European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 24, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The stars and stripes August 1985 problems with antiaircraft gun reported army official says still workable Washington not senior officials in the Pentagon told defense Secre tary Caspar Weinberger thursday that the army York antiaircraft gun continued to have trouble tracking and destroying targets in recent according to a source familiar with the a top official in the army testing program told Weinberger that the army still believes the troubled billion weapon can be made to perform Ade the Secretary met for More than two hours with an army general and top civil Ian officials responsible for test program evaluation and weapons acquisition in a meeting that officials said could determine whether the York gun would survive or be defense department officials declined to discuss the meeting in any they said Weinberger is not expected to announce a decision until next Donald undersecretary of defense for research and said the officials Laid put a Range of options and presented their analyses of the recent test but did not make specific recommend there is almost an infinite number of everything from cancellation to full tilt he another source said the army had drafted four one would scrap the program another Calls for the Purchase of the next 117 weapons out of the 618 it was scheduled to the other two would involve postponing the already two years behind for various de Grees of technical the York also known As for division air consists of two radar aimed guns mounted on a modified tank the gun is designed to defend armoured units from Congress has authorized billion to acquire the first 146 York last year it authorized million for another 117 but said the Pentagon could not acquire them until Weinberger certified that the testing problems had been Cor Louis Wagner Deputy chief of staff for development and presented the army Point of View to the latest tests were ordered last octo Ber after the weapon performed poorly in earlier they included simulated Battles using laser Light As Well As test firings against drone according to congressional the army operational test and evaluation Agency concluded from the tests while the York gun had some difficulty in tracking and shooting Down the problems could be ironed the army said the advantage of the gun is that its radar could track and shoot Down enemy aircraft even at night or in bad it is also supposed to have greater Range and accuracy than existing antiaircraft but one source familiar with the test evaluation said the army combat development experimentation Center at fort prepared a 100page analysis of the most recent conducted in april and that concluded that the new gun performed no better than the two aging antiaircraft weapons it was designed to the Vulcan and the in terms of its ability to acquire track engage multiple targets and survive in the diva comes up a loser in almost every the source one critic of the Denny after viewing tapes of the that the army had tried to give a false impression of Success by blowing up target air planes after shells fired by the York had army officials said the drone aircraft were destroyed because they had strayed out of the safety zone for the the York program has been controversial on other the guns Ford aerospace and communications of Newport was censured by the Pentagon last year for totally unacceptable performance in curbing in the army said it also was investigating whether the company had Vio lated conflict interest rules in hiring four retired army officers who had worked on the some of whom later helped the company prepare for tests of the equipment human error blamed Tor leak at Union carbides Institute Plant news update South a Union Carbide on Friday blamed equipment failure and human error for an 11 leak of Poison Gas at its Plant in the Accident sent 135 people to the company said the Poison Cloud was composed of 650 pounds of methylene chlo a suspected cancer causing and pounds of Aldi carb oxime decomposition by the company meant the Aldi carb broke Down in a storage tank before being the emission was caused by a self us Taining which was initiated by the accidental heating of a reactor vessel used for the company the company acknowledged that workers had thought the temporary storage vessel was As stated previously by air pol Lution control commission director Carl a Carbide investigation showed that about pounds of the mix Ture remained in the Carbide said the chemical mixture had been transferred to the tank Between 1 and 7 after excess Aldi carb oxime was introduced into the reactor where the pesticide ingredient Aldi carb is during that steam accidentally entered a jacket surrounding the How the steam entered was not on an Effort was made to move the remaining mixture Back to the Aldi carb a report on the company investigation pumping was started and continued for a period of approximately hours when a Check indicated the pump was no longer at this the pump was shut Down and it was believed the storage vessel was the report it is now known that approximately pounds of the mixture Carbide said a rupture disk and a safety valve and three gaskets blew out when steam continued to heat the the company also said the Aldi carb oxime decomposed into 21 other chemical the largest concentrations of which were Methyl isopropyl Isoju Aldi carb nitrile and dim Ethyl six Union Carbide workers and 129 Institute residents required treatment after the foul smelling collection of gases leaked from the storage on another Methyl is leaked at the company Plant in and killed at least peo Union which has not explained How that leak faces Bil Lions of dollars in lawsuits because of lost wandered 45 Miles san Francisco up an elderly samoan who  speak or read English strayed away from his family and was lost for More than two Riding buses and looking out the windows for signs of his Palo Alto Faiitua who said he prayed noon and cried when he finally was found on a san Francisco Street More than 45 Miles from where he was last seen in san wherever i wherever i i he said through a family who moved to California from american Samoa two years strayed away from his family at a san Jose Flea Market on 3 and got lost in the because he Speaks Only logo just began walking in the Hope that he would happen by his family Home in East Palo about 12 Miles the former banana Plantation worker walked by Day and slept under Trees or Bushes by he later began taking three to five buses a looking intently out the window for signs of he cant say what areas he was Levenia his granddaughter he would take a bus to the end of the line and then catch the next bus that came logo was finally rescued last Friday when Jorge a member of the Christian life Fellowship in san noticed a gentle Man sitting on a Corner saying a group called Samoa for samoans was i stepped out of the car and he said hello in Samoa and we knew he was said Julia Secretary of the he was so Happy at see ing a samoan that be was youth gets probation san Diego a a teenager who attorneys said was dragged unwittingly by his older brother into a plot to sell stolen to secret Navy code cards to a secret service agent has been placed on five years Bruce had pleaded guilty to a Misdemeanour count of receiving stolen government property valued at less than at his assistant attorney Joan Weber described to Bias As the defendant who has suffered the most and tried the hardest to Tobias 21yearold i was convicted of stealing 12 cryptographic cards while he was a Petty officer on the Peoria in july the cards contain confidential information about the movement of Navy vessels throughout the Moore denied parole up Sara Jane sentenced to life in prison for attempting to assassinate president Ford 10 years has been denied Freedom by a panel of the parole commission after a hearing at the women Federal prison in Pleasanton in a spokeswoman for the commis Sion said Moore was told she will not get a release Date for at least is the san Francisco chronicle Botha wont be stampeded into Reform South Africa a South african president Botha told an audience of his National party on Friday that he would not be stampeded into reforming the race separation addressing some members of the party Transvaal province youth Confer he our enemies and critics urge us to announce practical results following our deliberations and let me Tell Reform does not come he according to an in Glis language text made available to re we shall not be stampeded into a situation of panic by irresponsible elements for opportunistic we shall not be forced to sell out our proud heritage we built up Over earlier police killed six Blacks and wounded 20 More in rioting and nearly 700 some Only 6 years of were jailed in the Black township of Soweto for boycotting officials Bishop Desmond the 1984 Nobel peace prize spoke to hundreds of worried parents outside a police station after a meeting with Jan head of the Soweto and told them the younger children would be Coetzee later said 328 children were detained thursday and about 350 More Fri Day for violating state emergency rules that forbid loitering outside phone calling procedures changed for Barracks Ramstein Germany Tele phone calling procedures changed Friday night for Calls originating at Rhine Ord Nance according to a Ramstein a Rhine ordnance Barracks callers should dial then the seven digit ets number to reach any air Force facility in for army callers should dial then the seven digit ets to Call Auto on anywhere in dial then the seven digit Auto on information in fridays stars and stripes for dealing from Rhine ordnance Barracks is no longer in