European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 11, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wadna Day May 11, 19b8 the stars and stripes Paga 5 Dod report warns against Star wars cuts by Norman Black a Mill the writer Washington a the United states cannot Alt Ord from a military perspective 10 fall further be Hind in its Star wars research the Pentagon said Moil Day. The defense department in a required annual re port an the strategic defense initiative or Star wars program said even 3 percent annual increase in fund ing for the research would Noi be enough to keep Pace with the soviet Union. Thi russians continue to modernize their offensive As Well As defensive weaponry gradually improving their ability to destroy . Forces with a Surprise at tack the Pentagon report said. The resulting asymmetry Between soviet and . Forces has led id a destabilizing situation one thai must be  the Pentagon said. A Star wars defensive system that could shool Down soviet missiles offers the Promise of a More stable peace the Pentagon insisted. The Mere process of at tempting to develop such a system complicates soviet military planning and strains inc russian Economy. If on the other hand Congress continues to Cut deeply into Star wars funding the United Stales will not Only waste its greatest leverage their possible in a free society. But it cannot sex More than react to sense the Pentagon said. We Are faced with either delaying the Lime when a decision on whether to deploy defences could be made or eliminating some technology efforts thereby reducing the number of defense options that can support a  the Pentagon included the new plea for funding in a report that Rani to several Hundred pages reviewing the work done Over the past year in various technological Fields. Release of he report comes just a week after de sense Secretary Frank c. Carlucci warned he would recommend that president Reagan veto the Pentagon s fiscal 1989 budget Bill if cuts Are nude to the j4.5 billion requested for Star wars. While the administration has been forced to aban Don its goal of increasing Overall defense spending by j percent a year it continues to request Steep hikes for Star wan. Since 1983, however Congress has Cut Al most s5 billion from the roughly s1s billion requested for Star wars. While the Congress has increased Star wars fund ing every year. The difference Between what the administration has requested and what the Congress has appropriated is so Large that it has had a substantial and increasingly detrimental Impact on the program defense department asserted. The science fiction writer Heinlein is dead at 80 Carmel Calif. Apr Robert a. Heinlein. 80, whose science fiction explored inc future while questioning the morals and beliefs of the present died sunday of heart failure Al his Home in this Small tourist Community about 130 Miles South of san Franeisco Terry Rice of the Monterey county Coroner s office announced monday he had suffered for Many Yean from emphysema and had undergone numer Ous operations including one to relieve restricted blood flow to his brain. Heinlein was ranked with Isaac Asi  and Arthur c. Clarke among  Ern science fiction Fri ices. Robert Meinl Cin has been writing Sci ence fiction now for 48 years and from the very Star he was Mccoen izod As a grand master Asimov said monday. Asimov said he and Heinlein had served together in Philadelphia during world War i during Heinlein s second Navy hitch and formed a close Friend ship which never entirely broke  Robert Anson Heinl Cio was bom in Builer mo., on july 7, 1907. He Grad baled from the . Naval Academy and served in the i Navy for five years 1 but was forced to retire after con i trading tuberculosis. 1 broke after a Al 1h failed Campaign for to fett the California Ler Slature in 1935, Heinlein sent his first Story to As Heinlein founding science fiction Magazine which paid him 170 for it. His books were written in a spare matter of fact style but presented readers with thoughtful questions about How life should be lived. In his most popular novel stranger in a. Strange land the Mam Char Acter Valentine Michael Smith a human raised by martians challenges his Home planet s values with his own priorities including Universal free love nudity and Many sexual encounters. He also Dis Corporales or makes disappear authority figures he considers bad. The Book which became something of a text for the counter culture of the 1960s, introduced  Heinlein s word for intuitive understanding and also introduced the water bed. In Methuselah s children and later in other books character Lazarus Long provides More food for thought. For instance on How to gel help Long says never Appeal to a Man s but scr nature. He May not have one. Invoking his self interest gives you More be  another Heinlein invention now in common use worldwide is a device known at a Waldo named for the principal character in the Short  magic  Waldo who was Handi capped invented Remote controlled robot arms. Heinlein won numerous awards for his novels and Short stories and was not Al All ashamed thai much of his work was for pulp magazines. They did t want it Good Hein Icin told the new York times in i9bo. They wanted it  his awards included inc Best Sci ence fiction novel award from the world science fiction convention in 1956, 1959, 1961 and 1966 the neb Ula award from the science fiction writers of America in 1975 and an unprecedented four Hugo awards in 1956 for double Star in 1959 for Sia ship troopers in 1961 for stranger in a strange land and in 1966 for the Moon is a harsh mis  other works include the Green Hills of Earth and puppet Mas  Heinlein is survived by his wife Virginia whom he married in 1948. They had no children. Jury convicts four members of polygamist clan Salt Lake City a a Federal jury monday found four members of a polygamist clan guilty of 20 of 23 counts stemming from the bombing of a   Chapel and a 13-Day standoff with police thai left a corrections official dead. The jury deliberating 25 hours Over four Days found clan matriarch Vickie sinter not guilty on one count of attempted murder of Fri agents and on two firearms counts including Possession of a sawed off Shotgun. She was convicted on five counts. On the charges of attempted murder against inc other three the jury returned guilty verdicts in the second degree meaning it did not find the crimes pre meditated. . District judge Bruce Jenkins scheduled sentencing july i. The siege of Llie clan s farm in Marion by 100 Law sailors will get their cookies As japanese officials relent men ended in a shoot out Jan. 28 that killed slate corrections la. Fred House and injured clan Leader Addam Swapp. Swapp 27, was found guilty of maliciously Damag ing a Church building attempting to kill Fri agents assaulting resisting impeding intimidating and inter Fering with Federal agents and Possession of an unregistered bomb. He also was found guilty of a charge of use of a bomb and two counts of use of a firearm the jury found Singer 45, guilty of the same charges with the exception of the attempted murder charge. Swapp s brother Jonathan Swapp 21, and sinter s son John Timothy Singer 21, were found guilty of assault resistance and attempted murder charges and two firearms counts. Sands of time there was Little discernible reaction from the defendants when the verdicts were read. We were very pleased and satisfied said assistant . Attorney Richard Lambert prosecutors called 67 witnesses while the defense called Only three witnesses including the Buckskin Clad Addam Swapp who tearfully and defiantly de fended the clan s actions. Swapp admitted he bombed the Kamas slake Cen Ter on Jan. 16 with 87 Sticks of dynamite but insisted he never fired Al any of the Autho lies who surrounded the 2 a acc farm in a standoff often punctuated with gunfire. Clan members maintained the bombing and stand off were ordered by god As a sign of the impending collapse of Church state and nation and also were intended to draw attention to the 1979 slaying of polygamist patriarch John Singer. Washington api problems with japanese customs officials that barred a shipment of Cirl Seoul cookies from reaching sailors aboard inc arc rail Carrier Midway have been resolved sen. Lloyd Bentsyn a Texas said monday. Japanese customs had blocked he first shipment of 402 boxes of cookies from a Corpus Christi. Texas Brownie troop and assessed a $2,000 duly fee which Brownie officials said was too sleep for the children. Bui the japanese relented and a new Batch of cookies were to be dispatched from Corpus Christi to the Midway tuesday Bentsen said. These cookies weren t meant for Japa Nese consumption so no duly should have been placed on them in the first place the senator said the japanese government has now agreed to open the door. That s Good news for our sailors and for the brow Nies from troop 807." thirty five sailors on the Carrier or dered cookies from the brownies who had sent the men Christmas cards and a Valentine s Day Box of Candy american airlines had offered Loly the cookies to Japan free because inc troop could t afford inc shipping costs. The cookies were shipped april 26, then spent four Days in a japanese Cus Toms warehouse before being returned to the Airport in Corpus Christ. In the stars and stripes 40 years ago today Mav ii 1948 in the face of an impending strike by railway workers1 unions president Truman signed an order to seize the nation s railroads and placed i hair operation under the control of inc army. 30 years ago today May ii 1958 continuing his Lour of eight latin american nations vice president Richard m. Nixon was cheered on by a crowd of 10,000 when he kicked out the first Hall of a soccer match in Quito Ecuador. 20 years ago today. May ii 196b . Defense Secretary Clark Gifford said president Johnson had ruled out reductions in american Force committed to nato As a Means of meeting congressional demands for reductions in government spending. 10 years ago today. May ii. 1978 shocked bitter and saddened italians mourned Aklo Mora s brutal murder at the hands of terrorists