European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 28, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday october 28. 1988 the stars and stripes Pago 6 ski funding called pork barrel polities by Norman Blackcap military writer Washington the billions of dollars the government is spending on president Reagan s Star wars Initia Tive is going to a handful of Well positioned defense contractors and laboratories a new study says. More than 90 percent of the Star wars contracts awarded in fiscal 1985 and 1986 went to contractors located in states with senators who sit on the two key Senate committees that vote funds for the program said the study by the Council on economic priorities. To s pork barrel politics at work said Alice to incr Marlin president of the Council which has issued several studies critical of the strategic defense Initia Tive Reagan s search for a High tech shield against ballistic missiles by inking the strategic defense initiative program to the economies of states traditionally dependent on defense spending and represented on key con Gressional committees the Pentagon can marshal support for a program de Spile its highly questionable strategic value and technical  the new York based research group which specializes in National Security the environment and corporate social responsibility is completing a Book to be published next Spring on the economic consequences of Star  the study concludes that the top 20 con traders and laboratories have received awards totalling 15.7 billion since fiscal 1983, or 7i percent of the total $7.7 billion awarded. The leading contractor to Date is a government Laboratory the Energy department s Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California the study found. It has received contracts valued at $875 million. In second place is general motors corp., which last year acquired Hughes aircraft. Thanks primarily to Hughes pm has won ski contracts totalling �612.7 million since fiscal 1983, the study states. Pm is followed by Lockheed corp. With $580.5 million the Boeing corp. With j373.7 million and try inc. With 1373.1 million. The companies that won the largest contracts to produce nuclear weapons in the last decade arc the same ones win Ning the largest ski contracts to make nuclear weapons obsolete in the next decade wrote Rosy Nim Roody a nation Al Security analyst with the Council. Those defense contractors in turn Are highly concentrated geographically the study adds. Almost 85 percent of the Dollar value of so contracts has been awarded to contractors located in five slates Cali fornia new Mexico Massachusetts Ala Bama and Washington. A least s9 percent of the. Star wars contracts awarded in fiscal years 1985 and 1986 or 14.56 billion went to contractors located in states with representation on the Senate armed serv ices committee which must authorize Star wars funding he study adds. More than $196 million in additional contracts during those two years went to contractors in other states with representation on the defense subcommittee of the Senate appropriations committee. The administration initially planned to spend j26 billion on the program by 1950, although those plans have been trimmed by Congress. Reagan requested More than $5.3 Bil lion for the current fiscal year but con Gress authorized Only about $3.5 billion. 40 fewer Moose antique choir Sells for $1.1 million taken in six Day season in Maine Greenville Maine a Hunters killed 841 Moose during Maine s six Day season that ended this weekend Down 40 from last year according to Tenta Tive figures released sunday. Final figures were expected to change by no More than a half dozen As reports of additional kills during the season that ended saturday came in from Remote areas said Paul Fournier a spokesman for the Maine Inland fisheries and wildlife department last year s total was 831 Moose two less than the record 883 shot in 1982, the year annual Moose Hunt ing was revived in Maine after a 45-year break. Fourier said he had expected an even smaller total this year because the Range was expanded by about 5,000 Square Miles serving to disperse the Hunters the Hunting Range was expanded this season to nearly 20,000 Square mitts Over the Northern two thirds of the state after studies showed the Moos population could withstand the Hunting pressure. Each of the 1,000 Moose permit holders was assigned to a specific area in the Hunt ing zone. Permits were awarded by lottery to 9fo Maine residents and 100 non residents. Philadelphia up an Isle Century chair Hiis sold for a record 11.1 million at rotheby s International auction House making it the most expensive chair in the world the Philadelphia inquirer said Sun Day. The mahogany Wing chair with Green damask upholstery and Ball and claw feel was made in Phila Delphia and was sold saturday at rotheby s new York auction House Sale of american items the newspaper said. It s not Only a record for american furniture it s the most expensive chair in the world and a record for any piece of furniture sold in  Leslie Keno rotheby s american furniture department head. The chair had been owned by the late Henry Cadwaladr of Pennsylvania a descendant of revolutionary War Gen. John Cadwalader. The chair a absolutely the most gorgeous thing said the buyer. New Hampshire collector Eddy Nichol son who did his own bidding from the Back of the auction room. The newspaper did not report when the chair was made or what the previous record Price paid for an antique chair had been. The guinness Book of world records lists he Pur Chase of a Chippendale Side chair one of 13 made in the late 1700s, As the highest Price Ever paid for one chair. It sold for $275,000 in 1982. The $1.1 Mil Lloa 18th Century chair. Protesters oily against Trident sub nuclear dump Bangor Wash. A anti nuclear activists sunday protested the deploy ment of the nation s newest Trident sub Marine while others formed a human Chain to denounce the selection of the Hanford nuclear reservation As a finalist for a High level nuclear waste dump. The Alaska the seventh submarine equipped to carry Trident nuclear mis Siles arrived at the Bangor naval sub Marine base on oct. I. Among those who gathered outside the base sunday for a rally were Roma Catholic archbishop Raymond Hunt Hausen of Seattle and roman Catholic Bishop Michael Kenny of Juneau alas a. About 400 people took part said Linda Greenwald of the ground Zero enter for non violent action. Hunthausen an outspoken peace activist was among the speakers at thermally sunday titled resist Trident for love and for  at he Columbia River Bridge joining protesters at Vancouver hotel before fading them to the interstate Bridge said the selection of the Hanford site at one of three finalists for the repository bad been tainted by politics. The measure on the nov. 4 ballot criticizes the Reagan administration for select ing Hanford As a final i. It also direct stat officials 10 do everything they can to rattle the bit see Sion re Luceo and to try to con Vince the Federal government to reverse ill decision Aganita repository in the pm. Nancy serenades president in to tribute to Gershwin Washington Jap Nancy Rea Gan serenaded president Reagan to the tune of George Gershwin s our love inhere to stay on sunday at a White House televised tribute to the great american composer. The president and mrs. Reagan hosted the first in this year1 series of in performance at the White House specials. The show called a tribute to american music was taped in the East room of the White House and is scheduled for Broad cad on pcs nov. 19. The president beamed As Nancy too to the microphone at the end of the show and be jumped up from nil seat and re warded her with a kiss on her forehead after she finished her song. Mis. Reagan was accompanied by the cast of the performance which included composer Marvin Hartisch ringer Sarah Vaughan the group the manhat Tan Transfer opera singers Priscilla Bas Kerville and George Merrill and former actress Kitty Carlisle Hart mrs. Reagan in her introduction of he show Laid Gershwin s music was in the air everywhere when she was Young while the president recalled that when Genf Iwin died in 1937, All the work topped in the movie studio when Reagan was then work ing. I never knew George Gershwin Reagan said. Bui somehow i Felt our paths had crossed Vancouver and Portland ore., washing ton and Oregon residents angry Over the department of Energy s selection of the i Sanford nuclear reservation As a finalist for a High level nuclear waste dump formed a human poles Chain. Eight Hundred to 1,000 people including Washington Gay. Booth Gardner held hands Lor 20 minutes according to the coordinator for the referendum 40 Campaign. Gardner speaking to about 300 of the Sands of time in the stars and stripes 40 years ago today. Oct. 28, 1946 Berlin s russian licensed press opened a counter Oden Sive against charges that Berlin workers had been deported to Russia. 30 years ago today. Oct 28 1956 Hungary s Comuni Insil leaders tried to appease the nation s rebellious citizens by inst Dlugie two prominent non communists in the Cabinet but civil War still Radii the land. Meanwhile the Western Powers requested an urgent meeting of the . Security Council to Deal with the hungarian situation. 20 years ago today. Oct. 28, 1966 communist China announced it has launched a guided missile carry jog a nuclear warhead that exploded on target 10 years ago today. Oct. 2, 1976 the British Pound again slumped to a record Tew in late trading in London As the labor government came under increased left Wing pressure to wrap its anti inflation economic policies