European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 04, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 28 the stars and stripes Friday october 4,1985 congressmen decry defense organization Washington a the Pentagon came under More fire thursday from Ihrck leading congressional defense experts who said the defense department needs to be reorganized and lacks a coherent Overall policy. Sen. Barry Goldwater r-ari7., the chairman of the Senate armed services committee questioned the effectiveness of the joint chiefs of staff a criticism echoed by sen. Sam Nunn of Georgia the ranking Democrat on the panel. It was the third consecutive Day they have spoken in the Senate on this subject painting to what they Call problems in the defense organization. At the same time. Rep. Los Aspin d-wis., the chairman of the House armed services committee announced that his panel will begin hearings next week on the nation s Over All defense policy and the link Between it and Pentagon weapons and programs. The Pentagon Aspin said in a speech he planned to deliver Friday on the House floor is run like a big City political machine in which each interest group pushes for its own programs. But the Pentagon should t be run like City wards Aspin said. The goal is not or ought not to be to gratify the submariners and the surface warfare types each year the budget is put  there has been no formal response yet by the Pentagon to the series of speeches by Goldwater and Nunn although defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger has said he sees no need for a major reorganization of the joint chiefs of staff. The five member joint chiefs of staff was created in 1947 and includes the top ranking officers of the Navy army air Force and marines along with a chairman. Each of the four service chiefs wears two hats serving As a member of the joint chiefs of staff while also acting As top offi cer in his service. They Are called on to do an almost impossible task to represent their own serv ice s viewpoint but simultaneously to  Rifice that View to the greater common Good of joint considerations Goldwater said. When the rope from the individual serv ices pulls in one direction and the rope from the joint chiefs pulls in the other direction the individual services invariably win the tug of War. But the country  Goldwater did not single out any individuals saying it is the system that has Cre ated the problems and it is the system that needs to be  but he did not offer any specific solutions. Goldwater and Nunn wednesday complained that the military services Are still unable to work together effectively. The military services inability or unwillingness to work together has led this nation to military disaster or near disaster. Not once or twice but repeatedly Goldwater said. Nunn focused wednesday on the octo Ber 1983 . Invasion of Grenada which he said was impaired by the fart that Navy and army radios were incompatible. This failure of communication caused an army officer on the Beach in Grenada to use his at to credit card to Telephone his office in North Carolina Over civilian lines in an Effort to coordinate Navy fire support for his position Nunn said. In addition he said the Marine and army units on the ground lacked a unified commander each reporting to the task Force commander who was on a ship off the Caribbean Island. A close look at the Grenada operation can Only Lead to the conclusion that despite our Victory despite the performance of the individual troops who fought bravely the United states armed forces have serious problems conducting joint operations Nunn said. Nunn criticized the unified commands in which a single commander is responsible for orders to All the forces in his area regardless of service. For example the . Pacific commander is always an Admiral but controls Navy army and air Force units in his area. The concept of unified commands ii Good Nunn said but the military Chain of command is so confusing some unified com Manders Are not certain whether their Boss is the chairman of the joint chiefs or the Secretary of  the Chain of command needs to be streamlined and simplified Nunn said be cause in times of crises the Chain of com Mand and the division of responsibilities must be  Aspin said the nation has spent $1 trillion on defense in the past four years but what have we gotten for it the Public is worried about High priced spare parts and Coffee pots but we May be in danger of missing the Forest for the Trees Aspin said. Even if we completely c Imine cd every last one of the horrific overpricing exposed in recent years we might still have a waste Ful defense budget he said. For unless we tie our defense budget regardless of its size to a rational defense strategy we Are fooling ourselves and the Public he said. We must demand efficient manage ment of the Pentagon. But efficient manage ment is not a defense  2 Osfar wars laser tests cited by Weinberger by Norman Black a military writer Washington defense Secretary Caspar w. Weinberger disclosed thurs Day that the Pentagon conducted two successful Star wars laser tests last month including one that focused a laser beam on u fast High flying rocket. Weinberger offering a defense of presi Dent Reagan s strategic defense initiative made the disclosures during a speech to the Philadelphia world affairs Council. The Pentagon later released a Brief statement elaborating on his remarks. It said one of the tests Cilcy by the Secretary marked the first time a laser beam adjusted for atmospheric distortion has been propagated from the ground to  the Pentagon attempted the first such Experiment last july in Hawaii but the lest was Only partially successful because the laser operators were unable to lock on the target properly. Besides that test Weinberger also Dis closed that the Pentagon duplicated a week later the sept. 6 firing of a High Energy chemical laser against a Titan Booster sitting on the ground. The Pentagon had announced the first test which succeeded in blowing the Booster apart but not the second. We have gone to great lengths to con duct As much of our research program in the open As Security will permit Wein Berger said digressing from his text. In Early september we announced the first successful test of a High Energy laser against a. Missile Booster under simulated flight  we successfully repeated that Experiment a week later Weinberger said. And in another Experiment last Friday we succeeded for the first time in Demon Strating our ability to track a sounding rocket in space with a Low Power visible  he said this was done after adjusting the beam for atmospheric  Pentagon officials who requested anonymity agreed thursday that the experimental laser firing against a High flying target rocket was the most significant of the tests disclosed by Weinberger. In july a laser located on the Island of Maui successfully focused a beam on the target rocket As it travelled almost 450 Niilus into space. But the operators failed in Fine tuning the beam of concentrated Light to strike a reflective shield attached to the rocket s Side. When the Experiment was attempted again last Friday however the research ers succeeded in accomplishing All their goals the officials said. The Pentagon had announced july 10 that it was preparing a new round of laser tests to follow up on an Experiment conducted in june when a Blue Green laser was reflected off the space shuttle discovery. It said then that each of the tests would involve the firing of a two stage terrier Malm Etc sounding rocket from the . Navy Pacific missile Range facility in Hawaii which the laser would then attempt to track and hit. The Pentagon has described the new tests As presenting much More of a techno logical Challenge than the Experiment with the space shuttle. While a laser beam was reflected off the shuttle no attempt was made to compensate for the natural effects of the atmosphere on lasers fired from the ground. Laser beams tend to disperse and lose their pinpoint accuracy As they travel great distances through the atmosphere. The Pentagon refused on thursday to say How the researchers had managed to compensate for atmospheric distortion. Details As to How the laser beam is adjusted Are classified it said. Weinberger s disclosure of the new experiments came in the midst of a speech in which he accused critics of Star wars of adopt ing a blame America first attitude and ignoring soviet efforts to achieve military superiority. Weinberger said he was troubled by the Tunnel vision and Lack of strategic perspective that has marked debate Over the pro Gram. Temperatures soviets beef up embassy Security Beirut a the soviet Union in creased Security at its Beirut embassy on thursday to guard against a threatened Sui cide bomb attack and an embassy official said he expected sad news about three surviving soviets kidnapped by moslem extremists. The body of one kidnapped soviet Diplomat was found by police on wednesday. Callers claiming to be his abductors threatened to kill three other soviet hostages and bomb the embassy. Yuri Gouslikov the charge d affaires at the soviet embassy told reporters that he was expecting sad news any minute about the three other soviet hostages. He did not elaborate. State run Beirut radio said Gouslikov met Tor an hour thursday with president Amin Gemayel a Christian and senior army and police commanders at Gemayel s Palace in suburban Baarda. The meeting was devoted to studying ways of saving the soviet captives the radio said giving no further details. Soviet officials have appealed to syrian and lebanese leaders to help free the Sovi ets abducted monday by kidnappers de manding that Moscow pressure Syria to Stop a Battle Between pro syrian and pro palestinian militias in Tripoli. L 54 o 37 u 67 62 47 m39 59 47a 65 4� 34 35 36 4739 39 34 33 32 56 71 56 31 70 40a h 60 72 v 67 76 62 70 58 70 78sa 61 73 57 63 62 57 72 64 64 60 43 60 64 9 76 61 7 65 89 Albany Albuquerque Anchorage Atlanta Atlantic City Baltimore Billings Birmingham Belt Boston Buhalo Burlington Charleston . 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Norl Rivern area will have occasional Light rain. Temperature i Wil be about the Tarn. Temperature recorded tour Day Tunis Tunisia up american personnel were warned to stay inside their Homes wednesday after Tunisia blasted the United states for its negative and unexpected support of the israeli air raid on the Palestine liberation organization s Headquarters. A heavy police presence was thrown up around amen an buildings especially the us. Embassy in Tunis after spontaneous anti us demonstrations broke out around the City. A us. Source who asked not to be identified said that for Security purposes . Personnel in Tunis had been warned to stay at Home. Six israeli f-16 warplanes bombed the Plo Headquarters in the Tunis suburb of Borj Cudira on tuesday flattening three Seaside Villas. The death toll in the attack Israel s deepest penetration Ever into Arab territory Rose to 73, including 12 tunisians eight of whom were National guardsmen. A White House statement called the raid which was in retaliation for last week s killing of three israelis in a Cyprus Harbor a legitimate response and an expression of self de sense president Habib Bourguiba called an emergency Early morning meeting with . Ambassador Peter Sebastien and urged president Reagan to reconsider his pro israeli position on the attack. Adana Amsterdam r Athens p Valano m Berlin p Bremerhaven m 55 7 Brussels so 4am 4pm a 96 57 73 64 70 61 ii u 73 4am 4pm Copenhagen in 52 fran Lurl. P London r Madrid p Munich p Paris p Rome Lona ii u n4i n a Tea n provided by Del 13. In Weaner a Treben tre Bacn. Other worldwide temperatures High Low Cairo i Dublin. I Helsinki cd Jerusalem f Lisbon a 90 61 so 63 51n y n o Montreal. I Moscow f Oslo cd to no. F Vancouver. H Ion Low � 41 59 u it Ita a a 41 supplied by the associated Preu. Flair a oar lev Cloudy a to slav Cloudy a it oud rain Fig log