European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 6, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 18 the stars and stripes May 1985 columns comments How Many dead cars a broadcaster by Artruc Tiwald the move by Ted Turner to take Over the lbs company Lias unleashed a series of other attempts by entrepreneurs to go after communications a week ago who owns an pm radio station in announced he was declaring War on the multimillion Dollar starfish broadcasting at a press conference in new said he always desired to own a net and lie Felt he could do a much better Job than starfish in serving the although he refused to say How he would manage the he did vow to fire the entire news staff and replace them with american who be Lieve in Iod and Jesse asked How much Cash he was willing to put up for starfish Raider said he was offering something better than 1 will Swap one share of Raider communications Slock for one share of starfish when it was pointed out that starfish was Worth billion dollars and the sole Raider pm Sta Tion was Only Worth i might sweeten the pot by throwing in a dead cat with each junk asked where he would get the Money to pay for the dead Raider said once he got control he would sell off the starfish publishing the starfish record division and the starfish motion picture Stu while All these companies make i will not Saddle starfish with More debt than it can Han a Wall Street journal reporter asked Raider if it want True that the Only reason starfish would be in such heavy debt was because of his hostile takeover told the reporter if he didst retract the ques Tion Raider communications would buy the journal As a year ago Raider would have been laughed at for trying pull off such a but with the recent mergers in which takeover Barons have been getting Rich by High flying no one on Wall Street is laughing at anybody an analyst for Strong and the brokerage Raider has a Good Chance of taking Over the dead cat strategy has been used very successfully in a lot of merger deals this As Long As there Are people out there who would rather have a dead cat than a live is a Belton who follows the entertainment Busi Ness for Goose and thought starfish could fight off he it wont be the big boys who invest for the institutions dont care what happens to starfish As Long As they make Money out of if they can get in and out of the Stock before the company goes belly they  care if the Ayatollah Khomeini takes Over the Dalton chairman of starfish told Louis Rukeyser on pcs that he didst mind raid ers attempt to take starfish As much As he did having to put on his network news every c 1985 los Angeles times Syndicate weapons race spiral decreases Security by Andrew Glass Star Vladimir the soviet major general who Heads the cosmonaut training says he Doest know How much is being spent in the soviet Union these Days on manned space unlike what goes on at the general insists that there Are no military sides to the soviet manned space program its just that the figures Arent Avail Able to Back in Konstanin a High ranking member of the soviet general says he also lacks any data on How much the soviets spend on their space annual outlays for defense Are published each that Mikhailov amounts to 19 billion it has been rising at a steady rate of 2 percent a year since at that even at the highly inflated official Exchange the entire soviet military budget would come to about using a More realistic Ruble value three to a Dollar would slash the official soviet defense spending figure to about billion a that is a ridiculous sum compared to the annual Pentagon which is on the order of Bil it is even More fanciful for the fact that the soviets have some million men under arms against 2 million in the United states and that they enjoy what they Call rough parity in nuclear when specific questions about spending or other matters arc raised at this space training Center near one gets vague even at the hosts Point out that the visitor is Well ahead of the game none of the two dozen american correspondents based in Moscow has been allowed to visit this place in the past three let alone permitted to interview its the traditional soviet stress on secrecy proves ultimately it effectively permits Pentagon Hawks no slouches themselves when it comes to invoking secrecy to sketch a plausible scenario on soviet military might and its goals that ends up serving As the basis for american military spending plans Well into the but both Shatalow and Mikhailov proved most forthcoming on this critical matter they firmly believe the nuclear arms program is designed to launch a preemptive first strike against the soviet the they operate under a use it or lose it targeting what they dont say is that similar contingency studies Are under Way in the soviet while the official word from Mikhailov is that the general staff still adheres to a launch under attack the impending installation of first strike weapons in the such As the my and the sea based d5 Trident is known to be pushing the soviets toward a launch on warning one that relies More on and less on to push the nuclear the soviets object strenuously to the american Star wars research program because they see the real Utility of these lasers to deflect a ragged Retalia tory response after an initial first some recent soviet military papers closely current american strategic thought by emphasizing the benefits to be gained from a Large scale preemptive attack that would include the destruction of vulnerable nuclear command and control including the Pentagon and the White the soviets have begun work on their own Star wars defences of have similar offensive these Nasty parallels suggest that the underlying Security of both sides May Tumble As each Side acquires bigger and better weapons if americans could be sure that the russians could destroy Only part of their icbms Force with any one fallout blow and the other Way around then the danger of having to use these weapons or facing the risk of losing them forever would that is the kind of arms control Deal that would make c 1985 new York times Syndicate doonesbury did not arrive in time for this edition today crossword by Eugene Sheffer across 1 earthy Deposit 5 Viper 8 metric measure 12 two toed sloth 13 turmeric 14 Western City 15 Carol 16 aardvark 18 Bury 20 landed property 21 ooze 23 Pewter component 24 greater or 42 closed securely 45 lounged idly 49 Swift animal 51 Small Valley 52 privy to 53 Follower 54 like Hyde 55 Small Wagon 56 print units 57 actress Patricia Down 1 Ponder 2 prolific 3 rave 4 actor Bela 5 girls name Denizen 7 liver paste 8 Dei 9 snarl again 10 Dill Plant 28 Taj mahal site 31 female Rabbit 32 wild plums 34 Shrop Shire boy 35 formerly 37 they Aid antibody production 39 Childs game 41 French town time 25 iaititihie1cioinitirioilis hs3 msm3 bib 56 to saturdays Puzzle 11 Childs dessert request 17 Winter time 19 Brooks and Blanc 22 unskilled labourers 24 summer refresher 25 and not 26 one making a will 27 colonizers 29 operated 30 paid notices 33 farm building 36 ability Pond 40 jell like stuff 42 levantine Ketch 43 City in Sicily 44 cupola 46 Wash 47 Kazan 48 Farmers Bailiwick 50 god of flocks 12 15 is 321 24 31 35 42 52 55 25 43 26 39 36 19 32 40 13 16 37 22 41 20 27 45 17 23 33 14 28 38 51 54 57 10 11 29 30 34 46 47 48 56 Hubert but Hes to he aaake5 a Aai Luon Gran Wother of Var than that and she9 on social