European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 28, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday october 28, 1988 the stars and stripes Page 7 Shultz s personal travel nearly $1.9 million Washington a Secretary of slate George Shultz s personal travel Cost the Federal gov Ern men t almost $1.9 million for the 30-month period ending in july an audit released wednesday by a congressional panel reported. Shull look 23 per Sonny trips most often to his Home in California or for a vacation the general accounting office said. He travelled on military aircraft and the travel party included Security personnel said the watchdog Agency. The total spent for the trips was s1,892,214. Shulk reimbursed the government a Small part of the Cost Basing his repayment Rale on the Economy air fare rate to a destination plus j1, slate depart ment officials told the Oao. The total amount of Shultz s reimbursement for the 23 trips was $18,783, the Gao said. The report released by he House government operations com Millie covered travel Between Jan uary 19b6 and last july. Detailed Cost information before 1986 was t available the Gao said. On most personal trips Shutlz was accompanied Only by his wife Helena. Many trips were to Palo Alto. Calif., where Sulu maintains a Home at Stan Ford University and to another family Home in c us minion. Mass. The list also includes vacation trips to Martha s Vineyard mass., and the Bahamas. State department spokesman Charles Redman said shul used the military plane with its sophisticated communications capacity because the Secre tary of state is the Secretary of state 24 hours a Day 365 Days a year no matter where he is. Redman said Shutlz followed the practice used by other secretaries of stale for the past 15-20 years. Many Oiler Cabinet members also use military air Craft for reasons of improved Security and communications he said. The fact of the matter is that the Security threat does t disappear just because Llic Secretary happens to be on vacation nor docs the need for communications Kerman said. The Hulk of the $ 1.89 million Cost for the 23 trips went for military aircraft $797.219, the Gao said. Hotel accommodations for Security personnel and other aides Cost $336,414 overtime for those personnel Cost $256,205 per diem ipod costs were $183,030 and $141,464 was spent to install Tele phone links. The study listed several trips by still la Between 1982-86 that were listed As official travel but included a private component. Those trips weren t among inc 23 the Gao counted. Scientists Call for cancelling stealth bomber Washington a the stealth bomber program should be cancelled be cause there ii no effective role in the . Nuclear deterrence system for the futuristic aircraft the federation of american scientists said this week. We should probably use the first b-2 prototype to gain some practical experience with this novel military technology but there seems Little reason to proceed now with the production of this bomber the fas said in a report. The private group which has been sharply critical of previous Reagan and Mims Nilion National Security policies issued its study one Day after the Penta gon announced that the secret plane will make its Public debut on nov. 22, the stealth bomber also known As the i-2, is a flying Wing design which is supposed to be difficult for soviet radar systems to select. The plane will be unveiled at the Northrop corp. Plant in 1 Almdale Calif. The air Force has generally refused to release details about stealth plans but the Pentagon is tentatively planning to buy 132 of the planes. The general accounting office has estimated the Lola Cost of the plane at $68.8 billion making it the most expensive weapon in history. Production is tentatively scheduled to begin Early next year. The secrecy surrounding this project intended to protect technological secrets from the soviets is also hiding an expensive project of dubious merits from americans the fas report said. Air Force officials asked for com ment said they had nol yet seen the fas report. The b-2, along with the us bomber is intended to be the newest part of the leading american scientific experts feet thai the b-2 Seal la bomber has no effective Rol in the country s nuclear dul cml plans. Three pronged nuclear deterrent which includes manned bombers submarine launched missiles and land based mis Sites. The fas study said that two mis Sions for the b-2 Nave emerged from the veil of  some argue that the b-2 is needed to offset i  i n soviet air defences. Others argue that the b-2 is needed in order to attack soviet Mobile missiles such As the ss-24 and ss-25. Neither of these arguments in favor of the b-2 is particularly compelling it said. The soviets Are Likely to continually upgrade their air defences and even when they do they will still be vulnerable to . Weapons such As nuclear lipped cruise missiles and the he the fas said using the 3-2 to hit soviet Mobile weapons is risky because the b-2 would need targeting information which would be supplied by . Satellites the fas said. Bui those satellites could be knocked out by soviet anti satellite weapons during the Early stages of any War it noted leaving the b-2 without an effective Way to locate its soviet targets. In fact the stealth bomber is As much a first strike weapon As the my the Pas said. Both systems arc in tended to destroy soviet missiles before they can be launched against the United  it concluded that the b-2 poses the same dangers As the my and inc Strate Gic defense initiative increased risk of nuclear War further escalation of the arms race and complication of arms control and reduction. The b-2 should be opposed by equal  . Agrees of limit satellites in Star wars test Washington up the United Stales has agreed to limit the number of satellites in any Star wars space defense test As part of a Promise presi Dent Reagan made at the .-soviet Washington Summit in december . Officials said. The officials said . Negotiators proposed monday at the nuclear arms reduction talks with the soviet Union in Geneva to limit to 15 the num Bur of satellites used in any Star wars test. This is the clarification Reagan promised soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev As the Washington Summit when the two leaders agreed to continue testing of missile defense systems the officials said. The interpretation the while House gave publicly in december was that the two sides had agreed to disagree and had sidestepped the Issue of what test ing was permitted under inc 1972 abm treaty which prohibits deployment but allows some test ing. Tie soviets feared that the United Stales might actually deploy a Star wars defense under the Guise of testing the officials said. The Promise was that we would clarify How we were going to do that i casting while avoiding deploy ment said one official. We told them monday we re going to limit our testing to no More than  any one time. The monday proposal rounds out our Complete position the official said. Until now Uherc has been a Hole in the . Position on the testing of a space defense by slim agreed on at the december Summit the official said. He said the clarification of limiting satellites in any one test was different than a Promise to limit Lessing of Star wars. The proposal to limit i casting of a strategic de sense initiative system to 15 satellites at any one Lime was reported in wednesday s Washington times. The officials said inc administration plans an announcement on the new proposal soon. The Pentagon s sol office has said in had reduced the number of Rotkel firing space platforms from 300 to 150 for the proposed first phase of a Siar wars defense. La also said the number of surveillance satellites had been Cut from Solo 20 because of tests earlier this year that showed it would be easier than previously thought to distinguish nuclear warheads from decoys. Officials said monday s proposal follows one . Negotiators made in Geneva in july that would place no limit on the number of sensor or surveillance satellites possessed by either superpower. The theory is thai the More surveillance satellites each Side possesses the less Likely it is either Side would be Able to launch a sneak attack on the other a More stable relationship an official said. The sensor proposal was first made by defense Secretary Frank Carlucci in his Bern Switzerland meeting with soviet defense minister Dmitriy Yazoo. In was followed up in the summer by Secre tary of state George Shull inc officials said