European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 13, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 a the stars and stripes Friday april 13,1990 columns Jim Fain multiple warhead missiles should be junked r Cuba tire in a a a n a. The strategic arms reduction treaty now being haggled out so presidents Bush and Gorbachev can enjoy their Summit will not reduce the nuclear threat one Iota says Paul Nitze. Give this grizzled arms control Veteran his druthers and head put Start on hold while pushing to eliminate the soviet ss-18 monster missile Fleet. Wed have to give up some things that worry the russians he told a press breakfast the other Day. And Why not because the air Force and Navy will be fighting Over who gets what a left sighed the 83-year-old statesman who negotiated the inf agreement for president Reagan. He Learned Over the years that the toughest problem is not bargaining with the . But with our own bureaucracies. Soviet ss-18s Are 10-warhead giants of such accuracy that they could wipe out our silo based missiles in one Salvo. The russians have 308 of these land based rockets an awesome bang for a modest Ruble. Our major counter threat is a Fleet of Invulnerable submarines with 10-warhead missiles. These Are accurate enough to destroy cities but not missiles in silos. Soon they will be. We re bringing on line an eight warhead d-5 of pinpoint accuracy. Naturally we try to negotiate limits on land based missiles while the soviets prefer to discuss the Virtues of naval cutbacks. So far president Bush has ruled the Navy of limits. If arms talks Are to be meaningful sooner or later each Side will have to put its sunday punch on the table. Adm. William Crowe after stepping Down As chief of staff admitted As much. A if some naval reductions can get us More than they re Worth we ought to be willing to talk a he said. The Bush administration recently opened the door a crack on realistic strategic cuts. The new York times revealed that Secretary of state James a. Baker Iii had proposed a ban on All land based multiple warhead missiles As a subject for Start ii. Not surprisingly the russians responded a they How about submarines a Baker also made a Welcome suggestion for getting rid of land based Mobile mires in Start i. Banning Mobile mires is a pet of National Security adviser Brent scowcroft supported by sen. Sam nun George f. Will . And rep. Les Aspin chairmen of the congressional armed services committees. The soviets protested the Rush but did not say a Flat yet. That a encouraging when you consider that they already deploy on rail cars More than 20 Mobile missiles of 10 warheads each while Congress still is debating whether to fund rail Basing for the 50 mrs we have in silos. My is a super accurate 10-warhead Carrier. If we could eliminate All land based mires by accepting some limits on submarine launched missiles it would be a safer world a and not that it matters there a still be roles for Navy and air Force. Bush ought to bang Heads and get this rolling. As Nitze says it makes the Start i niggling look like kid stuff. Mires Are Ideal first strike weapons. Once launched each is off to destroy As Many As 10 separate targets. On the ground its just one big fat temptation to an enemy targeted. Getting rid of them will be costly. In a less than perfect world Well need to replace them with single warhead Mobile midget men and build smaller subs so our reduced d-5 Force can be dispersed. With All the other defense cuts now possible that san affordable bargain. Cox news service Mobile californians May be forced to shift gears los Angeles a on june 5, a political Era will be punctuated perhaps with a period perhaps just with a comma. The barometric vote measuring the political climate concerns not candidates but a proposition. Proposition 111 would ease the strict spending limits imposed on California in 1979 under the so called Gann limit. It would allow a doubling of the gasoline tax from nine to 18 cents a gallon Over five years. Californians governorship the second most glittering prize in american politics is particularly important this time because of redistricting in 1992, California a probably with 52 seats an increase of seven a will elect almost one eighth of the House of representatives. So intense interest attaches to the democratic primary from which former san Francisco mayor Dianne Feinstein or California attorney general John Van de Kamp will emerge to oppose . Republican sen. Pete Wilson. But the Fate of proposition 111 will reveal the political atmosphere that will govern whoever is elected governor in november. The candidates reflect ideological convergence. Wilson courts environmentalists by opposing continued Federal leasing for offshore Oil drilling. In 1988, Bush carried California by just 3 percent while Dukakis carried most of the coastal counties where environmentalism is Strong. Feinstein has sprinted from far behind to a Large Lead largely on the strength of a commercial proclaiming her a the Only Democrat for governor for the death  in 1968, on the eve of the election in which the combined Nixon and George Wallace vote was 56.9 percent Gallup polled on this question a is there any area around Here a that is within a mile a where you would be afraid to walk at  the affirmative was nationally 35 percent. Men 19 percent women 50 percent. Some democrats saw the dynamite half of americans husbands had frightened wives. But most liberals regarded concern about crime As sublimated racism. Feinstein is a Democrat coming to terms with the fact that frightened voters vote their fears. The most interesting convergence by the candidates is that All three favor proposition 111. Furthermore even gov. George Deukmejian whose frugality is a byword has broken the Wall Street journals conservative heart by endorsing proposition 111. Why californians gasoline tax has been unchanged during a decade in which 47 states raised theirs some several times. In the next 25 years the number of California vehicles will increase 35 percent but Miles travelled will increase 68 percent partly because housing costs the median Price is about $200,000 Force Young couples to live far from jobs. In booming affluent Orange county Only two Miles of new freeways were built in the 1980s. What else is booming rain and Snow seasons and with arizon the cellular phone business for commit exercising rights to additional Colorado u a a a it i Luna Lack Iii Toi of a. Ers gridlocked in congestion wasting the states most precious resource its citizens time. California ranks 49th or 50th in per capita spending on highways los Angeles alone needs $1 billion for repairs and that is just one measure of the infrastructure deficit. California is 50th in per capita income spent on schools. In this decade californians population will surge at least 4.4 million approximately Maryland a present population. In the last half of the 1980s, elementary and secondary school enrolments increased 500,000 by 1995, 700,000 More students More people than live in Memphis will Cost the Stal each year. California state $1 billion schools already have the nations highest average class size. Now the state needs 26,000 new classrooms in this decade. San Diego must find $1.5 billion for sewage treatment capacity to Stop raw sewage spills. San Jose a sewage capacity is so strained that the City government urged residents not to flush their toilets All at the same time during the super bowl halftime. California would have to spend $5.6 billion just to bring sewage treatment up to Federal health standards. California has shimmered in the West As americans Cornucopia a land of overflowing abundance. But suddenly Scarcity is in the air a including a Scarcity of clean air and of another fundamental after four consecutive disappointing River water californians face water rationing. All this while half a Century of Prosperity driven by defense spending a be ending. Californians 1990 voting comes after 24 years of conservative governance four Reagan Deukmejian terms and Twe Jerry Brown terms which were in then Quirky Way just As conservative regarding state spending. Conservatism swept eastward out of California particularly from the los Angeles san Diego megalopolis. California conservatism set the tone of conservatism nationally with the passage in june 1978, of proposition 13, the property tax cutting measure that was followed a year later by the spending limits that proposition 111 would ease. On june 5, we shall see whether californians brooding in their stalled cars amid congestion have come to the conclusion that it is time to shift governmental gears. This decision like the one dozen years ago will reveal Someth g about the future for the rest of us. C Washington Post writers group the opinions expressed in the columns and cartoons on this Page represent t of the authors and Are in no Way t considered As representing the vie the stars and stripes or the United states government