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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 11, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday May 11, 1986 the stars and stripes Page 5 rat patrol officer Don swam shows off fing he rat attack Cut Al la police department in grand Prairie Texas. There were rats and plenty of pm in Ibe properly storage room until Fang started showing a Ittah a few weeks go. The cops found he 10 Pound feline at the local animal shelter. Pentagon says Star wars be Cost effective by Norman Black a military writer. Washington the Pentagon on Friday dismissed suggestions that president re Jan Star wars research program is being pursued with less emphasis on cast than previously responding to press reports tic Pentagon released a statement saying its latest annual report to Congress on the Star wars program Doo not represent a departure from previous administration policy regarding Cost  All military programs the strategic defense initiative ski program must be Cost effective the statement said. The associated press quoting from a rep. It written by ski director it Gen. James Abrahamson. Said thursday that the Pentagon had told Congress an anti ballistic mis Sile defense should be deployed if it meets four conditions flt has a potential role in u a strategy if it would serve As a deterrent to Surprise attach and enemy  if it would make a contribution to our arms control objectives if it is technically feasible -.-. How we View the relative weights and priorities of these criteria cannot be fixed in time the report said. The degree to which we Are successful in defining feasibility and affordability will be u major Factor in future decisions. By emphasizing affordability the report dropped a the margin criterion set in a landmark speech by ambassador Paul Nilita a key arms control adviser to president Reagan. Me said a strategic  should be Cost effective at the  that is. Less expensive than new weapons de signed to penetrate it a prominent congressional critic of ski sen. William Proxmire ,"l think that  code word for a raid on the  the Pentagon in its stut Cuenl Friday said there were no differences of opinion Between Nitro the White House and the defense department about the meaning of affordability and Cost effective Al the  we will consider in our evaluation of options Gener ated by ski research the degree to which certain types of defensive systems by their nature encourage an adversary to overwhelm them with additional offensive capability while other systems can discourage such a coun Ter Effort the Pentagon said we seek defensive options As with other military systems that Are Able to maintain capability More easily than counter measures could he taken to try to defeat them. This criterion is couched in terms of Cost effective Ness. However it is much More than an economic concept the Pentagon said. Concern Over Star wars led Congress to trim the administration s 13.tt billion request for ski research this year to s2.7 billion and to tack onto the 1986 spending authorization Bill an amendment proposed by Proxmire forbidding the deployment of a strategic defense system unless it meets Nilze s criterion that it be Cost effective at spending More on ski will Avert  senators told Washington up the father of the Hydrogen bomb told Congress on Fri Day that it should invest More Money not less in Star wars research calling that the Best Way to spare humanity from another world . "Money,"1 said or. Edward Teller is Likely to to Itie key to opposing genocide and preserving  Teller the creator of the Hydrogen bomb and one of those who helped develop the atomic bomb told the Senate defense appropriations subcommittee that the Strate Gic defense initiative As Star wars is formally known u now underfunded. Your action in approving the Pentagon budget spending for ski is the Best was to save the world from a third world  Teller Slid. An ardent supporter of the ski program Teller said an extra $200 million a year for two years should be poured into work on x Ray lasers which Are believed Able to pro Duce a powerful beam of destructive Energy by concentrating the a Ray radiation of a Small nuclear explosion. The administration which in fiscal 1986 received 12,75 billion Tor the ski research into new technologies that could produce weapons to Knock out enemy missiles and warheads is asking for almost 14.8 billion in the next fiscal year which starts oct. 1. Teller said the soviet Union has carried out a great number of experiments that seem to be i reeled at a Ray laser work. The Energy department which conducts . Nuclear research is not running experiments in tunnels which arc Ideal for a Ray work. Teller said. Spending the extra Money hcs Aid would make a great difference the noted scientist said a harmless nuclear explosion is needed for an a Ray reported sold confidential info for $400 Sailor charged with passing secrets Point Mug Nas Calif. A a Navy enlisted Man was charged with espionage Friday for Selling weapons secrets to an undercover officer. Petty officer 3.c. Robert Dean Haguewood 24, who had worked with bombs and other munitions at the Pacific missile test Center since november 1984, is accused of Selling part of i classified weapons manual with the intent that a foreign government would use it said a cmdr. Don Lewis. Haguewood who was stationed at this coastal base where cruise missiles Are tested also was charged with four related counts. He faces a hearing monday said Lewis the test Center spokesman. If Haguewood is convicted on All five sex Abc news up official to head Fordham Center new York a Fordham univer sity has announced the establishment of a Center for communications at its Lincoln. Center Campus and named journalist Wil Liam a Small As its director. Small former president of Abc news and of United press International also will serve As Felix e. Larkin professor of communications a Post endowed by . Grace & co. In Honor of the former chair Man or its executive committee. Charges his maximum prison term would be 17 years and he would be Dis honorable discharged Lewis said. The document involved was an aircraft ordnance loading manual. It was a relatively Low level document Lewis said. Haguewood a native of Springfield mo., was arrested March 4 after he allegedly sold half the weapons loading manual for $400 to an undercover Oxnard police offi cer the two made the Exchange on the Beach 0,1 Oxnard while agents from naval incs i native service the Fri and port hueneme police secretly watched Lewis said. Lewis said the document was confidential a lower classification than secret or top secret material that As a Rule is not going to jeopardize the Security of the coun  although no foreign nationals were involved in the transaction Lewis said the espionage charge was filed because authorities believed Haguewood intended he material to go to a foreign government. Lewis would not say if the manual was related to cruise missiles which Are like robot bomb Laden planes. The Tomahawk cruise missile has been tested at the Pacific missile test Center. A Navy source at the Pentagon demand ing anonymity said in March that Hague Wood was not a big Lime spy in the category of More than a dozen people arrested since May 19g5, the source said Hague Wood who earned about �900 a month and was separated from his wife was in serious rouble financially Haguewood is being held held at a Brig in Long Beach pending his hearing in hat City monday. The court martial to take place at the seance naval construction battalion Cen Ter Al port hueneme is tentatively scheduled for a week later Lewis said. It look two months to tile charges against Haguewood because of extensive Navy procedures including an examination 01 what charges should be filed and a review by the commanding officer of the missile test Cen Ter said Navy spoke sea n Ray Lucasey. This is a very formal procedure to protect the accused plus to ensure that the proper procedures Are filed Lucasey said. Actor Robert Alda Dies after Long illness los Angeles a actor Robert Alda who starred As George Gershwin in the Story of the composer s life rhapsody in Blue and was the father of actor Alan Alda has died after a Long illness. He was 72. Alda who suffered a stroke two Yean ago and never fully recovered died at his los Angeles Home. Laser and explained thai a Small explosion would Emit a Strong radioactive beam. That in 1,000 Miles would spread no More than five  for this program we need a nuclear initiative he said a nuclear aspect of the ski program is absolutely necessary he said. We must work to prevent methods of mass destruction whether in conventional nuclear or biological  the soviet Union As part of its anti mis Sile defense system around Moscow con templates detonating Small nuclear weapons Over the City he Aid. Small charges could be detonated two or three mites above the ground without harming those below but re entry for , warheads would be very much More difficult Teller  of time in the stars and stripes 40 years ago today. May 11, 1946 in new York Eleanor Roosevelt chairwoman of the . Com Mission on human rights scolded All members of . Subcommission for being Long winded in drafting proposals to improve the status of women 30 years ago today. May 11, 1956 Holdine that the . Supreme court has t outlawed intr stale bus segregation yet Alabama circuit judge Waller Jones directed Montgomery City lines to abandon its new integration policy. 20 years ago today. May 11,1966 the Viet Cong exploded a mine in the heart of Saigon and . Sentries turned one of the capital s Busy streets into a Battleground. Five vietnamese civilians were kilted and eight americans and 21 Vietnam Ese civilians were wounded. 10 years ago today. May ii 1976 the Fri conducted More than 200 illegal Black bag Job break ins against Domestic groups Between 194$ and 1966 without idling the Justice department according to a Senate commit tee staff report  
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