European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 12, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 4 the stars and stripes sunday june 12,1988 ski Cost effectiveness draw criticism Washington a the Early version Era Star wars Ami missile defense can t be deployed until at teas 1998. And even Ihnn would Cost More and offer less Protection than the administration admits a democratic report said saturday. President Reagan has been pushing for development Era phase one version of the program but it is not going to gel off the ground either militarily or fiscal by the net Page report issued by three senators said. The report was written by the majority staf of the Senate appropriations committee and was released by Sens. Bennett Johnston of Louisiana. Dale bumpers of Arkansas and William pros Mirc of Wisconsin All members of the panel. It is the second major criticism in the past five Days from Capitol Hill of Reagan s strategic defense Initia Tive As Star wars is formally known. On tuesday the office of technology assessment. An Arm of Congress said the highly sophisticated com Puter software needed for Star wars might fail. The Ota report also said an american Star wars defense could easily be thwarted by inc soviets and Likely would set off a space arms race. The senators criticism focused on ski s so called phase one which involves construction of an Early version of the system. Researchers Are looking at a variety of exotic technologies including lasers to use As a missile defense but phase one envisions using existing ground based rockets and orbiting garages of space based rockets to fire at attacking nuclear weapons. But the senators report disputes those estimates. A significant phase one deployment cannot occur inflated expectations a photo i jail Iii like astronauts ready for a Moonwalk trainees Al the new labourers and employee training Trust school in Kingston wash., learn Haw fist a 30-Minule air Supply can disappear during sir Vitous activity. The school trains workers How to work with hazardous materials while the workers Are under stress. Put the broke on use of cars w. German researcher urges Washington a monumental problems Lirou Jyh about by the heavy use of automobiles might in cased by giving More attention to bicycling and Wii King a West German Reward her says. Flaming cars for world crises ranging from High Oil prices to possible climatic changes Michael Renner set s the Auloni Obile As a passport to Freedom for own ers Only As Long As there arc comparatively few vehicles on the roads. Re incr a resident of Ulm West Germany and a graduate of the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands prepared his study rethinking the role of the automobile for world watch Institute a private study group concerned with global problems. Average car travel speeds Are reportedly As Low As 8 Mph in London find even less in Tokyo Renner said. Cars also cause congestion in third world coun tries he said because although there Are fewer vehicles there also Are fewer roads which also Are used by buses rickshaws bicycles animal drawn carts and pedestrians. He said City planners should strive for com pact and self contained communities so More people can walk or Bike to work. Suburbanization cannot simply be reversed Ren Ner said. But suburbs Are most vulnerable to any before 1998 at the earliest with a full operational Capa Bra i l Alicr the turn of the a Cal unit said. Costs could be As High As $171 billion and could approach 1750 billion when combined with a later phase to pro Gram it said. In addition the Senate report nid a phase one sys tem would intercept less than id percent of the expected soviet nuclear warheads. The senators noted that continuing Nudzai arms control talks arc aimed at reducing each superpower s Arsenal of Long Range weapons by 50 percent. The strategic defense initiative organization said the Senate report contains More misleading assertions than the organization specifically disputes the estimate that Only 16 percent of expected soviet warheads could be intercepted. The ski office said the military Esti mates while classified arc considerably greater than 16 of inc 1998 target Dale the ski rebuttal said con Gressional cuts to the ski budget have slowed our Progress. We Are working within congressional budget constraints to achieve the Means for effective strategic defences Al the earliest possible the senators report agreed with inc Ota assessment 1 hat the soviets could easily counter the . Shield. The phase one system Likely would be obsolete the Day it is deployed the report said. Technical Chal Lenges and the evolving soviet threat will severely de Grade ils effectiveness. The Pentagon is underestimating soviet political and military resolve to counter the . 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