European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 2, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 24 the stars and stripes thursday april 2.10s7 i on Washington a there will. Likely be quite a tight when the full House is asked la buy two Mart aircraft camera for the Navy according to the congressman representing the District where Thi giant warships would to built. A House subcommittee tuesday voted14-0 approval of president Reagan s re quest for $644 million in the fiscal Yea starting oct. I. That Money would be the Down payment on the $7 billion the carriers Are expected finally 10 Cost. It was the first tentative decision Bihe loll a Congress on defense spending. The Vole in the Scap Ower subcommittee of the armed services committee came at several subcommittees began marking up defense budgets for their various areas. The full committee is expected to vote next week on its version sending it to the floor of the democratic controlled House later this Spring the same pro ecu Wilt later be followed in the Senate and the differing Bills that pass each chamber will be reconciled by a House Senate conference committee. Reagan sought $312 billion Tor the Pentagon which would be an increase after inflation of 3 percent but legislators at both parties say defense spend ing is Likely to remain at the current level. One of the most controversial request Sis for the Currier. Critics say the Navy cannot afford to Start two More carriers when defense budgets Are being Frozen or Cut As part of the drive to reduce Federal deficit. Rep. Herbert Bateman r-va., a Mem Ber of the sea Power subcommittee said tuesday "1 anticipate there will be quite8 fight on this when it reaches the floor. I would Hope reason will prevail and Well  rep. Charles Bennett d-fia., said hews originally Cool to the Navy s request but now thinks we need these ships. Bennett is chairman of the Shapow Espanel which is traditionally one of the strongest supporters of the Navy s re quests. Bateman represents the Newport news area of Virginia. The Newport news shipbuilding & dry Dock co. Is the Only american shipyard capable of building the giant ships. The Navy says the two carriers  enter the Fleet until the Middle of the next decade at the earliest. They would replace ships that would then be up to 45 Yean old and the total . Carrier flee would remain at 15. One Carrier the Theodore Roosevelt was recently launched at Newport news while two More the George Washington carriers and the Abraham Lincoln Are  shins which Are the largest warships bum by the United states. The Nimitz was commissioned in 1975, it is almost1,100 feet Long can sail at better than 30 Klitou and supports More than 90  carriers were among the major items approved tuesday by the panel i support of Reagan s goal of building to a 600-snip  panel also approved a number of other ships. Among them Are one Trident missile firing submarine in each of the next two fiscal years at a Cost of 11.4billion each five More fast attack sub marines in the next two fiscal years at total Cost of j3.4 billion and authorization to begin building a new Type of fast attack sub. France Lightens rules on visas for americans Stuttgart is americans May no apply for a three year French visa without a recommendation from their commercial political or cultural offices a Neucom spokesman said. The three year visa costs 31 Marks the Sam Price As a one year visa a French consulate spokesman said  applicant s passport must be valid two months beyond the requested visa s expiration  person whose passport expires in less than three years can still be issued a visa that is valid through two months before the passport expiration Date. The three Day French visa costs 6,50 Marks and the 90-Day visa costs 19 Marks. A service member can travel to France with Anid card and Neucom form 80. A service med or travelling officially needs an id card Andanto travel orders a service member on joint travel orders must carry an id card ande com form to. Family members and civil ians must have a valid passport and visa. East West Germany Swap spies Frankfurt a West Germany on wednesday swapped one of East Germany s most notorious spies for tour West German agents held by the communists the West German Adf television network said. Security sources contacted by the associate press confirmed Lothar Erwin Lutze held in a West German prison since his 1979 conviction for betraying nato secrets had been sent Back to East Germany. The sources speaking on the condition of Ano by Unity said the four West German agents were part of the planned Swap although the sources could no confirm that the East germans had set them free. Lutze who betrayed key nato contingency plans to the East bloc in the 1970s, was handed Over to East German officials at the Herte Hausen Borde crossing Adf and the sources said the sources were confirming a report earlier wednesday in the mass circulation newspaper Bild Lutze seriously compromised nato Security secrets before being arrested in 1976, and he was sentenced three years later 10 12 years in prison. Lutze and his wife Renac were exposed in a coun Ter espionage crackdown after the sensational 1974 arrest of a senior aide to then Chancellor Willy Brand for spying for East Germany. Renate Lutze who had been a Secretary to the de sense ministry s personnel chief served two years in prison before being handed Over to East Germany in a1981 spy Swap. The Lutes were found to Bave passed hundreds of highly sensitive Western defense documents to East Germany Over a four year period. The documents dealt with the nato pipeline net work in Central Europe German evaluations on the readiness of soviet led Warsaw pact forces Nat Energy use plans in a crisis and plans for a new Battle tank to be built in the 1990s. The West germans in the Exchange were two agent from the nation s counterintelligence Agency and two from the foreign intelligence service the. Sources said the agents were not identified. Bild s report was to appear in thursday s edition but was released wednesday to other news Media. Missing of Pilot identified ramste1n a Germany the a-10 Pilot miss ing after his plane disappeared monday from a rive aircraft training Mission in Norway is 1st it. Carter . Search and Rescue efforts continued wednesday for Wallen 27, of Prairie Village. Kan., said staff sgt. Linda Jacobs of the 316th air div Public affairs . Wallen is assigned to the i8lh tac fighter so a Eielson fab Alaska. He is one of 250 members or the 343rd tac fighter Wing deployed to Norway to takeout in exercise Coronet Mars. Delay from Page 1 end of next week on whether to delay the 2 percent Cut said a committee staffer. There s a great interest in making sure we Saveall the detailed information on what kind of Impact these cuts would have the staffer said. Another year would give the services the congressional budget office and the general accounting office time to Analyse the data and make recommend  the staffer said it s very unlikely that Congress would Ever rescind the requirement for a reduction in officer strength although the idea of modifying that requirement enjoys some support in the com Mittee. One modification being considered Calls for cuts Oft percent a year for the next five years rather than 2 percent in fiscal 19sb and 3 percent the next year thestal Ferraid. Although the Pentagon would rather not have tomake any cuts at All spacing the reduction out Over five years would make life easier for military personnel managers said a Pentagon official. It would allow the services to retire officer inthe oversize Vietnam Era year groups from 1967 to 1969, through natural attrition he said som people who Are beyond 20 years of service and wanted to stay on would be upset at being retired but by doing it that Way we would t have to Cut the legs out from under anyone who had t yet reached 20 years Reagan Calls for aids education with values Philadelphia a president Reagan saying he wants an All out Campaign against aids is endorsing aids education in schools As Long As it includes the teaching of sexual abstinence. I think that the particular subject should be taught in connection with values Reagan old reporters wednesday Ashe arrived at the Philadelphia Airport be fore giving his first formal statement Onai sat a medical society seminar there. And he told the pin Ladeshia College of physicians All the vaccines and medi cations in the world won t change on Basic truth that prevention is belter than cure. We be declared aids Public health enemy no. 1," the president said. And he pledged i m determined Well find a cur for ads. Well find a Way or make Reagan in his first formal speech on the aids crisis said the Federal role amounted to giving educators accurate information about the disease but supporting statements by Educa Tion Secretary William Bennett he also said the dissemination of such information must be up to the schools and the parents not  Reagan also told reporters i Don t quarrel with surgeon general a Everett Koop s advice that beyond abstinence peo ple should use protective measures i think abstinence has been lacking i much of the education Reagan said adding one thing that s been wrong with Loo much of our education is that no kind of values of right and wrong Are being taught in the education process and i think that Young people expect to hear that from adults ideas of what is right or  asked about the administration s budgetary requests for aids research and education Reagan said we have in creased the spending on that More than on anything else in the  reminded that Congress has approved aids spending at higher Levels than the administration requested Reagan replied Well the Congress is made up of Wendth  a reporter asked whether people should just say no paraphrasing the motto of first lady Nancy Reagan s Campaign against drug abuse the president replied that s a pretty Good  Reagan chose As his forum wednesday a seminar sponsored by one of the oldest j to fess Lonal medical associations in the nation. White House spokesman Martin Fitzwa Ler said there was no special strategy calling far Reagan to raise his profile on die Issue saying it just happens that the Phila Delphia event presented an appropriate set Unglo dramatize the  Fitzwater reputedly has refused to say where the president stands on aids Educa Tion in schools abstinence is. The use of con Doms and Universal aids testing among the american populace particularly among couples planning to be married. Aids or acquired immune deficiency syndrome is a contagious disease that at tacks the body s immune system rendering it incapable of resisting other diseases and infections. Health officials estimate that be tween 1 million and 1.5 million americans have been exposed to the Sims