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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 21, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Saturday. Juno 21, 1986 the stars and stripes Page 7 Navy Breaks missile producer monopoly Norman Black a military writer Washington the Navy has awarded a $107.8 million contract 10 inc Ray Lacon co. To prepare facilities and begin Smalt scale production of inc so called Standard sm-2 anti aircraft mis Sile. The thursday move follows a june 3 announcement by the Navy that it had selected Raythelon to become a second source producer of the missile and break a monopoly held by the general dynamics corp the contract was awarded primarily for qualification work by Raythelon to prepare its production plants. It Calls on the company to produce an initial lot of 230 sm-2 missiles. The company is not expected to vie with general dynamics for Large Quantity production contracts until 1988. The decision to break out the sm-2 program for Competition is cracking a general dynamics monopoly on a pro Gram Worth billions of dollars. It comes at a time when the Navy is also trying to persuade the Newport news shipbuilding & dry Dock co. To tale on general dynamics in the production of Trident missile submarines. According to rear adm. Stuart Plait inc Navy s Competition advocate the service will need to buy roughly 2.000 of the sm-2 missiles every year through 1995. General dynamics had offered to reduce its Price for the sm-2 if the Pentagon would commit itself to a multiyear contract plate said but the Navy expects to save More than s550 million by pursuing Competition instead. According to the Navy general dynamics received a contract to provide 784 sm-2 missiles last year Al a Cost of $260 million reflecting a per Missil Cost of More than $330,000. The sm-2 is the primary anti aircraft missile now being deployed on All inc Navy s guided missile cruisers and destroyers. The weapon is described As an All weather supersonic radar guided missile that carries a High explosive frag mentation warhead for use against enemy planes. Thursday s con Raci was awarded to the missile systems division of Ray Theon in Cilford mass., for qualification and production of guidance control and Airframe sections for Standard mis Sile 2." the Navy said in a Brief contract announcement. Work will he performed in Bristol tenn., 79 percent , mass., ii per cent and Quincy mutt., 10  hanging in suspense Luv a party boat hangs Over inc Edge of the Trinity River dam in Furt Worth Texas after an engine malfunction caused the boat to rum sideways against he current. The boat was held by four ropes attached by a fireman who swam out to it. All passengers aboard 14 children and four adults were rescued in smaller boats. The boat was stranded on the dam thursday for an hour and 10 minutes. Sex nazi loses . Citizenship goes to Germany san Francisco Uhi a Model Citi in stripped of his . Citizenship for lying about his wartime duties As a nazi concentration Camp guard has Aken up residence in West Germany ail homilies say. . District judge Marilyn Hall pull signed the order wednesday and Joseph Wieland 77. Wouldhave been deported at once. However Deputy . Attorney Jeff born slain said the former Burlingame. Calif resident had left the United Stales and settled at an unknown location in West Germany. It was not known when Wieland left the country. Been an is guard at Maul Hauson during world War ii but did not acknowledge the activity when he Chi Rcd the United Stales in 1952. He became a citizen in 1958. Wieland and his wife Ana lived in the san Francis co Peninsula Community of Burlingame for Many years and his neighbors described him a a Model  authorities said Wieland was a member of inc a death s head squads at Mau Hausen for nearly one year in 1943-44, he previously served with the Waffen is the nazi elite combat Force they said.  said records discovered three years ago put them on Wieland s Trail. Economic Outlook for Blacks Best in South Washington a economic pros cols for Black americans seem to be belter in some soul him communities than in Many Northern Industrial cities a new study  report found that Long Island seems to offer the Best Outlook for Blacks bul just across new York state it rated Buffalo last among the As metropolitan areas with 100,000 or More Black residents. William o Hare compared those communities in nine areas concentrating on economics and Home ownership in an article published in the july Edi Tion of american demographics Magazine. Following Long Island among the five Best economic communities Tor Blacks were Miami Columbia so Richmond va., and Newport news Hampton. Va., said o Hare of Washington s joint Center for political studies. _.,.,.he said that along with Buffalo the Bottom ivc were Newark n.j., Milwaukee Chicago and Cleve amusing statistics from the 1980 census o Hare ranked the 48 metropolitan areas against each other in Elch of nine categories and then averaged the place ment for each Community to determine the Overall it nut Nassau and Suffolk counties on Long Island which topped five of the nine categories had an aver age placement of 4.7 in the Overall Lis Buffalo although it did not finish last in any individual category had an average ranking of 41  the comparisons do include several factors o Hare said they so not provide a full measure of the Quality of lib i deter employment i Wieas baled in Cuetei o Tyl cod i9fls a Trio lot Anguri m-3t 5.31 mined by More than economic considerations and this preliminary analysis docs not prove that Nassau suf Folk represents inc Pinnacle of Black America other factors  As educational opportunities the economic base of inc metropolitan area trends in population growth and the degree of racial segregation also need to be considered before conclusions can be drawn. Until this is done no Winner can be declared o Hare said. Nevertheless he managed to rank the 48 areas Al though cautioning that communities  As Miami with Large hispanic populations May inadvertently rank a billow High. Hispanics often Are included in the White category in economic studies lowering the economic average for Whites and thus making Blacks seem better off. By Compa Rison than they May actually be o Hare said. The categories in which o hate compared inc metropolitan areas arc median Black household income nationally $11 501 highest Nassau Suffolk. $18,826 lowest to bile. Ala., jb.673. Black Homeowner ship rate nationally 44.7 per cent highest Nassau Suffolk 61 percent lowest new York 1 a percent. Median value of Black owned Homes nationally 131,594 highest san Diego j69.ioo lowest Phila Delphia ii 17,500. Median Black household income As a percent of while household income nationally 59.1 percent highest Nassau Suffolk 76.6 percent lowest Mem Phis. Tenn., 47.4 percent. Black Home ownership Rale As a percent of while nationally. 66.5 percent highest Charleston s.c., 86.8 percent lowest Boston 41.3 percent  
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