European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 25, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes May 1985 Faa cracks Down on jamming Washington up Federal aviation adminis Trator Donald Engen has threatened Legal action against those responsible for jamming radio transmissions Between air controllers and officials apparently triggered by the United airline pilots the jamming incidents Are a potential for a serious breach of said Jack acting director of the Faas air traffic the incidents have been in creasing since the air line pilots association struck United airlines on May Ryan in a recorded Telephone message to Faa employees heard Ryan quoted from a Telegram from Engen to Alpa president Henry Duffy and United presi Dent Richard Engels Telegram said criminal sanctions would be imposed and action taken against the operating licenses of pilots and other airlines if the Jam mers Are Duffy has assured Engen that the pilots association has does not and will not endorse or condone interference with radio Union spokeswoman Julia Graves said Graves said Duffy has asked no striking pilots and air traffic controllers for information to prevent or halt the jamming of radio United spokesman Chuck Novak called the jamming in which the Faa suspects individuals from other airlines or people on the ground sympathetic to the strike a harassment program and not a safety Faa spokeswoman Joann Sloane said 22 incidents of transmission jamming were reported Between May 17 and most near Denver and the jamming typically occur when a no striking United Pilot is confirming changes in Altitude or direction radioed to the plane by Sloane said no jamming has caused any danger to Crews or Ryan said in the Telephone message that the jamming Are not Only but they present the potential for a serious breach of we have already experienced the repeated blockages of several United clearance read backs the verification by pilots of controllers air traffic orders Ryan if an Altitude or heading Are misunderstood As the result of action of this the possibility for a serious incident is quite he Ryan said Engels Telegram warned the Faa will move swiftly with the full Force of including criminal sanctions could apply to holders of operating airline certificates As Well As Pilot certify malicious interference on radio frequencies can have direct Impact on the safety of the travelling eng ens message essay winning pupils receive Long awaited Call from Reagan Montgomery a after months of two eight graders who won a National essay and illustration contest finally received their prize a Telephone Call from president reagans voice was carried live to classrooms thursday Over the Public address system of Montgomery High school As he discussed nuclear disarmament with Donna Woodwell and Kate the moment the president began to speak everything was said school superintendent Malcolm it was interesting to see the Power of the presidents we think the threat of nuclear War is one of the big Gest problems that faces our world Woodwell told Reagan during the six minute talk that began at if you dont do something about theres not going to be a world to have a problem the contest was sponsored by current a weekly newspaper distributed to secondary schools the a division of Xerox asked students to submit an essay and an illustration on the subject that should be the highest priority for Reagan in his second the contest organizers declared a ickers essay and the illustration by both on nuclear to be the winners in by the two girls were expressing disappointment that they had not heard from the Irwin sick clean of weekly Reader secondary periodicals said that the first prize Winner was promised a phone Call from the president or a member of his but that the exact Date would be up to the presidents scheduling and weekly Reader officials said in March they were embarrassed by the delay and were negotiating with the White when the Call came Reagan began by congratulating the being Able to communicate your opinions and whether you do it through writing or is an important skill and something we need More of in the world of he told both girls said White House officials requested that they not ask the president any questions during the phone which lasted much longer than when Woodwell did ask about nuclear Reagan said let me assure we Are trying to do something about i agree with you it is a such As the world has never faced and i have made a number of statements in speaking to the foreign govern ments and to their i have told them in my a nuclear War cannot be and it certainly should never be Woodwell then urged the president to keep negotiate and he were going to keep after Nancy Weiss the social science teacher who told her pupils about the asked the president at what Point a nuclear Arsenal would be considered Reagan said the United states tries not to be equal or even but simply to have enough nuclear he then referred to the arms buildup in the soviet Union and we have to continue to modernize ours weapons and at least keep a sufficient deterrent to pre vent that from starting what we Call a first strike against graduation visit a photo King Hussein of Jordan Center is flanked by guards and greeters As he enters a limousine at the Airport in North the King visited Rhode Island to be present when his Prince graduates from Brown University in crash injures 2 frying Fotty copter from to Europe Corpus Texas up two men attempting the first roundtrip helicopter flight from North America to Europe escaped serious but their helicopter was destroyed in a crash near a radio station reported station which monitored the flight of Corpus Christi residents Billy and Dennis said the suffered a split and the flight Engineer and a Back in jury in the thursday the pair left Corpus Christi May 15 with Hopes of arriving at the Paris air show by May but Pugh said thursday night the flight was and the helicopter was sold to a Salvage Friday the two men were undergoing x rays at Goose to determine if they suffered any More i doubt if anybody else Ever walked away from a helicopter crash As bad As Pugh Pugh said that he had tried to make a 650mile journey across water from Canada to Greenland on but that an ice storm forced him to turn around a third of the Way on bad weather forced cancel lation of the Greenland and Pugh and Cline were practising Landing on ice when Pugh said he misjudged an ice plunging one of the copters skids into and flipping the Craft onto its the Pilot said he walked about four Miles toward Hopedale before meeting a dog which transported him into where authorities dispatched ski mobiles to pick up the injured so called hit fist of 11 doomed posts Pentagon still May get new authority to close bases Washington a the by the narrowest of has kept alive a proposal which would give the Pentagon wide new authority to close military bases that it deems that part of a pending defense authorization survived two attempts to kill it had those attempts been it would have meant the continuation of if not of the current Maze of Laws and restrictions that have stalled major base closing proposals for nearly a Dale on his Amend ment that would have stripped the new authority from the then Jeff lost on a 4848 tie when he tried to retain but not of the Bingaman and bumpers have Home state bases on the so called hit list of 22 bases the Pentagon has offered As examples of facilities which could be Phil the chief Backer of the Broad new Power for the urged his colleagues to vote against Standard pork barrel lets end business As weve got an Opportunity Here to find out who is and who is not for real Economy in the operation of the he but the Issue is not yet Over because the eased restrictions Are not part of a similar Pentagon Bill which is Pend ing in the Democrat controlled in Irish prisons Dublin a Ireland prison population has risen to almost the highest in its the Justice department it also said Ireland has prison giving it the highest staff prisoner ratio in Western