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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 27, 1967, Darmstadt, Hesse                              Page 4 the stars and stripes wednesday september 27, 1967 planned missile designed to hit several cities by Donald ii. May Washington up the United states is planning to build and deploy Over the next few years a new Type of offensive missile that would be Able to Shower Down nuclear warheads on several targets at once. The Pentagon gradually staking the wraps off the plan a major development in nuclear warfare. It would be an intercontinental ballistic missile icbms that would separate into numerous warheads All of which would strike targets that could be several Hundred Miles apart. One missile therefore could strike several cities at once. Defense Secretary Robert  told a United press International editors conference at san Francisco earlier this month that in the future Man of our launchers will carry multiple  this week in an interview published in life Magazine Mcnamara for the first time i Public record used the official Pentagon name for propose system multiple Independent re entry vehicles or Mir. He confirmed what has Lon been known unofficially that the United states is buying Irv for its minuteman Iii missiles soon to be added tothe icbms Force and for the Poseidon that in the 1970s will replace Polaris missiles on submarines. Mir is strategically important in two ways it is intended to make i much More difficult for a soviet anti ballistic missile system abm to shoot Down a significant number of warheads even assuming Russia goes ahead with a heavy abm deployment. It is designed to do a Bette Job of putting the right number of Megatons on a Given  a target can be destroyed with one megaton Little i gained by using 20. In defense department figuring five Sepa rate megaton blasts May accomplish the destruction Ozone 20-megaton bomb. With Mir the United state Sis expected to greatly increase its offensive nuclear Power inthe years ahead. This is being done to cover the possibility Russia May proceed with a major abm program. She Al ready has started such a pro Gram on a Small scale. The appearance of Mir just Over the horizon has complicated All the Standard methods use Din the past for figuring Ameri can versus soviet strength. The Pentagon contends it is no longer sufficient to count Megatons launchers or even missiles. It now uses the Standard of separately targe table  Mcnamara says the unite states now has some 4,000 of these As opposed to about 1,000for the soviet Union but he has gone to considerable pains in re cent Public statements to make the Point that nuclear superiority is somewhat insignificant in View of the fact that Russia and the United states could virtually destroy each other in nuclear War no matter who started it. Battle relics Cannon believed to be from the British warship association lie on the pier at St. Mary a Isles of Scilly England. Theca non of the ship which went to the Bottom in 1707, Are part of the Booty now being brought up by divers. It includes Gold and Silver coins which Are Worth from $2.8 million to $8.5 Mil lion. United press International photo . Businessmen scholars renew plea red China i a. Seat urged by Spencer Davis Washington a Apanel of 26 . Business leaders and scholars urged anew Mon Day that the United states drop Active opposition to red chinese membership in the United nations Ami support efforts for Atwo China representation. If the communists accept this arrangement the panel said they should be permitted to re place nationalist China on the . Security  group headed by former under Secretary of the Treasury Robert v. Roosa and Frederick s. Beebe chairman of news week inc., and the washing ton Post made similar recommendations last year. It said the Call is being pushed again especially in Light of three developments in the Pas year red China s a bomb explosion the intensified internal struggle in Mainland China and shifting of positions on China brother delegates to the . Gen eral  communist China and nationalist China have rejected any two China representation each insisting it is the sol government of China. The panel expressed concern Over the implications of a state ment by Secretary of state Dean Rusk at a news Confer ence on sept. 8 that he does not expect that anything much will change on the China representation Issue at the United nation this year. He said a substantial majority of the membership is not going Roosa Rusk to vote out nationalist China in order to admit communist Chi a. Roosa said this was taken to mean there would be no change in the .  panel s report said the United states should support efforts now to open the Way for Mainland China to participate inthe . So that this option will be available to the Mainland government when it decides the time has come to maintain nor Mal orderliness in its relations to solve world problem sow wild Oats with other  Means in the panel s View that the . Should be prepared at the forthcoming session of the general Assembly to support the representation of both Taiwan and peking in the general Assembly and if peking accepts this arrangement in the Assembly to support a change under which Pekin would represent China in these purity  report said events of the past year convinced All Mem Bers of the panel of the urgent need to reaffirm this recommendation. The confusion doubt an change in China create an impelling need for the world out Side to make Clear to any emerging chinese leadership that it can if it chooses make a new Start toward orderly participation in the United nations and in world  the report said. If 750 million chinese people Are to be kept isolated from the International Community the full responsibility should rest solely upon the de Facto govern ment in peking the report  . Ambassador Charles Yost who represented the United states at the United nations for More than five years contended that the United nations has been handicapped by the absence of Mainland Chi a in two vitally important  a news conference Yost a panel member said communist China will not be bound by .-sponsored arms control agreements on nuclear weapons and missiles when they have no participated in the . Talks. In the second Field he said the United nations has been unable to Deal with any major Security problems in Asia including Vietnam because of the a sense of Mainland China from the United  26 panellists Are members of the Independent private an nonpartisan United association of the United states of  reservation was expressed by Kenneth t. Young former ambassador to Thailand and president of the Asia society and prof. Lucian w. Pye of Massachusetts Institute of technology. They stipulated that the option should be kept open for peking s responsible membership in the . At the opportune time. Washington up .agriculture department scientists have discovered a new Grain that could become a major food crop and play a significant role in reducing world  department said tuesday that Plant breeders have found species of wild oat that could eventually produce More protein per acre than any other crop now grown in the United states. Food experts generally con Sider protein deficiency As the no. 1 diet problem in develop ing nations and the United states is conducting extensive research toward developing protein enriched foods. The discovery of the wildcats came As scientists were searching for new sources of resistance to Crown rust a disease which attacks Oats. As part of the research pro Gram they collected various types of wild Oats from Israel and other Mediterranean coun tries. Scientists then discovered that some of the oat varieties had protein contents of up to30 per cent compared to com Mercial varieties of Oats which contain Only 18 or 19 per cent protein. Although the new wild Oats cannot be grown commercially yet because the seed shatters before maturity making it impossible to Harvest scientists Are now working on Breeding the wild types into new Varie ties which can be cultivated. These european edition col. James w. Campbell Usa editor in chief it. Col. F. 6. Michael jr., Usan Deputy editor in chief Arnold Burnett managing editor Elmer d. Frank production manager Henry s. Epstein circulation manager an unofficial newspaper of and Yor the . Armed Force printed Dally at Darmstadt Germany under the auspices of tha office of the chief of Public affair. He Usa eur. Military address the stars and stripes Apo 09176. International Malli tha stars and stripes Postrach 1034, 61-Darmstadt, Germany. Tell Gale Shell c prefix 06165 2071  
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