European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 29, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 8 the stars and stripes tuesday August 29, 1978 part of exercise in Denmark wild weasels seek enemy radar Bare a chief Karup Denmark Sis wild Wea Sels Are part of exercise oks Boel 78 Here testing nato s ability to repel an invasion of Denmark. These weasels Are not tiny furry Ani Mals. Tivey Are the aircraft of the 81st tac fighter so based at Span Dahlem. Ger we by f-4c phantoms and the wild weasel is the name Given our Mission which is to ferret out enemy radar sur face to air radar and missiles in particular and then destroy them said maj. Jerry Stiles 37-year-old detachment commander from Scottsdale. s a cat and mouse game with the cat and mouse getting smarter every Day " he phantoms of the 81st joined other ., German and danish air Force units Over the North sea Honing air combat intercept and attack abilities and running of s Only Active duty b-57 unit outfit s Mission is a Jam session Karup Denmark Sis the Friendly enemy is flying the skies Over Denmark during exercise oks Boel 78 Mission is to Jam radar and make it More difficult to detect fighter aircraft that Are attacking targets said it. Col. Lynn m. John detachment commander from the 17th defense systems evaluation sea Malmstrom fab Are spending 60 Days in Europe said John 48. From Malad Idaho. We will take part in oks Boel and then the reformer exercise in the eb-57s were built by the British in dearly 1950s. In the 1960s electronics measure eco equipment was 1 to some of them. While the plane is1 a bomber Crews can Loop and Roll Ray aircraft which also saw in the Vietnam War. E Are the Only Active duty b-57 unit in the air Force and we have More than 20aircraft in our Squadron. We usually come to Europe twice a year 60 Days in the Falland 30 to 40 Days in the Spring. We travel the world Over and our aircraft Are know Nas the Friendly enemy John said. He said that each of the Squadron planes flies at least one Mission a Day in support of strike aircraft making Simu lated attacks. The eb-57s require a Pilot and an electronic warfare officer As aircraft carries several Hundred bundles of chaff that can be dropped to Jam radar or create false targets on radar screens John said. They Are also equipped with several systems of electronic Jam mers that work on ground and airborne radar. In the Our primary Mission is to work against fighters. They will come up and make firing passes at us while we try to Jam their radar systems he stressed that exercises like oks Boel and reformer Are Good training be cause they give .-based Crews an idea of what a War in Central Europe would Belike. It is kind of stimulating to be Able to de fend yourself against attacking aircraft with eco said capt. Rod Nel son a 27-year-old Pilot from Missoula it. Ray Sexton a 29-year-old elec tronic warfare officer from Mason City Iowa said that exercises such As oks Boel also give nato air controllers an idea of what it is like to work in an eco Environ Don t have this kind of an exercise in the states he said. It gives us a Dif Ferent aspect of flying and what we might get involved in during War is Tokyo tightens water rationing to up1 Alert Tokyo House headed to the hardware stores to up on water buckets monday As the Lent prepared to tighten water a in the japanese capital s worst in five years. Reported a run on buckets that used to store water in periods when i is Cut has not yet reached that but starting at 10 ., the govern was to impose a 10 percent Cut in a applied to major industries and House i in most parts of the City latest Cut in water Supply follows a 7reduction carried out aug. 11. I new 10 percent cutback will be car out by lowering pressure in water sup lines Between 10 And 6 a.m., and i To 5 Daily. The government s construction Mill which is in charge of the water prob sunday reported that six storage on the tone River major source of for Tokyo now hold Only 70.53 met Ric tons of water that is about 20 percent of their capacity. In summer Tokyo and the nearby prov inces of Chiba Shitama and Ibragi con sume about 6.8 million tons of tone rive water per Day. Tokyo s daily share is about 5.8 million tons. Officials Hope that about 550,000 tons per Day will be saved in the japanese Capi Tal. Reduced water supplies to Large Indus tries will account for 60 percent of the Sav ing and individual households about 40 Tokyo Gas co., the City s largest water user already has Cut consumption by43.7 percent. Tokyo University normally the second largest water user. Is not seriously affected because of summer Vaca drought results from an unusually Short Monsoon rain season in Early sum Mer. The summer rain period in the Japa Nese islands normally lasts six or seven weeks but was Only 10 Days Long this year. Weathermen say there is no rain in sight for the main japanese Island of Honshu where Tokyo is located. About 35 of Japan s 47 provinces Are affected by the drought. In the Southern is land of Kyushu water is available Only six hours a Day in some localities. Accused soviet agent gets sensitive . Job Geneva up Geli by And British diplomats with being a soviet Kab officer monday took Over the Post of personnel director of . European sensitive Post gives Dneprovsky full Access to confidential files on some 9,000u.n. Employees in Geneva. A soviet citizen Dneprovsky was wit the personnel division at . Headquarters u new York before us appointment tothe Geneva Post. His appointment was protested by the United states and Britain on the grounds that a Veprovsky in fact is a colonel in the Kab. We Are completely satisfied that is a soviet secret service agent a Western Diplomat said monday. This sensitive position should not refilled by anyone from either of the two superpowers or even from a nato or a War saw pact country the Diplomat said. . Secretary general Kurt Waldheim ordered an investigation when the And British protest was made after Dneprovsky s appointment in june. Waldheim approved the appointment when he was unable to substantiate the gave its approval two weeks ago saying it also had been unable to substantiate the Western claims. Western diplomats believe that As Manyas half of the soviet citizens either attached to . Agencies in Geneva or working at the soviet Mission Are secret service agents. Bombing missions at the oks Boel on Denmark s Northwest coast tin the event of a War Here Well try to keep out of the Range of enemy Obsta and do the Best we can to suppress lat Vand the soviets have excellent tilt Sec Craft missiles and radar directed go Stiles said. To Stiles said the air Force used f-l�5 Sbf-4 aircraft to Fly wild weasel a Bitsi Over North and South Vietnam. The pm snare armed with missiles that Home of the enemy s radar signals. now in this exercise the Dag Are bringing out radar units and we Elbe working against them in simulated wed weasel missions said Stiles who losjai208 missions Over Vietnam. We also have been flying simulated missions against danish and German win. Ships equipped with air defense and radars. We have a jamming Pac we use against them and then this up with simulated conventional 1 ing attacks against the vessels a neighbor of virus lab gets smallpox London up a photographer working one floor above a Laboratory Deal ing with viruses contracted smallpox in the first such Case in Britain in five years health officials Parker 40, of King s Norton Bir i was confirmed sunday As a victim. The photographer at the .0jiam University medical school became ill on aug. 12. She was admitted to Solihull Hospital and put in solitary confinement aug. 25, the officials said. Members of 10 households who had come into Contact with Parker were placed under quarantine for the disease the world health organization last year said had been Defeated. The who expressed Hope then that vaccinations for the disease would be unnecessary by 1980.health officials urged anyone who had been at the medical Center Between aug. 8and 11 to Contact them although they said there had been no further outbreaks after More than so people possibly in Contact with Parker in her infectious stage had been traced and vaccinated. Investigations were continuing into How she might have contracted the disease. Experts thought the virus May have come from the Laboratory at Queen Elizabeth Hospital where the medical school i based. The Laboratory is one of Only two in Brit Ain conducting research involving live smallpox virus. It was closed pending in quiries. Capt. Scott Patterson a 35-Yweasel Pilot from Florence / exercise is excellent 1973 Arab a Raili War Dawn of the newer generation onto air missiles be said. Well do same Job in Europe As we did in Lmh tuft my the technology and the density till missiles have t of Patterson who logged 143 wild West missions Over North Vietnam said tvs fun one year his Squadron lost 12 filers or nov Siles. A St they d shoot a whole Tot of no Stet us. He said. I was Lucky and went too slow. You can Tell enemy is looking at you and when Belock on your aircraft to fire a Stiles said that after that Middle confrontation some military , ground forces Are the Best way1 tin surface to air missile Sites. Patterson said oks Boel 78 also . Pilots a look at air defense i the actually Are Able to create t tics that allow us to work better to the event of War he said. The i have different tactics and aircraft Iare Able to learn a lot from them getting better every John Paul s motto Humilitas humility appears of coat of of the former car Al Albino la clan now Pope John Paul i the Emblem of the patriarch of Venice. 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