European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 1, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes wednesday March 1,1989 Outlook dim on vets department funds washing ton a the nominee to head the new c Thinel level veterans affairs department said tuesday he Doc s not expect to wire  lion approval to Siel l in Money at inc current Fis Cal year. Edward  said the. 5520 million supplemental no Propri lion request for which he is seeking a stateside Proval from the office of management and budget would he added in 10 the Bush administration s planned spending for inc 1990 fiscal year. The year begins oct. 1, i9r9. If there is an 89 Suppon eclat which i Doughl. Well have a shot there Derwinski said after ii speech to an american legion meeting. Derwinski had previously admitted failure so far to win bomb approval for a request for a supplemental appropriation for medical care this year the 1989 fiscal year. Veterans administration officials have said since last tall thai their $10.8 billion medical care budget for the cur rent fiscal year would he about j60q Mil lion to $ i. Billion Short of who the 130-Hospilal system needs Overall veterans spending is budget Dat �29.77 billion in the current year. President Bush proposed $29.96 billion for1990, of which $10,99 billion would be for medical care. Last week the House veterans affairs committee recommended to the House budget committee additional spending this year of $520 million s3 percent of it for medical care and $1.3 Pillion a nor for next year 85 percent of it for medical care. In his speech. Drivinski cautioned several times against assuming that the new Casimm pilatus to take effect Nix month would automatically mean More Money.  i m going to win some Bailies i going to lose some halt los. Bul Well give it the old College try he said. Sparky Gierke of Bismarck. N.d., National commander of the american legion told Derwinski after his speech that the legion would expect him to he the advocate for veterans in he Cabinet. We arc hopeful. That you will he inc Strong voice of inc veterans and carry the water of the american veterans and not that of the office of manage ment and budget Girke said. Alaskan snowstorm wind half Oil flow in pipeline Anchorage Alaska al1 Snow  wind blasts of More than 110 Mph shut Down a pump ing station on the trans Al ska Oil pipeline and hailed Llu line s Oil flow fur several hours dining the week-1cn, mingling his Tell Arm. He said he fell town the stairway and  re  of getting hit by a train said of Kirr Tim Clit to  transit police department rile Man whose name was not released was  when police and a him nay Fri eds Al Inch Nicias arrived Al the station in Brooklyn. The Man underwent surgery and would Likely lose his inn. Belk vue Hospital authorities said. Proposed new Mexico site could be out of this world Albuquerque . A a consortium of businesses and research institutions Hopes s visit to Albuquerque will be like life on another planet for sum space engineers and scientists in Ibe 1990s. The National aeronautics and space administration is expected to decide by 1992 whether to recommend lunar colonization or a manned Mission to Mars in the Early 71st Century. In preparation los Alamos National Laboratory the University of new Mexico the air Force Hie Annaf corps of engine and several new Mexico businesses Are proposing the nation s first extraterrestrial environment simulator. In Albuquerque at an intimated Cost of Boul $5.5 million this fits right in with to Velice medical Center in Albuquerque pfc Ling he Mercury aslfonauj.,"i.xk Alamos spake Man Jeff Schwartz said monday. Or Clico bus been at the Iron Lucr of the space age since there was a space  members of the i consortium met Here monday wild Nasa officials to discuss he project called the Center for  engine Erin and construction or Letec talks Here expected to continue All week. Sieve Howe a program coordinator in los Ala mos Energy and technology initiatives office said it s possible to Lave Letec open Ting in i it to two yours. He estimated a six your Cost of about $5.5million. That s less than a Mill Ion a year lie said. About 65 Sci enlists engineers contractors Andt  officials attended monday s ses Lon Howe said. He said the Basic conf urn Iii of Letec would be a couple of tanks doing Lule no crawled or robolicexperiments., i vacuum tanks that would simulate the conditions on the Moon h Here Here no Atmos phere1 he said experiments would address several key question How do you dig How do you Drill How do Yon Lay four Illions can you mate Cunt rate out of the soil can you mat structural Uluss out of the soil can you extract oxygen from the soil to manufacture fuel?1 Consort in members would put up about $2 Mil lion Worth of equipment land and Eiert a he suld. 8/son, Elk in no danger of extinction official says  Park who it Eding Jia in Elk and Bison starving in this fire scarred preserve could do More harm than Guod the head of the National Park service says. Even if Many of inc animals die the herds arc in no danger of extinction William inn Moll said the reduction in Nali iral grazing by last summer s drought and huge fires coins i d with a severe Winter has driven Ell and Bison out of the Park into Southern Munnus there the slate 11 allowing Hunters to kill hundreds of the Aniak Beusie in says they carry disease thai could infect livestock. In the town of Gardiner mont., just North of the Park slaying Elk Are eating Hay donated by sympathetic people along ill he docs and Trees. Small herds of i a. Inn buffaloes have congregated in parking lots. The Are Skinny and weak said Trudi Taylor who joined with others in u to. South of Yellowstone Moll said. Molt As sent on a fact finding trip to Yellowstone by new in Tenor Secretary Manuel Lucian following National publicity about the Hunting m Montana and tug i tort Alliy in the Park s Northern Elk Herd in largest migratory Elk Herd in the world. Both Elk and Bison populations in Yellowstone arc near All Lime highs because several mild Winters before this year allowed Mure Amman to survive than in. Nor Bob Una to Rath Labert of Billiris i Man., Shim off one of two Bison the shot near Yellowstone Nuti ital Park. Mal years almost 500 of Yellowstone s 2.700 Bison have been shot in Montana and 250 additional permits have been issued. More than 2.350 Elk from Yellowstone s Northern Herd of 19,000 were shot by Montana Hunters this Winter. Laist year 39 Bison were shot in Montana shunt inside Yellowstone rangers have counted Mon than300 Elk carcasses. This year s Hunting has been denounced As a Slaugh Ter by such animal welfare activists As Cleveland Amory of new York president of the fund for Ani Mals. Molt repeated his support for reproduction of wolves into Yellowstone not Only because wolves could help keep big game populations in balance but because wolves represent the West and part of biological diversity