European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 21, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes sunday september 21,1986 anti collision systems to be required by Faa Washington up in a move that could make flying safer but More expensive the Federal aviation administration has decided to order commercial airlines to install collision avoidance devices aboard All  administrator Donald Engen announced the order Friday saying that the new traffic Alert and collision avoidance system dubbed teas ii would reduce the Chance of in flight collisions. The technology has been developed Engen told reporters at the Agency s Headquarters. We will re quire the airlines to install a teas ii  the Faa has been working on such a system for several years. It alerts a Pilot to an impending collision and advises whether his aircraft should move higher or lower to avoid it. Details still must be worked out Engen said but the system will be required for major airline aircraft larger planes such As those with 100 scats or More. . Carriers do not yet have the system on an regular commercial flight and it is estimated to Cost Between $50,000 and $75,000 for each aircraft. The Cost could be reduced when the system is mass produced but unless the airlines choose to absorb the expense passengers arc Likely to end up paying higher air fares. Next Engen said the Faa plans to Issue a formal proposal x year and airlines will be expected to have the system installed in about three years. Industry experts estimate about 3,000 planes would receive teas ii systems. A spokesman for United airlines the nation s larg est Carrier said his firm would be experimenting with a new collision avoidance system manufactured by Bendix corp. On one Boeing 737 and one dc-8 air Craft beginning in May 1987. The spokesman said All United pilots who Fly those planes would be instructed on the equipment and would have to pass a test. An instructor would Fly wit them during a six month experimental period he added. The Faa s policy decision emerged less than three weeks after an Aero Mexico Jet and a Small plane collided Over cd Roilos Calif killing All 67 people aboard the two planes and 15 others on the ground. The teas ii system would not have averted the aug. 31 disaster because the Small plane s transponder was not equipped with an Altitude reporting unit according to Federal investigators. A transponder that indicates Altitude is needed on the other plane for the teas to function properly. Transponders already Are required by the Faa for Small aircraft flying into High traffic areas and Engen said he plans to make use even More widespread. Previous government policy was to encourage but not to require airlines to install such systems. There is humor in White House Ford says As symposium ends grand rapids Mich. Up a two Day symposium on humor shows that despite All the heavy problems that flow through the Oval office there i humor in the White House former president Ford says in is an the american people basically Are interested humor and laughter Ford said Friday. That i excellent characteristic of our  Ford s remarks came at the close of the symposium which focused on the Impact of humor on the nation s highest office. Ford who was the Host of the event said he believes the symposium showed that despite All the heavy problems that flow through the Oval office there is humor in the White House. That transcends  the former president said the humor should not end just because the panellists go Home. I think we have started a process where humor in the presidency can be recognized and i Hope the Ford foundation along with the presidential museum and Library Here in Michigan can be a nationwide depository for the work of political humorists he said. Ford said he hoped to attract the finest collection of humor material Only a Small portion of which could be enjoyed during the two Day symposium to Mark the fifth anniversary of his presidential museum. He said that being the target of some of the wittiest satirists humorists and cartoonists never really bothered him. I never objected to cartoonists gag writers or any humorists who poked fun at me Ford said. I might Grimace on occasion but Overall i be laughed at my self As much As anyone else. Thin skinned people Don t last Long in the political  former defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld who served As Ford s chief of staff said during a final pane discussion Friday that despite All the fun participants had with the Gaffe prone Ford something deeper could be Learned from his own reactions to the stumbles and verbal blunders. He cited in particular Ford s reaction after Stum bling Down the Steps after emerging from air Force one in Salzburg Austria. He said i m just so damned mad at myself Rumsfeld said. He never once blamed anyone else or showed the slightest anger toward anyone but himself and 1 think that tells you something about the Man. Jerry Ford and Why so Many of us were so proud to work with  Ford admitted setting up a gag at thursday night gala that caught his Long time Impersonator comedian Chevy Chase off  first lady Betty Ford started the Ball rolling by stepping to the podium and introducing my Hus band president Gerald Ford which first Drew applause but later laughs when it became obvious it was Chase doing his Best bumbling Ford imitation. Thank you very much. Well i m Here Chase told the laughing audience. And i m having a great time. Where the hell am i Ford then Rose in mock anger and shouted that s enough before purposely knocking Over a waitress Stan holding a stack of dishes and glasses. I want you to know i m Jerry Ford and you re not Ford said As he took Over the microphone using one of Chase s Standard lines from his Days on the saturday night live television program. App nou Hook speaker Thomas o Neill Lugt to former but lady Betty fed to the Naor Jim Fosby. Stateside California sobriety checks illegal appeals court rules Santa Ana Calif. A California s Highway sobriety checkpoints Are unlawful searches a state appeals court ruled in reversing minor s Drunken driving conviction. But the California Highway patrol Aid it would continue using the checkpoints while it appeals Friday s decision by the 4th District court of Appeal with the state supreme court. We Are not going to change operations said Highway patrol spokesman Kent Milton. We were very Good at tracking and catching drunk Drivers before the checkpoints but we Hope to continue using  decision conflicts with a ruling by the 1st District court of Appeal in san Francisco which found the checkpoints were Legal. That Case is pending before the state supreme court. Wheelchair bound Man plans to swim Channel Philadelphia a a 54-year-old Man who has spent three decades confined to a wheel chair says he won t let his disability Stop him from swimming the English Channel. I m going to do it Jim Mcgowan told hundreds of supporters at a rally Friday at Temple University where he is a Counselor in the office for the disabled. I feel just As confident As when i did my sky dive in 1981. Nobody thought a paralysed Man could do that but i did it Mcgowan of fort Washington has been training for the swim for More than a year. 2 airlines get permission to offer flights to Tokyo Washington not the transportation department Friday gave Delta air lines and american airlines permission to Fly to Tokyo and chose Portland ore., and Dallas fort Worth As the two cities from which the Carrien will offer service. Atlanta based Delta which will operate the Portland route and Dallas based american which will have the Dallas fort Worth service beat out several other carriers seeking a presence in the growing Pacific travel Market currently United airlines and Northwest airlines Are the Only . Flag carriers to Tokyo. Of payment withholding could be costly to be Cincinnati up general electric co s local Jet engine Plant could lose up to $800,000 a month As a result of an air Force decision to withhold payments because engine production at the Plant has fallen behind. The actual amount of Money to be withheld if undecided because the company and the air Force Are still trying to determine exactly How far behind production really is be spokesman Dwight Weber said Friday. Auto Plant Foreman faces retrial on slaying charge Detroit up a White Auto Plant fore Man whose conviction in the beating death of an asian american was overturned by a Federal appeals court will be retried on the same charge Federal officials said Friday. Ronald Ebens 47, of East Detroit Mich., was convicted in june 1984 of violating the civil rights of Vincent Chin 27, by beating him to death with a baseball Bat outside a Highland Park Mich., bar a few Days before Chin was Mohave been married. A three judge Federal panel of the 6th . Circuit court of appeals in Cincinnati unanimously reversed the conviction sept. 11. Leaving it to the Justice department to decide if Eben would be retried. A defense attorney said a crucial Issue in the Appeal was a claim that witnesses against Ebens had been coached by the prosecution. He said the appeals court agreed that . District judge Anna Diggs Taylor should have allowed Evi Dence of the alleged coaching at the trial