Nuclear bombs put into storage
Spokane’s Fairchild Air Base feels nuclear cutback
S P () K A N !■; .
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rn vvs on Saturday
removed nuclear weapons horn
several H-.r)2 bombers at l-nir
child Air l-'orte Hast! near here
in keeping w 11 h President
Bush s bold plan to scale hat k
the nation's nuclear arsenal
In Western Washington,
Navy submariners hruceti for a
ri organisation of their strategic
command network And nut Jo
ur weapons cutbacks might t ost
some Boeing Co employees
their jobs
Set retary of Defense Dit k
Cheney Saturday morning
signed an order taking off alert
l> S nuclear-armed bombers
and -ISO long-range missiles.
implementing a cornerstone of
ii innjor nuclear .inns reorganl
/atInn plan announced fiy Bush
Friday nigh!
Cheney said the order in
volved -}0 strategic hointxTs ut
Hi bases, including Fairchild
lie said their weapons would
he put into storage and the
planes turned over to mainten
ant e crews
Also lining removed from
alert status meaning ready
for launching at short notice
are 4 50 Minutemnn II long
range nuclear missiles in un
derground silos, '('.honey said
These Weapons ..re scheduled
to he dismantled under the re
cently signed, but not yet rati
(ied, Strategic Arms deduction
Treaty (START)
l ain fold usually keeps five
or six B fijs on ground alert
That means the bombers are
h ;ideil with nuc lear-1 ip.pod
cruise missiles or nuclear
bombs, and are ready to take of!
within minutes' noth e
Fairchild has a total of about
'ITy B -fifis, said base spokes
woman Robin Crantham l ai
der most circumstances, the
daubers do not fly with nut le
ar weapons on board
Crews Saturday were in
slrut ted to take weapons off the
ground alert bombers and turn
tie planes over to maintenance
so they would be sitting in a
flight line like all other aircraft
at the base." Crantham said
(Irantliam said tile base
should know within a couple of
weeks flow many, if any, crew
Packwood to pay Bush’s trip expenses
PORTLAND (AP) U.S Son Hob I’uckwood's
re-election campaign will reimburse the Whilti
House (or President Hush's rtK ml trip to I’orl
liinii, hut tho city's general fund will !«■ lapped to
p.iy for pollen proter I Ion
thn Ki: elect Puck wood Committee will pay (or
Ihu fuel usod In Air lone One. Socri't Sorvii u
personnel, hotel rooms for ihn president's ad
vance crew "tin; whole works," Pm kwood aide
Mall Kvans said
The While House will suhmit a hill for that part
of the trip devoted to Paekwood s fund raiser in
Portland Thn president's speech pulled in
$Ti()(l,(l()() for the four-term Republican senator.
About lot! couples paid $4,000 (Mill for the
breakfast and the chance to pose for a photo with
Hush
The Portland Pul it e Bureau spent SM 1.42.1 07 to
protect the president, using 422 officers for the
operation. Sp;t Derrick I'oxworth said The hulk
ol them were stationed at the Oregon t unvunUon
l ienter, where the event was held
About 41)0 protestors showed up. Thirty were
arrested on charges that Include carrying u con
cealed weapon, assaulting a police* officer, strik
ing a |>olii:e animal, unlawful burning, failure to
disperse and disorderly conduct Two police offi
cers were injured slightly while trying to control
the < rowd
Mayor Hud Clerk said he would suggest the
president take a helicopter next time from the air
port to downtown Portland During his last visit.
Itush's motorcade temporarily closed the Ilanfield
freeway during rush hour
Meanwhile, Oregon Republican Chairman
Craig Herkman said Vice President Dan Quayle
may follow up with a visit of his own by the end
of the year Herkman said he looked in on Quayle
at the White House on Ftiday, and the vice presi
dent had asked about "the protesters in Port
land "
Quayle was greeted bv about 300 protesters
during a visit last fall and about 1T>0 protesters
during a v is11 the year before.
StrctcH your dollars
by usiiiK coupons from
llu* Oregon l)ail\ Kmnrald.
3.000 Oregonians collect 17 tons of coastal litter
l'( IRELAND (Al’i A ri‘< ord number of people turnedout
Saturday to help clean up the Oregon Const in the slate s
eolith annual effort to rid beaches of garbage, organizers said
it was a lypir til Oregon effort," said Bill Hastie, clean up
. ...rdinator for the state Department of f .sh and Wildlife
iVopie were enthusiastic:, energetic and concerned. Most
s.mi tin \ would he I rack, next year
About 3,000 volunteers gathered at more than 20 spots
.dong the coast to spend several hours picking up broken
gi.iN.s. fishing nets, cigarette butts and various plastics, Hastie
said.
In all, about 1 7 tons of garbage was t ollooted, four tons less
than last year, he said.
"Many of the reports I got indie.ated tin; trenches were gen
erally i leaner this year." Hastie said
But he noted there were reports of animals or birds entan
gled in netting, fishing line and plastic: strapping.
Oregon goes after Japan and Europe
B( JUTLAND (AP) The state’s new tourism chief says Or
egon has been marketed well itr the West and Canada, but the
state now must target tourists in Eastern states and provinces.
Europe and Japan.
"The tourism program has been good tit portraying Oregon
as a desirable destination. I'd like to expand on that," Joe
D'Alessandro s.iid Friday.
D’Alessandro, 35, formerly international program manager
for the California Office of Tourism, took over too tourism di
vision of the Oregon Economic Development Department on
Monday. The division is responsible for promoting Oregon's
S2 billion per year tourism industry.
Oregon should capitalize on its Old West image, which has
great appeal in Europe and Japan, D'Alessandro said. The
] 50th anniversary of the Oregon Trail is expected to draw a
large number of foreign visitors in 1993.
There also is a strong potential to attract more Japanese
tourists with specialty marketing, such ns tours for students
nr gulling enthusiasts
Cooperation from tour operators, travel agents and airlines
is crucial. D'Alessandro said.
"The best chance Oregon has is to develop a strong part
nership with all those who share the benefit of tourism," he
said.
Couple churning out *92 ballot measures
SALEM (AP) Marijuana would lx; legal for medical
uses, and promotional cigarette and liquor advertising would
be banned in Oregon under proposed Initiative measures
filed by two Lake Oswego residents.
One proposal would create a state board to study uses of
marijuana (or medical purposes and require the state to re
quest marijuana from the federal government.
A second proposed measure filed with the secretary of
state by Anthony Taylor and Cheryl McDonald would pro
hibit advertising that promotes use- of tobacco products and
alcoholic: beverages
And their third initiative petition proposes a measure for
i aiding possession of tobacco by people under 21. A new
state law prohibits tobacco possession by people under 18
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