European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 24, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse The stars and stripes Page 12 just no h 1977 James Vic v s Orogun airing Bud Shuster of has taken the Lead in the Boh Griffin of Michigan has taken the Lead in the he Hyrc both Chambers will have an Opportunity to vote the airbag edict tip or Down before these Are Roll Calls that ought to be no aspect of american life touches More families More closely not even Educa Tion or health care than the family Auto upwards of 130 million americans Are licensed Drivers they operate 100 Mil lion passenger anything that significantly affects the automobile significantly affects lust about on such the people rightfully May expect their elected to stand up and be transportation Secretary Brock Adams issued his controversial order Oil june under this manufacturers and importers must see that All new Automo Biles Are equipped with passive restraint the order becomes effective on Large cars with the 19b2 Model and extends to All cars by Congress has until oct 8to overturn the the Issue presents serious questions both of fact and of the depart ment of transportation requirements of a passive restraint system would embrace the passive seat now in use on certain but what everyone seems to be talking about is the airbag this is the installed in front that in plates instantly upon Headon impacts at 11 to 17 Miles per the Dot believes that once All automobiles Are so lives would be saved annually personal injury premiums would be substantially c l Sulzberger in defense of the Neutron bomb every time a major new weapons system is developed by ingenious techno humanity itself is during the Middle Ages the byzantine empires secret greek was outlawed by the papacy As too horrid level it continued to be used effectively for some decades an inflammatory mixture of Oil and Sulphur that devastated War ships and their when president Carter decided to push through the cruise missile he was severely yet there a surely nothing More brutal about the sophisticated and inexpensive cruise than the huge mull megaton and mull warhead missiles which arc its alternative deter now the argument about needlessly Savage weaponry flares up Over the Neu tron bomb the Neutron bomb is less of a deterrent than an Arm of practical potential Iri the actual event of because of this distinction some of our allies have quietly told nato they Hope we will proceed with its manufacture and although opposition voices Are raised n in any conflict whether conventional or with tactical or strategic nuclear War Heads those allies nearest to the soviet bloc like West Norway or Turkey would suffer enormous not Only in terms of human life but also in terms of massive nobody in nato Ever for an instant hunks a War might Start with an attack from West to such is wholly excluded from the most abstruse contingency All conjecture centers on the method and Force employed in an attack moving from East to West and if could repel such being the it is axiomatic that some probably a Gaud Deal of nato territory would be lost regardless of the form of wll the Neutron warhead offers is the theoretical Chance of Swift civilian Evacula followed by Quick military and a Means of riposte against invaders that would destroy their forces but not the area they had in other i things went Well the territory lost could be regained and would not be wholly de Many Allied statesmen and military planners consider this a preferable alter native to Lota Reliance on an inferior conventional Force or Protection by old fashioned dirty warheads designed for earlier decades and much More destructive while off Erling no More development of Neutron de lenses would in no Way weaken deterrence which continues to rely on the theory of Mutual assured destruction Madl As for the by a mix of Hie seaborne and land based the use of Neutron warheads would allow european planners to try and work out for their populations defences not based upon the Assumption that survivors of a total War would return to a totally rav aged it would permit destruction of enemy forces sheltering in cities they had occupied with out eviscerating those some critics of the Neutron such As the astute West German Egon complain that by preserving it makes Man something second but that is not the weapons As with cruise Neutron warheads could be so precisely with their relatively lower bust Ana heat collateral that targeted areas would not be turned into All aggressive War is it Doest matter enormously to the victim whether he Dies from greek or a nuclear or Neutron the entire subject is too dreadful to Conte one would prefer not doing so were it not blatantly obvious that super Powers continue to improve their Arma ments every both with a View to deterrence and to if deterrence Doest what is the objective truth about ghastly a scientist and techno Logist advising the government on nuclear weapons for some 20 concluded in a study he recently sent me Neutron bomb radiation was essentially no different biologically than radiation from other nuclear weapons and further More in certain ways radiation effects were much less inhumane than those from Many conventional weapons frag mentation reduced total economic r Shutt Ftp raised questions of at he the Validity of the statistics having to do with real world testing of the upwards of been used since 1973 for experimental they have been involved in 1s3 crashes that have resulted in airbag twelve inadvertent of four have d airbag Protection but h is 1 that they would have died any administrator of the National 1 Way traffic safety concedes Usu the fatality Najaar Eunju fluent to permit drawing i statisticians Art in furious charging one another with inexcusable procedures in their analysts of the extrapolated on the issues at reliability Tow menu have the better ease devices do whats unknown the Lime being to How Well Wey will work i mass of wow average lifetime of a p estimates of Cost vary a for the Al bag will add few t new the Delortis Uribi pens in the says motors lays Ford says Esti mates of annual operating costs Are even farther the device weighs138 including some expense for occasional inspection and Ford puts the lifetime coat of operation at thai int much if it saves a Reading the conflicting get two different stories on what will happen to insurance you gel two Dif Ferent pictures As to Shuster is concerned that the sodium used to inflate the presents a serious safely and his objection seems to be Well you also hear some Earnest arguments from sea Tell manufacturers discounting their obvious they make some Good 11 All cries out for thorough Public hearings on the overturn Resolution Are set for 89 in the for 912 in the Shuster with some that the mouse con trolled by airbag will simply sit on the if get h to the says it will pan hand he has isl a Good Start toward the 218 votes he would my own what they May be Are wholly the requirement strikes me As one More costly 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