European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 4, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes thursday february 4.1988 80,000 of logistics civilians face furlough in budget bind stateside Washington air Force officials say but Luji t cuts will leave them no Choice bul to furlough More than 80,000 civilian employees of the service s logistics come. I be sat a terrible problem and i m trying to solve it to the Hwy of my ability Gen. Alfred Hancin said tuesday after briefing lawmakers on the furlough plan. Hansen has requested Nul Hority to impose furloughs of up to 10 Days on the 82,500 workers this year. He said the employees arc probably facing furloughs of about us Days bul there is no guarantee the. Temporary Layo twill delimited to that i m going Loiry to minimize it said  if i can have it less than six Days 1 most assuredly will the air Force a approved 1he furlough plan to help Deal with a shortfall Between what the logistics come requested and what was approved in the Federal budget the Logis Lles come is responsible for transporting air Force supplies As web As repairing and maintaining equip to Cut. Aerospace firm to Lay off 3,000 Redondo Beach. Calif. A try inc., fac ing cancellation of a secret military satellite project said it intends to Lay off As Many As 3.000 employees at its space and defense unit there has been speculation that try would reduce its payroll because of cuts in defense spending. 1 he Liming and Ciment of inc layoffs were announced ear Lier this week when a memorandum signed by . Dunford a try executive vice president was posted for employees. The aerospace company already had Frozen a maj Here and withdrawn Job olters that Hnin t been accepted by prospective employees the memo said. Even though final decisions have no been made Uncertain classified programs we believe the most severe personnel reduction possible would be 10 per cent of our 3d.ooo employment base in the canine months Dunford said in his memo adding that he could not discuss Eurlain programs for Security Tea sons. The defense cuts indie at inc if Force has Termi Nalcy inc Kh-12 satellite program according to John Pike an expert in classified military Spac programs at the federation of american scientists in Washington . The Kh-12 is a  satellite whose Mission is to Circle Earth in Low orbit to obtain High detail intelligence photographs. Pike said. The satellite was designed to be refuelled by military space shuttles launched from Vandenburg fab on the California coast. However the Vandenberg shuttle launch program has been indefinitely postponed As a result of the challenger explosion two years ago. Try is Basurt in Cleveland but has extensive space operations in Southern California. A new dimension in computers it s Only natural unit the Ntxo step for computer makers would be 13-d sown image. Dwell Speed digital Nur a celtic specialist  the digital equipment Corn s vast Talon 8000 workstation unveiled tues Day in Ballon. The workstation developed jointly by digital hid Evans & Sutherland computer corp. Osall Lake Gay. Processes More than 400 million calculations per second in Rota Tine the image. Republican appointed to Texas supreme court Austin Texas a gov. Bill Clem cols has appointed a fellow Republican to till a vacancy on the Texas supreme court giving the state its second gop High court Justice this Century. Judge Barbara Culver was sworn in monday by jus Tice Robert Campbell who resigned. She joins chief Justice Tom Phillips another Clements appointee m the second Republican on the nine member court. Culver 61, was elected a county judge in Midland in 196z, becoming the first woman Republican la be elected judge in the slate she has served Ai a state District fudge in Midland since March 1978. She has tiled As a gop candidate for the slate supreme court in the March 8 primary. Her Democrat opponent in november will be former . Rep. Jack High Ower. Pilot Given ticket in Texas for Landing on Highway Eastland Texas a an Arizona Man got a ticket on interstate 20 near this West Texas town in an area known As a Speed trap but the ticket was t for  Wilford of Tucson was i even diving on the Highway monday. He was flying Over it. Or at least dying to. The ticket was for what Texas department of Public safety officers described As aircraft mane vering or Landing on a Public  Wilford told officers he ran Inlo thick fog and had to land his plane in the westbound Lane of the Highway near Olden. Trooper Richard Treccy said several vehicles had to veer to seep from colliding with the Small air plane when it landed. No one was injured and everyone we ready to help after Wilford s Landing. . Has 1 St set of twins from Frozen embryo Leesburg a. Up the Fust twin born in the United stoics through inc rare Frozen embryo pro Cess were delivered tuesday at Loudoun memorial  delivery of a girl weighing 7 pounds 4 ounces and a boy weighing 8 pounds 2 ounces Wai completed at 1 30 . They were big he ally babies said Hospital spokeswoman Judy Patterson adding uial the Mother had a very Normal pregnancy and delivery. The parents who have asked to to identified Only As Peggy and will arc residents of Northern Virginia. The frown embryo in Vitro fertilization process Wai first proven successful in 198-1 and has since been used in More than 10 single baby births Hospital officials said. Tuesday s birth was the first of twins under the process. Pitt receives $4 million for transplant research Pittsburgh a the University of pills Burgh has received More than s4 million from the National institutes of health for transplant research. Thomas e. Starzl professor of surgery and a Trent Plant Pioneer said tuesday that the five year Grant will fund research to develop belter Arm merlion drugs and expand the preservation time for donor or  Grant represents a continuation of Federal support that began at Pill in 1981. During the previous funding  s research brought liver transplantation from experimental surgery to accepted i Crapy for Enfil . Crew chief May face trial for copter tampering Eltoro Calif. A a special court martial was recommended for a Marine helicopter Crew chief who Alleg edly tampered with switches to prove that pilots ignored instrument readings and hew helicopters thai should have been grounded Cpl. Kirk Hill admitted during a Mili tary hearing last Moth that he tampered with switches on a ch-j3d sea Shalhon before an oct. 26 night flight. Marine Cape. Thomas Scully the heal ing officer recommended that to torn Marine corps air station commanding offi cers order a special court martial for Hill the Corporal s civilian attorney Kevin my de Roll said monday. If tried and convicted under provi Sions of a special court martial. Hill faces a Masi Roum six months in jail. Had the recommendation been a More severe Genera court martial the penalty could have been 10 years in prison. Hill faces charges of wilful dereliction of duly intentionally trying to damage a helicopter and attempting to destroy inc National defense. Other pending charges include using marijuana and disobeying orders by placing a foreign substance into a urine Sample bottle during a Squadron drug sweep. Originally Hill was charged with endangering an Able vessel a maritime Law predating the american revolution which carries the death penalty. The charge was dropped because it applied Only to seagoing vessels Mcd Crmoil said. Cape. Bradley n. Garber prosecutor in the Case refused to comment on the recommendation. Testimony at the hearing revealed that Hill apparently switched the plugs Joy t mine parts ofic helicopter s automatic flight control system bul the change did t endanger the copter or Crew. Although pilots monitoring instruments detected the Cross connection Dur ing a preflight Check one pita a died that the Crew believed inc aircraft would Fly and inc malfunction was t reported until after a 45-minute flight