European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 2, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The Sll Sand amp gripes authorized unofficial publication for the . Armed forces Good morning vol. 49, no. 111 thursday August 2, 1990 a. S5< of airy and sunday d 8693 a b-2 inside stripes a Dollar drops on Europe currency markets.,.Page 3 a Ira claims responsibility for killing lawmaker Gow Page 8 a Pentagon presses ahead on controversial radar device Page 13 a officials blast Hanford nuclear waste safety. Page 28 a Washington apr the House armed services committee on tuesday approved a $283-Btllion defense Bill that would Kilt the b-2 bomber Cut almost 130,000 Active duty troops and slash nearly $2 billion from president Bush s budget request for the strategic defense initiative anti missile program. Meeting in private the panel adopted military budget for the fiscal year by oct. F that chops $24 billion from Bush s original proposal of $307 billion made in january according to reports by committee members. Among major cuts in the House legislation Are the elimination of All research Money for two nuclear missiles the my and the midget Man and a personnel Cut of 129,500. Ii would also provide funding for Only one of two sea Wolf attack submarines the Pentagon sought. While slashing major programs the panel rejected defense Secretary Dick Cheney a second attempt in two years to cancel the v-22 Osprey program adding $403 Millioto for the tilt Rotor assault transport aircraft. The full House is expected to Tajc up the Bill in Early september when it returns from the August recess. The Senate see House on Back Page services at 26 in by Ron Mckinney staff water military shoppers have beef. Flocking to base commissaries and exchanges throughout Turkey this week but not necessarily because it s pay Day week. The turkish Harb is Union representing turkish civilian employees at . Military installations has Given notice that its members intend to strike on Friday according to a statement issued by Ankara air station. The strike would close Many of the services at 26 Sites in the country including commissaries base exchanges officer and no clubs military clothing sales stores shop Pettes and stars and stripes bookstores according to base spokeswoman capt. Marcella Adams. Some turkish workers May Cross the picket line but officials do not expect that to happen in Large numbers she said. The Union threatened a similar strike during negotiations in 1988, but reached an agreement within 12 hours of the appointed Start of the strike. A there Are no Active talks now a Adams said americans cannot be hired temporarily to replace the striking turks. According to the terms of the cur see strike on Back Page rebels release Trinidad Leader port of Spain Trinidad apr moslem radicals freed a ailing and wounded prime minister Arthur . Robinson on tuesday four Days after they took him and 40 other people hostage in a coup attempt the attorney general said. The other hostages including 15 government officials were still held attorney general Anthony smart said. He refused to say what conditions led to the 63-year-old Robinson s release. In Washington White House spokesman roman see rebels on Back Page Oil spill in Texas threatens Rich wildlife habitats fishing a 4 a w a 1 a it it. Ltd in i workers try to unload and set upright the Barge that was damaged in a collision on saturday. Galveston Texas apr the precious fishing grounds and teeming wildlife habitats of Galveston Bay Are being endangered by a 500,000-gallon Oil spill unleashed by a ship Barge collision a state official warned tuesday. The spill began saturday when a Tanker ship struck two barges in the Houston ship Channel which is in part dredged though the Bay. A by tuesday a 17-mile-Long Slick had formed. Heavy Oil had washed up on a Dike in Texas City about three Miles Northwest of Galveston and on a nearby Peninsula and Island the coast guard said. The deaths of two seabirds were blamed on the spill that has killed an undetermined number of fish. The Houston ship Channel closed since the spill began partly reopened tuesday afternoon. Dozens of ships have been stranded preventing them from leaving or reaching Houston at an estimated Cost of$l.5 million a Day. Another Texas official criticized what he characterized As a Lack of response to the disaster. Galveston Bay is protected from the Gulf of Mexico by Barrier islands. The islands contain delicate nesting grounds for Birds and other wildlife. The Bay a the richest Estuary on the Gulf coast a is an important fishing ground for shrimp and other commercially valuable species. Experts fear the spill will take a heavy environmental toll both because the Oil is thick and because it is unlikely to dissipate in the enclosed Waters As did the Light crude spilled in the Gulf by the Tanker Mega Borg in june a the worst kind of spill you can have is one behind these Barrier islands which is what we be got Quot said Larry Mckinney director of resource see spill on Back Pago of it a in f news in i a As ily i a As begin vacuuming nil from the Tanker that a did ashore along a Dike on i be Uja Nolan Ryan gets 300th win a a