European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 15, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday. May is 19bs the stars and stripes page.5 Libya connection snarls Dod Bulldozer Cost rate by Norman Olack a military worker Washington Ai the Behest of defense1 Secretary Caspar w. Weinberger inc Pentagon has moved to Block inc awarding of a contract tin  bulldog. Cars to the Fiat Allis co. Because Iris partially owned by Libya sources said tucs Day. Meantime. Inc Muuse voted without disc hint tuesday lit approve a Resolution asking Weinberger to delay the contract to ral Allis until after inc Pentagon Budge Bill is passed. The Resolution said . Anti terror 1st efforts against lib i would be under Cut by the inadvertent Transfer of United Stales tin dollars to the government of Libya.". The sources who agreed to discuss the owner Only if not identified said Wein Berger had personally intervened in the Case fallowing testimony an capital Hill by Trad c. Klc the undersecretary of defense fur policy. Ikle informed a Senate armed services subcommittee ii May 1 that the defense department did not appear to have inc authority to reject u a id Low hid from f Tol Allis. Even though ii is a subsidiary of ital y s fial spa which is 15 percent owned by Libya. The Pentagon attorneys Are busily searching for ways to avoid awarding that contract one official said monday. And i can  they will find a Way. It s being held up now because they found a technical reason to do so. Weinberger is taking a real hard line on this Issac of libyan ownership 1 the official said. And Fiat now has big  according to ill the Pentagon has awarded contracts totalling j23.6 million to rial or its subsidiaries since 1984. The government owned libyan foreign investment co. Has held a 15 percent incr Cal in Fiat spa since 1977 and has two scats on the company s 1s-Membcr Board of directors Robert Sims he. Pentagon s chief spokesman confirmed the Suares statements in part in tuesday. He declined to discuss Weinberger s role in the Mailer but said the Pentagon is concerned that no profits from defense contracts Are paid to  the sources said Weinberger had been aware of the controversy before Klc s Testi Mony Bill had res ludic inc matter follow ing his Deputy s Capitol Hill appearance. I kit s testimony produced expressions of disbelief by senators thut inc Pentagon could not Block a contract to a company partially owned by a country thai the United Stales had just bombed. Us. Air lurch in0""."f."will destroy Highway f rails bus Nesses 4oyearsagofoday." Mav a 10.1a _ a gnome Fin in the stars and stripes Salt Lake City a Utah s legislature opened a special session tuesday to consider ways of lowering the great Salt Lake which has reached its highest recorded level and raised tears in could inundate an interstate Highway and two rail lines. The Challenge is we Hare too much water gov Norm bang Crter said in urging Quick legislative action on a $55 million proposal to relocate some of the water. Heavy Spring storms have pushed the Lake w a record 4,211.65 feet above sea level capping a four year climb of 11 feet Hal has doubled the Lake s volume to 30 million acre feel. The Lake s water which has caused $115 million in damage since 1983, is 40 o 45 feel at its deepest Point. Banter Ter asked the lawmakers to approve a j5s million plan to pump flood Waters from the Lake into the Western desert. Unless reduced it rough pumping the Lake s briny Waters could swamp interstate so and two major Railroad tines sewage treatment plants and Lakeside mining operations he said. It would Lake 15 years of Normal weather to reduce the Lake to its 1983 level Bangerter said. He added that if any of the next several years Are Wel it would be  last year legislators set aside 170 Mil lion to Deal with the problem. Bui the Lake began receding and they spent More than half the sum on other projects. However even As lawmakers were adjourn ing their regular session in february the stale was deluged by its wettest Spring in history. Banger or told the joint session that the collapse of Lake Short industries and loss of transportation routes would affect the entire state Economy. Rerouting 1-80 the state s main Easl West artery would Cost up to $50 million he said. Further hooding could Cost an additional $ 110 million in property damage. Union Pacific Railroad Racks run on a causeway Between 1-80 and the Lake s Southern Edge and Southern Pacific tracks crass the Lake on a causeway about 50 Miles North of Salt Lake City. The Union Pacific causeway is about a foot and a half above the Lake level and the Southern Pacific trestle which has been crossed by Waves in Stormy weather about a foot above it a Bangerter aide raid. Stale leaders Only reluctantly support the pumping scheme. They worry thai an extended dry spell would Render the entire project useless. The governor said the pumping operation could begin by february and would Lake 6 to 8 inches off the Lake s surface before its 1987 summer Peak. The 80-mile-Long, 30-mile-wide Lake fed by Runoff from a heavy Mountain Snow pack should Rise another 10 inches before peaking this year in mid june William Alder National weather service chief meteorologist said tuesday. That will mean building More dikes or adding to existing ones to protect Lakeside Homes sewer systems businesses and some mining industries he said. The Lake has swallowed at least 50 a Scrant of hundreds of thousands of acres of wildfowl habitat on the Eastern Shore. And Salt water has begun to seep into bins of com and Hay that feed beef cattle in West Furm Inglan. Radio station Klub kiss on the Lake s East Side now is protected by a a shaped 5 foot High Dike built & month  one wait recently gave Way and Hie station now is operating on just one of its two transmitters. May 15. 1946 Congress finally approved the spending of $400,000,000 to subsidize increased production of building materials As Home builders reported Many structures would be left half finished unless action were alien by the government. 30 years ago  15, 1956 in Nicosia Cyprus one 15-year-old boy was sentenced to 10 years in prison for carrying a bomb and another greek cypriot was shot dead by troops in Britain s St Ppd up efforts to end violence there. 20 years ago today. May. 15, 1966 North Vietnam s anti aircraft gunners arc improving and raids lately have Cost the United states More than a plane a Day military officials in Saigon Dis. Closed. 10 years ago today. May 15, 1976 six air Force facade my cadets convicted by a student Honor committee of cheating have refused the committee request that they resign said an Academy spokesman in Colorado