European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 11, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                R Page 2 the stars and stripes tuesday december 11,1 $90 missions Congress May be asked for extra by Michael wines Washington not the Pentagon May have to seek $10 billion to $20 billion in new spending authority from Congress next month to cover the rising costs of its persian Gulf military deployment. Those costs have roughly doubled with plans to add up to 200,000 new troops to the Force in the Region senior defense department and White House officials said. The officials said thesis billion to $20 billion figure reflected not Only the increase in the american costs but also uncertainty Over How much would be raised from the allies. Before the additional troops were ordered to the area it was anticipated that Congress would have to allot roughly $5 billion to pay for the american presence Iri tentative and that a Host of factors from sudden War to a fluctuation in Oil prices could Send them rising or plummeting a first of All we done to know what it will Cost and that a a big problem a a senior Pentagon official said. A second we done to know what the friendlies will give us so its difficult to say whether it will add up to half of the total a Quarter or  nevertheless one senior Pentagon official said Congress May be asked to allot $16 billion to $20 billion in new spending authority for the deployment when lawmakers reassemble in january a figure some congressional officials said is not outlandish. Other officials in Congress and the White House said they expected that figure to be lower in part because the guff during the fiscal year that began on oct. 1. Quot l $aft2ricaif allies in the Guirand elsewhere Are expected the anticipated 1991 costs of the deployment whiles to make Large new contributions to the Pentagon Effort a a. Quot nations Allied with the United states half Given or Yast will have no Impact on the budget agreement5 Quot struck last fall that places a Cap on Overall military spending that agreement purposely Opai Ted expenses for the Gulf crisis because their Cost Covili lbt be calculated. There is no indication As yet whether the additional costs would be paid for through new taxes or deficit financing  the officials who insisted on anonymity said the latest figure reflected estimates that the Gulf operations could Cost As much As $31 billion and that contributions from american allies might offset less than half that total. Before president Bush announced plans on nov. 8 to Send additional troops to the Gulf the Pentagon had. A $15 billion in fiscal 1991. Forecast that the Gulf deployment could Cost a total of the officials All of whom spoke on condition of anonymity said a Complete accounting of the Cost of the operation would be sent to Congress before Christmas. They stressed that the numbers being assembled Are Given pledged nearly $7.6 billion in Cash or goods to offset costs of the american deployment As of nov. 30. Pentagon planners this week Are to review the. $3h billion in fiscal 1991 Cost estimates for the Gulf deploy mint submitted by the armed services and by other defense department agencies seeking ways to Cut some expenses and to absorb others within the regular Pentagon budget. The last time Pentagon accountants undertook such an exercise to estimate expenses for the initial movement of armed forces to the Gulf in the last two months of the 1990 fiscal year they proved fairly precise to within $50 million of the $2 billion that was actually spent. This time however officials say the estimating process is More Uncertain. The numbers assume that the 400,000 american troops in or bound for the Gulf and the naval and air forces supporting them will remain through next summer without seeing combat. If a War does erupt the costs would skyrocket but defense officials concede they do not know by How much. The estimate also omits the Cost of moving troops and equipment Back to installations in the United states and elsewhere should the Gulf crisis wind Down. Officials said the expenses fell largely into these five categories a transportation. Moving troops ships planes and Armor to and around the Gulf accounts for up to half the Cost of the deployment officials Jay and rests heavily on the Cost of fuel. The penal gotchas estimated refined fuel costs at $44 a barrel compared with $28 in the months before the Gulf crisis. Before new troops were dispatched to the Gulf defense analysts had forecast that airlifts sea lifts and other deployments to the Gulf would Cost a total of $4.3 billion in fiscal 1991 and operating costs once there would run about $2.5 billion. Those sums now will Rise dramatically. A indirect fuel costs. Using the same $44-a-barrel figure the Pentagon has predicted that the Gulf crisis will increase fuel costs throughout the military by $2.3 billion.  the newest deployment the Pentagon predicted that the Call up of reserves alone would Cost $2.8 billion. The addition of 200,000 troops including More reservists than were in the initial Gulf deployment will cause that figure to soar. Payroll expenses will also Rise because the Pentagon has suspended retirements and other service departures As Well. A combat pay. Each of the Gulf troops receives $110 a month in combat pay totalling Over $520 million in fiscal 1991. A logistics. Maintaining gear feeding and housing troops new construction and other Utility operations in the Gulf were estimated at about $3.6 billion for the fiscal year before the new troop deployments were announced. Update motorists deaths Ocala Fla apr cautious investigators say there is increasing evidence the shooting deaths of eight male motorists Over the past year is the work of two female serial killers Bent on rabbet  we can to for 100 percent sure say that these eases Are related a said police capt. Steve Binegar chief of Marion county detectives. A we Haven to put together the linkage until fairly recently. There Are some commonalities in All the cases and of course there Are a lot of things that Are not similar a but police released the drawings of two women being sought for questioning the women involved in a traffic Accident in Marion county in july also have been tentatively linked to a missing Mission Siy and the most recent killing in Dixie county on nay 19, police said v. A v. 4th wave of receive. By Dave Diehl . Bureau Raf Lakenheath England Safe Boss Gen. Robert Oaks on monday personally saw off the fourth wave of f-111f jets aircrews and support people from the 48th tac fighter Wing to the persian Gulf. By wednesday the Wing will have most of its full tactical bombers in the Gulf making it one of the rare air Force units. With most of its assets in the Region. The \ Wing which has about 70 Fuls has been sending planes and people to the Region since aug 25. A the support and maintenance person net left for the Gulf monday while aircrews were to Fly the Falls to the wings classified base there tuesday Oaks flew in from Ramstein a Ger Falls Many a Headquarters of the . Air Force in Europe a to give a Pep talk to the Lakenheath personnel who Are headed for the desert. He did the same at Sembach a Germany last week with Gulf bound personnel from the 7011th tac comm  a it a important that you recognize How we in Safe Robert Oaks in the United states air Force and the country Are Edun Ting on the work that you do a Oaks told about two dozen maintenance workers of the 548th aircraft generation so. Calling the Gulf situation the a most significant crisis he has see in his 31-year air Force  said a you Are part of the Resolution of the problem. And hopefully you re a part of the problem for Saddam  Oaks who made several stops on a morning Long tour of the base lauded the Wing for its efforts in moving its planes and people to the Gulf Region. In their nato roles Safe units such As the 48th would normally do their missions from their Home bases. They also would be augmented by personnel and planes from . Bases. A a a a we be always received deploying units and we have geared our whole thinking to receiving people a Oaks said. A fall of a sudden we have a situation where we Are packing people up and sending them out. We done to normally do that but we be done it very Well a surplus sales Forth. Germany a like new items left behind by defense contractors and their families will be offered for Sale  defense marketing and re utilization office Sale will be from 9 . To noon in building 946 on Johnson Barracks. Merchandise includes european made Beds with built in nightstands comforters. Wooden wardrobes living room and Kitchen Wall units and Small Kitchen appliances also for Sale will be tables dressers rugs drapes bicycles and outdoor furniture. A a. A Only us identification card holders May attend this special Sale prices will be marked in dollars and no checks will be accepted. Ail sales Are final and customers must remove purchases by 2 . Friday a a a. A Warsaw Poland a prosecutors monday ordered that Defeated presidential challenger Stanislaw Tyminski be barred from leaving Poland while an investigation continues into allegations of slandering the government state television reported. A slander Case was opened against Tyminski who has Canadian and peruvian As Well As polish citizenship after he made a november Campaign charge that prime minister Tadeusz Mazowiecki betrayed the nation by creating economic chaps with his Reform drive a Tyminski was ordered on dec. 7 to appear for questioning before a local prosecutor in Southern Poland this month and the general prosecutor in Warsaw confirmed that Steps must be taken to assure he will answer the summons television reported. The candidate who lost to Solidarity Leader Lech Walesa in a landslide sunday said he planned to remain in Poland however he could not be located on monday and his Campaign Headquarters was closed in Gdansk monday Walesa returned to the shipyard where his decade Long fight against communism began pledging not to forget who gave him a landslide Victory in Poland a first popular presidential election but he said there was no time to celebrate because there Are a terribly difficult tasks waiting for us a a making a sentimental pilgrimage to his old a a my department where he fixed electric carts when the shipyard was still named for Vij. Lenin Walesa told workers that he would always remember when he too wore overalls. A i am going to return Here often and 1 am going to do everything for you to live better a he said. A i know where i have this White shirt from a a you must be my support a he told the workers who face an Uncertain future As the state run shipyard is subjected to economic Reform. The new president started monday a his Solidarity Headquarters in Gdansk jus a few minutes past his Promise of 9 am he arrived in a new government car with three police vehicles in escort and was greeted by clapping supporters who chanted a your president our president a he planned to spend monday wrapping up his affairs with Solidarity before visit ing Poland a holiest shrine m Czestochowa tuesday