European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 21, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 a the stars and stripes saturday september 21, 1991supporters seek delay in funding for b-2 Washington apr Senate supporters of the b-2 stealth bomber program Are Angling to have Congress postpone a final decision this year on spending $3.2 billion for four of the Bat winged planes. The planets backers Are concerned that the recent controversy Over the b-2�?Ts radar evading capabilities might kill the program if the Money question is not put off. The Senate appropriations committee was meeting Friday to vote on a 1992 defense spending Bill that includes a provision endorsing further b-2 production but freezing the $3.2 billion until Congress takes a second vote next year. The provision approved without debate thursday by the Senate appropriations defense subcommittee would require Congress to pass a supplemental appropriations Oill a most Likely next Spring a before any of the Money could be spent. The second vote requirement had been designed to satisfy b-2 supporters by assuring that damaging publicity about apparent flaws in the planets ability to evade radar detection does no to kill the program now while giving opponents a second Chance to kill it before the $3.2 billion is spent. The House already has approved a 1992 defense spending Bill that eliminates the administrations request for $3.2 billion in b-2 procurement Money and cancels the program after completion of the 15 b-2s already approved by Congress. The administration wants eventually to buy 75 planes at an average Cost of $864 million. At that Price it is the most costly air plane Ever built. B-2 supporters probably would not have proposed freezing the $3.2 billion if not for air forces revelation last week that a july 26 flight test showed the bomber could be detected by radar More easily than expected. Some members of Congress who had supported the b-2, now say they will withhold judgment on buying More of the planes until they get a full explanation of the test failure and prospects for solving the problem. The air Force has declined to say publicly what the problem is citing National Security concerns. But it has said it is sure the problem can be overcome. The Bill approved by the subcommittee thursday provides for $270.4 billion in total defense spending for the fiscal year starting oct. 1. Some of its provisions would a eliminate the administrations request to buy one sea Wolf attack submarine for $2.38 billion. Instead the panel earmarked $2.46 billion to build two additional los Angeles class attack subs. The sea Wolf which is under development has been delayed by welding flaws. Inouye said the problem would delay deliver Tyr of the first sea Wolf by up to one year. The sea Wolf is being designed As a replacement for the older los Angeles class sub a Cut National guard and Reserve forces by 35,166 from the current total. The administration had asked for a Cut of 107,526. The Rolls of Active duty service members would be Cut by 106,358 As requested by president Bush. Lii till Max weapon Load 50,000 pounds Max Takeoff weight 350,000 pounds Max internal fuel capacity 200,000 pounds weight empty 110,000 pounds sources Jane s All the world s aircraft a amps Sharon Kilday russian prime minister loses Confidence vote record Holder has checkup Craig Shurgold 12, holds a news conference with his parents Marion and Ernie scr Gold at the University of Virginia medical Center in Charlottesville on thursday. The family who is from England is visiting doctors for a checkup after Craig a recent surgery for a brain tumor. The boy holds the guinness Book of world records entry As the recipient of the most get Well cards with More than 33 million. Moscow apr russian prime minister Ivan Ilayev newly chosen to run the whole soviet Economy suffered a defeat Friday in his own parliament when lawmakers voted no Confidence in his programs to Supply food and Deal with the economic crisis. Deputies voted 134 to 19 with five abstentions to adopt a Resolution declaring As a a unsatisfactory a Ilayev a governments actions to revive agriculture and master the economic crisis. The Resolution also urged russian federation president Boris n. Yeltsin to review the makeup of his government and dismiss officials who had performed poorly. Russian deputies rejected wording that would have made the Resolution a no Confidence vote on the governments performance As a whole. The votes followed a pessimistic speech thursday by Deputy russian prime minister Oleg Lobov who said Oil production in the Republic was Down 51 percent from last year leaving the government Short of hard currency for needed imports such As Grain. Fridays vote was a blow for Ilayev who said wednesday he will quit As russian prime minister once a new National Council is formed to manage the chaotic soviet Economy. He has been appointed to head the inter Republic economic committee a new governing Structure proposed in the Wake of the failed aug. 18-21 coup. Lobov said that Industrial production As a whole fell 3.8 percent for the first eight months of the year from the same period in 1990. He predicted the Grain crop would total Between 95 million and 96 million tons which he deemed average for the past 10 years. . Officials have forecast that the soviet Grain Harvest will be 40 million tons Down from last years bumper 235 million tons. Even with that crop Consumers had to line up for Basic foods All last Winter. A key problem is that Farmers Are unwilling to sell Grain to the state because of Low prices and galloping inflation. Ilayev suggested in an interview this week that private producers be Given incentives by offering to store their Grain in empty state silos and giving them 10 percent extra either in seeds or Cash if they keep it there for six months. Ilayev appeared to be suggesting the state Woula try to get by on those supplies until it receives enough foreign Aid or hard currency to Purchase Grain abroad. Dmitri Vasilyev a lawmaker from the Samara Region on the Volga River proposed a vote of no Confidence in the government As a whole. He criticized Lobov for what he termed an administrative approach to the  on masculinity muddles Ideal Man new York up the Ideal american Man is witty if wimpy looks up to actor Clint Eastwood and would choose to feed the poor rather than buy a baseball team if he had an extra $100 million. That finding was revealed thursday in a poll that examines the state of masculinity conducted by Esquire Magazine of 1,001 randomly selected men. The results appear in the october Issue. The poll s findings Are somewhat contradictory. According to the poll most men claim that they do 40 percent of household and child rearing chores would rather marry television personality Jane Pauley than Singer Mariah Carey and would rather be considered witty but wimpy than sexy but dumb. At least one researcher who studied the comments said the menus responses seemed contradictory. When asked to qualify their most admired Quali ties 87,6 percent said they would rather a woman thought of them As witty but mild rather than sexy but unintelligent which garnered 11.3 percent of respondents. But when asked for their role models they chose brawn Over brain. Seventy percent chose Eastwood and 27 percent chose actor director Woody Allen and 58.2 percent chose he Man actor Steven Seagal Over consumer advocate Ralph Nader who got 35.9 percent of the vote. A the Only noticeable pattern of responses is one of contradiction and inconsistency a said psychologist Herbert Rappaport a professor at Temple University. The first annual Survey on menus attitudes was conducted for the Magazine by Beta research corp. The poll also found 51.8 percent of the polls participants would rather marry Pauley than Carey and 58.8 percent said television journalist Connie Chung was Likely to be wild in bed but Only 32.2 thought the same about another to news personality Diane Sawyer. The Survey also showed that most men feel that a Man should a a ideally make love to at least 18 women in a lifetime with More than 49.5 percent saying they had made love to More than that number and 48.5 percent saying they had gone to bed with fewer than 18. But on the health front 69 percent said that if they had a spare $100 million they would feed the poor rather than buy a baseball team. Of those surveyed 58.9 percent believe they Are better mates than their fathers were while 43.3 percent believe they Are better fathers than their dads. Of those surveyed 26.4 percent were not fathers themselves it said. And 68.7 percent prefer to be thought of As too easygoing rather than too aggressive while 65.7 percent would rather teach their sons How to handle themselves in a fistfight than to appreciate poetry