European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 14, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Saturday. Juns 14, 19b6 the stars and stripes j Paul Al 9f ". V  Jav. So Ofifi 145 Phalo by Enrique love Grin he add detail to a Etc port Rait at a Jota High school. In photo a Tho Lof us by Dale a. Right Art Leauber Mynn Lanphier c right isms Tracy Cray on drawing technique. Murals add Lite to Zaragoza school hallways by Dale a. Nichols Zaragoza a Spain after Zaragoza High school was washed in a fresh coat or Paini the mumbling and grumbling Star cd. Students were Upsel with a school painted Stem to Stern ceiling to loaf in a monolithic monotonous beige. They Felt something had to be done. Something was done. The school Hall ways arc now Corning to life. A month ago Art class students took on a project to revitalize the school with student inspired and executed murals. An teacher Mynn Lanphier is supervising the project. And even though the students Are Tak ing a break Wilh the end of school other Art students Wil continue the project in the fall. After the school had been painted All beige we found it to be depressing said Scon Casperson student Council presi Dent. The place looked Tike a Sanitorium not a school it seemed sad. There was no color to  it was drab ninth grader Jennifer foiling said. The students hated it. It was  a suggestion from the student Council led advanced Art students to the Halls to produce life sire murals of High school personalities school symbols and themes re presenting Spain. The project involves drawing designs with permanent Marten then using colourful acrylic paints to fill them in Limpet Essaid. It adds a More humane feeling la the school she did. Besides thai it s a terrific Challenge for the Art  the Murali Are a hit with the students. It was so Boring All one color Junior Heidi fish said. Now it s a were  it definitely cheers up the school i lolling mid. And if a mural does t turn out Well. There s plenty of beige paint left Over Lanphier said. Gao to investigate funding for controversial israeli Jet Washington up a congressional Agency has stepped into a bitter dispute Between Trie untied slates and Israel Over the Cost of a new us funded israeli built Lavi fighter bomber that Pentagon officials say should be scrapped As Una Fordable. The general accounting office undertook the audit As disagreement Between Pentagon and israeli officials Over a s6.5 million differ ence in the Lavi s Price tag escalated to the highest Levels of . Government. Israeli officials accused defense Secre tary Caspar Weinberger of orchestrating a Campaign to Stop the Lavi just before it goes into production. The f-16 look Ajile. Which an israeli official said has some radar elusive stealth features is to debut next month and is u Fly publicly for the first time in september. It will be a political night because the Lavi will not be fully equipped a Pentagon official close to the project said wednesday. In urn Pentagon and slate department officials countered that Weinberger and Secretary of slate George Shultz one of Israel s strongest supporters Are United in the Wrangle with the israelis Over the Cost of the Lavi Shutlz wrote to israeli prime minister Shimon Peres and Weinberger sent a letter to defense minister Yitzhak Rabin about two weeks ago expressing misgivings about inc dispute insisting they review the program a slate department official said. The israelis decided they will take an other look at things he said. The Bottom line from the viewpoints of . Officials and Lavi critics in Israel u thai Israel s hard pressed Economy cannot afford the luxury of building a sophisticated War plane and it would be cheaper for Israel to continue buying american aircraft such As the f-16. Trie Issue is Money and just Jure raw economics a slate department official said. The israeli Economy is what this is All about the Pentagon official said. It s nut the Way to go for Israel another Pentagon official said of the Lavi. They d do better with other aircraft no throw limited resources into something of   the Gao became involved at the request of rep. Lee Hamilton a Lonj. Chairman of the Europe and Middle East subcommittee of the House foreign affairs committee in a move to resolve the Cost dispute. The Gao was instructed Hal time is More important than great length said a subcommittee staff member. And the israe Lis asked for the study in be done As soon is possible because we believe in Independent audit will verify our estimates an israeli official said. Gao auditors so far have met israeli de sense ministry official in the United Stales. Israel has committed $1.3 billion to the plane and has spent 1750 million thus far a Pentagon official said Israel wants to build Jlko Lavis. Israel aircraft industries builder of the Lavi projects the Price for each plane to be Sis,5 million minus research and development costs. However a report compiled by several . Agencies and put together by the Pentagon estimated the Cost at s32 million officials said. There is concern that the Long Terra cent of the Lavi will not be Cost effective a state department official said. We want to Sec if both sides can agree if it can be a Cost effective  the israelis argue Hal the Lavi b past the Point of no return because of a ii Bil lion investment the Pentagon official did. We re worried. We re trying to be responsible. We owe Illo the american taxpayers and to the israelis