European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 28, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 a a a the stars and stripes wednesday March 28,1990 $1 billion Pentagon repair called a out of the questions Washington apr the chairman of a Senate panel on military construction said monday that a Bush administration request for $1.1 billion to renovate the Pentagon is a out of the  sen. James Sasser a Tenn acknowledged that the 47-year-old building is in need of repair but said the administrations Call for $1.1 billion Over seven years would be difficult to heed in a time of shrinking budgets. A the military construction Bill is going to get smaller not  Sasser told Pentagon officials at a Senate hearing. A a there a simply no room for such an  the chairman of the Senate appropriations subcommittee on military construction faulted past defense secretaries for failing to get the general services administration to provide sufficient funds for the buildings Upkeep. The Gas owns the Pentagon building with Transfer of control to the defense department expected some time this year. A a in a not persuaded that we ought to ask the taxpayers to come up with another billion dollars to provide new office space for those who work in the Pentagon and to expand it a Sasser said. A perhaps its time to take a hard look at scaling Back some of the Pentagon staff a David j. Berteau the Pentagon a principal Deputy assistant Secretary for production and logistics said that if he Cut his staff in half he would a not leave a Dent in the Pentagon because those people Are not located in the Pentagon As it is  Sasser who is also chairman of the Senate budget committee said spending a billion dollars or More a to buy new offices for the Pentagon is just out of the question in the budgetary climate that i see  the Pentagon the largest office building in the world has 17.5 Miles of corridors 131 stairways 19 escalators and 13 elevators and covers 29 acres in Northern Virginia. Horse owners Luke Varguin left and his wife Patricia Are stopped and kept a Safe distance from a burning barn at the Lewiston raceway in Maine. Restrained at the raceway they were Rushing to attempt to save their three horses from a burning barn at the raceway. Fire officials said 10 horses were lost in the monday Blaze. More gunfire erupts in bus strike by the associated press someone fired on a bus terminal in Texas and a bus was struck by gunfire in Florida in the latest outbreaks of shooting during the vhf week old greyhound strike. No one was injured in either of mondays shootings. Meanwhile a California judge ordered striking Drivers in the Southwest not to threaten replacement Drivers for the country a Only nationwide bus company a greyhound bus was hit by gunfire late monday on interstate 4 about 30 Miles West of Orlando fla., spokeswoman Jeanne Fry said from greyhounds Dallas Headquarters monday night. The Bullet destroyed the vehicles right hand Mirror but none of the 32 passengers was injured she said. A shot was fired earlier from a passing car at the terminal in Amarillo Texas Fry said. Workers and passengers initially thought the sound was a car backfiring Fry said. But Small holes were found in a window and police found a 20-gauge Shotgun Cartridge in the Street authorities said. The incidents brought to 28 the number of shoot Ings including 24 on buses since the strike began March 2, according to Fry. Superior court judge David Yaffe in los Angeles issued an injunction against intimidating workers with a fear of bodily harm or  greyhound alleged that strikers had blocked or damaged buses and harassed replacement workers. No attorneys appeared at the hearing for the unions Southwest Region. Nearly 6,300 Drivers and 3,000 other greyhound workers went on strike after negotiators for greyhound lines inc. And the amalgamated Council of greyhound local unions failed to reach agreement on wage issues. The company said Drivers earned an average $24,743 last year. The Drivers took a 22 percent pay Cut three years ago before a leveraged buyout of the company. Greyhound is offering a first year raise of 6,9 percent. No further negotiations Are scheduled greyhound officials said monday. Stateside Takeoff of Twa flight aborted by engine fire Boston a _ a Twa flight aborted its Takeoff monday morning after fire and smoke was detected an engine a Logan Airport official said. Seven Neon suffered minor injuries during the emergency Evan Tion of the plane. Phil Orlandella spokesman for the Massachusetts port authority which runs Logan Airport said the Crew aboard an l-1011 Jet abandoned its Tawf around 9 30. The flight was bound for St. Louis. Orlandella said the Jet taxied off the runway and evacuation chutes were deployed to help 163 passengers get off the plane. There was also a Crew of 13 on  engineered enzyme approved by Fra Washington not a the food and drug administration has approved what it says is the first genetically engineered food product for humans an enzyme used in making cheese. The Agency says that the enzyme renin is Safe for humans. Renin is now extracted from calves stomachs As part of a mixture called rennet and is widely used to clot milk forming it into curds and whey the Agency said. Scientists identified the Gene in the calves that produced the enzyme and placed it in the harmless bacteria e. Coli where it directed the production of renin. A the real advantage is that it is probably a much cheaper Way of producing this substance than to grow calves a said William Grigg a spokesman for the cd japanese plan to build Plant to make tire cords Scottsburg ind. Up a three japanese companies have formed a joint venture to build a $60 million Scottsburg Plant to make steel tire cords officials said. Plans for the Kotoku steel Cord corp. Plant were announced by Kotoku steel wire and Kanematsu corp., both of Tokyo and nichiren corp. Of Osaka. The facility measuring 300,000 Square feet will employ about 200 workers and is scheduled to open this  to tube Plant to be located in Michigan Ann Arbor Mich. Up a Philips components display co. Announced monday it will locate a $100 million Plant in nearby Saline to make color television picture tubes and products for High definition television systems. Company executives told a news conference attended by gov. James j. Blanchard and other officials the facility would provide about 400 jobs in Southeastern Michigan and introduce new technology to the Region. Construction on a 400,000-Square-foot Plant will begin in july 1990 and is to be completed Early in 1992, said Iva Wilson president of Philips display components. Initially the Plant will manufacture 1 million 27-Inch color television picture tubes a year and eventually will have the ability to produce High definition picture tubes Wilson  cancellations up by 42%, airlines report St. Paul Minn. Up a cancelled airline flights were reported monday to have risen 42 pent it Asl year stranding passengers on More than 41,000 Domestic flights. The St. Paul Pioneer press reported that Federal figures show us air was the greatest offender by tar cancelling nearly 16,000 flights. American was second with 10,000 and United was third with 9,200. Twin cities based Northwest airlines had nearly 5,100 cancelled flights. The newspaper said the figures which show flights cancelled by 12 major carriers for non mechanical reasons Rose by about 17,500 in the year ending Jan. Al reflecting the big carriers problems with bad weather growth and Crew shortages