European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 20, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse Sunday August 20, 1989 the stars and stripes Page 3 philippine Bill would phase out bases Manila Philippines a a philippine con Gressman has filed a Bill recommending a nine year phaseout of . Military bases in the country. Rep. Jose de Venecia a member of president Cora on Aquino s struggle for a democratic filipino party filed the Bill wednesday. Copies of the Bill were distributed to news agencies saturday. Do Venecia Bill was a Middle ground approach designed to accommodate leftists and nationalists calling for the ouster of the bases and business people and centrists wanting the bases to stay. Under the proposal the United states must pay the Philippines about $750 million a year for nine years. Part of the payment would go to the construction of a munitions factory for the philippine military and to a $ 150 million plan for debt reduction. De Venecia said a transition period would give the United states time to relocate its forces to Cilam. Sai pan. Tinian Island the Palau islands. Japan. Singapore and other proposal also gives the United states and the Philippines a Chance to review the arrangement in 1994 and 1998. De Venecia said that with the Resolution he sees the eventual pullout of Fth soviet Union in Cam Ranh Bay and the entry of Vietnam to the association of South cast asian nations. Asean which comprises Brunei. Indonesia malay Sia the Philippines. Singapore and Thailand has called for the dismantling of All foreign military bases in the Region. De Venecia proposal is in line with a grow ing global trend toward demilitarization. The withdrawal of the . Military facilities from the Philippines would thus be a part a vital part of a Universal process of adjustments to the requirements and challenges of the new the Bill said. The United states maintains Clark a. Subic Bay naval facilities and four other smaller facilities under a 1947 military bases agreement that expires in 1991. Talks on extending the bases Are expected to begin later this year. Any Extension of the bases agreement must be approved by two thirds of the 23-Mcmbcr philippine Senate where sentiment against the bases is Strong. Nasa design Engineer John Mccluskey seated inside Nasa s dc-8 Flink Labo Ralora checks a telemetry system. It is used to pinpoint location Altitude and other identifying details of Sites where radar i makes Are recorded from the air. Nasa s flying lab in Europe to record radar measurements b Joseph Owen Stuttgart Bureau stu1tgart, West Germany the stale of Europe s forests and protective Ozone layer May become clearer thanks to a Hying Laboratory from Nasa now operating from Stuttgart s Airport. The Laboratory a Fortune in elec tronic equipment housed in a dc-8 Jet arrived wednesday and ii expected to depart tuesday after taking Ozone measurements and recording radar images of Sites in five european coun tries. The National aeronautics and space administration expects the mis Sion to help scientists learn to read the images a skill vital to decoding information that future radar satellites will relay to Earth. The Ozone measurements arc similar to More Exten Sive tests that Nasa already has con ducted Over the Arctic and the Antarctic in the same plane. The european space Agency and the common Market s joint research Center arc funding Nasa radar measurements at four Sites the Landes area in France the of Leroland area in the Netherlands Thetford Forest in the United kingdom and the South Western Black Forest in West Ger Many Nasa also is conducting joint re search with West Germany s Federal research and technology ministry an the German air and space travel re search Center in flights Over the re search Center at in Bavaria and Over the Otz Tal in Austria. The project at the four Sites called for a Small army of scientists to con verge on the ground at each site to take measurements of local features at the same Lime the plane passes overhead said Mike Kobrick science coordinator at Nasa s Jet propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena. Calit. The idea is to be Able to make a connection Between w hat scientists measure on the ground. And radar Kobrick said. Nasa expects radar to become a valuable tool for space based Obser vation of the Earth and plans a radar image space Mission in 1992. An example Ofstun area where it should prove useful is in the Amazon River Basin where a near constant Cloud cover hampers scientists ability to track the degradation of tropical forests. You can t Monitor it with a Normal satellite and a Normal camera because it can t see through the to Brick said. But a radar scanning de vice can Sec through the the results of that technology Are of Little help to the untrained Eye. However. A camera records Light rays the same Way the human Eye does so humans recognize what appears on the film. Radar images appear vastly Dif Ferent. Scientists can t Tell what the subject of a radar picture is without a precise set of coordinates and even then they need More data to interpret what the radar has recorded. Nasa scientist Diane Wickland radar images shot on this mis Sion will measure vegetation Structure and moisture Levels. Radar also can be used to document diseases age. Variety and wind and air poll own effects in forests and it has applications for Agri culture As Laboratory s flight Over Ober Pfaff Chofen involved help from 46 graduate students on the ground who adjusted radar reflectors so Nasa could gauge the effects of shooting the same site from different angles. At of Zeal a team of scientists was scheduled to hike five hours onto a Glacier Totake measurements of features that the plane would record from the air. . Pullout from Korea a possibility9 Seoul South Korea a a visit ing . Congressman said Friday that a partial reduction of . Troops stationed in South Korea might be possible after the South s military strength matches North Korea. As South Korea continues to increase its military capabilities we should t preclude the possibility of partial reductions of . Forces said rep. Stephen solar/., d-n.y., the chairman of the House subcommittee on asian and Pacific affairs.opposed an unilateral withdrawal of . Troops without any compensatory increase in South korean forces but said South Korea s economic superiority Over the North would enable it to establish a military balance within the next do not need dramatic policy shifts. We should avoid abrupt let alone unilateral changes he said in an address on .-South korean relations. . Forces must be maintained until South Korea increases its own defense Power to offset any . Cuts and As Long As a significant indigenous military imbalance continues to exist on the korean Peninsula he . Congressman raised fears however of growing anti american sentiment in South Korea saying it has been accelerated ironically by the nation s democratic development. The american people have been deeply disturbed by the spread of anti american sentiment in South Korea beyond the Small group of Radical Stu dents he majority of South koreans appear to support a continued . Role in South Korea despite an anti american Campaign by radicals who have attacked . Facilities contending that the presence of . Troops hampers reunification with North s remarks followed comments by the commander of . Forces in Korea on a reduction of . new York times quoted Gen. Louis c. Men Trcy As saying there will be no military need to keep . Forces in South Korea after the mid-1990s if present trends news report shocked the Seoul government and Many South koreans supporting the . Presence causing men Trcy to announce that it had not accurately reflected what he had in tended to a letter sent thursday to the South korean defense minister Man Carey said his opinions were wrongly reported and he had not tried to indicate any change of the . Policy or any plan for a . Troop was divided into the communist North and the capitalist South in 1945 at the end of world War ii. Talks Nave been held on and off since the end of the 1950-53 korean War to ease ten Sion but Little Progress has been made
