European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 8, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday Ocio Berb 1987 the stars and stripes 12-warhead Trident 2 to be tested Washington not the Pentagon plans 10 test he Navy s new Trident 2 missile with 12 warheads this year despite Strong concern in the administration and con Gress that such Icsis could complicate arms control talks with the soviet Union and hamper military planning. Until last month when it was tested with 10 warheads the missile had never been tested with More than eight administration officials said tuesday. The officials said a test involving 12 warheads is scheduled for november. They said defense Secretary Caspar w. Weinberger had pushed for the tests despite misgivings in the joint chiefs Oft Artand the state department. Some members of Congress have also urged that the tests not go Forward but supporters of Weinberger s action said the tests Are needed to keep the Trident 2 program on track. There arc two main concerns Al the heart of the debate. One ii whether the test would trip Lisle a task of trying to wort out a treaty with the soviet Union on Long Range arms. The other is whether Telesi i would limit the Navy s flexibility in planning its strategic nuclear forces. Under previous strategic arms agreements each Type of missile is counted As having the maximum number of warheads that it has Ever been tested with. If a missile is tested with eight warheads for example All missiles of that Type Are counted As having eight warheads. The russians have insisted in the Geneva arms talks that a similar Rule be included in a new treaty on Long Range arms the United states has so fur refused. According to current plans some Trident 2s Are to carry eight new mk-5 warheads while others will carry 12 smaller less powerful mk-4 warheads. The current debate centers on whether it is Wise to proceed with a test program for the version of the missile that carries the smaller warheads. Some critics in the administration say there is no technical need to carry out tests with More than eight warheads now because this version of the missile is not to be deployed unit1 the Early 1990s. They say such tests should be Deled until the Issue has been worked out in the Geneva ? is talks. Critics also assert that the tests May create a More far reaching problem. If a future administration decides to agree to the counting Rule used in past strategic arms treaties All the Navy s Trident 2s would be. Counted As having 12 warheads. This would Force the Navy to Cut Back on the number of Trident missile carrying submarines that it could  is a special worry for the critics because submarines Are regarded As the most survivable Clement of the . Nuclear  of Weinberger reject such charges. They say lh.1t he counting Rule is a vestige of the in ratified Strate Gic arms treaty of 1979, the so called Salt ii Accord which they oppose. They say the United slates should not let procedures spelled out in past agreements stand in the Way of important strategic  Salt ii Rule Dors not apply As far As we Are concerned said Fred Hoffman the chief Pentagon spokesman who added thai the Pentagon wants to count soviet warheads through on site inspections. In the september lest a Tridcnl-2 missile carried nine Dummy mk-4 warheads and a package of instruments. Under the 1979 treaty such a lest is counted As involving 10 warheads. La considering truck ban in fight against smog los Angeles a air Quality officials in the nation s smog Giest Region Are considering banking trucks from freeways during Rush hour saying that could reduce pollution Road congestion and traffic jams. Armed with new legislation the South coast air Quality management District is also considering Lough new rules on diesel fuel and May require the use of such clean burning fuels As methanol in some cases. But it is the possible prohibition on truck traffic during Peak periods Gener ally considered to be 6 . To 9 . And 4 . To 7 ., that is attracting the most attention. Critics said such a ban in the four coun ties served by the sir Quality District Losangeles Orange Riverside and san Ber Nardino would disrupt the schedules of manufacturers wholesalers and retailers. Nonetheless District spokesman Gene Fisher said his Agency intends within year to implement All of the Steps permitted by the legislation signed by gov. George Deukmejian. The District said it May be next sep tember before the Agency will be Able to worst Urban areas for air pollution Providence a i Carbon monoxide Ozone greater connect Philadelphia Sacramento Cal. Provo Orem Utah Fresno it Verat  los Angeles Long Beach Cak san la f h Pawn la j a Diego Raleigh Durham , Atlantic . Chicane tritium graphic be Ufa .  pm Tilon Naginey finish its Impact study held Public hear Ings and Issue an order. During the 1984 olympic games in los Angeles in order to prevent giant traffic jams truck traffic was barred from certain portions of the Region at Peak periods and commuters were urged to share rides or alter work  result was relatively free flowing traffic. There was a 3 percent reduction in traffic during Rush hours and it resulted in a 10 percent plus improvement in air Uili to said Ronald pc Cham a spokesman for the air Quality management i slice the reason was thai vehicles were moving faster and burning fuel More efficiently. They were spending less time stuck in tray but Banning trucks during certain periods will affect far More than Iru Kors said Karen Rasmussen of the Californi trucking association. This is not a trucking problem so Youcan t have a trucking solution without the cooperation of every user of that service she said. The legislation also would permit the District to impose Lough new rules on diesel fuel and to require some vehicles to Burn methanol Al certain periods. Veterans end Case in Challenge to $10 fee limit san Francisco a a veterans group that wants lawyers not social workers to represent their radiation exposure claims wound up its Case tuesday with testimony by a decorated former Marine who participated in a 1953 nuclear test and later contracted lung cancer. Reason warehime 61, fielded questions from a Justice department lawyer defending the is64 Law thai prohibits veterans from paying lawyer More than $10 to handle Benefit claims before the veterans administration. The a which was to begin its Case wednesday will seek to show that its system works fairly with representation from veterans service groups rather than lawyers and thai radiation claims have been almost uniformly denied because exposure was Loo Low to cause injury . District judge Marilyn Hall Paul must decide whether the inability to hire a lawyer thwarts veterans rights to benefits for service connected radiation injuries. Patch overturned the 110 fee limit in 1984 but was reversed by the supreme court which left room for a More modest Challenge limited to veterans with Complex cases. Warehime s testimony ended a Case on behalf of about 5,000 veterans who took pan in . Atmospheric nuclear tests or served in the occupation of Hiroshima and Nagasaki after world War ii. He said he led his 50-Man unit on a straight path to a designated target area within 600 Yards of ground Zero shortly after the Nevada atomic explosion known As shot Simon. In denying his disability claims since 1979. The a has maintained that he followed a circular path and never got closer than 1,500 Yards. Speaking to reporters after his testimony warehime said the government never checked the health of Veter ans who took pan in the test. Warehime said he was diagnosed with lung cancer in 1982, is partly Blind in one Eye and suffers from painful Back and Bone conditions. The a pays him $671 a month for 60 percent disability it attributes to wounds he suffered in world War ii and Korea but has denied him a 100 percent disability claim for radiation which would raise his benefits to s1,475 a month. He claims he got an elaborate runaround from the a Over several decades As he developed symptoms associated with radiation poisoning. Other witnesses for the plaintiffs said the government repeatedly changed its account of the 1953 Nevada test giving varying estimates of the dosage to which warehime and his men were exposed and inc route they followed. A physicist testifying for the veterans estimated that Ware Hime got about 10 times As much radiation As the govern ment said he did. Bush says Bieber s playing politics Over joke by the associated Preti vice president George Bush charge tuesday that United Auto workers president Owen Bieber was playing a Little bit of politics by accusing Bush of of fending american workers. I have Confidence in the american worker Bush said As questions resurfaced at Home about his off hand remark which he says was intended As a joke last week in Brussels Belgium regarding the High qual Ity work of soviet Lank mechanics. Bush told reporters he was trying to make a Point about the. Workmanship demonstrated by the soviet mechanics. Bush h is met with nato ministers in Brussels last Friday and told reporters about recent successful soviet tank a Nevers and added when those mechanics. Run out of work in the soviet Union Send them to Detroit because we could use that kind of  Bieber criticized the comment and said Bush had besmirched the reputation of american workers. Asked about the incident. Bush said Bieber was trying to make a Little bit of politics out of  in a Brief Exchange with reporters Bush acknowledged the remark had been unfortunate but again denied any in sult hid been intended. Later As Bush flew from Des Monics to Waterloo Campaign aides aboard air Force two circulated a photocopied item from the Detroit free press maintaining there had been no Ria reaction in de troit to the vice president s comments. According to what the newspaper de scribed As a non Scien lift Reader Opin Ion feature roughly 88 percent of 679 people who called the paper said the were not offended while 12 percent said they Felt Hurt by the remark. Bush was in Iowa to resume the Low to the ground Campaign intended to put him in close Contact with voters a Sirac by adapted by his staff in the Wake of his third place finish in a poll of Iowa re publican activists last month. At Columbus High school in Waterloo. Bush sidestepped a student s query about whether he is More qualified than Senate minority under Bob Dole of Kansas to be president. I m going to live by the so called eleventh commandment Don t speak ill of another Republican " be said. Bush told the students he would favor overturning the supreme court decision legalizing abortions