European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 5, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Wednesday november 5, 1986 the stars and stripes Page 7 . Officials say new i tech radar can track stealth by Norman Blackcap military writer Washington the unite states and the soviet Union have the Means to track stealth aircraft but such detection poses no threat because of the Way the health aircraft would be used unnamed Pentagon officials said. Since the Pentagon does not envision using its bombers for Surprise raids it is not concerned about detection by the new radar called Over the horizon Backstatter or oth a the radar differs from conventional systems in Iti me of the ionosphere layer of tie Earth s atmosphere unlike conventional radar systems which transmit and receive radio frequency signals in a straight line to the horizon an oth sys tem transmits radio signals skyward to Ward the ionosphere. The radio signals Bounce off the ionosphere Back to the Earth s surface at a considerable distance from the transmit Ter. In a conventional system if the signal strike an object a return Echo bounces with an oth system the Sig nals Bounce upward to the ionosphere once again and then Back to a receiver. Oth a has a Range of about 500 Nau tical Miles to 1,800 nautical Miles beyond the transmitter. That compares with a Range of leu than 00 Miles for a Normal radar it is the use of the lower frequencies combined with the ability to look Down from the atmosphere that Mak Soth a attractive. However another source said the limitations of the oth a system must be considered. It cannot provide any radar coverage within 500 nautical Miles of the transmitter. A stealth bomber would Dis appear off the scope As it approached a coastline. Also the huge facilities required for oth a probably would be destroyed in the initial Exchange of a nuclear War re storing the stealth bomber s advantage. A functioning oth a could Deled the bombers at its Range and attempt to scramble fighters to find them one offi Cial said. But the detection system is nol Good enough to direct ground la air mis Siles to a target. Such arguments have not kept . Officials from extolling the importance of oth a detecting any stealth plane the soviets might attempt to build. According to defense analysis the so Viets already have two oth radars oriented toward the United slates. Unlike the . System those radars Are used to detect the launching of ballistic missile from the , heartland. While the soviet system could be use to select aircraft As Well the soviets have positioned their radars in such a Way thai Large coverage gaps Raisl in officials said. The Penl Ajjon has won congressional approval to eng the . Coast with an oth a network to detect air planes and cruise missiles. Rock n Roll family three year old Deron Ferruche jams with an electric guitar onstage with his father during the i3lh evermore arts Fisli a in list snare a Milf. Sex Black Panther loses Appeal fetus survives Mother s leap to her death san Francisco a the 9th is. Circuit court of appeals monday upheld former Black Panther Leader Huey Newton s conviction and two year prison sentence for Possession of a handgun by an sex Felon. The court rejected a Jents that a 1964 assault conviction against Newton was invalid and could not be the basis of the handgun charge. Newton had said his 1964 felony conviction was declared invalid by a judge in 1971. But the appeals court said the prior conviction remained on the books. Newton was convicted of assault with a deadly weapon in 1964. He was then charged with the 1967 killing of a Oakland policeman and convicted of manslaughter. The conviction was reversed on Appeal the charge was dropped after two retrial ended in Hun Jurics. In 1974, Newton was charged with pistol whipping his tailor. Newton fled the country. After he resumed Ihre Eyears later the prosecution added a charge that he had been a convicted Felon in Possession of a handgun. Hews acquitted of assault but convicted of the gun pos session charge. Philadelphia s mob Boss arrested Atlantic City . Up1 Nicodemo Little Nicky Searfo the reputed underworld Boss of Phila Delphia and Southern new Jersey and 11 of his lop aides were arrested monday in an operation aimed at putting the Hierarchy of the Bruno organized crime family out of business prosecutors said. Searfo 57, reputedly Heads the Philadelphia based organized crime family once led by the late Angels Bruno who died in a Shotgun hit outside his South Philadelphia Home in March 1980. Searfo 43rd on a recent Fortune Magazine list of the nation s richest and Roost powerful gangster ascended to the top of the organization less than a year later after Bru _ no s successor Philip Chicken Man Testa was killed by a Nail filled bomb. It was one ofal least two dozen unsolved Bruno family kill Ings since Bruno death. Searfo was charged with heading an organised crime Enterprise and two counts of conspiracy the attorney general s office said. He faces 23 to 50 years in prison and 5300,000 in fines if convicted on All counts. Attorney general w. Cary Edwards charged the Searfo family loaned thousands of dollars Ai interest rates of 5 percent a week or 260 percent a year and used violence and threats to collect its loan sharking gambling and bookmaking debts. Texas suffers most failed farms in . Washington up1 Texas led the nation in the number of farms that Well out of business Over the past year. The Lone Star slate lost 15.000 farms of an Esti mated 60,000 . Farms that went out of business Between 1985 and 1986. Texas was left with 160,000 farms More than any other stale in the nation. Teas also led in losses from 1984 to 1985. With a reduction of 10,000 a St att a next state Minnesota which lost and ended up with 96,000 in 1985. A toss of another 3,000 Minnesota farms this year left 93,000. But most declines from 1985 to 1986 hit hardest outside of the Midwest farm Bell. The second largest decline in the number of farms Over the past year occurred in Virginia which lost 4,000 farms out of 54,000, Arkansas and North Carolina each lost 3,000 farms leaving Arkansas with 50,000 and North Carolina with 73,000. Of six slates with the greatest losses by 1986, Only two were in the Midwest. The loss in Illinois Equale Minnesota 3.000. Illinois was left with 87,000 farms after losing.4,000 the year before. From 1985 to 1986, farm numbers fell in 36 i Tats held steady in 13 and increased Only in Arizona. Chicago a a nurse pregnant with her firs child jumped to her death from a Tower in an abandoned Tram Yard in Blue Island. The woman died but the infant survived after being delivered by iwo fire fighters at the scene. Connie Koran. 26, of new Lenox was pronounced dead sunday at St. Francis Hospital where she and her husband had gone earlier when she thought it was time to deliver their first child said police detective Roland Libby. Libby said Koran thought the fetus was dead and the Raff at is. Francis was unable to convince her it was alive eve after placing a Stethoscope Over the womb and letting her listen to the heartbeat. Late sunday morning the woman left the Hospital unnoticed he said. That afternoon police received a Call from a Man who said a woman had climbed a Railroad Yard Light lower. When an officer arrived at the scene Horan jumped Libby said. Fire department personnel arrived minutes later and Hough Anthony Savyno and Mark Luety found no signs of life in Horan they saw a leg of the infant through her ruptured Abdomen and delivered the baby Libby said. The baby was flown to the University of Chicago s Wyler children s Hospital where its Condi Tion is still being evaluated. James Mcquaid a spokesman for is. Francis Hospi Tal disputed the police account about Horan s said Horan a registered nurse at the Hospital on maternity leave at one Point failed to see the fetal heartbeat on a nearby Monitor and grew apprehensive. Staffers reassured her everything was ail right he said. He said Horan was reassured and she was satisfied that the fetus was Fine. Savino and Luety were cited for their courage and calmness in the face of a disaster Well beyond the Norm according to Libby who witnessed the birth
