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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 14, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday. January 14, 1966 the stars and stripes Page 5 Osfar wars could have dual use studies Nofe Marina Khy. Calif. A lasers designed for us in president Rea Gan s slur wars program As a shield against nuclear missiles could become an offensive we run incinerating a City in minutes according u two new studies to a matter of hours n laser defense system powerful enough to Cope with the ballistic missile threat can also destroy the enemy s major cities by fire concluded .1 study by re associates a defense think tank based in the los Angeles suburb of Marina Del Ray. The findings Are being circulated among government scientists. The attack would proceed City by City the attack time for each City being Only a Mailer of minutes. Not nuclear destruction Bat armageddon All the  the study Solcs. Reagan has said his strategic defense initiative lasers would be fired from space stations or shot from the ground and reflected off space based mirrors Aad one Day might provide a defensive shield against enemy missiles. The lasers can be employed in a manner not contemplated said Albert l. Latter and Ernest a. Mart Inch authors of the study cautioning that such a weapon could be used against he United states if the technology is shared with the soviet Union. A soviet laser weapon system. Ran incinerate our cities without warning on a time scale of minutes per City minutes to hours for the whole   and Martinolli said. To deter such an attack the . Could Only threaten to  a government physicist issued similar warnings in a separate article published in the current Issue of physics and society. .1 publication of the american physical society massive fires triggered by the lasers might be expected to generate smoke in amounts comparable to the amounts Gener ated in some major nuclear Exchange scenarios said Caroline l. Herzon Borg a physicist it the Argonne National Laboratory near Chicago. That could cause a climatic catastrophe similar to nuclear Winter " she wrote. Many scientists believe a nuclear War would result in a nuclear Winter with a disastrous lowering of the Karth s tempera lure. Tie i jail Page to a study Dij Mil men Tion a nuclear Winter but stressed Oliai Las ers Are not intrinsically defensive. When asked to comment an unidentified Star wars official a anted by the  an Geles times said that lasers Euld Start fires but this is act n problem that we arc addressing at this  the official also denied that lasers de signed for defense could be used As Offen Sive weapons. Uliey would have to be designed differently to cause fires she said. Seeing double five times Pilu Linc Edwards Katl and do disc pint hold five sets of twins born in is. Joseph Hospital in Omaha net Between dec. 28 and Jan. 7. The infants weights ranged from 2 pounds 14 Ounfra to 7 pounds 12 ounces. Tutu says hell risk treason charges Newark in. A South african anglican Bishop do Moad Tutu said sunday that if the White government of South Africa docs not act to end apartheid by april he will risk being charged with treason by calling for stiff economic sanctions. I would Hope that Good sense will prevail in the South african government nut All of our experience indicates the Chance of reason prevailing is minimal the 1984 Nobel peace Prie Winner told an overflow crowd in new Jersey s largest Black  urged the predominantly Black audience to Call for is. Economic sanctions against South Africa saying their Freedom is endangered by apartheid. Tutu 54. Spoke to about 600 people including gov. Thomas h. Kean and sen Bill Bradley ,Al Saint Joseph Plaza a former Church. Outside nearly 100 people listened Over a , on n . Speaking tour recalled the words of the Rev. Martin Luther King or racism anywhere threat ens Freedom  later sunday in new York Tutu thanked american. Who have supported the struggle against apartheid "1 offer you a one person standing ovation and to the millions of others in this country who care about us in South Africa Tutu told More than 3,000 people at St. Mark s United methodist Church in Harlem. Tutu s daughter Naomi Tutu seavers 25, said at her Hartford conn., Home sunday that she fears the White minority leadership in South Africa might be overthrown in a bloody civil War rather than through peaceful negotiations. "1 believe in my lifetime i will live in a free South Africa and i will be Able to raise my children in a free South Africa but How apartheid will end. It s hard to be optimistic she said a an interview after returning from u visit to South Africa. Court orders surgery for 7-year-o/d Cincinnati a a judge has ordered surgery for a 7-year-old cancer patient who doctors say will die without it even though the boy s parents oppose the opera Tion on religious beliefs. Doctors have said icy probably will have to amputate David Willmann s left Arm and shoulder to halt the spread of tonic arced save the boy s life. Hamilton county juvenile judge John o Connor on saturday ordered the surgery. The boy s parents Douglas and Lori Willmann said they Woutat Appeal to the 1st Ohio District court of appeals they said they arc members of the Christian doctors no children s Hospital medical Center said they would put the boy on chemotherapy for three weeks before deciding How to operate. David s cancer was discovered in october and the hos Pital went to court after the parents said they would not allow surgery. Or. Ralph Truppo said David would die in a year with out the surgery. Treatment and surgery would give him n 60 percent Chance of living he said. David was healed 2,000 years ago when Jesus Christ died on the Cross the boy s father testified. The blood he shed on the Cross heated us from All sickness. The Only Way we can achieve that Healing is to have Faith and believe that it has  . Has strategy to isolate Libya Newsweek says new York a the Reagan administration has developed a six Point strategy to isolate libyan  to amour khad Afy politically militarily and economically according la a published report. The goal of the program is id Clear the Way fur a . Military strike should khad Afy provide cause fur attack Newsweek reports in its Jan. 20 Issue. According to Newsweek while House officials said i he most Likely outcome is that Kha Lafy will be goaded into an assault on americans giving the administration an Opportunity to retaliate militarily. Some officials Are keen for u fight but fear the libyan Leader will Lay Low for a while the Magazine Giitl. The strategists a chive that if they do not strike within lie next six to nine months they will miss the tide of Public outrage against Libya for its purported backing of terrorism according to the report. These arc the Points that Newsweek said National Security Council official Donald Porlier put together 10 thwart Ken Day put khad Afy on the spot internationally by creating a. Consensus at Home and abroad that would allow implementation of the administration plan. Keep pressing allies to take action against Libya. This Coutts include interrupting military deals with France and Belgium if i hey continue trading with Libya. Use economic sanctions outlined by the president to complicate Libya s problems of Selling its Oil in a weak Market. Press ahead with a 4-year-old Cia program to identify finance and encourage khad Afy s in comic. Including nose in his own military. Curb libyan hit squads by calling on allies to be More vigilant in monitoring libyan diplomats agents and diplomatic poaches. Prepare for military action. Sands of time to the stars and stripes 40 years ago today Jan. 14, 1946 a i Germany s medical dictator or. Leonardo Conti who decreed the mercy killing of hundreds of thousands in his search for racial purity hanged himself in Nuernberg prison three months ago. But . Army authorities Kepi the suicide secret according of press reports. 30 years ago today Jan. 14, 1936 the Navy revealed that ii has selected Cocoa flu., As the site for launching an Giarth satellite us new details on the size and description of the first Man made Moon were made Public. 20 years ago today. Jan. 14, 1966 new York s first subway and bus strike has ended. To years ago today. Jan. 14, 1976 fran Tarkenton the 35-year-old quarterback for the Minnesota Vikings was named Offen Sive player of the year and most valuable player in the nil by the associated press  
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