European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 1, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse Is for More sunday Marril 1987 the stars and stripes Page 9 by Chuck Vinc Washington Bureau Washington military families should find homing More abundant if Congress approves a Pentagon plan 10 build or lease 46,332 units by 1952. Thai would leave a shortage of 11,000 unit to be dealt with Querni budget cycles Oflia Ujj the plan. Matter where our technology May Lead in the future there is Likely to be no substitute for the rational human being in the cockpit and the Large deck plat form that can Lake him virtually any -1tjn. The world he declared. Us remarks in a speech to the Lees but pkg hib in nearby Northern Virginia. An Advance text was Pentagon. The defense re quest for Fisca Broudes a $640 Mil lion Dow form on the construction powered Nimitz class car the two ships carry an estimated total Price tag of $6.9 billion and would be delivered in the late 1990s. The request has generated controversy an Capitol Hill where democratic Lead ers Are questioning whether the Navy can afford 10 launch such an expensive pro Gram at a time of huge budget deficits. Trast in defending the request said the United slates would have to build even More carriers if it wanted to be completely Safe and secure in but merits a he added. It powerful in every the the 1970s, with too few ships Loo at sea too Many people gel Ling of i Jii Navy the United states lost much lot Amu standing seagoing advantage Over the Nicl Tojun the Admiral continued today the margin of confide in our favor. By every yardstick is car hers has proved to be the right number for our requirements. Replacing those carriers thai will soon be Loo old to per form lies squarely in our National inter troll acknowledged la Navy tailed to warn Congress last year that such a Bud gel request Only by Cate Tiff Mitnow that the wave this kind of Money l Hie Newport news shipbuilding & dry Dock co., the Only Yard that ran build the huge warships is months ahead of schedule in building two other carriers that were ordered earner. This Means that if we properly plan our procurement of the two replacement earners. We will be Able to meet our minimum needs for Carrier aviation in the 21 is Century at a tremendous savings in Cost Trost said. We have an Opportunity to save s3 illion by starting the procurement pc next year s budget.1 " in the future when our nation Alt fuck As they do today in every crisis Job there Are the carriers i Hope the chem ii Igil operations of that Era won t hav we left them Back on the Board Trost said. . Allies want strict interpretation of abm treaty Brussels. Belgium up the United states has been told Many european allies want it to Slick to a strict interpretation of the 1972 anti ballistic missile treaty diplomats said Friday. Paul Nilze president Reagan s arms control adviser was reminded of the stand taken by seven West european allies United in the Western european Union after the . Strategic defense initiative is announced. Nine who was accompanied by assistant defense Secretary Richard Pyrle Lold allies this was Only a first consultation of european nato countries and a decision in this Mailer was not imminent officials said. The Western european Union includes Britain France. Germany. Italy the Netherlands Belgium and Luxembourg la was set up in 1954 to bring Germany into the Western defense Alliance. Nitze and his delegation heard similar viewpoints against broadening the interpretation of the abm treaty during visits to Germany and the Netherlands ear Lier last week. Nine had a breakfast encounter with belgian prime minister Wilfried Martens and foreign minister Lea Lindemans before going to nato Headquarters for a meeting with Allied ambassadors. The aim or the visit was to sound out european allies about a possibly More flexible interpretation of the abm treaty a Diplomat said. Belgium s viewpoint is thai live United state should Slick to a strict interpretation of the treaty. That View is in conformity with the four Point stand Laken by the we the Diplomat said. He said the Western european Union s stand was ski should not go beyond a research phase. A strict interpretation of the asm treaty should be maintained. Ski research should not result in a change of Al lied strategy. The West should not strive for military superiority Al nato the . Delegation briefed ambassador of the member states at a meeting chaired by nato Secretary general lord a Anglon on recent developments in the ski program and their relation to the abm treaty a spokesman said the . Delegation said this was an initial Consul tation and that consultations would continue the spokesman any Case they a narc it Cirar that decisions in these matters were not he did. After Brussels nit and Polc Are scheduled to visit Rome
