European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 30, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday september 30,\1994 the stars and stripes Page 5 House revives spy plane in budget Washington a the Houston thursday approved a $244 billion de sense spending Bill that maintains mos major Pentagon programs and adds $100 million to take the sr-71 Blackbird spy plane out of Mothballs. The Bill funding defense programs for the year that begins oct. 1 was approved on a vote of 327-86 and sent to the sen ate for final action. Despite lean budget times the Bill pays for most of the military priorities Laid out by president Clinton totalling $3.5 billion More than this year s defense appropriations budget. Adjusted for inflation i amounts to roughly level funding or even a slight decrease. The final version of the Bill also contained $112 million in supplemental 1994 help for haitian refugees $99 million for cuban refugees and $88 million for the department s operations in Rwanda. Among the Bill s other provisions $100 million to keep the sr-71 Blackbird flying. The air Force said it no longer needs the spy plane and is worried about the costs of operation. Its revival has been assailed As a pork barrel project. In the Senate Robert Byrd d w.va., chairman of the appropriations committee has backed the Blackbird. $125 million to keep key subcontractors of the b-2 stealth bomber from going out of business and to study the nation s bomber needs. $2.6 billion for the c-17 cargo plane program and to Settle a contract dispute Between the Pentagon and Mcdonnell Douglas corp., builder of the air lifter. Development of a new attack submarine at the full $421 million requested by the administration. $400 million for Aid to the former so Viet states to pay for their nuclear disarmament. $1.4 billion in University research funding. Simpson trial has everybody meeting jittery los Angeles a a Man dismissed from the . Simpson jury Pool summed it up Best in his remark to a woman who could still make the Cut. This is going to take your whole life Over he said wednesday As the woman filled out a 75-Page question Naire probing her opinions. Nobody disagrees. Throughout the first three Days of jury selection the lawyers the judge and the prospective jurors All spoke of the pressure of participating in one of the most closely watched trials in . History. I was the judge in the Charles Keating Case judge Lance Ito told jury prospects tuesday referring to the fraud trial that came to symbolize the nation s savings and loan scandal. Ity and thought seen anything Simpson a former football Star who became a to sports commentator and and Pitchman has pleaded in Nocent to murdering his sex wife Nicole Brown Simp son and her Friend Ronald Goldman. He faces up to life in prison without parole if convicted. During hardship questioning which is the first phase of jury selection one Man said he did t want to serve because he feared it might give him a heart attack. There s a lot of pressure on this Case he said. I m aware Deputy District attorney Marcia Clark responded. Even Simpson nodded in agreement. Ito has gone to great lengths to make life easier on the prospective jurors. On wednesday for instance he rejected a motion to interrupt jury selection for a hear Ingon the admissibility of Dan  argued that publicity from the hearing to be held after jury selection could taint the jury an trigger a mistrial. With no known eyewitness prosecutors will be de pending heavily on physical evidence to prove their Case and Dan analysis is seen As a key. Ito said he would spend a Day questioning the 20 jurors after the Dan hearing to see if publicity had affected them. Otherwise he said the entire jury Pool would remain in limbo during the hearing which could last a month. . Simpson demonstrates an exercise during his 68-minute workout tape which will be released next month. Of. Workout video features Kato too Beverly Hills Calif. A a workout video tape that . Simpson completed a week before the slayings of his sex wife and her Friend features the foot Ball great shooting hoops with his now famous House guest Kato. The 68-minute exercise tape will be released on schedule oct. 19. It was previewed wednesday for the associated press. I i m . Simpson the videotape begins. Wear ing a hooded Blue sweat shirt the laughing animated Simpson shows How different he looked before becom ing the often glum murder defendant now seen in court. . Simpson minimum maintenance fitness Formen will be available from Alta Loma productions a subsidiary of Playboy entertainment group earlier Playboy said prospects for release were Uncertain. The $15 video includes a scene of a smiling Simpson playing basketball with live in guest Brian Kato Kao Lin at the suburban Brentwood estate where Simpson was arrested june 17. On a brisk stroll in front of the Home Simpson tells viewers i used to walk on the wild Side. Now i just  Simpson s share of the $350,000 project was t Dis  the athlete turned actor is on trial for the june 12 murders of sex wife Nicole Brown Simpson and he Friend Ronald Goldman. He has been jailed since his arrest -. The video is geared toward Busy men with no Tim for a workout regimen at the gym or health club said Playboy executive Jeff Jenest. Awards Neki and be u. S. Russia n warts me i i n is by the los Angeles times Washington the German a boat took deadly aim and torpedoed the Crockett a . Merchant Marine ship into oblivion just three Days out of Arkhangelsk in the frigid russian far North. Merchant Marine radio operator Thomas Sofranko now of Chula Vista Calif., found himself in a Rescue boat tossed on the heavy swells of the Northern seas 50 years ago this week having nearly lost his life to deliver massive Load of armaments and supplies to the soviet War Effort. And on tuesday at Long last the Kremlin and the White House formally honoured fighters like Sofranko and Alexander Olshansky a soviet infantryman who took part in the victorious 1945 meeting of soviet . Troops on the Elbe River in Germany. With the last ideological barriers Long gone president Clinton and russian president Boris Yeltsin took an hour out of lofty Summit discussions to reflect on what Good partners Russia and America made in the fight against fascism and what a pity it was that the partnership was lost for nearly 50 years. We gather to guarantee that the Opportunity we lost to build a better world five decades ago will not be los again Clinton told a solemn gathering in the Sun drenched Rose Garden. We vow finally to realize the Promise of that embrace at the  the full celebrations of the Elbe meeting the linkup of Allied forces that meant Adolf Hitler was truly finished in Europe will come next april at its 50th anniversary. But the White House apparently chose to pre empt the main ceremonies by awarding medals at this week s Summit because other world War i commemorative events recently in Berlin and at the a Day celebrations in Normandy left out the russians evoking deep indignation among the nation that suffered the greatest numerical losses to nazi Germany. Well Over 20 million soviet citizens died during world War ii known there As the great patriotic  the Rose Garden ceremony for 20 russian and 20 american veterans was meant to smooth Over those snubs. And what rancor remained did seem far outweighed by the Good will of old comradeship. You Don t need to Divide Victory who did More who did less said Olshansky now a russian major general who received a special medal of Honor from Clinton on behalf of russian veterans. \ we All sacrificed Tremenda reisly and that s Why we won Olshansky said