European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 13, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday april 13, 1986 the stars and stripes Page 7 Weinberger opposes proposed Dod reforms Washington a despite presi Dent Reagan s support for reforming Penta gon procedures defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger strongly opposes a defense department overhaul proposed in a House Bill. In a letter to the House armed services committee the most pro defense panel in the Democrat controlled chamber Wein Berger details his objections to the provi Sions of a Bill under consideration by the committee. The five Page letter dated March 12, was made available Friday to the associated press. In his weekly radio address on april 5, Rea Gan urged Congress to approve legislation needed to Reform the Pentagon and endorsed in general outline the proposals made by a White House commission he appointed last summer in the Wake of a series of defense spending scandals such As $600 toilet seat Cov ers and $7,000 Coffee pots. The commission headed by former Dep Uty defense Secretary David Packard pro posed reforms such As St am lining the procurement of millions of items the Pentagon buys and increasing the authority of the joint chiefs of staff. But the panel provided few details. In his radio speech Reagan said in the coming weeks the Congress will have be fore it proposals that would both strengthen our defences and make the department of defense itself More completely the servant of the american people. The Packard com Mission has made us recommendations. Now it s time for the administration and the Congress to act upon  despite Reagan s support for the general reforms Weinberger has strongly opposed recent congressional attempts to overhaul the Pentagon. He has repeatedly told con Gress that if it in t broke Don t fix it and has argued that the Pentagon in t  in his letter Weinberger outlined his opposition to provisions in four separate Pentagon Reform Bills. Those measures have been combined into a single draft working Bill by the committee. Weinberger opposed parts of the legis lation which would order improvements in the training of military officers who Are assigned to joint duty rather than spending their entire careers in one of the four serv ices. We believe that Steps to improve the performance of joint personnel should be accomplished by regulation rather than legislation wrote Weinberger. He also opposes a provision which would require the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff the top officer among the nation s 2.1 million uniformed personnel to have had joint duty supervision of More than one service. While joint duty is preferred prior to selection As a cinc commander in chief and duty As a cinc is preferred prior to selection As cacs chairman of the joint chief legislating an absolute requirement in either Case would be too inflexible and could deprive the nation of the Best Quali fied officers he wrote. Proponents of requiring joint duty have argued that it would help Cut Down on the interservice rivalry which a number of Pentagon studies have said can Lead to duplication and inefficiency. Weinberger also disagreed with a proposal to join the military and civilian staffs of the army Navy and air Force. Each of the Trio now is headed by a military officer who oversees operations and a civilian Secretary who deals with policy and budgets. The Secretary develops and promulgates policy the chief military officer is responsible for its implementation wrote Weinberger. Merging the two staffs would result in blurring these  Berlin blast victim a photo spec. 4 David Jackson 22, of Lagrange 111., arrives at the Brooke army medical Center Burn unit at fort Sam Houston Texas for treatment of injuries suffered when a bomb exploded in a West Berlin disco april 5. Two people including one american Serviceman were killed and about 230 people were injured. Jackson was listed in critical condition with second and third degree Burns Over 70 percent of his body. Bennett says school in t the place for birth control clinics Baltimore a education Secretary William j. Bennett says school is no place for a birth control clinic and warned districts thinking of offering such facilities that they might create a full enrolment policy for private schools in the process. Schools should be predominantly and overwhelmingly about learning math English history and science he said in a speech Friday to the education writers association convention. It is my View that this response to teen age pregnancy. Is a highly questionable if not offensive one. To do what s being done in some schools i think amounts in the end to throwing up one s hands and saying give up give up. Give up on teaching right and wrong to you. There s nothing we can do. Here. Take these things and limit the damage of those actions " Bennett used the term birth control clinics in his re Marks but the estimated 45 school districts around the country that have them generally refer to them As comprehensive health centers since much of what they do has nothing to do with sex or pregnancy. The first was established in Dallas in 1968. The centers were started to provide health services of All kinds to youngsters in medically undo reserved impoverished areas. St. Paul minn., Muskegon mich., Chicago and Washington Are among those with school based pro Grams according to Susan newcomer director of Educa Tion for planned parenthood federation of America Strong proponents of the centers. Bennett insisted that setting up birth control clinics is a classic bureaucratic response to the problem of teen pregnancy. Birth control clinics in school May prevent some births he said. That 1 won t deny. The question is what lessons does it teach what attitudes does it encourage what Behaviours does it Foster former army officer acquitted of espionage charges Alexandria a. A Richard Craig Smith the former army counterintelligence officer who claimed his Sale of information about . Double agents to a soviet Kab officer was part of a Cia operation has been acquitted of All charges in his espionage trial. A Federal jury of nine women and three men found Smith innocent Friday night on five counts one of conspiracy two of espionage and two of passing classified in formation to the soviet Union. Smith s defense was based on his claim that he had been recruited by a renegade Cia team headed by Charles Richardson. . District judge Richard l. Williams compelled Richardson to testify after the government sought to keep that from Hap pening. Federal prosecutor Joseph Aronica left the courthouse without comment after the verdict was returned. The jury got the Case after chief defense attorney Brent Carruth led the panel once again through the defendant s Complex account of recruitment and ultimate betrayal. But Aronica claimed Smith fell deeper and deeper into debt after resigning from the army in 1980, and resorted to the one scalable item he had his knowledge about . Counterspy operations. Both sides acknowledged that Smith met several times with a top Kab official Vic Tor Okunev in late 1982 and Early 1983, and was paid $11,000. Richardson confirmed during the trial that he left the Agency in 1984 under a Cloud of poor judgment in his dealings with a now defunct Honolulu investment firm owned by Ronald Rewald. Rewald recently was sentenced to 80 years in prison for allegedly swindling Mil Lions of dollars from 400 investors. Richardson also acknowledged that he had lied to his superiors about his dealings with Rewald which included the establish ment of a Cia front called Chi invest ment corp. It was Richardson according to the government who alerted the Fri to Smith s involvement with the soviets after Smith contacted Richardson at the Cia s san Francisco office. The defense argued that Richardson and Cia Headquarters chose to disown the defendant to avoid further embarrassment Over the Chi operation. Smith testified that he was recruited Dur ing a trip to Tokyo by two Cia agents who called themselves Ken White and Danny Ishida. He said that after he performed several Low level courier missions for them they asked him in mid-1982 to try to infiltrate the soviet intelligence operation in Tokyo. The defense said it was unable to find either White or Ishida presumably aliases and the Cia denied any records of them. Smith said he was authorized to disclose details about eight double agent operations with which he had been familiar while still in the army and that he subsequently told Okunev about six of them. All the operations were dormant or so he was told Smith said. However he testified that after he Learned from the Fri that one of the double agents Royal Miter had been reactivated by the soviets he feared for the agent s life and volunteered to the Fri a full accounting of what he had told Okunev. Smith said that throughout his interviews with the Fri however he did not reveal his Cia backing in accordance with his Cia orders. He finally did so after his arrest he said when he realized the Agency would not vouch for him. Nothing was said during the Trail about the Fate of Miter or the other double agents but defense lawyer William Cummings who had Access to classified documents in the Case told reporters afterwards that no body got