European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 14, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday. September 14, 1989 the stars and stripes Page 7 Senate panel cuts Trident 2 funds Washington a a Senate subcommittee unanimously approved a j28s.2 billion military spending Bill t us Day that slashes funds for the prob Lem planned Trident 2 missile but leaves most of presi Dent hush s  programs relatively intact. Included in the measure is just Over $1 billion to help finance the War on drugs eight times what hush had asked Tor in the military appropriations Bill. In the i Dent 2. The Senate appropriations defense subcommittee eliminated hush s fiscal 1990 request of left billion Lor missile purchases in the fiscal year that begins Oci i and $210 million for purchases further Down the Road instead the subcommittee approved $286 million Lor research Ami development work on the missile the Navy s newest and reportedly most deadly weapon. Hush Hail asked for $216 million. Subcommittee stall members said the Vole reflected lawmakers concerns about busing Trident before the Pentagon is sure the weapon will work. We re confident the missile will gel Back on  said sen Daniel Inouye. A Hawaii subcommittee chairman the panel Vole came one month after the missile sustained its second straight failure in three undersea test firings at $26.5 million each the Trident is supposed to be deployed in the 1990s aboard a new generation of submarines providing the sea based leg of America land sea and air nuclear forces. Defense department spokesman Pete Williams asked at a Pentagon briefing whether the Navy would meet us operating Date for the Trident 2, said the service does continue to try to find out the cause of the recent failure of the  there has been no decision to slip the initial operating capability Date of March 1990," said Williams. The Lull appropriations committee will vote Thuis Day on the subcommittee s spending Bill a which basically mirrors the Authon action legislation passed he the Lull Senate last month. An Aulhorn action Hill sets aside Money for a program the subsequent appropriations legislation actually approves the spending. As part of the measure the subcommittee approved is is billion for anti drug efforts. Hush had asked for spending of is 32 million in the legislation. Included m the  billion Are $300 million m Cash and equipment Lor the coast guard $62 Millionth operate surveillance planes and ships and is 18 Mil lion Tor existing a cleanse department education and drug treatment programs. Among the similarities Between the subcommittee Bill and the Senate legislation Are endorsement of hush s plan for the my and mid Gilman nuclear mis Siles a slight Cut in funds Lor the h-2 stealth bomber and approval for testing Money for the Marine corps v-22 Sprey. A vertical Takeoff plane. I he subcommittee also agreed to the president s decision to cancel the i-"-141 Jet fighter. I he panel went slightly Besom the full Senate in trimming funds Lor the Star wars missile shield. The Senate authorization Bill put the strategic defense initiative amount at s4.5 billion a Cut no $400 million from hush budget. The subcommittee Cut Star wars research and development to .s3. Billion which when added to the $.155 million in Energy department Money and military construction funds is a total of about s4.i billion. In addition to the actual spending Bill of $279.7 billion the subcommittee adopted a separate $8.5 Bil lion amendment that includes $ i billion for four cargo ships and iwo tankers. $1.3 billion to replace nuclear Powei Ica Clors on the Carrier line Cranse. $1.7 billion for 174 Apache helicopters and $3.4 billion for mod Erm ing major military components such As ship radar systems. Like the full Senate the subcommittee agreed to spending plan that makes a modest Cut of$300 million in hush s $4.7 billion plan for the h-2 stealth bomber. The Bill also imposes night test and radar evasion Stan Dards on the Bat winged aircraft that at $530 million a copy is considered the most expensive plane Ever. T he subcommittee also endorsed Bush s request of$1.1 billion for the plan to move the 50 multiple War head my nuclear missiles from their fixed silos to Railroad cars and $100 million for the midget Man single warhead truck based missile. Following committee action the full Senate is expected to Lake up the military spending Bill next week. Once passed members of the Senate and House will meet in conference to Iron out a final version. The House last month approved a $2x6.5 billion military appropriations Hill that slashed nearly $2 Hil Ion for Star wars from Bush s request strictly limited the h-2 bomber program and made drastic cuts in the my and mid Gilman missiles. The House Bill also slashed $2 billion from the Pentagon s classified or Black programs thus affecting Money earmarked for the air Force s advanced tactical fighter and advanced cruise missile. Boosting plan for High definition to reported scrapped Washington al1 Commerce Secretary Joherl Meshach or has backed off from heavy promotion of a High definition television Industry in the United Stales after being reprimanded by the White House a congressional source said. Mosbacher in their eyes is a renegade promoting Industrial policy and the thought it was absolutely necessary to reprimand  said the source who spoke on condition of anonymity. Mosbacher was made to stand i front of the class and made to say i be Lieve in the free Market 500  the source said. As a result the Commerce depart ment will consider a div the next generation of television Only As part of a Broad based Effort to boost . Techno logical competitiveness an administration source said monday Mosbacher said for months he was prepared to recommend that the Bush administration loosen tax and antitrust Laws to jump Start private american Industry efforts to compete with Europe and Japan to build a div which promises motion picture clarity and compact disc Quality sound. Jul the congressional source said the White House had reined in Mosbacher for talking in terms reminiscent of the Industrial policy program that demo cratic presidential candidate Michael Dukakis advocated in the 1988 Campaign. The Wall Street journal last month quoted sources who said Mosbacher so div initiative was soundly criticized by other government agencies and was near death. Advocates of a div say it could revitalize a moribund . Electronics Indus try and have important applications in medical defense and other industries. It is envisioned As a $20 billion Indus try by 2000 and would be a technology Driver for industries such As computer chips. The american electronics association has asked Congress for More than a Bil lion dollars in development Money for a div and several Bills Are pending in Congress that would provide taxpayer Money to Spur the Industry. The defense department has allotted$30 million in seed Money for the . A div Industry but a congressional budget office re port last month said a div claims were very optimistic and that even under the Rosie St of scenarios a div sales will be Small relative to other electronic equipment markets. The congressional official said Ner Vous electronics Industry officials Are be ginning to Back away from a div. Richard Wiley chairman of a Broad cast Industry panel that will advise the Federal communications commission on setting a transmission Standard for a div by 1992, said last week there Are Only eight applicants Down from 14 who will be ready to begin Sesung next year. He said testing will begin in Lai Iuar in Alexandria. A. By the adva Ivd television test Center  Cable . Commerce officials Fust promised Congress they would unveil government plans for a div by Midsummer and. Later by the end of the year. Now. The administration official said the a div initiative is on hold. There in t necessarily going to be a single a div report As was once envy  the official said adding that the Issue would be viewed in a broader con text. We re going to study it further and probably weave it into a More extensive High tech compel ivaness package. There s no Date certain of when that will be  said the official who spoke on condition of anonymity. It s something that we re working to Ward. But it s just a bigger animal than we thought Cousteau checks out Exxon Juii Michi l Cousteau son of explorer and documentary maker Jacques c Nus leu inspects the shredded Hull of the Exxon Valdic. Us it Waits repairs in Sun Diego. Cousteau said he and television Mogul Ted Turner plan a Documenter showing Exxon s pathetic cleanup of the Vul Dei Oil spill in Alaska