European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 27, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars  monday january 27, 1986 conservative group wants production of b-1b extended Washington up the Quick est cheapest Way to belief the nation s bomber Force is to extend b-1b production past 100 As a hedge against problems in the stealth bomber program a conservative study group said sunday. Arguing that there is a need la reassess. The scope of current . And soviet bomber forces the group s report said the planned Force or 100 of the giant a lbs and 132 stealth bombers May not be Large enough to fulfil the mounting strategic and Nan Sara logic requirements now facing . Bomber forces. The quickest and most Cost effective Means of obtaining a larger bomber Force would be to extend the bib production line beyond its scheduled termination in Early 1938," said the report written for the Institute for foreign policy analysis inc. By Jeffrey record a former aide to sen. Sam Nunn a a. Nunn a chairman of the Senate armed service committee. The a. With Rockwell As the prime contractor Dales to he 1970s. It was Scull led by president Carter in 1977 but was revived As the b-1b in the Reagan administration and the planned Purchase of 244 aircraft was Cut Back to 100. Some members of Congress have said that the country should buy no More than 100 a lbs and should invest in the advanced technology bomber or stealth As the next generation bomber. The stealth would have a radar Cross Sec lion smaller than a Square Yard and its technology would allow the bomber to escape most radar selection hence the name. By comparison the radar Cross Section of. U d-52 i about 100 Square Yards while the radar Cross Section of a b-1b is put at about one Square Yard. Elib production it expected to cad in 198s, and the stealth bomber is not expected to end until at least 1991. At that Point the bib would shift from a penetration role leaving thai to the stealth bomber to a standoff role of launching cruise missiles taking the place of the b-52s, last built in 1962. Record said a substantially larger bomber Force would seem imperative in Light of the continuing decay of the icbms leg of the strategic ind a reference to a scaling Back of the my program. A larger bomber Force also might be Nec Essary because of the changing ratio of fined and Mobile soviet missile targets the potential effectiveness of strategic defences the Uncertain future of arms control and rising non strategic demands on Long Range . Air Power. Record said. He noted that the b-1b is being built on a fixed Price contract each copy costs 1205 million in 1981 dollars and Here Are estimate that units past the first 100 could Cost As Little As si00 million each. In contrast estimates on the stealth pro Gram suggest a Cost of about $300 million a plane in 1981 dollars. Record also noted expected performance and payload differences that argued More for the b-1b than the stealth program a great Deal of stealth technology has Al ready been incorporated in the b-1b, including avionics and radar absorbing mate rials he said. Continued production of the b-1d, he said would provide a hedge against the possible and some would say. Likely technological or Cost failure of the  showing off her sheep Laccy Lilly 3, of Csc Burrow Texas hugs her sheep to � Stock show in fort Worth. She and her Mother Are showing the animal in Competition this week. Explosion fire aids is growing problem for infants kill 9 at party in basement Washington up rams ignited by an exploding Gas water healer roared through the basement of a Lurn of the be Muff Row House Early sunday killing nine people at a party. Fire chief Theodore Coleman said seven others survived among them four children. The inferno was among the deadliest Ever in the nation s capital. In 1979, a tire killed 10 mental patients in a Foster Home in the same neighbourhood of Northwest washing ton. Identities of the nine victims were not immediately released. Firefighters encountered heavy smoke and fire issuing from the basement Cole Man said. As they approached the base ment they found a number of people on the floor who had been overcome by smoke and  Deputy fire chief Ray Alfred added based on what witnesses were saying there was a party there last  a police detective said "1 believe everybody in the House was from Al  As Dawn approached investigators climbed Over a pile of debris and into the Brick House in the mount pleasant area of the City. It appeared thai the fire was started by a basement water Heater fuelled by natural Gas Colemen said adding the heat from the burning contents caused a Gas meter to Melland that fed the  new York a aids has be come the most common infectious disease in Newborn infants in some parts of new York City As it spreads increasingly rapidly among children even As the adult aids epidemic Laws researchers said sunday. Fighting the spread of children s aids May be especially difficult because most infants with aids Are born to mothers with no outward signs of disease said or. How Ard Minkoff director of obstetrics at the stale University of new York downstate medical Center in Brooklyn. Of 34 mothers who gave birth to children with aids at mind wars Hospital Only four had any symptoms of acquire immune deficiency syndrome or the aids rela cd com plex known As arc a Milder form of the disease. The mothers were the source of the aids infections in their children however and some of them later developed the disease. Minkoff spoke at a symposium sponsored by the March of dimes birth defects foun Dation on aids in newborns. Best Sellers As of Jan. 13, 231 cases of aids in infants had been reported to the Federal centers for disease control in Atlanta. About 40 percent of them or 103 cases occurred in new York City said Rita o Donnell a Public health adviser in the new York health department. O Donnell said she expects the number of children s aids cases in new York to double by the end of the year while the number of cases in adults will not double for two years. Aids has struck 16.227 adults nation wide. About one third of those cases occurred in new York City according to the cd. The disease weakens the immune systems of its victims leaving them prey to unusual infections and forms of cancer. The disease is More Likely to be fatal in children than in adults o Donnell said. Sixty nine percent of the new York children with aids have died but Only 52 percent of the City s adults with aids have died since re Cord keeping began in 1981, she said. Most of the children Are born to mothers who Are intravenous drug abusers and thus Are at High risk of contracting aids from the sharing of Needles. Doctors at sunday s symposium were advised to test for aids in All mothers and prospective mothers who Are drug abusers or Are the sexual partners of drug abusers or of others at risk for aids. Women found to have been exposed to the aids virus should be old there is. A substantial risk they will give birth to Chil Dren with the disease Minkoff said. He said the disease has become almost twice As common As herpes infections in new Borns in parts of new York where aids is common. The dangers of Newborn herpes infection which include brain damage and death have encouraged hospitals to spend Mil Lions of dollars screening mothers and doing caesarean sections to prevent transmission of the disease from Mother Rochild he said. White caesarean sections generally a prevent herpes infections they apparently do not prevent aids transmission from Mother to child Minkoff said. Compiled by the Neva Yolk times fiction 1the Mammoth Hunters by Joan it. Aumi Lake Wobegon Days by Gar lion Keillor 1texas by Jam �. 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