European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 11, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday june. 11, 1991 the stars and stripes Page 5stealth aircraft visibly join budget Battle by Robert Burns the associated press Washington a after three years of gradually and grudgingly loosening the lid of secrecy on its revolutionary stealth. Aircraft., the air Force is Rushing these most prize of its weapons into the Public spotlight. Credit budget Battles with Congress Over the radar evading systems for the sudden openness. The epitome of the new thirst for publicity is the a stealth week Quot extravaganza the service is running this week at Andrews fab my. The Media were invited to Andrews just outside Washington to look Over a b-2 bomber an Al 17a attack plane a prototype of the planned f-22 fighter and the  cruise missile stealth weapons that until recently were utterly secret. Through Friday members of Congress and their staffs will be Given special briefings on the stealth weapons a not coincidentally just a few weeks before the Senate is due to begin debating next years defense budget. The air Force figures it has a sales Job to do in Congress in today a world of shrinking defense budgets you can to sell what you can to show. No. 1 on the sales list is the b-2 bomber the biggest and by far the most expensive member of the growing family of stealth aircraft. It goes for $864 million a copy. The b-2 is the air forces top priority but its in danger of getting knocked out of the 1992 defense budget. A Gen. John m. Loh commander of the tac air co Rod told Congress on june 4 that the b-2 a will revolutionize conventional War fighting a although the planets main purpose is to penetrate soviet air defences with nuclear bombs. Many in Congress say the end of the cold War and a need to reduce defense spending make it unreasonable to devote so Large a share of the Public purse to the b-2, whose testing program still has not is s a is of k \ t v s v s s k s. \ j \ w a v r a a Quot 5 i 5 5inion non i a Filo the air Force wants to build 75 b-2s a at $864 million a piece a and it is putting the plane on display this week so that members of Congress can get a Good look at the onetime super secret bomber. Proven it can perform As advertised. Maj. Dick Cole with the air Force pub lie affairs office at the Pentagon said a stealth week was arranged because members of Congress were unable to travel to Edwards fab calif., where the b-2 and other stealth planes Are being tested. But defense contractors acknowledged that there was More to it than convenience. A it would be disingenuous of anyone to say there a not a political Side to this a said Hugh Burns spokesman for Lockheed corp., the Lead partner in devel Oping the air forces f-22 fighter. David Cohen head of the lobbying group professionals coalition for nuclear arms control called the Andrews show a a sign of High anxiety Levels in the air  stealth is the scientific Pursuit of near invisibility. The goal is not to make a plane undetectable by radar but to make it so hard to detect that the plane can penetrate an opponents air defences drop its bombs and escape before its presence is noticed. The idea is to control the a a signatures emitted by an air plane moving through the atmosphere. These include infrared Waves from engine heat sound Waves and especially the reflected radio Waves that can be picked up by radar. Radar signals Are a a managed by absorbing weakening or rerouting the Waves in directions least Likely to lie reflected  enemy receiver. Also important in stealth technology Are electronic a a a countermeasures that Jam enemy radar or Zap it with so Many signals As to Render it useless in tracking intruders. In the stars and stripes 10yearsago june 11,1981 a a . District judge ruled that the government must pay $625,000 to a woman whose child was born with multiple defects because air Force doctors failed to warn her of the dangers of having a baby after contracting German measles. She claimed that had she known she would have had an abortion. 20yearsago june 11,1971 a ending a 21-year-old embargo on Trade to China president Nixon made Public the list of exports that . Industries May ship to China without further government approval including automobiles some Industrial equipment and most consumer goods.30 year Sago june 11, 1961 a As part of president Kennedy a plan to mount a 10-division Quick reaction Reserve. Force the army planned to require 100,000 inactive reservists to attend training Camps two weeks a year and be prepared to reinforce the paid reserves. 40yearsago june 11,1951 a u n. Troops seized control of the base of the communist a Iron Triangle Supply area in Central Korea. Estimated enemy casualties were As High As 170,400 in the past month. By Linda Deutsch the associated press los Angeles a Twenty years ago this week a disillusioned military analyst named Daniel Ellsberg stunned the nation with disclosure of the governments top secret study of the Vietnam War a the Pentagon papers. A with his colleague Anthony Russo Ellsberg had quietly photocopied the 47-volume, 7,000-Page history which lie saw As proof that american officials were lying about chances for Victory in the War. On june 13, 1971, the  York times published excerpts of the study. Other newspapers followed. It was a life altering event for both men and for those Ellsberg who joined their defense during a protracted espionage prosecution. Historically in the United states it was one of the most politically significant cases of the time in which it happened a said Leonard Weinglass the civil rights lawyer who defended Russo. A Dan Ellsberg is an american hero. And Tony As Well. They went up against the military and political  two decades later Ellsberg 60, and Russo 55, remain at the barricades of the peace movement. Both protested the persian Gulf War and Ellsberg has been arrested 60 limes in anti nuclear protests. During the Vietnam War they say their greatest accomplishment was proving that . Presidents lied about the War for decades a a disclosure they say set the stage for watergate and president Nixon a resignation. A the effect Vyas indirect a a Ellsberg said in an interview. A the Paris peae e accords were signed in 1973 during my trial but when the trial ended the War was still going on. What changed was the Public consciousness that presidents lied that Point got through and it scared Nixon into trying to shut me  with almost eerie timing transcripts of Nixon a White House tapes were released last week and showed Nixon was intensely concerned about who else helped Ellsberg release the Pentagon papers. Ellsberg believes Nixon feared he Laid other secret documents showing a Nixon plan to escalate the Vietnam War. A i did no to have the documents to prove it but he thought i did a Ellsberg said. A the knew i had National Security memoranda. He knew i had documents i Hadnot revealed. That was the reason for the  the so called White House a plumbers a e. Howard Hunt. And g. Gordon Liddy broke into the office of Ellsberg a psychiatrist during his trial to gain information about him. It was among several incidents that led to dismissal of the Ells Berg Russo Case for outrageous government misconduct. It was not the outcome anyone expected. A i thought that the overwhelming likelihood was that 1 would go to jail for the rest of my life Quot Ellsberg said. For this former Marine who had once backed the War his action was nothing Short of cataclysmic. He was changed he said by his Vietnam assignment for the Rand corp. A a nearly everyone who went to Viet Nam As i did. Realized this War was not going to be won a he said a it took longer to reach the question what should i do about it a Russo also a Rand researcher visited Vietnam for a study involving interrogating Viet Cong prisoners. He came Back radicalized. A i knew what i was told about the War was totally false a he said. Russo met Ellsberg in Saigon in 1965, and they became close after they returned to the United states. A in 1968, i came Back and Dan was across the Hall at Rami a Russo recalled. A the had been a total Hawk in Vietnam. But everything about him seemed Slit tired. It was As if lie was trying to grow himself Back. He was going through a metamorphosis. Lie was very tortured. There was no Way he could justify the War  they began to discuss leaking information to the press. Ellsberg had Access to the Pentagon papers and one Day in 1969 Ellsberg arrived at Russo a House and announced a a in be decided to do it. Can you get a Xerox machine Quot Russo said he could. Russo retired As a researcher Lor los Angeles county is devoted to anti nude a issues and led persian Gulf War pro a tests. A Ellsberg who lives in Contra Costa county calif., also remains commit led to peace. He said he and his wife Pat rarely celebrate their aug. 8 wedding anniversary. A that Falls right Between Hiroshima Day and Nagasaki Day a said Ellsberg. A and pm always getting arrested around that