European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 25, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday february 25, 1986 the stars and stripes Page 9 of May get stealth cruise missile within year by Norman Black a military writer Washington first deliveries of a longer Range radar evading stealth cruise missile to the air Force could come within the next year according to budget documents and sources. The documents and sources provide conflicting Evi Dence about when there will be enough of the new missiles to actually deploy them on b-52 bombers. But it now appears certain that the stealth cruise will be fielded Long before the bomber of the same name the development of which spurred the new technology. The term stealth is applied to a variety of techniques that can be used to foil radar. By employing unusual aircraft designs and new types of manufacturing Materi als a plane or missile can absorb or deflect radar signals without bouncing them Back to an enemy tracking sys tem. Although most of the publicity about stealth technology has entered on the advanced technology bomber being developed by the Northrop corp., the general dynamics corp. Has been under contract since 1983 to develop Ana build a stealth version of the Standard air launched cruise missile a Jet pow ered flying bomb with stubby wings that hugs the ground to escape detection. The air Force has dubbed the new weapon the advanced cruise missile or am. The Pentagon s fiscal 1987 budget request while blacking out Dollar amounts lists am production As a continuing program. More importantly the request shows an end to production of the Standard non stealth version of the missile. With the production of that missile coming to a close the Only Way the air Force can Complete its longstanding plan to convert 194 b-s2s to cruise mis Sile carriers by fiscal 1990 is by deploying the am. The air Force had indicated previously that by late summer or Early fall roughly 120 b-s2s stationed at six bases will be outfitted with cruise missiles. Those deploy ments will exhaust the 1,739 Standard cruise missiles the air Force purchased from the Boeing corp. The development of the stealth cruise missile is one of the Pentagon s Black programs that have moved partially into the Light. The missile showed up for the first time As a line item in the air Force s fiscal 1986 weapons procurement request a year ago. But on March 5, 1985. Or. Thomas e. Cooper an air Force assistant Secretary told Congress the service already was moving into the final stages of development and starting to initiate procurement of the advanced cruise  according to Robert s. Norris a defense analyst with the natural resources defense Council a Liberal research group there was about a two year lag be tween the Start of production and first deliveries of the Standard cruise missile. A Pentagon source speaking on condition of anonymity said that the air Force always has planned a similar timetable for the am. Remains personal effects found at Laos site Bangkok Thailand Dpi Hitman remains and personal effects have been found by a  team excavating the wreckage of an american warplane shot Down in 1972 during the Vietnam War a is. Military spokesman said monday. The discoveries came in the Early stages of the excavation in the Southern Laos province of Savannah it which Borders Thailand. The team has found Large pieces of plane wreckage limited personal effects remains and personal equipment said it. Col. Terry Mccann quoting a status report written Friday but held up by communication problems. The report delivered to the american embassy in Bangkok was written by it. Col. Joe Harvey head of the Hawaii based joint casualty Resolution Center and Leader of the ii Man is. Military team at the site. Mccann said Harvey s report gave no specific details about the findings but he added that personal effects might include identification cards and dog tags. Harvey s unit arrived in Laos feb. 17, and a shoulder to shoulder search for re Mains began last thursday after the 30,086-Square-foot excavation site was cleared and divided into Small work sections. The warplane crashed on a night Mission March 29, 1972, after it was hit by a soviet built surface to air missile. The aircraft a cargo plane converted into a gunship crashed in Jungle Foothills 80 Miles East of the thai lao Border and about 175 Miles Southeast of the lao Capi Tal of Vientiane. It carried a Crew of 14. The United states lists 2,441 american servicemen and civilians As missing in action from the War in Indochina that ended in 1975. Eight sets of Mia remains have been identified but not computed into the official total yet. Washington associates 556 Mia cases with Laos most of them air Force person Nel. The operation in Savannah it is the Sec Ond  excavation of an american warplane since last year when Laos and Vietnam began to accelerate cooperation in resolving the lingering Mia Issue. World today 5 . Teams will attempt to scale Himalayan peaks Katmandu Nepal up five teams from the United states will attempt to scale peaks in Nepal s Hima Layas this Spring leading the Field for the first time Over expeditions from is other nations the ministry of tourism has said. The ministry said it granted permits to 33 teams from 16 nations seeking to conquer 27 Himalayan peaks this season. The Field usually dominated by Japan and Korea was led this year by the United states it said. Two of seven . Expeditions granted permits including one with actor Robert Redford said they would not be Able to make their climbs this year. Japanese self defense forces in joint exercise with americans Tokyo a a five Day command Post exercise the first of its kind involving All branches of the . Forces and the japanese self defense forces has begun Here the defense Agency said. The Agency said in an announcement that this is the first map Man Uever Drill Ever to be staged by three branches of the self defense forces jointly with the four branches of the is.  said the Headquarters in Tokyo of the defense Agency s Central come and the Headquarters of the us. Forces . About 250 members of the joint staff Council and staff officers of the japanese maritime air and ground self defense forces with take part in the exercise it said. The is. Participants number about 150.the desktop and on the Chart exercise simulates defense scenarios the announcement said. Kyodo news Agency said the Drill proceeds from Simu lated attacks on air bases and ports in Northern Japan. Royal family spokesman warns against Dallas syndrome London up a Buckingham Palace spokesman has a  Palace Dallas  the Queen s assistant press Secretary John Haslam said therein a danger that in treating the Royal family s us vines As part of soap opera that they would become figures of fantasies in the Way that television does."8 Hulam referred to the Palace Dallas syndrome Dur ing Alecto a on the Media which he  also spoke out about press Fantasises who fabricate stories about Queen Elizabeth ii and her family. Veteran keeps memories alive of those who did t survived Day by Jean Albright Pitburg Bureau Mons Belgium his name could be on any one of the tombstones in the graveyard he visits annually. Ted Liska director of a military contract hotel near shape never forgets it. I Don t know Why i lived and they died he said recently. Ill always wonder. And i la always re Mem  Liska who now runs the Ramon hotel has been asked by a group from shape to share his memories during a return to Normandy in april. More than 80 american military people and their families will explore history with him visiting the beaches taken by the americans and canadians on a Day. The trip will be the second time Liska has shared his memories with such a group while walking along the Beach. Doing so is his Way of keeping alive the memory of those who died. In the Days leading up to june 6, 1944, when the Allied forces invaded Northern Europe staff sgt. Liska and the six soldiers he led were not told exactly what they were training for. He remembers that at each phase of their training first in bunkers then in Sand then in water some men of the 12th inf regt 1 St in 4th inf div thought they had their Mission figured out. But when Gen. Dwight d. Eisenhower told the troops they had been selected to begin reclaiming Europe the Loudmouth did t have a thing to say Liska said. Liska remembers a quiet moment before the assault on Utah Beach the morning of june 6. It hit me that not All of these men would live through the Day. I thought that if i lived i d never forget the people who did not return with  at 10 30 a.m., the 12th regt pushed across 1,500 Yards of flooded Beach each Man weighted Down with equipment. Beneath their feet were crisscrossed irrigation ditches up to seven feet deep. As they got to dry land lines of White tape marked a path across Sand that had not been mined. Hundreds of men crowded Between the lines marking the path which was 10 Yards at its narrowest Point under 25 at its widest we had been trained to keep five Yards Between us so that one Shell could not get More than one Man. With that Many moving through one Shell could get any num Ber. They were flying right Over our Heads and there were bodies All Over the Beach. 515 Pluto by l. Emmell lilt or. Ted Liska. Ill always remember because of the hedgerows we did t know what was ahead or to the sides of us but we knew that More americans were coming behind  three of the six men with Liska died during the 20 Days of Battle for Cherbourg. From 1946 to 1948, Liska was assigned to oversee the cemetery at Ste. Mere eglise where some of the soldiers who died in the invasion Are buried. Families who visited there were comforted by his vivid recollections. They had come thousands of Miles just to see a wooden Cross. I wanted them to have More. It was Good for them to hear it from someone who had lived with and landed on the Beach with their  in 1951, some remains were returned to the states. Liska was there to watch. I saw some men dug up that 1 had known. It was like going full Circle with them. I saw them live die and go to a final burial. I had to Stop then and wonder Why them and not  each year on june 6, Liska returns to Normandy and the cemetery. He puts Flowers on one grave each year. The Flowers Are for All of them he said. You can t put Flowers on them All. Some of them would have done it for me if it had gone another