European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 22, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes thursday september 22,1977 . Plans to Dye Europe airfields with chemicals an artist s impression of the Franco German Roland 2 missile in action. Developed by France Germany a by Rick Maze staff writer Hahn Germany is air Force officials Hope to make it difficult for an enemy to shoot at their airfields in Europe by staining the runways and roads Green and Brown according to Safe officials. While an enemy aircraft flying at More than 500 Miles an hour and ducking . Defences might have difficulty finding and attacking a camouflaged runway and base some american polots have advanced the thought that it might also make it hard for . Pilots Landing in less than perfect weather. The idea behind the plan is the same As that of camouflaging a tank an official army to buy ground to air missile Brussels a . Forces Are due to get their first delivery next month of a Novelty a major weapon developed not in the . But by France and West Germany at a possible saving of nearly $500 million to the american taxpayer. The weapon is a precision guided ground to air missile called Roland 2, mounted on tracks and designed to shoot Down Low flying planes. The . Army Hopes to be Able to buy 100 or More of them. They will Cost about $2 million each plus the ammunition the tracked vehicle and $265 million for the know How. Brig. Gen. Frank Ragano who manages the project for the army estimates that the Pentagon would have had to spend nearly $500 million More by developing its own weapon instead of purchasing the european design. The French and West Ger mans have spent about $680 million developing and producing the Roland. Launchers Are now being assembled at the Hughes aircraft co. Plant in Tucson. The completed firing unit will emerge from a Plant of the Boeing aerospace co., the chief subcontractor in the Seattle area. The first four Are due for delivery to the new Mexico s White Sands proving ground in october. It s the reverse of the More usual pro Cess in which . Know How is sold or licensed to european manufacturers. The allies ought to work together More in this Way according to Walter b. La Scotland bus crash kills 5 Edinburgh Scotland up police said five persons died and More than 20 were injured when a bus carrying around 40 passengers plunged 50 feet Down an embankment after a collision with another vehicle. The bus was travelling from Hull England to Edinburgh and Glasgow. Welfare programs Berge until recently assistant Secretary general for defense support at the Brussels Headquarters of nato. He has since become . Under Secretary of the army. It must be understood he wrote in the monthly nato review that cooperation in armament development among transatlantic nations represents a major change in our free Enterprise  it has been Standard practice for arms Bonn formally rejects bid for Kappler return Bonn up the West German government has formally rejected an italian request for the extradition of escaped nazi War criminal Herbert Kappler a spokes Man said wednesday. In a note handed to italian ambassador Corrado Orlandi Cortucci tuesday Bonn said the West German Constitution bars the extradition of germans to foreign countries. The rejection had been expected. Jus Tice authorities said immediately after Kappler s aug. 15 escape from a Rome military Hospital that he could not be sent Back to serve out a life sentence imposed for the reprisal killing of 335 italians. Nevertheless officials Here feared the rejection would cause still More harm to relations with Italy and bring an unwelcome reaction in other countries. The escape of Kappler 70-year-old former nazi police chief in Rome strained German italian relations and led to criticism abroad of Germany and reports of alleged Neo nazi activity. Manufacturers in each of the major Allied countries to make one or More weapons for the same task with government encouragement. Purchases abroad Are limited wherever possible. This keeps Money and jobs at Home. It leads to International com petition for profitable orders from outside the Alliance Competition that president Carter is now trying to curb. It also leads to situations like the one in which Allied naval vessels on a joint a never found themselves unable to feed firing data into one another s computers. Their communications had been purposely built on different principles. The Alliance is now trying to standardize new weapons a problem that has never bothered the soviets and their allies. Their designs Are standardized by Moscow. Laberge pointed out that Roland is not a perfect example of Allied cooperation. Britain Italy and Canada have chosen other missiles to do the same Job. He called Roland an indication that when allies finally can agree on the Job to be done groups of them can work together on a single design. But successors to Roland have been slow to appear. A Purchase of belgian machine guns for american tanks raised a major Row in Congress. An american West German Effort to get together on a big tank has been Only a partial Success. The european allies have formed the european program group to get together on designs which they Hope they can also sell to the . But so far they have failed to agree on the Point at which the . Planners should be brought in. Nato officials say that with the Cost of weapons rising faster than the Cost of most products and with governments increasingly reluctant to spend on them More co operation will be needed for Economy s Sake. Otherwise Allied forces will get less and less new equipment. Bell urges guards against cheats Atlanta a congressmen who trunk up social programs for the Downtrodden ought to think More about safeguards against cheaters on those programs at Torney general Griffin Bell says. We have discovered that when a social welfare program for example is conceived far too Little thought is Given to minimizing the potential for fraud and too much emphasis is placed on the outflow of Federal dollars Bell said at a meeting Here tuesday night. The Justice department May suggest to Congress that it prepare Law enforce ment Impact statements before adopting new programs he said. Speaking to a meeting of the International downtown executives association Bell also said Federal authorities Are beef ing up programs to fight increasing White Collar crime As Well As drug  turned away questions regarding investigations of embattled budget dire Torbert Lance but remarked wryly that a Large part of his pleasure in being in Atlanta concerned getting away from washing ton which he dubbed survival  said Here you can t shoot what you can  the survivability of the base will be improved by reducing identification of base facilities from the air Safe officials said. An official said the air base Here will be the first Safe base in project ton Down the camouflaging of runways taxiways aircraft vehicle aprons and roads with a chemical staining agent. In All about 395, 000 Square meters of pavement at Hahn a will be dyed officials said. All Safe bases in Europe ultimately will be camouflaged they said. Safe bases Are also toning Down facilities such As aircraft shelters Semi hardened operations buildings Alert facilities combat operations centers and communications facilities a spokesman said. Some buildings at Hahn including the military housing area base Exchange and other facilities Are already painted sub Dued colors of dark Brown Tan and shades of Green. Officials said some other build Ings in Safe also have already been toned Down. The project will Cost about $200,000 for the runways and taxiways at each base and from $50,000 to $100,000 for buildings officials said. A Safe spokesman said bids Are still being taken for the staining of runway pavement Here. No starting Date has been set for the project. The spokesman said other nato air forces Are either studying the . Pro Gram or have similar projects of their own under Way. . Officials consider the camouflaging unique although the German airfields reportedly had similar camouflage during world War ii. 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