European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 10, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 28 the stars and stripes tuesday december 10, 1985 test flight of Tomahawk missile fails by Norman Blac Washington api the lest if i Navy Toma cruise missile on the Luis coast a is aborted Sun Day afternoon Lien a Chase plane had in activate the a Isril s system and Send it to the ground the Pentagon anon Mccod sunday night. The missile fell to the ground approximately three Miles Southeast of i report. Ha., said Bob Llo Sapple. The Public affairs director for the cruise missile program. It came Mui in a sparsely populated area he said. The spokesman said there was no damage reported to the missile and no damage to any private property. He said investigators had recovered the missile and taken it to Aih in i Lorida for investigation to determine what went unto a the Chase plane saw something wrong with the mis Sile shortly after it came Over the Holsapple said. We Don t know what was wrong. But he decided to take control and pop the planes were monitoring the missile s flight he spokesman said the cruise missile had been fired by a nuclear powered attack submarine in the Gulf of Mexico. He declined to identify the vessel participating in the s failure ended a string of 24 Sucic Sztul tests of Fth Tomahawk in the last in months at a Range on the West s test also was the first to be conducted at a newly activated last coast Range that includes a race track course Over sparsely populated areas in Florida and Tomahawk that successfully Flics that fast coast route is supposed to come Down at the Eglin base. The East coast test Range was activated by the Pentagon to avoid the need for submarines and other ships to travel to the West coast to lest the missiles. Llo Sapple estimated the Tomahawk missile which carried a Dummy warhead was flying at 500 Mph when the failure occurred. He said he could not predict How Long it might take for investigators to determine what went wrong. A cruise missile can be armed with either conventional or nuclear warheads and is designed to Fly close to the ground or Ocean to evade radar. The Navy has previously said it Hopes to equip More than 190 of its ships and submarines with the Tomahawk. Testing of the weapon began in 1978. And the first deployments occurred in i9s3 aboard the battleship new Jersey. Approximately 20 Navy vessels have been outfitted with the missile to Date. Since i978, there have been i60 tests of the missile. Holsapple could not say How Many failed. Bonner s in a is cd and tired of Kab movies Newton muss. A a member of soviet dissident Andrei Sakharov s family said monday he was sick and tired of films being released by soviet authorities depicting Sakharov in Good health while his wife. Sclena Bonner. Is seeking medical treatment in the United states. Speaking for the family in an interview with the associated press at his Home Mon Day Efrem Yankelovich Bonner s son in Law said film of Sakharov received by a West German newspaper was part of a continuing Effort by soviet authorities to Blunt Bonner s visit to the West. The reason they Mclau beb Wovas to show us tha sjfme0krtnc and to coun Ter might have said about his condition. We Hope we will be Able to learn More about the actual Situa Tion after talking to him on the phone but i m getting sick and tired of these Kab Home movies Yankelovich said. One condition for Bonner s travel from the soviet Union was that she not talk to reporters about her husband or of their life in exile in the closed soviet City of Gorki Yankelevich said Bonner a an unidentified docjaijf0lllfxml her heart q a i jail fould Tak to several i during the week before pm pricing on treatment. Bonner 62, May undergo surgery for her eyes and her heart in the United states instead of returning to Siena University s ophthalmic Institute in Italy where the director or. Runato of Ruzzoli treated her last week said her son Alexei sumy nov. During the weekend. The film received by the Bild newspaper apparently was made with and depicted Days last week. goes shopping in Gorky rides in a taxi lugs shopping bags and heavy suitcases Calls on the Telephone and Dis cusses the arms race Star wars and the Reagan Gorbachev meeting in Geneva Bild said in summarizing what it said was a nearly 23-Minutc videotape. In a statement sunday a Day after Bon Ner s arrival at the Home of her daughter tax from Page 1 years if the legislation is not passed. Even though the letter went to All House Mem Bers it was seen mostly As an Appeal to gop members whose opposition could kill the measure. I strongly urge you to vote for tax re form the Republican alternative or should it not prevail the ways and Means Bill he said in the letter. A vote against final passage in the House would doom our efforts to achieve real tax Reform for the american people. We must not allow that to Reagan also was expected to make Tele phone Calls to wavering members and a ways and Means committee aide said that had already begun. White House spokesman Larry Speaks said the administration believed chances for the committee Bill were Good particularly with the president s that Outlook was shared by House speaker Thomas o Neill who last week urged Reagan to get involved in the lobby ing process and monday met the president s new push with open arms. I thought he was pretty Strong said o Neill d-mass., referring to Reagan s let Ter. I would think republicans would Fol Low their the committee Bill differs from Reagan s idea of tax Reform in several major respects but keeps the general thrust of limiting tax Breaks lowering Rales and shifting much of the tax Bill from individuals to businesses. The president realizes however that the Only Chance for keeping momentum in tax Reform is for the House to approve a Mea sure this year and Send it to the Republican led St Nat for consideration next year. Many House republicans say the com Mittee Bill could spell economic trouble and complain Reagan is asking them to support ? measure he would veto. Reagan admitted sharing the concern Many have Over particular aspects of the pending Bills adding they can Only be considered a Good Start not an end the president s letter was the main part of a lobbying Effort for the Bill expected to hit full stride tuesday. The Bill is to go tuesday to the rules committee which clears legislation for floor action. Floor debate is expected to Las both wednesday and thursday. Cruise from Page 1 Sovereign Powers thus making a constitutional change necessary. But Kooymans told the parliamentarians that it is Wishful thinking to believe there Are constitutional conflicts. A simple majority is sufficient and i the treaty gets such a majority its provi Sions will be binding to the current dutch government and its the labor party has said it would seek to renegotiate the treaty if next May s National elections put it into the next Cabinet. During the session Samuel Van Campon a dutch National who was staff director for former nato Secretary general Joseph tuns from 1971-1983, briefed parliamentarians on nato procedures for the use of nuclear weapons. There is a provision in the draft deploy ment treaty stating that the . Govern ment would give special consideration to Tatiana Yankelovich said Bonner sad viewed earlier soviet tapes of which the family had copies. She was very Ana the views of the dutch government if Possi ble before any use of the cruise missiles but that the missiles would Only be used apart of nato strategy. That provision was an apparent conces Sion to missile opponents who fear their use As a tool of american foreign policy. Van Campen said that even under exist ing nato procedures time and Circum stances Permuting the views of All member nations will be made known to the . Government. In my View the treaty provi Sion Only stresses surgeon from Page 1 ice sharing in peacetime or for coordinating service operations in wartime the report added. Despite the internal criticism and pres sure from several congressmen including rep. Bill Nichols d-ala., a source said the decision to make the Neucom surgeon a full time Post had been complicated by the reluctance of the services to give up a the number of generals and admirals allowed the Navy air Force army and Marine corps is set by Law the source noted and this decision Means somebody has to give up a Slot for this new according to the source the joint chiefs finally decided to resolve the problem by specifying that the Post will be rotated occasionally among the army Navy and air Force. They decided to designate a two Star Billet that will be filled initially by an air Force Genera one source added. The source said it was possible that air Force maj. Gen. William h. Grcen Dyke when in fat he was on a hunger strike. It was a Clever Bonner 62, who has been living in inter Nal exile with her husband was granted a three month exit visa to seek medical treat ment in the West after signing an agreement not to make detailed statements to the news Media. She began her visit at the Home of her daughter after a flight saturday from Italy where she went dec. 2 for Eye care. Doctors there recommended she first seek treatment _ for her heart ailment. Her children say she has suffered at least two heart attacks since 1983. The family has received invitations for treatment from five Boston area hospitals. Temperatures might be named to the Job. Greendyke i currently the Safe command surgeon As Well As the part time Neucom surgeon. If he is named to the Post the air Force will probably rotate an officer of lesser rank per haps a colonel into the Post of Safe com Mand surgeon in Europe the source said. The source said the change could be announced at any time. They added that the new command surgeon will have clearly delegated responsibility for readiness planning including the task of ensuring that the services work together in handling any victims of terrorism. 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