European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 29, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 28 the stars and stripes sunday september 29,1985 Pentagon studies new my Basing plan armoured missiles hidden among Many silos Washington not the defense department is studying a new plan that some senior officials believe May provide a politically acceptable and militarily Desira ble base Tor the my missile according to congressional and Reagan administration officials. The Basing idea entails fitting the new Multi warhead missiles with armoured suits and hiding them among a Large number of cheaply constructed underground silos. A Reagan administration official familiar with the missile program said Friday that the plan was receiving serious High level attention in the Pentagon although it has not won univer Sal approval. Officials said the method could be used As Well for a smaller single warhead missile dubbed midget Man. The plan which joins More than 30 other Basing schemes devised and scrapped Over the past decade has some similarities to an earlier proposal favored by presi Dent Carter that involved shuttling the missiles on heavy trucks among a network of Concrete shelters. That idea was abandoned by president Reagan after officials in the Western states where it was to be located protested about the enormous amount of land required. Reagan instead endorsed a scheme to place the missiles in deep silos packed close together on the theory that attacking missiles would blow each other up and allow some american missiles to escape. The program was rejected by Congress amid widespread ridicule of its design. The current plan is to put the my missiles in older minuteman silos an idea that critics have suggested would leave them vulnerable to attack. The officials said that testing of the plan for armouring the missiles themselves rather than the silos was getting its Strong est push from Donald a. Hicks a physicist and former North Rop com. Executive who was recently appointed undersecretary of defense far research and engineering. It s a very interesting concept Hicks confirmed in an interview. I feel reasonably positive about it but not enough to say it will work until i Sec More data come  legislation pending in Congress and expected to pass soon would limit the air Force to deploying so my mis Siles unless it can design a new Basing Mode that stands a Chance of withstanding a soviet attack. Supporters of the new scheme say it would make a Surprise attack unappealing by forcing soviet War plan ners to target dozens of empty holes to be sure of knocking out the missiles. Sen. Pete Wilson r-calif., who is a Strong supporter of the my disclosed some details of the proposal to reporters Friday afternoon. He said he believed it was potentially Superior to previous my Basing proposals and to a current plan to mount the midget Man missiles on armoured launch ers that would patrol vast areas of Federal land. One administration official speaking on the condition he not be named expressed annoyance that Wilson was publicizing the program saying it was Loo see Schily devel oped to stand up to Public scrutiny. Wilson s doing the concept a disservice by surfacing it too soon the official said. At this stage it sounds a Little crazy and it could Well get laughed out of  administration officials familiar with the program said the main question to be answered by continued research was How much nuclear blast the portable missile cannot ters could withstand. That would determine How far apart the filled and empty silos would have to be spaced to Force attackers to waste a warhead on each silo. Land and Cost Are the issues said one official. He said preliminary estimates were that hundreds of silos could be put comfortably on an ensling air Force base whereas the earlier scheme involved buying thousands of Square Miles of private land. Hurricane eaves 6 dead i Miff on without Power new York a at least 1 million people were without Power after Hurricane Gloria lashed the East coast of the United states and six deaths were blamed on the storm. The Hurricane spared new York in full fury although schools and the new York and american Stock exchanges and commodity markets closed. Thousands of workers in High Rise office buildings were Given the Day off. A half million people fled from the path of what had been billed As one of the potentially most dangerous Atlantic storms Ever. Despite millions of dollars in damage Glo Ria wreaked much less havoc than authorities had feared. With the fury of Gloria just a memory and less than 24 hours after coastal Resi dents of Delaware were evacuated the Beach was dotted with surfers sunbathers swimmers and strollers under sunny skies Friday. Gloria swept up the coast at More than 40 Mph packing 130-Mph winds and rolled onto Long Island Home of millions of sub Urban new yorkers just after noon Friday. Before Dawn it had delivered a glancing blow to North Carolina s outer Banks about 300 Miles Southeast of Washington . By saturday Gloria downgraded to a tropical storm was Over the Gaspe Peninsula of Southeast Canada and moving North Northeast at about 35 Mph the National weather service said. Authorities blamed the storm for six deaths caused by traffic accidents fallen Trees and electrocution by downed wires. New York state gov. Mario Cuomo said offer from Page 1 Gorbachev will discuss at their nov. 19-20 Summit in Geneva. To facilitate preparations Reagan said the two governments had agreed to assign senior officials to coordinate the Agenda. And he said he gave Shevardnadze some new ideas to make the Summit successful. No details were divulged. The offer is the closest the soviets have come so far in meeting . Goals for deep cutbacks in Long Range bombers missiles and submarines. But the Outlook for an agreement in Geneva remained unclear be cause the soviets continue to insist on severe limitations on the Star wars program. However the letter appears to represent a serious Effort by the soviets to break the arms negotiating deadlock. Until now the Reagan administration has accused Moscow of playing a propaganda game making Public statements about a willingness to curb the arms race but not offering anything worthwhile at the bargaining table. Secretary of state George Shutlz however characterized the latest soviet position As a counterproposal to positions taken by the . Side and said it was welcomed. Lomeiko at a separate briefing did not describe the latest soviet move As a new proposal. But he said the soviet delegation in Geneva will put Forward Concrete proposals and that Gorbachev s letter to Reagan was certainly important and we Hope  soviet sources were quoted earlier in the week As saying Moscow would offer a 40 per cent cutback in missile launchers and War Heads. There were millions and millions of Dol Lars in damages. He sent a Telegram to president Reagan asking that the state be declared a major disaster area. Some residents of Long Island although fewer than expected lost their Homes. The storm downed Trees and Power lines across Long Island and in the six new eng land states knocking out electricity to More than 2.75 million people. Utility officials said More than 1 million remained without Power saturday and it could take Days to turn it Back on for Many. The gambling casinos of Atlantic City n.j., closed Early As the storm approached but they reopened Friday night. Almost three quarters of the resort s 38,000 Resi dents were evacuated to higher ground As Gloria approached. In Many parts of new Jersey the storm dropped Trees knocked out Power lines and flooded streets. It buckled and splintered boardwalks in several Beach towns including Atlantic City and destroyed an apart ment project under construction. Temperatures up Emair v Dodds from Page 1 ton in High or Low scores is the number of students who take the test. In general the More students who take the test the lower the average will be. For example in Iowa where Only 3 per cent of the eligible students took the lest the verbal average was 521 and the math 576. In Connecticut where 69 percent of the eligible students participated the verbal average was 440 and the math 475. While Dodds scores outstripped the National averages Only six states had As High a percentage of their eligible Itu Denta take the Tut. Garvey said 2,572 Dodds students or 56 percent of those eligible took the test. A More detailed breakdown of How Dif Ferent groups of Dodds student fare on the exams will be available in about two weeks Garvey said. But she said Dodds students were included in the data when Hanford described these trends men and women increased their verbal and math averages. All minority groups improved their scores Garvey said Federal Laws against discrimination May prevent Dodds from obtaining performance figures broken Down into such categories the proportion of test takers who were High scorers earned 600 or More Points on either portion Rose again. Students reported they had taken More courses than the previous year s seniors especially in math and toe physical sciences. More students said they had taken honors courses. More students said they planned to go on to graduate school. All these trends would seem to indicate that there is a More positive attitude toward academic pursuits in our High schools and that Many efforts at the local state and National Levels Over the past decade to improve the education of College bound students have begun to Bear fruit Hanford said. Dodds operates 270 schools for 151,000 students in 20 countries. 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The social democrats have repeatedly called for the resignation of Friedrich Zim manna in the Interior minister since the spy scandal began on aug. 6 with the defection of a longtime Secretary to economic minister Martin Bangemann. Chancellor Helmut Kohl has defended Zimmermann s handling of Security and said his minister would remain on the Job. European weather  for sunday fair to parity dowdy to Ken Woltti mild Markl Mornine foe and afternoon Hai. He Elfi  we Rano from a my it in it North Iotha mid-70 Etta wharf Towi from Tea Mld-40i to the Low so. Sum sunday 6�, Worlia monday u4. Outlook for monday Continua a fair to parity Cloudy Wolti Mornine foe fat noon Hait and warmth top a Lurn  it corded saturday 4am4pm 4am4prr Adana m 41 n copts Haton p w amt Lardo m 43 m Frankfurt. F Al 73 Al Hunt f 64 n London to � w Valano p a 11 Madrid p u ii Berlin p v 59 Unkn i 44 72 Brumar Vavan m 99 57 Paris f 57 77 Brumb. F so a rom p u ii prov Law by do a 7m what her so Kridan tray Bakti. 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