European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 20, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stabs and stripes saturday december 20,1986 Dod orders army to find sgt. York gun replacement by Norman Blackcap military writer Washington the Pentagon s new weapon Czar Lias Given the army marching orders to find a replacement Forth ill fated sol. York air defense gun. Richard p. Godwin in a memo dated dec. Is an released thursday ordered the army to proceed immediately with preparation of a bid solicitation to Industry specifying in must be published by feb. 6, 1987. Telling of new candidate weapons should begin no later than july 1,1987. Godwin added and a selection made by nov. 26,1987, in order to ensure deployment no later than the end of fiscal year 1990." Godwin the undersecretary of defense for acquisition acknowledged in his directive he was speeding up the schedule for finding a replacement for the  and that might preclude some contractors from providing completed prototypes for testing. The army should leave the door open to consideration of proposals by contractors who can t provide hardware by this summer and attempt an equal risk assessment of All candidates Godwin said. But lha process should not preclude adherence to the new  army had wanted to delay testing candidate replacements for the sgt. York until next fall. But con Gress concerned the army would not Field a weapon to protect troops and tanks quickly enough established the target Date of nov. 26, 1987, for a final decision. Godwin whose Post As the top Pentagon official responsible for weapons procurement was just established by Congress earlier this year concluded those congressional concerns were justified and the army must expedite its schedule. The sgt. York which also was known As the diva or division air defense gun consisted of a modified Lank Chassis two 40mm cannons and a radar system. After More than Cven Yean of development wort Man investment of si.8 billion defense Secretary Dinar Weinberger to cropped the weapon on Auk. 27,1985, saying it limply could t protect Lank column from modern soviet helicopters. While hailed by congressional critics As the right move the cancellation of the set. York left the army without weapon considered sufficiently lethal to protect is divisions against modern aircraft Demilte More than a decade of study. Earlier this year the army responded to the cancel lation of the sgt. York by proposing new plan to develop what it Calls the foward area air  or fads. Instead of relying on a single weapon to provide air defense the army concluded i needed a mix of weapons to meet different threats. The fads plan was approval in concept Obaugh. 14 by Deputy defense Secretary William h. Tad in amid estimate it will ultimately Cost As much As $11 billion. The fads system Calls for the selection of a re placement for the sol York to provide defense at Shorter line of sight ranges deployment of new longer Range guided missile to attack aircraft beyond the line or Light and accelerated development of radar and communications system that would feed tar get data to the various weapons. The army now envisions the replacement for the sgt. York As a tracked vehicle that could Cany a combination of guns and missiles. In Hope to Purchase More than 600 such vehicles at an estimated Cost ofi3.s billion and Hai stressed it needs proven technology to avoid a lengthy research Effort. That requirement has Ted to intense interest Amon european arms makers because several companies in nato countries have already developed air defense vehicles. Court blocks order awarding custody of boy to Gay father Hauppauge . A a state appeals court has blocked a judge s decision to award custody of a13-year-old boy to Nis homosexual father. Legal experts said acting supreme court Justice Morton Willen s awarding of custody to a homosexual Parent was the first of its kind in the stale. In Newport the supreme court is a trial level court. The court s appellate division stayed Willen s Deci Sion wednesday asking the judge to consider new facts in the  attorney for the Mother Arnold b. Firestone said the boy whom he identified As Brian has Trielo commit suicide several times and is hospitalized in a psychiatric institution for adolescents on Long is  s 14-Page decision released tuesday docs not name any of the panics involved and identifies the boy by the initial b. Willen rejected arguments thai the father s Homo sexual lifestyle would adversely affect Brian that Brian wanted to stay with i Mother and that he expressed embarrassment and discomfort with the fact of his father s  the record indicates that b. Fared far better with his father than with hit Mother Willen wrote noting that the father s eight year relationship with his live in Lover is apparently stable. The court finds no evidence of any present or potential harm upon which to make the father s Homo sexuality a consideration in this custody dispute Wil Len wrote. The decision was issued after More than eight months of hearings during which school officials psychiatrists and other doctors testified Brian needed Strong parental control. It is not a question of this being a Gay rights Case said the father s attorney Bernard Cattan. A u a pm Tody Case. The Only question is what is Best for  according to testimony Brian Mother in chronically ill and has been hospitalized so times in the last 10 Yean. At those times Brian and Hii brother and Sisler who Are 9 and 10 years old often stayed with her parents Thomas b. Stoddard executive director of the Lambda Legal defense and education fund a Gay rights group said he knew of no other such Case in new  dispute began when the Mother Laid the was moving to Florida for her health and to be closer to her parents who planned to retire there. The father1 attorney said hit client sought custody Only for the eldest child became the other two children Are not having the same problems. Capture of rape suspect nets Man $5,000 rewdt9szssi- zatt$3&imformation Only Infra by official Tyml Day Michael Putnam a five responded to cries from Tayvih  Early saturday and i police said Putnam hit the wan several times with a Bate Ball Bat and held him in Fol police Iris it if Jones it convicted palnanr15,000 pledged to the or Hutu Rochester Amo dealers Laid utile director Donald Stahl. Police investigator Dennis Man far crime Stoppen inc., meeting would be held to evaluate the amp s policy of giving out Money Only a parked switcher locomotive was taken for a 12-mile Joyride police reported thursday. " it probably was More than one ?,".slidgresham police sgt Craig Wall sir who added that Railroad detectives questioned one nun i connection with the Case Fate wednesday night Walliker said police were alerted stolen when an employee of the r co. Saw it pawing by his Home i Thorlies about 8 40 pin about 40 Miau tet the theft. Whoever in was we having a Good Lime Wallisc Essaid patrol can chasing the Loon caused the operator so decide to engine the sergeant said. Watiker said it was kit the torn atom tha a oers Onwu involved beam i w i couple the can and twitch from trick to another along the Way. A act files $880,000 suit against the cil i i Charleston . A an$80,000 lawsuit accusing the Citadel of tolerating overt racial bigotry was filed by the a act on behalf of a Mack Cadet who left the military Colleg after harassment by five White cadets. This action it necessary to Stop the tide of racial terrorism that  in this country said a act general counsel Graver o.  s not Only present Here on thu Campus but it unseat on other Cam Nan throughout the  nit Tiona and Date officials of the National association for the advancement of coloured people filed the lawsuit thursday in . District cow lit seeks compensatory and punitive damages for the racial haunt oct. 23,which inflicted severe emotional Dis Tress mental anguish and pain on 17-year-old Kevin Nesmith raid a act spokesman James Williams the lawsuit lays he shoots failure to expel the five cadets who we renamed in the complaint along with the school 1s evidence that the Citadel encourages students to came in Ardauy Dischun Nalory conduct det the action daunt hat overt racial bigotry historically hat been tolerated and sanctioned by officials at the 14 year old stale supported school we re Basing feat on statements an interviews that we be had with people who have attended the Citadel  Hao Kios said. Cutri spot Owaiian coi Ben Legan Saida had Nocona ment because the school had not received off Ritt in dlr of the lawsuit Tiela Wii  year �oet2jtn which Imecs