European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 23, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse Page the stars and stripes August 1977 Senate Portel gets defense intelligence report soviets spend More on i Washington Ftp during the past year the soviet has continued Loim prove its military but at increasing the defense intelligence Agency the cover the entire spectrum of weapons systems from nuclear strategic forces to conventional Gen eral purpose Samuel Wilson Dia said in Congo is i priorities and Economy in government the congressional joint economic com i Pec 11 signal testimony made Public Wilson inc maintains a substantial technological Lead Over the and other officials indicated readiness of soviet forces tends to be inferior the in Alimony was Given june 30 no a closed door hearing of the sub Commilla undercover police sting thieves Washington Lull undercover Fence opera ions used by police for catch ing thieves and burglars red handed arc helping to solve rapes and Bank robberies As Well the assistance and which has helped Fittante 22 opera Lori Sain i projects in is they have recovered property Worth million and sparked inure must charges relate in the stolen goods unwittingly sold to it ice More hidden cameras and hut stings also have led to arrests for tank arson and other the an Kaa official said Sling officers operating in old warehouses and rundown lir of runts develop close with Louse lipped thugs Whu think they arc Deal ing Elln fellow penetration their ultimate goal is to penetrate As Terply As they can Ina the criminal com said James director of the lhaa9 enforce men the Dis Ricl of 27 fences were caught in two Gordon in some Ibe thieves identify in others the fences themselves come to the buy things they cant get rid of and Lay off things on one an Gordon the slings have become so he that Leaa is having to turn Down cilia requesting funds for the Leaa puts up buy rent Money for Sling Headquarters and the electronics but does not pay Sala Ries of the officers who Volunteer or what is recognised As one of the most dangerous jobs Fri secret service Alco tobacco and firearms or postal service inspectors Oflyn sin month operations the slings usually operate six months or More before the sponsors decide to shut Down and round up All their there have been Bac Toback slings in seven tin most recent one was announced lost monday in Las where operators in seven months recovered Worth of property ranging Froin automobiles to Sii Wedoff f shotguns and netted 44 the previous week one was announced in where million was netted in stolen goods including truck trailers and television and Iii sus pills were the stolen goods come cheap Gordon mid the Overall outlay of buy Money in 22 stings bus totalled Only million paid for million Worth of so he 80 per cent of the loot Hai been returned to Ray Alful on of la William sub committee released the excerpts and said in a statement it is Clear from the evidence that in russians Are spending More and enjoying it Wilson estimated the soviet Union spent he equivalent of billion on defense programs in compared with Bil lion for soviet procurement of weapons has grown annually for the past decade and in 1971 reached 141 per cent of the 1968 Wilson tic estimated russian weapon purchases exceed those of the by 114 in research arid the Sovi ets clearly exceed the Effort evidenced by the development of new Wilson in response to Wilson agreed with the conclusion stated earlier by Stanfield Cia while virtually All of the soviet inventory of weapons Falls within production the soviets simply do not have the technology required to produce Many of nor could they pro Duce close but Wilson said soviet production technology has become increasingly sophisticated and the soviet it steadily gaming the ability to produce Complex sys Witti this inevitable Cost prox rare said the use of St orals liquid fuel in soviet intercontinental ballistic missiles rather than the More efficient solid fuel in is a Good example of the uss fils lag in techno he said the testimony shows also that the readiness of soviet icbms is Low com pared with icbms that the soviets deploy Only one out of six naval ships at sea compared with one out of three that the number of night hours per month is for soviet aircraft than aircraft and that a Large number of tanks in soviet combat units Are maintained in a Short term Stor age Gale la Joye takes clowning having Laughl other clowns in u the Joye in being a Clown Here be prepares for his on email cog enology show in la Joye is performing at an american theater association a Kansas chauvinists dispute Survey Lupoli a lot of Kan sans particularly the chamber of com economic development types were disappointed in the results of a recent Survey showing most tourists think Kansas is a Good place to be far Lizul the response to the Survey has been and May be the Best thing that Ever happened to said Leroy Secretary to Robert towns has begun saving Sellers Bennett has received from across the country from people defending the Virtues of the Sun to lower in addition to the number of favourable Sellers Hal reached Bennetts a 15 year old former Wichita resident expressed her feelings in a Teller to the Houston where she had read of the i have lived in Texas for a year now and i am terribly homesick for my study suggests pets May spread multiple sclerosis Chicago l will Rover and Tabby May be multiple sclerosis in their a study reported midday in the journal of the american medical Assoc a lion Seymure Jotko Wili of n j reported a study of 50 multiple Scle Rosis patients found 46 of them or s2 per cent had been in close Contact Wilh a household pet prior to the Onset of the ill the incidence of inc Contact Wilh sick dogs in the mul Lippi sclerosis series was he efe veral patients re ported thai a diagnosis of distemper was mutually made for their dog within several years of inc Onset of their Jolk Wilz said his findings Are similar to Hinse which were reported earlier this year by two British in that he 24 of 29 individuals with multiple sclerosis owned Small dogs and two ulna is owned in both he Large dogs which spool a significant amount of time Oul of doors appeared to have no relation ship to the Only indoor dogs were ii May very Well be that their discovery is of monumental Analo Gous to the discovery of the link Between cigarette smoking and and May Lead to effective i preventive multiple sclerosis is a disease of the Ner Vous which produces loss of mus Cular speech defects and Oiher Michelle Decur it is a Beautiful not Beautiful like Colora but in its own the air is pure and dry not wet and humid and Ful of Amog and pollution like its not the Colorado Rocky nor is u the grand but it is there peaceful and you us l ignore it if you open your minds and a Young woman from wrote Bennett that she heard of the Survey on the radio and shocked at the assess ment of Kansas in drab and last summer i bad the Fant Etc Opportunity of Riding my bicycle across the u she some of my Best Mem ories Are of the Golden wheat Fields going on forever interrupted Only by the Friendly towns and silos of a Man from criticized the saying in should have concentrated on How to build tourism rather than to be labor the fact that tourism does not exist to the degree he said that As an outsider he has wanted his children to see How a Farmer puts it All and producing livestock for famous Midwest enclosed in his letter was the following 11 after inc caviar after the canapes after he hours Douvres after the wine after the shrimp after the after the you have a Steak in
