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<) 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. FAST FAST FAST FAST INTRODUCING 1 HR. FILM DEVELOPING AT THE UO BOOKSTORE Everything is FAST these days...fast food, first cars. So why wait for your pictures to come back from a slow photo lab? Our photo experts will process your film in 1 hour using the Kodak Colorwatch system for guaranteed quality. You'll get big 4” prints on Kodak paper, with FAST service, just the way you like it! FAST SAM. WITH THISCOl l»()V 1 HOUR LAB COUPON ► $1 OFF 2A K\|¥NII\‘ $2 Valid I 1 OFF ,v> l'A|MNIIV If 111*4^1 KK'l/il Coli* |*iu! tilm, 4” [milts (A'Snun only). *S» ' .Jhl illtli ,iiv t i 4 In 1 \ | wi"miiI m m 13TM& KINCAID M-F 7:30-6 SAT 10-6 346-1331 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.