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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 17, 1980, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes wednesday september 17, 1980. .1 pen soon save new Wear missile be Del Oye to Europe in weapon will eventually defense Washington a the Pentagon ordered work to Start on a sophisticated new anti aircraft missile system with a potential Cost of $4.2 billion if it pans out. T no new Patriot ground to air system would replace the Nike Hercules system which is a defense against High Altitude planes and part of the Hawk system defense ultimately the Patriot system is to redeployed in Europe the Pentagon said. The Patriot is designed to engage and destroy the bomber and fighter aircraft threat through the 1990s," and has the potential of jiving the  an unequalled level of air defense capability the announcement said. Measures and in All weather conditions. Oon said the Cost of the limited production a r negotiation with talks Likely to against medium and Low flying aircraft if the system can destroy a number of the planes simultaneously Ana Cit passes Musler in a series of tests defense department said. Over a wide Range of altitudes Maneu vers and counter auction of 23 unit by the fall of 1982.at that time the Pentagon Taid the Secretary of defense will have w decide whether to go toward full scale production of 103 units armed with a total of 4,273 missiles. The estimated Cost of full kale production was put at s4.2 billion. But the Penta refugees say e. German experts help soviets build afghan secret police net Frankfurt up East German specialists arc helping soviet Kab agents build a new secret police network in Afghanistan afghan refugees said tuesday. A defected Pilot of the National Anana afghan airline Habibullah Balkhi also told the Bild newspaper that East German Mili tary advisers had been flown into Afghani Stan along with a contingent of 400 tanks from Russia s East european ally. "1 have information that 400 tanks were flown in from East Germany two and a half months ago wild quoted Balkhi As saying. Some East German troops have been seen. Too. Rockies get Snow East German officers and the soviet Kab arc building a new Strong secret police network starting in Kabul he said. Balkhi who fled to the West with some 250 other employees of the Ariana airline in a mass escape that grounded the Carrier s main dc-10 Fleet and left it with Only 22 qualified flying Crew members arrived in Frankfurt Friday. He refused to Pilot a regular flight Back to Kabul sunday and revealed at a news conference the elaborate defection scheme of the Crews ground personnel and administrators started last May. The Pilot whose words were backed by head disrupts new Orleans schools by United press International temperatures plunged and Snow fell in the Northern Rockies with temperature dropping to the 30s in the Northern Plains and Cool air spreading across the upper Midwest into the Mississippi Valley. But while Montana residents reached extradition planned for  suspects Chicago up a is. Magistrate monday dismissed charges of conspiracy against two reputed mobsters in a s3.6 Mil lion London jewel theft Clearing the Way for their extradition to England. Magistrate Olga Jurco ordered the suspects Joseph Jerry Scalise and Arthur the Genius Rachel held without Bond pending  authorities said arrest warrants have been issued in London charging the two with stealing 12 rings and two Pend ants including the 45-Carat Marlborough Diamond from grafts jewellers in London Knight abridge Section. Scalise and Rachel were arrested at o Hare International Airport late thursday after a flight from London. London authorities traced the suspects after a witness to the robbery saw the two men switch cars. The witness wrote Down the License number of the second car which Rachel had rented using his passport and one of his credit cards for identification. Police said Scalise and Rachel left Lon Don s Heathrow Airport just three hours after the Holdup. Mail stops have been imposed on More than two dozen close associates of the suspects in Hopes of intercepting the 20 pieces of missing jewelry police and postal authorities said. Investigators believe Scalise and Rachel passed the jewels to an accomplice before leaving England. For their overcoats students in new or leans were preparing to go to school a hour Early in accordance with a school schedule revised to Cope with record heat. New Orleans Kenner and Shreveport hit record highs monday for the second consecutive Day prompting 150 students at new Orleans Booker t. Washington High school to walk out of their class rooms in protest. The students said it was too hot to concentrate. A Reading of 103 in Shreveport was 5 degrees above the old record set in 1954. New Orleans set a record of 97, Topping the old Mark of 95 set in 1933. New or leans International Airport at pc incr reached 96 degrees 3 degrees above the record set in 1953. Orleans Parish Public school authorities overseeing a school system with Little air conditioning and hoping to avoid a re Currence of monday s walkout revised class schedules so students can avoid the Cuba warns hijackers they will be punished Miami a the cuban govern ment said tuesday that anybody who hijacks a plane to Havana will be punished or returned to the United Stales and an Fri spokesman said the statement might help deter the current wave of hijackings. Noting that nine . Planes have been hijacked to Cuba since aug. 10, and that most were blamed on homesick refugees the communist party newspaper grandma said the cuban government is concerned with the possibility that passengers on the us. Planes could be come innocent victims of the hijackings. The newspaper said the earlier Hijack ers were jailed but that it wished to ensure that potential new hijackers would have no doubts about their fates. Although the authors of these hijackings were immediately arrested and arc in prison these incidents have continued to occur. The government has decided to categorically warn through grandma that. The cuban authorities will adopt drastic penal punishments. Or will return the hijackers to the United Stales for judgment in that coun try the editorial said. The Fri s Welton merry said tues Day that if that were True Cuba j Tough stand should serve As a deterrent for refugees hoping to go Home. We would Hope that the nationwide news could Knock the problem in the head a bit he said. He and the Martin Marietta aerospace corp.1 Orlando division in Orlando fla., u tha principal subcontractor. Reliability pc Ormanec tests Are to be completed in a year and a follow up evaluation by september 1982. Hottest part of the  superintendent Charles e. Mar tin ordered All new Orleans Public schools except Abramson High to open one hour Early and close two hours Early for the rest of the week so students will not be in school during the hottest part of the Day. The summer of 1980 will go Down in the record books As the hottest experienced in the new Orleans area since written weather records began in the 1870s," said Wayne p. Colin of the National weather service. In the Northern Rockies temperatures Early tuesday dipped into the 30s and Snow fell in the higher elevations. The Cool air pushed a banal of thunderstorms from Northeast Oklahoma through Missouri and up into Wisconsin. A few showers fell in the Dakotas Nebraska and Northeast col Orado. The thunderstorms brought Golf Ball sized Hail to Mexico mo., about 30 Miles Northeast of Columbia. Statements from other defected Ariana Crew members said troops and instructors from Cuba South Yemen and Vietnam Are Aid ing the soviets fight anti government re  Germany has sent groups of military advisers to several other trouble spots in the world especially Africa. Western Intelli gence experts say that a sizable East Ger Man contingent is stationed in Angola and that East German advisers Are modernizing the army in  German officials acknowledge the presence of its military experts abroad but say their work is development Aid. Civilian Rule is promised for Turkey Ankara Turkey a Turkey i military chief said tuesday his ruling National Security Council will appoint a new civilian Cabinet this week and that a constituent Assembly for drafting a new constr. Tulion will be named As soon As possible. The old Constitution was dissolved follow ing Friday s coup As were parliament and All political parties. Speaking at a news conference. Ceo. Kenan Evren told reporters he wanted hit soldiers out of government As quickly As possible. But he said the military has no plans to give up Power until it u assured that a civilian apparatus will be Able to manage the problems that prompted the coup political terrorism and a failing Economy in this vital member of nato. A democratic social Legal order that is responsible effective respectful of the rights of the citizen and capable of functioning will be established. The arrange ments to this effect will be worked out in a Short time in stages Evron said. Schmidt coalition beads opposition Hamburg a the coalition government of West German Chancellor Hel Mut Schmidt was almost 8 percent ahead of the opposition Christian democrats and their bavarian allies gov. Franz Josef Strauss Christian social Union in a Public opinion poll published tuesday. With general elections scheduled for oct. 5, the Allensbach Public opinion Institute asked 1,900 eligible voters on behalf of the Hamburg based weekly Magazine Stern whom they would vote for if the general elections were held next sunday. Schmidt s social democrats gained 45.1 percent of the poll his coalition partner the free democrats of Hans Dietrich Genscher 7.7 percent for a total 52.8, and 45 per cent of those asked opted for the Union Par ties. R temperatures l s3 w 51 73 15 49 45a 45 57 54 57 75a 57a in so 56 54 m n 41 7 u 70 h 15 u 51 Unna h 75 44 44 14 h 19 44 a n Nuna 94 71 is 90 Albany  atlant Atlantic City    Buni Nelon it Toston 1cchutoik  Coral amid a   Houston a Duon in  Unis la Ltd Rock la a 71 71 54a 44n 74 7354 u 5� 54 41 57 a w 77 57 41 57 71 55 55 u 71a h 77 79 15 15 7j u 71 h 97 94 7477 49 47 79 h 7tn 15 75 74 90rs u 95 14 91 is Anol a  Miami Bach Mph is. Paul Nai vim new York  oui Anvi ally Phu Mahl  a Oral and. Me Pix.  Haseloh Rino is. Youh us to. 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