European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 10, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes . Friday june 10,1994panel seeks More funding for b-2 Washington a showing an ability to evade congressional opposition As Well As enemy radar the b-2 stealth bomber is making a comeback this week. A draft of the Senate armed services committees proposed 1995 defense budget being considered thursday would include Money to keep the b-2 program going according to congressional and Industry sources. If approved by the full Senate the proposal would set up a fight with the House and the Clinton administration Over the plane. In an indication that senators Are concerned that the Clinton administration is allowing the nations bomber Force to atrophy the committee draft also rejects an administration plan to reduce the aging Fleet of b-52s,said sen. Byron Dorgan . The sources who spoke on condition of anonymity said sen Sam Nunn a a chairman of the armed services committee and sen. James Exon d-neb., who Heads a key subcommittee support additional funds for the bomber. The committee is expected to make its Bill Public today. The draft Bill includes $150 million in a a bomber Industrial based account to ensure that key subcontractors and suppliers keep their b-2 operations going according to the sources. Although the Money would buy no bombers it would keep the production and supplier network alive. A the b-2 still shows More ability to penetrate the . Treasury than enemy air defences Quot said sen. Patrick Leahy Dot. Leahy and other critics argue that the b-2, with its flying Wing profile and composite skin was designed mainly to drop nuclear weapons on the. Now defunct so it Viet Union. Congress last year agreed to Leahy a proposal to buy no More than the 20 b-2s already on order. Defense Secretary William Perry told lawmakers earlier this year that the Pentagon a is not pursuing any plans for the procurement of additional b-2s.�?� but Northrop Grumman corp., prime contractor for the b-2, has lobbied aggressively saying that without More Money some suppliers would close their More romanians caught sneaking into . By ship i Boston apr eleven romanian stowaways found aboard a ship Are the third group from the Eastern european nation caught trying to enter the United states on the same shipping line in two months. Ten of the latest group Are seeking political Asylum. A they Felt a fear of returning Back Home a they did not want to return to their country for political reasons a said immigration and naturalization service inspector Greg Navajo who interviewed the group wednesday on Board the freighter Wocl innovation the one Man who did not claim political Asylum is to remain on Board the ship until he is returned to the port where he stowed away believed to be be Havre France Navajo said. Two women smiled shyly and eight men waved As they were led off the freighter handcuffed in pairs. They looked thin and unshaven but otherwise healthy As they boarded a bus for the ins Center in Newark . Crew members discovered the stowaways during the voyage said Bill Summers spokesman for sea land service inc., owners of the ship. Two months ago 20 romanians stowed away aboard the same vessel in containers loaded at be Havre. Two were denied Asylum and the others Are awaiting hearings Summers said. Romania is a poor Balkan nation struggling to recover from decades of communist Rule under dictator Nicolae Ceausescu last week five romanian stowaways were found on Board another sea land vessel that docked in Boston Summers said. The five men did not ask for political Asylum and remained on Board the ship but later escaped. Joe Macer of the ins in new Jersey said sea land May be fined $3,000 for each Escapee. One of u romanian stowaways a 10 of them Asylum seekers a raises a fist As the group is led from a freighter in Boston. Young cancer patients need painkillers who says Philadelphia a children with cancer done to always receive vital painkillers because of myths that they done to feel pain the Way adults do the. World health organization says. In preliminary guidelines announced wednesday the Geneva based Agency recommends giving Young cancer patients Access to morphine codeine and other pain medication available to adults. The Agency also suggests distracting children during painful procedures bringing religion into treatment administering Medicine orally and listening More carefully to youngsters. A children can to often Tell us what hurts or explain How much it hurts and As a result a child Spain can go unrecognized and untreated a a said Mary l. Osborne a paediatric psychologist in Philadelphia. Osborne and other health care experts announced the new guidelines at the third International symposium in paediatric pain they said the rules should be adopted worldwide but Are especially needed in developing countries where Access to treatment of the disease itself is years away. A there is a lot of unnecessary suffering out there a said or. Jan Stjern Sward the swedish chief of who a cancer and palliative care unit in Geneva roughly 200,000 children develop cancer each year and five out of six of them live in developing countries Stjern Sward said. He said morphine is inexpensive a Only 10 cents per dose for a child in Ndia. Even in developed countries children Are under mediated because parents and some professionals mistakenly believe children done to experience pain the same Way adults do and fear that youngsters will become addicted said Susan Fowler Kerry a nursing professor at the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon Canada and an expert on assessing pain in children. Fowler Kerry said a doctor recently told her that he believes in treating cancer without pain killing drugs. A i Felt White and i Felt sick that someone would do that a she said. Distracting children with music and stories and attending to spirituality also Are important she said. Doctors and parents should ask children if a treatment is working and listen carefully to the cries of children too Young to talk Fowier Kerry said a the Only expert on pain is the person experiencing the pain a she said. B-2 operations. That would greatly increase the Price of a b-2 if Congress later decided to order More planes. At Northrop alone some 11,000 jobs in the los Angeles area depend on the b-2, and thousands More work for subcontractors. Under the Clinton administration plan the air Force next year would have 60 a is 40 of the older b-52s and seven b-2s, total Cost of the b-2 program including research development and production of 20 planes is $44.4 billion. The House armed services committee last month added $100 million in the House defense Bill for 48 More b-52s and a is than the Clinton administration planned for the 1995 budget. Navy moves to protect Gay civilians Washington a Navy Secretary John Dalton has banned discrimination against the services civilian employees based on sexual orientation the Navy said wednesday. The directive applies to the services 252,000 civilian employees and is in line with regulations issued by the equal employment Opportunity commission a spokesman said. The Navy is the first armed service to Issue such a statement but others Are expected to follow suit. The spokesman said the Navy apparently is the first service Branch to get its paperwork completed a your continued Success requires that each civilian employee and applicant be afforded the Opportunity to Excel without regard to his or her race color gender sexual orientation religion National origin age or disability a Dalton said in a statement issued May 23. The statement docs not apply to the Navy a uniformed men and women who Are covered under the a a done task done to Tell rules issued last year by the Pentagon. Those rules provide for the discharge of Gays and lesbians who engage in homosexual activity. Ship May move to new York City after retirement new York apr the Guadalcanal weighed Anchor and pulled out of pier 88 on wednesday ending the final port Call for one of the Navy a Workhorse warships of the last three decades. The amphibious assault ship headed Back to Norfolk va., for decommissioning a a casualty of the Pentagon a Post cold War cutback to a smaller More modern sea Force. The ships visit to new York during the 1994 Fleet week was to have been the last Hurrah for a vessel that was launched in the Early 1960s, before Vietnam and served in three oceans the Mediterranean and the persian Gulf. Meanwhile new York City is considering acquiring the ship As a floating helicopter port to be moored near the intrepid sea air museum on the Hudson River. Museum director Lawrence Sowinski said Jive. Navy has approved the Deal if the City wan let. It would be paid for by City state Federal and transportation Grants with the heliport operation supporting itself