European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 28, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse The stars and stripes saturday june 28,1986 Loftus assumes command Naples. Italy is rear adm. Lowe half Stephen f. Loftus thursday assumed com Mand of reel air Mediterranean maritime surveillance forces . 6lh Fleet and maritime air forces. Mediterranean from rear adm. Upper half Warren e. change of command ceremony look place Al inc naval support activity. Naples. Am. Fleet air Mediterranean commander since september 1984. Is becoming chief of staff for the supreme Allied commander Atlantic i Norfolk a. Loftus has More than 30 years of naval experience and Mosi recently served As Deputy com Mander comptroller of the naval sea systems omd Washington. Artillery unit aces test Cape canaveral. Fla. Ii ale armed services in its version of Bill included Money for the new Tri Dent. The two bit Puj eventually be sent to the House and Senate floor Salthe versions which finally pass will be sent to a Confute committee to resolve the differences. The Trident is the newest of the Navy missile firing submarines. About pm venation s Long Range nuclear weapons Are based including Trident and the older Poseidon. Trident Are built by the electric boat division or general dynamics headquartered in Groton Conn. Congress approves urgent Bill for agencies running out of funds Washington a Congress approved and sent to president Reagan an urgent si.7 billion Catchall spending Bill thursday night designed to keep several government agencies running through the sept.30 end of the fiscal year. Along the Way the Senate reversed itself and vote to restore $55.6 million in non competitive University research Money which critics had labelled pork barrel science and lawmakers on both sides rejected a last ditch Effort to broaden a program of Job retraining to include unemployed Oil Field workers. The measure a Compromise worked out after week of private meetings Between Senate and House negotiators waa said to be acceptable to Reagan after Compromise was reached on a key administration objection involving refinancing of billions of dollars i Federal Loans to Rural electric cooperatives. Included in the Bill was $5.3 billion to restore the flow of Money to banners whose checks from the commodity credit corporation had been held up since the Agency ran out of Money on june 3 $3.8 million to pay juries in Federal civil trials some of which have been delayed for Lack of funds and Money to restore a series of cuts made under the 3ramm-Rud-Man deficit reduction Law. On june 6, the Senate had voted 58-40 to strip fro the Bill a Section earmarking Money for several universities in the slates of influential senators. During the House Senaie negotiations $55.6 million was restored for projects Al Syracuse Iowa state Wichita state Kansas Nevada Las vegas northeastern Oregon graduate Center Oklahoma slate and the Rochester Institute of technology. Bui the Senate reversed positions thursday voting56-42 to keep the earmarked Money in the Bill. In one of the few other remaining contested issues inthe Bill senator turned Back 65-31, an Effort id Cut out $50 million for economic Aid to Ireland
