Monday, February 10,1986/The Battalion/Page 9
World and Nation
Missile
Legislator: Midgetman could draw support from both parties
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The chair
man of the House Armed Services
Committee released a report Sunday
supporting large new expenditures
on the Midgetman nuclear missile,
the first blow in what is expected to
be a new Capitol Hill fight over ad
ministration budget increases for
atomic weapons.
Rep. Les Aspin, D-Wis., said his
analysis of the single-warhead mis
sile showed Midgetman is “that rare
kind of weapon that should garner
support from liberals and conserva
tives alike.”
Midgetman is the nickname given
the missile intended as a successor to
the MX nuclear weapon.
Klinghoffer’s
widow dies
of cancer
Associated Press
NEW YORK — Marilyn Kling-
hoffer, the widow of Leon Kling-
hoffer who was killed by terror
ists on the cruise ship Achille
Lauro, died Sunday of cancer.
She was 58.
Klinghoffer died about 5 a.m.
at Lenox Hill Hospital, family
spokeswoman Letty Simon said.
She had been in the hospital for
about two weeks.
The Klinghoffers were aboard
the Italian ship when it was hi
jacked by Palestinian terrorists
Oct. 7. Mr. Klinghoffer, who had
suffered a stroke and was con
fined to a wheelchair, was shot
and his body tossed into the Med
iterranean Sea.
Klinghoffer announced shortly
after her release that she would
establish a foundation to reward
and educate people who oppose
terrorism.
“Mrs. Klinghoffer was a coura
geous woman who stood for her
principles in speaking out elo
quently against terrorism,” White
House spokesman Michael Guest
said in a statement. “The presi
dent will be sending his condo
lences to the family.”
Just last week, Simon an
nounced that Klinghoffer would
sell the story of her husband’s
death to a production company
that will make a television “docu-
drama” about the cruise.
Simon said Klinghoffer and
her family decided to sell the
rights in the hope that the tele
vision production would encour
age opposition to terrorism.
Klinghoffer is survived by her
daughters lisa and Lisa; a son-in-
law, Jerry Arbittier; and her
mother, Rose Windwehr.
Although Congress has limited
the total MX deployment to 50, half
of what Reagan originally asked, the
Pentagon wants $1.8 billion next
year for 21 more MX weapons for
test purposes.
Also sought is $3.1 billion for the
eighth Trident missile-firing sub,
$1.4 billion for the first production
of a new generation of more power
ful warheads for the Trident mis
siles, and a classified amount for the
radar-evading “stealth” bomber.
Spending on the Midgetman
would double, from $700 million
this year to $1.4 billion, under the
Reagan budget. The money would
go for research, and a decision on
whether to go ahead with full-scale
development is likely to be made
later this year.
Aspin’s analysis said conservatives
should like Midgetman because it
“provides real deterrence” since it
would take a large number of Soviet
warheads to knock it out.
“For liberals, the Midgetman is
important because it cannot be a
first-strike weapon; it can only be a
retaliatory or second-strike
weapon,” Aspin said.
Midgetman’s chief support came
from a 1983 presidential commis
sion appointed by Reagan to come
Associated Press
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Navy
divers Sunday intensified their off
shore search for wreckage of the
space shuttle Challenger, out failed
to locate an explosive satellite
booster rocket spotted underwater
by sonar.
The 32,000-pound booster, com
posed of two solid-fuel rocket mo
tors, was believed to be in an area 18
miles northeast of the launch site,
where parts of the shuttle’s crew
compartment, one of its two solid
fuel rocket boosters and other debris
have been reported.
“There is plenty of material out
there, but they have found nothing
identifiable” in 100 to 120 foot dives
late Saturday and all day Sunday,
Navy spokesman Cmdr. Arthur E.
Norton said.
Norton said the 22 divers aboard
the Navy salvage ship USS Preserver
concentrated their efforts Sunday in
a zone where “good sonar images”
showed the 10-by-17 foot “inertial
upper stage” rocket was resting on
the ocean bottom.
The I US was to have boosted a
$100 million NASA communications
up with a basing plan for the 10-war
head MX.
While the commission said the
MX should be deployed in stationary
silos, it called for development of a
mobile, single-warhead missile in the
future.
The commission argued that in a
crisis, the Midgetman would be a less
tempting target for a Soviet first
strike because it would take numer
ous attacking warheads to destroy a
mobile missile and even then the at
tackers would only knock out one
missile. That contrasts with the sta
tionary MX and its 10 warheads.
The Air Force has pushed ahead
with development of Midgetman
and tentatively plans to begin de
ploying it as early as 1992.
The leading deployment plan ap
parently is to put tne weapon aboard
armored, wheeled launchers that
could be driven around large mili
tary bases in the western United
States, making them hard for the So
viets to target.
Aspin estimated that Midgetman
would cost $44.5 billion during its
20-year life span. In that same pe
riod, the United States will spend
$480 billion on other long-range nu
clear weapons, meaning that Midg
etman would take up about 5 per
cent of the strategic budget, he said.
relay satellite into higher orbit after
it was carried into space aboard
Challenger, which exploded after
liftoffjan. 28.
The Navy focused on the satellite
boosters rather than on searching
for the shuttle crew compartment or
the boosters that propel the space
ship, Norton said.
The IUS, powered by 27,400
pounds of solid fuel, will be have to
oe declared safe by Navy explosive
experts before it is brought to the
surface.
“Our divers are identifying and
mapping a small area of the ocean
floor, taking photographs and eye
balling,” Norton said Sunday. “We
can leave this (the IUS) and go any
where that may be considered more
important at any time.”
Navy and NASA officials would
not say if there had been any pro
gress in recovering Challenger’s
crew cabin, rocket boosters or re
mains from any of the seven astro
nauts.
Space agency officials would only
say that three NASA ships were at
sea conducting sonar sweeps and
photographing underwater objects
with robot subs.
Search continues for
shuttle rocket booster
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