European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 22, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday april 22, 1986luesaay, the stars and stripes Page 5 officials to study Titan s of rings \7axt i a i x i it a of i a to i a i _ Van Den Berg fab Calif. A of rings in the solid fuel boosters of a Titan rocket that exploded just after liftoff last week will be scrutinized by military officials investigating the blast. We will be looking at everything. The solid fuel boosters rings propellants and electronics said maj. Gen. Jack l. Watkins commander of the 1st strategic aerospace division at Vandenberg. Sabotage also is one of those things we must always take into consideration he said adding that things like terrorist activities and sabotage would probably not be discussed in  Watkins would not speculate about the cause of the explosion but said one concern was the ring connector son the solid rocket  it was the second failed Titan 34d launch in a Row. A rocket carrying a Kh-11 spy satellite exploded just after liftoff aug. 28. Titan launches from the missile test Center will be Stockman claims Reagan flunked tax increase test Washington up former Bud get director David Stockman said in an interview sunday that he gave president Rea Gan a multiple Choice budget test in 1982 to show him the dramatic need for a tax in crease but Reagan refused to be swayed. Stockman said in the television interview that he took the $900 billion budget that year and divided it into 50 categories such As education programs and veterans pro Grams and gave the president three choices on each one no cuts moderate cuts or Large reductions or eliminations of programs. And then we started out with kind of a multiple Choice review of the budget and went through each category discussed the Impact in terms of who would be affected what the arguments were pro and con and then the president had to make a Choice no Cut huge Cut or moderate tiny  a few Days later we toted up what he had decided and after All of his cuts were calculated and reduced from the built in spending level he had come up with a Bud get containing $800 billion Worth of deficits Over the next five years Stockman said. Asked by interviewer William Greider if the outcome meant Reagan flunked the test Stockman said Well i guess that s the Way i put it in my Book his the Triumph of politics How the Reagan revolution  halted until the cause of the explosion is known said air Force capt. Rick Sanford a base spokesman. The Accident will lower Confidence in the government s ability to Monitor soviet military activities said Paul stares a military expert at the Brookings institution. Public awareness of the critical role of of rings which Seal the segments of the solid rockets has been heightened since the destruction of the space shuttle challenger i january. Rings in one of challenger s solid boosters Are believed to have failed allowing searing rocket gases to Bur through the Side. The Titan 34d blew up five seconds into launch Friday morning with its classified payload believed to be a spy satellite. The failure coupled with the shuttle disaster interrupts the launch programs of the United states two principal satellite launch vehicles. We had been watching this one anxiously Watkins told reporters saturday. Coming hard on the heels of the challenger loss there was More apprehension. It s  the solid rockets used for Titan launches arc manufactured by United technologies chemical systems division of California. Those used by the space shuttle Are made by Morton Thi Okol inc. Of Brigham City Utah. Calls to United technologies offices were not answered sunday. On Friday spokesman Jim Mackin said there would be no comment and referred inquiries to the air Force. The Titan s two solid boosters ignite first providing about 2.5 million pounds of thrust. The main liquid fuel engine of the first stage ignites about 97 seconds after liftoff and 10 seconds later the boosters arc jettisoned. The Titan 34d also has a second stage liquid fuel engine. The Titan explosion created a huge Cloud of toxic smoke and fuel and 74 people near the launch site were taken to the base Hospital for examination and treatment of skin and Eye irritations. Sands m time Salt ii signed in 1979 formally expires at the end of 1985, has yet to be ratified by . . And soviets pledged in 1981 not to weaken the treaty s provisions. Sets a limit of 2,250 icbms slams and heavy bombers including a Sublimity of 1,320 Mir 3d multiple target delivery systems. Additional Sublimity allow no More than 1,200 mired missiles of which Only 820 can be icbms. Heavy bombers carrying cruise missiles Are counted As mired systems which allows 120 to be deployed. Limits each Side to one new icbms my for . And ss-24 for soviets. Permits modification of existing icbms if changes differ by no More than 5 percent in size or payload. Between 1979 and 1983,  modified 300 minuteman Iii missiles. The soviets claim the ss-25 icbms is a permitted modification of the ss-13. Chicago Tribune graphic sources Center for defense information Chicago Tribune news reports Aspin criticizes proposal to dry Dock 2 older subs Washington up a key Law maker said sunday that if the administration dry docks two older submarines to stay within arms control limits instead of scrapping them or junking some missiles it would be doing Moscow s work in  rep. Les Aspin d-wis., chairman of the House armed services committee termed the proposal of dry Docking the two older Poseidon submarines another half baked idea that has t been thought through. But this one could really Hurt  Aspin who other than scoffing at the dry Docking has not endorsed either of two other options said that in the Long run the proposal would enable the soviets to Stock up enough weapons to have half again As Many rocket launchers As the Salt ii arms controls treaty permits. That s enough destructive Power to level every state from Maine to  the administration is trying to decide what to do to stay within a limit of 1,200 rocket launchers when a new Trident sub Marine starts sea trials. The other options include cutting up the Poseidon to destroy their launch tubes or eliminating a number of older silo based mis Siles to stay within the 1,200-launcher limit. Each Poseidon has 16 missiles and the new Trident the Nevada has 24 missiles. When the Nevada goes on sea trials it will push the United states past the 1,200 launcher Mark requiring the decision now faced by the administration. Aspin and rep. Dante Fascell d-fla., chairman of the House foreign affairs committee also said 221 members of con Gress wrote president Reagan a letter asking him to adhere to the arms control treaty. " press reports say that you Are consid ering a half Way measure with respect to Salt by taking older submarines out of service but not dismantling them when the Nevada Trident submarine goes to sea in May the letter said. We encourage you to resist this option. It is bad for american Security. It encourages the Sovi ets to take the same approach by keeping old systems around when new ones come i their  Aspin said that in dry Docking the two older submarines thus asserting the right to Shelve but not dismantle the vessels we Are automatically granting the soviets thievery same  but that course he said mocks the verification Issue Reagan has pushed. There s no Way in the world we can know whether a dry docked weapon is truly out of commission or Able to move Back into action in a matter of hours. This is what Ronald Reagan warned against in 1980. Is he about to do it in 1986?" said Aspin. This dry Docking idea sounds like a concept written produced and directed in mos cow. It certainly can do us no Good what Soever he said. It is like doing Moscow s work in  in the stars and stripes loss of Ralff cos Sou Fly of of Book 40 a parc Arm Furta it it to0 years ago today. April 22, 1946 the underground railway for movement of jews from Europe to Palestine is intact and has been strengthened by additional guides from Palestine resistance forces according to a full Page advertisement in the new Yor Post. 30 years ago today. April 22, 1956 Adlai e. Stevenson the 1952 democratic presidential nominee proposed that the United states Call off All further tests of the a bomb and urge other nations to follow suit. 20 years ago today. April 22, 1966 doctors in Houston implanted an artificial heart in a Man to temporarily take Over the work of a dam aged chamber in his own heart. The device was developed by Baylor University specialists including or. Michael Debakey and or. William Ahers a chemical Engineer. To years ago today. April 22, 1976 falling Gas prices and the third big monthly drop in grocery costs held the Rise in consumer prices to 0.2 percent in March the government said. Norfolk a. Up there Are Many theories to explain Why the South lost the civil War a Northern naval Block Ade a Lack of railroads and wartime Indus try but four historians say the South really lost because it lost its Faith in god. The conclusion surprised even the authors. We examined All the previous answers but they did t hold up to scrutiny Wil Liam still or. Told the virginian Pilot an Ledger Star. The East Carolina University professor who joined three other historians to write Why the South lost the civil War to be released May 20 by the University of Georgia press said the conflict started As a holy  but when Victory did t come Southern preachers began calling the Strug Gle god s judgment on  unfortunately for the South religion not Only sustained morale it also had the effect eventually of undermining  As tensions mounted Southern churches assumed a Large role in urging secession and after the War commenced Many of the ecclesiastics went into combat still said adding that researchers found evidence of Many units with ministers As officers. As the War progressed Superior generals and More motivated troops could produce nothing better than a standoff. An answer was needed to explain the apparently impossible. As the War went on still said the ministers gave overwhelming evidence that this was god s punishment on the South partly because of slavery partly because of other alleged or assumed  slain hostage s family condemns Libya raid a Toto of. T a we n. Aptos Calif. A relatives of Peter Kilburn the hostage who was slain in retaliation for the . Raid on Libya Sun Day condemned the raid and said Kilburn probably won t be the last person killed in retaliation for the attack. I Don t think Peter will be the Only one that will be sacrificed Jeanne Repetto Kilburn s sister in Law said in an interview. Kilburn s body was found with those of two britons in Lebanon s Central mountains thursday along with a note saying they had been executed by the Arab revolutionary cells to avenge the attack against Libya earlier in the week. Repetto compared the raid to throwing a bomb out a window to kill a  by throwing the bomb out the window we be blown out the window breaking whatever Protection we had and now we have found that instead we hit a Hornet s nest. I shudder to think about what will happen Repetto said. She and other relatives of Kilburn Gath ered at the Home of Tim Kilburn his Nephew to Call on the world to join them in a Day of prayer on Friday. As a nation we need to build strength within ourselves to resist the temptation of violence hatred and revenge a statement issued by the family said. Kilburn s body was flown to Andrews air Force base outside Washington on sunday and positively identified state department spokesman Bruce Ammerman said adding that the state department had no comment on the family s remarks. The body is due to arrive in California on tuesday with a funeral scheduled april 30. Kilburn of san Francisco was a librarian at the american University of Beirut for 20 years before he disappeared on dec. 3,1984