European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 3, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes monday March 3,1986 Weinberger cites huge Gap defends military budget plan Washington up defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger said sunday that even though annual . Military spending has caught up with the Kremlin a the 8 percent boost president Reagan wants is needed because we have this huge  while saying he sees no Point in fight ing the 1980 Campaign All Over again Weinberger defended the $311 billion Rea Gan is seeking for the Pentagon in fiscal 1987 by arguing that neglect of the military in the 1970s left us very  Weinberger also said he does not agree with every single statement of the special presidential panel that looked into waste in Pentagon buying practices but he said a great Deal of what the Packard commis Sion is recommending we Are  Weinberger appearing on lbs television acknowledged widespread Public and political opposition to the sharply higher Pentagon budget level which coincides with new Auster Ity for Domestic programs enforced by the Gramm Rudman balanced budget Law. He said of the fading Public support we re the victims of our own Success. Peo ple Don t like military spending anyway they never  recalling the backing for Reagan s 1980 Campaign Call to rearm America which led to $1.2 trillion going into the military budget in the past five years Weinberger said but then they the Public Felt As has happened always in the past that enough is enough. Well we do need More because the so Viets. Haven t  the new report comparing . And soviet military spend ing shows that we Are finally caught up but that we have this huge Gap during that 15-year  adm. William Crowe chairman of the joint chiefs of staff echoed Weinberger s View during an appearance on Abc television. One of the reasons Public support for higher defense spending has eroded is that we be been rather successful in building up our strength Over the last five years Crowe said. In Many respects we have to overcome our  rep. Les Aspin d-wis., chairman of the House armed services committee and sen. Phil Gramm a Texas also appeared on lbs to discuss military spending. Both said it is possible to freeze military spending As was done last year for a year or two but Aspin said Over the Long run you need  obviously Gramm said you can live with anything in the Short run but you be got to have a consistent steady  Caroline Kennedy Edwin a. Schlossberg. At new York fund raising dinner in 1984 Caroline Kennedy to wed president of design firm use of lie detectors in court favored by Many poll finds new York a a majority of americans believe lie detectors should be used in the courtroom but they Don t be Lieve they should be used by businesses in most circumstances according to a Media general associated press poll. The nationwide Telephone poll of 1,512 adult americans found that 72 percent believed the machines should be used in court to test people accused of crimes and 63 percent said witnesses in court should also be tested. Such tests Are not now allowed As Evi Dence in court in part because their Validity is open to debate. The poll also found that eight in 10 respondents thought lie Detector tests should be Given to government employees who have Access to classified information. Three quarters also thought it was appropriate for employers to test workers suspected of stealing but most objected to the use of polygraphs by businesses in general. Some businesses require prospective employees to take lie Detector tests. Only 37 percent of those in the poll considered it an appropriate use. However two thirds of the respondents said they would not object to taking a lie Detector test if asked to do so by either a current Boss or a potential employer. I presume that two thirds of people Are honest so they Don t have any problem Tak ing lie Detector tests said Leonard Saxe principal author of a 1983 study of poly graph Validity for the congressional office t f technology assessment. But the problem with lie Detector tests is that it s just not a valid Means of figuring out if people Are telling the truth or not said Saxe a psychology professor at Boston University. If people recognized the Validity problems. I think they d have a Dif Ferent  the polygraph has an accuracy rate of Between 50 percent and 95 percent in Crimi Nal investigations experts say but there is no scientific evidence that it is useful for screening those seeking sensitive jobs or Security clearances. The american civil liberties Union also opposes the use of polygraphs in employ ment screening contending it is an invasion of privacy. New York up the daughter of slain president John f. Kennedy plans to marry her longtime Boyfriend Edwin a thur Schlossberg in the summer the new York times said in its sunday edition. The times carried Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis announcement of Caroline Kennedy s engagement on its sunday society Page. Kennedy 28, is expected to marry Schlossberg 41, the president of a design firm in the summer the times said. A graduate of Concord Academy and Radcliffe College Kennedy who was 6 years old when her father was gunned Down by an Assassin is now a first year student at Columbia University school of Law the Nev paper said. She had been the coordinating producer and manager in the office of film and Tele vision at the metropolitan museum of Art until August the times said. Kennedy is also the vice president of the John f. Kennedy Library foundation in Boston it said. She is the older of the slain president s two children. Her brother John f. Kennedy jr., is 25 years old. Schlossberg is the author of nine books and is president of Edwin Schlossberg inc., a company based in new York that special izes in designing museum interiors and exhibitions the newspaper said. He graduated from Columbia College and the Birch Wathen school the times said. He received a doctoral degree in Sci ence and literature from Columbia univer sity. Schlossberg s father is president of Al Fred Schlossberg inc., a new York textile company. Onassis is an editor at Doubleday &  new York. Soviets May have switched defector new York up the soviets May have fooled american officials and switched a Loyal Sailor with a russian sea Man who wanted to defect to the United states four months ago the new York times said sunday. Miroslav Medved jumped off the soviet freighter marshal Konev into the Mississippi River near new Orleans oct. 24, saying he wanted to defect. Medved was hauled Back to the ship kicking and screaming and then sent Home after . Officials interviewed a Sailor they thought was Medved and became convinced he had changed his mind about defecting. The incident touched off a crisis in soviet american relations two weeks before the Geneva Summit Between president Reagan and soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev. But now the new York times quoting members of Congress and other sources said there is evidence the soviets May have fooled the americans and switched Medved with an other Sailor for the shipboard interview. The newspaper said Navy it. James Geltz took surreptitious pictures of the interview that suggest the Man the officials spoke to was not Medved. Geltz was reprimanded because of the incident and is now leaving the Navy the times reported. The times also noted that Medved s measurements do not match the height and weight of the Man the americans inter viewed. In addition Medved spoke fluent ukrainian but the Man the officials talked to spoke the language with difficulty the newspaper noted. The newspaper said 60 senators no want to reopen the Case. . And soviet officials told the times they were certain there was no switch. Bestsellers compiled by the new York times fiction 1lake Wobegon Days by Garrison Keillor 2lie Down with Lions by Ken Follett 3the Mammoth Hunters by Jean m. 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