European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 23, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday july 23, the stars and stripes Page 7 Dod May abandon f-15-launched asat by the Washington Post Washington the defense department i Likely to scrap its controversial f-15-launched anti Sal Ellric asat system if Congress votes to continue a ban on tests of the weapon against a target in space Pentagon and congressional sources say. Dubbed the flying Tomato can and designed to be fired into space from a High flying f-15 fighter he air Force asat missile has been plagued by technical problems during much of its eight year history. The Pentagon already has Cut the number of asat bases from two to one and the number of missiles it planned to buy by two thirds. Pentagon officials who now describe the system As Only the first phase of a broader asat program said they will focus More on promising anti satellite technologies thai Are being developed As part of presi Dent Reagan s strategic defense initiative. Until now the Reagan administration has pushed the Al 5-launched missile on grounds thai the soviets already have an operational asat and the United states does not. Washington also argued against negotiating a ban on All types of anti sate tile systems be cause such an agreement could not be verified. Last year. Congress adopted restrictions which pro Hibit the air Force from testing the current asat against a target in space unless the soviets undertake such a test. Consequently the next two tests of the system now scheduled for August and september will target the Radiant Energy from a Star a method permitted by the congressional rules. The congressional restrictions Art expected to be renewed for the fiscal year beginning oct. I and that would undercut air Force plans for three tests against orbiting targets now scheduled for fiscal 1987. The House armed services committee has deleted All procurement Money sought by the Pentagon for fiscal 1987 and slashed the requested research funds. The full House is expected to add the testing restrictions. The Senate armed services committee has agreed to the funds and to allow testing but rep. Les Aspin d-wis., chairman of the House panel is in peeled to hold Linn when the testing Issue reaches a conference committee since he is under fire from Fel Low democrats for failing to support their positions on other issues. Because of the restrictions now in Force the air Force already dropped plans for two asat tests this year against an  orbiting target launched last november the $20 million space vehicle which has two targets is still in orbit. Originally the Pentagon planned to base Al 5 anti satellite squadrons at Mcchord fab in Washington and Langsev fab a in order to be Able to attack soviet satellites from two different Points. Seoul to tighten copyright Laws by the los Angela tuna Washington threatened with . Trade Sanction South Korea has agreed to introduce legis lation calling for Tuff  korean companies that produce unauthorized copies of such copyright properties As books movies and computer software the Reagan administration Nuj monday. The agreement Wii the final Victory in administration a Albru to Stem copyright and Patent violations that Cost . Industry up to $20 billion a year. The Seoul government also agreed to broaden the coverage its Patent Laws give chemicals and pharmaceuticals and to make it easier for foreign businesses to obtain trademark Protection and to allow .companies Access to its insurance Market which White House spokesman Lurry Speakes estimated is Worth $5 billion a year. Speakes said the actions were the fruit of an administration plan announced last september to move vigorously to improve conditions for .companies in individual foreign  army helped teamsters win Union election by he Washington Post Washington the army at the request of lie while House intervened last october to help the teamsters win a hotly contested Union election among civilian employees at fort Sill okla., according 10 army documents and federa labor officials. The teamsters were the Only major Union to endorse Reagan in 1980 and 1984. The intervention arranged through president Reagan s political director Mitchell Daniels and the office of defense Secretary Caspar w. Wein Berger violated a Law re Quiring the government to remain Neutral in much con tests according to a complaint issued feb. 19 by the general counsel of the Federal labor relations authority Flora. The army is contesting the charge. Participant in the meet ing included Deputy assistant Secretary of the army Valcris Ewell Michael w. Owen principal Deputy assistant Secre tary of the army and Andrew h. Card jr., Spe Cial assistant to the president. Teamsters president Jackie Presser under indictment for fraud had been expected to attend the meeting but did not. As a result of the meeting the Flora May vote to overturn the election which the teamsters won by a 591-w-516 margin Over the incumbent National federation of Federal employee Neffe. Neffe had represented fort Sill workers for15 years and the teamsters had failed to win an election there in june 1985. The teams Len publicized the meeting As Evi Dence of the unions Clou in Washington Man gets 11/2-year sentence for crude Oil theft los Angeles up the last of four men convicted in one of the largest crude Oil thefts in . History was sentenced monday to 18 months in prison. Mosc Allen Geter jr., 23, of Palm desert pleaded guilty last month to conspiracy and theft from an inter state shipment. . District judge a. Wallace Tashima also fined Geter 15,000 and ordered that he be placed on five years probation following his release from prison. During his probation he will have to perform 250 hours of Community service. Prosecutors said the men including Oder s father and younger brother siphoned More than 10 million Gallons of Oil Worth $4 million from a tapped under ground pipeline in the desert North of Palm Springs Between Laic 1981 and january 1985, the pipeline is owned by a subsidiary of Atlantic Richfield co. And carries crude Oil from Long Beach to a Junction with other interstate pipelines in red Mesa Utah. The stolen Oil was pumped at night into Anker trucks and sold to refineries As coming from Independent Oil companies. Geter s father Mose Allen Geter 44, of Morongo Valley was found guilty by a jury of playing a leading role in the three year weft scheme and last week was sentenced by Tashima to five years in prison. He also was fined $50,000. A younger son Christopher Geter 23, of paint Springs pleaded guilty and was sentenced to one year and one Day in prison a fourth nun accused of co founding and managing the scheme. Konrad Edi Prager 35, of Morongo Val Ley was sentenced to four Yean in prison Ana fined $100,000 for his guilty plea. James Wade Stone formerly of Indio allegedly developed the scheme with Prater. He dial last year in St. Louis bul was named As an Nln diced Coco Spira Tor.1 Rol the Tor. Conrail against Danforth proposal to funnel some of its funds to Nasa Washington a Senate com elaborate detail when payments on the Merce and other committees to report sen. John Danforth a Merce committee chairman John Dan Forth wants to make $450 million of profitable Conrail i Cash available to Nasa a proposal that was swiftly at tacked monday by the government owned Railroad. The idea behind the Missouri Republican s proposal which was to be formally presented during a committee meeting wednesday is to Nelp the space Agency meet budget restraints and to take advantage or Conrail s profitability said a committee aide speaking on the Condi Tion of anonymity. The Railroad said the plan represented a denial of due process and violated a financing agreement Between Conrail and the government that spells out in elaborate Conrail securities that the government holds Are  the department of transportation which owns 85 percent of Conrail had no immediate comment on Danforth s proposal. Under Danforth s proposal $450 Mil lion would be made available to the National aeronautics and space administration while another $10 million of Conrail funds would be used for other government purposes As part of the Bud get reconciliation process the staff Mem Ber said. On june 26, the House and Senate agreed to a nearly $1 trillion fiscal 1987 budget. Included were orders for com merc report Back on proposed changes in Law to achieve specific savings. According to the committee Dan Forth s idea was prompted in pan Fay con Cern about the Cost of Nasa implement ing the recommendations of a commission thai studied the explosion of the space shuttle challenger on Jan. 28. He was also said to be concerned about reports that the House and Senate armed services committees Are prepared to slash the Money thai finances the Mili tary s use of the space shuttle. Conrail was created by the Federal government on april i 1976, from the bankrupt Peon Central and other Rai lines. It Lumen its first profit in the Sec Ond Quarter of 1979, and now reports a Cash balance of about $ i billion