European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 11, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page the stars and stripes wednesday. June 11, 1986 Gao report is Bombshell for Bigeye says chemical weapon does t work Miof ready for production Washington a1 the Leneral accounting Ollice said tuesday slut the Pentagon s main ecu chemical weapon the Bigeye bomb does t Ork. An As pcs Mienl thai  nov ammunition Loop ponets of the Reagan administration s plan to resume producing chemical Arma ments. The Higey bomb is nol ready fur production the congressional watchdog alien by said in a study released by rep. Dante Fascell. -flu., chairman of inc House f or tin affairs committee rep John a Dward Porter a Ltd and sen David i Ryor. D Ark. The three Feil the losing Side Insi  us Cirii Wirfs apprised production of Ilic first u a  weapons since i jd9. The defense department wants to pro Duce three Ives of chemical weapons including i Bigeye bomb dropped by air planes ii chemical tipped Shell for 155mm Arl Illery tuns and a chemical warhead for the army s my Lille launch Rock i Sysler  Gao said i lie Bigeye  problem. With the chemicals inside in Arul Ritli lie bomb itself. Although Many of inc  in the report were classified. In Luik  scr Siun was released at i nes i blur Cal a. Congress so Giuld nol fund weapons sys tems which do not work i  solid the Only reliable Bombshell we have today is this report by inc Ciao. The evidence is overwhelming inc Lii Cyc bomb is a persistent failure with no reasonable Prospect of it Ever working properly or  the Pentagon plans m build binary chemical weapons which take their name from the fact they Are composed of two chemicals Kepi separate until the Shell is fired or bomb dropped. At that Point they Are supposed to i to form a lethal Gas. The study critics cd plans to have Navy and air Force pilots who deliver the. Bomb Fly i i hair targets at relatively High a i Lutcs of around 30,000 feel and then drop the bomb. That lactic exposes the pills to enemy missiles the Gao said atut is not As sound As permitting the pills to Fly much lower. The  says the tactic allowing the Long fall of the bomb is necessary to sufficiently warm the  inside the Bomati so that hey can mix. The Gao study did nut Analyse the Wir Heads for the rockets or artillery shells. The 1 , asked for reaction to the Gao stud sail in was preparing a formal response. However a spokesman. Air i orce 1,1. Col. Dun rom Alec. Said Many of the problems filed by tic Gao were being fined. Congress Lasi year approved chemical weapons after a Long fight a close decision thai reversed four years of earlier congressional defeats for the weapon. It was the Only significant a season that   Tun had been denied in his military a Carina ment program but Congress put several conditions units approval including a ban on production until at least oct. I 1986, and no production unless . Allies in the North Atlantic treaty organization set a new Force goal that includes a Csc american chemical weapons. Nato look that action last month. Reagan says the new . Weapons Are needed to offset a glowing soviet chemical i Arsenal although opponents  Ilic current l a. Arsenal is enough. The size of both superpowers arsenals Are classified but most accounts put the . Arsenal at .15,000 to -10,000 Iima while the soviet stockpile is estimated at about 300,000 tons. The Pentagon has asked for s56.9 million fur the Lii Geye in its Budge request for the fiscal year Starling oct. 1, and Pryor prom ised tuesday to try to eliminate that Money. This bomb is a Turkey so end All Lur keys he said. I m w Dlug to dig my heels in and fight  hut i Ryor was Uncertain whether he would try to have the Republican controlled Senate vote to reimpose the Long moratorium on building chemical weapons. I Don t know whether i la a fight thai one lie said although things Chongc. People change Fascell and Porter said they would ask the democratic run House to Knock out Money for the bomb and said they May also push for a ban on ail . Gas weapons . Civilian workers get tentative of of 3 percent pay raise Washington up1 it oust Anil Senate budget negotiators tentatively agreed tuesday to Pic civilian Federal employees a 3 percent pay raise next year but put off difficult decisions on military spending foreign Aid and taxes. Senate budget committee chairman Pete do Enid r.  that although the Senate s budget called for Only u 2 percent Federal pay hike. President Reagan recommended the 3 Nerc Cal figure and Reagan must approve the raise. We want to make sure we Don t provide Money in an area that s nol Likely to happen Dominici said but in ills Case the president is in the Driver s seat the budget version approved by inc House recommended the 3 percent raise. House budget committee chairman William Gray d penn., mid negotiators had worked their Svay through Many non  items but had not lacked Pentagon fund ing foreign Aid or axes in their discus signs of the nearly 51 trillion budget for next fiscal year which begins oct. I. Cray said those issues must be discussed soon for the House Senate conference panel to successfully produce a budget. House dump Craigie conferees met privately in tar in the Day discussing a possible Compromise offer it s time to fish or Cul bait Gray said. The mouse approved budget provided �2tt5 billion for lbs military in fiscal 1957, while the Senate passed Mea sure called for s30i billion neither approached Reagan s request of s320 billion for defense and both called for is 3.2 billion in new Revenue s7 billion above the presi Dent s budget. Heartfelt goodbye Genii Mellul blackboard messages set inc tone on he hut Day