European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 14, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Saturday March 14, 1992 the stars and stripes a Page 5navy seeks to keep sub builders afloat Washington apr the Navy fighting to protect one of its most cherished branches is urging Congress and the Bush administration to preserve the nations two nuclear submarine shipyards by buying vessels it May not need. A 28-Page report by adm. Bruce Demars director of the Navy a nuclear propulsion division recommends building older Model attack submarines instead of the new and More expensive sea Wolf. President Bush proposed scrapping the sea Wolf and halting All submarine production until 1998, when a new Centurion submarine will be ready for production. A backlog of submarine construction work is expected to carry the two shipyards into the mid-1990s. A the sudden cancellation of sea Wolf orders together with an apparent hiatus in submarine construction has dealt the nuclear powered submarine Industrial base a potentially fatal blow a Demars writes. The report recommends Early retirement for nine of the oldest los Angeles class submarines. The $2 billion in savings would help finance five new los Angeles class subs Over the next five years. Demars acknowledged the proposal seems a contradictory a but said it is the Only Way to preserve the unique skills and Industrial capability needed to build nuclear submarines. Demarsi report is in response to a request by Deputy defense Secretary Donald Atwood. The report would not become government policy unless the president and Congress accept it. The document makes Clear that the purpose of the new purchases is to protect the vast Industrial facilities and skilled workers needed to build them. Likewise Demarsi recommendation to move As quickly As possible with the Centurion a is not driven by the traditional arguments of military necessity. Rather the purpose is to a sustain . Technical capability and dominance in submarines. With some 90 attack submarines in the service and the soviet threat gone the Navy at least for the Short term has an ample Supply of the vessels Demars conceded. The recommendations Are crucial to 21,000 workers in Connecticut and Rhode Island who build nuclear powered submarines at the electric boat division of general dynamics corp. In Groton Conn. About 11,000 workers at Virginia a Newport news shipbuilding amp dry Dock co. Also work on submarines. At about $2 billion each the sea Wolf is the most expensive submarine Ever ordered by the Navy and a target for defense budget cutters. The first sea Wolf attack submarine is under construction at electric boat. President Bush has proposed ending the program with that one sea Wolf. Two other sea wolfs funded by Congress would be cancelled. A the Navy awarded the first sea Wolf contract to electric boat in 1989. The sea Wolf is designed to carry More weapons have a higher tactical Speed and better sonars than los Angeles class sub. Its weapons will include about 50 tube launched missiles and torpedoes according to Jane a fighting ships. It will have a Speed of 35 knots about 40 Mph. Los Angeles class subs can carry 26 weapons including missiles that can be tube launched Jane a said. Their Speed can exceed 30 knots about 35 Mph it said. In the 1980s, the Navy ordered As Many As five submarines in one year. In the stars and stripes 10 years ago March 14,1982 a top Senate republicans drafted a a working paper proposing higher taxes lower defense spending and a freeze on Many programs As a possible bipartisan budget Compromise congressional sources said. 20 years ago March 14,1972 a the National Black political convention voted to set up a permanent Black political movement. The Rev. Jesse Jackson head of Chicago a people United to save humanity said it was Quot a revolutionary step toward a Black political nation in this country and in the  30 years ago March 14,1962 a cuban Premier Fidel Castro acknowledging that his 3-year-old revolution faces serious problems announced drastic rationing of food and other Staples. Quot we Are ashamed of not fulfilling the promises made a Castro declared. 40 years ago March 14,1952 a United states and turkish troops stopped a korean assault battalion in its tracks in the heaviest communist attack of the month. A curtain of Allied artillery fire halted the enemy forces 100 Yards Short of . Lines. World War ii50 years ago today 14 march1.9 .4 .2 the joint chiefs of staff agree to stay on the defensive against the japanese in the Pacific theater while building up american forces in Britain for an attack on Germany and Italy. . Troops begin to land in Australia in Large numbers. In the Philippines Gen. Douglas Macarthur and his staff land on Mindanao to await air transportation to his new Headquarters in Australia. Texas diners line up for reopening of cafeteria where Man killed 23 Killeen Texas up a the Lubye a cafeteria where a gunman killed 23 lunchtime patrons reopened thursday without official fanfare but with widespread support from its employees and the Community. The new cafeteria bears Little resemblance to the Way it looked on the afternoon of oct. 16, when George Hen Nard crashed his pickup truck through the front windows and then killed the 23 diners before killing himself. By noon thursday More than 300 people had been served. Dozens More waited outside in a line at the popular restaurant. Most of the 43 employees returned to their jobs saying they were thankful they had escaped the bullets that felled Many of their customers that Day. A i thought i was going to die that Day a said Shelton Smith an employee. A a in a glad thank god that i made it out. In a sorry for the people that did no to make it out. God bless  mayor major Blair said reopening the restaurant would be Good for the Central Texas town of 63,000 people. A the Community for the most part has begun to heal and begun to get their lives Back to Normal. But this will be a giant step a Blair said. After the tragedy Lubye a officials debated whether to a lne of Rons stretches outside the door As Lubye a cafeteria site of reopen the restaurant but the town made the final Deci a mass Sabinie last year reopens in Killeen Texas on thursday Sion for them. A we received hundreds of letters and Telephone Calls urging us to reopen and continue As a part of this Community a said Lubye a chief executive Ralph a a Peter Erben. A we Are very pleased to be doing that a a new coat of Tan paint covers the old red Brick exterior and the Interior has been redesigned with new furniture. A the color of the Brick and everything in the dining room within eyesight has been changed the ceilings the partitions the carpet the Walls the furniture the employees uniforms. Everything is different Quot said Lubye a spokesman Vernon Schrader. Even the windows through which Hen Nard crashed his truck have been redesigned. The floor to ceiling windows near the front Entrance were redesigned to incorporate Low Brick Walls to put customers at ease he said. No memorial is planned at the restaurant but City leaders will erect a Monu ment to the victims in the City a Conder Park this summer. After the massacre the cafeterias main entry took on the appearance of a shrine As survivors and strangers dropped off Flowers and other remembrances to the dead and wounded. After the shootings investigators found that Honnard was angry about his dismissal from the merchant Marine and had continuing feuds with City officials in nearby Belton where he lived. Arsenic barrels on Ocean floor worry . Source 2194 Days of War w. H. Smitn a publishers inc. World almanac Book of world War ii Bison books corp. 19�j1 Atlantic City . A barrels of arsenic resting in a Clam bed on the Ocean floor have residents of a new Jersey Shore town worried about swimming fishing and seafood. Longport mayor Howard Kupperman told a state legislative committee this week that the barrels which toppled from a ship in january have residents fearful of a contamination and actual  he said the tourism Industry could be devastated if the barrels Arentt removed soon. Four containers holding 441 barrels of the chemical used in rat Poison slipped off the deck of a freighter during a severe storm. Three containers settled 30 Miles off the coast of Cape May in Southern new Jersey. The search for the fourth Container was called off. The area is habitat for the most endangered Marine mammal the right whale and the most endangered sea Turtle in the Atlantic the Kemp Ridley sea Turtle officials said. Capt. Richard Tweedie of the coast guard Marine safety office in Philadelphia said it could take several months Ana Cost $6 million to remove the 40-foot containers. Tweedie said no arsenic has escaped. He said the lids on the barrels a remained basically  the barrels have started to corrode but pose no immediate threat to humans or Marine life he said. Thomas e. Bigford of the National Marine fisheries service in Gloucester mass., said it is Only a matter of time before the Poison seeps into the Ocean. A four Square mile area has been closed to ships and commercial and recreational Fishers. The area is scheduled to be reopened May 12, but the closure could be extended 90 Days if the barrels Arentt removed. Tweedie said the coast guard issued an administrative order to Force the owners of the freighter the Santa Clara i to take Over the cleanup. But he said the company refused. George Ledwith a spokesman for pm Pressa Naviera Santa .a. Inc., which owns the ship denied the company is being uncooperative. He said the company is awaiting results of a study by consultants. Ledwith  comment on what the company would do if the consultants recommend leaving the barrels on the Ocean floor