European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 12, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse Friday May 12. 1989 the stars and stripes Page 3 care of elderly facing women in 90s, study says by the cos news Venice Washington a sobering Mother s Day message today s moms will spend More years caring for their aging parents than rearing their own children. While child care has been the top family Issue of the 1980s, elder care will gain prominence in the 1990s As America Ages and women continue to join the Job Market according to a report released wednesday by the older women s league. Statistically women Are much More Likely than men to be the chief car givers for both children and elderly parents. The empty nest syndrome an emotional vacuum experienced by Many women when their grown children leave Home will be Short lived for mothers of the baby Boom generation because the nest will be filled with frail parents or other relatives. On average women today spend 17 years of their lives caring for children and 18 years assist ing aging parents said the report titled fail ing America s car givers a status report on women who in 1989, a woman whose children Are grown has completed on average less than half the caregiving she will provide during her life said Lou Glassc president of owl. Far from being free of responsibility in Many cases her most difficult years lie demographically the problem looms even larger for the so called baby bust generation that follows the much chronicled baby Boomers. Already nearly two million women arc part of the Sandwich generation caring simultaneously for children and Glassc said. . Plane project approved by Senate panel Washington a the Senate foreign relations committee voted narrowly thursday to approve the s7 billion program to develop and co produce the advanced fax fighter plane for Japan. On a 9-8 vote the committee rejected a Resolution to disapprove the Deal to develop an advanced version of the american f-16. A companion Resolution of disapproval has been introduced in the House. The Deal has sparked Strong criticism on Capitol Mill Over technology and economic issues. Thursday s committee action followed a closed door intelligence briefing for the Senate panel on japanese involvement in a suspected libyan chemical weapons com plex. Sen. Frank h. Murkowski a Alaska requested the briefing saying "1 want to be certain that our co producers of the fax or their associates Are not also co producing chemical containment components for Libya. If there is japanese involvement in Libya chemical warfare production we have the Opportunity with the fax to leverage them Murkowski s concern focused on an Industrial com plex being built at rata in the desert Southwest of the libyan capital of Tripoli. . Officials believe the Complex includes a Poison Gas Plant As Well As a Metal fabrication Plant to produce bomb and Shell casings. At a hearing wednesday. Deputy Secretary of stale Lawrence s. Eagle Burger told the Senate committee that there is no evidence that Mitsubishi heavy Indus tries the prime japanese contractor for the fax has any involvement with the Rabla Complex. Other japanese companies were involved in the Metal fabrication Plant not the chemical Plant Eagle Burger said. Resolutions of disapproval trying to Block the fax Deal have been introduced in the Senate and House. But even if the resolutions Are passed a two thirds majority in both Chambers would be required to Over ride a Likely presidential veto. Under the Deal. General dynamics and Mitsubishi heavy industries would jointly develop and produce the fax for deployment by Japan in the late 1990s, general dynamics is headquartered in St. Louis but most of the fax work would be done at its f-16 Plant in fort Worth Texas. Defense Secretary Dick Cheney defending the fax agreement at wednesday s hearing sought to rebut charges that the Deal will give the japanese vital . Aerospace technology. We Are not giving them unrestricted Access to All the technology that goes with our capability to design and produce advanced fighter aircraft the Pentagon Chic said. Cheney asked How firmly he views a Promise by the japanese that approximately 40 percent of the production work on the fax would be handled by . Companies said. We think that it s solid As solid As it can Commerce Secretary Robert Mosbacher. Who earlier had raised concerns within the administration Over economic implications of the fax Deal told the com Mittee i am confident that this agreement will no harm the economic Security interests of the United proponents of the fax Deal have argued it will give the United states valuable Flosback of japanese technology involving composite Wing construction and phased array radars. But sen. Alan j. Dixon d-iii., said a report by the general accounting office an investigative Arm of Congress has already concluded that these technologies Are Well known to . Aerospace companies. The evidence clearly before us is that we re really not getting anything in return Dixon said. Sen. Alphonse d Amato . Called the technology Flosback argument total nonsense and a facade to cover up the shortcomings of this sex Carrier crewman recalls 1965 a bomb loss continued rom Page 1 about an hour As sailors loaded the bomb on the plane. When the Job was done members of the Crew began backing the plane into the elevator so the aircraft could be raised to the flight deck. The elevator was open to the Ocean and had no Barrier at the Back. Weldon said and the Pilot was supposed to apply the brakes once the Jet was on the Eleva Tor. But As at least 50 people watched the Jet kept rolling. Sai a s began shout ing telling the Pilot to i the brakes but the Jet slipped off the Edge. Hipped nose up and dropped into the water. Some sailors on the deck claimed that the Pilot who was killed in the Accident had been Reading a Bock Ard May have been distracted. W Codon believes o her causes such As Brake failure can t be ruled out. Weldon. A native of Lebanon ore., joined the Navy in 1963. When the Acci Dent occurred he was assigned to the 51st fighter so As an electronics technician. The Ticonderoga was approaching Yokosuka Japan at the time he said. The Captain look Steps to Irak sure that word about the Accident did t spread beyond official circles w c Don said. When we went into port he said not to discuss it with anyone wild of did t seem too concerned about it. I la bet the Navy was As surprised As any body that it did t get he said the ship s sailors also were told that the Navy conducted Hydrogen bomb exercises Only Over deep areas in the Ocean so nobody including the Sovi ets could recover anything that fell Over Board by Accident. Pentagon spokesman Dan Howard said tuesday that the air plane fell into the sea in More than 16,000 feet of water."1 Don t think we had the capability then and i m not sure we have the capability now to recover anything from that Howard said at a news conference. The defense department never pub .e4s Joo 0en Phillip g. Weldon above was a 20-year old tic ondi to a crewman when he struck a relaxed pose for a photo left aboard the Carrier in 1965. Lily acknowledged that it had lost the bomb until 19si and. Until this week never disclosed the actual location of the Accident. Japan since has demanded an official report on the Accident and information on the bomb s location. Weldon left the Navy in december 1966 to attend College on the i Bill and the Ticonderoga left service soon afterwards. It s been decommissioned Weldon said. Its last official duty was recovering astronauts a Long time ago. It was built during world War ii and was hit by two Kamikaze planes during the War. Thai May have had something to do with the the ship originally had a single land ing and Takeoff deck but an angled flight deck along with a new deck Edge elevator was added when the ship was repaired and modernized after the War. The added weight made the ship tend to lean to that Side. Weldon said so the Jetway have been rolling downhill when it fell off the Carrier. Weldon said he also witnessed the loss of .1 plane and a Pilot in a cold cat shot the name Given to a planes failure to leave the Carrier with sufficient Speed when catapulted from the Light deck. While such accidents occurred several times on the Ticonderoga during his service. Weldon remembers Only one of the Carrier s attack jets being shot Down in the Vietnam War in which the Ticonderoga was heavily involved. They were saying that the chances of being killed in the War were a lot less than getting killed in some stupid Acci Dent Weldon said. And i guess they were
