European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 01, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes . Faces another air strike London up the British air control assistants Union voted wednesday to Call another strike if aviation authorities go ahead with threatened suspensions. And two other major unions staged peace and War talks that could end a crippling Dock strike and plunge the nation into a two Day blackout. If the civil aviation authority goes ahead with suspensions the British Public will be faced for the indefinite future with a severely Cut airline system said Ken Thomas chief of the air control assist ant s Union after a morning disputes committee meeting. That would be a tragedy for a country trying to climb out of a recession he said. Dockers meet meanwhile Union officials for 4,000 London dockers met with employers and the port labor executive committee to draw up peace plans for a week Long strike Over extra pay that has left 19 ships Idle with tens of thousands of tons of cargo unloaded at three London piers. And Power station workers organized an unofficial nationwide strike for sept. 6 and 7 that would Black out much of the country for 48 hours. The Union organizing committee said workers at 31 Power stations had already agreed to support the strike and 10 stations were still voting on the action. Thomas said the air control assistants were in daily touch with Trade Union Congress chief Len Murray who hoped to act As a government air control assistants go Between. Want Resolution we Are anxious to resolve this dispute rather than learn the ways of Industrial confrontation Thomas said. The dispute began Over two weeks ago with a 10-Day work slowdown that caused serious delays of air traffic in and out of British airports. The 850 air control assistants who want a pay raise the government won t approve staged a full strike Over the Bank Holiday weekend Britain s equivalent to labor Day weekend that Cut flights by about half. When the assistants began returning to work tuesday they were asked by the civil aviation authority Caa if they would work with the computers As usual. If they answered no they were told they had 48 hours to return to Normal work or be suspended. The Caa said it May take a week before All assistants can be polled about their work intentions. If we do suspend them a spokesman said Well do what we did Over the week end cooperate with the airlines to handle 60 per cent of Normal  police communists clash in Berlin Over Hitler film Berlin a police and communist demonstrators clashed outside a downtown West Berlin theater showing Joachim c. Fest s new film on Adolf  30 members of the communist federation of West Germany had set up table of literature outside the theater showing Hitler a  fighting broke out after they were ordered by police to take Down the table or have it impounded until the end of the film s run. An estimated 40 police some using nightsticks were involved in the incident. Five demonstrators were arrested an several policemen were reported to have suffered minor injuries. New China envoy in Moscow Moscow up China s new Ambas Sador to the soviet Union Wang to Ping has arrived by train from peking to fill Apost vacant for More than a year. 7in it. T. A tft.jrfff"? 4 i i in Brief a danish air Force officer briefs Usan representatives and members of the press corps at Esbjerg Denmark before a . A10 Jet demonstrated the Maverick missile in its first firing in Europe. Is photo by Gus Scheutt a 0 fires missile off Denmark Europe meets maverick7 by Mike Spear staff writer Esbjerg Denmark is the Mav Erick air to ground missile made its live firing debut tuesday in Europe and if you were keeping score it was one solid nil and one clean miss. The Maverick which costs about $25, 000, is carried by several . Planes. But it was one of the newest air Force planes the a10 tank killer that delivered it Here. It was also the first time the a10 participated in a european exercise. The a10 is in Europe for a 15-Day deploy ment to demonstrate its capacity As an anti Armor weapons system with its dual punch of the Maverick and the fast firing seven barrel 30mm galling gun the Gau 8/a. Two Mavericks fired four of the six Alo s based at sem Bach a Germany while in Europe came Here to participate in oks Boel 77, a danish National exercise. They fired two live Mavericks at Large wooden barges More than a mile offshore and loosed bursts of machine gun fire on Barge decoys and old vehicles along the Shoreline. The site for the firing which an air Force spokesman termed the first in nato Europe was a Beach on Jutland s West coast just North of this fishing port City normally filled with Danes and German tourists. Bathers who gloried in the warm weather sunny skies and Pale Golden Sands of Bla Vands huk were cleared from the area but some still saw the show. They watched from behind barriers to the North towards veer strand the Saint Tropez of Den Mark and from the South near the Light House at the huk or Hook of land. The alos came in from the East Over Low dunes and heaths. The first fired from about 1,500 feet just before crossing the coastline and the White streaking missile soared beyond the four wooden barges veered to the left and eventually splashed into the sea several Miles beyond. Watching were top nato military men including Gen. Robert e. Huyser Neucom Deputy commander in chief Gen. William j. Evans Safe commander in chief and commander of Allied air forces Central Europe and maj Gen. Joergen Brodersen commander of tac air come Denmark. The big question was what happened said Evans without air to ground communications there is no Way we can Tell now. There Are a number of things that could have gone  on wednesday an air Force spokesman at Ramstein a Germany said the miss was still being investigated. There is a possibility that surface glint on the water made the missile break its lock on the target the spokesman said. Maj. Gen. L. R. Leavitt Safe Deputy chief of staff operations and intelligence pointed out at a question and answer ses Sion after the demonstration that the Mav Erick has an accuracy rate of above 90 per cent and that during a recent firing of 16 of the missiles 14 hit their targets. Maj. Gen. Walter d. Druen jr., com Mander of the . 17th air Force sem Bach and nato commander of the Allied tactical operations Center said you can t fire two missiles and expect to get 90 per cent. You either get 100, 50 or  the second Maverick run after a couple of 30mm strafing passes went according to the Book. The missile went straight and True destroying one of the 10-by-20-foot barges. Initially there was a huge Cloud of Black Grey smoke and when it cleared there was nothing left. There were other  f35 s dropped smoke bombs then came Back and shot Bull up missiles a them. Later they dropped folding Fin Aerial rockets. . Fill s from Raf upper hey Fprd dropped practice bombs on the Shore line targets and phantoms from Raybe Atwaters dropped inert laser guided bombs. Then followed a High Altitude interception which an f15 from Pitburg a Ger Many came across the coastline from the East at Low Altitude suddenly soared almost straight up disappearing from View in five or six seconds. Its target was phantom  about 37,000 feet Andrj no More than a minute it made the Intel cent. Druen said the reason the Maverick fired Here was because it was one of til few places available with adequate Rar safety requirements. The Maverick also be used against shipping he said. The Alo s flew Here from Sembach operated out of the danish air base Skrydstrup about 60 Miles Southeast j Here. The planes were taking part in to exercise aimed at testing Denmark s a to to repel an enemy invasion. The Alo s will return to their Home Davis Monthan fab ariz., sept. 6. 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