European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 27, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes tuesday february 27, 1990 defense cuts won t affect Economy greatly study finds Washington a reducing . Defense spending will have no More Impact on the Economy than cutting Money for education health and other programs says a report issued monday. Using previously published data economist David Gold concludes that on average Over the past four decades defense spending has been a relatively Neutral feature of the american economic  Gold s findings differ from the accepted belief that reducing the defense budget which in the latest Bush administration proposal totals s392 billion for fiscal 1991, will generate Revenue for Othu programs and trigger economic growth. Cutting the defense budget will have no More of an Impact on . Investment research and development innovation productivity International compact Itic Ness and economic growth than will cutting other forms of spending both Public and  Gold said in the report. The economist conducted the Survey while serving As consultant for the defense budget project. The non profit think tank released Gold s report. The report challenges the conventional Wisdom on both sides regarding the Impact of defense spending said Gordon Adams director of the defense budget project. The report said cuts in defense spending May pro vide funds for other programs and if properly handled the Economy could Benefit. However. Gold questioned the argument that the defense budget should be Cut to promote economic growth. The Case for cutting the defense budget May lie elsewhere in such problems As waste and mismanage ment and in the debate Over the actual requirements for military forces in a rapidly changing world Gold said. Gold also disputed the claim that defense require ments for research and development Talent have weak ened productivity in the private sector. According to the report the number of scientists and engineers who have left civilian work Lor the military sector has declined in recent years despite the defense buildup of the 1980s. The i.? \m$3& Tail of woe the calf undoubted in t very Happy about the grasp Carrie Choate has on its Tail but the cowgirl s hanging on. The calf scramble competitor eventually lost her hold on the Tail in the opening Day event at a Rodeo in Houston. But she won a hard Luck prize i calf for her True grit Effort. Foreign service after criticism of Washington l i Kevin Kearns. A foreign service officer who Publick opposed . Policy to Ward Japan has resigned after superiors criticized his Public comments about Japan and its supporters with in the stale department. Carns 42. Who has been in the foreign service fur 13 years and served in Japan from 1986 to 1988. Re signed after he was strongly criticized by Deputy Secre tary of slate Lawrence Eagleburger and other senior officials for publishing negative articles about  relationship. Nobody threatened me. And my leaving is not directly concerned with the Issue Kearns said. But he said it was made Clear to him that his articles on . Policy toward Japan and the Way it had been formed had touched a nerve. I can t think of any other country where an Issue is discussed in the Way it is with Japan he said. Japan and its apologists and friends take any criticism As unfriendly and they respond Wilh personal attacks. Officer resigns his Japan views i Don t think there is a free and fair debate he said. The reaction to criticism about Japan has a chilling  Carns first article w hich appeared in the foreign serv ice journal said the United slates had been taken for a ride in the Deal to share technology with the japanese in the building of the fax. The next generation fighter aircraft based on the general dynamics f-16 plane. As a result of the foreign sen ice journal article an the Strong reaction to it. Kearns wrote a follow up article for the Washington Post that was headlined let s Stop making the mistakes that made fax a  some of the strongest Adverse reactions to his article came from japanese newspapers. One paper the san Sci Shimun quoted a . Professor in Tokyo As saying that Carns had engaged in mccarthyism for questioning the role of the traditional policy makers inside the slate department. Kearns is to take a position with the economic strategy Institute a Washington based think tank. Stateside refuseniks David Goldfarb Dies of heart failure at 71 Washington a noted soviet refuseniks David Goldfarb has died of heart failure at George Washington University Hospital his son said. Goldfarb 71, was allowed to leave the soviet Union in 1986 after . Industrialist Armand Hammer arranged for his release in negotiations with soviet officials. Goldfarb had been denied permission to emigrate to Israel in 1984 after he exposed an alleged attempt by the Kab to enlist his Aid in framing . Journalist Nicholas Daniloff. Dan loft then the Moscow correspondent for . News and world report had been arrested on espionage charges. Goldfarb a biology professor was a visiting scholar at the National institutes of health. He is survived by his wife. Cecelia and a son and a daughter. His wife and son live in new York City his daughter in Moscow. Bootleg audio tapes confiscated in California Pico Rivera. Calif. A thousands of Bootleg audio tapes High capacity copying equipment and $89.000 in Cash were found at two Homes after a mysterious 911 phone Call from one residence authorities said. Six men identified As mexican nationals were arrested. The operation had the capacity to make 15,000 to 20.000 tapes a Day which could Cost the record Indus try millions of dollars said Deputy Pat Hunter a Sher Iff s spokesman. The discovery began with a Call to the 911 emergency line that was automatically traced when the caller Hung up without saying anything. Sheriffs deputies sent to investigate the Call Friday found thousands of tapes. They also found evidence that led them to More tapes in the garage and to $89.000 in $ 100 Bills stashed in a cookie Jar in an attic of a House several Miles away said Deputy Rafael Estrada. Pico Rivera is 10 Miles Southeast of downtown los Angeles. Bright future predicted for 300-Mph Bullet train Pittsburgh a a 300-Mph Bullet train that uses magnetic levitation will become the transportation of Choice for 150 to 300-mile trips in the unite states a group that Hopes to develop the trains says. The trains appear to be the Best High Speed ground transportation technology based on Cost environmental Impact Speed Comfort and readiness James Rod Day acting president of magic inc. Said. What we presently consider the commuter airline Market represent the magnetic levitation Market said Roddey an advertising executive. Mag lev inc., a group of business labor and govern ment leaders was formed to develop a 19-mile Demon stration project linking downtown Pittsburgh to greater Pittsburgh International Airport. The mag lev train hovers on a magnetic Field Over an elevated guide Way using technology devised in the United states in 1968 and improved in West Ger Many. Train cars have no wheels and wrap around a guide rail preventing the train from derailing. Sex Florida governor goes Back to gop to run again Tallahassee. Fla. A a former Florida governor has switched Back to the Republican party to Challenge gov. Bob Martinez in the september gop primary. The Opportunity is  said Claude r. Kirk jr., who was governor from 1967 to 1971 and was the first Republican since reconstruction to win the Florida office. He later became a Democrat however. Kirk 64, who once vetoed his own budget lost his re election bid in 1970. His ability to attract votes virtually disappeared after he was turned out of office by Democrat Reubin Askew. Kirk mounted another ill fated gubernatorial bid As a Democrat in 1978 when he and running mate Mary Singleton finished sixth in a Field of seven. Two years ago Kirk came in fifth in a six Way race for the . Senate