European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 23, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 4 the stars and stripes so Turnoy March 23, 1944 space age scientific fallout reaching for the Moon helps the Earth by Howard Benedict Cape Kennedy Fla. A thanks to techniques and equip ment developed in the program big City police departments May soon be staffed by instant cops armed with computers that can Tell immediately if a crime has been committed and can list the Likely suspects. Other space age technological breakthroughs could produce better cities free air and water of pollution improve education and transportation systems. We be disproved the critic who said that going to the Moon is not going to help solve prob lems on Earth said or. Rich Ard l. L. Lesher the National aeronautics and space administration s assistant administrator for the office of technology utilization. A spacecraft he explained is a Small planet in which you have water and air pollution physiological Engi Neering and All sorts of prob lems. So whatever we learn i those Fields will carry through to the solution of problems Onearth. We be just started to in crease the return on our invest ment by getting the second and third order benefits in Medicine has been the biggest beneficiary so far with new de vices to Monitor the sick and Aid the the near future Law enforcement agencies Are expected to see a dramatic and highly useful fallout from the space program. Many police departments already use computers to Aid their fight against crime. Before Long individual police cars May be equipped with Small computers that would provide officers with at a glance information on such things As crimes in Progress identification of stolen Automo Biles and fingerprints. With the computer an office who encounters a person in suspicious circumstances could make a direct query to a Cen trial computer facility. In seconds he would learn whether the circumstances constitute cause for arrest what the court decisions on this Type of Crim have been and whether the suspect has a criminal record or is wanted. Future policemen also May carry such space developed weapons As pocket size elec tronic gadgets with communications recording and alerting Fea Tures a passive night Telescope that could quietly spot a Man 500 Yards away in total dark Ness a highly sensitive sniffing device to locate hidden narcotics an infrared detection sys tem that could focus on an Auto taillight and Tell exactly How fast it s going and a computer that could identify voice Signa Tures. Communities across the coun try have enlist re aerospace firms to help uth Urban social and economic problems such a logistics Power generation pol Lution waste management in formation handling and transportation. California state and local agencies have he the Way mainly because of the concentration of aerospace firms i that state. The Cairl Vitma depart input of corrections fur exam ple has awarded a contract to Htu ily external Security by berms to a up prisoners from escaping from its 13 institutions. The external Security system was developed for America s minute Man missile silo Sites. One company has used Lase technology to measure tiny movements in the Earth s sur face As a Means of predicting earthquakes. Another is using space systems and management methods in a program to re vitalize America s cities and i planning cities of tomorrow. An experimental program i Detroit introduces program planning and budgeting techniques Learned through Cost effectiveness work on defense department space firms Are working with various cities in an Effort to solve water pollution and water management of the most meaningful space spinoffs have occurred inthe medical Field. They include a cardiac sensor developed for monitoring and diagnostic work on research animals is be ing implanted in human subjects. It is so tiny it can be inserted by hypodermic Needle into an artery and then Maneu Vered to the end of a thin flexible tube into the heart. A computer technique that clarified Mariner spacecraft photographs televised 140 Mil lion Miles from the Vicinity of Mars is being used to make medical rays More biosensors used to Monitor astronauts physical condition during flight Are being used in hospitals to permit one nurse seated at a Remote con sole to Monitor the condition of Many patients simultaneously. A sight switch developed for possible astronaut use is be ing tested As a Means to help immobile patients gain som control Over their environment. In some tests they have be enable to operate an electric wheelchair merely by moving their eyes. In the non Dic in Are space technology has led to the invention of electromagnetic hammers to smooth and Shane Large panels of Metal such k those used in shipbuilding a camera system that senses Radi ant sources like runway Jig Tito help bad weather air plane landings Remote sensors for temperature measurements i inaccessible places Lon Wear ing highly heat resistant paint and a 24-ounce Battery operate television camera the size of a package of cigarettes now used for monitoring Industrial processes. Dawn patrol a Marine Bugle sounds colors at Dawn and a Flag is hoisted atop a 15-foot radio Antenna on Hill 881 near Khe Sanh. Each night that Day s Flag is retired and sent to Thi fam ily of a Marine slain on the Hill. It1 Indian Ocean penetration feared soviet ship movements concern by Fred s. Hoffma Nap military writer Washington . Naval strategists Are expressing con Cern that an impending visit by soviet warships to Indian ports May be the first move toward penetration of the Vita Indian Ocean area. The United states keeps no Navy vessels in the Indian Ocean and . Admirals an diplomats fear the planned Brit ish pullout East of Suez will leave a vacuum into which the soviets May step. A 19,000-ton soviet Cruiser of the Sverdlov class and two guided missile destroyers Are due to drop Anchor at Madras and Bombay late this month and Early in april. The visit appears to under score a closer relationship be tween the Indian and soviet navies and greater cooperation be tween the two countries. Pentagon sources said they believed the three warship cruises into the Indian Ocean were arranged last month when adm. S. G. Jorth Kov soviet Fleet commander in chief visited India. Some four years ago when the . Navy sent a five ship Carrier Squadron into the India Ocean area on a show the Flag and Good will voyage the Indian government acted suspicious of . Motives As did the government of Ceylon. The american Squadron which spent six weeks in the in Dian Ocean visited a number of african and Middle Eastern ports but did not Stop in India. . Naval spokesmen have been indicating deep alarm at the Ever spreading soviet flee operations. Since the Arab israeli War last june a soviet Force of More than 35 ships and submarines has maintained a presence in the Mediterranean using egyptian ports and anchorages in the Mediterranean Basin. Secretary of the Navy Paul reflected the concern of the admirals when he told con Gress last month that we seen expanding soviet threat to our free use of the adm. Thomas h. Moorer chief of naval operations said that with the soviets keeping four to six submarines in the Mediterranean the . Feels i necessary to station a naval Antisubmarine Hunter killer grouping that area. With the Vietnam War Strain ing its naval resources the United states would like to avoid replacing the British pres ence with an american Force in the Indian Ocean. The state Departie us Hassid we have no plans to move in where the British Fortes pull but if the initials \ cruise into the Indian be comes a regular Plu it ii non . Strategists say Thi have to rethink its attitude toward maintaining Lias in that area. European coition col. James w. Campbell. Usa it. Col. Of Michasl. Jr., Usan Mert Proctor Elmer d. Frank Henry Epstein t j. Deput an unofficial newspaper of and for the . Armed r Orchet comm under if chef . European command and printed d0ton st., new York 10014, Tel area code 2 second Clam a octave paid at new York . 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