European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 17, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                June 1985 the stars and stripes Page 7 Ems Force Steep Cost increase in air Force missile Washington not technical problems with the air forces new ant sat elite weapon have caused a Steep Rise in its Cost and delays in its according to a Pentagon in testimony before the Senate military appropriations subcommittee last Edward undersecretary of the air said the million requested for the 1986 fiscal which was to pay for three of the would now cover the Purchase of Only Aldridge also told the subcommittee that the third flight test of the ant satellite or has been delayed until the test was scheduled for late last while not a direct part of president Rea Gans plan to develop a space based missile the ant satellite program is closely related in both technology and military problems in proving the performance of asat which Are de signed to destroy missiles by Impact rather than could undermine Confidence in developing More advanced projectiles for destroying nuclear there trying to do the same thing with asat As  have to do in Star said John associate director for space policy studies at the federation of american who has been a frequent critic of reagans space based antimissile widely known As Star said that the air Force has had trouble recently in devel Oping new types of self steered mis including the heat seeking asat and the radar guided advanced medium Range Airt air the generic problem has been to make it Pike adding that weapons for reagans antimissile program would have to be far smaller than even the asat is a two stage rocket about 15 feet Long that is carried by an f15 War it is intended to be fired at an Alti tude above feet and is supposed to ascend directly toward its target in Low orbit around the the asat is equipped with a Complex guidance Only a foot Long and weighing about five consisting of eight infrared telescopes and 56 Small steer ing rockets coordinated by the guidance system theoretically enables the missile to Home in on the faint heat emitted by a satellite against the cold background of the satellite would be destroyed on direct rather than by an explosive according to government officials who spoke this week on condition they not be the air Force has had persistent problems with the missiles steering these sources said the rockets solid fuel had in some instances not burned causing individual thrusters to the fuel has also cracked because of cold temperatures and other environmental a spokesman at the Ltd aerospace and defense the prime contractor for the missile declined to comment wednesday on any technical tests to verify that the f15 could carry the missile began in december in january 1984 the first launching of the from an f15 was followed last november by a second but since neither of these tests was against a target in the tracking system has yet to be one of the primary objectives of the Rea Gan administrations space defense program is to develop Small perhaps Simi Lar to rocket propelled artillery that would carry their own tiny guidance Mech according to one such projectiles might be launched by powerful magnetic Fields instead of chemical finding their Way at extremely High Speed toward an enemy nuclear but such weapons currently exist Only in primitive with the asat perhaps the most advanced Effort to Reagan Calls on soviets to end Sakharov exile Washington a president Reagan on wednesday called upon the so Viet Union to end the exile of Andrei Sakharov and urged americans to remember the Many thousands of his countrymen who likewise suffer the denial of Basic human in a statement recalling that two years ago he signed a proclamation designating May 21 As National Andrei Sakharov the president today the human rights situation in the soviet Union remains a physicist and human rights has been exiled from Moscow to the provincial City of he has been seeking permission for his Yelena to leave the soviet Union for medi Cal in exiling Sakharov the soviet government has attempted to silence and remove him from International but their efforts will ultimately Rea Gan today we renew our Call to the new soviet leadership to end the isolation of Sakharov and his wife and to permit Yelena Bonner to travel abroad for needed medical he in recognizing the courage and ideals that Sakharov let us also re member the Many thousands of his country men who likewise suffer the denial of Basic human a photo teacher Bob Shea cracks a cinder Block on the Chest of a student on bed of teacher hammers Home his physics messages Chicago a life int always a bed of roses in Bob sheas physics classes at rolling Meadows High sometimes its a bed of Shea believes physics  be Boring and has managed to attract students by featuring unusual and dramatic experiments such As placing students on a bed of nails and cracking cinder blocks on their has also suspended a Bowling Ball on a 25foot rope in the school immersed volunteers in a 55gallon Oil drum filled with water and set up a Maze of mirrors to illustrate the properties of if you can grab them with you can teach them Shea were getting a lot of kids who might not have taken physics at apparently the practice the located in the Northwest Chicago suburb of rolling has eight physics classes while most have Only one or Shea approximately 150 of the 400 seniors have taken which is a Good considering that the subject is Shea a lot of kids think physics is but we make it i want them to be Able to read a newspaper intelligently or see a Rainbow and know Why its Shea Shea has spent 13 of his 14 years As a teacher at rolling Meadows and has taught the physics class for nine his teaching has been so successful that he and two other instructors have been conducting a government funded seminar to teach the techniques to other physics teachers in Chicago the bed of nails demonstration is the most popular with Shea in a Volunteer reclines on a Sheet of plywood studded with the student Doest feel anything because his weight is distributed Shea a cinder Block is placed on the students Chest and Shea hits it with a Sledge the Block just cracks because it has so much he in other objects with a Large mass tend to stay and an item such As a cinder Block will crack instead of crushing Down on the in another students place electrified nails into hot the juices in the hot dog conduct the electricity and Cook Shea Shea submerges students in water to determine weight by using he hangs a Bowling Ball from a 25foot rope to illustrate the properties of a to illustrate that objects of different weights and sizes fall at the same students drop Bowling Golf balls and other objects from the top of the football Field Academy whisker Rule takes it on the Chin Maine up the Maine maritime Academy said wednesday it will not require faculty Mem Bers to shave their ending a five month juror that polarized teachers and spawned a Union rear Sayre Academy superintend said he reversed a 15 school policy which spares faculty members from shaving off their the Admiral wrote a memo prohibiting beards shortly after the Navy banned beards on personnel of All Swarztrauber said he personally had no Bias against Bew whiskered but believed the Academy should follow the Lead of the nations the policy didst sit Well with Many faculty John a physical education filed an Appeal with the school Board of trustees when he was told to choose Between his Beard and his Huckel said he would not pursue the Appeal due to the it probably has polarized faculty and administration to some he it obviously has pushed us closer to unionization than has Ever happened the Maine labor relations Board was petitioned to schedule a Union which is tentatively set for this