European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 20, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes saturday june 20. 1987 Jane s says nato losing military technology Lead world today London up soviet bloc forces now enjoy parity or surpass nato countries in much military technology possibly including Star wars Type laser capability a Jane s defense publication said Friday. The latest edition of he military publisher s Mili tary communications annual review also reported the West is even in danger of losing its Long held advantage in Battlefield communication equipment. The publication said satellite reconnaissance photos have revealed the soviet Union has a Star wars Type laser testing ground near the afghan Border. There is growing evidence thai in sectors which form the basis of the. Strategic defense initiative the . May be More advanced than was formerly believed the publication mid. Recent photographs taken near the afghan Border suggest thai the soviets laser capabilities May exceed anything so far achieved by Western directed Energy  Bob Raggett co editor of the publication said the reconnaissance photographs suggest the soviets have worked quite strongly and have been putting lots and lots of resources toward laser technology. There is some indication of the soviet lasers ability to destroy targets to accurately Home in and destroy he said. Raggett said the site photographed apparently is lest bed and the soviet laser weapons Are still in the experimental stage. The United states backed by its nato allies has announced a full scale development program to bring to realization the strategic defense initiative popularly known at Star  it would use laser beams to shield the United states from incoming missiles destroying them in outer space. The publication also said in most aspects of mod Era military technology the Warsaw pact Alliance now enjoys parity or better with the nato countries. This is not simply a question of numerical Equality or superiority it said. Rather it is the Case that in a number of key areas aircraft surface and submarine vessels and chemical weapons the soviet Union and its satellites Are at least As sophisticated As their West Ern  the publication provides descriptions of the latest Battlefield command and communications equipment available in the West but warned hat with no standardized equipment throughout nato Western forces could face difficulty in Battlefield communications and coordination. The Western communications equipment is Superior but there Are signs the advantage is being eroded by the failure to reconcile commercial rivalries of sup pliers in different nato countries Raggett Laid. Lack of common equipment and compatible systems among nato armies is a  protest strikes a chord dutch artists sink a replies of Puma in the Zunic so jugs like to demonstrate their displeasure with die dutch got emment the 23 foot Long 15-foot High Model which is part of the exhibition people wid work hit opens Friday in a Undin protests the government s declining support of the arts. Chinese soviets sign ship repair contract Beijing up China and the soviet Union have agreed 10 resume a joint ship repair business in Shanghai after a 20-year break caused by the bitter sino soviet split of the 1960s. Discussions on resumption of the business to repair soviet merchant vessels in chinese ports began last year after soviet officials expressed an interest in resumption of the business the Xinhua news Agency said thursday an agreement Between the two sides was signed wednesday in Shanghai by go Yongxiang general manager of the China National machinery import Export corp., and Iliya p. Sudakov vice president of the soviet Union ship import corp., the news Agency said moderate quake shakes main philippine Island Manila Philippines a a moderate Earth quake Shook the main Island of Luzon thursday but no injuries or damage were reported the Philippines atmospheric geophysical and astronomical services administration  said the quake hit at 602 . And measured 4.9 on the Richter scale. The epicentre was about 125 Miles North of Manila and Eul of Baguio. The Richter scale is a gauge of the Energy released by an earthquake As measured by the ground motion recorded on a Seismograph. Every increase of one number Means the ground motion is 10 times greater. A quake of magnitude 3 can cause considerable damage in populated areas. Hungary receives apology from Romania for shooting Budapest Hungary a Romania has apologized for a May 29 Border incident in which of Border guards shot a romanian refugee on hungarian territory Hungary s government spokesman said thursday. Romanian politburo member Emil Bobu and for eign affairs expert Ion Sloan visited Budapest a Earl june for the lint meeting with hungarian officials since the two communist neighbors began a Public quarrel earlier this year that dispute centers on romanian treatment of an estimated 2 million ethnic hungarians in Romania. According to hungarian reports a romanian Refu gee identified As Lionte Georgbe 28, was shot after crossing the romanian yugoslav Border and then the yugoslav hungarian Border at the Point where All three countries meet norwegians end up dry after making delivery to sub Oslo Norway up in an unusual East West encounter on the High seas a norwegian Supply ship delivered a pile of magazines to a soviet submarine but failed to receive Vodka in return norwegian sail ors said thursday. The Supply ship troms Fjeld was Able to put it motor boat alongside a soviet submarine it met Sun Day in surface position 40 Miles off Northern Norway in the Barents sea Sailor Trond Giaver said. I asked whether they had Vodka on Board and one of the men on the submarine Tower shouted Back nyut and Shook his head Giaver said. The norwegians began filming the submarine apparently embarrassing some of the soviets on the Tower who returned below  resuming to their ship the troms Fjeld Crew lobbed a pile of norwegian magazines onto the fore deck of the submarine. Poor repairs by Boeing blamed for 85 Jal crash Tokyo a faulty repairs by the Boeing co. On a Bulkhead of a Japan air lines jumbo Jet caused it to crash in 1985, killing s20 people in history s worst single air plane disaster a govern mint commission said Friday. The aircraft Accident investigation commission also said in its official re port on the tragedy that my s failure to detect the cracks in the Bulkhead during regular maintenance inspections had a part in he Accident. The 556-Page, two volume report de scribes in detail the damage that caused the Boeing 747 to crash into a Mountain Northwest of Tokyo. The report blamed the Accident on a rupture in the rear pressure Bulkhead on which Boeing made faulty repairs in 1978. The report said the Bulkhead a circular Wall separating the pressurized Cabin from the non pressurized Tail Section developed cracks that weakened it so it could not contain the pressurized air in the Cabin. The rapid release of pressurized air into the plane s Tail Section destroyed it vertical Tail Fin and All four Hydraulic systems components vital to control Ling the plane the report said. Boeing has admitted Haws in the re pairs it conducted on the Bulkhead after the plane scraped its Tail during a Landing in 1973 and has said those flaws were partly to blame for the Accident. The company said Metal spliced Over two pieces of the Bulkhead was Loo Short and did not have enough riveting. The commission s report said the faulty repairs gave Rise to cracks that de creased the Bulkhead s strength by about to percent. The plane on a one hour flight from Tokyo to Osaka on aug. 12, 198 5, lost control shortly after Takeoff and weave violently for about 30 minutes before crashing into a Remote Mountain Ridge. Four people survived the crash. Japan air lines Friday said it would not comment on the Accident commis Sion s report because the crash was still the subject of a separate police investigation. The 22-member commission also is1 sued several recommendations. One recommendation said the govern ment should consider adopting addition Al regulations requiring fail Safe mechanisms so that damage such As destruction of a pressure Bulkhead  affect other structures and safety sys tems nearby. Such regulations would be tougher than standards already required for air Craft certification in the United slates the report said