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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 12, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday May 12, 1977 the stars and stripes Page 7 they re not telling language of Law Marl Ette. Mich. Up this City s new obscenity ordinance is so spicy that City commissioners could t Bear to have the detail read aloud in Public. City clerk Norm Gruber was spared the embarrassment o the traditional Reading of the new Law adopted by the five member com Mission monday night. Some of the terminology is pretty graphic Gruber said. I guess they were continuing the same feeling they had in adopting the Ordi Nance. They re trying to protect Chil Dren from this kind of material so we did t need to read it  various sections of the ordinance contain explicit details of obscene materials and arts that Are consid ered objectionable under Community standards. Usan officers deny trying to deceive Congress in computer cutback order Washington api blistered by senatorial charges that they tried to deceive Congress. Air Force officials tues Day denied they had secretly retained expensive computer programs chopped from their budget two years ago. In an unusually harsh attack. Sen. Thomas Eagleton do charged there had been Gross deception by top level officers and Eagleton accused a two Star Gener Al of lying about the meaning of some Handwritten notes that helped trigger the investigation after being leaked to con Gress by Pentagon sources. Your testimony is the most disgraceful performance of any witness i be Ever heard in my career in the Senate civilian or  he told maj. Gen Robert l. Edge an assistant air Force chief of staff. In the notes written in mid january Edge suggested that detailed summaries of the air Force s computer program plan should not be sent to. Senate and House committees because it was unlikely that chairmen would read or be Able to under stand  also said he was not Overly concerned about work on one key program known As project Max not having been approved because enough preliminary work had been done to justify its being continued. Some congressional investigators con tend the comments represent evidence that the air Force has tried to proceed with the computer programs in Defiance of con Gressional orders in 1975 that they be terminated because of High costs and question Noble , appearing before the Senate de sense appropriations subcommittee. Among new inventions on display at Chicago s design engineering show is this 10-Speed bicycle with an automatic transmission. Instead of shifting a it logs burned calories wheels of Progress Chain through sets of sprockets to carry the Speed the new transmission devel oped by George Ripley Iii gives a rider smooth infinitely variable no shifting Speed control that matches Riding conditions. The transmission is Hydraulic with a gear pump controlling a plane tary drive gear set. L l i photo this Cycle s costly but not vicious Chicago a with a connector wire clipped to her ear lobe Model Debbie Fylis peddled a stationary bicycle for six minutes. Then pressing a Button she was told via a digital readout that she had lost 32  of the exercising machine which also measures pulse rate level of exertion exercising units and time spent peddling 1,745.it was one of numerous inventions on display at the design engineering show in Mccormick place but one that apparently did t impress one bystander who said it s an Ideal thing for a Rich Man who has everything. If he were on a diet he could pump for about 30 minutes and los about 130 calories enough to earn a mar Tini at  among the other new products plastic foam that conducts electricity a Light bulb illuminates when inserted in the foam. Its main Industrial use is pre venting the buildup of Static electricity. A robot Painter. You record the actions of a skilled Spray Painter on a Cas Motte tape. Place the cassette into the robot then stand Back and let the robot paint your products perfectly one after an other All exactly the same said a com Pany spokesman. A vacuum toilet especially Good for areas suffering from drought. The toilet does its Job in seven seconds using Only about three pints of water. A conventional toilet needs four to six Gallons for each flush an electronic touch Call converter which stores Telephone numbers. By pressing Only two buttons a caller can dial a desired number from a programmed i Mory up to 20 digits in length. Denied he had urged that policy decisions be kept secret from Congress. He called the memos memory joggers written to myself concerning a report then in Prepa ration for an assistant air Force Secre tary. But Eagleton angrily rejected his explanation. "1 think your motive from the be ginning was to deceive Congers and you Are continuing to do it with malice Afore thought he . David c. Jones the air Force chief of staff defended Edge whom he said had a reputation for veracity in a Long and honorable  Edge clearly stunned by the ferocity of Eagleton s attack re fused to  earlier told the Senate panel that the air Force did t do some things Ery Well and specifically had failed to keep Congress adequately informed. But he said there had been no attempt to conceal its activities or engage in what Eagleton called a Gross  in the 1975 decision. Congress ordered the air Force to re evaluate its computer programs retaining Only those it could justify As Mission essential or no Deferra ble meaning they were vital to service  critics contend Pentagon documents leaked to Capitol Hill suggest air Force officials applied guidelines so broadly that the Overall program would continue Atmore Cost than Ever. Reps. John Moss. D-calif., and Charles Rose d-n.c., reported last month they had discovered the original computer pro Gram was under continuing development under the code name project  air Force officials said project Max was an element of the previous program on which $3 million has been spent and which will Cost an estimated $400 million if retained. Disturbing anomaly in a memo written after visiting air Force logistical come Headquarters at Wright Patterson air base. Pentagon an Aalst William b. Ritt cited a disturbing anomaly in the air Force having Clas sized All parts of the former computer system Mission . Felix m. Rogers who Heads the logistical command said Ritt s visit came at a time when All elements of the previous program were still being evaluated. He called the memo totally  the computer program originally was expected to Cost $937 million Over a 12-year period but later was Cut Back to 814 Mil lion. The present system according to air Force officials is estimated at 1803 million but could go 40 million or More higher. Under Sharp questioning by Eaglel nand sen. John l. Mclellan. Dark Jones admitted that Only in recent Days had he Learned inside details of How the Mission essential criteria were being applied. He also acknowledged air Force officials had failed to keep Congress informed of what they were doing but he blamed the failure on bureaucratic disagreement among air Force officials. Mystery woman surrenders in Miami Miami i up the mystery woman who brought undercover detectives and two Miami dolphins football players to Gether before a drug bust has surrendered to Miami police. Camille Richardson. 23. Was charged with conspiracy to sell cocaine and was freed on her own recognizance. Officers said the woman introduced Don Reese and Randy Crowder defense line men for the dolphins to two undercover policemen at a Miami restaurant then Dis appeared. Reese and Crowder were later arrested by the officers when they allegedly offered to sell them a Quantity of cocaine they were charged with Selling and conspiracy to sell cocaine  
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