European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 10, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Flip i Cut 10 $36 million but Aboul the same time Congress passed a military pay and Benefit Bill that Cost the guard another s30 million. Congress did t provide Iho Money and Iho coast guard was left $66 million in the Hole. Then came Gramm Rudman cuts for fiscal 1986 of $76 million leaving the guard a shortfall of $142 million. The guard went into a squeeze flown hold Down. Buy nothing policy the coast guard insists that its budget is As lean As possible especially compared Wilh megabucks Washington services and agencies. Gracey says he got angry enough to write a idler when a Washington paper Recolly quoted an unnamed official who said int any Agency thai l padded its budget enough 1o absorb a i percent Cut t doing us Job i heard Ibri i line of our units who wide buying some spare pams Wilh their own their says meantime. The guard is gearing up Lor miss liberty1 birthday in new York Harbor h is calling in 70 boats and ships Ironi Eastern Seaboard stations bringing up reservists and coast guard auxiliary with their own boats capt. Arthur Henn and his Deputy pm tar Eric Williams say that All agencies included the coast guard the Fri. Naval intelligence customs immigration and the new York police department will Field a. Jcu Rily Force of 100,000 but by planning and concentrating a Lorl during the three Day Celebration Iho Larce should Wield the clout of . Nearly so us and foreign naval vessels will be or station and on Parade As Well As the Tali ships Hal wive present at the Bicentennial. Traffic will be horrendous stalled boats people falling into the Woler. Medical problems. And the possibility of terrorism hangs Over the Harbor As Well. Other Law enforcement people will ride with the guard providing extra eyes to focus on suspicious events. Cost is almost impossible to estimate. Officials say the guard May spend As much As $1 million for its Brief Effort. Again not funded but the guard is used to stretching and making do. When it reached out to take in the 200-mile limit nine years ago. It realized in would be encountering language problems when it faced foreign ships. In sent one guardsman to school to learn russian. The challenger search this year Cost about $2 million. The guard had three boat on patrol Lor the space shot. The b2-fool patrol Boal Point Roberts and two High Speed multipurpose 41-Foolers. Their Normal assignment to Ward of interlopers and participate in Rescue efforts if necessary. It turned out to be necessary. The Range safety officer ordered All ships and aircraft out of the area for some 40 in incl to avoid failing dihn 1 of a n1 Robert Untley the command of f in. a radioed t if vessel wan Lou Donni so driven by 0 11 it winds and cd knot Ruf j Pir Iii Iny k to i a a const gum helicopter Tuil on the a lowering us Rescue Basket which a a Nile hands grasped Al once it w.-i1, Loo much fur me Winch so the to Copler Ros ibo i Hin Sens with its human Cir co Darin Luu t Olu i. And i if cd them to the i fighter. Tho Daun Liess Cru Verand sauce tie Liniai Imp Small boats that completed the Daunlee is was ordered to the challenger Cash scone. She was reinforced by lha 378-Lool Critter Dallas also pulled Oil drug initial coast guard units had to a Kimp ions m Florida where they face a flow of illegal from Haiti and Iho Ever Busy drug runners some 7.000 haitians have Boon a in Tohl since Itie interdiction by Xann in october 1981. The Conol guard has intercepted Aboul 1,100 haitians since the a in of the Duvalier government. They continue to come in Leaky rolling sailboats. Jammed to the gunwales. One 44-Fooler had 164 aboard. Usually the boats Are in Sutti bad shape they Are simply destroyed Al sea and the haitians returned to their Island. One Boal capsized after most of its passengers were pulled to safely. About a dozen people drowned including an immigration service interpreter one coast guard Cutter is always stationed North of Haiti on interdiction patrol. Other Cullers Are pressed into action to pursue those who slip by. In addition the Caribbean patrols seize Aboul two million pounds of marijuana a year. Last year the guard also intercepted 7,500 pounds of cocaine up from 2.000 pounds the year before. If 10. 1986 the stars and stripes Page is
