European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 17, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday March 17, 1986 the stars and stripes Page 9 defying the dense fog a unit of the Ger Man army s Mountain troops mushes packing up a Mountain Man Euver a photo through heavy Snow with pack mules carrying water and supplies for a Winter Camp High in the bavarian  Winter Germany s Lone unit still using mules trains in the Snow. It is base Din bad re Chenhall in Bavaria. Wars Price out of this world report claims Boston up two Harvard scientists say it would Cost the United states More to shoot Down offensive missiles with Star wars space based lasers than it would Cost the soviet Union to build them the Boston Globe said sunday. Apparently agreeing with the results of such an Analy Sis the government says it no longer plans to base the lasers in space but will keep them on the ground aim ing them at cheaper space mirrors that will be hoisted into orbit instead. It is. Not Likely that such a system would satisfy the president s requirement for an effective defense the scientists concluded referring to the original plan for orbit ing lasers the Boston Globe said sunday. Harvard University astronomers George Field and David Spergel devised what they said is the first detailed method for comparing the costs of president Reagan s strategic defense initiative or Star wars components with those of offensive weapons. Their work is published in the current Issue of the Jour Nal of science. Space based lasers were one of the options being studied when the astronomers did their analysis but More recently planners have largely abandoned that approach. A spokesman for the ski office said he had not seen the science report and could not comment on it. But he said researchers have shifted their attention away from space based lasers to ground based lasers that would fire beams that would reflect off orbiting mirrors to strike soviet missiles rising from their silos during an attack. There Are no plans for laser platforms in space said col. Lee de lorme director of Public information for Thesdie office. He said laser weapons stationed on the ground would be More Cost effective because the Cost of putting mirrors in space is far less than that of putting lasers in space. In their report Field and Spergel estimate that a platform carrying a 25-megawatt infrared laser would weigh More than 200 tons and Cost about $3.59 million. At least 200 orbiting laser platforms would be needed to counter the 1,400 inter Continental ballistic missiles the soviets now have. While the results of their study May be moot now Spergel told the Globe i think the real goal is to encourage debate. He said there is a tendency on the part of advocates to say just give us Money and wait and Well come up with something " without offering Cost estimates. Lasers orbiting above the soviet Union would be so expensive to build and launch that even at $50 million per missile it would Cost less for the soviets to add offensive missiles than for the United states to shoot them Down the astronomers said. Officials of the strategic defense initiative organization which is developing the space based defense system have not released their Cost estimates for the missile shield. Wife of sex Beirut hostage plans peace Mission Atlanta up the wife of for Mer Beirut hostage Jeremy Levin said sat urday that she will return to the Mideast to Lead the first woman to woman peace Mission because the american people. Have not been Given the facts about the remaining american captives. Lucille Sis Levin said she is not angry with the . Government because it had Little Success in winning Freedom for her husband who escaped from his captors last year but she wants the Public to know that other hostages Are still in Lebanon. I sense in the american people an anger that they have not been Given the facts Levin told reporters. The subject is not discussed. In a free society the people Are participants in the decision making process and they can t participate if they Don t  she met last week with former first lady Rosalynn Carter and King broadcasting co. Chairman Patsy Collins who will be part of the four woman Mission. The group will leave sometime in april. Its planned stops include Syria Israel the occupied West Bank and possibly Lebanon. Islamic jihad or holy War claims to hold at least four of the six americans who Are missing in Lebanon. The group claimed last october that it killed one american but his body has not been found. The kid nappers have not released information about the sixth american. Carter said that if there is to be peace in the Mideast women must take the initiative. Women want peace she said. One of the reasons they Are going is to get people talking to each other and Mak ing some sense. I m endorsing what they Are  Carter said she understands the fears of families of american captives. She said she was terrified by her visit two years ago to Beirut calling it the most hair raising experience of my  Levin s abduction two years ago was re ported As soon As it happened but then a curtain of silence fell. His wife who lived with her husband in Beirut when he was kidnapped sought help from the state department and was told to keep quiet about his disappearance. She kept silent for six months before deciding to go Public. What they would say to me was you will get Jerry killed you will get him killed " she said. After six months i just could t take it any longer. I could t believe the Media did t care about their own people. Looking Back at the other hostage situation in Irani was the telling of the Story that made something happen not the burying of it it just did t make sense she said. She sought the help of former president Carter who called a news conference to reveal that several americans were being held in Lebanon. The former president challenged president Reagan to reveal what he was doing to gain their release. Sis had been in touch with Jimmy at that time the former first lady said. So Jimmy was trying to get some attention for the  in fact his news conference sort of smoked or. Reagan out Levin said. He actually broke the silence for us and we will be eternally  the Mideast trip funded by the port land ore., Relief Agency mercy corps International will include talks with a variety of women ranging from homemakers to the minister of culture in Syria and members of parliament in Israel