European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 18, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes thursday May 18. 1989 Pentagon handling of biological arms research criticized Washington a lawmakers complained wednesday Aboul the Penta gon s handling of research on deadly biological weapons and threatened to take the program away from the defense department and give it to a scientific Agency. Witnesses from the defense and stale departments told a Senate panel that the Pentagon must retain control of research on biological weapons which they said constitute a threat to . Military forces. Such weapons have the potential to cover Large areas and can be employed with no  said Jim Hinds Dep Uty assistant Secretary of defense for negotiations policy. On a Battlefield the Onset of symptoms is Likely to be the first indication that forces arc under biological weapons  Ai least id countries including the so Viet Union and Many in the third world have offensive biological weapons programs. The United Stales has banned production of offensive biological weapons since 1472 but has conducted research on ways to defend against an attack. Rep. Wayne Owens a Utah. Told the Senate governmental affairs subcommittee on investigations that hearings held in the House last year found that the army s preparation to prevent or manage an Acci dental epidemic caused by their testing on pathogens was inadequate. In addition Owens said there is a greater need for civilian oversight of the biological defense program a conclusion even Pentagon witnesses reached. Owens has introduced legislation that would place the med ical portion of the biological defense program under the control of the National institutes of Ralth. Republicans and democrats on the Senate panel questioned How . Officials could paint such a dire picture and yet Cut $5 million from the budget ear marked for work on a detection and warning system for both chemical and biological weapons. In his testimony. Or. Billy Richard son Deputy assistant to the Secretary of defense for chemical matters described the program As one of our most important hardware  you Call it the most important hard Ware project and then it is reduced said sen. William Cohen a Mainc. It s a matter of balancing needs for Many different things Richardson responded. Sen. John Glenn a Ohio chairman of the subcommittee called $5 million pocket change around Here compared to a $300 billion defense  unless you re going to do something with it Over there we re probably going to take it away and give it to somebody else who will do something about it he said. Tot promotes tourism gov. Bob Martinez left looks on As Kelly i Lanlin 6, Points to a figure on a map in Tallahassee that s part of the promotion of Florida tourism week. Bush honors students who named new shuttle Washington a president Bush on tuesday made a Small ceremony do double duty tuesday As he Hon ored the most recent space fliers and two groups of schoolchildren who picked the winning name for the newest space shuttle. We arc gathered Here today to Cele brate the continuity of our space pro Gram and really of our country itself of America herself the president said As he shared a while House stage with five shuttle astronauts nine fifth graders and nine math students from grades eight through 12. In a sense today s setting reflects Ifcic continuity he said. You arc Pioneer pushing Back the boundaries of our technological  to astronauts David stalk or Ronald grab Norman Thagard Mark Lee and Mary Cleave who returned May 8 from a four Day shuttle Mission the president said you be reaffirmed your nation s Genius in science and technology and yet new Nasa chief will fight any space station slashes Washington a the new acting head of Nasa moved quickly tuesday to fill a key vacancy and told space Agency employees hell fight against potential cuts that could delay trim Down or even kill the pro posed space station. Richard truly who took Over Asad Mim Viator on monday named Samuel a Keller to be associate Deputy administrator the no. 3 Job at the space Agency. . Thompson was nominated by president Bush earlier to be Deputy administrator. Keller has served As Deputy associate administrator for space science and applications since december 1977. Truly in a televised address to All Nasa centers said the Battle Over construction of the space station willbe especially difficult. We can t afford to Short change space station Freedom or any other major program he said. I think we would All agree this really is Venus after an 800-mile, 15-month Jour nil. It inn n n a not Neil Man la stir of Perth c no Only just the beginning. The Crew on the 29th shuttle flight launched a space probe that will orbit nay find map the surface of Earth s fog shrouded sister planet. The students from Senatobia Middle school in Senatobia miss., and Tallula Hfalls school in Tallulah Falls ga., each submitted the name endeavour for the shuttle being built to replace the ill fated challenger which exploded after its launch in january 1986. My friends choosing a name can be thankless task said Bush. Consider the new father who was once reproached by Sam Goldwyn. You Are going to Call your son William he said. What kind of a name is that every Tom Dick and Harry is called William. " endeavour will have the British spelling. It was the name of the flagship used by James Cook the 18th-Century English explorer. It was chosen from Sev eral names submitted by 31 of the 111 state level  recalled that More than 6,100 teams formed by 71,650 students submitted research projects supporting the names they selected. Panels from state education agencies picked state winners in the two divisions and Bush made the final selection. . Filing. Fortha Scoggi extradition new York a a Federal prosecutor said tuesday that the formal extradition request for saudi businessman Adnan Khash Oggi on . Racketeering charges should be delivered to Swiss authorities by the end of the week. Meanwhile in Switzerland. Khash Oggi will remain in prison at least another four or five weeks unless he agrees to voluntary extradition to the United slates Swiss Justice ministry officials said on wednesday. Khash Oggi will be held much longer than that if he appeals against acceptance of the . Extradition request expected to arrive by Friday or Early next week a ministry spokesman said. Under Swiss Law the United states has 60 Days in which to file an extradition request. Then Khash Oggi has 10 Days in which to Appeal directly for immediate release to the Swiss Federal supreme court in Lausanne. Assistant . Attorney Charles la Bella told a Federal judge in new York that Khash Oggi s extradition should take three months at most if it is contested All the Way to the Swiss supreme  Labilla s remarks came during a pre trial court session in the racketeering Case against Khash Oggi and former Philippines president Ferdinand Marcos and his wife Imelda. In other developments at the session before . District judge John f. Kee Nan defense lawyers asked for More time to work their Way through an estimated 300,000 pages of documents in preparation for trial and Keenan asked Labella to inquire whether new York defense attorney Robert Mqry Illo would be rep resenting Khash Oggi in the racketeering Case. Khash Oggi. Once described As the Rich est Man in the world was arrested last month by Swiss authorities in Bern atthe request of . Officials who declared Khash Oggi a fugitive. Khash Oggi. The Marcoss and seven other associates were indicted by a Feder Al grand jury in Manhattan last october. The Marc oses Are accused of siphoning More than $100 million from their Homeland and funnelling it through foreign Bank accounts to buy new York real estate and artworks. Khash Oggi is charged with helping them cover up the Money Transfer. Keenan scheduled another court ses Sion for july 27. Adnan Khoii Scoggi