24—MANCHESTER HERALD, Friday, May 25, 1990 Summit marks a shifting of gears in relations By Barry Schweid buffer and have stark memories of World War II, to op­ emigrate. The Soviet parliament was supposed to finish The Associated Press News analysis pose such an affiliation. work on the law next Thursday, as the summit opened. Within the Soviet Union, meanwhile, the diverse Now the calendar is slipping, and Bush will not WASHINGTON — President Bush’s summit next project of the private Council on Foreign Relations, has nationalities are threatening to go their separate ways. recommend lower tariffs to Congress unless the law is on week with Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev may suggested the two leaders use the summit to begin plot­ That weakens Moscow but also raises a danger of ethnic the books. mark the end of one era in U.S.-Soviet relations and the ting “a new European security order.” He calls the task strife and instability. Bush also may delay signing a new trade deal with the beginning of another. far more imjxirtant than arms control. Like German unification, these events are outpacing Soviets even though negotiators reached broad agree­ The main business the two will conduct symbolizes Bush is not about to jettison the North Atlantic Treaty the ability of the two superpowers to take charge of his­ ment late last month in Paris. Again, conservatives are the old era. They will sign a declaration to reduce U.S. Organization. But he has to look into a future Europe tory. Bush and Gorbachev, working together, would have pressuring the White House to ret^iate against Gor­ and Soviet strategic nuclear weapons — by much less anchored by an immehsely powerful Germany and lack­ a better chance of keeping up. bachev’s moves to blunt independence drives in than the 50 percent initially advertised — and probably ing the stabilizing standoff of two military alliances. The pressure on Gorbachev, of course, is far more Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia. commit themselves to pursue further cutbacks. And Gorbachev is not trying to hold on to East Ger­ severe than the strains on Bush, although the president Hard-liners like former Pentagon official Richard Perle The declaration will make the May 31-June 3 summit, many, once the Soviets’ most reliable ally. must keep a wary eye on the drive toward unification in are urging Bush to take advantage of Gorbachev’s like the majority of its predecessors, an arms control The future of the 360,000 Soviet troops there is uncer­ Western Europe and the economic colossus challenging troubles to force completion of a treaty to withdraw tens summit. tain, while the Soviet leader is likely to comply with re­ the United States that could result. of thousands of Soviet troops and tanks from Eastern and At the same time, Bush and Gorbachev will begin the quests by Hungary and Czechoslovakia to remove all The West Germans, seeking Soviet blessing for Central Europe. transition to a new superpower relationship forced on U-aces of the Red Army by next year. Poland is making unification, may be ready to buy that approval with Bush apparently will not heed the advice. The presi­ them by a rapidly changing world. noises along the same line. economic assistance. Bush so far has promised Moscow dent and Secretary of State James A. Baker HI want to The Germans, taking charge of their future, are So there is no reason for Bush to play the heavy, to almost nothing. Feeling the heat of congressional conser­ improve the U.S.-Soviet relationship even with the slow­ moving speedily toward unification. This is creating a poke a finger in Gorbachev’s eye. vatives, who are worked up over Gorbachev’s treatment down in the arms talks and the squeeze on Lithuania. new Europe, and Bush and Gorbachev will have to put The president insists that the new Germany be in of the Baltics, Bush is reluctant to assist perestroika. But the president also will take a look down the uncer­ their heads together and decide how to adjust. NATO. And yet, he also is aware of the anxieties that He has ruled out lowering tariff barriers until final pas­ tain road of Europe with the Soviet leader and may begin Michael Mandelbaum, director of the East-West causes the Soviets, who are losing their East European sage of a new Soviet law establishing the right to the transition to a new and more peaceful relationship. Firms work on space plane WASHINGTON (AP) — Five companies, including NASA-Dcpartment of Defense armouncement Thursday € Pratt & Whitney, that usually compete for aerospace confirmed the government’s acceptance of the plan. Manchester — A City of Village Charm business will work as a team, with government permis­ “The normal mode of operation would be to select an sion, to develop an airplane 25 times faster than sound. engine and an airframe,” said Beach. “You would basi­ "They will work as if they were one,” said Lee Beach, cally select a winner from competing designs and, there­ NASA’s director of the National Aero-Space Plane fore, good ideas from nonselected designs would not be project. “Each company will share in all of the data, used. In this mode, the good ideas will be put on the table Saturday, May 26,1990 Newsstand Price: 35 Cents which is a very different kind of thing than they are used and have the potential for inclusion in the final design,” to.” Barry J. Waldman, formerly vice president and The goal is to have the NASP, known as the X-30, program manager of Rocketdyue’s NASP efforts, was flying by 1996-1997 if the project gets a final go-ahead selected by the team as program director. Rockwell Inter­ three years from now. The X-30 will be a research national will be the lead contractor. vehicle to develop technologies for planes of the future. Congress appropriated $254 million for the NASP “This is not a full-scale development program for an project this year. operational vehicle,” Beach said. “We are talking about a The immediate task, said Rockwell’s Erik Simonsen, technical demonstration program.” is to come up with a single configuration for the aircraft The X-30 would fly directly into orbit from a conven­ by the end of the year. “Right now, Rockwell’s model, tional runway, unlike the space shuttle, which requires a McDonnell Douglas’ and General Dynamics’ are slightly booster rocket and an expendable fuel tank for launching. different shapes. Their task is to come up with a single It also would be capable of long-range hypersonic travel shape,” Simonsen said. within the atmosphere. Antitmst issues raised by the teaming are not expected The five companies forming the new National Con­ to be a problem since the X-30 is not a commercial tractor Team are General Dynamics, McDonnell The Associated Press product and not for profit. Douglas, Rockwell International, Rockwell’s Rocket- Earlier this week, in an unrelated action, the French TORNADO DERAILS TRAIN — Rail cars are in a tangled heap after a tornado derailed 88 dyne Division and Pratt & Whimey. aircraft builder Aerospatiale announced an agreement to of them in Clafin, Kan., Thursday. The storm also damaged several homes, and while in­ They agreed in January to end competition for set up “an international study group” to look into the developing the plane and modify fixed-price contracts juries were reported there were no fatalities. feasibility of building a successor to the aging supersonic with the government to reflect the team concept. A joint Concorde. Aparo Concession profits concern Congress breaks f KITM AMILLI WASHINGTON (AP) — Two He promised to change the way congressional panels are looking contacts are negotiated, seek higher down '?|8BERT J,|^ into whether “sweetheart” contracts franchise fees and shorten the dura­ are allowing concessionaires to rake tion of conuacts, but he told the sub­ ^ O A K I R K H A M in excessive profits at national committee he docs not think legisla­ parks. tive changes are needed. j^TtCHRISTV.JR- “Our national parks were es­ In addition to Vento’s panel, a tablished for people, not for in court subcommittee of the House Govern­ DONALD JtttRAJEWSKi USA profiteers,” Rep. Bruce Vento, D- ment Operations Committee dealing Miim., said Thursday as his House with the environment and natural subcommittee on national parks and resources is expected to hold hear­ marshall H.MCNAMARA U.SM public lands considered two Interior ings soon on the parks concession Department reports critical of con­ issue. RAYMOND C. HOLMAN U.S.M.C cessionaire practices. While concessions at smaller Starts crying as ex-boyfriend The department’s inspector parks frequently are run by “mom general said many long-term con­ and pop” operations, conces­ tells of murder.. .page 3 JAMES F. MOTT L^A.L ^ A .^ tracts, at times running more than 30 sionaires at large parks often are years, are allowing concessionaires subsidiaries of such major corpora­ VICTOR OelGRECO.JR. to earn a much greater return on in­ tions as the MCA Inc. entertainment vestment than they could expect el­ giant, whose Park & Curry Co. EVERETT E.RINES sewhere. operates at Yosemite National Park. As a result, he said, the federal Concession contracts usually are government has earned about $100 written by inexperienced local park Bolton V, I million less in fees since 1984 than officials, officials said. it should have received, and $90 “F^ark service employees who are million more will be lost over the trained as park rangers are out­ next four years. He said the con­ matched when dealing with sophisti­ budget tracts often include a clause making cated business executives and their it virtually impossible to renegotiate accountants,” James Richards, Inter­ .m i unless the concessionaire agrees to ior inspector general, told Vento’s do so.