European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 27, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday september 27, 1989 the stars and stripes pages Senate backs shutdown of 86 bases lawmakers Ponder a spending Bill Washington a the Senate voted overwhelmingly tuesday to Back a Federal commission s decision to shut Kab military bases and scale Down five More As lawmakers weighed a $228.2 billion military spending Bill. By a vote of 86-14. The Senate approved an Amend ment that effectively kills a provision that would have withheld $300 million to close the bases until an audit found that the savings from shutting Down the installations would exceed the Cost. Meanwhile defense Secretary Dick Cheney said thai further ruts in the defense budget by the democratic con trolled Congress a Force him to close More bases. The audit would have been conducted by the general accounting juice the investigative Ann of Congress. We re just asking that the comptroller general an . Otherwise these bases have no  sen Daniel Inouye a Hawaii. Said on the Senate floor in support of. He amendment. There is no supreme court. This is the supreme  but sen. John Warner of Virginia ranking Republican on the Senate armed services commit cd. Argued against undermining the commission s recommendations which were approved by former Secretary of defense Frank c. Carlucci and upheld in the House. If we set a precedent now that Sou can reopen the package. I m Carlu future commissions won t be As  Warner said. The commission in issuing its recommendation last year estimated savings of $5.6 billion o or 20 cars. Since the commission s announcement last Decem Ber lawmakers whose Home stale bases would be affected complained that the panel based its selection on inaccurate or incomplete data. Prior in the Senate action. Cheney met on Capitol Hill with lawmakers from Illinois who made a Lasi ditch Appeal to save Chanute Ai h. Near Rantoul. Iii. The session did Mil change plans to close Chanute. 2 1 Miles South of Chicago. Criven All the demands to redirect dollars from the defense budget to other areas. I be got no Choice hut to find ways to close additional bases Cheney told re porters the Day after Senate democrats and the administration reached a tentative agreement to boost Resi Dent hush s anti drug Effort by $1 10 million. 1 he drug plan requires a Cut of Aboul $ i .3 billion inthe Pentagon budget. On the Senate floor. Sen. Alan i on. Dell. Cril Ici de the recommendations made last Jear by the faceless nameless members of the  the cooked the  Dixon said waxing a copy of a general accounting office Lepon that had found prob is in l he Cunn Tissin s report and Hus inf pcs in several Illinois a nyties Iii Chanute Pook Wii i hair Nikont s o line an i having firm to argue Tor Inouye s Nica so Tor hiring i Tuoti. Lings and Hij is Ami cities n  sure. The estimated at Aboul $30.000. Witness says Falwell offered hush Money to Bakker Charlotte. . A Jerry Falwell olt cred Jim Bakker s300.000 and other Perks to keep his Mouth shut after Falwell look Over the scandal Ridden i to. Roe Messner the to ministry s chief builder testified monday at leak scr s fraud and conspiracy trial. Bakker is accused of defrauding Fol Lowers by using More than $3.7 million in ministry Money to live in High style he faces up to 120 years in prison and More Tolian $5 million in lines if convicted on All 24 counts of fraud and conspiracy. A spokesman for Falwell denied the account Given by Messner. Who testified for the defense at Bakker s fraud trial. Messner also testified that a chief Bak Ker aide claimed the television evangelist knew nothing about $265.000 in hush Money paid to Jessica Hahn. The Church Secretary with whom Bakker had a sex Ual encounter in 1980. Falwell. Founder of the now defunct moral majority took Over i to in 1987 after Bakkeli resigned in the scandal involving Halm Messner testified that the offer to Bak Ker from  included a maid a Secu Rity guard me Telephone expenses if Bak Fer kept his Mouth  Messner said Bakker wrote at the Bot Tom of the piece of paper i m not Mak ing any demands on i to. I m not asking for  Mark Domoss a Falwell spokesman said in a Telephone interview that mess nor was mistaken. He said the alleged offer was actually a demand from Bak Ker. Domoss said Falwell sent Messner to i Alm Springs calif., to talk to Bakker Jim Bakker holds the Arm of his son Jamie As he leaves the Federal courthouse i Charlotte . Harold Bender one of Bakker s attorneys is behind Jamie. Bul he carried no offer. I in said Mossner resumed with a hand Nizien list of de mands on the Pink stationer of Likker s wife. Tammy. Domoss said Likker s demands included Hospital insurance Likker s $300.000 annual salary for life. Tammy Bakker s $ 100.000 annual salary for life royalties on inspirational Hooks and recordings made by the a Sakkers Secretary and maid service for a sear use of a South Carolina lakefront House and furniture and attorneys fees. Simply put the items Roe Messner to Slifco that Rev. Falwell sent him Oul to offer Bakker were items that Flakker re Quested and Messner presented to Rev. Falwell Domoss said. I would like to think Roc just forgot the sequence of  Messner testified that he handled the $265.000 payment to Hahn. He said he was called by Richard Dortch pal s executive vice president on feb. 21. 1985. He said Dortch told him that if he did t pay a woman from new York $265.000 she would go to the Charlotte observer with. Allegations thai Plakke raped her. Five Days later Messner said he wired be $265,000 to a Bank account number in California that was Given to him by Dortch. Messner said he asked Dortch if Bak scr knew about the payment and Dortch replied no i m acting on my  Messner said he agreed to make the payment in part because the assemblies of god was named As the pot Nival party in a lawsuit threatened by Hahn. I did t think the Church ought to be drag ged into this incident he said. . Turns Back soviet jets 3 times off Alaska coast Sands of Zirtie Anchorage. Alaska up a sudden flurry of soviet warplane sorties off the coast of Alaska scrambled . Jet fighters into the air to steer the soviets Back toward Siberia the air Force said monday. The air Force has launched three sep Arale intercept missions against soviet planes since Laic last week officials from the alaskan air command at Elmendorf fab said. Two air Force f-15 Eagle jets were scrambled from Galena in Central Alaska to into Scepi two soviet car a bombers Over the Arctic Ocean in the most recent Mission sunday. The soviet planes Clos est approach to land was 105 mile Northwest of Point Barrow the United states northernmost Point. Two soviet Beard Long Range recon Naissance planes were steered away from Alaska s Aleutian Island Chain Friday by two f-15s stationed at the town of King Salmon in Southwest Alaska. The soviet planes were 110 Miles Southwest of the town of cold Bay. Thursday two f-l5s intercepted two Bearg bombers 121 Miles Northwest of cold Bay. An air Force spokesman said it was not known whether the Bear bombers  thursday and Sun Day were the same planes. Capt Monica Aloisio said the air Force could not say Why there was All this activity or whether in was tied to soviet military training exercises. In the stars and stripes 40 years ago today. Sept. 27, 1949 United nations general Assembly president Carlos Romulo of the Philippines said the problem of International control of atomic Energy could be solved Only in and through the United nations. 30 years ago today. Sept. 27, 1959 president Eisenhower and Soviel Premier Nikita s. Khrushchev had a Frank intensive exploratory discussion at Camp David. Md., concerning the Berlin dispute and the problems of Germany. 20 years ago today. Sept. 27, 1969 diplomatic sources in Prague reported Hal Alexander Oubeck the Leader of Czechoslovakia s Prague Spring would be dropped from the communist party s ruling presidium. 0 years ago today. Sept. 27. 1979 sen. Henry Jackson d-wash., charged that soviet foreign minister Andrei Gromyko was not telling the truth when he told the United Nanon there were no soviet troops in Cuba