European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 18, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes Friday april 18, 1986 $7.7 billion budget urged for Nasa Washington a a House space subcommittee recommended thurs Day that Nasa s fiscal 1987 budget be held at about $7.7 billion but that any re placement for the space shuttle challenger be paid for from other Federal accounts. The budget approved by the space Sci ence and applications subcommittee As Sumes the need for major extraordinary supplemental funding said chairman Bil Lnelson a Fla. He said it will at the very least make Safe a three orbiter Fleet but with a Strong recommendation that there be a replace ment orbiter provided  estimates Are that a new orbiter will Cost $2.8 billion and the total Cost of restoring America s space program to the level that existed before the Jan. 28 shuttle explosion will be $5 billion or More. Nelson s subcommittee approved $7.69 Bil lion for the fiscal year the sum requested by president Reagan. Included is $95 million to continue the advanced communication technology satellite. That sum which is a new item in the National aeronautics and space administration budget will come from other programs. The biggest losers with $15 million each would be Nasa s space lab program and development of the Orbital mane vering vehicle and construction of new facilities. Other than Nelson s remarks there was no discussion of building a new shuttle. Although president Reagan has indicated he wants the shuttle Fleet restored to its pre Accident status of four vehicles there is dissension among his advisers on How to pay for it and what mix of manned and unmanned launch vehicles the United states should have in the future. Beta a 25-year-old Gorilla who lives at Chicago s Brookfield zoo undergoes preparation for implantation of an Arifi new hip for old Gorilla a photo Cial hip at Berwyn animal Hospital in Luke s medical Center in Chicago. Zoo Berwyn 111. At left is orthopaedic surgeon officials say Beta is the first of her Spe Lom Turner of Rush presbyterian st. Cies to receive an artificial hip. A  Hmidi hmm wanderer fails to return Home a Kluyeva returns Oain r in a  f Al an a Mir of i i Mim no a a a 1 i�t�_t-ti.w�. M _ Francisco a an american known As the wanderer who tramped across the Frozen Ber ing Strait to soviet territory and was sent Home again i apparently still wandering. After soviet military officials sent John Weymouth 33, Back to Alaska by helicopter he was booked aboard a United airlines flight from Anchorage Alaska to his Hometown of san Francisco wednesday night but whenever got on. His Mother Estelle Barrett sister of newspaper columnist Herb Caen was waiting for him at san Francisco International Airport with other relatives. He was booked and made a positive reservation said Lynn Hales duty manager at san Francisco International Airport. But he never got on the plane at  Hales said he called personnel in Anchorage and they told him Weymouth never even checked  state troopers in Alaska searched the Airport but could find no sign of Weymouth said a Security officer at an chorale Airport. Weymouth was dubbed the wanderer by people he met As he walked across Western Alaska. People said he generally kept to himself working Odd jobs to earn enough Money to keep moving on. I have his Mother 20 feet away from me. I Don t know where he is Hales said late wednesday. Weymouth carrying a pack and sleeping bag walked across two Miles of ridged and broken ice of the Bering Strait on april 2 from the alaskan Island of Little Diomede to the soviet big Diomede Island. Little Diomede and big Diomede separated by three Miles and the International Date line Are the closest Points bet Wen the United states and the soviet Union. The Sovi ets forbid americans to travel to big Diomede which is uninhabited except for a military outpost. The soviets said Weymouth was arrested april 9 for violating their Border. He was returned by soviet helicopter tuesday night and handed Over to the Village Public safety officer on Little Diomede Island. Weymouth s hike across the ice capped months of wan Dering around Western Alaska. State trooper capt. Joe Detemple said the quiet loner was evaluated tuesday night by a psychiatric worker in Nome Alaska. In an interview earlier wednesday night Barrett said her son was too tired when she spoke to him tuesday to discuss his arrest. But she said he was treated Well in the soviet Union and she never worried about his safety. Barrett said she did not know what prompted her son to walk across the Border. He s a wanderer. He s kind of a loner she said. Maybe he had something else on  to . From Moscow Chicago up Svetlana a Kluyeva the daughter of dictator Joseph Stalin who stunned the soviet Union by defecting and then returning 17 years later quietly left her Homeland again and landed in the United states officials said thursday. A Kluyeva arrived at o Hare International Airport wednesday on Swissair flight 124 at 3 17 . Est with out Public notice and left for another . Destination said Cherise Mayberry a spokeswoman for the . Custom service in Chicago. It was not immediately Clear whether a Kluyeva had again renounced her soviet citizenship but a . Embassy spokesman said she is still an american  a Kluyeva made a spectacular defection to the West in 1967, Only to slip Back to the soviet Union in 1984 with a harsh denunciation of the West in what was considered publicity coup for the soviets. She gave up her Homeland once again wednesday when she boarded a flight out of the country a . Embassy official said. Allilu Yeva s daughter Olga Peters 14, left for England tuesday to enrol again in the boarding school that she left in 1984 to accompany her Mother Back to the soviet Union. Beam fest succeeds May foreshadow space weapon Albiol  n a of api an t . I ii i,.,. Albuquerque . A an intense Electron beam has been shot straight through the air for the first time in the United states according to a spokes Man for Kirtland fab. We can t speculate about what the so Viets have done in this area it. Ken Mcclellan said wednesday. Scientists say an Electron beam could punch its Way deep inside an enemy target such As an incoming missile and become a devastating weapon if a Way is found to make the beam Fly straight. Scientists from the air Force weapons Laboratory at Kirtland and Sandia nation Al laboratories last August managed to get a beam to shoot through the air toward the Manzano mountains Southeast of Albuquerque. Some details of that test were Dis closed wednesday but others including the Width of the beam and the distance it travelled were not released because they reclassified. Electron beams have been one kind of directed Energy weapon discussed As a pos sible component of president Reagan s pro posed space based strategic defense Initia Tive sometimes called Star  the application most often mentioned for Electron beams in a missile defense system is to destroy warheads As they re enter the atmosphere. Mcclellan said he could not discuss weapons applications for Electron beams. The Electron beam was produced by the radial linear accelerator 2, or Rad Lac 2, at Kirt Ltd s directed Energy experimental Range. Mcclellan said the pulse of electrons from Rad Lac 2 was a few tens of billionths of a second in duration or Given that the electrons were travelling at almost the Speed of Light a few dozen feet in length. The Experiment has been repeated a number of times since August As scientists try to produce a More tightly focused beam he said. Researchers at Sandia Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California and los Alamos National Laboratory in new Mexico have used lasers to guide elec tron beams but those experiments have been done in special Gas Chambers not inthe open air. Rad Lac 2, a joint project of the weapons lab Sandia and the defense advanced research projects Agency is the most pow Erful accelerator of its kind in the nation the lab said