European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 03, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday. October. 1985 the stars and stripes Page 5 senators Call for Dod reorganization go wafer Nunn Lead off attack on Pentagon Congress Washington Asen. Barry Goldwater. Ran. Told inc Sennit that the Pentagon and oppress Are i poorly organi cd and resistant in change thai if we have to Light tomorrow these problems will cause americans to die unnecessarily. And inc May cause us to lose he  we arc at a time where change is absolutely essential i old Ater said tuesday. I am casting the first Stone and i m cast ing it at our Glass House Here in  Goldwater chairman of the Senate armed services committee was joined by sen. Sam Nunn of Georgia the panel s ranking democratic member in calling for changes in the organi Alion of the Pentagon and in the manner Congress considers Mili tary issues. They commented in the first of a series of floor speeches that Are to serve As a prelude to the publication of a committee Slaff study on the problems of military organi a Tion. Which has been in production for the past two years. You will be shrieked at the serious deficiencies in the organization and procedures of the department of defense and con   said. If we have to fight tomorrow these problems will cause americans to die unnecessarily. Even More they May cause us to lose the fit. Before we Crici a the defense depart ment i believe we have to be just As Blunt and candid about the Way the Congress deals with National defense issues Gold water said. Congress is compounding the problems in the defense department and major changes in the Way we conduct our business arc Long  Nunn complained that instead of focus ing on the broader issues of National Mili tary strategy. Congress is displaying an in creasing tendency to Micro manage  year the Congress changed the number of smoke grenades and mu7/lc to re sights the army  he said. We directed the Navy to pare Back its request for Parachute flares practice bombs and passenger vehicles Congress specified that the air Force should Cut its request for garbage trucks Street cleaners and scoop  this is ridiculous Nunn said. Con Gress is losing sight of inc Broad defense issues and increasingly playing a congressional version of trivia Pursuit " he also said mouse and Senate members Are loading up the defense author Alion Bill with hundreds of requests for reports and non a Semial amendments. We Are focusing on the grains of Sand on the Beach while we should be looking Over the Broad Ocean and beyond the Hori  Nunn said. Goldwater said the nature of the co pres Onai budget process has swamped the sen ate ant House in numbers preventing it from adequately overseeing the performance of the nation s military leaders and crowding out policy review. Often he said there in t enough time in a ear for Congress to adopt a budget then approve a defense authorization Bill and finally appropriate the Money instead he said it Falls Back on Stopgap funding measures known As continuing resolutions which he said disrupt Long term Pentagon planning forcing the defense department to begin each fiscal year without knowing How much Money it will have to work with or the limitations under which it May have to work. He also complained of committee practices which now compel defense depart ment witnesses to testify o. The same Issue As Many As six times before six different Corn i it pcs. Shooting of Black by policeman Sparks protests in Georgia Ashburn o i. A extra police patrolled the streets tuesday night following monday night s Rock and Botlic throwing demonstration sparked by the fatal shoot ing of a Black Escapee by a while police officer. An a act official meanwhile told a crowd that the organisation was forming a task Force to look into the shooting of Robert Wright a 22-year-old armed robbery suspect. Police said Wright a convicted burglar was attending a probation revocation hearing monday afternoon when he ran from the courtroom raced Down a flight of stairs and emerged through a Side door of the courthouse. Wright was shot in the Back in an Alley about 100 Yards West of the courthouse by Ashburn police officer Scotty Ireland officials said. Ireland has been suspended with pay pending the out come of the investigation. There s a lot of upset people because he got shot in the Back said Robert Jackson 28, a Friend of Wright. No matter whether it s a Black or a White cop getting shot in the Back that s the  on monday night Between 300 and 500 Blacks most of them teen agers gathered at the county courthouse to shout their objections to the shooting. As the crowd dispersed some people hurled rocks and bottles through windows of downtown shops and vandalized White owned businesses in a predominantly Black neighbourhood. Local officials called in state troopers and Georgia Bureau of investigation agents to help maintain order. Sands or time in the stars and stripes 40 years ago today. Oct. 3, 1945 Gen. George Patton has been relieved of his 3rd army command by Gen. Dwight Eisenhower. Palton was relieved of his position following Sharp press criticism of remarks he made that do Nazif cation prob lems in Bavaria were like the problems of the democratic and Republican parties in the United states. 30 years ago today. Oct 3 1955 Argentine police in Buenos Aires announced Hal Juan d. Pron deposed dictator president left by plane for Asuncion in neighbouring Paraguay and exile. 20 years ago today. Oct 3 1965 a . Military source in Honolulu said there has been a spectacular reversal As Viet Cong casualties increased compared to South vietnamese losses. 10 years ago today. Oct 3 1975 _ the los Angeles county grand jury returned an 11-count indictment against sym ionese liberation army members Patricia Hearst and William and Emily Harris in connection with a 1974 crime spree. Crew for secret shuttle Mission the Crew of the next spice shuttle Mission arrives at the Kennedy spice Center for thursday s launch of the new orbiter Atlantis. The Craft will be on a secret department of defense Mission. Left to right Are flight commander air Force col. Karol j. Bobko air Force maj. William Pailes Mission specialists army it. Col. Robert l. Stewart and Marine maj. David Hill was plus Pilot Ronald 1. Grab an air Force lieu tenant colonel. Sources said the Atlanta would launch two Jam proof heavily shielded defense satellites. The precise launch time will be disclosed just nine minutes before liftoff to hamper soviet monitoring. Possible soviet spy sex state department official sought Washington a Fri  agents Are seeking a former Federal official who quit his new Job in new Mexico and fled after agents began questioning acquaintances about the possibility he has been a soviet spy. Sources who refused to be identified by name said tuesday the investigation of Edward l. Howard May have been triggered by information from a top level soviet de Fector former Kub official Vitaly Yurchenko. Last week administration and congressional sources said Yurchenko had named a very few former Cia men As soviet agents and in tuesday iwo officials put the number at precisely two. One of the two Excia men implicated by Yurch no lived in the Southwest one of the sources said tuesday. Among his government posts Howard was assigned by the state department to Moscow in 1983, according to a department document. He also served in the Agency for International development. Aid and state Are two agencies that sometimes arc used As cover for overseas Cia assignments. But it could not be Learned whether Howard was one of the Excia men named by Yurchenko and had simply used his Federal Agency posts As cover or whether he came to the Fri s attention through information obtained Independent of Yurchenko. Neighbors told a reporter Edward Moreno in Santa pc that eight Fri agents backed by a helicopter converged on Howard s Home outside Santa be last saturday. The neigh Bors said neither Howard nor his wife Mary were at Home. In july 1983. Howard became an economic analyst for the legislative finance committee of the new Mexico legis lature. He was engaged in Revenue projections and in analysis of the Oil Industry. A source in new Mexico apparently one of several How Ard acquaintances and co work is interviewed last week by the Fri said he got the impression based on their questions that there was some connection Between Howard and a Kab