European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 13, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 a the stars and stripes thursday june 13, 1991 president hush sits inside the cockpit of an f-22, Andrews fab Mil. Apr president Bush climbed into the cockpit of a b-2 bomber on tuesday inspected other stealth weaponry and then pledged to fight for congressional funding of the $864 million bombers. A there now is no question stealth works and it s been proven in combat a Bush told 15 senators and other dignitaries who joined him for an inspection tour. A. A a a a a a. A a. He a so got into a single seat f-117a, the Small angular stealth plane that hit selected targets in Baghdad Iraq during the persian Gulf War As he added his words and presence to the air forces a stealth week Effort to build support for the radar evading planes. A. The House last week voted to reject Bush a request for $3-2 billion to build four More b-2 bombers next year though the Senate is expected to look More favourably on the planes. A a in la fight for stealth and ill fight Tor the b-2,�?� said Bush who also viewed a 20-foot stealth cruise missile and an. Engine Tess prototype of the f-22 fight. Her a a a a a 7. A a a a a a. The Black Bat shaped bomber with its 172-foot wingspan nearly filled the hangar. Quot we be now Sleen the Promise of stealth fulfilled with the remarkable Success of the Al 17 in desert storm a Bush said. A a the Al 17 carried a revolution in warfare on its wings Over  the attack plane that Bush climbed into was the. One that dropped  bomb on a telecommunications building in Central Baghdad officials said. Bush said the stealth attack planes a flew Only about 2 percent of the combat sorties hut struck Over 40 percent of the strategic targets that were hit in Iraq. A Quot a a Quot. Quot a it broke the iraqis Back and it saved precious american lives a he said. He argued that the b-2, successor to the b-52, was needed for nuclear and conventional deterrence. Earlier tuesday the chairman of the House armed services committee said the b-2 is better suited to carrying conventional bombs instead of atomic ones. But he gave Little support to buying All the planes the Bush administration wants. Two additional planes in fiscal 1992 would give the Pentagon funding for 17 stealth bombers out of the 75  administration eventually Hopes Tonia pc. The air Force has said the b-2 can serve As a nuclear bomber to penetrate soviet air defences and a conventional bomber that can be used during a con. A Flint such As the persian. Gulf War. Aspin hints at Compromise on b-2. Wash inc ton a the chairman. Of the House armed services a committee indicated tuesday that he might Compromise on president Bush s request to Purchase four b-2s i the fiscal year beginning oct. 1. The House eliminated Money Tor the Lour radar evading  at $864 million each from its version of the defense Hill. The Senate begins crafting its a fiscal 1992 military blueprint in july and is expected to approve. The Bush administration s request. Lawmakers then. Will meet in Confer. Once in september to agree on a final Quot package. A a we could come out of conference with something like two a the commit tee chairman rep. Les Aspin said in a. Speech. A that is not the most efficient production rate hut it might not be a bad  two additional planes in fiscal 1992 would give the Pentagon 17 stealth bombers. The administration Hopes to buy 75 of the aircraft. I the air Force has said the b-2 can serve As both a  to penetrate soviet air defences and a conventional bomber that can be used Dur chg a conflict such As the persian Gulf War. A a a. A Aspin agreed that an argument can lie made Lor the b-2 As a conventional weapon. A a Quot. -. A a. A Quot before the cold War ended and the Gulf War began everyone including the air Force thought of b-2 As a nuclear bomber that had some conventional capability a the chairman said. A to May now make much More sense to think of the b-2 As a conventional bomber that has some nuclear  w  said a b-2 bomber equipped with the right munitions could conduct a raid similar to the . Attack on Libya in 1986. In that Campaign the United states used 84 combat aircraft and 35 support planes from two Carrier Battle groups and eight foreign bases. Six b-2s with the support of six tank ers could carry out the same attack and be based in the United states he said. International Arctic Ocean expedition three icebreakers from the United states Germany and Sweden will carry about 100 scientists six helicopters and tons of scientific gear on a 70-Day Mission to the North role the journey to the North pole will be the first Ever by Western ships. To on Boston apr three icebreakers will set off in August to crunch their Way to the North pole in the most ambitious scientific expedition Ever to explore the top of the world. If All goes As planned the  coast guards Polar Star the German Polar Stem and the swedish Oden will carry about us scientists six helicopters and tons of gear on a 70-Day Mission. The journey will be the first Ever to the North pole by Western ships. However nuclear powered soviet icebreakers have made such trips almost routine Quot it will be Good science but its both science and an adventure and that makes it even better a said Leonard Johnson director of geophysical science at the . Office of naval research. Johnson will he one of the chief scientists of the project called the International Arctic. Ocean expedition. Among other things the scientists will explore global warming Continental Drift and the Ilow of River water from Siberia to the North Atlantic. A compared with Antarctica which supports year round scientific colonies the far North is poorly understood. It is covered by water and ice not land which makes permanent settlements impossible. Until now the most extensive research has been carried out on Tern Horary Camps that float on sheets of ice. A the Polar seas have not been explored Quot said Neal Thayer chief of the science Branch at the coast guard s ice operations division in. Washington. Quot they Are essentially voids in terms of scientific knowledge.�?�. The three ships will leave from Tromson Norway in Early August. Their course will take them past the Greenland Side of the North pole. Then they will Circle Hack hit the pole and Zigzag Back to Norway in october. Aboard will be scientists from Canada Germany Japan Norway Sweden and the United states they will skirt Waters of. The soviet Union which has not allowed scientists to perform experiments. On the Way they will drop off 14 buoys that will measure the temperature of the air ice and water the amount of Carbon dioxide and Plankton in the water its depth the flow of currents and Many other conditions Quot the buoys will be placed around the North pole in a triangular shaped pattern the size of Oklahoma and Kansas. They will Send Back their data by bouncing signals off satellites. Among the most important scientific missions will be looking for evidence of global warming. A a