European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 3, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday april 3, 1992 the stars and stripes b Page 7 Gates sees no need for overhaul of Cia by the Washington Post Washington Cia director Robert m. Gates on wednesday rebuffed proposals for a sweeping legislative overhaul of the . Intelligence Community. He also said he was initiating a a evolutionary changes to improve american espionage in the Post cold War Era. Gates told the Senate and House intelligence committees at their first Ever joint Public session that legislation would be a a unwise in such a fast changing world. He insisted that the Steps he is taking with president Bush a approval would preserve needed a a flexibility and at the same time Sharpen intelligence analysis improve collection strengthen Central management of the nations spy apparatus and strengthen support to the military. A a in a world of such turbulence i believe that our approach to restructuring must be guided fundamentally by the need to preserve flexibility a Gates testified. If in a year or two More changes Are needed a we can do so quickly and efficiently without the need to seek new statutory  the democratic chairmen of the two committees sen. David l. Boren and and rep. Dave Mccurdy both of Oklahoma have introduced legislation that would create a new Post of director of National intelligence with authority Over civilian and military intelligence agencies and the Power to make them work together at less Cost. Both lawmakers praised Gates for the administrative measures he announced but expressed Sharp disappointment Over his decision not to recommend creation of a new Agency to take Over the satellite reconnaissance program now widely dispersed among Pentagon agencies and Cia dominated tasking and interpretation units. They also warned the Cia director that the administrations proposed intelligence budget for fiscal 1993 would have to be Cut. The Overall budget last year reportedly stood at about $30 billion and Mccurdy noted that the proposed new total is higher than that. He said the defense budget is going to be taking deeper cuts than those proposed by the White House and that the intelligence Community will have to tighten its Belt As Well. Acting on the recommendations of 14 Cia and intelligence Community task forces he appointed last fall Gates maintained that the revisions a although they do not create or eliminate Large organizations together represent revolutionary change in the Way things really work in the nations espionage apparatus. To strengthen Central management he said be was abolishing the intelligence Community staff which he Heads As Over Oklahoma democrats sen. David Boren left and rep. Dave Mccurdy i Joy a laugh during a discussion of possible Cia reorganization on wednesday. All director of Central intelligence and replacing it with a stronger Community management staff headed by Richard Haver now assistant Secretary of defense for intelligence policy. Gates said the new unit would reduce duplication of Effort look for ways to Cut costs and evaluate competing proposals for funds. To Sharpen intelligence analyses Gates promised aggressive promotion of competing a red team Blue team studies to avoid Pitfalls of conventional Wisdom and Alert policy makers to the possibility of different outcomes. Gates also announced creation of a National human intelligence tasking Center under the Ciao a Deputy director of operations so that a for the first time in the history of . Intelligence the government will have a single mechanism for deciding which Agency has the Best Chance of acquiring needed intelligence a at least Cost and least  sex aide to president Johnson Calls Juk movie a monstrous charade new York a Jack Valenti president of the motion picture association of America and a former top aide to president Lyndon Johnson has denounced the film Juk As a hoax and a smear a newspaper reported. Valenti also said the Oliver Stone movie that opened in december was a pure fiction rivalling nazi propaganda the new York times reported thursday. A i waited to speak out because i did no to want to do anything which might affect this pictures theatrical release or the Oscar balloting a Valenti was quoted As saying. The movie received two technical awards at monday nights Academy awards ceremonies. Valenti said his comments were personal and not connected to his responsibilities in the movie Industry. Valenti said stones film was a a monstrous charade based on the a hallucinatory beatings of an author named Jim Garrison a discredited former District attorney in new  the movie implies that Johnson was waiting in the wines to take Over and was part of a conspiracy to assassinate president John Kennedy in 1963. A does any sane human being truly believe that presi Dent Johnson the Warren commission members Law enforcement officers Cia Fri assorted thugs weirdos Frisbee throwers All conspired together As plotters in garrisons Wacky sightings a Valenti asked. A and then for almost 29 years nothing leaked but you have to believe it if you think Well of any part of this accusatory  Valenti Valenti said Many Young people leave Heaters a convinced they have been witness to the  Valenti called the movie a a a hoax and a a smear a the times said. A in much the same Way Young German boys and girls. Were mesmerized by Leni Riefenstahl a Triumph of the will in which Adolf Hitler was depicted As a Newborn god a Valenti said. Fungus called largest living organism by the los Angeles times the worlds largest living organism is neither fornia Sequoia nor the giant Blue whale but a a Cali a. 40-acre fungus. Canadian researchers reported thursday in the journal nature that the humongous fungus lives beneath a Forest in the upper Peninsula of Michigan according to botanist Myron l. Smith of the University of Toronto in Ontario. The fungus a single continuous organism weighs As much As 220,000 pounds and is apparently 1,500 years old. In contrast the great Blue whale weighs As much As 250,000 pounds but occupies much less than 1 acre of space. And Sequoias May weigh As much As 2 million pounds but most of that is dead Wood. Coral reefs which some argue Are the largest living organisms Are also composed mostly of dead inorganic material. Smith and his colleagues have not seen the entire fungus. It lives just below the surface on and Between the roots of Hardwood forests. They determined its size by taking samples of it Over the 40-acre test site and confirming that All of the samples were genetically identical. If any Sample had come from another fungus even an offspring it would have a slightly different genetic composition. Although the main body of this fungus a species called aim Illaria Balbosa is underground it produces edible outcroppings called Honey mushrooms. If not eaten these mushrooms release spores that Are the seeds of other fungi. The researchers estimated the age of their prize specimen by noting that it expands outward at a rate of about 8 inches per year. Based on that growth rate it is at least 1,500 years old but if it suffered Competition from other fungi or experienced Adverse environmental conditions that reduced its growth it could be much older Smith said. The same species lives under Hardwood forests throughout Eastern North America and Europe. Smith speculated that there May be others around that Are even bigger and . Passengers receive an april fool s Welcome from wire reports los Angeles a Welcome to Chicago. That a what passengers arriving at los Angeles International Airport saw april fools Day when they looked out the windows of their air planes. An 85-foot-Long yellow Banner with 20-foot-High red letters was hoisted above the Pavilion at Hollywood Park Racetrack about three Miles from the Airport. A it was something we always wanted to do a said Park spokesman Brock Sheridan. A we thought it would be kind of funny and our new management. Thought it would be a great practical  ship aground Miami a a cruise ship ran aground on a Day trip to the Bahamas and its 279 passengers were flown Back to Miami starlite cruises said. No passengers were injured when the Tropic Star went aground tuesday night on a Channel Bank near Freeport in the Bahamas. The 360-foot ship suffered a couple of Small dents on its Hull said Peter Stamoulis director of the Miami based cruise  end smuggler duly Miami a drug tracking blimps used for ears to track drug smugglers in South Florida ave been taken out of service because smugglers have developed ways of avoiding their surveillance. Five Pudgy radar equipped balloons nicknamed a fat Albert a were decommissioned tuesday by the coast guard and turned Over to the army. The ship based balloons were introduced in the Early 1980s when speedboats and Low flying planes carried loads of cocaine to South Florida under the cover of darkness. As smugglers switched to concealed compartments on snips and in containers a radar sweep of open Ocean lost its value. A the bad Guys Are putting much More time and Energy into concealing drugs a said customs service spokesman Michael Sheehan