European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 01, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday May 1, 1989 the stars and stripes Page 3 aussie subsidy Issue derails Goodwill aim of Quayle trip Cairns Australia up uan Quayle wound up his five Day australian tour sunday amid claims that the . Vice president s visit did Little if anything to achieve its intended Good  Quayle s refusal to say that american farm policies were hurting australian Farmers provoked angry com ments from farm and political leaders including prime minister Bob Hawk. While Quayle and his wife Marilyn cruised thereat Barrier reef off the far North Queensland coast sunday newspapers editorialized about Hawk s frustration at Quayle s refusal or inability to understand that . Wheat policies were hurting Australia. During his stay in Australia Quayle has repeatedly defended the . Government practice of subsidizing its agricultural exports and lowering their Price on for eign markets. Although Quayle said the subsidy program wus aimed at the european Community australian farm ers who arc heavily dependent on their exports regard the policy As an unfair Trade practice. Hawk sides with the Farmers on the Issue. It makes no sense to be hurting one of your Best allies in the world t believe we just have to keep on presenting them with the facts Hawk said saturday. Government figures show Australia s share of the world wheat Market has dropped from 20 percent in 1985-86 to a projected 11 percent for 1988-89 in the Wake of . Wheat Export subsidies. Trade minister Michael Duffy said if or. Quayle after a fulsome briefing by the prime minister can t grasp the situation there is Little Hope for  the Sydney Sun Herald in an editorial published sunday said it is hard to understand Why or. Quayle adopted such an insensitive posture when hews supposedly on a Goodwill Mission on behalf of the the acc month old Bush administration. He would have been better advised to listen to what the United states closest Pacific ally had to say and take the message Back Home. At his press conference in Sydney on saturday. Quayle denied he had angered Hawk or the Farmers. We had Tough candid talks he said. After arriving saturday at port Douglas Mirage re sort near Cairns Quayle played and won a nine Hole game of Golf. Marilyn Quayle played Tennis with australian Davis cup player John Alexander who is participating in a tournament at the resort. The Quay los attended a Barbecue saturday night hosted by the Sheraton Mirage. During the event a forgetful guest who left a briefcase under a table Trig gered a bomb scare. Earlier in the Day during the vice presidents flight from Sydney to Cairns an engine on his plane was switched off after a warning Light flashed on indicating a possible fire. However the Boeing 707 landed safely. Vice presidential spokesman Bill Mancini con firmed the engine shutdown although it had it can de Nied earlier by members of Quayle s entourage. The Quay los attended Church on sunday then Lefton a special tour by catamaran of the great Barrier reef 29 nautical Miles Northeast of Cairns. Soviets troubled by population trends Moscow a the soviet Union s population increased by 9.3 percent Over the last decade and now stands at 286.7 million with the fastest growth in the country s traditionally moslem areas and the smallest increase in the Ukraine according to official figures published saturday. A top soviet statistician voiced concern that the country s population had not increased faster which he said was necessary to ensure greater economic development and that growth rates had been Low in european regions of the soviet Union. Pravda the communist party daily devoted its entire second Page to preliminary results of a nationwide census conducted in january the country s first since 1979. According to those figures the exodus from Rural areas to cities continues and women outnumber men by 15.7 million. The demographic Center of the soviet Union is also gradually shifting from the european slavic heartland the russian federation the Ukraine and Bolo Russia to Central Asia according to the data from the slate committee on statistics. The numbers represent troublesome trends for the soviet leadership which has been trying to keep the country s peasantry on farms and has acknowledged that it cannot create jobs fast enough in Central Asia to keep Pace with population growth. The total number of soviets has grown by 24.3 Mil lion in the past 10 years standing at 286.7 million on Jan. 12, the figures published by pravda showed. Four traditionally moslem republics in soviet Central Asia registered the greatest population increases in the past 10 years a 34 percent Rise in , 29 percent in Uzbekistan. 28 percent in turkmen a and 22 per cent in Kirghizia. Population growth in the rest of the country including the european part of the soviet Union did not exceed 10 percent. The scope of the development of the soviet econ omy and the need for additional manpower resources to develop economically promising areas Call for greater population growth said Nikolai Eclov Deputy chairman of the state statistics committee. Critically acclaimed director Sergio Leone. Spaghetti Western director Leone Dies of heart attack Rome a Sergio Leone a critically acclaimed director of Spaghetti westerns died Early sunday morning in Rome. Italian state radio reported. He was 60. Leone died of a heart attack at Home according to the radio and the italian news Agency Ansa. The director s credits included the Good the bad and the ugly and a fistful of  Leone began his film career As an assistant on Vittorio do Sica s bicycle thief and worked on the popular epic films made in Rome in the 1950s, including Ben Hur and the last Days of  he went on to direct a series of stylish often violent. Westerns that were smashes at the Box office and also won him critical recognition. They included for a few dollars More once upon a time in the West and Duck you  Leone established his own production company in Rome and he made his Home in both France and Italy. Base closure plan hitting snags in Congress by Richard iia Loran Washington not the Pentagon approved plan to reduce military spending by closing Down and consolidating scores of military bases is moving ahead fitfully because of the opposition of some congressmen who Don t want their states to lose income and jobs. Along the Way defense department officials who Are More accustomed to fighting budget cuts have found them selves leading the Battle for these reductions. The Pentagon would much prefer to spend less on redundant bases and More on troop salaries training and new weapons. The officials have said they would have closed even More bases than those in the present plan but were held Back by political constraints. As it is Only an elaborate game de signed to reduce political pleading by congressmen has allowed the process to move along at All. The base cutbacks were recommended by a bipartisan commission of business executives and former government officials appointed last year by then Secre tary of defense Frank c. Carlucci. The defense Secretary approved their proposal in january. In congressional testimony last year Carlucci advocated inc closing of in acc did bases. Our increasingly scarce resources simply must be applied to higher defense priorities he said. Today the plan to close 86 military bases partly close five others and consolidate 54 More has hit snags created by members of Congress trying to protect the jobs and income generated by Mili tary bases in their states. The proposal would save $693.6 Mil lion a year after five years far less proportionally than an example list offered by Carlucci of 20 base closings that he had said would save $450 million a year after recouping closing costs. The legislation that authorized the base closure commission also stipulated that the panel s entire list of closings must either be accepted or rejected. Unless both houses of Congress vote against the proposal the process is scheduled to begin within the 45 legislative Days that started March i earlier this month the House beat Back an attempt to derail the plan by 3 Vole of 381 to 43. That vote cleared one Barrier but others will arise As the de sense department seeks Money from Congress for closing the bases and Relo Cating troops and equipment. For instance sen. Alan j. Dixon d iii., Hopes to save fort Sheridan near Chicago and Chanute fab in Centra Illinois. Similarly reps. Barbara Boxer and Nancy Pelosi. Both democrats of Cali fornia arc trying to keep open the presi Dio in san Francisco. Such efforts seem to be bipartisan As Republican rep. John Porter of Illinoisan Jerry Lewis of California have joined the fight for their states bases. The reasons have nothing to do with National Security or military efficiency the bases bring in Money and provide jobs for constituents. They argue that in the Case of some bases the Economy benefits More from their continued operation that from their closure. The opponents of base closings will have two shots in coming months. I mid june the House armed services committee and the Senate armed serv ices committee Are scheduled to produce their versions of the defense authorization Bill. Those wanting to save specific bases have said they will seek amendments to Block funding needed to close them. If that move fails they will have an other Chance during debate before the full Congress. Later in the summer the opponents will have an even better Chance when Congress votes to appropriate funds for Pentagon programs approved earlier. If the present mood for cutting Mili tary spending prevails critics will argue that closing some bases would save Doolittle to be Cost effective. Potential savings from closings arc limited by two factors. The base closure legislation mandated that the Cost of closing a Given base costs incurred in transferring people and equipment there be recovered in six years from the Money saved by deactivating the base. A co chairman of the commission for Mer rep. Jack Edwards r-ala., said in december we found a lot of facilities that had 10-year paybacks 12-year pay backs even 20-year paybacks where we could have made major savings Over a longer period of time but we were con strained by our  the Pancy s advisers said that it did not keep a list of those possible closures but estimated that a substantially longer list of base closings could have been drawn up under a 12-Ycar, instead of a 6 year payoff period. Savings of $2 billion a year would have been within easy reach they said