European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 26, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page the stars and stripes inure d Moor a Oft tour hupduj0 Jar ill y do ibo drive to work 1 bring my was reminded of this classic non sequitur by the rhetoric Over Hie Derek Ozment of the Neutron one of the problems with the bomb is its capacity to stimulate sardonic humor the ultimate in capitalist ingenuity h kills people but protects How Nice to have a weapon that kills Slih out having launched both Wise cracks around i960 the death Ray bomb was last in he news ill leave them for others to play with what bothers me is the nature of the dispute the use of the bomb president Carter May have had top secret support for his press conference statement that we could Stop a Warsaw pact invasion of Eastern Europe without the use of atomic but the Gener Al consensus with nato would have Back to into putting Carters optimism the american option would be nukes or Gorman Federal re so the argument would take a dim of tactical nuclear weapons be cause Moat of its population and Industry would already be behind the soviet enter the Neutron the tactical h bomb which if destroy soviet forces without tearing up Kern real estate and killing Board this has a certain eerie f until you que who b the War theoretically against Ousby to put it it have t weapon that May reassure our Atli Esi i How will our potential adversaries stand have they designed a Mandrut Iaukea that will but people the answer i they would take a dim View of the their with German of Villaru ing from Safe Box seats would intermediate and medium r missiles lib is and which could probably in  if a add Ini Western out everything in miniature nuclear rounds they Are thereof women fared Well in academies the Scholastic year i9w7t was a historic one for Tho military for the first Lima women were admitted to All of at the end of a years expert an assessment of this Experiment seems in the dropout there was not a great difference Between males and feat the air Force in the dropout rate was slightly lower for women than for at West Point and the while slightly higher fur was not significantly women cadets fared very leaving no doubt that they will be Able to compete plenty of fully qualified women applied for each of the that Only 100 to Iso women were accepted initially was be cause this number represents about the ratio us female to male in the respective the Scholastic climate at the air Force Academy was somewhat More each of the older academies had More than Iso years of Al male while the air Force Academy is Only 25 years the air Force has a higher percentage of females than the other therefore More experience in employing women in More skills and one reason women cadets fared some what better at Colorado Springs than at West Point and Annapolis is that Only the air Force provided a surrogate upper class when the first class entered at Colorado Springs in there of no upper class to Aid and advise realizing this air Force graduates of West Point or were assigned As profiting from this when the first class of women entered at Colorado Springs last 15 female Junior officers were assigned to live in the Barracks with the entering women to provide essential example and at West Point and the enter ing class had no such having advocated a larger percentage of women in the military including membership in the service since world War i am particularly gratified at this first years these were the reasons i Cave for favor ing women cadets at the academics since All services have women offi they should be Given the same opportunities for educational qualification tvs the male officers with whom Iney will have to my experience and observations in world War ii convinced me that there Are Many military tasks which women can perform As Well and sometimes better women arc better As any Man remembering his Mother and sister and giving his wife her v the principal argument against women at the service academics is that All cadets should be trained to serve in women should not serve in combat this is a specious Long since overtaken by Only 25 per cent of Academy graduates Jive served in in the age of nuclear strategic combat dangers have lost their civilians military women serving in rear areas May be Early casualties in any future the dedicated Young women in the service Academy classes of 1380 have successfully completed a significant Experiment or our National russian Roulette fore the Neutron bomb while a highly sophisticated bit of hardware in no significant Way affects the Lalance of nato it leaves the president of the United states in precisely the same forked stick if he orders the use of tactical nuclear How will he respond after the ird Lial Exchange the Only variable added by the Neutron bombs would be the Low level of destruction in the areas initially seized in the soviet the faster the better the survival Odds in the Neu tron bomb is strategically superfluous it leaves us exactly where we were before the exercise with one dangerous byproduct its existence May encourage the myth of limited nuclear the View that with our death Ray which Are vey accurate broadly we can persuade the soviet marshals never to utilize their overwhelming conventional Power against for we take out a soviet tank army with Neutron bombs with Virtu ally no secondary it assumes Brezhnev a Are going o it we rather decent of them not to destroy the whole we have some other tank after nato is entitled to strategic the Sce Nario Tor this military science fiction therefore goes ii Warsaw pact tonal Blitz 2 nato clean1 nuclear response 3 presumably accompanied by As soviets this has a certain rational foundation you assume Moscow didst want to win the War in the first place that the Aba essentially a War game played under live perhaps designed to the deterrent Efficacy of our having lost two 11 and a they would toe Rafarel Ive got news Tor anyone i de soviet Fiew Stayen do not j general staff a member of thu it body confronted with the statement mated in 36 moves will employ the famous Lenin gambit turn aver the and shoot i Iaac nah Neutron Bomati or no Putna the probable scenario soviet Heads on nato son to launch a Central War in the naps recognition of led convince himself nato can conventional thai tit retch we Dond Ita it to Faa Autt u fun Tolat 9m 1