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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Wednesday, February 11, 1981

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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 11, 1981, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 army working on super gun he  Harry fair chief of pro it new York might some Day theoretically aulsion technology at the Pic tinny arse he Ilc to hit a target in los Angeles faster said san he could let has Finger off the i be said the rail gun also can be used to the experimental electromagnetic launch flights of aircraft and create Ultra rese Ircha s say they have a Long Way to unknown is being used by the Japa to on the we Pon which could revolutionize nest to construct a train that supported certain aspects of but they also say on an electromagnetic Field and travels on a the Erin Cilc behind the rail gun has even Cushion of mores Ial of uses in transport the gun at unlike an explosive s ions spa i us rail gun developed in Ca 1 forma operates right now the rail gun technology can by passing a powerful electrical current already contribute greatly to the solution of through two Copper rails to create a mag repeat sigh of Doit and shopping Center bookstores noetic a projectile Between the rails is driven Forward by the magnetic Field that thrust the projectile at the Speed of fair the rail gun has already fired a projectile at More than feet per which is about four times faster than a Bullet fired from the army Best fair fair said problems must be worked out on the which originated with experiments by norwegian scientists in and was considerably advanced by German technicians during world War but much Progress has been made since the modern rail gun was built in the mid 1970s by scientist Dick Marshall at the australian National he Marshall was trying to use his device to achieve Impact fusion for use in Power Plant advances in launcher technology also came from two other Henry Kolm of the Massachusetts Institute of technology and Jerry Oneill of Princeton scientists Are still working on reducing the size of the enormous Power Supply needed to operate the use of the rail gun As a hand weapon does not seem fair the easiest thing for us to do would be to build a competitor to the space shuttle and then work Down to smaller fair so it might be a Long time be fore we get to the soviet Union is working on a similar he Cleveland educator Dies Cleveland a Barclay Lea a noted drama educator and retired chairman of the drama department at Case Western Reserve has died at the age of Toyota pact Ford official says los Angeles a a Ford motor official says the 2 automaker is optimistic that an agreement will be reached with Toyota motor to jointly build a car in one of Fords and Ford president Donald Petersen said separately that the company would be willing to consider a profit sharing plan with the United Auto workers in return for the Type of wage concessions Chrysler recently won from the Ford and Toyota Are negotiating to build a car at a single Ford Plant and sell it through both Ford and Toyota dealers in the United said Harold Fords executive vice president in charge of North american no details Given speaking to reporters at a Ford break fast Here monday during the National automobile dealers association Poling said the companies had not deter mined How to Divide the production of some vehicles a he declined to discuss Many specifics of the proposed Ford and Japan s largest Auto have been negotiating Over the past year Over such a which would give Toyota Access to Assembly facilities and provide jobs for Ford workers who have been Laid off recently because of de pressed car Toyota Only manufacturing facility is in Long where it produces truck Beds for its pickup instead of building an Assembly Plant in the United Toyota has pursued talks with Ford in Hopes of saving time and Money in getting the proposed car on the it has not been decided which Toyota designed car will be built in a Ford nor has the Plant been to train potential pos Marine corps building mock prisoner Camp Wood was convicted of collaborating with the enemy while in a Vietnam prison Are building a mock pow Camp to train the Complete with barbed interrogators and prison will feature an intensive five Day training program that May also provide practice for Marine inter the news and observer of Raleigh the program is the Only one of its kind in the Marine corps and one of three in the officials it is scheduled to begin next the training course comes As psychiatrists and others Here debate the proper behaviour of military the debate intensified during the trial of Gar convicted last week of collaborating with the Viet Cong during two of the 14 years he spent As a prisoner of his attorneys contended his treatment in the Camp had pushed him into Marine officials said Gar Woods Case had nothing to do with the training they said the Camp was built at the request of David 2nd Marine division col Orl e Mundy chief of Intelli gence activities for the said the Camp is an Extension of the Eva resistance and escape which trains men to live in the on a manote area t of base it House about 150 Ana Munday former pos probably will serve As advis the Camp will focus on Cal torture soldiers May suffer in Captivity teaching said maj u gence operations officer for the 2nd Marine of a today classroom instruction period and a three Day application of classroom with enlisted men and officers receiving the same but the emphasis will be on infantry units Likely to be on those Are the frontline mostly those you would expect to be Mundy the mock captors will teach marines about the various ways to break Down a prisoners will to he those in clude false information and deprivation of food and but physical abuse is not in store for the he because experience has shown that anyone can crack under the Point we Are not out to try Ano break a Mundy former pos testified at Gar Woods court martial that nearly All of them had cooperated to some extent under torture and  
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