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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (March 8, 1983)
15* Thts coupon good today only, March 8th At the Food Op - Mow serving coffee - Located at 15th and Agate Behind Job Service Tune Op for Spring Break Automotive International © vw BMW Honda Datsun Mercedes With complete tune-up get a FREE oil change & filter Tune Ups • Brakes* Fuel Injection* All work Guaranteed 1550 oak 683-5050 5f^Restaurant ATTENTION Journalism Majors & Architecture Students Come in this week for a FREE HOMEMADE DESSERT (with your lunch order $2.00 min.) Good thru 3/11/83 from 1:30 pm lo 4 pm 1240 Alder • 484-2056 'Soviets’ score on U.S. Army WASHINGTON (AP) — A simulated Soviet regiment has scored many victories over U.S. Army units seriously lacking “important ‘go-to war’ skills" in mock battles at the National Training Center in California, officials said Monday. “They win many of them," said Lt. Col. Dave Mooney when asked about reports that a training regiment made up of American soldiers using Soviet tactics and Soviet-type equipment has outgunned U.S. Army tank and mechanized infantry outfits. Mooney, a spokesman for the Army Forces Command which supervises training, said he did not have any scores which would reflect the margin of victory for the “Soviet” regiment. At the same time, Mooney acknowledged that a report prepared by the Forces Command said “there is a lack of demonstrated tank crew and anti-tank gunner capability” to destroy enemy targets. According to this report, the record of 10 Army task forces which exercised at the Fort Ir win center last year disclosed "a significant shortfall in important ‘go-to-war’ skills.” Among other things, observers criticized the failure of unit commanders to order their in fantrymen to leave their armored personnel car riers and assault “enemy” positions when the units ran into heavy anti-tank missile opposition. U.S. Army units are sent to the California training center for two weeks of field maneuvers, including what is designed as realistic combat against “opposing forces.” The principal opposition in the mock bat tles is provided by a simulated Soviet regiment of about 1,200 men and 150 fighting vehicles built around three motorized rifle battalions, a T-72 tank battalion and supporting units. In attempting to explain why the simulated Soviet regiment did so well against the Army tank and mechanized infantry units, Mooney said the “Soviet" outfit has "home court advan tage” in that it trains in the Fort Irwin area for about 140 days a year while the visiting Army battalions are there for only two weeks and thus are not familiar with the terrain. However, Mooney said even the defeats have their positive side in that the training “identifies weak points and they go home knowing what they have to work on." Jobs bill passes unanimously WASHINGTON (AP) - The Senate Appropriations Com mittee gave unanimous ap proval Monday to a $3.9 billion package of recession relief, a full $1 billion less than the Democratic-controlled House approved last week for jobs and humanitarian assistance. The measure, which also provides $5 billion to assure continued payment of unemployment benefits, is ex pected to come up for debate in the full Senate later in the week. Easy passage is ex pected, although Sen. Mark Hatfield, the Oregon Republican who chairs the committee, said he would at tempt to reduce spending on the jobs portion of the bill by about $373 million to accom modate the wishes of Pres. Ronald Reagan. The bill was adopted by voice vote in the Republican controlled committee as the panel took steps to make sure the funds are targeted to areas of high unemployment. In all, about $2.1 billion will be distributed on the basis of unemployment, and under the complicated formula adopted, 15 states will benefit par ticularly. The 15, all of which had unemployment higher than the national average for all of 1982, include Alabama, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan and Mississippi. Also on the list are Ohio, Oregon, Penn sylvania, South Carolina, Ten nessee, Washington, West Virginia and Wisconsin. Despite the amendment, drafted by Hatfield and Democrats John Stennis of Mississippi and Robert Byrd of West Virginia, some members complained about “pork” being a part of the bill. Sen. Tom Eagleton, D-Mo., noted that some of the funds were earmarked for states represented by influential committee members. “Take them all out," he said, and allow all the money to be allocated on the basis of na tional need. But there was no move by any committee member to strip out provisions that he referred to. In general, the bill contains slightly more money for social services and less for tradi tional "brick and mortar” con struction jobs than the House passed bill. But there also are items such as $263 million for con struction of Veterans' Ad ministration hospitals; $155 million for various railroad pro jects and $470 million for the Corps of Engineers; Bureau of Reclamation and Tennessee Valley Authority, all of which will be spent on jobs-creating construction projects. Liz, Phil dine on denizens of the deep atAi I Lt |AK) — Msnermen Northwest helped set a sump from Alaska and the Pacific tuous table for Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip in Seattle. The Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute con tributed three troll-caught red king salmon for the feast at the Westin Hotel, said Linda Chaves-Michael, deputy chief of the National Marine Fisheries Service in Seattle. The salmon ranged in size from 16 to 18 pounds each. The fish were caught in Southeast Alaska last week by the Silver Lining Co. of Ket chikan, said Chaves-Michael, adding, “The winter troll season is open." The West Coast Fisheries Development Foundation of Portland, donated 700 shrimp and 600 Dungeness crab legs, bought at cost from Seawest Industries, Inc. of Edmonds, Wash., she said. Smoked salmon and smok ed black cod were donated by Port Chatham Packing Co. of Seattle, she said. The National Marine Fisheries Service, which helps promote exportation of North west and Alaska seafood, asked that seafood be put on the queen’s menu, said Chaves-Michael “England is a big importer of our seafood," she said. An Evening with Rosalie Sorrels Tuesday March 8th 7:30 p.m. Gerlinger Lounge ♦3 00 (J.O. Siuc'ents $4.00 General Public The King hell songwriter Songs so close to the bon gil nervous listening to U - Hunter J>. V :* r&ickinfmpche# m
