European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 29, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes . Wednesday june 29,1994panel targets Dod research funds Washington a a House panel voted monday to halve defense department spending for University research in a $243 billion Bill that emphasizes the nuts and bolts of military readiness. The House appropriations committee approved a defense budget for fiscal 1995 that would add $3.2 billion to the administration request in such categories As spare parts property maintenance ammunition recruiting and military and civilian pay raises. That amount includes $250 million budgeted for a new korean readiness program aimed at enhancing the combat strength of . Troops in South Korea. The Money is not enough to make a real difference in the event of War in Korea said rep. John Murtha d-pa., chairman of the appropriations subcommittee on defense. A but it will show the Korc koreans we re serious. Murtha said the spending Bill slated to go to the full House later this week was the most difficult he had Ever handled because of the demands for budget cuts. Defense outlays for 1995 Are expected to be Only 3.8 percent of the Gross Domestic product the lowest since 194 8. Murtha said he had spent two months negotiating with the Pentagon on ways to reduce what he said would be a shortfall of $20 billion to $40 billion Over the next five years., a we done to think there is any Way to get there without cutting a big program out a be said. Murtha said he recommended six big development programs for cutbacks including the v-22 aircraft f-22, f/a-18e and of Comanche helicopter sea Wolf nuclear submarine and c-17 transport plane. He said that when the Pentagon  give ground on those programs he moved to Cut in half the $1.8 billion slated for University research. A a we re not trying to stifle research. Were just trying to get it in control a Murtha said noting that 50 percent of the research Grants goes to overhead. The committee also Cut All $400 million that the administration sought to help the former soviet Union eliminate nuclear weapons and $300 million the Pentagon was to pay for International peacekeeping efforts. It Cut All $230 million requested for Assam a new Iri Scricc attack missile. Included in the $80 billion budgeted for operations and maintenance is an increase of $600 million Over the administration request for depot maintenance a $400 million increase for ammunition $517 million for property maintenance and $310 million for increased training and support. Murtha said that the Quality of life is slipping substantially for Many military personnel and that military readiness has weakened since the persian Gulf War. The House earlier this month passed a $262.7 billion defense Bill that authorizes defense programs for 1995 and the future. The. Bill approved by the appropriations committee provides the Money for the programs. In the stars and stripes 10 years ago june 29,1984 a Congress approved a Compromise deficit reduction package of More than $50 bal lion in tax increases and $13 billion in spending cuts Likely to affect everyone from welfare recipients to corporate executives. 20 year Sago june 29,1974 a president Nixon signed the first agreements of his Moscow Summit visit extending so Viet american cooperation to include Energy development heart research and housing. 30 years ago june 29, 1964 a communist a thet lao forces launched a massive three pronged attack on Muong Soui the laotian neutralise so last line of defense West of the strategic Plain of jars. 40 years ago june 29,1954 a president Eisenhower and British prime minister Winston Churchill vowed to a press Forward with plans for collective defense of Southeast Asia Quot regardless of the outcome of Indochina peace negotiations. 50 years ago june 29,1944 a gov. Thomas e. Dewey of new York hailed As Quot the Man of the peacetime american future Quot captured the Republican presidential nomination with Only one first ballot vote cast against him. C world War ii d 50 years ago today june 29 194 4 american infantrymen Battle bitterly with German armoured troops near Cocina Italy to the East South african tank units capture Acquaviva and. Mont Pulciano and British troops take Castiglione Del Lago. Soviet forces retake Boru ask and Advance toward Minsk in belorussian. In the Central Pacific. . Army soldiers push the japanese Back in Quot death Valley Quot on Saipan. Source 2194 Days of War w. H. Smith publishers inc. The Wori almanac of world War it. Bison books corp., 1981 48 More radiation tests on humans turn up in Energy department files Washington apr a review has unearthed 48 More experiments in which hundreds of humans were subjected to radiation exposure often with no evidence of consent the Energy department said monday. The additional human radiation tests were among stacks of documents made Public by the department including details about 95 previously hidden nuclear bomb detonations at the Nevada test site. The blasts went undetected because they were set off simultaneously with reported tests. Energy Secretary Hazel of Leary said the latest disclosures reflected a a tremendously tense balance Between providing the Public More information about the government nuclear activities and maintaining National Security. Last december she announced her openness initiative with the release of previously classified data on nuclear testing. Meanwhile the Energy department disclosed that nearly $3.7 million already has been spent in efforts to learn More about the extent of human radiation experiments since world War ii particularly during the 1940s and Early �?T50s. It said the document searches eventually would Cost at least $24 million. A review of 11,000 such documents has disclosed a although in Many cases with Only scant detail a at least 48 experiments in which humans were Given various radioactive isotopes to determine the effects of radiation on the body. Several tests were conducted As recently As the 1980s, Ellyn Weiss of the departments office of human radiation experiments said the cases were selected in part because these experiments had a no potential therapeutic Benefit to the subjects  the cases included a the use of pregnant women who were injected with radioactive iodine-131 to determine effects on the fetus. The women All had been scheduled for therapeutic abortions and the aborted fetuses were then tested for radiation. A in 1946, six employees of a Laboratory associated with the nuclear program v k i so i.  in Impi if i Wurf a Energy Secretary Hazel of fixary uses a Chart in briefing reporters on the government s openness policy toward radiation experiments on humans. Were Given plutonium contaminated water to drink during research into the absorption of plutonium. These tests were described As voluntary and at least two of the workers Are still alive according to the summary. A As late As the 1980s, human subjects were exposed to various radioactive isotopes including barium and strontium at government weapons laboratories to establish accurate calibration criteria for radiation detection equipment. The extent of consent was not Clear in the documents made Public. A eight workers at the Hanford weapons Plant near Richland Wash drank radioactive milk As part of an Experiment. No details were Given. A an unknown number of terminally ill cancer patients were injected with tronti um-85 As part of experiments dubbed by the atomic Energy commission As project Sunshine. After the patients died various body tissues were Analysed for the effects of radiation the documents said. Of Leary said she was most troubled by some of the project Sunshine experiments that also included the use of pregnant women and their aborted fetuses As test subjects. Throughout Many of the experiments a Lack of adequate consent a continues to be the theme of Leary said at a news conference. Later Doe staffers said that in Only a few of the documented experiments was there Clear evidence of consent. Officials said the experiments were gleaned from a Small fraction of the hundreds of thousands of documents being gathered for review but were estimated to involve As Many As 1,200 human subjects pay for kids or lose Driver s seat dads told Augusta Maine a state officials have yanked the Arivera a licenses of eight fathers who refused to pay child support officials said monday. A this should not come As a Surprise to anyone a human services commissioner Jane Sheehan said. A a we be been warning people since last August this Day would come and now its here.�?�. The human services department actually told Maine a motor vehicles Divi Sion to lift nine Drivers licenses. But one of the nine fathers agreed to pay up and will get his License Back the fathers owe a total of $150,000 in Back payments Sheehan said in a statement. Sheehan said each father has received two earlier setters Teising him that his License w As in jeopardy. They also received formal notices by certified mail outlining their right to re quest hearings. Since receiving legislative approval last year to lift Drivers and professional licenses from parents who refuse to pay support the department has sent notices to 17,400 parents who Are at least 90 Days behind in their payments As of mid june the state had collected sll.5 million in Back payments said Sheehan who called the results a nothing Short of