European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 16, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                April 1985 the stars and stripes Page 5 Star wars reality far from a sure bet Asior ability key word in its development Washington a their stake could reach but the managers of president reagans search for Star wars defense technologies Are facing a problem familiar to every poker player bet Ting before All the cards Are affordability is becoming a key word in the Effort to create a strategic according to air Force James who Heads the Star wars needs revolutionary Contesti mating methods just As much As it needs High tech Given the staggering costs of developing the managers have to predict far in Advance which research projects would Lead to reasonably priced weapons and which ones might soak up too much we have to have affordable Abrahamson who on monday observed the first anniversary of his takeover As director of reagans strategic defensive initiative made the remarks last week in a Progress report to the american Institute of aeronautics and while it was a year of incredible technical Abrahamson the first 12 months had shown that major difficulties still bar the Way to reagans goal of a predominantly defense against soviet ballistic most of the breakthroughs and difficulties he identified were in scientific realms like laser and computer technology and space transportation the components of a Star wars under such a soviet missiles new soviet icbms Range deployment 1 warhead each Range of Lune graphic source soviet military Power 1985 would be identified by advanced tracked by computers and attacked by laser or other advanced spacer land based the billion earmarked for the pro Gram through mid1990 would pay solely for research and a decision would then be made whether to spend even More billions to develop the a major criticism of Star wars is that the Cost of a strategic defense would be so High the soviets would merely have to build enough relatively cheaper offensive missiles and de coys to override the physicist Richard a longtime government weapons consultant and an out spoken opponent of Star has asserted the program is unworkable because the Cost of a single soviet missile is one fourth the Cost of the weaponry needed to shoot it even Paul a senior administration arms adviser who supports the Initia has said failure to solve the Cost prob Lem could kill the Abrahamson saying we have got to prove this is a Cost imposing its got to be cheaper for us to increase the defense than for them to increase the num Ber of the dilemma for the economists and scientists is to figure out How much the sys tems might Cost to even before the researchers have discovered the tech nolo he not Only must they have an Overall idea of the programs managers must have the information along the Way to know which individual projects to halt because they might Lead to Overly costly Abrahamson said it was the most difficult Cost estimating problem Ever faced by the de sense department and urged Industry representatives with research contracts to devise innovative economic strategies As a symposium to Pool the Cost ideas will be held in he in the Abrahamson is Grap pling with a Short term financial Congress Cut the current fiscal years Star wars budget from the billion proposed by Reagan to and a Senate committee has voted to slash his fiscal 1986 request from billion to in congressional testimony last Abrahamson asserted that any cuts will cause a Domino in which a forced delay in one piece of minor research would Lead to delay m the program it fits multiply this by nearly a Hundredfold and one begins to get an idea of the Complex inter relationships that intertwine throughout the Abrahamson to meet another major difficulty identified by current plans for the coming fiscal year Call for spending of billion the largest single item re search on this will give High priority to what Abra Hamson called one of the hardest con trying to discriminate Between no Clear tipped warheads and the thousands of decoys the soviets might launch in an at he was supposed to be in my custody jai7 Warden criminal freed on technicality Pittsburgh up it was a Case of Allegheny county jail Warden Charles Kozakiewicz taking the Law into his own after confessed shoplifter Lester Shelton was freed on a technicality the delivery of a sentencing order was delayed after he pleaded guilty Kozakiewicz figured there was Only one Way to bring him Back to the Warden rounded up a Deputy and an tracked Shelton to three Rivers stadium Friday and made a peaceful citizens i dont know if 1 have authority to arrest him or Kozakiewicz i Call it a citizens another Way of looking at it is that he was supposed to be in my so i made sure that he Kozakiewicz said his Crew was we were talking among ourselves about what to do if we had to take him in a crowded downtown he it had to be we didst want an Inci the Warden said they finally found Shel ton leaning on a car near Gate a of the he was surprised to see but he offered no Kozakiewicz we explained about the mistake that set him handcuffed him quickly and brought him there was no problem or danger to the police say has a seven year record of Petty including seven retail the mix up Over his release came after his trial when deputies re turned him from court without a copy of his sentencing he was being taken to the county jail for Transfer to the state correctional institution at Greensburg to serve six to 23 a probation a document that was not valid once Shelton was arrived at the jail before the sentencing so Shelton was Shelton was arrested 15 for stealing four shirts and released the same Day under District judge Maurice Cohill s order to limit inmate population to he was arrested again two weeks ago for missing a scheduled court appearance and for simple those charges were and the probation detainer was issued to keep him in jail until the 15 retail theft charge could be on thursday a judge accepted Shelton guilty plea for shoplifting and lifted the probation detain Shelton was ordered Back to jail but when the clerk discovered the probation de Tainer and no sentencing Shelton was set agriculture departments research to find a safe7 cigarette is criticized Washington not the department of agriculture is spending million a year on research to develop Tobac co for a Safe an Effort criticized As improper by antismoking advocates in the administration and but de fended by i think its a waste of said Henry they cant develop a Safe who has won passage in con press of Bills aimed at discouraging smok was supported in his View by Donald acting director of the office on smoking and health in the department of health and human Shopland said he did not know Why one part of the the department of was financing research in an area that another the department of health and human says is if people Are going to whats wrong with research to provide a Safe cigarette asked Michael assistant to or Ville the assistant Secretary of agriculture for science and the tobacco Industry maintains that no scientific connection has been established linking cigarette smoking to illness and asked about the Federal research and re ports that his company was doing similar research on a Safe David fish a spokesman for Reynolds tobacco a major cigarette said i dont know anything about we dont know of anything that makes a cigarette so How could we be working toward a safer cigarette surgeon general Everett cop has called cigarette smoking the largest single preventable cause of death in the United asserting that americans die each year from heart disease and respiratory illnesses caused by cigarette the agriculture department research is being conducted at the departments laboratories in in and and at the University of Ken Tucky in Hoback said the research had been going on for at least the last 10 one of the Beltsville Lynn an analytical chem explained that the work consists of both crossbreeding of tobacco plants and mod Ern Gene splicing techniques to try to develop tobacco free from harmful com Kosa Channing is one of Many re searchers on the Campus like Beltsville re search just outside and the tobacco project is just one Small part of the work germ plasm a fancy word for Kosa Channing said is grown in the Laboratory and in a Walkin chamber maintained at the optimum Sands of time in the stars and stripes 40 years ago today april 1945 despite the loss of prisoners to Allied armies in the first two weeks of German resistance stiffened sufficiently to slow the forces lunging into the heart of the Reich toward Berlin and a linkup with soviet 30 years ago april 1955 the soviet Union agreed to pull its occupation troops out of Austria not later than the end of 1955 if a state treaty for Austria ending the 10year occupation was signed by the big four before 20 years ago today april 1965 the flooding missis Sippi River engulfed new areas in Minnesota and the rising Waters had already forced the evacuation of More than 70 years ago today april 1975 president Ford took a Strong stand in favor of the equal rights amendment during an address to the National commission on the Observance of International women