Senate votes in favor of B-2 bomber production
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate voted lit -18
Wednesday night to continue production oi the Ll-2
stealth bornher, despite fresii questions uhuu! ds ability
to evade enemy radar.
The vote came on a move to halt production of the
hat-wing aircraft after the 15 already authorized by
Congress, an action that would have scuttled the Hush
administration’s plan to spend 51 2 billion next year to
buy four B-2 planes.
The roll call was the first In an expec ted series of
challenges to the Flush administration's plans to con
tinue production of several weapons designed to con
front the Soviets, including the Strategic Defense Ini
tiative anti-missile system
Vice President Dan Quayle presided over the vote on
the D-2, in caso administration forces needed him to
break a tie. Just eight weeks ago tie Senate voted by a
Close vote follows disclosure
of plane’s detection by radar
wider margin, 57-42, to defeat an attempt to kill the 1!
2 program
The future of the B-2 has come increasingly into
question since the disclosure earlier this month bv the
Air Force that a July 20 flight test indicated the plane
was more easily detected by radar than originally ex
pected The Air Force says the problem cun be over
come. but critic s have expressed doubt
Sen Jim Sasser, D-Tenn , was chief sponsor of the
defeated amendment Ho also was pressing a related
amendment to the l<)<i2 defense appropriations bill
that would limit spending on the Star Wars anti-mis
sile system to S I 5 billion next year
The appropriations bill Includes SI (> billion for Star
Wars, or SGOO million less than requested by the ad
ministration.
The main subject of debate was whether to provide
the S:t 2 billion that Bush wants to buy four B-2 bomb
ers. The president has said he would veto the defense
bill If it does not provide money for the planes. The
bill us approved by the Appropriations Committee last
week included the $: 1.2 billion but said it could not he
spent until a separate vote was taken by Congress next
year.
In its version of the defense spending bill passed
earlier this year, the House provided no money for B-2
purchases. The Air Force wants eventually to buy 75
B-2s. Only three have boon built; they are being used
for flight tests.
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Chinese sighted
drift-netting;
Packwood livid
WASHINGTON (AP) — Chi
nese vessels wore sighted fish
ing illegally with drift nets in
the north Pacific: Ocean last
week, despite a pledge this
summer to halt the practice.
Son. Bob P a c k w o o d s a i d
Wednesday.
"The Chinese aro back drill
netting again. 1 am livid,” the
Oregon Republican said in an
interview.
Controversy over use of drift
nets has intensified recently be
cause the so-called “curtains of
death” can stretch for as much
as 30 miles across the ocean,
killing all fish, marine mam
mals and fish in their path.
The United State s h a s
moved to bar imports of fish
harvested with drift nets and
related fish products.
The Chinese government
said in a telegram to the U S
Embassy in Beijing in July that
it had ordered an end to the use
of drift nets because of growing
international opposition.
Packwood aide Jill Luckett
said the National Marine Fish
eries Service confirm e d
Wednesday that a joint flight of
IJ.S. and Canadian officials ob
served 1C Chinese drift-net
fleets in illegal waters on Sept
18 and 20.
"They documented 1C (Chi
nese) drift-net vessels actively
fishing 300 miles north of the
open area In the North Pacific,"
she said.
National Marino Fisheries
officials could not be reached
for direct comment. Spokesman
Roddy Moscoso did not imme
diately return telephone calls.
Packwood is the sponsor of a
bill the Senate has approved
that would mandate U.S. trade
sanctions against countries that
continue to fish with drift nets
after next summor.
"If this an example of their
promising to quit, we are in
trouble,'' Packwood said.
The Bush administration put
Taiwan and South Korea on no
tice last month that they will
face trade sanctions if they con
tinue to fish illegally with the
nets. The Taiwanese govern
ment has since announced it
will comply and halt use of the
nets on July 1, 19U2.
The administration an
nounced last week it will urge
the United Nations to perma
nently ban international drift
net fishing, closing loopholes
in a previous UN resolution al
lowing some continued uso of
the nets.