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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Tuesday, July 29, 1986

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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 29, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 world today the stars and stripes tuesday july 29,1986 Egypt police seize heroin arrest South korean Sailor Suez City Egypt up police seized 31 kilograms of heroin estimated to be Worth $20 million aboard a panamanian registered vessel at Suez har Bor sunday and arrested a South korean Sailor on charges of attempting to smuggle the drugs int Egypt. Police sources said the haul described As the second largest in Egypt s history was seized aboard the vessel glorious Ocean which was sailing from Pakistan to Belgium. The ship arrived in Suez Harbor before Dawn Sun Day to Cross the Suez canal on its Way to the Mediterranean. The South korean Sailor named As Kern Jung Kuji admitted to police that he planned to deliver the he Roin loan egyptian trafficker. He remains in custody pending a trial. Under egyptian Law. Bringing drugs into the country is punishable by death. American student drowns in Lake in Northern Wales Bangor Wales up an american studying at Oxford University drowned while trying to help a Friend in trouble in a Lake in Northern Wales police said sunday. The student was identified As Joseph Noser jr., 20,of Birmingham Ala. His Friend Douglas Lowery of Clockville miss.,was recovering at a Bangor Hospital. Police inspector David Morgan said Noser Low cry and two other american students were walking near Hie Lake in Llanberis about 8 Miles South of Bangor saturday evening when three of them decided to swim. Lowery got into trouble and Noser went to hit res Cue margin mid. Bui Noser also went under and Dis Fly Penrod. Lowery resurfaced unconscious and was pulled Roshore by Charles Nottingham the inspector said. Police divers sunday found a body believed to be that of Noser Morgan said. He said All four americans were on a British studies course at Oxford. France expels Basque As suspected terrorist henday France up France monday expelled to Spain a Basque separatist suspected of plan Ning terrorist attacks raising to four the number or basques expelled this month regional government officials said. Ose Luis Artola amen a 30, was arrested monday by French air and Border police when he left his Home in site 17 Miles from the Spanish Border to go to work. Police said they believed amen a was preparing to commit terrorist  he was banded Over to Spanish authorities under a emergency order from the Interior ministry. Amenta s deportation followed the expulsions of three other suspected Basque terrorists. Ethiopia assails Europe . For supporting s. Africa Addis Ababa Ethiopia up ethiopian presi Dent Mengistu Heile Manam offered monday to train 10,000 guerrillas to fight in South Africa and . And european support for Pretoria As sad Dishon Oracle selfish and hypocritical. It is sad to note the dishonourable stand the .and some european nations have maintained in their unholy Alliance with the Pretoria regime Mengistu told the opening session of a three Day Summit of Black african Heads of slate. He told the organization of african Unity meeting in the ethiopian capital that Covert and overt sup port of South Africa by the United slates and Europe was based on selfish economic interests contrary to their pretensions to be the guardians of  a blast at the Wall of pm an East German Border guard right stands near Abole blasted in the Berlin Wall on monday by unidentified attackers. An East German policeman loops to gather pieces of the Wall and put them in a bag voile a is. Military policeman stands with Bli Hack to the debris the bomb exploded Anund 130a.m. And broke window to nearby bund Lotf. Then was m immediate claim of resport Edlry for the blast which was near checkpoint Charlie the Beh a Swan transit Poux Between Berlin two i military mop making computers newest Way to Chart a course Washington a in a darkened room the command to a computer brings up a display on a video screen of a River Valley bisected by a dam a View that can be easily changed to put the observer above the dam or downriver looking up at the Structure. Welcome to the new world of military map Malingin the computer age. The room is part of the defense mapping Agency the 13-year-old organization charged with producing the thousands of different types of maps and Chart used by America s military. The dam churns out a staggering variety of maps putting together everything from the Field maps used by army troops 10 the maps of Tripoli Libya followed by . Bombers last april during their raid and the targeting information sitting inside the guidance sys tems of America s nuclear Arsenal of missiles and bombers. In the old Days mapmakers used pencils and com passes to draw their charts. Now the dam s 9,500 employees Are increasingly turning to computers to draw essentially the same thing Only in much More detail and much More quickly. Laser scanners and Light pencils Are now used to produce Many of the maps particularly those that go into the increasing array of smart weapons fielded by the Pentagon. One of those weapons is the cruise missile. The Pentagon plans to deploy thousands of cruise weapons aboard ships planes and ground launchers. The slow Low flying cruise is designed to go under enemy Radan hugging the terrain As it cruises toward its target. The bean of the weapon s guidance system Isa Metal Box the size of Small Book that contains a computer tape produced by the dam As the cruise weapon Heads for its target sensor aboard the missile read the terrain and compare it with the pre set dam map making corrections to keep the weapon on target. Computerized map making is a bewildering system of digital feature analysis data which is overlaid on the digital terrain Elevation data. The compute tapes eventually end up in the guidance systems of the medium Range Pershing ii atomic missiles stationed i Germany and armed a the soviet Union. In addition to producing maps for the military Thelma also produces a variety of hydrographic charts for merchant ships and issues the notices to mariners a Century old system that warns captains about a variety of potential problems ranging from pirates to navigation hazards. The dam does t work alone according to its director air Force maj. Cen. Robert a. Rosenberg. There Are agreements with More than 80 nations to Exchange information. Although dam was created in 1972 by combining the map making work of the four services it received Little publicity until the 1983 invasion of Grenada . Marines and army troops. The ground troops complained that they had Only a tourist map to use As they hit the beaches on the Caribbean Aland Pel Malkie the dam Public affair officer explained that the map was a combat map produced by the British the former colonial masters of  British gave it to Grenada who used it As a Tourin map and a copy of the tourist version ended up in the when the Grenada operation was planned on Short notice Malkie explained the dam quickly copied it without removing the Logotype of the Gren Adun  Board. Thus even Hough map was Fine for use in combat it was viewed As a tourist map Malkie said. In its lessons Learned study of the Grenada opera Tion said Rosenberg one or the conclusions was that the the dam needed to be involved earlier in Contin gency planning. Now he lakes part in the weekly meet Ings of the joint chiefs of Start Rosenberg pronounces himself completely satisfied with the current system and says tic dam now has a system of people on Call round the Dock ready to oversee the production of the latest and most updated maps or charts needed by Pentagon planners  
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