European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 22, 1967, Darmstadt, Hesse The Viany the Rhine is Many things. For the romantics it May be the Mist that you a j0 uie heart of the Swiss Alps fee Mertze Gea Drain an area Square Btte says be who has these Zittere stifle facts to Tell about ice Stream to the romans the Shine was anythings it was a Tiro or a line of Divi Sion a Means of defence and a military obstacle. In those Olden Jtj roes the Rhine was not a Boundary Between nations be cause nations did not exist. He significance of the River w the life of Europe arises Bot from its geographical Aud from the Tii Towai Dev to of the Peoples who inhabit its Banks the mine is not Only a Story of the River. It is the history of the romans France and Germany from the time the River was a Frontier Between civilization and barbarism Between roman Law and tribal custom a linguistic Frontier and a religions Frontier be tween christianity and paganism. According to the author the germans look upon tie Shine As their own River and the landscape through which inflows on both Banks m part of their land. The French Nave looked toward the Rhine As a Moat which would de m nature and sober after this encounter and ready to Settle Down the Rhine courts the Mosel Queen of Waters whom he weds at Coblenz an blithely escorts on a honeymoon to the North sea. To the realists the manufacturer an the shipper the Rhine is an Industrial giant that annually shoulders 7 million tons of shipping on 10.000 vessels of All shapes and sizes from Many countries carries 75 per cent of Germany s 8,000 cover Castle Katz amid the Vine Yards at one of the loveliest sections of the Rhine. Photo from German National tourist office. Page 10 for others it s merely a River of Industry with pollution to match. The stars and stripes fend them against fall 01 the roman Empire saw the end of the civilization of which the Rhino had been a Frontier though its traces still survive. When the new Europe was born in�07 wife the division of Charlemagne s Empire Roku you civilization bad decayed and was slowly being replaced by Feudal ism. Not being engineers like the anians the new masters Jurf Europe let the roads disintegrate and used the great River As a Means of communication and transport Rees says that it was part of Ger Many s destiny and perhaps a fatal one that no Imperial capital was founded othe Rhine and that the functions of the capital were divided Between threecities4he holy roman emperor was chosen at Frankfurt crowned at Aachen and buried at Speyer. And it is not hard to note a similar dispersal of function today Between the pm of the German Federal Republic which is really a Rhineland state. Its political capital is Bonn its financial capital the Frankfurt its Industrial capital i Dusseldorf and its judicial capital is Karlsruhe. Rees reminds his readers that twas to the Rhineland newspaper the Neue a Nej Tsehe Veltung in the revolutionary year of 1848, that the Young Karl Marx wrote his first Appeal for violent overthrow of capitalistic institutions. And it was in the a Wieland that&0 fuse Tor of Freud were born. Other famous Rhui tenders include Olifee Seh Jiler Heine and Adenauer. In w9 my Europe says Rees the hiring Emetero a heritage both of his tory and of legend such As no other european River possesses and it is an essential part of its fascination and harm that its Waters at every stage of their course seem to reflect so Man images of the past. And the Rhine still has the Power to bewitch and Enchant in legend and in song. Heine s poem to the Lorelei goes i can t think what it is that has made me so Melancholic it s an Ancien legend that i can t get out of my sunday october 22, 1967 world s smallest guided missile streaks skyward far left split second after being launched by Lone infantryman during test of " a redeye guide missile by Marc Huet is staff writer eight years of research develop ment and patient testing have produced a new weapon which army authorities report promises to Knock Low flying enemy aircraft out of the sky with a Lone shot. The new weapon called redeye willbe in the hands of front line troops soon but the Pentagon has not yet re leased its distribution plans. Effectiveness of the redeye is demonstrated by results of the first firing tests conducted by a group of quickly trained troopers from the 101st air borne div at the fort Bliss tex., train ing Center. The students fired six red Eye missiles and made five kills on the drone targets. The one miss was attributed to nervous tension and pres sure All the gunners were firing the weapon for the first time. Previous training had been theoretical Only. And on the next test the gunner were 100 per cent efficient six missiles and sit hits. It is the Small size the compact Ness the Low weight of the redeye that Delight missile men. The four foot launcher and missile together weigh less than 30 pounds. It is fired fro the shoulder and the launcher is Dis carded after the missile is on its Way. The world s smallest guided mis Sile As it is called by its manufacturer general dynamics is remarkable again for a seemingly perfect guidance system. This is an infrared homing by which the missile tracks its prey by following the heat Given off sunday october 22, 1967 by the enemy s aircraft. Redeye uses conventional warhead with an Impact fuse other details of the weapon reclassified. Those who have handled and oper ated the weapon say it is a Marvel of simplicity. Having spotted an enemy target the gunner trains an optical sight on the aircraft and allowing for Lead Range and Speed raises the mis Sile to about a 45-degree Angle and presses the trigger. The missile is relentlessly on the Way. I instruction and training for All redeye gunnery students is under direction of Btry a 2nd air defense guided missile group 1st training group. The Battery s projected output of trained gunners will amount to 20 fire teams team chief and gunner and five control teams officer and senior no each week. The gunners receive 120 hours of instruction on the weapon Amajor part of the time devoted to study of nomenclature weapon combat conditions a redeye Section will consist of one control team and from three to five gunner teams to a battalion. The average infantry battalion would thus have a control team at Headquarters and four gunner teams one for each company. How do gunners using redeye feel about their compact infantryman s pal just terrific said one Corpora Lafter knocking Down a drone on his first other words almost enough to give an enemy a red Eye. In first tests five of six students hit drones with lightweight redeye. Back cover redeye blasts off for target Homes in goes up Tail pipe and destroys plane. General dynamics photo amid the stars and stripes Page 11
