European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 19, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday april 19. 1988 the stars and stripes Page 5 Aspin wants b-1b upgrade halted of disputes claim bomber will be obsolete Washington api Congress should consider hailing the air Force program to upgrade the b-1b bomber because the new plane will be obsolete a key congressman said in a speech re leased sunday. We should consider no whether it s Worth spending any More Money to make inc b-1b operable Hul obsolescent said rep. Los Asp. A wis. Chairman of Ibe House armed services committee. The air Force in a statement disputed Aspin s contentions and noted that he has Long opposed the bomber. Aspin s comments were contained in a pc can which he planned to give monday on the floor of inc House. It is the latest in. A series of addresses in which Aspin is outlining the results of a lengthy investigation by his committee into new weapons begun during the Keagan presidency. The by was killed by former presi Dent Carter hut president Reagan resurrected in Sis years ago saying the nation needed to buy 100 of the swing Wing planes to replace the aging b-52s As the atomic bombers in the nation s nuclear Arsenal Reagan also gave the go ahead for development of the radar evading stealth bomber. Congress authorised 100 of the bibs at a total Cost of 120.5 billion but the air Force now says in will Cost up to s3 billion More to Fin electronic counter measures eco that will permit inc b t b to evade soviet air defences. 11 will be at least 1991 before the by b has the Al m capabilities it was supposed to have in 1996, according to Aspin. My concern is that the b-1b will never work As advertised because of the Lime it s taking to fix the problem time during which soviet air defences Are improving Aspin said the bomber s electronic counter measures will be fixed at great Cost Only to meet More effective defences. Or. At Best it will be rendered redundant by the b-2 stealth. Either Way. We will have spent billions for some thing we did t  in a response Ger. Larry d. Welch. Air Force chief of staff saw. Aspin s opposition to the by b predates the first Assembly of the first aircraft and should be considered in thai  he said air Force pilots have repeat edly praised the plane and he said in is a major addition to inc nation s nuclear Arsenal. Like the b-52, said Welch the b in should contribute to deterrence for 30 years a  Welch admitted that we Are behind the original schedule for developing the  but he added that eco is by its nature a constant contest As we improve penetration capability and the soviets improve air defences investigators reconstruct burning plane s flight a. Seattle a the Crew of a commuter plane with one engine Blaic reported problems controlling the Craft just before it landed careened into three boarding ramps and slopped just Short of a passenger concourse according to a Iron Tower tapes i think they were eel Famely fortunate National transportation safely Board member Joseph t. Nail said late Satu Dayall 40 people aboard the horizon air do Havilland dash b in route from Seattle to Spokane survived and no one on the ground was injured. Of the 19 people described by Hospital officials As injured All Passen Gers three remained in hospitals and one was reported in serious condition sunday. Investigators have an unusual videotape of the plane s Landing from an Airport camera. They also have found a panel that fell from die plane s burning right engine Friday while in was turning to return to a Callic Tacoma International Airport where in had taken off just minutes earlier. Sunday s Agenda included interviews with Pilot Carl Carlson 38. The Oiler two Crew members and with some passengers Nail  refused to discuss the crash Friday nigh when he was released from Virginia Mason Hospital after being treated for Back pain. Horizon officials said he had been told to make no Public comment until after interviews with investigators. Nosb spokesman Ted Lopatkiewicz said investigators also would interview air traffic controllers. He said the wrecked Blanc May by moved into a hangar for closer  initial review of tapes of air traffic control Tower communications with the plane indicated the first mention of fire after inc plane s Takeoff came from another aircraft that was nol immediately identified Nail  be Goi a fire on that air plane. Horizon the voice on the tape , Nail said the horizon Pilot reported reduced Power in the right  fire Crews were summoned and traffic controllers gave directions for an emergency  than a minute after inc fire report the horizon Crew reported control problems. Forty seconds later the plane came to a Slop next to the Airport s b concourse after clipping three Passyn the wrecked horizon air plane rests against the passenger concourse where it finally earns to bait. Ger ramps. The plane was drenched in firc fighting foam within 13 seconds. " had it not been for the Quick application of foam and the fire Crews efforts we could easily have lost 40 people Rick Smith chief of the Pon of Seattle fire department said sunday after watching the videotape of the crash Landing. Smith said firefighters could Sec Carlson s face As the plane careened by. The comment they said was. They Felt threat ened but he Carlson looked like he was just trying to concentrate on what he was doing. He was trying to steer a Cannonball and you just can t do that. My perspective is that he was totally out of control and still trying to Man Euver the  the videotape was made from a camera mounted permanently atop the control Tower one of several around the Airport said Charles blood Airport operations manager. The jumpy Black and White tape shows the burning Craft initially Ai two Liny specks of Light leading a thin Trail of Black smoke. The Craft approached descended irregularly and touched Down roughly. Then it careened past a couple of racing firetrucks and across a grass median onto a taxiway that runs parallel to the concourse. He s probably Lucky he did t gel past the end of the concourse. There s another air plane sitting Over there blood said while showing to the tape. Found saturday Wai a 2-by-3-fool Metal door that gives mechanics Access to the Riodil engine. Nill said it fell off the burning engine nod and was found i i Miles from the Airport. 11 was to be Eia Mcd to help determine the cause of the tire. Louisiana seat won by gop for first time in 1 14 years Sands of time Shreveport la. A a converted Republican will become the first gop congressman from the 4th District in 114 years after narrowly winning a special election. Complete results sunday from saturday s election shewed former lobbyist Jim Mccur cry with in percent or 6w88 votes to 62,139 for stale sen. Fomer Campbell. The election was held to fill the inspired term of Democrat Luddy Roemer who was inaugurated governor on match 14. Mccrory 38, who switched to the re publican party in october to run for the office will be the first top congressman from the 4lh District since inc reconstruction Era after the civil War. The state s eight member House Dale Garionis now split evenly Between the panics. The close Vole prompted Campbell to refuse to concede Bat Mccrory after Ini tial reluctance expressed Confidence sunday that he had won. I think this shows that the people Hei c Are going to elect me and re elect me Mccrory said. "1 represent the philosophy of this area a  this race is razor thin. I m Noi ready to concede said Campbell. We re going to Sec. Well know More about it when the voting machines arc opened. 1 think we can still win  there was confusion about the Vou in Caddo Parish where Shreveport is located forcing officials to Check and Check totals. Mccrory ran strongly in Caddo Parish. In the stars and stripes 40 years ago today. April 19. 1948 the Philadelphia athletics Defeated the Boston red so 5 after the sox hit three consecutive Home Nins in the opening game at Boston s Fenway Park. 30 years ago today april 19, 1958 a treason indictment against american poet Ezra Pound 72, was dismissed after his doctor submitted an affidavit staling he Wai incurably insane and  it to stand trial. 20 years ago foday. April 19, 1968 the Fri charged Eric starve Gall with conspiracy in the murder of or. Martin Luther King or. It was the first Lime that any conspiracy had been officially mentioned in connection with King s assassination. 10 years ago foday. April 1�, i97s a search for the body of former italian Premier Aldo Moro in the area Northeast of Rome was triggered by a communique from inc red brigades