European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 17, 1964, Darmstadt, Hesse Thursday september 17, 1964 the tars and stripes Page. 3 a Ray a bomb germs or a hoax experts Ponder new soviet Means of destruction by s. Hoffman Washington a the now Means of destruction claimed by soviet Premier no Kiln s. Khrushchev Rould be Amajor Advance in chemical or germ warfare. Government experts said Here. Defense sources stressed Iho were speculating in the absence of any Hirtl intelligence inform lion about what Khrushchev meant in a talk to a in the Kremlin on tues Day. Developments considered in the realm of the possible included the dread Cohall Home nuclear device using a Shell of a Chait instead of steel. Explosion such a Home would unleash huge amounts of lethal and Long lived radioactive fallout. A death possibly Ait i g h i y concentrated jul Csc beam of Light. The Neutron Home. Another kind of death Ray Wear run whose emissions would destroy All life in a target area but would do Little damage to structures. So sorrij9 no Morv Kamikaze cabbies by Edwin q. White Tokyo a Many Noble japanese institutions Urc Crum Blini in the name of the Tokyo olympic games. Not the least of these is he Kamikaze tax Driver. This is the All out floor boar Driver of legend who scorned you or scared you and who proudly ear the mime of the japanese suicide pilots of world War thousands of foreign visitors the sharpest memory of Tokyo trip was that of a plunge into traffic in the world s larges City in a vehicle handled by one of the world s most uninhibited Drivers. For residents forced to taxi travel it was a Dally adventure. It was the drag race the go karts the gymkhana the Stock car course the hot Rodgers Al wrapped in one. With the congestion of Crosstown Manhattan overlaid on the Indianapolis Speedway. Frantic waving to get in the action it first was necessary to obtain the serv ices of one of the custodians of Public conveyance. That in it self was often difficult. It was not unknown for droves of taxis flags raised and rear scats Emp. To to cruise by and stare Down a frantic waving of arms especially if the arms were attached to the body of in oversized foreigner. Nor was it uncommon for the japanese Hackman once slopped to disclaim any and All knowl Edge of the most fundamental English directions or to Demon Strate Complete incomprehension your Brand of japanese. If however these obstacle were surmounted then the fun , much of this has changed. Politeness sweetness with pointed encouragement from the government the Tokyo olympic committee and other officials the emphasis on every thing. Including taxis and their Drivers is Courtesy politeness sweetness and proper it is quite common even during Rush periods to find rows of taxis lined up in Busy sections All eager for your patronage. The automatic doors swing open easily and after you arc sealed the first sound from the front a Well be u question in English that sounds something like where you go at the end of the trip the Driver is Apt to doff his Cap make change and. In japanese or per nips English. Extend Elisi chunks for the pleasure of haul no you of the seeming order that has been rendered in a situation hat once was chaos is due to he physical preparations for the olympics. There ire Miles of new suit roadways. Old. Twisting Street shave been widened and in some cases straightened. Traffic Lane Sand crosswalks have been marked. Signals and signs have been added. Police whose sole function once was to chuckle a traffic jammed now step in holy into the streets for the express purpose of untangling this has played a part in changing the Kamikaze corps. Buthen Cash the physical surface alterations there seems to he deeper change an apparent if alien feeling that a taxi and it Driver Are intended to serve the Publ c. It s wheel Little the tiny miss has no trouble holding her transportation older and in Bike the Bendin has no trouble holding a demonstrator unfolded right. With us fold away handlebars this contraption is the hit of an International Cycle show at Cologne Germany. Red Blue bands seen on face of Moon . My. A two space scientists Here re ported the sighting through a Telescope of two Reddish hands and one bluish hand on the face of the Moon. Saul ii. Lenall. station manager for the god Dard optical Fles Earch facility said he and electronic technician Edwin Reid saw the Colore bands aug. 25. From 9 to 10 . The bands were Over the lunar Crater. Aristarchus. On the North West quadrant of the Moon Zenall said that through u 16 Inch Telescope they saw two Dis Tinct Reddish hands Over the Southern part of the Crater and a bluish band Over the Northern part. The hands were roughly Paral Lel and the Reddish hands were of equal thickness about four or five Miles. The longest Reddish band was about 35 Miles i length and it was the most southerly of the other Reddish band just above it was Only two or three Miles away and about 30 Miles Long he said. Up in the Northern part of the Crater ii jul 20 Miles from the Northern Reddish band was a Blu ish band Alx iut 15 Miles Long Gentl the bands ran in an East West direction roughly parallel to each other. The colors were very prom nent us first the Reddish hands were really red and the other was quite Blue. As time passed in. Intensity of the colors Oenal said he and Reid had been checking the mechanical operation of the Cilc Scritc and Reid noticed the lunar colors by pure Chance. Chinese disrupt Harmony at Moscow youth rally Moscow Ufa a band Olch inese disrupted russian har Mony plans at a communist youth rally. Carrying the Chip of the sino soviet feud on their shoulders the chinese refused even to speak to russian delegates on the eve of the rally 40 peking delegates also upset their russian hosts in game of hotel hopscotch. Russian organizers booked the chinese into the cake like sky scraper Leningrad hotel. No Good enough said the chinese. We want to go to the Ukraine hotel a Volhl l Stulich Vla iiiuuu10 snub insult mud ignore tilt Hie recent communal son sorted women s International forum. The chinese held a recep Tion and invited everyone including the americans but not the w h e n russian or pro Kremlin speakers had the Rostrum the chinese plugged the ears with Timeir fingers. Defense experts were not Dis Misc in dispute the existence if i significant new soviet Wea Tennit of hand. They noted that so Iet boasting of this sort Gen rally has had some basis at Hough often inflated fur prop Anda effect. At the same Lime they Werdot dismissing the possibility hat this might be a ploy by Khrushchev to frighten his communist thin incs my that he russian Leader might have Aken liberties with the truth. Officially the defense depart ment declined comment. This is visual in such instances. Authoritative Pentagon source said they had seen no indications i recent intelligence report Fiat the russians might have Omo up with something new Andini fical in the Way of Wear n was evidence that do Ense officials were caught he uprise. But though deeply in crested there was no sign of Miely Over the reported devel read carefully the words attributed to Khrushchev wire service dispatches. Ills use of the term new Means of destruction prompted some experts to suggest that the reported weapon did not involve nuclear this ground they tended to discount the 100-Mcgaton bomb which is hardly new in Khrushchev s Neutron bomb it was noted Likely would have a rela ively Short killing Range and Hus would not seem to fit Khrushchev s desc Ripling of the Lew seation As capable of Anni lilting life on Earth. As for the Cobalt bomb Scien its said such a dirty seation s considered dangerous to the user nation lie cause inc heavy radioactivity it would Emit Likely would be carried around the world on air currents mud de Misilo on inc soil of that nation. Both working on Hay sen. Richard b. Russell. Dja. Of the Seriale armed serv ices committee said Early this year that both the United states and Russia Are trying to develop death Ruy. He did not go into detail but the House appropriations com Mille reported in april that Adeath Ray Type of we Awn might evolve from laser i a ser derives from Light amplification by stimulated emission u very intense Light committee voted funds to push work on such a Cairms ofic future As death Ray and chemical agents that could Ren Der persons helpless for Short periods of Lime without causing Large null ions of Gas research it is no secret that the United tales has been experimenting with and manufacturing various kinds of nerve gases some of which i incapacitate and other that kill. Pentagon specialists said the Yare always hearing rumours of russian experiments for Chemi stuff Multi. If. As some experts was talking Alx iut a new wac Ion of this kind. U would appear he was referring to some thing lethal and not a Paral Zingor incapacitating nerve Gus. Bui tie experts minted out that the use of such gases or chemical agents carries a Dan Ger to the user As in the Cas of the Cobalt suld the user would be i danger of the chemical or Gen agents wafting Hack on his pc pie. Against this there is i defense
