European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 28, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 8 a a a the stars and stripes saturday july 28,1990 2 panels a by Chuck Vinch Washington Bureau Washington a prospects Are dim for overseas military construction projects in the upcoming fiscal year. Two of the four committees that oversee the defense spending process the Senate armed services committee and the House appropriations committee have weighed in with recommendations that would slash military construction overseas. The Senate committee Cut three quarters of the funds for overseas projects requested by the Pentagon when it approved $8,5 billion in the construction portion of its $289 billion defense authorization Bill. The Bill contains $5,1 billion for general construction $532 million less than the Pentagon had asked for and $3,4 billion for family housing construction $ 561 million less than asked for. The overseas finding cuts include numerous qual Ity of life projects among them schools m Darmstadt Frankfurt Idar Oberstein Kaiserslautern Mannheim lands Tull Nellinger and Ramstein a All in West Germany and Harrogate in England. Other projects to get the a in the Senate Bill were medical and dental facilities in Vicenza Italy Timberg and Giessen in West Germany and Raf Ezdell and Raf Lanark in Scotland As Well As a major family housing project planned for the naval air station at Kef Lavik Iceland. A a the committee makes these recommendations because of the substantial uncertainty regarding the size location and character of the . Forward deployed military presence in the years ahead Quot said a report accompanying the. The report said committee members realize they Are deferring construction projects that would enhance the lives of service families at overseas locations. Quot the committee regrets this Adverse Impact but believes this action is warranted until future requirements can be developed by the defense department and reviewed by the committee a the report said. The House appropriations committee was somewhat Kinder to the Pinta gone a request. It approved the school projects at Frankfurt Lan Stuhl and Harrogate the two medical facilities in Scotland and Kef Lavik a family housing project. But in its $8.3 billion Bill that panel also Cut most overseas projects. House committee members offered Many of the same reasons for cutting overseas construction that were cited by the Senate armed services committee those include uncertainty regarding base rights the need for increased Burden sharing uncertainty about future base closures and realignments and the potential for troop cuts when a conventional forces in Europe agreement is reached. 1 1. Approval of military construction recommendations by the two committees leaves two other congressional panels the Senate appropriations committee and the House armed services committee still to be heard from the House armed services committee is scheduled to Complete work on its version of the defense authorization Bill next week. It is Uncertain when the Senate appropriations committee will act on its defense funding Bill. L on Fate of planned Croton a by Chuck Vinch Washington Bureau Washington a one does no to have to look far to see that the planned . Air base in Croton Italy will be a divisive budget Issue in Congress this year. A peek at the two defense spending Bills that so far have come out of committee says it All the base project is not mentioned in the Senate armed services committee s defense authorization Bill. In the House appropriations committee s funding Bill lawmakers frankly acknowledge that they d rather have someone else Deal with the Issue. Sen. Alan Dixon d-i1l, has said he purposely avoided the subject of Croton to keep it from becoming a stumbling Block to Quick approval of the $8.5 billion construction portion of the Senate committee s $289 billion defense Bill. A Dixon Heads the panel s readiness subcommittee which oversees military construction. He is among those who favor cancelling the decision made last year by Congress to go Forward on the base project with the . Share of expenditures capped at $360 million. The base expected to Cost $900 million is to be the new Home of the 401st tac fighter Wing. The Wing must vacate its current location at Torrejon a Spain by the end of 1992 by the direction of the Spanish government. The first phase of construction in Italy is to Start next month. Dixon and other lawmakers who want to kill the Croton project Are opposed by colleagues angered Over what they see As a . Move to renege on an agreement that already had been Given the Blessing of the nato allies including the United states. Rather than have a Battle erupt in committee Dixon chose to wait for a better Opportunity. Quot i fully plan to visit the Issue on the floor of the Senate when debate on the committees defense authorization Bill begins he said. It appears Dixon will have Many friends in the debate. One could be powerful Senate armed services committee chairman Sam Nunn a Ca. Nunn has suggested that the base May not be needed at All or that it could be reduced in scope to accommodate stateside units on temporary deployments rather than Host a permanent entity such As the 401st. The report accompanying the Senate Bill made a reference to Nunn s sentiments. Once the Pentagon decides on a Long Tern Forward deployed Force Structure defense officials Quot should embark of a critical analysis of which units require the stability of accompanied Tours and which can be More economically fulfilled by rotational or Short tour forces 1 the report said. In the House support for building the Croton base has All but collapsed mainly because of the efforts of rep. Pat Schroeder d-colo., head of the House armed services military installations subcommittee. Aides predict that the House armed services committee will have no qualms about shutting Down the Croton project when it begins work next week on its own version of the fiscal �?T91 defense authorization Bill. House appropriations committee members apparently think that s a Safe bet. In their $8.3 billion military construction Bill approved july 19, lawmakers decided the Best move they could make on Croton was to make no move at All. The committee deferred All funding for Croton until dec. 31, which would allow time for the House and Senate to decide what to do with the project As part of the defense authorization Bill the first level of the two tiered defense funding process. Quot the committee considers it prudent to await the outcome of the authorization process before obligating any further funds Quot said the committee report accompanying the Bill. Castro accuses Spain of aiding a Yankee aggression in standoff Havana Cuba not a president Fidel Castro bitterly criticized Spain on thursday night for a standoff involving refugees seeking Asylum in its Havana embassy. He called it Quot the latest act of the . Against Cuba Quot and accused Spain of acting As an accomplice to Quot Yankee in the crisis tens of cubans have sought Refuge in european diplomatic missions Castro a address marked the anniversary of the Start of the cuban revolution. In a rhetorical Challenge Castro said he would be willing to set up offices so that Quot progressive europeans 1 could receive cuban emigres. If the United states is concerned about Asylum seekers he said Quot let them Send boats and responding to Spain s recent decision to reduce Aid to Cuba the cuban president said Quot we renounce with Daniel Ortega the former president of Nicaragua and Julius Nyerere the former tanzanian president As his guests of Honor Castro lamented the demise of socialism in much of the world. He said Trade Between Cuba and some of the countries that formerly were in the East bloc Quot has practically Moscow is Quot making maximal efforts Quot to help Cuba Castro said but added that if the soviet Union a disintegrated or even disappeared Quot Cuba would a continue to build Castro provided few details on his economic plans despite widespread speculation about How the country will get by next year when soviet subsidies Are expected to decline sharply. World today incorrect use of pesticides kills 100, makes 2,000 ill Beuing apr More than 100 chinese Farmers were killed and 2,000 made ill in the coastal province of i angst this summer from improper use of pesticides it was reported Friday. The humid hot conditions of the Region require substantial use of Bug killing pesticides by peasants who often do not observe safety procedures the official people s daily said. The report said that More than 100 people had died because there was no effective antidote for the pesticide poisoning. It called for better management to prevent further incidents but did not provide further details about the poisoning. Meanwhile in the Northern province of Jilin 4,500 peasant households have filed a suit against a company that sold them an ineffective pesticide fridays peasant daily algae return to norwegian fjord. Oslo Norway apr a toxic algae that killed thousands of Farmed Salmon last summer have returned to a norwegian fiord spreading fears of a new invasion an official is no immediate threat. It has not i t. A but we Are watching it closely said Jostein Vea acting manager of the Stavanger Norway fisheries District. Vea said High concentrations of the algae which destroy a fish s Gills Are so far limited to one fjord in Western Norway s by Fyke District. Just the fish Farmers Are pretty nervous Quot he said by Telephone. One moved his farm to escape the algae and two others May also move fee said. The normally harmless pyrene sum Parve a algae unexpectedly turned toxic last year and destroyed 30 million Kroner $4.75 million Worth of Farmed fish in by Fyke. Vea said a nitrogen and phosphate imbalance m the fiord possibly due to pollution helped trigger the algae a toxic production. A the weather is warm and sea conditions Are favourable to its growth right now a said Vea. 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