European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 28, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday. January 28, 1868 the stars and stripes Page 7 coast guard says budget cuts will Force station closures reduction in drug War Washington Iasi the coast guard says budget problems will Force ii to close nearly to installations around the nation and reduce ill War on drags Effort by 5i percent. We be got a Sion million problem ant. Paul Yost the coast guard com mandant told a congressional briefing. He and other coast guard officers said the cutbacks arc necessary because con Gress gave the transportation department Agency $105 million ins than it needs Tor fiscal 19s$, which began oct. I. They said that unless be ingress gives the Agency More operating Money some 1,059 uniformed personnel will be let go by year s end and there will be still More layoffs and closings next year. Yost said Money needed by the coast guard was diverted by Congress to help subsidize the Cost officials on Urban mass transit systems end Amtrak the federally owned passenger Railroad. Capt Mike Murtagh the coast guard s budget officer estimated there Mould be a is percent drop in patrols to prevent illegal drugs from entering the country officials said routine patrolling by air Craft and boats last year accounted for about 90 percent of the coast guard s drug seizures which netted 1,05 million pounds of marijuana and 9,464 pounds of cocaine. Facing closure Are nine coast guard stations whose main responsibility is conducting scarch and re scum missions for boaters. Yost said the stations arc the lowest use facilities but he added that does t mean they Don t save lives or interdict drugs diet. Kent Williams chief of the coast guard program division said the Agency will still be Able id meet its target of responding 10 a maritime emergency in two hours or less. He said however thai All routine air and surface search and Rescue patrols will be cancelled with the coast guard responding Only to emergency Calls. Other facilities on the chopping Block include the coast guard Mitituik in Oklahoma City okla. The maintenance and repair Yard in Baltimore vessels traffic scr if offices in new York and new Orleans 14 Small port Security and Marine safety offices and two aging Polar icebreakers. The coast guard said that its budget reductions philosophy was to Cut administrative and overhead costs first and operational muscle last. Unaffected by the aits however is the coast guard s gulfs ram executive Jet that has come under fire in the past As wasteful by the general accounting of fice the investigative Wing of Congress. In its latest look at the aircraft Gao said it costs taxpayers $ ,1?3 an hour to provide vip transportation for the commandant of coast guard the Secre tary of transportation members of con Gress and the spouses and staff of each Gao said that in the year ending last june 3 i. The $2,8 million aircraft hew for 547 hours carrying passengers 78 per cent of the time. Yost said the closings arc not targeted against any members of Congress who failed to support the coast guard s full budget request. It s an intellectually honest list he said. It s not a political  Yost said that unless Congress sup ports transferring other transportation department Money to the coast guard and approves its fiscal i9b9 budget re quest some s60 million More in Cut backs will be needed late this year. Those would Cut into the muscle and Bone More than this list he said. Williaim said the coast guard has been denied needed operating funds by con Gress for some five years but had been Able to absorb the cutbacks until now we re just really at the end of our rope he said. You can Only pull so Many rabbits out of the hat. We be run out of rabbits this year following Are installations the coast guard says will be closed because of budget problems Ceil oud Intuit Oku ism or. Oui., 1t Cau Louied Vird. . A Irp to wort. A Nett trim Forim new Vortis fld he orium. Port a Cutty Dalu Hwd acuity h.v., and hmm Moln Sim  Mort had Chr. . And. Okkie i Poltl. Ii a my. Oho me Tom wn., Brwn Ivym Taui Buckston. Shiw Cip cod my kit Wilt fun. Port i rest piano not. Mid,ntl0lai.coi Cuit Suva Bilibom blink ref no  Saoi shirt. H i  Kab so Pix. Minn a Tilhoo. Oil Ken act Wiite Kuil , Catt guard a 5litlon.chap. The coast guard also said that it will operate the stations at Bayfield wis., and Alexandria Bay . On a seasonal a ii Only and reduce staffing at its Sta Tion in Frankfort Mich. It says it will no longer operate patrols along the Coquille and rogue Rivers in Ore gon and the Klamath River in California. Slated for reduced staffing Are the Marine safety offices in Paducah by. St. Louis Pittsburgh Memphis Tenn. Green Ville miss Nashville and Cincinati. Set free pulp Wio Mike Phillip a biologist with the is. Fish and wildlife service adjusts a Collar on one of eight endangered red Emlres thai were net free in North Carolina Alligator River National wildlife ref Uge Phillips tin ids up a project to be introduce the endangered species to the wild. Marietta be sign rocket Deal Denver a a subsidiary of Martin Marietta announced it has reached an agreement with a be division to launch 15 be communications satellites on commercial Titan rocket Over the not several years. Details of the agreement were not disclosed but Richard e. Bracken president of the company s com Mercial space launch subsidiary Martin Marietta commercial Titan inc., said the contract provides significant benefits to each company. Unidentified senior company officials quoted in the Washington Post said the Deal could mean j750 million to ii billion in Revenue to the both Coda my. Based Martin Marietta. The company s astronautics group is based in Denver. Reagan administration officials praised the agreement As a Milestone in the government s Effort to privatize space launch services and said that it shows How . Companies arc using innovative Strate gics to take business away from the Trench rocket firm. Arian space and other potential International competitors such As the soviet Union and China. This is far and away the most substantial example of the . Industry s Success in signing up customers said transportation Secretary James h. Burnley. Charles a. Schmidt vice president of be Astro space division said in a Martin Marietta news release issued Here that the company is pleased to  secured a Long term launch agreement on the  certainly in terms of intent to Fly payloads on a Given launch vehicle it clearly establishes us us the , Market Leader Norman r. Augustine Martin Marietta s vice chairman and chief executive told the Washington Post. Bracken called the agreement a Benchmark order that assures commercial Titan s viability in the competitive space launch Arena. Two faced baby May live for months Miami a the parents and doctors of a baby born with two separate faces on his oversized heart shaped head  decided against taking heroic Mea sures to save the child. It s really very Clear. There s no possibility for this baby to live any meaningful life said or. Eduardo Fiane Alari head of non apology at Jackson memorial Hospital. The infant remains in an intermediate care unit at the Hospital where he was bom Friday. Bin Valari said Mon Day that the baby who is fed through a tube but needs no other life support equipment could live several months. The child is a rare variation of a siamese twin a condition that occurs once per 100,000 births when the process of division that normally results in identical twins Falls Short of completion. The boy has one face on each Side of his head. One face May cry while the other sleeps suggesting the possibility of two sets of underdeveloped drains Doc tors said. A rays showed the baby had Little brain tissue and no brain Stem said or. Charles Bauer. The body is Normal except for a Hole in its Back from a condition similar to Spina Bifid and that represents the gravest threat to the boy s life Bancalari said. An ultrasound Tecsi during the pregnancy disclosed the unusually Large head. After the birth the parents decided against heroic measures or surgeries doctors said. The parents who  three other children  not been identified. La county bans sexual activity in bathhouses los Angeles a los Angeles county supervisors tuesday outlawed sexual activity in bathhouses a move that could close a dozen such facilities that one supervisor described As Breed ing grounds for the deadly aids virus. The action came despite protests from several Bathhouse proponents who argued thai enforcement would unfairly be left to Bathhouse employees and that warnings and educational materials promoting Safe sex practices arc already available at the places. The guidelines approved 4-0, order the county health department to Amend the health code making it a mis Demea nor punishable by a minimum of six months in jail and a 11,000 Tine to oper ate a Bathhouse that allows its patrons to engage in sexual activity. The department also can shut Down commercial establishments allowing High risk sexual behaviour. The county s 12 bathhouses All in the City of los an Geles Cater largely to homosexual men. County health director Robert c. Gates said the new rules would be enforced immediately with the possible use of under cover Mccuis As Well As health inspectors a similar move to shutdown bathhouses last year was rejected by Superior court judge John l Cole but gales said advanced medical knowledge about aids and the growing conviction within the Community thai bathhouses play a role in spreading it make it less Likely tuesday s action would be overturned in court. Bathhouse owner Gofter who said he is a bisexual father of four Testi fied that be has frequented bathhouses for 10 years but the overwhelming number of encounters Are fraternal rather than  rabbi Allen Fri Ehlig chairman of the county commission on aids told the supervisors that a study funded by Bathhouse owners showed that although 97 percent of those interviewed acknowledged thai information about the transmission of acquired immune deficiency syndrome was Avail Able Al bathhouses 30 percent continued to practice unsafe sex