European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 3, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 a the stars and stripes saturday August 3, 1991 Senate oks funds for ski 4 More stealth bombers by the new York times Washington a the Senate on thursday endorsed president Bush s two top military priorities the stealth bomber and the Quot Star wars anti missile defense system rejecting arguments that the easing of cold War tension and closer United states soviet relations made the weapons unnecessary. In a series of votes the Senate approved $4.6 billion for the next fiscal year to test sensors in space and begin Fielding an anti missile defense system by 1996 that would protect the United states against limited nuclear attacks. Lawmakers then voted to buy four More of the Bat winged b-2 stealth bombers rejecting an amendment to halt production of the aircraft at the is planes Congress has already ordered. The vote was 57-42. The action thursday and late wednesday in. A series of amendments to the military budget Bill for the 1992 fiscal year beginning oct. 1, sets the Senate on a collision course with the House of representatives which last month slashed financing for the anti missile program known As the strategic defense initiative to $3.5 billion and voted to halt production of the b-2 at the 15 planes. The administration asked for $5.2 billion for antimissile defense and four new stealth bombers. Bush has put the full weight of the administrations support behind the anti missile and stealth programs and threatened to veto the entire $291 billion budget Bill if Congress cuts either too deeply. Thursdays action spared a at least until the two houses meet in conference on the measure a any Steep reductions in the two most expensive weapons programs the defense department has Ever conceived. In a strange twist during the Middle of the b-2 debate sen. Sam Nunn d-ga., chairman of the armed services committee made Public a letter sent to him thursday by air Force Secretary Donald b. Rice disclosing that cracks had been found in about one third of the air forces 97-plane Fleet of b-1b bombers. The i cracks were repaired but then found to have worsened in about 17 aircraft. The b-2 is to replace the b-1b As the nations primary strategic bomber. Air Force officials said the cracks do not threaten the a lbs a structural integrity a but a spokesman could not explain the timing of the announcement so close to the b-2 vote. Senators also turned Back two amendments that would have slashed the administrations $5.2 billion request for anti missile funding by More than $1.7 billion. The House Cut it to $3.5 billion and stripped out All space based weaponry. The Senate agreed late wednesday to order the Pentagon to begin deployment of a single anti missile site near grand Forks n.d., by 1996 that would use 100 missiles to protect most of the United states from a limited nuclear attack. Bush would also be directed to begin negotiating with the soviet Union to allow multiple ground based Sites across the country. Critics of the strategic defense initiative say that deploying an anti missile system could undermine the anti ballistic missile treaty of 1972, 30s Star arrested for shoplifting Casselberry Fla. A Hedy Lamarr Glamour Queen of the Silver screen in the 1930s and 1940s, was arrested thursday on a charge of shoplifting from a drugstore police said. Police called to an Eckerd drugs in this Small City just North of Orlando found Lamarr whose age is variously listed As 76, 77 or 78, with $21 Worth of a personal care items concealed in her Possession Casselberry police said in a statement. Lamarr was arrested and told to appear in Seminole county court aug. 20, the statement said. She was released at the scene and taken by police to her Home in Altamonte Springs near Orlando. Casselberry police spokesman Patrick Simpson confirmed that the woman arrested was the actress and Lamarr said she cooperated with police. Lamarr could not be reached for comment. The film Siren a whose most famous quote was a any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid a was born in Vienna Austria. Police gave Lamarrt a birthday at nov. 9, 1914, but other reference books list the actress birthday As nov. 9,1913 or 1915. She created an International stir As a teen age when she appeared  in the 1933 czechoslovak film ecstasy Lamarr whose real name is Hedwig Kiesler arrived in Hollywood in 1937, billed As the worlds most Beautiful woman. She starred in Many Mem films in the 1940s. Her most successful commercial film was Par amounts Samson and Delilah. In 1966, she published her autobiography ecstasy and me which was considered the first of the kiss and Tell autobiographies in which a major Star toll about her sexual escapades. Phone Industry chided for not talking Washington up a a series of Telephone outages since mid june might have been prevented if Industry had shared information about the first breakdown and had known about similar problems overseas a Federal communications commission official said. James Spurlock special assistant to the chief of the acc common Carrier Bureau said thursday that the acc had been unaware of an outage june 10 in los Angeles apparently the first in a series of outages. Spurlock said the problem in the initial los Angeles interruption was caused by the same combination of factors that disrupted service to millions of customers on five occasions in june and july but information about the problem was not shared within the Industry. A the fact that there was a similar problem that occurred could have been a clue to that company and to other phone companies to be looking for that kind of a problem and what occurred later with the outages might not have happened a Spurlock said. Acc chairman Alfred Sikes said . Carriers also appear to have been largely unaware of very similar service challenges foreign Telephone carriers have experienced a he added. An accompanying acc report cited similar problems with switching networks in Sweden and Japan. The report said each of the six outages in june and july involved the same malfunction in the computer software that controls the Way phone Calls Are routed. Millions of customers in san Francisco los Aii Geles Pittsburgh the District of Columbia Baltimore and Richmond va., were without some local service when the Telephone systems failed. A rioters in Berkeley Park protest volleyball courts from wire reports Berkeley Calif. A violent protests at Peoples Park created by 1960s peace demonstrators and lately a homeless hangout wont halt a project to install volleyball courts officials said thursday. Rioting broke out wednesday night after a peaceful protest against construction of the courts in the Park. Two police officers were injured by flying rocks. Several Hundred rioters also burned cars and smashed windows of businesses then tried to Stop construction trucks from leaving the Park. Fifteen adults and six juveniles were arrested on suspicion of offences ranging from throwing rocks to looting Berkeley police capt. Phil Doran said. A a the renovation Effort by the University of California Berkeley will proceed despite the violence the City and school said in a joint statement. The Park was created in 1969 by anti Vietnam War protesters who Tore up a University parking  Nashville mayor Nashville Tenn. A millionaire Phil Bre Desen won the Nashville mayors race thursday replacing mayor Bill Boner who apparently embarrassed the City by courting a lounge Singer while married to has to nerd wife. Bredesen who lost the 1987 mayoral race to Boner Defeated a former councilwoman Betty Nixon. He received 79,106 votes or 71 percent and Nixon had 30,074 votes or 27 percent. Boner did not seek  sentenced for abuse Crown Point ind. A a Man was sentenced to 18 months in prison for leasing his 6-year-old son to a bed. John d. Wolfe 29, of Hammond was also recommended for alcohol abuse treatment at his sentencing thursday by Lake Superior court judge James e. Let singe Wolfe a former wife Lottie e. Demontigney 31, was sentenced july 25 to two years in prison on the same child neglect conviction. Wolfe and Demontigney were arrested in May after a neighbor in Hammond just outside Gary heard the boy crying for food and found him tied to a bed. The boy testified against his parents. He said they had tried other ways to Stop him from getting out of bed at night before using the  hits police chief new Haven Conn. A a visiting police chief was mugged outside his Motel room but stopped the attacker from taking his Wallet. A a in a embarrassed he got away a said James Oliver 54, the Hooksett n.h., police chief and a former new York City police officer. A a we re supposed to catch robbers. But i Haven to been in a foot Chase in a  Oliver was returning to his Motel room with a bucket of ice about 1 . Wednesday when he was jumped by a mugger who punched him in the head and clamped a knife to his Throat. A the said a give me your Wallet or ill kill you a a Oliver said. He told the mugger his Wallet was in his briefcase on the bed. But when allowed inside the chief withdrew a holstered pistol from the Case and started to draw the weapon. The would be robber grabbed the briefcase and started to run but dropped  sues after running afoul of . Town s Blue Law Newark . Prospect Park which the town of for generations has banned work and play on sundays is being sued by a Man fined for fixing his vans Radiator Hose a on a sunday. According to a lawsuit filed thursday with help from the american civil liberties Union the towns Blue Law violates separation of Church and state protections in the . And new Jersey constitutions. Attorney Lawrence Lustberg who represents  owner Robert Crawford said courts have upheld Blue Laws prohibiting commercial activity on sundays. But the Prospect Park Law bans All work including projects done at Home. Prospect Park a working class Community of 5,200 founded by members of the dutch reformed Church enacted the ordinance in 1947. It bans commercial activity on sunday and outlaws a Ordinary or Servile labor or work and playing a any game or  town attorney Gordon Meyer said Crawford a objection is the first. A the great majority of people like it How it is but it can Only be done by tradition in the future a Meyer said. Crawford of fair Lawn ran afoul of the Law in september when he arrived at his wife a House to pick up his daughter. He noticed Antifreeze dripping from his  looked under the Hood and removed a cracked Radiator Hose. Before he could slice the cracked portion off and reattach the Hose a Prospect Park police officer warned him he was breaking the Law. Crawford said it was an emergency repair and finished the Job. Two Days later Crawford received a summons by mail. He pleaded innocent but a municipal judge fined him $10