European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 24, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 28 the stars and stripes saturday october 24,1987 Safe chief Calls of family oriented from Page 1 View. If i let s say i m not in the Mili tary i m in the business world. I have two people equally qualified. One has wife the other docs not have a wife. I am in the position of hiring Sheperson who brings the most to the Job and that includes being Able to take car of those responsibilities and those activities that relate to family life while they re in the air  that docs not mean the service expects people to bring their spouses to the Job. Kirk said. But the air Force like american society in general has Community needs and organizations to meet the needs. Unlike stateside communities the air Force does not have a stable Popula Tion base. And that increases the importance of family members. Because we Are transients and Wedon t have the advantage of having peo ple stay in a Community and kind of manage things we Don t have that corporate knowledge memory and roots within the Community he said. So that task has through the years been kind of relegated to the commander s wife news briefs sharing headlines with family issues arc current discussions Between the untied states and the soviet Union on intermediate Range nuclear weapon from Europe. That Prospect increases the importance of the conventional forces of nato allies. Ii Means that we All must be better sooner conventionally because we won t have All of the in theater nuclear asset that we have had before to fall Back  Kirk said. That does t mean that Wedon t have nuclear capability in theater. So we Are still Able to respond Tony sort of s nuclear attack. But it Don mean that in conventional role we need to work bet Ter. We need belter equipment.  to i believe rethink the conventional parts of our War fighting capability and we re in the process of doing  if thrust into a conventional War now Kirk believes nato would do very Well  i believe that if you look at the ,1 he said. If you look at the Over whelming superiority in terms of num Bers one could draw the conclusion that it would be a matter of Days before we would need to escalate to nuclear weapons for our defense the recent events in the persian Gulf and the threat of further retaliations by Iran have had an effect on Safe s operations. Kirk also said. Yes on a Day to Day routine basis reassess the situation from across the Board he said. And needless to say when the . Navy attacked those two Oil producing platforms and the Ayalon Lah Ruhollah Khomeini then made a whole Bunch of threats of course we re Spond to that. We work very closely with the Host nation police in All of the countries where . Service members Are stationed. In terms of retaliation from the Ayatollah 1 Don t know what he has Avail Able to Bim other than increased terrorist  Kirk supports . Policy in the Gulf  Ayatollah is a very sick Man he s ing to die Kirk said. When he Doe there will be a Power shift is it in the Best interest of this country to allow that to move into the soviet Camp the answer is obviously  issues aside Kirk has been impressed with the Quality of life improvements he s seen since his last assignment with Safe headquarter from 1982 to 1985. He also gave High Marks to the people charged with carry ing out Safe s Mission. The most exciting thing about our air Force today is the people he said. The motivation you can feel it. The patriotism. The wave of rebirth of patriotism in our Young people today is  but Kirk acknowledged there Are problems. Our challenges Are going to be to keep those people programs Quality of life efforts going on a reduced budget he said. Kirk wants his legacy As Safe com Mander to be one of improvements in operations and Quality of life i want them to be Able to say that our War fighting Cap Billy has improved. Rework better and More in an integrated fashion with our nato allies. I would really like to be remembered As a Guy who improved creature comforts Quality of life i think i can do that i can t make it perfect but it can be better when leave than it was when 1 got  Reagan refuses to drop ski As Summit condition Washington president Reagan re fused to Back Down on his Star wars plan Friday after it became a Roadblock to a superpower sum Mit for signing a nuclear missile treaty. After two Days of talks in Moscow Secretary of state George Shultz said that soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev said he was not prepared to visit the United slates soon unless the United Stales changed its stand on the missile defense  sudden setback in Summit planning caught White House officials by Surprise. Presidential spokesman Marlin Fitzwater said it raises a lot of hard questions about his Gorba Chev s intentions and  Iran warned of High Cost of attacking Gulf shipping Washington a defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger Friday said there will be a High Cost to Iran if that nation continues to attack Gulf shipping. Weinberger s statement to the Senate foreign relations committee echoed a comment made by president Reagan in his news conference thursday evening when lie hinted at new Mili tary action against  also refused to say How Long the . Wilt keep up its policy of Reft agting 11 Kuwait tankers and protecting them with Navy convoys. Pilot from Page 1 seen and no signal has been detected from the Pilot personal radio Beacon attached to his clothing. In emergencies such beacons periodically transmit Aradio signal to guide rescuers to the wearer. What happened to the Pilot is a mystery the Royal air Force said Friday. We can Only assume a problem occurred and he was forced to eject leaving he plane continuing to Fly out Over the  the company is  Godden nor anyone else can understand Why the Pilot got out of the apparently healthy factory fresh $23 million air plane sending the Jet on an unmanned hour Long 300rnph Light this is what we can t understand Godden said in a Telephone interview from the company s Kingston Headquarters. It goes against the Grain of everything he said the answers to the questions lie with Cit Herthe Pilot or the wreckage. Air traffic controllers watching the plane on radar alerted the company after they noticed the plane Leav ing its intended flight path about 50 minutes after its 5bm, Takeoff from the company s factory Airfield at unfold in Southwest England Godden said. The were unable to make radio Contact with the plane. About 20 minutes later controllers from Shannon Ireland watching the errant Jet on radar sent a passing . Air Force c-5 transport plane to the harrier flight path. Capt. Jerry Brunz the co Pilot of the transport plane said his Crew first tried to reach the harrier on several radio frequencies with no Luck. He said the harrier was flying behind the transport plane on a parallel course about 80 Miles off its right Wing. Brun spoke to the stars and stripes by Telephone from Dover , air traffic controllers asked the transport plane to change course to get to a Point where the Crew could Sec the harrier. Brunz whose Crew is from tra vis fab calif., said they got within about 1,000 feet of the Jet. He said he and the is Pilot noticed something wrong right away. We both realized the canopy was missing an there was no  the ejection seat also was , who videotaped the harrier s flight said they flew alongside the air plane until it appeared to los Power Ana lost Altitude. He said it looked like the plane ran out of  ministry of defense spokesman said the is which look off from Raf Mildenhall an hour earlier followed the harrier for about an hour before flying on to Dover fab  harrier crashed into the Ocean about 7 p.m., Godden  said Scott was doing a routine lest Light Over a military training Range at nearby Bosco Mcdown he said the flight was to test High level handling which could involve  answer to the plane s pilotless flight May be in its original design said flight it Geoff Hammett a spokes Man for the rats main harrier base at Raf Wittering England. He said the harrier is inherently  s quite Normal for older aircraft to remain in straight and level flight unless someone plays with the controls he said. The or. My 5, a sister plane to the . Marine corps avg is the newest version of the harrier Verti Cal Short Takeoff and Landing Jet the tint harrier fastest flown 27 years ago wednesday. This air plane was in its final phases of Lesting before being delivered tothe Raf which accepted its first or. My 5 from the company in August. Reagan from Page 1 figure represents a $73 billion decline from 1221 billion last year. Commenting Hal he tumultuous events of the previous four Days were cause for concern but there is also cause for action the president said that he had chosen Nicholas f. Brady an in vestment banker who served briefly As a Republican senator from new Jersey in1982, to head a three Man task Force to investigate the operations of the major Security exchanges. Regan appeared composed and even cheerful despite the crisis atmosphere that has prevailed since the Dow Jones Industrial average plummeted More than 500 Points on monday. He began with a joke idling the reporters who had been clamouring for a news conference for months that it stems like yesterday when he last met them. Nor did his partisan instincts appear to have been dulled. He attempted to Shin most of the blame for the deficit and by implication for the Market Cri Sis to the democrats in Congress wit the comment that the Congress is the one that s in command of the budget making process. He also appealed to democrats who have favored restrictive Trade legislation to join with him in withstanding any tendency toward protectionism. Under tremendous pressure from democrats in Congress from Wall Street from foreign governments and even from senior figures in his own party the president yielded ground that was at least symbolically important. In a statement issued while the markets were still open he agreed to meet Capitol Hill Leaden with no preconditions not even his own often slated opposition Tom increases of any kind. I m putting everything on the table Wilh the exception of social Security with no other preconditions. And i Callon the leaders of Congress 10 do the same he said at the news conference thursday night. The inability of Reagan and in democratic controlled Congress to Deal with the deficit has been cited alone reason for the convulsions grip Ping Wall Street. Initial reaction in Congress suggested that the president s Concession was being taken seriously. One democratic senator said he really seems ready to Deal and we Are  several other Democrat said they were impressed by a statement by Baker who told the economic club of new York thursday that because of the financial crisis Reagan is witling to Paya Price of some sort to restore a basis for a bipartisan approach on  recently As wednesday evening Reagan said i cautiously in the vie of financial experts that the crisis seemed to be  Al his news conference thurs Day night Why you changed your tune on tax increases after us Wall Street crisis Reagan did not respond  said he hid proposed to Congress a budget that included $22 billion Worth of additional revenues without increased  he added i am going 10 meet with the leaders of the Senate because itis High time after about six and a half years of trying on my part to bring Down the deficit. Reagan said he would listen to con Gressional proposals including Loose for increased taxes. Bui i expect them to listen to what 1 have in mind he added