European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 16, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 4 the stars and stripes monday june 16,1986 conic Christmas Here won t be any question whether Shan Cilc v Silloo zen 12, of Gilroy calif., was naughty keeping Santa Cool or Nice As she keeps Santa Claus Cool on 4 hot Day. Actually Shandelle is cleaning her neighbor s 8-foot a photo Christmas decoration. Santa sits in the front Jar the year around because it tales eight people to move him. Gao report raises a or questions on value of Navy Home porting plan Washington up1 Conns disclose to giving the go ahead Lor the Navy s much debated Honic porting plan but a new study raises big i the costs and strategic value of Dis Persing warships among More . Har Bors. After four years of review the House armed services com mice is consid ering the first instalment of the program s77 million to begin work on new Navy facilities at Staten Island n.y., and Everett Wash. A favourable vote from the committee would release 1986 funding hat has Bee held up since last fall because lawmakers wanted More justification from the Navy for its ambitious program which also Calls for new ports at san Francisco Cor pus Christi Texas and eight other Gulf coast cities. The Navy gained momentum Las week when a House armed services sub committee on military installations approved Home porting Money but con Best Sellers arc Sion at insiders agree lie vote in inc Lull committee is far trom a sure thing. I m nol at ail Jure the Hing will Clear full committee said a Well place House Static a. The whole thing could go Down. The longer it Gars on the More questions there the questions arc underlined by a re cent report on Home porting by the Gen eral accounting office the investigative Arm of Congress which said the program May be More fattening for the Federal budget than inc Navy is letting on a major concern for lawmakers in the i Glen the Bill Gramm Rudman Era. In addition the report turns a highly sceptical Eye on Navy claims that Dis Persing ships will improve military read iness and flexibility and prevent Pearl Harbor Type attacks against . Ships massed in Only a few ports. The study has Given fresh ammunition to critics who say Home porting is Noth ing More than pork barrel politics an unnecessary orgy of Public works spend ing by tic Navy to broaden support in Congress for an expanded Fleet. The critics including sen. Barry cold water r-arii., the influential chairman of the Senate armed services commit tee say the Navy could accommodate any extra ships it needs by simply expanding its current ports. Despite Goldwater s opposition the Navy triumphed in Early june when the Senate armed services committee voted 10-9 to release he delayed j77 million. However that vote came before the highly critical Gao study became pub Lic. A key finding of the study requested by sen. Strom Thurmond , is that the Navy Jias understated the Cost of the program. The Navy says it will Cost $799 Mil lion to reach initial operating capacity at All new Home porting locations and the program will Cost about $200 million More than expanding existing port facilities. Work Laws eroding study finds Washington up Federal programs developed Over the past so years for the Protection of american workers have been seriously eroded since president Reagan look office said a re port to Congress released sunday. The Basic Laws protecting workers still Are in place but lax administration budgetary cuts and inadequate legislative oversight have undermined the Prole Tion the Laws offer it said. Training opportunities for the unskilled and unemployed have diminished working conditions have deteriorated workers rights have been undercut and the unemployed and the retired have less income the report on Federal policies affecting american workers was submitted to the joint economic committee by Sar Levitan and Isaac Shapiro of the George washing ton University Center for social policy studies. Committee chairman David obey d. Wis., said the report indicates the Reagan administration has executed a full scale Retreat in virtually every area of govern ment activity affecting the Well being of american Nat Only have workers suffered higher unemployment Levels but virtually every program to help the jobless from unemployment insurance to retraining and Job search assistance has been Cut Back dramatically obey report said Federal funding of employment and training assistance has dropped from j9.5 billion in 1981 to $5,6 billion in 1986. The percentage of unemployed receiving unemployment insurance fell to a historic Low of 34 percent in 1985. After adjusting for inflation the mini mum wage has declined by 26 percent since january 1981 and is now at its lowest real level since 1955 and the enforcement of health and safely regulations has deteriorated the report said. It said the decline in the unemployment rate since 198 j docs not justify the cutback in Federal employment and training pro Grams the administration has pursued some refinements that May have strengthened the occupational safely and health administration but for the most part actions taken by the Reagan administration have undermined Osha s tetto Venest the report said. It was critical of administration efforts to bar discrimination in he workplace since 1981, Federal agencies have Down graded the enforcement of equal employ ment Opportunity policies affecting women and minorities it said. 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