European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 13, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 4 the stars and stripes saturday october 13,1990house oks cuts in b-2, Star wars Bill trims Bush weapons requests Washington a the House on Friday spending Bill t president bus approved a 1991 defense hat makes wholesale cuts in has budget request for strategic weapons programs. By a vote of 322-97, the House adopted the $268 billion package which stops production of the b-2 stealth bomber at 15 planes and slashes spending on the strategic defense initiative or Star wars to $2.3 billion. The legislation also reduces the number of . Troops by 77,000, cuts production funds for the Pentagon a plan to place my missiles on Railroad cars and restores $403 million for the v-22 Osprey till Rotor aircraft. Final passage of the Bill which meets the level of defense spending in the budget Resolution approved by Congress last weekend came after the House turned aside across the Board cuts in military spending. By a vote of 215-201, the House reject Dan amendment that would have imposed a 2 percent across the Board Cut and eliminated $5.3 billion that the House appropriations committee tacked onto the Bill tuesday. The House overwhelmingly rejected 319-97, a measure imposing a 5 percent across the Board Cut. A is it going to guns or is it going to bankruptcy Quot rep. James Traficant a Ohio asked his colleagues before the vote on that amendment. As members pushed to Complete the Bill and recess for their first weekend off in three weeks Large chunks of the defense Bill were approved by voice vote and it appeared the legislation would approved by midday. Traficanto a actions temporarily held up the vote and angered several lawmakers in the process. A if pass this Congress sold out a the Ohio congressman said. A this is a Damn House of political prostitutes. In a not one of following the vote rep. Dave Mccur. By d-okla., was the first to respond to the charge. A a it san absolute damned lie and you owe us an apology a Mccurdy said his voice rising in anger. Traficant apologized for his comments and asked that his words stricken from the Days record if they denigrated a the integrity and character of any member of the As the House completed the defense spending Bill the Bush administration faced an Uphill fight in its Campaign to save the b-2 bomber despite having turned aside a serious congressional Challenge to the air Force program. A a hanging on by Stealthy fingers a sen. Sam Nunn a b-2 proponent said thursday following approval by the Senate appropriations committee of the defense Bill. The Georgia Democrat is chairman of the Senate armed services committee by voice vote the Senate appropriations panel adopted a spending blueprint that leaves intact Bush s budget request of $5.1 billion for two b-2 bombers and components for More bombers in 1992. The $268 billion package a which is substantially different from the House approved legislation a trims about $1 billion from Bush a $4.7 billion proposal for the strategic defense initiative imposes limits on Star wars that will delay Early deployment and cuts the number of . Troops by 100,000. The full Senate is expected to take up its version of the Bill next week. Facing increasing congressional discontent with the stealth aircraft and its manufacturer the Northrop corp., the administration stepped up its Effort to saw the b-2 on thursday. 0 save in a letter to members of the House and Senate armed services commit Elf Bush said the bomber is impel a a .-soviet negotiations to limit strategic weapons. 611 meanwhile air Force Secretary Don Aid Rice pleaded with lawmakers not to decide the b-2�?Ts Fate based on an air Force review that found widespread prob lems in nearly every aspect of Northrop a Dull less earlier this week Brig. Gen. Robert w Drewes who led the eight member team that conducted the study told a House panel that Northrop was deficient in six major areas incl dog Cost and schedule estimates. The review did not delve into problems associated with ongoing Federal investigations of the los Angeles based company. Northrop pleaded guilty in february to 34 counts of fraud and was fined $17 million the largest criminal Fine Ever imposed on a defense contractor. The plea stems from charges that Northrop falsified reports on the air launched cruise missile and conducted improper tests on the harrier av-8b aircraft. An Engineer at the Institute of radio astronomy mans the new Seti radio Telescope in Argentina Southern hemisphere radio begins extraterrestrial search Washington up a a powerful new radio receiver began scanning the sky from the Southern hemisphere Friday for messages from intelligent life from outer space. About 100 people gathered at the Institute of radio astronomy outside Buenos Aires Argentina As the High tech receiver was switched on at 10 09 a m and began monitoring More than 8 million radio frequencies. Nothing was immediately detected. A nobody thinks its going to get turned on and there Wal a hello How Are you a sitting there. But this is clearly a significant step Forward a astronomer Carl Sagan said beforehand. The new receiver allows astronomers for the first time to systematically search the part of the Cosmos visible from the Southern hemisphere for radio signals from extraterrestrial beings. Quot if were extremely Lucky and there were some relatively nearby civilization broadcasting us a message but they were in the Southern hemisphere could have blithely been going on All these years and never heard it a said Sagan president of the planetary society which set up the receiver. Although there is no evidence intelligent life exists on other worlds it is theoretically possible Sagan said. A a lot of scientists the overwhelming majority exp Ere a a lot of life and intelligence a Sagan said. The whole Point is done to astronomers Are anxious to scan the sky from the Southern hemisphere because they will have Access to some of the stars nearest Earth including those in the heart of our own Milky Way Galaxy. The $150,000 Meta ii or Meg Channel extraterrestrial assay ii receiver will complement Meta i which has been scanning the Northern hemispheres Star from the Harvard smithsonian Center for Astro spice 198? Ridge 0bservatory in Harvard mass., a weve sometimes detected some strange signals said Thomas Mcdonough who runs the Seti or search for extraterrestrial intelligence drove ctr for the Pasadena. planetary is which promotes space exploration. A in most cases been Able to track them Down As being from the Sun or our own civilization have on occasion detected strange signals Bui they have not repeated. The most Likely explanation is they Are from our civilization. But done to know for sure a Mcdonough Brac it As Hurricane bears Down by the associated press Hurricane Lili headed for North Carolinas outer Banks with Gale Force winds Early Friday while remnants of tropical storm Marco moved in from Florida m a squeeze play that unloaded heavy rain on the South. Tvs a Hurricane warning was posted for parts of the North Carolina and Virginia coasts where seas swelled in some areas to 8 feet and some residents and tourists began to flee. Further South officials declared a state of emergency in Augusta ga., where floodwaters closed roads and engulfed houses. At noon Lili was about 400 Miles Southeast of Cape Hatteras n.c., moving West at nearly 18 Mph with winds near 75 Mph. Earlier the Hurricane brought rain thunderstorms and wind gusts to Bermuda it was expected to veer Northwest and then North. Remnants of Marco which brought 65 Mph winds and 5 inches of rain to Florida a Gulf coast on thursday before it broke up dumped heavy rain Early Friday in Georgia. Overflowed creeks put roads under 6 feet of water. It a a orm was expected to move through Western North Carolina on Friday. 2 live grew cited for contempt of court fort Lauderdale Fla. Up a members of ,.e controversial Miami rap group 2 live Crew were cited for contempt of court Friday after All three of them showed up late for their obscenity trial. Luther Campbell was about 30 minutes late and Gnu Gopher Wong won showed up after him. Mark Rossas 90 minutes late. Circuit judge june l. Johnson told All three their sentences for contempt would withheld until after Cir w a a Ich has been in the jury selection phase since monday afternoon. The three rappers Are charged with giving an obscene performance at a Hollywood nightclub in june when hey performed songs from their album a was Nasty As they Wanna a which a Broward county Federal judge ruled was obscene. Couy cited of the Misdemeanour obscenity charge to defendants faces a maximum penalty of year m jail and a $1,000 Fine
