European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 14, 1980, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Pago the stars and stripes saturday. June 14, 1980 exodus continues Washington i Vii a panel of scholars and experts on population and Urban trends has concluded that the scatter ing of americans into sprawling suburbs and Rural areas will continue in the next few  despite scarce and expensive Energy needed for transportation. The factors that have caused the Popula Tion to spread out in recent years Are so Strong. They said thai tile Energy shortage is not Likely to bring about any dramatic resurgence of the cities. The president s commission for a National Agenda for the 1980s sponsored the two Day symposium which was held at the National Academy of sciences to discuss policies and prospects for metropolitan and Rural areas in this decade. The commission appointed transportation May be problem for sprawling suburbs by president Carter last year is studying a Range of subjects in an Effort to provide a guide for King Range Federal policies. I fifteen participants from universities and research organi Lions came with papers and arguments on How and where Ameri cans Are Likely to live in the years ahead. Population  was one of the main items on the Agenda. The movement of the Middle class from the cities to the suburbs in the last 20 years Ami population shifts from the Northeast and Middle West to the South and West in the same period Are Well known. However a less publicized phenomenon occurred in the 1970s a migration of almost three million people into non metropolitan areas far re moved from Urban centers and a spreading of Urban populations for Many Miles into the Rural Countryside. It is the reversal of a trend in which peo ple moved from farms to cities for most of the nation s history. The migration Back to Rural areas is so new that demographers and social scientists Are still trying to under stand it. Participants at the symposium said that this development was an Extension of the movement to the suburbs and that it had been propelled by the availability of Indus trial and service related jobs in outlying areas. John d. Kasarda. Chairman of the department of sociology at the University of North Carolina said changes in technology and transportation had brought about an new fighter replica a technician at Northrop s Plant in Hawthorne calif., calibrates a one tenth scale Model of the rom pan s in f-5g Fisher for in sting in its wind Tunnel. The is j is the newest member of the f-5 family of aircraft. More than 25 countries have selected the f-5 group fur their air defense. A paper says flaws found at Larigey f j 5 combat ready tags called false Hampton a. A tactical air command inspectors recently found a sub Stantial portion of the i -15s at  air Lorca base Here not fit Able although the were listed As combat ready the Newport news daily press reported thursday. Only 28 of the base s 72 fighters were classed As fully Mission capable before an operation readiness inspection Oki last week the newspaper quoted informed sources As saying. And. The sources said the representatives of tac s inspector general s of fico decided Many of those 2h should not leave the ground. It Init Security restrictions the sources declined to say How Many planes were deemed not airworthy by inspectors the newspaper said. A spokesman for  s 1st tac lighter Wing confirmed the base had such an inspection last week but declined to Dis cuss its results. The Oki. Held at least every two years is French astronauts picked Paris a two French test pilots were selected As astronauts for a i9h2 flight aboard an orbiting soviet space station the National Center Lor space studies announced. The major air Force test of a unit s Readi Ness. The Federal Freedom of information act exempts the results of inspections like the Oki from Public release. The faults found in the 28 combat ready i-15s ranged from cracks in stabilizers to fuel tanks not bolted lightly enough source said. A recent defense department study indicated the readiness rate for 1 Angley s 72 i 15s is substantially lower than the average for the too plan 1-15 Fleet. Overall about 56 percent of the air i orc s i -1 5s Are fully Mission capable at Given time the study said. Emerging foot Loose Economy that was continuing to open jobs in de concentrated suburban and exurban  Between 1970 and 1978." he said metropolitan areas suffered 3 net loss in manufacturing jobs while non metropolitan areas experienced an increase of 669,000 manufacturing jobs. Hut. As in the Case with the South manufacturing growth accounts for Only a Small portion of the nun metro polatian employment growth. An additional .1.452,000 service sector jobs emerged in the non metropolitan counties Between 1970 and 1978. Kasarda said that the dispersal of jobs was Likely to continue because changes in communications and transportation combined with the lower costs of office space and other facilities in outlying areas had removed most of the advantages of concentrated Industry administrative and service establishments. A National Urban policy must clearly recognize that the Era of massive centralized industrialization is Over and that Large dense concentrations of people and firms have become technologically obsolete he said. Cities it was agreed will continue to have important roles As centers of finance management entertainment and tourism. And some Hope was held out for the future of Middle class residential areas in the Cen trial cities in part because there arc now More working women and childless couples than in the past who Are attracted to the cities. But the trend toward  a term Given to the movement of affluent peo ple Back to the cities has been Given More importance than it deserves some of the panellists said. The numbers involved re main comparatively Small and Over All the residential areas and personal income Levels in the Large Central cities arc continuing to deteriorate. And there were predictions that the poor and the elderly who make up a substantial portion of Central City populations would be further isolated. It was predicted that racial tensions would be exacerbated As a result of continued settlement of poor immigrants in the Central cities. However George Sternlieb director of the Rutgers University Center for Urban policy research said that in some respects immigrants were helping to renew old cities by refurbishing tenements and opening new businesses. He summed up the predictions As a straight line extrapolation of what happened in the 70s migration of the Middle class to outlying areas and growing poverty in the Central cities. Mideast opium crop tops Golden Triangle Islamabad Pakistan a opium production in Iran Afghanistan and Paki Stan has gone up vastly and now is five times the amount produced in the Golden Triangle of Southeast Asia Cathca Folca . Assistant Secretary of slate for International narcotics control said. She said opium production in Pakistan Afghanistan and Iran now totals 1,500 tons a year. Pakistan which grew an estimated 700 tons in 1979, now produces a smaller amount she said. Prices for opium have declined and alternative crops arc More valuable she said. Afghanistan which usually grows about to to .150 tons of opium a year has seen part of its crop destroyed in the fighting there she said. Signals show Russ a test Washington