European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 1, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday january 1, t966 the stars and stripes pages Pentagon studies Gramm Rudman Impact in a news analysis by Tim Ahern Washington Whit much of the defense department is quiet during the holidays budget planners arc Busy trying to figure out How the department will fare under the deficit reduction mandate passed by con Gress and signed into Law by president Reagan two weeks Ngo the consensus according to congressional and de tense department officials is that while re Agni s de sense buildup is Likely to be slowed no major weapons systems arc Likely to be cancelled. Instead the Cost of weapons will probably Rise As the Pentagon stretches out the purchases buying the same number of weapons Over a longer period of Lime. This would result it higher per unit costs for planes,.tanksand ships the most Likely area of cuts in the near future offi. Vials say will be in the pay and readiness areas including the stocks of ammunition fuel and food needed to Goto War future cuts May include some of the major weapons soil on the drawing boards or just getting ready to enter production such As the radar evading stealth planes the c-17 transport the Navy s new generation of attack submarine 11 and the midget Man nuclear missile. The deficit reduction Law is known in Washington a Gramm Rudman after its two chief sponsors Republican Sens. Phil Gramm of Texas and Warren Rudman of ice chunks steam Gas released new Hampshire. The Law mandates a balanced budget by fiscal 1991 and requires a series of reductions in the annual deficits to meet that target. It says that if Congress can t agree on How to make the cuts he task goes o the president. Should the while House and Capitol Hilt still disagree there would have to be equal reductions Between Domestic and defense spending with the exception of some programs such As social Security and anti poverty spending. While Reagan approved the Gramm Rudman proposal As it was working its Way through Congress defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger and other lop Pentagon officials warned thai it could mean reductions in Rea Gan s goal of rebuilding . Defences he claims were neglected throughout the 1970s.since the Law was passed William Howard Taft in. Weinberger s chief Deputy has been holding daily meet Ings Wilh top service officials a discuss the Impact of the cuts. The Pentagon budget for the current fiscal year approved by Congress shortly before Christmas totalss29t.4 billion slightly above last year s s292 billion and far under the $320 billion originally sought by the White House Pentagon budget planners Are expected to ask next fiscal year for an increase Over inflation of about s.2 percent the officials said speaking on condition they note identified. That would mean u request of about 1323 billion and would be More than Reagan says is needed. Whatever Pentagon request finally goes to capital Hill Early next year will be Cut congressional officials say. They la come up Here again next year Anil Well end up tuning them again just like this Yeai sen. Ted Stevens a Alaska said after the current by Devi a approved. Stevens chairman of the  appropriation sub committee is a key player in determining he defense budget he said Grimm Rudman is unlikely to have a major effect an defense spending until next year even though it could require a 15.8 billion Cut unless deficit reduction targets Are met. While me Pentagon May have to Cut some programs this year it still has about 16 billion approved by con Gress to nay for expected inflation hat did t occur. Critics Call it a slush fund that will be used to avoid the Impact of Crumm Rudman cuts. White Congress put some limits on How it can be used the Money is expected to help Lessen the immediate Impact of cuts. Gramm Rudman gives the Pentagon relatively Little flexibility in apportioning the cuts. Far example u rules out closing bases and says no current weapons can be cancelled restrictions put in because legislators feared the Pentagon might propose those to avenues of reduction. Both Are politically unpopular because they would mean i he loss of jobs. Pioneer beams Back Comet data Mountain View Calif. A twelve tons of water steam off Halley s Comet every second As the dirty Cebalt cars the Sun Nasa scientists said monday after studying the first data on the Comet from the Pioneer Venus spacecraft. Pioneer the Only . Spacecraft in the neighbourhood of Halley s on its pass through the solar system has Given the first indication of what the Comet actually looks like close up. It is probably Black or Light Gray from Carbon and Cov ered unevenly with ice said Jeffrey n. Cuzzi of the National aeronautics nod space administration and every now and then kicks off a big Lump or chunk of ice the Comet s brightness is a result of sunlight reflecting off Dusl particles that break away with the ice he Aid. The Comet is now streaking at about 10,000 Mph and will Speed up to about 118,000 Mph when it reaches its solar Perihelion on feb. 9, is million Miles from the Sun Uwi Laid. Pioneer is orbiting Venus and. Is 50 million Miles from Halley s. Nasa s first data supported the theory that the ice on comets melts from the warmth of the Sun and that chunks break away unevenly causing it to appear brighter at certain times. Scientists at Nasa s Ames research Center observed the Comet through an ultraviolet Light spectrometer aboard Pioneer for 16 hours a Day starting last Friday. It brightened a Little bit Between Friday night and saturday night and got a Little dimmer last night said Ian Stewart of the University of Colorado so the Comet is showing activity As comets tend to. They Don t respond to the increasing sunlight la a smooth  comets warm up As they approach the suit and Cool off As they go away. As the ice Mills and the water vaporizes Hydrogen atoms and molecules of Hydrogen and oxygen Are released the amount of Gas comets release at any Given Lime is determined largely by their temperature but they also show fluctuations Stewart said. These Phenomena sometimes called outbursts presumably occur As chunks of material break away and release a lot of Gas or ice at one time he said. The Comet will be 30 to 100 times brighter in february Stewart said at its closest solar approach Halter s will come roughly Halfway Between the orbits of Venus and Mercury. Al that Point 12 million Miles inside Venus orbit the Comet will be most Active because of intense solar heating. Pioneer will study Hanky s Comet during its most Active period until March 6. Although not designed to observe the Cornel. Pioneer s spectrometer scanned the gases from the Comet 20,000 times during the past three Days la produce the first data. The United slates has no Mission for a direct encounter with Halley s. However european soviet and japanese spacecraft will visit neat the Comet. Three Buffalo shot by Hunters in Montana Gardiner Mont. A a Buffalo Hunt claimed its first three bulls monday but a soon to be built Fence paid far by an animal Protection group May keep others safely in Yellowstone a Lional part the three bulls were shot just outside the Park in the stale s first Buffalo hum in More than is years. Animal Protection groups said the deaths could have been prevented and said they would try to prevent More kills by paying an estimated $30,000 to erect Fence to keep  inside the Park Park superintendent Bob Barbee Laid he doubted that a Fence would be effective in preventing the Buffalo from roaming out of the Park. The Montana legislature author item the special Buffalo Hunt earlier this year deciding that Hunters should be allowed to stalk Buffalo who wander out Side the Park after ranchers expressed fear the Ani Mals would infect cattle with brucellosis a disease that causes cattle to abort their calves. Hie three Buffalo shot monday were on National Forest land East of he Yellowstone River. Sands of time a the stars and stripes 40 years ago today. Jan i 1946 Japin s emperor hero blot in a new year s message told his subjects not to regard him u divine or themselves As destined to Rule the wow. 30 years ago today. Jan 1 1956 Harrison Dillard olympic sprint Champion in 1948 and hurdling King in 1952, a flamed Winner of the James e. Sullivan memorial trophy As 1955 outstand ing Amateur athlete. 20 years ago foe a. Jan i. 1966 us. Military officials in Saigon said in a year end review of the Vietnam War that 1.200 americana were killed in Vietnam in 1%i As troop strength Rose from z3 000 to 181.000. Meanwhile the Viet Cong threatened a major offensive a amyl a provincial capital near the . Marine beachhead at Chuu. 10 years ago today. Wisconsin decides to keep America s Dairyland slogan 1 i 1976 Moses Maione the fir a basketball player to jump from  to a was drafted by the Aba � new Orleans club and his Alloney already has begun Jan the pros was contract negotiations Madison wis. A vacationing Wisconsin motorists won t be signalling peo ple in other states to come and freeze in the land of cheese Afler All America s Dairyland has been retained u the slate s License Plale slogan. Cov. Anthony Earl made that official monday As he announced a new design for the state s Auto tags among the proposed slogans Earl rejected were eat cheese or die Cream of the Midwest we butter you up the udder Milky Way and America s brat Wurst  but said be decided to go with the old Standard because any attempt to eliminate America s Dairy Sand probably would have triggered Acri Minoui debate in the stale legislature. The slogan hoi been on Wisconsin Auto License plates since 1964. Before that there was no slogan. The Chance to switch slogans arose when Earl decided weeks ago that the design of a new License plate to replace the current Luck on yellow design should be voted on by the Public. Ballots it arc published in newspapers around the state and More than 100,000 persons tent them in the winning entry by artist David Hor Nung of 1 Onn do Lac features the Silhouette of Birds a red Bam a Sailboat Andice Sun As Well As Blue water and Green vegetation Hon ring Alu submitted the de sign which ranked second in the Public balloting. Hornung did not include any slogan in his original design for the License plate but he to reporter monday that he wholeheartedly approved Earl s decision to add America s