European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 31, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday March 31, 1991 the stars and stripes a Page 3quayle backed Patriot program Cut democrats tried to restore missile funds Washington apr vice president Dan Quayle once voted to slash spending for the Patriot missile that he has so effusively praised since the persian Gulf War. As a senator Quayle was among several republicans who voted to Cut funds for the Patriot. Now the vice president is embracing the missile defense system a an Overall Success in intercepting iraqi scud missiles aimed at Israel and saudi Arabia. In 1983, while representing Indiana in the Senate he joined other republicans in opposing an Effort to re store $177.6 million that was being Cut from the Patriot program. Also voting against the funds were then sen. John Tower a Texas who chaired the armed services committee sen. John Warner of Virginia now the ranking Republican on the panel and Sens. Strom Thurmond r-s.c., and William Cohen a Maine both still members of the committee. But a Quayle spokesman said a this was not against funding of the  the spokesman who asked not to be identified contended that democrats sought to add Money above what president Reagan had requested and that Quayle voted for the spending level the president wanted. Money for the Patriot was a Point of Contention in a june 22, 1983, vote of the Senate armed services com Mittee. At the time Reagan had called for buying 525 patriots and spending $1.27 billion on procurement and spare parts. An armed services subcommittee Cut $233.6 million from the request while slashing the number of patriots to 287. The Senate was controlled by republicans that a year. A a. A a \ a. A a a when the full armed services committee met to approve a final Pentagon budget sen. Edward Kennedy d-mass., sought to restore $177.6 million for the Patriot program. He failed by a vote of 9-8, largely along party lines and Quayle was among those voting against the measure. Quayle a spokesman said that at the time the Patriot was intended to be an anti aircraft system and Quayle later was a a instrumental in pushing for it to be changed to an anti ballistic missile system. Other Republican senators who opposed the Restora lending a helping hand . Army sgt. Travis Bergeron of Louisiana lends a hand to an iraqi woman carrying a water barrel on a Street in Safwan Iraq on Friday. The army a 3rd inf div has set up a water distribution Center in the town in occupied Iraq. Charged with Selling stolen of goods san Antonio a six civilian workers at Kelly fab and a subcontractor Are charged with participating in a loosely knit ring that fenced stolen gov emment property to undercover agents. The property including Jet engine parts tools computer and electrical equipment and telephones was valued at More than $50,000, but sold at 5 cents on the Dollar authorities said. The seven men were arrested thursday. Fri agent in charge Mike Wilson said an 18-month sting used a bogus company called Airdrop associates to ferret out the loosely knit ring. He called the suspects Independent operators who knew one another and occasionally did business together adding a they were greedy enough to make use of our bogus operation. We were a conduit for stolen  air Force col Robert Lukens said none of the thefts posed a threat to National Security. The Federal indictment charged maintenance supervisor Joe Chapa 42, with conspiracy and theft civil engineering planner Larry Eberwein 51, with theft Sheet Metal worker Richard Eldridge 44, with conspiracy and theft maintenance worker Arthur Espinoza 36,with theft Sheet Metal Mechanic Federico Pacheco 41, with conspiracy and Supply clerk Henry sotello 39, Quot with conspiracy and theft. A electrical subcontractor Carl Purser 53, was charged with conspiracy. All were arraigned before a Federal magistrate and released on personal recognizance. Tion of Patriot funds were Barry Goldwater of Arizona Roger w. Jepsen of Iowa John East of North Carolina and Pete Wilson now governor of California. The Issue did no to die there however. Sen. Sam Nunn d-ga., now the armed services committee chairman sought on july 14,1983, to restore Money for the Patriot and other conventional weapons systems by cutting the fiscal 1984 allocation for the bib bomber by $888.7 million. A Nunns amendment proposed delaying production of 12 bib bombers and spending the savings on conventional systems like Jet fighters tanks helicopters and the Patriot a All of which were used successfully in the Gulf War. A. A. A a. 1. A. A a a. A a a in the end Tower moved to kill Nunns amendment and prevailed 56-41, with votes from democrats and republicans. The air Force eventually bought 100 b in bombers at a Cost of $30 billion three of the planes have crashed and congressional investigators said recently the air Force is several years and More than $1 billion away from solving engine radar and anti icing problems on the aircraft. It was not used in the Gulf War. Saddam s suppliers targeted by the los Angeles times Beverly Hills Calif. A businessman suspected of supplying weapons to iraqi president Saddam Hussein has become the first target of what the . Government says is a sweeping Effort to identify and freeze the assets of sus pc cd iraqi arms merchants operating worldwide. No charges have been filed against Anees Mansour Wadi an iraqi National who lives in Beverly Hills or his wife Sha Saban Al Lla Deri. But their assets a including a $3.5 million estate Here and accounts at 11 Banks across the United states a have been Frozen. Federal agents also have taken control of Bay industries inc., a company that Wadi has operated for the past year or so out of a High Rise office in the los Angeles Community of Century City the Treasury department said that it would Issue a list monday identifying companies and individuals suspected of acting As iraqi agents and front Compa no is accompanied by orders freezing their . Assets. A the goal of this is to expose them. They Are feeding arms to Saddam Hussein a said Treasury spokeswoman Barbara Clay she refused to say who is on the list but sources close to the investigation said that it contains the names of 40 to 50 corporations set up by Iraq to buy arms and machinery. The majority of those companies Are based in London Geneva and other major european cities. The department of the Treasury has the authority to freeze the . Assets of those companies and individuals under provisions of the Trade embargo that president Bush ordered after iraqis invasion of Kuwait last August. Because of that embargo Between $1 billion and $1.5 billion in iraqi assets in the United states already have been Frozen. R. Richard Newcomb director of the department of the Treasury a office of foreign assets control described Wadi his wife and Bay industries As being a participants in Saddam Hussein a arms net  the freezing of wadis and his wife a assets which occurred last Friday a is a significant step toward identifying and dismantling this