European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 8, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes monday september 8,1966 military laser May have medical use new York up a military laser developed to guide missiles from tanks May someday be used la vaporize tally material off the inside of artery Walls a Georgia researcher lays. The High Energy Light beam has been used Success fully in lab tests on human coronary arteries and doctors Hope to begin clinical trials on patients with in he year said or. Ellis Jones professor of cardio logy at Emory University in Atlanta. It s a fantastic partnership Between military technology and Medicine Jones said in a Telephone interview. The laser is very advanced Way far ahead of anything devised specifically for  the laser called Tea for transverse excitation at atmospheric pressure generates Short but powerful pulses of Energy. It can accurately bum away Bone hard plaque from he inside of delicate artery Walls without damaging living tissue he said. Plaque is a calcified Deposit offal and cholesterol on the inside of arterial Walls. It causes hardening of the arteries eventually Narrows the artery and reduces blood flow to the heart setting the stage for a heart attack. The combination of High Energy and Short Dura Tion Means it can hit the target Wilhour injuring anything around the target Jones said. That waste purpose behind developing it for a tank and that s Why it is perfect for this Lype of  researchers have unsuccessfully attempted in the past to use laser beams to vaporize arterial plaque he said. The ass  lasers developed for medical use damaged living tissue. They be been promising but they Aren t control Lable and end up damaging tissue Jones said. This is the first laser thai Baa proven n can work without damaging  Jones said he Hopes within the year to me the Tea laser in conjunction with bypass operation a procedure in which a surgeon routes blood around an obstructed artery using veins from other part of the body. Eventually the Tea laser May be used on its own to clean out plaque from artery Walls without sur Gery he said. The laser would probably in guided through the venous system by delicate fiber optics thai have yet to be developed. This is a Long term goal Jones said. The scientist said he Learned about the Tea later from a colleague who worked at a British electronics company under contract by the defense depart ment. He has borrowed one of the $50,000 lasers to use in experiments he said. Harvard warned of threats to Independence Cambridge mass. Pres sures from government business and special interest group s Are threatening Harvard University s Independence the school s president warned saturday near inc end of a 350th anniversary Cele bration. We Are not corporations not instruments of National Security not militant bodies anxious to Force our vision of so Cial Justice on the world Derek Bok told a crowd in Harvard Yard. Anti apartheid groups including one thai forced the cancellation of an anniversary dinner Friday have demanded that Harvard divest $410 million they said was invested in firms doing business in South Africa. There was no demonstration during Bok s speech although a faculty member at the rear of the audience held a placard Reading dives  or learning wound up its we Klong anniversary Observance with a gala Cele bration at Harvard stadium featuring a narration of american and Harvard his tory by former television newscaster Walter Cronkite. The Boston pops directed by John Williams played before a crowd Esti mated at 27,000 people by Peter Costa director of Harvard s news office. The Celebration concluded with a fireworks display. During the Day the Flag Al Harvard business school flew at half taretto Mark the death of a faculty member s husband in the attempted hijacking of a jetliner at Karachi Pakistan. Farce a Sultan the widow of Syed Nesar Ahmad joined the business school faculty in August As an assistant professor Taid Harvard spokesman Peler Costa. The nation s oldest institution of High Bok addressed an estimated 17,000 people Al the last of three convocations held at historic Harvard Yard As part of the Observance. Most were alumni. He wanted against Industry and Mili tary interests looking to universities for research faculty members seeking profit by working As consultants exploited col lege athletes Aad government requiring affirmative action and Access to the handicapped on campuses. All too often outside groups Mistak enly conclude that since the University is so successful in teaching and research it can Sway political institutions or solve society s problems As Well. Frequently they press the University to risk in Independence by entering int political Battles or they ask in to act in ways that Compromise the openness and Freedom that most characterize a healthy research environment he said. The Ivy league school headed toward the anniversary finale with religious services fireworks a botanical tour of Harvard Yard and symposiums on such subjects As Harvard s old scientific instruments and the american scientific  at a saturday morning panel four Harvard educators debated How to bal Ance excellence and equal Opportunity in the nation s  Willie said thai he a Black Man had benefited from Harvard s efforts to diversify its faculty. Harvard it much More diversified than it was 50years ago he said. Sixty five percent of today s Harvard student graduated from Public High schools 40 percent of them Are women and 20 to 25 percent of the incoming class at Harvard College belong to racial minorities he said Harvard is great because Harvard it diversified. You want to emulate har Vard go get More Blacks and hts Nanki and asians and native americans,1 Jwj. Lie told an audience of about 400 people. Team on standby to track terrorist built nuke arms Las vegas Nev. Up under cover scientists headquartered in Nevada Are on 24-hour standby 10 track terrorist Buill nuclear weapons that could hold a nation hostage. The names of the scientists Are Classi fied. Their assignment is secret they Are members of nest nuclear emergency search team. Scientists from at least is academic disciplines can be deployed within two hours to any Domestic or International nuclear terrorist target. They have the equipment and expertise to locate and disarm improvised nuclear bombs or radioactive material. But an International terrorism task Force recently warned nest May not be enough. The department of Energy acknowledges thai nest is headquartered in Las flight instructor hits truck while Landing Dwight. I. Dpi a flight instructor teaching a student Bow to land a single engine air plane dipped the lop of a moving pickup truck during a land ing approach and crashed Short of the runway authorities said sunday. The plane s occupants and the Driver of the truck were uninjured in the Accident saturday police  was amazing no one got Hurt said an Illinois stale police trooper Marvin Tinsley. Bui the Guy in the pickup Buck boy was he sur prised the Cessna 152, flown by Leonar Prorok of Palos Park 111., was making an approach to the Dwight Airport about noon when its Landing gear struck the roof of the pickup truck on a Rural Fuad hear the runway Tinsley said. Prorok who was giving flying Les sons to David a Banahan 25, of new Lenox told police he was at the controls of the plane when it crashed. Apparently he came in too Low to Clear the vehicle Tinsley said the truck was bit from the tide. The Driver never saw the plane the plane hit the truck and nose dived into the ground Tinsley said. The plane valued at si5,000, was declared a total loss. The 1978 Csc pickup driven by John Williams 40,of Gardner sustained Aboul $1,800 in damage Tinsley  Federal aviation administration was investigating the crash wit assistance from the Illinois state police department and the Grundy county sheriff s department vegas but it declines further comment nest was created by executive order of president Ford in 1974 after an extortionist threatened to the donate a nuclear bomb in Boston and demanded$200.000. The bomb threat was a false alarm but scientists sent to Boston lacked the equipment and organization to Cope with he emergency. Ford created nest so secret a organization that Congress did not least Ofris existence for thee  the event of a terrorist nuclear threat the Fri acts As the swat learn and nest supplies the technicians. The department of Energy emergency action and coordination team directs organization and deployment the Fri has investigated More than 70 nuclear terrorist threats to Dale said Fri information officer Lee Bonner in Washington. Nest responded in 20 of the cases according to it Federal source. All but one was a  Only known extortion Case involving radioactive material occurred in 1979,when a disgruntled employee stole Iso pounds of Low enriched uranium from general electric fuel processing Plant in Wilmington no. He demanded Al 00,000in Exchange for not revealing Bow easy it was to steal the radioactive material the Fri arrested the nuclear thief be fore nest had a Chance to find the miss ing uranium which the suspect revealed was hidden in a Fidd. Scientists said the would have located it within 48 hours. Nest has searched for nuclear bomb sin los Angeles Boston Spokane and san Francisco. Alt were false  i9ts an extortionist threatened to detonate an atomic bomb in new York City unless $30 million was delivered fas mall unmarked Bills. No one claimed the Dummy Ransom package the feb placed Al the drop site. That same year the Union Oil co. Of California in los Angle received a $100,000 extortion note claiming a nuclear device concealed in one of the com Pany i properties would explode unless the Money was paid. Forty nest members armed with radiation detection equipment concluded after three Days that the threat was hoax. The Fri captured the would be extortionist the nest budget has increased from $ 1.5 million a decade ago to $8.7 million him fiscal year according to the depart ment of  of the Money goes for equipment planes helicopters equipped with radiation detection pods radiation monitors disguised in briefcases pocket riled radiation monitors. Specialized modules housing Mobile machine shops Canp Tincer centers  stations and photography laboratories Are maintained for rapid deployment anywhere in the  task Force report said More is nest should be improved and expanded said the International task Force on prevention of nuclear terror exp .jj1"111 nkana the of spot n june nest would face a virtually impossible task if in bad to find a nuclear weapon or Container once shielded and concealed  task Force recommended that All nations with nuclear weapons deployed within their Borders form their own anti nuclear terrorist teams and urged the creation of an International nest