European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 5, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 24 the stars and stripes thursday february 5,1987 senator urges retention of new go Bill by Chuck Vinch tool than inc leap he added. Bui Matsunaka s remark is at the Core the new i Bill primarily As a ready v1nc Washington Bureau Washington making the new i Bill permanent is absolutely imperative if the military services Are to continue to attract High Quality recruit into the 1990s, sen. Tom Daschle d-s.d.,told the Senate veterans affairs Corn i lice wednesday. Daschle testified in support of legis lation that would scrap the planned expiration Date of the educational program which is in the midst of a three year test scheduled to end in july 1988. There is virtual unanimity among witnesses who have testified on this subject that the veterans educational assist Ance program has been a disaster Daschle said.  clearly prefer the new i Bill signing up for the program at twice the rate of the leap he Laid. The new go Bill also is More Cost effective and is a better recruiting and retention Pilj is Brit h too Daschle found no argument Amon the various witnesses from the veterans administration inc services and the de sense department As to the effectiveness of the new go Bill. The office of management and Bud get had been the Lone dissenter arguing thai because recruiting and retention ales Are High the military services should Slick with the less expensive eap. But after lawmakers in both the House and Senate expressed Strong support for the new go Bill the bomb dropped it opposition to the program we need not perpetuate any More uncertainty about the future of the new go Bill said sen. Spark Matsunaga a Hawaii. It is a valuable readjustment tool for service members re to luring civilian life and a prudent instrument to use in improving inc country s  by Matsunaga of a current debate entering on the new i Bill is it primarily a recruiting an retention tool As the services argue or is it a readjustment tool that places skilled experienced workers in the civilian econ omy after they leave Active duty the veterans administration an most lawmakers subscribe to the latter View. The a currently is responsible forthe program and . Vote chief Bene fits administrator for the a said i should remain that Way. La would be much easier for he Vato manage the program if we retain both funding and administrative control he testified. Rep. . Sonny Montgomery p-miss., who has introduced similar legis lation in the House to make he new of Bill permanent favors leaving the a in charge of the program. A House veterans affairs committee spokesman said Montgomery thinks of the readjust ment tool for service member leaving Active duly with recruiting and retention being the program secondary Rote. Pentagon officials take the opposite  believe the new g Bill has Ihu potential to be an effective recruiting incentive Chapman Cox assistant score Lary of defense for Force management and personnel said. But 10 fit into the Overall context of the Dod recruiting program we believe in should be More of a targeted  said the Pentagon soon will sub Mit a legislative proposal thai would re Structure the Basic Benefit to tie it to length of military service and Transfer funding of the Basic Benefit from the a to  both policy and fiscal responsibility for the new a Bill with the defens department will permit a concentrated approach to the use of educational benefits which emphasizes their effectiveness a a recruiting incentive Cox said. Polish Coal mine blast kills at least 17, injures 20 Warsaw Poland a an explosion of methane Gas Tore through a Coal mine in South Ern Poland wednesday killing 17 miners an injuring 20, officials said. The Accident occurred in my Lowice a Tow near the Southern City of Katowice said Andrzej Zajane an official with the mining  were 17 people killed and 20 arc in hos  Zajac said. According to doctors Opin ions there is no threat to their the i cured  Zajac said the blast occurred at 5 30  1.650 feel into the Shaft. He said 64 min ers were in the Shaft when the explosion occurred and All had been accounted for. Caterpillar Sticks to plan to close scottish Plant peor1a, Iii. A Caterpillar inc. Advise the British government tuesday in will not change its mid about closing a factory in Scot land and urged workers occupying the Plant to return it to Normal  takeover began Jan. 14. The Day the Peoria based manufacturer of Earth moving machinery announced it would close the facility probably in i9ss. Almost All of inc Plant s 1.200employees Are involved in the cd ipalion officials  president Peler Donis in a letter to scottish Secretary Malcolm Rifkind said after reviewing the decision the company has no Choice but to continue with plans to close the Plant. We have looked again at Caterpillar s world wide manufacturing capacity needs and fore casts for future production As Well As the eco nomic and practical alternatives Donis said. Perle says he s staying for foreseeable future Washington a assistant defens Secretary Richard n. Perle one of he administration s most consistent hard liners on arms control said wednesday he has no plans to re  m Here for the foreseeable future Perle Loid reporters but he declined to say whether he planned to stay in his Post for the remaining two years of the Reagan administration. When i ready to leave i say  there have been Penis enl reports that Perle an often controversial figure because of his bluntly stated hard line views planned to leave inc administration soon. He has been an influential policy maker in the position of assistant Secretary for International Security. On tuesday White House spokesman Marlin Fitzmaier acknowledged there was open speculation around town that Perle Wai poised to resign. But Fitzwater said the while House had received no official word Ihal he Wii leaving. Shultz says deploying Star wars would violate pact with soviets Washington up1 Secretary of stale Georges Hull warned Congress thai deployment of the Star wars missile defense system would violate a key arms control treaty with the soviets Shultz s statements tuesday before the Senate armed services committee put him in apparent conflict with defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger who along with other arms advisers has pressed president Reagan for a Quick deployment of an initial stage of the strategic defense initiative anti missile system. Reagan met with Shultz Weinberger and other advisers tuesday to discuss deployment of sd1 also known As Star  however a while House spokesman said Reagan did not make a decision at the , testifying before the Senate armed services committee said tuesday thai certain kind of deployment of defensive systems would not be consist ent with a 1972 anti ballistic missile treaty Wiki the soviet Union. Shultz said research into Star wars in conducted presumably in the Hope Well find a positive answer of whether such a system could work. Once armed wit the answer he said then we should consider whether or not to  also played Down hit apparent policy split with  differences Between us he said Are usually  marines from Page 1 Nimitz and a second amphibious group of about 1,900marines were now steaming on a routine patrol Pat Tern in the Southeastern Mediterranean South of Cyprus and relatively close la the coast of Lebanon. They declined to say How close to the coastline the ships were operating. The Force consists of 22 warships plus three amphibious Landing vessels with the marines. The group that left Spain tuesday adds five ships to the Force Sims and other sources continued to stress that the Battle groups had received no orders to prepare for any military operation. One official said the Kenned would probably be allowed to pay a port Call to Haifa Israel Over the  of Pur ships Are entirely precautionary in nature Sims  represent prudent stationing of our forces where they would provide the greatest Opportunity forthe president to exercise whatever option he wished. They arc not there As a threat to anyone certainly Notas a threat to anyone who is acting in a civilised  earlier an administration source indicated the Pentagon wanted the Navy s 6th Fleet forces deployed to the Eastern Mediterranean in cast the situation in Leb anon deteriorated and american hostages were killed. The source declined however to discuss what military options could be pursued if that occurred. Seib from Page 1 for granted until the Wall Street journal Tell us he definitely been  Seib 30, was among a group of 57 foreign reporter who visited Iran at the inv Iarion of the iranian government last week Irna said the reporters had Bee invited to file reports of new iranian victories in the War against Iraq. Seib had been in Tehran 10 Day when he was seize outside his hotel saturday and accused of beings spy of the zionist  Tehran radio on monday alleged Seib entered in country with a false passport and was disguised at a  said in a Tehran radio interview wednesday that Seib was engaged in certain investigations an collecting intelligence at the front after being questioned the Issue has been clarified Musavi said Seib has been a journal reporter since 1971, an has covered the Middle East from Cairo fince 1985. Terrorists from Page 1 the red army faction emissaries also Are offering cooperation with the French terrorists the newspaper raid. In said the kidnapping of two germans in Beirut Leb anon in connection with the arrest in Frankfurt of an Arab wanted on a hijacking charge in the United state shows that the shiite groups virtually can take hostages at any Lime to blackmail Western  Bonn Deputy foreign minister Juergen Moelle Mann declined wednesday to comment on a pc report that he might go to the Middle East in an Effort to secure the release of Rudolf Cordet and Alfred Schmidt who were kidnapped in Beirut by Motley extremist after the Arrett in Frankfurt Jan. 13 of Mohammed Ali Hamadi. The . Justice department has asked weft Ger Many to extradite Hamadi 22, who ii accused of hijacking a Twa Airliner in i 98$ and killing a . Navy diver one of the passenger