European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 23, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 28  briefs the stars and stripes saturday. August 23.1986 soviet official defects Milwaukee a a soviet Trade official who was hospitalized while visiting a russian owned trac Tor Factor has been granted Asylum in the United slates. Sure department spokesman Bruce Ammerman in Washington on thursday identified the Man As Georgiy Gindra. 48, Deputy general director of Belarus machinery Usa inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of tract report of Moscow. The newspaper quoted sources As saying Gindra was experiencing marital and Job problems. Gindra requested Asylum while he was at Community memorial Hospital in my Romonce Falls. Nursing supervisor Lois Ahlers said Gindra was admitted Sun Day for  Belarus formed in 1977, assembles soviet made tra rotors and is supervised by the Ovici ministry of for eign Trade. Border incident reported Tokyo api a japanese newspaper said Friday that chinese and soviet Border guards exchanged fir along the Western sector of their Frontier in july and that one chinese guard was killed and another was injured. Yom Iuri Shimun in a dispatch from peking quoted an unidentified source As disclosing the july 12 clash on thursday. The newspaper quoted its source As saying 13 soviet Border guards fired on three chinese guards and two local residents who were on a routine patrol in Yili kazakh province of the Jinjian uygur autonomous Region. Texas Kilter executed Huntsville Texas up a Man who killed a convenience store clerk in a $25 Holdup in 1978 was executed Early Friday the second Texas convict put to death in 48 hours making the state no. I in meting out capital punishment since it was reinstated in 1976. Larry Smith. 30. Was pronounced dead at 12 24 . He was the 17th person executed in Texas since the ban on capital punishment was lifted. Florida has executed 16 of the 64 convicts put to death in the past  took the Cash from the Register and left but then returned and shot store manager Mike Mason in the Back of the head As he Lay face Down on the floor. Jets from Page t Lime training Mission. While the service has refused to discuss stealth technology. Air Force officials have told Congress thai they Are very Happy thus far with the ability of the planes to evade radar. That optimism about the future of stealth planes has led the air Force to oppose congressional moves that would permit the later Purchase of More bib bombers the planes that would be succeeded by stealth bombers. The air Force has received a go ahead for 100 b ibs but supporters of the plane have said the production line should be maintained in Case the stealth planes turn out to be less than advertised. Expenditures for the stealth program Are contained in the classified portion of the defense budget. However. The air Force has told Congress that Smith bombers Are expected to Cost no More than 3 percent More Lilian the 120,5 million Price lag on each of the a lbs. Some legislators such As rep. Mike Synar d-okla., have questioned those costs saying that the total of 132 bombers will Cost More. While some details of the bomber program have emerged facts about the stealth fighter Nave been harder to come by. Bui the program has been hard hit by rising costs according to a source and the air Force is Likely to buy no More than so of the fighters. The report said the Cost of the sophisticated fighter planes is under dispute. One source told the paper in would total $7 billion with the Cost per plane Topping $100 million including development costs. Bui othe defense officials say Llinat figure is too High. The technology developed in the stealth fighter pro Gram will eventually be applied to the next generation of air Force fighters in a plane known now As toe advanced tactical fighter at. That weapon is now under development As the chief fighter for the 21st Century replacing the current top fighters the of is and f-16. Soviet Union May redesign its nuclear Power reactors Moscow a Energy officials said the Cherno Byl Accident dealt a serious blow to the soviet nuclear Power program and is forcing officials to consider re designing reactors so that workers cannot override the safely  government blames the april 26 explosion and t at the ukrainian Plant s no. 4 reactor on human fire the ruling politburo meanwhile ordered the ministry of atomic Energy and other Energy agencies to pay special attention to conserving fuel und Energy so there will be enough during the fall and Winter. In its report on the politburo meeting however the official news Agency Tass made no mention of any Energy shortages because of the chernobyl Accident. Officials said at a news conference thursday thai the four reactor chernobyl Plant supplied 29 billion kilowatt Houis of Energy last year. The officials also confirmed that the april Accident killed 31 people. The previous official death loll re leased last month was 28.andranik Pilro slants chief of the atomic Energy committee said the disaster was forcing officials to consider locating reactors outside populated areas and redesigning them so workers cannot override safety systems. The chernobyl Plant is so Miles North of Kiev the ukrainian capital with 2.4 million residents. Petros Yants said chernobyl has Hurt the soviet nuclear Power program  no decisions have been made on revising the government s nuclear Energy plans he said but the Les sons of chernobyl of course cannot be unheeded. Anti satellite weapon meets test Washington a the air Force successfully tested ill anti satellite weapon Friday even though the test remained within restrictions imposed by Congress the service announced. The Anli Sale Lite asat weapon was fired from underneath a High flying f-15jet fighter launched from Edwards fab in Southern California. Because the asat was aimed at a Star rather than a target satellite in orbit around Earth it met restrictions imposed sail year by Congress. It was the fourth test of the weapon which sits at the end of a Small two stage rocket carried atoll by the fighter. After the plane fires the weapon the asat is supposed to slam into its target at High Speed. Last year congressional arms control advocates succeeded in winning enactment of a ban on test of the asat weapon against a target in space. That ban which extends through the fiscal year ending sept. 30, came after the . Asat successfully destroyed Ait aging scientific satellite. The asat lest ban would be extended through the next fiscal year in the Pentagon budget Bill approved last week by the democratic controlled House. No such ban is part of he companion measure passed earlier by the Republican run Senate and a House Senate conference committee will try next month to Iron but differences Between the iwo Bills. President Reagan hat threatened to veto any final version of the Bill if it contains the asat test ban or four other amendment added in the House by arms control advocate. Ammo in sex officer s truck probed Washington up i ammunition found in the truck of a retired air Force colonel accused of triggering a explosion with a self designed anti Lank weapon May have come from . Stockpiles it was reported Friday. The Pentagon is investigating and Federal agents raided an Ohio warehouse where possible weapons manufacturing materials were found the Washington Post reported. The warehouse was rented by retired col Robert Dilger 54, of Xenia Ohio a paid military affaire adviser to rep. Denny Smith a orc. Dilger and a Friend Joseph Donahue 40, of kill Cen Texas were charged with manufacturing and trans porting an explosive device after the 30mm gun Dilger designed sent a 9-Inch Shell through the cab of his pickup truck and into a Gas pump tuesday in nearby Arlington a. The explosion sent Shell fragments Over a Large area injuring four people one seriously. Ammunition found in Dilger s truck is of the tame Type that Dilger developed for an anti Lank gun when he was a procurement officer with the air Force Feder Al agents said in affidavits filed in Federal court in Alexandria a. A Pentagon spokesman Lold the Post that the Penta gon is trying to determine if the 30mm shells confiscated from Dilger s truck came from . Stockpiles. Dilger who retired in june 1980 from the air Force aeronautical systems development come at Wright Pat Terson fab near Dayton Ohio had tried for Yean to persuade military officials to adopt his idea of a portable Low Cost Anli tank gun said a Friend Charles Myers he was rebuffed several limes by procurement officials the Post reported quoting congressional and defense Industry sources. Dodds from papa 1_ systems. She created problems without creating Solu  he defined such problems As the seven period school Day a delay in the announcement of this year s school Calendar and the abolishment of the teacher Transfer program. We be had differences with Bloom in the Mediterranean Region said Lehmann but we re both concerned about the welfare of the school and the welfare of the students and i m sure we can work  Jack Rollins president of the overseas education association said he has worked with Bloom beforehand can work with him in the new Job. He said the bigger question is whether the Dodds director will have real authority. Al appears thai Pope s office May work with the regional directors and not through the Dodds director Rollins said he said that could result in delayed decisions and less Access for the unions to decision makers. One Day before she resigned Stephens told a con Gressional committee that a Pentagon reorganization placing Pone s office Between her and the assistant Secretary of defense for Force management and person net violated the 1978 Law that created Dodds. Stephens said extra layers of bureaucracy had made it appear that Dodds leaders were slow to decide How to Deal with Gramm Rudman budget cuts an when to open school this fall. Stephens had been director since May 1982. Bloom won t preside Over any major reorganization of Dodds Pope said. She said Dodds is Jusi now responding to the army manpower study that found the Headquarters atone overstaffed by More than 140people. It in t the final response Pope said. Any major changes will Wail for a permanent director to get a sense of where Dodds should be going and what twill take to meet teachers  Bloom became Mediterranean director in january 1982. The Illinois native holds a Bachelor s degree i education from the University of Miami Fla and a master s degree from the University of Florida his doctoral degree is from the University of Southern California. His research has been in science counsel ing curriculum and administration his biography states. Bloom started teaching at Hialeah High school Hia Leah. Fla., in 1958. He joined what is now Dodds in 1962 As a teacher and guidance Counselor at Frankfurt american High school he has been an assistant Prin Cipal principal and Deputy regional director and Hai worked in Germany Italy and Spain. Dodds runs about 270 schools in 20 foreign coun tries educating about 150,000 students. Edu Cibon it str Dan Lucuk Centt Outka to hip to