European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 27, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 10 the stars and stripes wednesday september 27, 1978 smart planning key to air Power Gen. Pauly says by Floyd Harrington Kaiserslautern Bureau chief Ramstein Germany is making Good use of every Western plane May be the key in any Battle with Superior Eastern forces in the skies Over Europe says the commander of Allied air forces Central Europe. We have to put the right aircraft on the right target in a timely fashion so that we Don t throw away any sorties said Gen. John w. Pauly. A sortie that is generated and then can t find the target or by the time he gets there the target is gone is wasted. With the preponderance of air Power on the other Side we can t afford for these sorties not to be fruitfully used. Our control procedures have proven to be effect said Pauly just Back from a swing through nato Man Euver areas in Ger Many and Holland. Warsaw pact Edge the Warsaw pact has about 2,000 fight ers and 1.000 fighter bombers in the for Ward area of Central Europe Allied intelligence believes. Against that Pauly s Allied command would have 1,400 aircraft immediately in event of War with another 800 readily available. Allied air Crews flew 1,500 fighter and reconnaissance sorties a Day during last week s operations the general said. He noted two of the four tac air come squadrons that deployed from the . Are operating from bases where there Are no one vote for a War James Knox Polk Lluli president of the l United states came into office in im5 on a political program that prom d the1 annexation of California which was then a part of Mexico. Soon after his election. Polk moved to a i i ire California from the mexican of eminent by direct negotiation. Lint Mexico still smarting from Sceini ii former territory of Texas be come on of our new states had no de sire to be California to the same u a Ishii a few months As tension or Civ on both s Des internal As Well As Border in ideals increased in numbers and Vio Lence. I mall in Mav of in in when a mexican army unit advanced and shelled what is now fort Lbrown in Texas Polk declared it an act of invasion and asked Congress Lor a declaration of or Mexico. However the United slates Senate was not entirely anxious for War or Cali fornia and president Polk received Only Midi Iii support when his request passed is just one Vole. Lint that Vole for the mexican War brought us when the victorious was signed the slates of Arizona new Mexico Nevada i Lah part of Colorado and As Polk had promised califor Nia your one vote counts use it nov. 3 amazing but True 1970. All right Riero a other americans. One operates from a German air base at jever the other from Trygge a in Norway. They Are producing sorties just As Well As the in place Force and the interoperability that we see in their being supported on those bases is proving to be highly effective Pauly said. At a German second army corps exer Cise there were Canadian sorties support ing american sorties supporting German sorties. The capability to do this just does t happen. It takes a helluva com Mand and control system he said. Aircraft identification the exercises also Are being used to test new air space management procedures that have been developed by Aaice during the last year. The procedures Are aimed at solving the horrendous prob Lem of telling Friendly aircraft from enemy aircraft flying to or Over a Battle Field he said. Pauly also was satisfied with performance of b-52 bombers that participated in tie cold fire exercise last week. The bombers flew nonstop from their base in Texas to make simulated bomb runs on targets in Germany. They were re fuelled by Kc-135 Tanker aircraft during the 18-hour operation and did not land in Europe. Each sortie was applied against two targets Pauly said. The first target was pre planned. But after coming off that target they were Given an immediate target which was directly responsive to what was going on in the Battle expiration dates required on drugs Fra announces Washington a the food and drug administration has announced that All prescription drugs and virtually All non prescription drugs must be marked with expiration dates so that Consumers can know the products shelf life. Although some common medicines for instance aspirin already carry expiration dates on their bottle currently the government requires expiration dates Only for drugs liable to deterioration such As antibiotics. The expiration dates Are part of an Fra updating of its current Good manufacturing practice regulations. The new rules also will require each drug manufacturing Plant to maintain a unit responsible for accepting or rejecting All drugs and their ingredients. Twins get a break some twins like to share experiences even unpleasant ones As in the Case of these 10-year-Olds of Fontana Calif. Each broke an Arm. It happened to Coy Middlebrook the Day before school started As he wrestled with a younger brother and fell off the living room Couch. Five Days later Ingo broke his Arm falling off a seven foot High Chain link Fence. Up photo pilots already critical in 72 Faa blasted As slow on collision Warners Washington a the government has been unconscionably slow in moving toward using collision warning devices aboard aircraft the president of the air line pilots association says. As far Back As Early 1972 Alpa was critical of the Federal aviation administration for showing a Lack of urgency in developing equipment that will enable the Pilot to know when a midair collision is imminent said John j. O Donnell. O Donnell was scheduled to testify to a House subcommittee tuesday one Day after the fiery collision in san Diego. O Donnell s written testimony was pre pared before monday s collision of a Pacific Southwest airlines Jet and a single engine private plane in the worst disaster in . Aviation history. O Donnell charged that the technology for on Board collision warning devices has been available for years but that the Faa has insisted on further testing. However an Faa official said tuesday that further tests Are needed to Iron the bugs out of current systems including a tendency to sound alarms when there is no Bill Aims to Cut car thefts by using More id numbers Washington up two senators say legislation they Are sponsoring should Cut Down on the theft of nearly 1 million autos annually and the chop shops where stolen cars Are stripped for parts. Sens. Joseph r. Biden jr., d-del., and Charles h. Percy r-i11., said their Legisla Tion which was to be introduced tuesday would require manufacturers to place identification numbers on such easily Sale Able items As car doors fenders and roofs. The untraceable Sheet Metal parts Are stripped from stolen vehicles by High Speed Crews in chop shops and sold to dealers throughout the country in a $4 Bil lion a year Industry that reflects spreading organized crime involvement. The vehicle identification number currently appears Only on automobile dash boards and some moving parts but not on the Sheet Metal parts that Are lucrative items on the Black Market. With an automobile theft taking place in this country every 32 seconds and al most 1 million cars stolen annually this legislation provides the Means necessary to put so called chop shops out of business and to deflate the efforts of the profession al car thieves the senators said in a join statement. Police say if stolen automobile parts can be traced to the original owner Salvage Yard owners will be less Likely to buy the hot items. Y danger of a collision. I Don t feel that we Are foot dragging Faa spokesman Bruce Chambers said in a Telephone interview. We Are trying to find Good solid solutions and not come out with something that would not work and would mislead the Pilot and mislead the o Donnell complained that in addition to imposing air safety duties the Law orders Faa to encourage and Foster the develop ment of civil aeronautics and air thus safety is bound to suffer when the Faa attempts to balance it against such economic factors As the costs of air planes he said. An Faa spokesman in California said both pilots in monday s crash had been warned they were in the same area and each said he could see the other plane. A Federal investigation was under Way. O Donnell insisted ground to air warn ing systems favored by Faa Are not completely satisfactory and he said the Agency has relied too much on the out Moded see and be seen he said technology for an on Board Colli Sion warning system has been available for several years while Faa is still test ing and researching in its quest for a technologically adequate the Faa has indicated it will Issue National standards later this year for an on Board collision avoidance system he said but he added that the system involved should be More sophisticated than currently planned and also that under the most recent development schedule the first operational equipment for air planes would be available in 1982." o Donnell said the most dangerous situations Are those in which big jetliners flying under ground control mix with smaller air Craft frequently flying without such control. The airline aircraft and the uncontrolled ones come close together near the Airport he said. It is there during approach and Landing and during Takeoff and climb out that the workload of the airline flight Crew is at its Peak. Thus the pilots have Little time to spend looking out the window for other
