European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 07, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 28 the stars and stripes monday october 7, 1985 Aspin questions defense buildup results Washington up the a trillion Reagan administration defense buildup appeals to have produced significant improvements Only in the personnel area the chairman of the House armed services committee said sunday. Rep. Los Aspin d-wis., Caulion cd however that his figures should not be taken As a definitive statement on military strength. Likewise he said they cannot be taken As an unqualified indictment of the Reagan administration stewardship of the National Security. They do however raise obvious and important questions about that stewardship said Aspin. Only in the person incl area do the figures clearly demonstrate real improvements for the Money invested. Aspin said weapons inventories have grown minimally but costs have risen. And that s hardly a sign of Progress considering we were told the faster Pace of procurement under Rongan would mean greater efficiency and lower unit costs. Is Ronald Reagan doing with defense what he accused the previous administration of doing with social welfare just throwing billions at the problem and then the Statis tics show that poverty remains rampant Aspin asked. The Pentagon in a statement countered that modern equipment has been procured for All the military services and some of it has been delivered the readiness of key weapons has improved markedly and the costs of Many weapons systems have decreased. Aspin said his charts showed Pentagon spending once it is adjusted for inflation is not merely Large in peacetime terms but has already exceeded the wartime peaks of the korean and Vietnam in the personnel held Aspin said there have been Nota ble increases in re enlistments the percentage of recruits holding High school diplomas and in the percentage of recruiting objectives achieved All for a Small increase in spending on personnel. In research and development in key technology areas where Overall Pentagon measurements show the United states largely ahead of the soviet Union Aspin said the . has not improved in the past four years despite spending 56 percent More. By Pentagon standards he said there has been no change in i of 15 categories while the relative is. Position improved in one Field and declined in three. In the area of procurement Aspin said average inventory growth in All major equipment categories has been just 2.9 percent Over 1980-1983. But Aspin added there is a significant amount of mate rial approved and contracted for during the buildup that ii still in he pipeline. Bonn won f support ski so of Genscher says Bonn a Germany does not want to sign a framework agreement with the United slates on Star wars research if no other european government docs so. Foreign minister Hans Dietrich Genscher said sunday. In this matter we Don t want to make a Solo run Genscher said in a radio inter View with the Munich based bavarian Rund Fuzik. We will not single ourselves out in such an important our examination of the program will be conducted very carefully with the awareness that we Are seeking a european reaction to this Genscher said. The government of Christian democratic Chancellor Helmut Kohl is pondering whether to sign an agreement outlining German participation in the strategic defense Initia Tive a space based defense research program that has been dubbed Star the French government has flatly re fused to have anything to do with ski. And Holland Norway and Canada have also rejected a govern mint to govern mint agreement. Genscher is a member of the free demo cratic party the Junior partner in Kohl s coalition and clearly More cautious about getting involved in ski. While aides in Kohl s chancellery have German participation some Mem Bers of guns Char s party have asked for suspected informer slain in s. Africa Johannesburg a rioting flared in Black township overnight and a Black was burned to death on a pyre of flaming tires police said sunday. The latest death apparently the slaying of a suspected police informer or Collaborator occurred in Langa township near site phage in the Eastern Cape province late saturday police Headquarters in Pretoria said. The body was so badly burned that the sen of the victim could not be established immediately the statement said. More than 700 Blacks have been killed in 13 months of unrest linked to apartheid. South Africa s system of forced racial segregation. Most have been killed by police but others have been slain by Blacks accusing them of ties with the authorities. At a funeral in Soweto outside Johannes Burg on saturday mourners smashed the windows of five buses and police dispersed the crowd with tear Gas shot from Cannis tors and sprayed from an armoured riot vehicle. The police statement said the Blacks were armed with Sticks and rubber whips Mak ing it Clear that they were not a peaceful crowd of witnesses were quoted As saying that at another funeral earlier saturday a group of mourners attacked the Home of a Black policeman burning him to death in the ensuing Blaze. There was no official Confirma Tion. Under state of emergency rules imposed july 21, police imposed sweeping restrictions on funerals which in the past have sparked clashes Between Blacks and riot patrols. In Kogiso West of Johannesburg a crowd threw a gasoline bomb at the Home of a Black Council member i Luizia Molt sane causing extensive damage but wound ing no one police said. Black policemen and Council members have been attacked frequently in the past 13 months of unrest. At least 13 policemen and a half dozen Council members have been killed. Hundreds of policemen s and Council members Homes have been burned. Unrest was also reported in Black town ships outside Cape town and in Rural areas of the Cape province and in Umla i near Durban. Guard infantry division is reactivated fort Belvoir a. A Secre tary of the army John o. Marsh or. Joined two governors saturday to Mark the reactivation of an army National guard division that participated in the a Day invasion of Normandy in world War ii. The 29lh inf div which was deactivated. 17 Yean ago has been reorganized with 10,600 reservists from Maryland and Vir Ginia As the Only National guard Light in Fantry division in the army. President Reagan sent a letter saying the division Chi Ionizes the longstanding american tradition of citizen soldiers and continues to be a vital element in the de sense of our a crowd of about 5,000 attended the cer Emony. You Are part of the greatest army in the world Marsh said. It has kept the nation free. It is Hope for a troubled also present were Virginia gov. Charles Robb Maryland gov. Harry Hughes and sen. John Warnerr a. The division is headquartered at fort Belvoir and under the command of maj. Gen. James a. Baber Iii of Richmond. The Blue and Gray colors of the division hark Back to the civil War when Virginia became a part of the confederacy and Maryland remained in the Union. The division was deactivated in 1968 after 51 years of a vice including combat i both world wars. Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger in june 1984 marked the 40th anniversary of the invasion of Normandy by announcing that the division would be reactivated. Niagara from Page 1 from the harness that held him in the bar Rel but otherwise was unhurt. He said he videotaped the ride through a Small plexiglass window and hoped to use the footage to make a documentary. That Way everybody can ride Over the Falls with me he said. His camera and him still were in the barrel saturday night and Munday said he probably won t get them Back until after the police and courts Are finished with them. Doug Tomlinson a member of Munday s Crew said no water got into the barrel As it spun for about 90 minutes in the water beneath the Falls with Munday maintain ing radio Contact before the Craft was pulled ashore. Munday was taken to a waiting police Cruiser and was charged with unlawfully performing a stunt and wilfully failing to comply with probation. The latter charge was imposed because he had been placed on two years probation after a july 28 attempt to go Over the Falls failed. That attempt was aborted when Mun Day s barrel became trapped in the re Taining Pool of a hydroelectric Power Plant about a mile and a half above the Falls. On saturday Bailey said members of Munday s Crew backed up a pickup truck and dropped the barrel with Munday already scaled inside into the River only200 feet above the Brink. Munday faces a j500 Fine for the charge of unlawfully performing a stunt and he could be fined up to $1,000 and be sentenced to 30 Days in jail on the probation violation charge. Munday of Caistor Centre Ontario is to appear in Ontario s provincial court in Niagara Falls on nov. 6. He was released saturday on his own recognizance. The last person to take the plunge was Steven t. Trotter of Barrington r.i., who Rode his 16-foot-Long barrel Over the Falls aug. 18. Three people have died in barrel a Lampto have eos him More discussion. Genscher said a Bonn decision on the framework agreement was expected at the end of the year. He remarked that German firms could sign research contracts without such an agreement. German firms and research institutes can of course participate in the american program and of course they arc negotiating Over that now he said. 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