European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 28, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes saturday september 28, 1985 nuclear warning system obsolete Congress told Washington a the computerized heart of the United slates nuclear warning system is becoming increasingly obsolete with inadequate capacity to re Spond to an All out nuclear attack. Congress was told thursday. During a House of representatives hearing comptroller general Charles a. Bowsher quoted the defense department As saying that it cannot Complete installation of state of the Art computer equipment for its attack assess ment system until 1992 at the earliest. Senior air Force and Navy officers said the armed services now Are in the process of doing that and they asserted that the present system is 99 percent effective and will serve adequately until it is replaced. We recommended in 1978 that these computer sys tems be replaced Bowsher said. We remain concerned that the solutions to the computer problem always seem to be a few years  rep. Jack Brooks a Texas told the government operations National Security subcommittee that the world wide system of . Nuclear command and control computers sensors and communications lines has suffered from a history of chronic neglect and  Brooks told air Force Gen. Robert t. Herres com Mander in chief of the North american aerospace comd., that As he sees it the problem is nobody is really concentrating Power and Money to make the necessary improvements quickly. Are the soviets going to wait until you re finished Brooks asked. Bowsher. Who Heads the general accounting office which is the investigative Arm of Congress said Steps have been taken to Correct system failures which in 1979 and 1980. Caused general military alerts through the reporting of false  but he said the false events have not slopped and this remains a problem  one problem is that not All of the defense computers process data identically the comptroller general said. He said this could result in a situation where computerized assessments of a situation would differ even though the same data had been fed into All the computer systems. Obviously As systems age these problems will get worse Bowsher said. He said computers at regional operational control Cen ters have a number of deficiencies that could affect both War and peacetime capabilities. Computer capacity is inadequate to respond to a full conflict situation and seriously impedes some peacetime exercise problems Bowsher said. He said there is a Lack of operational display consoles a fact which he said restricts the military s ability to super Vise and manage air forces conduct Region wide exercises and provide training control for interceptors. Additionally he said a digital communications system lacks sufficient backup and its failure could adversely affect operations. 3 High Schoof football players find perfect pass is to advertise Postville. Iowa a three football players at Postville High school were worried that they would t have dates after their last Homecoming game so they devised a winning game plan. We needed dates said Andrew Odem. Then someone said  Odem Ken Llerik and Jeff Drahn All seniors put an and in the Posl Villa Herald wanted dates for Homecoming for 3 eligible senior football players no. 80, no. 68, no. 12." they included their Home Telephone numbers and said to Call after 7 . I got a Call from a freshman girl and she did t even wait until after 7," Drahn said. Klenk got one phone response and Odem got a Cou ple of Calls from girls in nearby Monona. I thought we d get a lot More prank Calls than we did or 40-year old ladies calling us up As a joke Klenk said. The and also brought personal invitations at school. Weighing the alternatives the three decided logo out with three longtime senior friends Homecoming Queen candidates Shari Frederick and Sheila Reed and cheerleader Kathryn Curnow. Postville beat Elkader Central 14-6 in Friday night s Homecoming game. Klenk said the three might try advertising again to find dates for their senior prom next Spring. But hopefully by then Well have dates Odem said. T director of Church youth Camp defends atheist militia attack Minneapolis a the director of a presbyterian youth Camp who staged a mock atheist militia attack that terrorized Young campers says he was trying to teach them a lesson about life in countries where christianity i forbidden. Our intent is to make kids grapple with their own Faith so they would t just be saying what they be heard from their parents said Warren Camp the director of Camp ojibway near Siren wis. A Sii Man atheist militia team broke into the main Cabin at the Camp aug. 7, the Minneapolis Star and trib Une reported Friday. The men one brandishing a Shotgun and another a big Board announced the Camp had been taken Over and that the Young people had to return to their Cabins and quit practising their religion. Some bibles were confiscated. At first i thought it was joke 13-year-old Lisa Laughton told the newspaper. Then after they told us to go to our Cabins it started becoming More like it was real. It was kind of scary. I did kind of feel the danger. Everybody else was worried and crying. Everybody in the Cabin was crying and we d All get Down on the floor and Pray and  the Young people had been told to try to slip out to meet the Camp director in a bus at the Edge of the Camp. However when Laughton and two of her friends slipped out they heard two gunshots. The three jumped Over a Fence and ran along the Lake Shore until they found a private Cabin where they called the sheriff she said. I was so scared when we called the police but then we found out it was supposed to be a learning experience she said. When i thought about it i thought it was Worth  Bruce Laughton Lisa s father said he was concerned about the incident until i talked to  i know Warren Camp and i Trust him and the Camp Counselor very much he said. The Camp is owned by Hope presbyterian Church located in Richfield wis. One Parent wrote dear Abby to complain about the incident. A reply published monday said although the raid was mock the emotional Impact of that horrifying experience was very real to those children who May later need therapy to recover from recurring nightmares. Your anger is  Camp who has been a Public school teacher in Rich Field for 19 years said he is aware of the dangers of staging that kind of Drill. You need to stay in tune with All the reactions you la get. You get anger fear some laugh it off some take it too  stateside Man revisits scene of crime for Coffee gets arrested instead Oxnard Calif a a knife wielding Bandit fled a doughnut shop with $80, then returned five minutes later for a cup of Coffee and was arrested by the officer taking the robbery report police  Lancaster 21, was identified As the robber by the Winchell s donuts shop employee who was held up and he was arrested without incident. The Money and a knife were seized As evidence police said. Lancaster of Oxnard was was booked for investigation of armed Rob. Officer Joe Kaniewski who made the arrest was unable to explain Why Lancaster returned. Perhaps he thought he would not be identified Kaniewski said. Nancy Reagan Raisa Gorbachev to meet during Geneva Summit Washington a president Reagan s wife Nancy plans to meet with Raisa Gorbachev wife of soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev during the the .-soviet Summit meeting in Geneva nov. 19-20, mrs. Reagan s press Secretary has  was an Exchange of letters and the details Are presently being worked out for the ladies to meet Elaine Crispen said by Telephone from los Angeles where she accompanied mrs. Reagan after her visit on monday to earthquake stricken Mexico City. Crispen said the plans for mrs. Reagan and mrs. Gorbachev to meet could very Well take the form of reciprocal  she said no Date had been set. Daughter of slave Dies at 113 was Florida s oldest citizen Perry Fla. A a 113-year-old daughter of a slave died at Home in bed according to her 74-year-old daughter. Mary Jane Colson said to be the oldest citizen in Florida will be buried in this Northern Florida town where she has lived since she was born nov. 25, 1871. Colson whose Mother was a slave and whose father lived to be 109, outlived one great grandson two grand sons two husbands and two sons according to the Miami Herald. She was living with her daughter Temetha  Williams. Williams said that before she died Colson kept calling her Mother saying mama come get me come on mama then she said come on Jesus i m ready to die i m so tired then she slept  Colson had a stroke in december and had been unable to enjoy her favorite Hobby crocheting. Falwell ordered to pay $5,000 for attack on Gay Church Sacramento Calif. A a judge has ordered the Rev. Jerry Falwell to make Good on a Promise to pay $5,000 to a Gay Leader if he could produce a tape recording of an attack by Falwell on a Gay Community Church. In making the ruling. Municipal judge Michael Ull nun said Falwell founder of the moral majority denied on a Sacramento television talk show last year that he had attacked the metropolitan Community Church and offered Jerry Sloan $5,000 if he could produce the tape. Sloan gave the judge a tape in which Falwell referred to the Church As brute beasts. Part of a vile and satanic system that will one Day be utterly annihilated an there will be a Celebration in  Sloan is a former pastor of the Church but currently Heads a Gay lesbian organization seeking to establish a Community Center in Sacramento. He said he and Falwell were school mates at Baptist Bible College in Springfield to. Supermarket escapade ends abruptly for Tarzan like burglar Milwaukee a a produce manager was atone in a supermarket getting ready for the Day s work when an intruder Clad Only in a Loincloth dropped through the Ceil ing with a scream and landed Between the onions and the watermelons. I Don t know if it was like Tarzan but it was  Dennis Thiel said of the scream. I did t know if i should slug him or Call the police. I guess i sort of did  police said the intruder squeezed through a Cooling vent and got into a crawl space Between the roof and a sus Pended ceiling Over the produce department. Officers Aid he apparently look off his other clothes and left them on the roof because inc Cooling vent was a tight fit. But inc ceiling tiles would not support his weight and the intruder fell through to the floor below letting out a shriek that startled Thiel 37, who then knocked the Man out. Francis Bredeau 21. Of Milwaukee was charged with burglary in connection with the incident