European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 7, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes wednesday. May 7, .1986 urges new Airship Fleet by Norman Black a military writer Washington a Navy Board has Given its Blessing to resuming the Blimp to Active duty a move that would harness up dated versions of a world War u standby and Pil to. Against the latest in soviet missile technology Navy sources say. The chief of naval operations executive Board has recommended to Navy Secretary John f. Lehman that he seek funds to begin building a new fled of airships in fiscal 1988, Nav officials said. The Board during a meeting a week ago concluded a newly designed modern Blimp could serve As a useful and relatively cheap radar platform thai could travel with sur face snips and warn them against Low flying cruise missiles the sources said. The Board is contemplating Between 20 and so blimps and is urging Lehman to go to Bat for the program  internal budget Light the officials added Lehman has not made a final decision however and the Outlook for his response is news update clouded by the new Tamm Radman balanced budget Law and congressional opposition to increased Pentagon spending the officials  Navy refuted monday to discuss the matter saying Only the program s future had yet Looe decided. The Navy disclosed its instr Sci in reviving he Blimp last year by awarding six different feasibility Coni Racis. Those studies three to research Blimp designs and. Three to research radar systems were completed in december. Those contracts were expanded earlier this year with a Navy request for Mote detailed analysis. The Navy s fiscal i9s7 budget request already includes s10 million for additional design and research work. The initial contract studies were provided by adm. James a Wlkins the chief of naval operations to his executive Board which serves As an evaluation panel on new weapons development. It was that Board which decided development was merited he source said. During world War if he Navy used nearly 170 blimps to accompany convoys part Way across the Atlantic to help spot enemy submarines. By 1961, Liow Cvar the lust of the lighter than air forces had been retired. When it awarded the feasibility contracts last year the Navy said it was doing so out of concern Over the growing sophistication of soviet cruise missiles. Such missiles can be fired at great distances from 3 surface ship skimming Over the water at such a Low Altitude they Are difficult a detect on radar. We want to examine what new techno Logies Hare become available Siacco he Navy last used airships in the 1960s." a Navy spokesman said at the Lime. Fred Nebiker n vice president of the Goodyear aerospace corp., which received one of the feasibility contracts predicted last july that radar carried aboard blimps could greatly expand the warning time for Navy vessels. Nebiker said blimps could be produced that would be taster More a ecu Scrable and More difficult la see than the Type built by his firm and used during world Averll. 8v modern Navy blimps would probably cruise at an Altitude of 5,000 feel to 10,000 feel and be capable of being resupplied and refuelled at a Nebiker said. Such airships could replace helicopters and air planes that now perform sued surveillance missions but whose night Lime is limited Barney Scofield a Goodyear spokesman said monday he could hoi discuss the Navy Board s decision. We completed our initial study at the end of last year and provided it to the Navy the spokesman said. We re hearing j unofficially some of the same things you Are but we Haven t been told anything for maily according to Trade publications the Navy has reportedly talked of new blimps that would Cost roughly s65 million each including radar systems. V besides Goody for the companies work ing on Blimp designs arc the Boeing Mili tary air plane co. And the Westin Hauie corp. Last crash victim buried Sanford Maine a the last of the 248 . Soldiers killed in december s jetliner crash in Newfoundland has been buried. About 100 mourners attended the burial of pvt Scott a. Stritch who was from Sanford Stritch was one of he i Olst airborne div sol Diers killed in the dec. U crash of an Arrow air jetliner at Gander Airport in Canada. The soldiers were returning from a peacekeeping Mission in the Middle East. Eight Crew members also were killed. Ruling on guru disciple the Dalles Oregon a a disciple of Indian guru Bhawar Soiree Rajnesh has pleaded guilty to election fraud admitting she already was registered to vote in he sect s commune City when she registered in the Dalles. A Anand Jagruti was placed on probation for a year and fined 12,500. The prosecution sought the lenient sentence be cause Jagruti cooperated with investigators. Assist ant . Attorney Enron Snel Dihl said she was instrumental in solving a food poisoning outbreak in the Dalles that made 750 people ill in 1984. Jagruti 38, is serving five years1 probation for her role in an electronic eavesdropping scheme at the Indian guru s Central Oregon commune. Schedule restored Brigham City Utah a Morton thic to inc., which males Booster rockets for the space shuttle u returning to a five Day work week some 1,000 employees who had been reduced to four Days but the firm has Laid off 7f other workers Morton Thi Okol Laid off 200 people on feb. 14 after he National aeronautics and space administration instructed the company to curtail work on some parts of the boosters. 6th Fleet Sailor seriously injured during robbers assault in Naples Naples Italy is a 6th Fleet Sailor critically wounded during a robbery saturday was in serious but so Ajule condition tuesday following exploratory surgery. Airman apprentice Robert Scott Zampino and another Sailor from the aircraft Carrier America were robbed and subbed by unknown assailants said cmdr James Harries file reel Public affairs officer. Zampino of Albion pa., underwent emergency treat ment at Pelligrino Hospital in Naples before he was transferred to the . Navy Hospital in Naples the other Sailor airman Lawrence Sabourin of Long Villa minn., was treated far minor cuts and released. Barncs said he did not know How Many people assaulted the sailors nor How much Money was stolen. The Navy Hospital expects to Transfer Zampino to the army Hospital in Lan Stuhl Germany in the next few Day. Zampino and Sabourin Are assigned to Carrier Earl warning so 123 on the America which was on it routine port visit in Naples the investigation into the assaults it continuing. Us. Specialist begins operating on soviet victims of nuclear disaster los Angeles a a Bone marrow transplant specialist has begun operating on victims of he soviet nuclear Plant disaster and three More . Specialists have joined the Mission Occidental Petroleum corp. Said monday. Occidental whose chairman helped arrange the assist Ance said the three specialists Are either with or. Robert Gale in Moscow or Are in route. Thousands of pounds of vitally needed medical equip ment arc being airlifted to the soviet Union the company added in a statement. Or. Gale is receiving full cooperation from the soviet doctors and the ministry of health said Occidental chair Man Arr and Hammer adding that he has been in touch with Gale by Telephone doily since Gale left last week. To play an important Rale in saving victims of radiation from the damaged chernobyl reactor. Heavy doses of radiation destroy Bone marrow causing death. Bone marrow transplants were developed primarily to help victims with such diseases As leukaemia. The decision by the soviet government to admit Gale head of the International Bone marrow registry was that country s firs significant acceptance of outside help in coping with the radiation leak from its chernobyl nuclear Power Plant near Kiev in the Ukraine. Has steadfastly spurned offers of help from foreign governments including the United states. The Cost of Gale s Mission is being underwritten by Occidental although the company said monday the soviet Union has said it will repay the los a tides a Vised Energy concern later. Occidental s release gave no indication of the number of radiation victims and Occidental spokesman Frank Ash icy said he could t elaborate. Gale began performing operations on soviet patients in Moscow Over the weekend the company said. Separately Gale s wife Tamar said she spoke to her Hus band late sunday but she added he did t discuss his work in the soviet Union except today he s been very Busy. The situation is delicate enough that i Don t want to interfere she said. The 40-year-old Gale is an associate professor of medi Cine at the University of California it los Angela. The International registry he Heads has close ties to 128 Bone marrow transplant centers around the world and through them has Access to lists of tip to 100,000 potential Bane marrow donors. Occidental said two of Gale s colleagues from Urcla have joined him in Moscow or. Paul Terasaki a tissue typing expert and or. Richard Champlin a longtime associate of Maleat Urcla s Bone marrow transplant Laboratory the other . Medical specialist who is in route to Moscow is or. Yair Reisner of memorial Sloan Hellering cancer Center in new York. Occidental said medical equipment manufacturers and suppliers from around the world have loaned or donated equipment to the Mission which is being coordinated by Occidental. Among those companies is Chicago based Baxter to Ravanol which has loaned two blood cell separating machines and 20 infusion pumps to regulate the giving of intravenous fluids. Coulter electronics inc. Of Hialeah fla., has loaned a cell counting machine. Doctors must find genetically compatible Bone marrow donors before they can perform transplants. Stevenson announces running mate in Independent bid for governor Chicago a Adlai Stevenson on monday announced his running male in his Independent Campaign for governor saying be wants to defeat the supporters of Polit ical extremist Lyndon Larouche and everything they stand  Stevenson picked Cook county circuit judge Michael Hewlett or. To Complete his ticket. Stevenson resigned the democratic nomination for governor after two supporters of Larouche won nomination As lieutenant governor and Secretary of state in the March 18 primary. The future of Illinois is at Flake and so ii the integrity of our political process said Stevenson. He also announced that do Paffie county commissioner Jane Spirgel a teacher at Northern Illinois University. Would run for Secretary of stale As an Independent. Hewlett the 37-year-Otd son of Farmer Illinois Secre tary of stale Michael Hewlett resigned his judicial Posi Tion to join Stevenson s Independent Campaign a nominee for lieutenant governor. Stevenson is challenging Republican gov. James r. Thompson in his bid for an unprecedented fourth term. Stevenson is asking democrats to Vole the straight party ticket except for the governor s race where the governor and lieutenant governor run As a earn and Secretary of state. They the voters understand the simple mechanics of splitting a ballot Stevenson said. He also Laid he did not believe lie courts would order democrats to Field running mate for Mark Fairchild the Laruche supporter who won the lieutenant governor nomination. Janice Hart also a Larouche Backer claimed the parly s Secretary of state nomination Stevenson has said he would not share a ticket with b supporter of or ouch whose views he labels Neo nazi Stevenson must win i lawsuit hied against the Illinois Board of elections to run As an Independent candidate in november. If he loses be has said he will produce a full Alale of candidates for statewide offices and farm a to blvd party for the general election