European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 22, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes sunday. March 22.1987 nato air base defences a Chuck v1nchwas Hington Bureau Washington  a critical element of nato War Lime strategy would be tort because in Dalliance air base defences on woefully in adequate a Georgia congressman says. Nato has been extremely Remise i providing far the appropriate defense of ill air  rep. Richard Ray. D-ga., the House armed services commit tee defense policy panel Ray visited number of Alliance air bases in Europe last summer to assess base defense. The United states and its european allies Are providing nato with come of the most effective and costly tighter air Craft in the world Ray said Friday. Bui much of this investment will have been for naught if these planes can t be launched and recovered As planned from our operating bases the Issue of air base defense in the Alliance has never received much Atten Tion but the threat posed by the Inadequacy of those defences has never Bee greater Ray said. The latest soviet combat aircraft Are expected id be capable of carrying up to roughly twice their previous payload to travel Over three times their previous Range at higher speeds and to conduct operations at lower altitudes Ray said but soviet air Power is Only one aspect of the threat to Allied air bases he said. We can assume that at the beginning of hostilities the attack on nato air bases will probably be initiated by soviets Pennaz special operations Force mined in sabotage and unconventional  . Intelligence sources estimate there Are up to 100,000 soviet special forces operatives in Western Europe they would infiltrate to inflict dam age and create ground confusion and disruption Ray said. The next step might be soviet tactical missile attacks Dotti Gnad to ground Allied aircraft by creating chaos entering run ways and damaging support strictures he said. That Wil probably be followed by a increasing series of air strikes airborne As saults and conventional ground fort thrusts intent upon further damaging the air bases he said. Until now our answer to the air superiority requirement has been to rely primarily on our fighter aircraft he said. But without appropriate defences we won1 have enough time to gel our aircraft into the air to Deal with the Waves of soviet lighten and attack bombers which Willcome after the pc Snaz attacks and the tactical missile  Pentagon s primary approach to air base defense has been to request More aircraft for the offensive and defensive counter air roles while also emphasizing passive shelters camouflage concealment and base repair and recovery plans Ray said a definitive time phased program i needed to resolve the gaps in defense at . Base in Europe and the even More severe vulnerabilities at bases where . Arid Allied air forces Are co located and at Host nation civilian airports that would serve As wartime deployment tile for us forces Ray said. Such a program should Pui More emphasis on the proper mix of elements to combat inc varied threats to nato airbases he said this must include ground Security systems to Deal with the Spe Snaz threat warning radars command and control systems counter air fighter planes sur face to air missiles in an area air defens Erole passive base defences and Point air defense Ray Aid. Neglecting any on of these areas results in an Achilles Heel which makes any Progress  Dod to activate interservice transport command by William j. Batman Washington Barem Washington the Pentagon seeking to get belter grip on its transportation resources in the event of War is preparing to establish a transportation com Mand to centralize duties now handled separately by each Branch of the  plan recommended by the joint chiefs of staff needs Only the approval of defense Secretary Caspa Weinberger before it can Start in addition to replacing and incorporating the military Airlift come it also would take control of the army s military traffic management come and the Navy s seat Ift come. Officials have set april 15 As the Start up Date but said it will be about a year before the system is fully operational. The new . Trans come would be commanded by air Force Gen. Duane Cassidy the current Heads of those commands would be Coric Deputy commanders of the new organization we Are ready for activation april is Wilh a Skele ton staff not a full command said Robert Moore of the air Force s military Airlift come. The Whitehouse and Congress will still have to review this pro  unified command enables us to be ready for War Moore said. We would be better prepared to use our transport resources military and Commer Cial in addition to handling military transportation the three interdependent transport commands have control Over commercial services provided to the military such As the scheduled airlines transport offices or satos which Are jointly owned by the nation major airlines. The satos also stand ready to order commercial aircraft into military transport service Inan emergency. During peacetime Moore said the new unified command will for the i Ning. Most part be doing the plan temperatures Vikk l h latntt3i a in & a Aii i jpu.6l.pu its Ham i a Navy warns of crisis in anti submarine tactics ggbbs0" so 41 w daunt ams3 u fun Mai 37 h riu0i3 in Moo h 01 to howl m 43 ullhacmt4fl 7p beam own n swdmga40 m 4t bpokn40 Bywy 61 to euro Perm weather at Wolfl. 1muna f by ctn. 1. P Ann 4pmu 64 32 Mil fit 32 ti30 41 h 41b to cop no a. Cd. P it Multi. P fat Boron. R Vovk Haj by pm 13, Owhi tiflis set  to 13 ?  to 4d Menzul. �41 19 my. A s7 4fi Tanto. Tit 49 Vino Haw. Cd x Oil m11 36 , a Prii you of no us awoke led Tva. Or toddy i.�. I Washington up the Nav has sounded an alarm about slipping superiority in anti submarine warfare capabilities against the soviet undersea Fleet and says in has revised Long Ter plans to Deal with the crisis in response to soviet gains the Nav said this past week it has prepared a Mas Ter plan for anti submarine warfare Oraw. That will be presented later this month to the Pentagon and Congress. New initiatives that include building anew class of nuclear powered alack sub Marine called the sea Wolf must refunded to the Best of our ability even at the expense of other warfare areas Saida report by Melvyn Paisley the assistant Navy Secretary Tor research and Engi Neering. We have recognized the need in the Navy to slate ask As our leading priority for the last two budget submits velour funding profiles have failed to be significantly increased Paisley wrote in his 43-Page report. It is Lime for a  senior civilian and uniformed Nav officials from Secretary John Lehman on Down have warned increasingly Over the past several years that the ability to detect and Hunt soviet submarines has slipped dangerously since 1984 because of soviet advances in building quieter running boats. Navy officials have traced the soviet improvements to . Secrets leaked by the John Walker family and Friend Spring whose members Nave been convicted of espionage and sentenced to Long prison terms. Their disclosures to the soviets never have been made Public but were said to have caused serious damage. We arc faced with a crisis in our anti submarine warfare capability which undermines our ability to execute the Mari time  Paisley said in his report to Congress.. Maritime strategy in the event of War As expressed by Lehman places heavy Reliance on using aircraft Carrier Battle groups to bottle up the soviet Fleetin their Home ports. Moreover the More the soviets arable to enhance the silence of their mis Sile carrying submarines the More difficult it will be for . Forces to find them with attack subs and ask equipped sur face ships and patrol planes. The soviets with Ibe biggest missile sub Fleet Are building a new generation of missile boats the Delta 4  capabilities against today s threat Are adequate Paisley , the quieting achieved by the soviets in some of their newest classes of submarines will pose a serious threat to our current ask advantage. Without significantly increase attention to research and development in the ask Arena we will be confronted with a severe deficiency in oat capability to counter soviet submarines Congress authorized at least s209.4million for Navy ask research and development programs last year. The Nav has asked for $166.5 million this year $173 million for fiscal 198b and is 97,2million for fiscal 1989. In addition to those programs the Navy requested $46,1 million this year for research into a submarine sonar sys tem up from $40, 5 million last year anti aids Campaign Bonn up the West German health ministry announced Friday the beginning of an Anli ads Campaign i schools. Popovchak on his own Chicago a Walter Pontov Chak the soviet bom youth who re fused to return Home with his Parent seven Yean ago has been removed from temporary , Polovchak is no Long or Wilt receive f 28s a month in state id or periodic visits from social  1980, when he refused to return to the Ukraine Wilh his parents who had lived in a United Stales for Sev eral years the state petitioned the courts to have the youth s supervision and temporary custody handled bythe Illinois department of children find family  could have remained under state supervision until he was 21,but his attorney Julian Kulw said be saw no reason for in to  s attending school. He s been on the same Job for Over a year Kulas said after the decision by judge Philip Sheridan. He has proved himself to be reliable. He s a full fledged grown up  death sentence Monrovia Liberia a Seminary student convicted of murdering an american Mission Ary and her daughter has been sentenced to death by hanging on april 6. Benjamin Molley Morris 32, was convicted March 7 of murdering Elizabeth Senter and her 10-year-Olddaughter, Janet during an at tempted rape at their Home in no Venber. Morris was a senior at the Libe Ria Baptist Seminary in Monrovia and was supported by the Sente family who had served As Mission Aries in Liberia for the past fou years mrs. Senter was a native of Shelby