European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 5, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 a a the stars and stripes saturday May 5,1990defense Industry layoffs studied Washington up a with defense Industry layoffs already starting the Senate armed services c Orn Mittee heard competing ideas Friday about How to Cushion the economic blow of rapidly declining defense spending. Suggestions ran from minimal government meddling in pro ate Industry to econ nut adjust men be gradation to Pruiet workers. In the last id Days. Three major companies have a a i need  to eliminate 10.000 jobs in de time and Aci space industries i h cd million people Are employed in defense re Tud jobs. And the defense department employs 1.1 a dlr on civilians. Half a million Are directly employed in the manufacture of guns ships planes and Tiu r w Capone. Sen. La borne Pell. D-r.i., has proposed legislation a to he financed in part by savings created from lower defense spending a to continue health benefits Lor la id off workers provide retraining help make contractors Start planning now for alternative uses of their facilities and give workers at least six months adv Ance notice of a Plant closing. Quot management of this adjustment is the first order of business in the Post cold War world Quot Pell told the panel. A it would be ironic indeed if we were unable to manage the readjustment of the magnificent defense Industrial base that played such an important role in bringing us to the position we find ourselves  also testifying was Stanley Pace chairman of defense contractor general dynamics corp., which makes among other things the f-i6 fighter the Trident submarine them a tank and the Tomahawk cruise missile. Pace urged a gradual reduction in spending arguing that rapid cuts would endanger the ability of Industry to rebound by increasing output in any future crisis. He suggested that key weapons systems should be Ridenti tied that there should beat least one and preferably two manufacturers and that an extensive research and de pc Loument program should be maintained. A we Are All aware that the defense Industry build Down will be challenging and often painful a said Pace. A but we must be careful that we do not reshape our defense capabilities both technologically and industrially just for budgetary or political reasons a we will not be Able to resurrect these capabilities should we lose them without enormous expense and a great loss of time a both of which could cause grave damage to our nations  William Haggett chairman of the Maine based Bath Iron works corp., noted that virtually All the work at . Shipyards is for the Navy. He urged that the government should help make them competitive in world markets. While the Impact May be serious for some communities and manufacturers the reduced spending will have Little effect on the Economy As a whole said Gordon Adams director of the defense budget project. Defense spending he noted is 5.5 percent of the Gross National product and a 5 percent annual Cut in defense spending would not amount to much when matched against the Gnu. Contractors such As Mcdonnell Douglas c Orp Grumman corp., Northrop corp., Lockheed corp general dynamics and Martin Marietta corp. Rev on the Pentagon for More than two thirds of their sales Adams noted. For them a the transition May be bumpy especially for those such As Northrop and Grumman who rely on relatively few hardware programs with Uncertain futures a he said. Adams also recommended against creating a separate benefits program for workers affected by defense  sealed As lava oozes into its Center Kaapana. Hawaii apr seven years after it began gobbling Homes creeping lava from the Kilauea Volcano Cut through the heart of this Beach town fridas. Threatening the general store and forcing congregants to move a Church. A Swift to veg Finger of lava barely bypassed the Kaapana store and drive in and came to within Little More than 100 Sards of the Star of the sea Church be i Ore it was loaded onto a flatbed truck for Transfer to a safer place. Workers had to use a Bulldozer to raise a Comer of the foundation after the historic Church known As the a painted Church because of the brightly coloured murals inside refused to Budge. County civil defense chief harrs Kim said the Church would be taken a mile out of town we Here Homes evacuated from Kaapana sit. Church officials have yet to decide where to relocate the Church. Earlier he had said that efforts to move the Church were delayed because authorities were Busy tending to three Homes full of belongings that the lava unexpectedly Cut off. Cis i defense officials kept worried and grieving residents at a Safe distance Friday. The officials had sealed off the Community thursday As the lava flow headed directly for the Center of town. A it is a Community coming to death Quot the churches sister Mary Helen said. A the immediate loss is a loss of Community. Something we be loved All through the  the Starlof the s Church in Kaapana Hawaii is loaded onto a forklift before workers move the Church building Down the Road and out of the lava s enveloping path. Years is  at the heart of the Community since 1963 was the store and drive in owned by 82-year-old Walter Yamaguchi who cleaned off shelves and stopped serving hot foods under an order to close. Jim Halpin who lived in the Kaapana gardens subdivision for nearly six years and watched his Home destroyed last week said he would move Back As soon As officials let people return something that could take years because the lava has to Cool. He stopped at Yamaguchi s store to say goodbye. A Walter s like everybody a Uncle a he said. A i came to say goodbye and get that last Container of chocolate  retiring Iowa Captain criticizes Navy probe Norfol k in of opt Tohff attain xl.11 t k Ort i i k a a 1 a h n of j til i. A a Norfolk. A. Apr the Captain of the battleship Iowa said Friday at his retirement that the Navy s investigation of the fatal gun Turret explosion aboard the battleship was based on unsubstantiated reports and suppositions. A it is too bad the Iowa investigation team consisted of managers a and apparently not very Good managers at that a people More concerned about determining whether the paperwork was done than if people were properly trained a said capt. Fred p. Moosally during the world War ii Era battleship s change of command ceremony. A Pentagon spokesman said he had no immediate comment. Moosally who had never before commented publicly on the explosion said the investigation was handled by a people More concerned with a getting it Over with and therefore presenting facts and opinions based on unsubstantiated third party information unsubstantiated reports and  the explosion on april 19. 1989, killed 47 crewmen. A controversial Navy report blamed sabotage by a Sailor As the a most Likely cause of the tragedy. A after the investigation report was released it is too bad that the Ball was handed off to people most concerned about an institutional image and therefore unable to bring themselves to admit that the investigation report is irreconcilable with the results of every inspection held on the Iowa before and after april 19,�?� Moosally said. He also complained about Quot people who in their Rush to manage the Iowa problem forgot about doing the right thing for the Iowa  �?o1 leave this subject by asking a question which others must answer. How could this have happened in our Navy the explosion. Was a dual tragedy. Forty seven men died and 1,500 survivors were made victims when they should have been heroes a Moosally said. Moosally was succeeded by his executive officer cmdr. John p. Morse. The battleship is expected to be decommissioned and put in Mothballs the latter part of this year. The Navy s investigation found several deficiencies in the administration of the ship that it said were not related to the explosion. In a separate investigation Moosally and three other crewmen were Given reprimands. A i am responsible for everything that happens aboard my ship and i have no excuse for the problem areas that were found aboard Iowa during the investigation a Moosally said previously in a formal reply to his reprimand a a non punitive letter of caution. The Navy a investigation into the explosion concluded gunners mate Clayton Hartwig deliberately caused the blast. Hartwig died in the explosion. That conclusion has been harshly criticized by some of the families of the 47 sailors and by members of Congress. Quot i would just say that he has joined the ranks of Many of the rest of us on How the report was handled a said Nancy Lewis whose son Richard was killed in the explosion. A i m glad to see he said it a she said in a Telephone interview from her Home m Northville Mich. A maybe the Navy is trying to do the right