European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 09, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday june 9, 1977 the stars and stripes Poge 7 favors Northeast Midwest Senate oks housing Bill Washington up the Senate tuesday approved a $u.7-billion, three year housing and Community development Bill favouring the Northeast and Midwest and easing restrictions against building i flood Plains. The Bill approved on a 79-7 vote no goes to conference with a version recently passed by the House. The Senate measure includes $12.5 Bil lion in Community development Grants during 1978, 1979 and 1980, compared to$8.7 billion Over the last three years rent subsidies or 400,000 additional housing units or the poor 56,000 new units of Public housing higher total amounts and lower Down payments in f1ia Loans an Extension of a number of Rural housing  Community develop Tel Grants the biggest part of the Bill would be distributed under a series of formulas which would Avor sections of the country Witholder housing and slower population growth such As the Northeast and mid  said those Are the areas of greatest need senators from Sunbelt states argued that the programs should be distributed More evenly throughout the country but lacked the votes to make any major changes in the formulas. Over administration objections the Senate adopted 49-36, an amendment easing restrictions against real estate development in flood Plains throughout the country. The amendment similar to one adopted by the House allows private Bank Loans for property development in areas designated by the Federal government As flood prone when a Community elects not to belong to the existing Federal flood insurance program. Laser sighted .22 automatic Rifle called most controllable weapon Salt Lake City a police menswear by it. At least one prison has equipped its guard towers with it. Foreign countries Are buying it and the King of Spain asked for one and got two. The object of their interest is the Ameri can 180, a lightweight ,22-caliber automatic Rifle that fires 30 bullets a second rom a177-round Magazine. It can be fitted with a telescopic sight that pinpoints targets with a red spot of Light projected by a  Rifle is the most controllable hand held weapon in the world is the assertion of Charles Goff president of american International corp. Of Salt Lake City which markets Rifle and  Praise the warning Given by the visible Light beam and the relatively Low killing Power of its Small ammunition. Goff said the . State department whose permission he obtained to Market the Rifle abroad told him Spain s King Juan Carlos asked for the Rifle while visit ing the White House last year. Goff said heave the King two rifles one Chrome  Rifle manufactured near Innsbruck Austria Sells for $1,000 with the laser scope $350 without. It is accurate up to 200yards, Goff said. The scope can focus at night on a laser illuminated target up to a mile away laser is an acronym or Light amplification by stimulated emission of Radia Tion. A laser amplifies Light into a beam of perfectly aligned streams of photons the particles which make up Light Goff said the Rifle s advantages Over other police weapons is its semiautomatic capability use of relatively cheap .22-Cali Ber ammunition and Lack of recoil which keeps the barrel from bucking during firing. He said Sale and Possession of the weapon is strictly controlled by the federa Bureau of alcohol tobacco and firearms and cannot legally be owned by a private , who began mass producing the Rifle in 1974 after buying the Patent fro two Salt Lake City men in 1969, said he has sold about 1,000 to some 300 Law enforce ment agencies throughout the country. One of them the it. Lauderdale fla., police department has used the Rifle and scope to deadly effect a phoning Pioneer a year ago sgt. Frank Schelir of  said an armed robber was killed and his partner wounded by two Short bursts from the Rifle after officers were fired upon. He said the wounded Man surrendered when police trained the Visi ble laser Light on him. Showing him in no Uncertain terms that they had him in their  re extremely satisfied with it Scheler said. We have made it known Weill use the weapon in stakeout situations and we  he attributed a 39 per Cen drop in armed robberies in the City last year in part to acquisition of the  Utah state prison officer. Van Houten said he broke up an inmate disturbance in1974 with the Rifle and scope. When i put that red Dot on some of them. They Gorback in their cells but  he said adding prison officials later decided Coarm Tower guards with the rifles it was discussed pretty thoroughly Butone of the advantages is that it s not As lethal being a .22, As a 30.06." he  re negotiating presently for Sale of about 25,000" of the rifles Goff said. He said five or six countries were among those interested but he declined to name them except to say some were nato affiliated. Most every country we be shown it Tomas shown interest in it As a police weapon unanimously As a prison weapon unanimously As a special forces weapon unanimously and then some As a naval or army weapon Goff , 56, a Preston Idaho native and two others pleaded guilty last month i London and were fined $2,720 each for Ille Gal Possession of five of the  said the arrest resulted from a mis understanding. Cab rules single fares Are illegal Washington Dpi throwing out Many of the nation s Long Range air ares the civil aeronautics Board ruled tuesday it is illegal to charge a single average fare linking a City in one part of the country to several cities in another  and airline officials said so Many ares were wiped out that they could no count them. Most involved nights linking the West coast with the East coast the Midwest and Hawaii. The Board s ruling was directed against so called common ares defined As charging the same amount or transportation Between one Point and any of several others irrespective of  cited As an example the single common fare of $215 or flights fro Boston to los Angeles san Francisco or Seattle. They said it is based on a distance of 2,624 Miles obtained by averaging the number of passengers to each West Coas City from Boston. Now officials said new fares will have to be drawn up based on the mileage be tween Boston and each of the West coast Points. They said the new fare will be higher to san Francisco at 2.695  Miles the most Distant of the three from Boston and lower to Seattle at 2,496 Miles the Clos  existing common fares include $156 rom Chicago to All major West coast Points and $177 rom Cleveland to the West  of the new arcs will be higher some will be lower but in the air transportation system As a whole the up will More or less cancel the Downs a cab spokes Man said. In a few markets the new prices May vary As much As $10 from pre sent  the Board exempted two types of common arcs from its ruling one exemption applied to multiple air ports serving a single metropolitan area the other to cases where a nearer Point i served by Way o a More Distant inter medi at Point provided that the common fare is based on the mileage to the nearer Point. Common ares Between a single Westcoast City and multiple Points in Hawaii also were exempted. The cab said an adequate Case had Bee made for common fares combining Newark new York with Islip. On Longisland Baltimore with Washington nor Folk va., with Newport news va., and Miami with it. Lauderdale. In those instances the Board found that contiguous metropolitan areas were served by several airports and that Citi Zens of those areas treated the airports As if they were inner changeable. Senate oks Carter choices for Russia France envoys Ann Mcdaniel i became the nation first Blind Long distance Telephone oper Ator when she began work Al utile Rock Ark. Ann Blind since birth Dis cusses the special switchboard with supervisor Glenda Dickerson. A Washington a the Senate tuesday approved president Carter s choices for six ambassadorial posts including . Representatives to Russia France and  winning approval was the Nomina Tion of Marvin Lwarner As ambassador to  Toon a career Diplomat was confirmed As ambassador to the soviet Union. Toon a former ambassador to Israel has been serving As acting . Ambassador in Moscow since last fall when he was dispatched to the Post by Gerald  Arthur a. Hartman. Former assistant Secretary of state for european affairs was confirmed As the new ambassador to  approval As ambassador to Yugoslavia was Lawrence s.  former top aide to Henry Kissinger. Other ambassadorial nominations con firmed were Richard k. Fox or. To Trini dad and Tobago and Arthur w. Hummel or. To  nominations were also confirmed Jean Price Lewis of Virginia and Abe Lardo Lopez Valdez. Assistant administrators of the Agency for International development Richard n. Cooper representative to International banking organizations Sam Young Cross jr., to be executive director of the International monetary fund Herbert Salzman representative to the organization for economic development and cooperation Albert Sherer jr., representative to the Confer ence on Security and cooperation in Europe Melissa Wells to be representative on the economic and social Council of the . Thomas Byron Crawford Ledd to be alternate executive director of the International monetary fund