European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 26, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Pa0a2b stars and stripes sunday january 26, 1986 aun aay soviet technology lags nato report says. A. A i a inc modern weapons systems Many lit Large Attim Brussels Belgium a the soviet Union h accelerating is Pace of defense spending Bill u still trails he Wisl in military technology Al nato report says. The report issued Friday said he procurement of Mili tary hardware will continue to Lake the arg Cal share wine soviets defense budget and the soviet Union will be hard pressed la match Western nations in the development of new technologies for military uses. It will be a major Challenge for the soviets to develop the technologies that must be embodied in the a Tajii generation of he report said they face substantial technological hurdles in All the military industries. According to the report soviet military spending Rose on annual average rate of about 2 percent in the mid 1970s and Early 1980s, and it predicted that the annual increase would be about 3 percent per year during the 1986-90 period. Nit gave no figure for the intervening years bum nalu source speaking on the condition that he not be identified said the 1983-8 growth Rale was about 3 percent a year. . Military spending Rose by an inflation adjusted 4 percent a year in the late l�7fls and Early Losos according to the is a summary of n study carried out by economic specialists of the North Atlantic treaty organization and did not include exact spending amounts the report said that because of increased spending for military hardware the soviets will be Able to deploy numerous modern in num Bers regardless of the future direction of is defense by staid the growth of the soviet Economy is expected to average Between 2 percent and 3 percent per year during la remainder of this decade and said nay Sharp inc Raue in military spending was unlikely. Military spending accounted for in percent 14 per cent of the soviets economic output in the mid-1970s and Early 1980s, but since then has jumped to As High As 17 percent according to the report. Nato estimates put the comparable figure for ims at 6.9 percent for the states and 5.6 per Cebu for the Western Alliance Overall. Voyager photos reveal another uranus ring Moon Pasadena Calif. Up America s voyager 2 space explorer now on its Way to Neptune has found another debris ring and a. Lith Moon around uranus scientists announced Brad Smith said the newly found Moon the i oth discovered by Voy Ager is about 30 Miles thick. The ring first detected by the spacecraft is in Addi Tion to the nine rings thai had been spotted from Earth observatories. Bui in a Surprise. Voyager has not found much dust Between the rings. The automated spacecraft continued us search for additional necklaces of particles around the planet As the probe cruised on toward a l4b9 rendezvous with Neptune the last Stop in its 12-year Lour of the far reaches of the solar intense search far More rings was delayed until voyager 1 was beyond uranus because the scattering of sunlight As it looked Back at the planet was expected to make any additional strings of debris More visible. We were hoping that if there was a lot of dust in the rings the rings would tight up much As if you were la look Back in a movie theater at the projector you would see Alt the dust in the theater said Richard Ter tile a member of the team analysing Voy Ager s pictures. He said this happened at Jupiter and Saturn and "11 was a Beautiful but such dust has not been seen around uranus. A think right now we re a Little bit puzz cd. We re All very tired exhausted excited delighted but we re also puzzled because we were expecting to see quite to lot of dust. Uranus has done it to us nature of the ring material remains a mystery but a color shot of the rings revealed color variations that argued against a common of voyager s Best close up pictures of uranus and its larger Moons remained stored in inboard tape recorders to be slowly transmitted Back to Earth Over the next two pictures were recorded on tape be cause in takes nearly five minutes to trans Mit one image to Earlh. Bat the cements can Lake a snapshot in 48 seconds. So Voy Ager was told to shoot As fast Asil could and Wail until later to Send the pictures Back. The data received also included important information w determine the gases temperatures and pressures in uranus supercool of to the Moon surfaces scatter sunlight will Lell More Aboul their ice Lac project scientist de Stone said. Photographs showed what appear to be Impact features on a number of la satellites said Smith voyager imaging team geologist Harold Masursky said interesting features on he Moons included a Peculiar Chevron shaped Valley on Miranda and a number of what look like Down dropped linear valleys or places where sections of the crust had subsided relative to adjacent sections along a fault line on titania. Scientists already had volumes of data from the probe s 10 scientific instruments to examine. Of particular interest to one group of researchers was the radiation Environ ment around uranus. The discovery of a magnetic Field around the planet Means there undoubtedly ii radiation rapped in Bells around the planet much like the Van Allen radiation belts around Earth. At Jupiter in 1979, voyager received a radiation dose 4,000 limes above the lethal level for an unprotected human. Hiring from Page 1 change of station costs Are involved and commitment. To us. And oat of theater hires for essential positions. Usa eur personnel officials expected the freeze to be followed by a civilian Man Power Cut of Abasol s percent or 6 percent based upon similar actions in the past. Generally cuts have been met through attrition during the freeze period. The Heidelberg Herald Post the Mili tary Community s newspaper reported those hardest hit by the freeze would be family members looking for work. If you Art on the Rolls in probably won t affect you too much Joe Mcneely Hei Delberg civilian personnel officer told la Hera Posl. But it May be hard on the family member who is looking for a Job. Right my there is a great Deal of Uncer mainly As o whal is going to happen Wiimer said the freeze docs not affect current employees applying for jobs at higher a reported Lehman said it was Clear the Navy s budget for its civilian workforce would be Cut under Gramm raid Titian but it was too Early to predict whal effect the Law would have on programs. Accordingly in order to minimize the subsequent Impact of Gramm Rud Maii. And to ensure that civilian Levels can be retained in balance with the reduced program Levels a total freeze on the hiring of civilian employees. Is in Force immediately Lehman wrote. The Law passed last month is designed to eliminate the Federal budget deficit Over the next five Yean by requiring automatic spend ing cub every year thai the president and Congress fail to teach certain deficit targets. Last week. Pentagon comptroller Robert Helm said president Reagan Tad decided to exempt military personnel and his Star missile defense program from cuts this year Messing that All other accounts would have to be Cut by roughly 4.9 percent. At the time. Helm said a 4.9 percent reduction could Force civilian layoffs. Navy army and air Force officials said Friday they still were Irving to determine whether they could absorb this years cuts through attrition rather than dismissing work , however has seen enough to decide we belter Slop hiring new people right now said a Navy defense department has an Active duty military Force of 2.1 million and employs roughly 1 million civilians of the civilians More than 330,000 work for the Navy about 440,000 work for the army and 145,000 work for the air Force. Elaine Henrion. A spokeswoman for the army in Washington said the Susareu hiring freeze was an Independent decision and no such freeze has been ordered for the Overall the air Force said its systems come froze hiring effective Jan. 21, the systems come which is responsible for the design construction testing and procurement of weapons employs slightly More than 19,000 civilians. They make up More Lhasa half of in work Force. Many of the civilians Are scientists and engineers. The command has major facilities in los Angela and at Wright Patterson fab Ohio Eglin fab Fla. Hanscum fab mass Vandenburg fab Calif. And Ksil . Coordination of nations Oil policies urged Abu Dahabi United Arab emirates a United Arab emirates Oil min ister Mana Saced Leiba said saturday there is still Lime for Oil producing countries to coordinate up uelies and halt the Down Ward slide in world Oil prices. But there is not that much time and All should shoulder their responsibility fully Oliba warned both members and non members of the organization of Petro Leum exporting countries in statements distributed by he official news Agency , a senior Arab Oil official was quoted As denying reports that Oil prices might drop below si5 per barrel. Prices would not go Down because la will have serious Effell on both Oil producing and Oil consuming countries the United Arab emirates newspaper Hatti quoted Ali Atiqa Secretary general of the organization of Arab Petroleum exporting coun tries As saying. Atiqa said he believes Oil prices will witness considerable stabilization Over the next three years and could reach $45 a barrel in the 1990s. He said the Market will continue to improve Over the nem three Yean due to an increase of demand that will accompany the growth of population matched by a fall in Oil members Are 10 Arab Oil producing countries six of which Are members of then nation open another United Arab emirates newspaper carried a report saturday of a Sharp drop in Britain s North sea Oil production. The English language emirates news said declining output falling Oil prices and a weakening Pound against the Dollar Are wreaking havoc with the British govern ment s economic strategy. The paper Quoin Al a Udy by the Royal Bank of Scotland said Oil output from the North sea s British sector slipped from 2.66 million barrels a Day to 3.49 million barrels doily East month. It said this was the lowest production since August and was a decline of 8.5 percent since december 1984. Although no official revision of projected Oil revenues was made the study mid by autumn the revenues projection had been revised Down by As much As 2 to 2.5 billion pounds j2.4 billion to s3 billion from the 11.5 billion pounds $13.8 billion projected earlier for the 1986-s7 fiscal year. The paper quoted the Bank study As say ing the British government should try to cooperate with other Oil producers to main Tain Oil prices at a reasonably High level the study noted that the absence of Brit ish cooperation with other Oil producers has played a part in weakening world Oil markets the paper said. It said the saudi arabian strategy of increasing production seems aimed at Pun Ishing uncooperative producers pointing Loine Impact particularly on Britain s North sea Brent crude a Grade similar to that produced by the saudis. 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