European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 24, 1965, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The new weapon launches a rocket powered which can carry a variety of a Roc spells havoc for an enemy by Mark staff american a Llera May find a new mend in a rocket gun weighing in at Only u but packing the punch of ton of dubbed he a Roc is40 by its devel the area the new weapon can launch a rocket powered projectile which can carry a variety of warheads suited to the task at the gun has proved at least times better ban the accuracy normally associated with rocket pow ered reports John an Avo Vic president it has great and therefore should have tremendous effect on the development of military tactics in the i italic it will greatly increase making it possible for smal Ler forces to defend important terrain against Superior numbers for longer periods of used As an offensive it will give advancing forces a weapon that win be Able to Cope with Many different the weapon is not Only adaptable As Small band but can be developed into weapon for weapons car or helicopters and other and we As Small Reid the army weapons come has awarded the firm a Contact to further Advance technology of the is the Avdoc uses a rocket motor to carry the projectile to its gun launches the using Tow pressures from the initial firing of the rocket this method eliminates much of the recoil round in conventional weapons of the same the developers pressure from the rocket exhaust gases also cycles the weapon so that a new projectile comes into firing position As soon As one leaves Tho Phebe is no Cartridge Case to to ejected from the weapon after since the projectile travels to the target powered by the rocket in addition to various types of destructive warheads to defeat Armor As Well As personnel targets at great Range the a Roc weapons can launch projectiles carrying radio Bea flares and other military signal ing hundreds of test firings have taken place at the designers Range at Connors should the army find the a Roc 1540 system a that test ing might Well put this unique weapon in the hands of Many a Goren on Bridge North South North vau3 aut West East q t 4 j 10 8 3 a54 vk74 Kyj the bidding North East South West pass int pass jn1 pass pass pass opening Lead five of v North opened the bidding with one club and responded with two no his holding conforms to the requirements in All respects and there is nothing to m gained by showing the club support with such even Distri North carried on to three no West led the five of the three was played Iron foot 14 Dummy and East put in the which South permitted to East continued with the Queen and South played the he Ted a club from Bis which West and the Dummy Jack drove out easts East had no More and he switched to the Jack of Declarer put up the Ace and led another West played the norths Queen subsequently picked up the to and established the Long card and South ended up with nine three and two in each of the other at the conclusion of the East pointed out regretfully that nos Side might have fared belter if he had switched to a Spade at trick two instead of continuing the attack in said 1 would have ducked one round of Spades and you would have been in the same i can win a second Spade in my hand and Lead a if West puts up the be has no Spades left to Clear the suit u you win the first it removes your last by most of us Are grateful As another civil service employee living in Spain for Al most As Many years As the Madrid 1 am some what embarrassed after read ing Bis recent b bag question his nebulous reference to curtailment of constitutional it 1s hoped that us opinions Are not interpreted As reflecting the general attitude of the average civil service employee happens to fan la this particular i think most of us Are pretty grateful for having been privileged to serve the government for Over five years in and we Are willing to accept changes and adjust ments As they trusting that such changes have been introduced for the Best interest of All this new Law seems to be More than Rea i Hope this letter muffles few snarls and wipes away few another Madrid Reader postponed retirements i recently read an article entitled Tempo of Viet War could extend the part that upsets me says Congress May be asked quite soon to pass resolutions that cause selective screening of voluntary applications for retirement the fact that Ive looked Forward to this Day now 80 Days away gives me the courage to ask a question that will undoubtedly sound very unpatriotic has Usa eur received the word yet As to what the department of the army intends to do about retirement applications Many of us would like to withheld by request editors note Usa eur he replies no for Maura is available to this Headquarters to indicate there is any change la the procedure to process retirement nor is then any information to indicate that the a has suspended military retire an listener polls ducking the first i can effectively Cut your line of communications la either Spades or thai May be True of but Spades is a different spoke up West a Spade switch at trick two by my partner can upset the con for that East leads the Jack o 1 overtake with Thi and if you let me hold the trick i continue the suit you presumably win the Sec Ond Spade in your play a i allow my t nor to capture norths Jack with the King and East returns a third round of Spades on which i discard the Ace of clubs in order to establish your ninth you must let East in with the ten of clubs and he cashes the setting tricks in South stared at his opponent so optically and but would you make so incredible a discard that is another ques West replied and be moved the cards across to South to Cut for the next hum to new because of the number of letters that have appeared in b bag pertaining to an pro there must be considerable listener 1 would like to know if an has Ever taken a Survey of its ii when was it How Many listen ers were were the re sults Ever made and is another Survey planned t Ronald Kline Veltry be France editors note an he replies the writer is Correct to assuming there is consider Able listener interest la an As reflected by letters to b a greater demonstration of us interest is the evea or volume of both constructively critical and com mailed directly to the each of these letters is carefully studied and Given consideration Darla weekly program review meet la recent years there have been three listener surveys conducted in in August an an listener poll was conducted by the Usa eur a the Survey polled male warrant officers and enlisted Mes which represented a Cross Sec Tion sampling of the through the medium of the stars and two additional surveys were taken u february and october of readers were invited to answer a  concern ing listening habits and music and program the february questionnaire w a completed by stars and stripes Aid the octo Ber Survey was returned by so the results of the polls were extremely Astol la program planning and Wen published u the local due to lie costs an has m Plaa Lor another Survey u the to Medlar a reminder to b bag correspondents furlough facts we stars and stripes August 1765