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Show Page 32—THE HERALD, Provo, Utah, Wednesday. January 30, 1:80 Carter Asks $2.1 Billion for Space Shuttle WASHINGTON (UPI) — President Carter asked Con, Mondayto approve spending a record $2.1 billion for the space shuttle rocket plane, the space agency program that is two years behind schedule and 20 percent over cost. The president's budget message to Congress requested a shuttle appropriation of $1.87 billion for the nextfiscal year and an extra $300 million to meet unexpected costs in the current year. At the same time. the National Aeronautics and Space Administration announced that new testing problems with the external heat protection tiles on the space shuttle Columbia. will delay the date for its first launch from Cape Canaveralto late this year or earlyin 1961 The launch had beentargeted for this sum- or 11 percent from NASA's origina! budget for the current fiscal year. However, the A year ago as the fiscal 1980 budget was being presented to Congress, NASA Ad- $300 million supplemental appropriation requested for the space shuttle for fiscal ministrator Robert Frosch announced the first shuttle launch had been delayed from Sept. 28 1979, to Nov. 9. 1979. The flight originally was scheduled forlate 1978 Associate NASA Administrator John development costs of the space shuttle was $5.15 billion in 1971 dollars. The total development cost — which does not include the cost of two of four planned shut- will build on NASA's basic strengths in a time of serious national economicstresses an id heightening international tensions." The shuttle, a revolutionary winged space transport, is receiving high priority because it will be used to carry Defense Department satellites and laboratories into orbit as wellascivilian spacecraft Yardley said the new launch delay was caused bydifficulty in testing someof the thousands of ceramictiles on the Columbia. Engineers are concerned about the soundness of the bond used to attach the tiles to the ship's aluminium skin. Yardley said earlier problems with the shuttle’s main engines appear to be resolved. He said the new delay will give The $2.17 billion requested for the shut- tle in the budget message is $400 million morethan the record total requested last January. the engine testing program time to cope with any new troubles that might develop Carter's overall budget for NASA for Fieral 1081 ic €5 420 hillian nn $727 millian NASA's original estimate in 1972 for the AMERICAN For. tles — is now put at $6.1 billion in 1971 dol- 1980 raises the total NASA budgetfor the year to $5.012 million Frosch said the space agency's budget cu rent FiteT Ww lars or $8.6 billion in today’s inflated dollars. The president's budget also asks for $16 million to start a new gammaray obser- vatorysatellite program for launch in 1985 and $5.8 million to start work on a ocean observationsatellite Notably absent from the fiscal 198] budget request is money to start work on a solarelectric rocket system for a planned probe to rendezvous with Halley's comet in 1985 and to fly on to study the comet Tempel 2. That will foree NASA to plan a less rewarding comet mission Case- Lots... AW Yeu ALOUND CORN ‘aie“%, BER oe qrtew Gianl MEDmn mer. “This !s Carter's Plan for Nuclear Spending WASHINGTON (UPI) — President Carter’s 1981 energy budget Monday earmarked $169 million more for the beleagured Nuclear Regulatory Commission to apply safety lessons painfully learned in the Three MileIsland, Pa., nuclear accident. ‘The new budgetalso adds $90 million to the Energy Department's nuclear fusion research program for a total fusion expenditure of $471 million next year. Butthe overall energy supply development budget of about$6.3 billion continued to scale down government support for research and development in nuclear fission, the technology used in today’s power reactors. , “Spending on solar and fossil energy programs now dominates the supply area of the energy budget, whereas nuclearfission development was the principle government objective in 1977,’ Carter said. The admin.xtration, which plans to give Congress a comprehensive nuclear waste management program this year, also added $12 million to the Environmental Protection Agency budget for atomic waste policymaking. The NRC is being directed to place its primary emphasis on the enforcement of new uirements for safety, operator training al emergency planning based onstudies ot the nuclear plant accifent at Three Mile Island last year. Carter, who will appoint a new, permanent NRCchairman from outside the agency next summer, plans to submitlegislation this year on further changes in nuclear regulation. Congress has reacted coolly to recommendations from the president's Three Mile Island Commission that the NRC be con- ManyAgencies Hide Monies For Intelligence WASHINGTON (UPI) — Secreted away in the fiscal 1981 budgetfigures released Mondayarebillions of dollars representing thecost of vast U.S. intelligence operations around the world. Search as you may, you won't find so much as a penny specifically designated for the CIA, the Defense Intelligence Agency or the supersecret National Security Agency — which snoops on global communications and codes. At a briefing for reporters, Budget Director inJames Melntyre said the budget does include say creases for intelligence operations but he would no more on the subject. ‘The money also is tucked away for a dozen and moreoffshoot bureaus which retrieve, develop and analyze photographs from spy-in-the-sky space satellites and supersonic aircraft and perform eal iaati functions. fl ; : jo. personnel roster, no payroll, no equipment inventory such as electronic monitoring ships or submarines,not even blimps on loan or solely commit ted to gathering intelligence. legislation in both the Senate and House to publish even a “globalfigure” has never gotten off the ground. Some experts claim estimating even an overall figure, with no breakdown of agencies, would be impossible. All USS.intelligence agencies use military personnel or facilities in one way or the other and a lot of work is contracted outto civilian firms. “How do you cost accounta three-month, strictly intelligence mission of a nuclear submarine to a sensitive area?” one knowledgeable source asked. “Take a ntage of the cost of the submarine? Part of operating costs, including crew?” The same would apply for an Air Force supersonic spyplane, flown byeither a uniformed pilot or civilian pro like the late Gary Powers of U-2 fame. The reason for the secrecy in withholding statistics is the heart ofintelligence itself. Byextrapolation and comparison with other data obtained clandestinely, foreign analysts could work out how much of the effort is going into HUMINT, human intelligence, and how much into SIGINT, signals and communications. To oversimplify: An aerial photograph might show the size of a Soviet military headquarters in Cuba. Butif you know the dimensionsof the mess hall and a man on the groundcan find out how much food is going into the place. a fairly good head count can be worked out. Contrary to general assumptions, the CIA doesn't take the biggestslice of the imc‘ligencekitty. The bestestimatefor the CIA is about $20 million to $1 billion a year. Mostis said to go to the Defense Intelligence Agencyand the NSA — probably morethan §1.5 billion each. That’s cost directly traceable to them. Ancillary agencies and practically incalculable costs attributed to the military and other agencies could bring the total annualintelligence bill to anywhere from $3 billion to $7 billion. Whereisit hidden? All over the place: Inflated figures under legitimate headingsand also under miscelleaneous or fictitious listings in the Defense Department,the Space Agency, Energy Department (which tests and makes nuclear weapons) and camouflaged in the other innocuous departments. lot of experts and analysts gave up long ago Hill Base Annual Payroll Reported at $381 Million HILL AIR FORCEBASE,Utah (UPI) — Hill Air Force Base — Utah's largest single employer — paid out a record $381.6 million last year to its civilian and military workers. ‘The northern Utah base employed 20,467civilian and military workers in 1979. The civilian worker payroll was $314,579,664 and the military men assigned to the base earned $67 063,158. Base spokesmen said Utah also received at least year from the workers in $10.9 million during the ig taxes. state personal income Del merle PODS e139 keep up with the paceofinflation. Carter asked Congress Monday to spend $20.1 billion on transportation in fiscal 1981, an increaseof only $500 million from 1980. Rep. Mike McCormack, D-Wash., hopes Carter can be pursuaded to make a commitment to such a project and possibly raise this year's spendingto $500 million through a supplemental budget request. These figures reflect the administration's other major transportation theme: deregulai Here’s Facts About Budget Deficits That spending level 53 years ago was j ‘ghtly more than the government will sinil out in the next several months to wy The chief beneficiaries of a major push in magnetic fusion would be Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Princeton University and Oak Ridge National Laboratories, where the concept is being tested. verted into an executive agency with one, WASHINGTON (UPI) — Many Americans were not around in 1927, the year Babe Ruth belted 60 homeruns and Charles Lindbergh flew solo across the Atlantic. y But those who were mightrecall the U.S. government spent $2.86 billion on all federal programs that year. Soe toad BEANS Fedecot 5104 strong administrator. But the sameproposal wa s made forcefully again last week by an independent NRC consultant's report that found the commission’s management wanting. Research on nuclear fusion, the reaction that fuels the sun, is expected in the next three orfour years to achieve a breakthrough poit int at which energy produced exceeds the energy required to induce the reaction. Supporters of fusion in Congress hope to conservation and efficiency. But overall, the transportation budget to operate and improve the nation’s highway, rail, air and water systems does not even “1, a, Grim Gitte raise the annual magnetic fusion budgetto $1 billion in coming years so a commercial electric generating plant can be demonstrated before the year 2000. Changes Noted inTransportation Spending Plans WASHINGTON (UPI) — President Carter's fiscal 1981 spending plan includes $617 million fora new series of transportation energy initiatives designed to encourage fuel Wiehe St, buy up American grain that President Carter has embargoed because of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. Budgetdeficits come and go. 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