European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 9, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday july 9. 1986 the stars and stripes Page 9 Asa awards scrambler phone contracts by Norman Black a military writer Washington the nations Secu Niy Agency As part of a move to lighten internal government Security has awarded initial production contracts to three major communication companies for a new generation of scrambler telephones. The contracts announced by the de sense department monday total $190 million and Call for production of almost50,000 of the new secure telephones for government offices. The phone dubbed us Stu id will remade by Atit technology systems in Greensboro  Motorola inc. I Schaumburg Iii and Ria aerospace and defense in Caroden nj., the Pentagon the three companies were originally selected in 1985 to develop the Telephone and then competed for a share of the initial production contract. The Penta gon said Ria had received a contract Otaling $84.66 million at to a con tract totalling $55,23 million and Moto Rola one for s50.11 million. Neither the Pentagon nor the National Security Agency would say How Many of the new phones were to be made by each company under the initial contracts. But All three companies Wilt begin deliveries of he phones in the latter part of 1987," the Pentagon said. The government plans an aggressive program to install the new telephones to protect classified and sensitive telecommunications. The award of the Stu-111 production contracts represents a significant step Forward in improving the Secu Rity of .  the Asa the Supe Secrel intelligence Agency responsible for monitoring elec tronic communications around the world also is in charge of protecting . Government communications. In that Rale the Agency decided More than a year ago to sponsor development of anew generation of secure telephones that could be produced at a reasonable Price. A More affordable phone would make it possible to significantly expand the existing network of secure phones and thus better protect National and defense secrets officials said last fall. People get careless because there Are a limited number of secure phones  j. Leahy d-vt., a member of the Senate intelligence committee said last year in discussing the program. The Asa repeatedly has refused to say How Many secure phones in currently has although government sources have complained the system in t much larger now than it was 30 years ago. According to an oct. 15,1985, report by the general accounting office in existing secure phones used by the Penta gon other government agencies and key defense contractors Are Large heavy and cumbersome to use and Cost Between j8.000 and si2,000 apiece. The new Stu Iii phone incorporating the latest in digital computer technology is said to be the size of a Standard multilane office phone. The Asa said last year in had set a target Price of roughly $1,000 for each  new phone takes a person s voice and rearranges it into a group of random sounds that sound like meaningless noise until they get to the other end and Are put Back in proper order. The phone translate voices into digital signals which Are then scrambled by built in computer chips. The process works so fast that neither party to the Conversa Tion is aware of any delay. Washington primary elections will beheld sept. 9 in Vermont and new York. Servic Membert and their families can obtain information on voting procedures by requesting 1986-87 voting assistance guide from unit voting assistance officers. Federal Post card applications Alto Are available from local units. Civilians May obtain voting information from any . Embassy or consulate. The following information is provided by the Federal voting assistance office in the Penta gon. If local assistance is not available overseas voters May Contact the Federal voting assist Ance program director. Room 18457, Pentagon Washington . 20301, or Auto on z25-0663 or commercial 202 695-0663. Vermont voters will select candidates for . Senator for . Representative lieutenant governor attorney general Secretary of state state treasurer auditor of accounts 30 state senators and 1 50 state representatives. They also will select candidates Lor the county offices of judge of probate assistant judge states attorney sheriff and High Bailiff. The Federal Post card application serves As a simultaneous request for the state registration form and an Absentee ballot for Sec members and their families other stale residents temporarily residing outside the United states an overseas citizens voting under the overseas Citi Zens voting rights act the Post card application must be mailed in time to reach the town clerk not Bier than 17 Days before the election. Vermont recently changed its statutes to allow a Tingle port card application to be used As a request tar Boih the primary and general elec Tion ballots if both Are appropriately marked on the  Law now provides for ballots to be ready for mailing 35 Days before the  the new York ballot will be candidates for the . Senate 35 . Representatives Gover nor lieutenant governor comptroller attorney general. 60 state senators 150 state representative and lower supreme court justices. Voters also will select candidate foe county executive. Sheriff county clerk and District a  and their families and Over seas citizen voters voting under the Oversea citizens voting rights act May Register and re quest an Absentee ballot by submitting a Federal Post card application 10 the Board of election sin their county of voting residence. Days before the election. Overseas citizens voting under the voting  receive Federal ballots Only. Doe Yosl card application must be submitted tee staff i we.  my be sent to request a gweralf0"affiliation must be provided on the Remi stint a primary  Mast be postmarked not later after the election. Senators differ with Pentagon on chemical bomb performance Washington not congressional critics of chemical weapons and Pentagon officials pressing for their production Are quarrelling Over How to interpret the latest test data on a new chemical bomb. The Pentagon officials judged the latest tests on the Bigeye chemical bomb to be a qualified Success Al though at lean one key component repeatedly failed and must be modified but a bipartisan group of 20 senators wrote defense Secretary Caspar a Weinberger on june 26 saying that All of us wit vote against producing any weapon that has failed its tests for Utility reliability and effectiveness both the House and the Senate Are expected to con Sider amendments that would eliminate Money for the weapon in military spending Bills for 1987, which come up for consideration later this month. The Bigeye which would be dropped from aircraft far behind enemy lines is one of a new generation of weapons containing two relatively innocuous Chemi cals that mix into a deadly nerve agent when the weapon is fired. The general accounting office an investigative Arm of Congress published a sharply critical report on the Bigeye last month saying that tests conducted Dur ing the bomb s development had shown in was not ready for production. Pentagon officials disputed this saying that the latest test results gathered from april 1985 to february 1986, had not been considered by the Agency. A summary of some of the latest test results obtained from or. Thomas j. Welch Deputy assistant Secretary of defense for chemical matters slated that most of the weapons dropped in that Lime had per formed properly once a key component was repaired. In Navy tests of 20 weapons three failures were attributed to a malfunction of the air Turbine Generator that is used to mix the chemicals. Two additional tests were discounted after the aircraft s bomb rack failed to work. The rack is being fixed separately. Separate air Force trials Over the same period had to be interrupted after the Generator failed in three out of the first four attempts to drop the bomb. But even after the problem was fixed Only 12 of 15 further air Force drops succeeded. One of the failures again was attributed to the Generator while the other two were attributed to fuses in the nose of the bomb. If you look Al the reports from the air Force and the Navy on their operational testing there is plenty of rationale to support the decision to go into Low rate initial production Welch told reporters recently. Congressional staff members said they had been told of the Navy results but not the air Force results. They suggested that Welch had been selective in choosing which results to make Public and contended that some of the classified results of the Navy tests provided further arguments not to proceed with production. Welch was away from Washington and could not be reached for further comment and John e Ringi the Pentagon s director of operational testing also was unavailable for comment. Krings who has Aid he agrees with Many of the Gao s criticisms of the bomb has promised thai it wit not be produced unless further Lesti prove it to be effective. . Wants Chile to investigate . Resident s violent death Washington a the state department is calling for a thorough investigation of the death of a . Resident who witnesses say was beaten and burned to death by chilean soldiers. Meanwhile critics of the chilean government of Augusto Pinochet Are using the incident to renew their demand that he resign the Post he assumed after a bloody military coup in 1973. State department spokesman Bernard Kalb said monday that chilean authorities have asked thai a special investigator be appointed to look into the death of 19-year-old Rodrigo Rojas de Negri a chilean Citi zen who had been living with his exiled Mother in Washington for the past decade. The Young Man returned to Santiago Chile last week just before two Days of anti government strikes that fell Lix Young slum residents dead 56 others wounded and More than 600 arrested. Rojas was said by witnesses and relatives to have been beaten doused with flammable  then burned along with a female companion As he walked from a slum area of Santiago on wednesday morning. He died sunday and the Young woman remains in serious condition. It is the . Hope that a Complete and thorough investigation into this tragic incident will be con ducted,1 Kalb said at the stale department. The Reagan administration has been increasingly critical of the Pinochet regime in Public and has been reported As privately urging Pinochet to Lake Quick action to Case tension Over his 12 a year military Rule. Ariel Dorfman a chilean novelist who leaches periodically at Duke University told a news conference that attacks on civilians by disguised soldiers Ere hoi uncommon in Chile. He said he was in Santiago at the Lime Rojas was1 attacked and he was thwarted by police in his efforts to get him moved to a Hospital thai could better treat bums. . Embassy officials in Santiago were extraordinarily humanitarian in trying to Aid in that Effort and in making it possible for Rojas Mother to enter Chile and be with her son for a Day before lie died Dorfman said