European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 06, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Saturday february 6,1993 . 1 the stars and stripes of b Page 5 panel to study estimates on Dod costs by the los Angeles time Washington the Clinton administration is attempting to determine whether the Bush administration underestimated projected military spending Over the next three years by As much As $70  help make the determination Secretary of de of Csc Les Aspin has selected three Well known defens experts to investigate and report their findings in March. The panel also will review projected Long Ter costs of weapons purchases manpower Levels and environmental  the estimates by former president Bush s administration were wrong the Clinton administration could be forced to Cut military spending More severely than it had planned. It could even find it impossible to fulfil its Campaign pledge of reducing the Pentagon budget by $60 billion Over the next five  concern centers on two assumptions in Bush s budget that new management procedures would resulting savings of $70 billion or More and that the Cost of Long Range weapons purchases would remain . Sam Nunn d-ga., chairman of the Senate armed services committee has suggested  might have overestimated management savings by As much As $50 billion for the period. And general accounting office study has suggested Bush might have underestimated the Cost of Long term weapons procurement Between fiscal 1992 and 1997 by an additional $35  announcement came a Day after Aspin in a first step toward hammering out the defense budget for Fis Cal 1994, ordered the Pentagon to Cut military spending by about $10.8 billion including $2.5 billion for the strategic defense initiative known As the Star wars program. Pentagon spokesman Bob Hall said a lot of people have said these Are not real  he said Aspi wanted an outside group to evaluate the figures and provide him with a factual basis on which to make his hard decisions. The three member panel Aspin appointed thursday included Philip a. Odeen president of bpm International inc., a consulting firm Jeffrey h. Smith a Mem Ber of Clinton s transition team and Edward c. Al Dridge president of the aerospace corp., a nonprofit firm. Odeen held several senior positions in the Pentagon and worked on the National Security Council staff under Henry. A. Kissinger Smith was general Counselor the Senate armed services committee and Al Dridge is a former Secretary of the air  other issues the panel will study also could prove important in the budget debate. Manpower costs arc Amajor part of the Pentagon budget and there is sub stantian disagreement Over How rapidly the Force can be Cut. The Pentagon also is under pressure to finance the cleaning up of the environment on military bases which could Cost several billion dollars. Aspin pledged during his confirmation hearings to delve into those issues quickly and apparently has decided to push for a review in time to affect the administration s fiscal 1994 budget decisions. Clinton has said he plans to have most of his budget proposals ready by feb. 17, when he is scheduled to de liver his state of the Union address. In the stars and stripes 10 years ago feb. 6,1983 president Reagan and chinese Premier Zhao Ziyang will hold a Summit in the United states this year the White House announced. 20 years ago feb. 6,1973 a refusal to give a detailed schedule of . Troop withdrawals from South Vietnam caused the communists to temporarily hold Back the release of pos joint Mil itary commission sources said. 30 years ago feb. 6,1963 Canadian prime minister John Diefenbaker refused to resign despite a Cabinet revolt choosing instead to stand with his conservative government in a show Down vote on the nuclear arms Issue. 40 years ago feb. 6,1953 the weary Netherlands struggled for the fifth Day to shake off the paralysing North sea which has spread water death and destruction Over a sixth of its territory 50 years ago feb. 6,1943 american flying fortresses shot Down 24 German fighters during two heavy attacks on Axis Landing areas and airports in North Africa. World War ii j 50 years ago today feb. 6 1943 the Pentagon creates separate commands for North Africa and Europe Gen. Dwight. Eisenhower remaining in charge in Tunisia and it. Gen Frank m. Andrews heading the new european theater command. On the Southern soviet front the red army captures Fesyk on the sea of Azov cutting off German troops in the Kuban Region soviet troops push within five Miles of Rostov. Source 2194 Days of War. W h Smith . World almanac Booko world War ii Bison books corp1981 a mafia used to blackmail Washington a a new boo contends that the late Fri director j. Edgar Hoover was a closet homosexual blackmailed by the mafia with compromising photos into denying for decade the existence of organized crime. Anthony Summers writes in his boo that top organized crime figures Meyer Lansky and Frank costello obtained the photos of Hoover s alleged homosexual activity with longtime aide Clyde  of the Book official and confidential the secret life of , were re leased thursday. There have Lon been rumours some dating to the1930s that Hoo ver was homosexual often arising from his sharing Bachelor House with Tolson for years. But another Hoover biographer who heard the re Hoover mors of homosexuality and mob blackmail said thursday that he was never Able to corroborate them. Hoover was Fri director from 1924until he. Died in 1972. Tolson also is dead. As head of the Fri Hoover made habit of Squir reling away information about the sexual lives of Washington Power elite including John and Robert Kennedy and Eleanor Roosevelt according to a number of biographers. Gay photos of Hoover a � i the Fri Boss Book says Summers Book published by . Put Nam s sons is excerpted in the March Edi Tion of vanity fair. It is also the subject of frontline documentary air ing on pcs. This is the fifth Book written by sum mers a former British broadcasting corp. Journalist. He also wrote goddess about actress Marilyn Monroe. His latest Book quotes two former officials of the office of strategic services the forerunner to the Cia who say the saw pictures of Hoover engaged in a sex Ual act with Tolson. One John Weitz said he could not recognize anyone in the photo he was shown at a dinner party inthe 1950s but was told by his Host whom he would not identify that it depicted Hoover and Tolson. Summers writes that electronics expert Gordon novel said that Cia counterintelligence chief James j. Angleton no deceased showed him several photos including one of Hoover engaged in sexual activity with Tolson. Summers writes that the mafia May have obtained the photos from the Oss. He offers the theory that Oss chief William Donovan and Hoover while feuding Over control of foreign Intelli gence investigated each other and that Donovan came up with the  Book quotes Susan Rosenstiel the fourth wife of mobster and liquor distributor Lewis Solon Rosenstiel As saying she saw Hoover dressed up in women clothes and involved in homosexual play at sex parties at the Plaza hotel in Newyork City. At one such party in 1959, she  seeing Hoover with a red dress on and Ablack Feather Boa round his neck. After about a half an hour some boys came like before. This time they re dressed in leather. And Hoover has a Bible. He wanted on of the boys to read from the Bible. And he read i forget which  she said that the other boy engaged in sexual activity with Hoover and that after the passage was read Hoover told the first boy to join the  also is interviewed in the frontline  also writes that Mont can Ruf Fin the widow of psychiatrist Marshall Ruf Fin said her husband treated Hoover for Many years and that the Fri director was troubled by homosexuality. Her Hus band s notes which he Burn a shortly be fore his own death in 1984, would be proved that she  might stir a Keg of Worms by making that statement but everybody then understood he was homosexual not just the doctors she  of mafia blackmail of Hoover have been rumoured  Gentry who wrote the 1991 Book. Edgar Hoover the Man and these crets said he talked to mafia people who told me that Meyer Lansky Many year Sago obtained incriminating photos of Hoo ver and Tolson arid this is Why the feb ignored organized crime for years dec Ades and decades and Why Lansky was never arrested or tried in All those  but it was All hearsay never documented. I never saw any  and he did t put it in his Book. Mainstream May forget aids report warns by new Day Washington despite wide spread attention to aids during the past decade a new report says the epidemic i becoming increasingly concentrated in groups with Little economic or political clout and May drop from general Public awareness. The epidemic it concludes May have Little permanent effect on the institutions of society and on the average american. If the current pattern of the epidemic holds the report says aids will Dis appear not because like smallpox it has been eliminated but because those who continue to be affected by it Are socially invisible beyond the sight and attention of the majority  that pessimistic Outlook is contained in a report released thursday by the National research Council an Arm of the National Academy of sciences. The acad Emy is chartered by Congress to advise the Federal government on science although the. Disease became prominent in the Gay Community which fed the pressure for More aids research an medical resources the epidemic has been shifting into marginalized groups Pri Marily intravenous drug users and their sexual partners the report said. Many geographical areas and strata of the population Are virtually untouched by the epidemic and probably never will be the report said. The study was quickly criticized by some aids specialists who said it could divert attention from the disease and hampered cation and prevention programs. The language in this report is rather inflammatory to a certain degree said David eng spokesman for the Gay men s health Cri Sis in new York. He said it could further perpetuate that myth of us is. Them or. David Rogers vice chairman of the National commission on aids also disputed the report s major conclusion. Inmost circles i find the awareness and concerns going up and not Down Rog ers said. My own View is that aids is going to put an indelible imprint on most facets of our society. Very few of our institutions will be  albeit Jonsen chairman of the study panel and a medical ethicist at the univer sity of Washington acknowledged in an interview that the report would be controversial. But he said it was an Effort to highlight the recent course of the epidemic and the social groups that Are suffering for Lack of adequate care and resources. The fact that this can become everybody s epidemic is not in any sense being de Nied Jonsen said