European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 21, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Saturday feb,uary21, 1987 the stars and stripes Page 3 Gao estimates arms buildup Cost $750 billion needed excluding ski Washington at1 tin Evnia Gnu will need if 50 billion to Pai for All the do ens of prop Rami and weapons started and proposal As part of reside in Reagan s defense buildup to general accounting office estimated thursday. That total is aside from Reagan s Star wars Effort aimed at developing a High tech defense against nuclear ii tack and which could co it billions of dollars More he congressional wait dog Agency said. Congress must make difficult choices in deciding what in buy. Said comptroller Charles Hows her head of the Gao. As lie testified to the Senate armed serv ices commutes. I think it s the biggest single Issue Hiu re  Llu usher told committee i in bars As he discussed the defense budget. After granting Large defense spending increases during Reagan s first term Congress has essentially Frozen the de sense budget for the past iwo years. The administration wants a 7.7 percent in crease for the fiscal year starting oct. I to a total of s312 billion. During Reagan s first icon the Mili tary services made Down payments on a number of major weapons including new ships for the Navy new helicopters and tanks for the army a variety of new planes for the air Force and new nuclear weapons historically of Many weapon sys tems have been started or proposed for the limited funding available and often the Cost Asti mails for inc systems have been Overly optimistic said Bowsher this combination too Many pro Grams and optimistic Cost estimating has produced the much discussed Bow wave phenomenon where future funding requirements outstrip funding availability he told inc panel. Flow scr s estimate did not include a figure for Star wars known formally As the strategic defense initiative. Reagan announced the ski program four years ago and it has grown into the largest research program in the Pentagon budget. Administration officials have refused to predict what it might Cost to actually build and deploy a Star wars defense hut estimates by private groups and for Mer government officials have been As High As $ i trillion. In addition to planning purchases of new weapons the Pentagon also will need Large budgets to pay for the Upkeep of systems bought in the first half of this decade said Bowsher. The questions of whether we can sup port the capital assets we have acquired and whether adequate funds will be available to maintain readiness and improve sustainability will be Paramount As we proceed into the last half of the 19kos and look Forward to the 1990s," he said. Suicide Rote for Young . Men up 50% in decode  a Young american men Between 15 and 24 Are killing them selves at a rate 50 percent higher than u decade earlier according to a new Feder Al government study. Between 970 and 19sq, inc suicide Rale for older teen agers and you Rig adults both male and female Rose 40 percent the National centers for disease control reported thursday. The increase was fuelled by a 50 per cent jump in inc rate for Young men 15 24, while inc suicide rate for Young women increased just percent in the . Attacks rights abuses in s. Africa Geneva. Swizer latin Al the United stains is Nett pm a Reso Jurion to the . Lunian rights comr Nissin condemning a dramatic escalation of human rights abuse in Sneh Africa and urging Freedom for All political prisoners including new in maj Iola. . Head Delegate a Robert Wallach told reporters the move is part of a continuing Effort to press South Africa for change and avoid a process of self destruction in South Africa he introduced the measure thursday. The draft a sweeping attack on Ilc while lit government s policies is the first on South Africa that the United states has put to the commission. The panel is currently in its annual six neck session. The United slates voted against past resolutions on South Africa in the . Panel because they were often inflammatory Waluch said. The . Draft Calls for an end to the state of emergency imposed last june dismantling the apartheid system of racial segregation and lifting bans on Polit ical organizations. It condemns official Emlem a against unarmed demonstrators and widespread jailing of children. Same decade the Agency said. A total of 49,496 americans Between 15 and 24 committed suicide in the 1970-1980 period. The Rale for males Rose from 13,5 to 20.2 per 100,000, com pared Wilh an increase from 4.2 o 4.3 for females. Why the trends arc increasing. Here s no real answer said cd re searcher James mercy. Researchers have speculated that increasing family break  drug abuse dwindling Job and educational opportunities or the greater availability of guns could be factors he said. The most common method of youth suicide in 1980 for both sexes was a gun the cd said in its weekly report a dec Ade earlier Mast Young female suicides occurred by poisoning while Moil of the Young male suicides shot themselves. Overall suicide rates for people be tween 15 and 24 fell from 12.3 per 100,000 in i9so to 11.9 in 1983, then increased to 12.5 in 1984, the latest year for which statistics arc available mercy said. It May be going Back up but we need to look at these rates Over he Long term he said. Although suicide rates for both Young White and Black males Rose Between 1970 and 1980, Whites had inc higher Rale thursday s report noted. Suicide rates for Young females while and Black remained relatively stable the cd said. The cd said More research is needed to explain the increased suicide trend among while males and to develop and evaluate effective ways to prevent these  we need to know what arc the risk factors factors that can be manipulated or changed mercy said. That re search 1 would put at High  Arch Ford of Oxford Energy co West Ley calif., mantis atop hi1 world s largest untiring efforts pile of used tires which his company soon plans la cum into electric Power. The tires a photo Hill be burned while mid Chiu Rcd la in erg under a in � process. . Moslem official ends Effort to free hostages Warnaca. 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