secretary Cas Par Weinberger says he finds it unfortunate that some journalists dont understand we have a very real need to maintain secrecy Over a wide variety of inform in remarks to the International association of Busi Ness communicators in san Francisco Wein Berger said his Job had taught him much about the relationship of the news Media and it in a very real a moral and Legal Weinberger i am charged by the presi Dent and my oath of office with upholding the Constitution of the United that Means the whole Constitution including the first but i am bound to support and de fend the american people As Well As the Freedom of our during he the need for secrecy is nor Mally obvious to during the damage done by publication or broadcast of classified information is largely invisible to the when the news Media publish stories containing classified information they May place our defense posture at Weinberger our adversaries can rearrange their military priorities accordingly and neg ate any advantage we May have in the complicated business of defending this great we have a very real need to maintain secrecy Over a wide variety of some re porters and their editors do not some act As if they Are in an appropriate position to decide for them selves whether information that we have classified should actually be Weinberger flew to san Francisco earlier thursday for two Days of official including two speeches and a tour of an air Force the text of his speech before the business group was released in Advance by the the Secretary repeatedly coupled his plea for under standing of the need for government secrecy with expressions of support for a free saying his intent was not to indict he noted he had worked in the past As a local to Public affairs columnist and during As the editor of the Harvard i believe they journalists Are an indispensable element of effective democratic the Secre tary in the news Media Are frequently very in the recent hostage crisis in for reporters did not reveal which of the hostages were military Weinberger also reiterated his support for including a Small Pool of reporters with secret military and acknowledged the motives of reporters who disclose secret information May Well be they May believe such stories Are in the Peoples Best since they provide some indication of How we Are spending the taxpayers for the stewards of our nations this attitude seems naive in Light of the tremendous risk Weinberge concluded by noting there was one other recent development within journalism Worth in the he the news Media have always been supportive of american troops in even in the Media wants to decide for itself whether the fight is they want to interview the give equal time to the weigh the enemy arguments against ours and report the enemy Point of View to the american while i do not see How this can Ever be i must again acknowledge that their motives Are probably pure but i have to confess that the More extreme examples of this feeling remind me of Winston Church ills statement that some Felt they had to maintain an objective neutrality even As Between the firemen and the conf declares War on Capitol Hill work Force Washington a enough is says Silvio claiming that Capitol Hill is awash with excess pm says there Are so Many garage attendants Hes afraid hell run Over one of them some morning on his Way to the size of the congressional police Force officers for each member of Congress makes him feel like a elevator attendants operate elevators that already Are and there Are 72 doorkeeper 30 More than when Conte first came to Washington in i have gone around and checked the House and Senate and there int one additional Conte said thursday while serving notice he intends to Cut into the Capitol Hill work the Massachusetts republicans re Marks came As the House 263 a Money Bill of More than billion for congressional operations and support functions for fiscal year the measure was sent to the the measure included a provision prohibiting the Library of Congress from printing Playboy in the to slash from the Library account covering braille translations came after Chalmers complained of articles portraying Wanton idleness and illicit sex in i would say most of the Blind people in my District think there is a better Way to use their Wylie but Parren called Wylie amendment and told his colleagues that classics such As James Joyces Ulysses get kind of earthy some Dante complained the action moved Congress into the censorship Conte succeeded in persuading the House to trim 10 garage through the savings would total about declaring that 64 garage attendants Are just too Conte i am concerned about those poor they must have terrible problems because they sit in those chairs All Day Long he said he feared he would run Over a garage attendant driving his car into one of the underground rejected an Amend ment that would have trimmed roughly in expenses for the elevator opera these jobs Are utterly said Hank who has tried for three years to persuade his colleagues to get rid of operators in the age of electronic Vic his argument that the operators Are needed to run elevators smoothly and efficiently when congressmen Are summoned from their offices to the House floor to vote with in a specific period of Fazio guided the entire Bill through the the legislative Money covering fiscal year which opens total de about it included Mil lion for House about Mil lion for joint congressional and million for related agencies such As the Library of the copyright Royalty tribunal and the government printing postal service cutting pay of 30 High ranking officers Washington postal service plans to Cut the salaries of 30 top officials including the postmaster general by percent in an Effort to reduce its according to a published the Agency also will hold off on a percent pay raise for 700 other including postmasters of new los Angeles and other the Washington Post said in fridays the raise was to take effect the Post quoted from a letter from Post master general Paul Carlin to top Man agers earlier in the week in which he de tailed the financial problems of the postal which is facing a potential loss of million this in the Carlin said the service is losing about million a Day despite a Rise in daily mail of 370 million pieces and an increase in the Price of a firs class stamp in february from 20 to 22 who became postmaster general in said the Agency has been making intensive cos cutting but that they Are not showing up in the financial the service has lost million in the Fis Cal year that began in officials flying in the operational errors by air traffic controllers at control centers handles flights Between airports in number of errors 1239 1381 at control towers at airports 1980 1507 of june 1985 Chicago Tribune graphic source Federal aviation administration note a control Center error is defined As two aircraft that come closer to each other than 5 Miles horizontally or feet vertically feet at altitudes above a control Tower error is defined As closer together than 3 Miles horizontally or feet Jeff just miss colliding after misunderstanding a a dc10 Jet with More than 300 people aboard narrowly avoided crashing into a second plane at Newark International Airport because a Pilot misunderstood the control an Airport official both airlines blamed the Tower for the close the world airways Pilot misunderstood his instructions from the control said Glen Quality insurance specialist at the Airport control the ground Tower very readily acknowledged said world airways spokesman Michael there were no injuries in the which occurred at thursday As world airways flight 17 taxied to Ward the Gate after flying from Balti More Washington International said Pete Nelson of the Federal aviation administration in new at the same people express flight 227 with 42 passengers bound for Baltimore Washington Airport was Roll ing toward the he according to airline officials and a passenger on the world airways both planes were Given clearance to proceed and were heading at each other at a 45degree Angle in an area Between the terminals and the the Pilot of the world airways which was carrying 304 then radioed the Tower that he was going to Stop abruptly to avoid a our Pilot was Able to see the other aircraft coming and realized that even though he was Given crossover Permis he had to said Henderson in a Telephone interview from the Compa nys the Tower later acknowledged that they should not have Given world air ways permission to Cross Over a taxiing Lane to get to the passenger Henderson Russell a spokesman for people express airlines which is based in generally with hendersons it the Tower had cleared the world was going one Way we were going they both got their instructions from the he but Szymanski said the Tower opera Tor gave proper instructions to All air and that the world airways Pilot misinterpreted the according to the world air Craft was first told to follow another air Craft toward the but was then ordered to Stop and allow the people plane to but the world Pilot proceeded until forced to said