European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 27, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Plan for 75 b-2s losing key support sunday october 27, 1991 the stars and stripes Page 7 by Robert Burns the associated press Washington chances appear All but lost that the Pentagon will win congressional approval to fill its proposed Fleet of 75 b-2 stealth bombers and it seems it May have to Settle for about half that number. Key b-2 supporters in the House and the Senate Are proposing to scale Back the bomber production program and comments about the b-2 by president Bush on Friday added to speculation that he May be ready to abandon the 75-plane goal. Bush was asked to comment on a report that Gen. Colin Powell chairman of the joint chiefs of staff had told members of Congress that he would reluctantly accept a b-2 Fleet of As few As 30 planes. A i done to want to take a position on Powell a alleged position a Bush said. A i will have something to say As we go along each step of the Way As to the administration  referring to his 1992 defense budget proposal that asks Congress to approve spending $3.2 billion on four of the Bat winged b-2s, Bush said a a we be got a proposal up there and lets see where we go with  there is some doubt whether Congress will approve Money for any additional planes beyond the 15 already authorized although a total Purchase of Between 20 and 40 aircraft still seems More Likely. Last year the Pentagon Cut its planned Purchase from 132 planes to 75, which the air Force has consistently termed a minimum Fleet size. So far Only three have been built and Are being used for flight tests. The Pentagon insists that it has not abandoned its goal of building 75 b-2s, but even some key supporters on Capitol Hill Are calling for a further reduction. The b-2, in development since 1981, is designed As a Long Range heavy bomber capable of penetrating sophisticated air defences to drop either nuclear or conventional bombs. In the House Senate negotiations the House last week offered to drop its attempts to kill the b-2 program. House negotiators offered $1.4 billion to keep Northrop  production line a a warm until a final decision on the b-2�?Ts future could be made next year said several sources. The Senate had not responded by Friday. It has backed the Bush plan for four new b-2s in 1992. Sen. Sam Nunn d-ga., a key supporter of the b-2 and chairman of the Senate armed services committee said recently that he thought the 75-plane goal could be Cut in half. In the House another key supporter rep. Ike Skelton d-mo., in whose District b-2s Quot would be based proposed last week to limit production to 37 planes. Sister issues apology for gunman s rampage Dallas apr the sister of the gunman who fatally shot 23 people in a Killeen Texas cafeteria before killing himself apologized for his rampage. But she denied that her brother was driven by a hatred of women. Desiree Hennard said her family had no idea what drove her brother George Hennard to kill. A the was depressed sometimes but i done to want to take that out of perspective a she told the Dallas morning news in an interview published Friday. A everyone gets depressed sometimes. 1 never thought he would do that and i never could have imagined him taking anyone with him a she said. Hennard 35, drove his pickup truck through a window of the Lubye a cafeteria on oct. 16, then methodically shot patrons in the worst mass shooting in . History. Hennard 28, a cosmetologist rejected reports that her brother hated women in general and his Mother in particular. Hennard shouted obscene phrases about women during the rampage leading police to suspect he was driven by a hatred of women. �?o1 want to say in a sorry to All those people who lost family and friends a we lost someone too a she said. A my parents Are really broken up. They can hardly take  she said her brother had been distraught at the loss of his merchant Seaman s papers for smoking marijuana. Sornia Salem Isa Righta daughter of Zein and Maria Isa leaves a St. Courtroom Friday with two unidentified family members. Parents convicted in daughter s death St. Louis apr the parents of a 16-year-old girl were convicted of first degree murder Friday by a jury that heard gruesome secretly recorded tapes of the daughters killing. The jury deliberated nearly four hours before reaching the verdicts. Zein Isa and his wife Maria showed no emotion As translators relayed the jury s verdict to them in their native languages. Isa 61, a palestinian is a naturalized . Citizen his wife 48, is brazilian. Prosecutors have said they plan to seek the death penalty against both when the penalty phase gets under Way. It was not immediately Clear when that phase would begin. The seven minute tape of Tina Isar a death which occurred nov. 6, 1989, was a vital part of the trial and attorneys on both sides discussed it in their closing arguments earlier in the Day. The tape was made by the Fri which hid electronic bugging devices in the family a Home As part of an investigation reportedly into whether Zein Isa was involved with the Palestine liberation organization. Quot the gasps and moans of a Lovely 16-year-old girl is frightening to All of us Quot Zein Isar a attorney Dan Reardon said in closing arguments. A but the question becomes. Whether or not the horror of this recording can Blind  Reardon insisted that his client had killed his daughter in self defense when she Eanie at him with a knife. He said the recordings did t reveal the times she had attacked him with a meat Cleaver or kicked his bad leg. But prosecutor Dee Joyce Hays said the tapes not Only recorded the killing but also proved that Zein Isa talked about killing his daughter and How he would do it. On the tape which reduced several jurors to tears Tina Isa can be heard moaning and screaming. Zein Isa can be heard shouting in arabic a die die quickly die my daughter die a the attorney for Maria Isa said she had tried to protect her daughter. Chopper crash kills Rock promoter Graham Vallejo Calif. A Bill Graham who fled hitlers Germany and carved out an Empire promoting Rock music from its infancy in the United states died late Friday when his helicopter crashed into a Utility Tower. He was 60. Graham was among three people killed Jean Catino a spokeswoman for Bill Graham productions said in san Francisco on saturday. The others were Melissa Gold and the Pilot Steve Kahn 42, Catino said. A Bill was the most influential non musician in the Rock a no Roll world a grahams son David told a radio station in los Angeles on saturday. A the started the fill mores which became the Paragon concert Halls of the �?T60s scene and basically perfected the Art of producing  the Bell Jet Ranger helicopter was flying Over Marsh lands about five Miles East of Vallejo when it crashed into the 200-foot Tower about 10 40 . Friday said sheriffs sgt. Jay Farmer. The copter remained suspended in Power lines saturday. The cause of the crash was under invest a file Bill Graham gation. Officials with Pacific Gas and electric said 23,000 Homes in the Vallejo area about 15 Miles North of san Francisco were without Power for most of the night. Graham who was born of russian parents and lived in european orphanages before he immigrated to new York City was one of Rock music a greatest entrepreneurs. He was a promoter for Bob Dylan and a manager for Jefferson air plane and Santana. The grateful dead was among the groups that headlined his mag concerts such As the 1973 Watkins Glen pop festival which attracted half a million Rock fans. He organized the band s last Waltz tour in 1976, the Crosby stills Nash and Young reunion tour in 1974, and the rolling stones 1982 tour. He also was involved in planning the 1985 live Aid concert. Graham was born Wolfgang Gra Jonca in Berlin in 1931. In 1939, he and his sister were sent to an orphanage in Paris. When the nazis invaded France in 1940, the two and some other children set out on foot for Marseilles. A my sister  make it beyond Lyons a he once told a reporter. A a that a where she stopped and we kept on going and i wanted to stay there. One of the hang  in be had in be always Felt guilty that i left her there. She was 13, and she died in  Graham got his Start As a Rock promoter nov. 6, 1965, when he staged a Benefit for the san Francisco mime troupe. Graham was the groups business manager. Held in a loft the show brought together the Jefferson air plane the Virgin fugs Allen Ginsberg and other elements of the san Francisco Art scene. By the next year the crowds for grahams shows were becoming so Large that he began holding the shows in a san Francisco skating rink known As Winterland. In 1968, Graham moved to a Hall on san Francisco a Market Street naming it the Fillmore West. Later that year he opened the Fillmore East on new Yorkus lower East Side. The fill mores served As a launching pad for groups and performers who went on to achieve National prominence among them the Jefferson air plane the grateful dead Janis Joplin quicksilver messenger service Santana and the Tower of Power. In addition to David Graham had two other sons Alex and Thomas. Graham was divorced