European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 19, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday january 19, 1987 the stars and stripes i arms talks strategy called confused Washington up the  May not believe  Reagan s sir wars missile defense program is As feasible As claims and the  strategy is confused a congressional report concludes. The uni cd slates and soviet Union opened the latest round of superpower arms control talks in Geneva Switzerland thursday introducing new soviet chief Delegate Yuli Vorontsov who said the soviet Union wants Concrete constructive work at the Laiks. Some . Officials said privately they expect the soviets to propose modified ideas on testing of the strategic defense initiative the formal name for Star  the oct. 11-12 Summit Between Reagan and soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev at Reykjavik Iceland ended in acrimony when Reagan rejected Gorbachev s demands for curbs on Star wars research. A democratic led House foreign affairs subcommittee in a 42-Page report on the Iceland Summit has concluded there Are serious questions about the administration s arms negotiation strategy. The report said he Surprise . Proposal to eliminate strategic ballistic missiles within 10 years failed to take into consideration other nuclear Powers and the report added the de emphasis on thai plan since Reykjavik is creating a major conceptual problem and is jeopardizing agreement on other proposals. Although administration officials have claimed they were fully prepared for the Reykjavik talks the introduction of inc total elimination proposal raises serious concerns about the tactics used by the Ameri can negotiators the report said. In reference to Star wars the report said. After Reykjavik the administration s newfound insistence on total elimination of All ballistic missiles raise doubts about the administration s Confidence in its projected ski system. It now argues that deployment of ski depends upon elimination of the very threat ski is being developed to  at the same time sen. Sam Nunn a a criticized the administration last week for what he said was considerable confusion Over the relationship Between Star wars and nuclear deterrence. Nuclear deterrence is based on the premise that if either Side launches a nuclear attack the retaliatory strike could devastate the other Side. Nunn. Chairman of the Senate armed sen ices com Mittee quoted defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger who appeared before the panel monday As saying the purpose of ski is to bolster and not replace deter rence. Nunn added that Reagan said the purpose of skiis not to enhance deterrence but to replace  it seems the administration still has a Way to go in gelling the concept of ski in their own minds Nunn said. Rep. Jim courier r-n.j., a member of the House armed services committee said that if there appears to be an inconsistency in policy toward ski it s from the perspective that ski is a bargaining  i Don t know where they got the idea it was a bar gaining Chip he said. The proponents of ski never said it was a  he said Reagan walked the extra mile to achieve something at Reykjavik and should not be criticized for it. A soviet Diplomat in Geneva said of the latest negotiations we simply do not see any Hope for Progress at this new round if the United states continues with an unrestricted ski  voting shows new Senate More Liberal Washington up the Shif of Senate control from republicans to democrats is most dramatic in several key pan Els where new chairmen have voting re cords far More Liberal than their predecessors according to ratings release saturday. The ratings were compiled by the lib eral organization americans for demo cratic action and based on 20 votes on Domestic foreign and military issues in 1986, fifteen senators All republicans scored 0, a perfect conservative record while three democrats had spotless Liber Al Marks of 100. Sen. Robert Dole r-kan., last year majority Leader had one of the 0 scores while the new majority Leader Robert Byrd d-w.va., was Given a 75. In addition to the major leadership changes there also were huge shifts be tween the old and new chairmen of Sev eral major committees. The new demo cratic chairmen of the 12 main Senate committees had an average Ada rating of 62, while last year s gop chairmen had an average rating of 22,5. The contrasts were most noticeable in the agriculture foreign relations judiciary and labor and human resources commit tees four panels that Are expected to play key Rales in the 100th Congress it is exactly in those policymaking committees where the shift has been the greatest said Ann Lewis the Ada s National director. In the foreign relations Panei former chairman Richard Lugar r-ind., had a 1986 Ada rating of 10. While the new chairman Claiborne Pell . Had an Alden api photo 80. However it was Lugar who last year tried to persuade he administration Compromise with Congress on several foreign policy matters. Edward Kennedy d-mass., a leading Senate Liberal who now Heads the labor and human resources committee had an Ada rating of so. The previous chairman of the panel Orrin Hatch a Utah got a 5. A similar change came in the Judic iary committee where the new chair Man Joseph Biden d-del., touted As a potential presidential candidate also had a score of 80, while his predecessor Strom Thurmond r-s.c., had a 5, too. In the agriculture committee the Kennedy chairmanship switched from Jesse Helms r-n.c., who had a 0, to Patric Leahy d-vl., who had a rating of 85. However in the appropriations and finance committees the Ada gave last year s gop chairmen a More Liberal voting record than the new democratic Heads. In both cases the outgoing Republican chairman came from Oregon. Mark hat Field last year s appropriations commit tee chairman was Given a rating of 75, and Bob Packwood the previous head of the finance committee had a fio. The new chairman of the appropriations committee John Plennis  an Ada rating of 35, while new i pct Impf to Nance committee chairman Lloyd Bent Send Texas had a 45. In the 435-member House which remained in democratic control 48 republicans registered scores of 0, while 3 Mem Bers All democrats registered a 100. The Ada boasted that in the nov. 4 elections candidates with More Liberal records did much better at the polls than lower rated opponents. In close in contested Senate elections where both candidates had Ada scores the average for winning candidates was 53.5 percent their losing opponents averaged 18 percent the group said in a statement. Dod studying soviet environmental problems by Cox Neslee Washington the Pentagon wants to find out All it can about the Way the soviets Deal with Environ mental problems and won t say Why. In an announcement placed in the government publication. Commerce business daily the defense department Las month said it had contracted with a Glascow Scotland think tank to Analyse soviet environmental Protection needs. I doubt this is something we re going to talk to you about said it. Cmdr. Chris Bauman defense department spokesman. The Pentagon announcement appeared on dec. 19, the last Day of a visit to Washington by Yuri Uriel the top soviet environmental Protection official who conferred with environmental Protection a Jency administrator Lee Thomas and other , officials on bilateral environmental initiatives. The Pentagon announcement said the study would involve the following tasks identify and assess the framework of goats established by the soviets to be achieved with environmental Protection programs. Identify and assess essential priorities. Identify and assess the technologies employed in the Union of soviet socialist republics for key Indica Tor functions and associated costs. Establish he scope of required applications for environmental Protection measures the costs that May be required and where the applications should occur to provide the most Benefit to soviet society including economic defense and population considerations. The announcement said the study was commissioned by a policy assessment office within the office of the Secretary of defense. It said the government intended to engage the Institute of soviet and East european studies of Glasgow University to do the study you d be surprised at inc different studies we do on the soviet Union Bauman said last week. A first glance these things Don t seem like they have anything to do with defense by if you think about it a Little they have a lot to do with  he said he knew nothing about a soviet Environ mental Protection study but would refer questions to the soviet Union desk of the Pentagon press office. Although contacted a second time the soviet Union desk did not respond to questions. As chairman of the .s.r. Committee for Hydro meteorology and control of uie natural environment Izrael is his country s top environmental official. Following several Days of meetings Between an Izrael headed delegation of soviet scientists and officials of the Epa the National aeronautics and space administration the National oceanic and atmospheric administration and the department of Energy the soviet official and Thomas announced a series of joint environmental research initiatives. Included were information exchanges on Industrial pollution of lakes Michigan and Baykal a joint oceanographic cruise on a soviet research vessel studies of predicted world climate changes because of the Green House effect and depletion of stratospheric Ozone. . And soviet officials have held joint Environ mental meetings sometimes several times a year since adopting 31972 bilateral agree men on environmental Protection