European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 18, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 2 the stars and stripes Friday August 18, 1978 there s a new baby in the family former president Richard Nixon wife Pat and daughter Trlla Cox Are Noth ing but joyous As they leave san Clem Ente general Hospital after visiting Julie Nixon Eisenhower who gave birth to a 9-Pound, 4-ounce baby girl tuesday. The a Lions said that Mother and daughter Jennie were doing Fine and would return Home saturday. A most advanced . Fighters Carter rejects Iran s bid for f-4gs Washington a president car p Ter has rejected Iran s request to buy some p. Of the most advanced . Electronic War fare equipment designed to Blind and de stroy enemy radar and anti aircraft Bat teries administration officials said Issue has divided some of Carter s senior advisers with state department and arms control Agency officials opposing sex Fyk w Lawrence to head naval Academy Annapolis. My. Up the Navy has named a former prisoner of War in Vietnam and one time test Pilot to head . Naval Academy. Rear adm. William p. Lawrence who spent nearly six years in a North Vietnam Ese prison Camp was named As the 133 year old Academy s 49th superintendent. Lawrence currently assistant Deputy chief of naval operations for air warfare i Washington will replace vice adm. Kin Naird r. Mckee during ceremonies at the Academy aug. 28. The Sale while the defense department favored it. However a senior administration offi Cial declining to be identified publicly said the turndown is not necessarily for Iran has been this country s biggest arms customer. At Issue was Iran s bid for 31 f-4g advanced wild weasel fighter bombers equipped with highly sophisticated elec tronic warfare gear enabling it to detect and locate radar stations and to fire of weapons to destroy them. The United states has not yet sold any of these advanced aircraft and their equip ment to any other country. The first operational models have been in use for Only couple of years in the . Air Force. The state department and arms control Agency opposed Sale of the f-4gs to Iran on grounds this would introduce a new weapons system into that Region and because they considered it offensive in nature rather than defensive. Officials said that instead of the f-4gs,the United slates has offered to sell Iran less sophisticated f-4e tighter bombers armed with older equipment including about 1.000 Shrike missiles which Are de signed to Home in automatically on enemy radar complexes. The Shrike originally was used by the . Air Force against North Vietnam in the 1960s, but has been substantially modernized in later versions. Administration officials said the Shah of Iran is now considering whether to accept the . Offer of the f-4es armed with the Shrike in place of the f-4g wild weasels. Asked about the f-4g s equipment the air Force said this advanced technology exists in no other the air Force also said that the f-4e armed with Shrike missiles cannot accomplish the air defense suppression Mission As effectively Ashe f-4g wild weasel. Krishna sect ban lifted by wis. Judge Madison wis. Up the Krishna religious sect is free to resume solicitations on the state fair grounds in West Al Lis Federal judge James Doyle has ruled. Dolye issued a temporary injunction preventing the state fair Board from enforcing rules that prohibit solicitations on the grounds. Nine m affected at a Plai London a nine Mortt Britain s atomic research plot i Parent by received overdoses Oft plutonium. The defense ministry statement Tive overdose results tuesday women who worked in the laundry j establishment at Aldermaston i Iwest of London. In none of the cases there in harm said a ministry Standard exceeded is be i Lional commission on radio Lions recommended limit Thel said but he could not say Whit of radiation this represented. The nine men found wednesday to patently contaminated have drawn from All Contact with materials pending further Testi to j the findings of whole body whole body monitoring a muted this year has been used
