European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 23, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday june 23, 1987 the stars and stripes Page 3 More powerful anti ship missile urged by Norman Black a military writer Washington the missile attack on the guided missile frigate Slark leaving 37 sailors dead underscores a major deficiency in the anti ship mis Siles relied upon by the West according to an austra Lian air Force weapons expert. Missiles such As the French made exocet which struck the Stark and the . Navy s Harpoon do not carry a warhead powerful enough to sink a Modem warship with one nil flight u. . Laylon said. The goal is for one anti ship missile warhead 1p destroy a surface combatant Layton wrote in an Arti Cle published by the . Naval Institute. He said the of fact of the weapons used now is not much More than that of the bombs dropped in Midway during word War ii. Layton is a lecturer on weaponry at an australian air Force school. His three Page article assessing anti Thip missiles was published earlier this month in proceedings the professional Magazine of he Institute. The Stark a relatively Small ship was parroting in the persian Gulf on May 17 when it was struck by two French made exec cd missiles fired by an iraqi War plane. Only one of the two missiles detonated but it touched off a major fire thirty seven sailors were killed and 21 others were injured. The Stark s Crew managed to douse the fire and the ship s engine room and much of its weaponry were not damaged. The exocet carries a warhead weighing 364 pounds with explosives packed inside a steel casing. Layton said. It is designed to Send Small steel fragments show ering through a ship penetrating bulkheads and destroying internal equipment. The Navy s Harpoon carries a 510-Pound warhead intended to destroy internal ship compartments through a concentrated blast effect he said. Today a single Western anti ship missile is unlikely to disable a modern surface combatant Laylon said. Citing earlier studies by the . Navy and the Brookings institution a Washington think tank. Lay ton estimated two harpoons would have to hit a soviet frigate to disable it four would be needed to disable a Soviel missile Chi scr and five for a Small Kiev class Carrier in addition defensive missiles now being installed on . And Soviel ships have improved to the Point that multiple missiles have to be fired in Hopes of one making it to the target he said. Thus increasing the size of the warhead on existing missiles is not really an option because that would reduce the number of missiles that could be earned by a ship or plane. ,. Rather a new warhead needs to be designed that takes advantage of the inherent vulnerability of ships to certain types of damage he said. Layton s answer is development of a new warhead specifically designed to create the one thing that All sailors fear most fire. While the exocet that hit the Slark touched of a Large fire the missile is not designed to do that. What is needed Layton said is a warhead that would pro Duce Only a dozen or so Large steel fragments which would carry with them an incendiary material such As the Metal zirconium. The intention is to ensure that after the warhead has detonated a ship s damage control parties would be faced with flooding a major sustained fire and dense possibly toxic smoke spreading rapidly throughout the ship he wrote it is essential that the warheads of Western anti ship missiles be improved so that even if Only one missile survives the defences it will have a High probability of sinking or disabling the target  Britain s hippies druids make trek to stonehenge to celebrate solstice Amesbury England up police and hippies staged their annual sum Mer solstice confrontation around Brit Ain s ancient stonehenge Monument sunday and As usual the hippie Tost. Some 500 Long haired hippies Given last minute police permission jubilantly marched to the site in England s wet country to watch the Sun Rise on the longest Day of the year. But some tried to break through police lines to the stones themselves and 43 were arrested after scuffling with scores of officers surrounding the to Pouch led nun Way sunday during disturbances at England s Ston thence. Numen police said All 43 were re leased without charges. Wiltshire county police in a Surprise decision said saturday the 500 hippie would be allowed to go to stonehenge itself provided they stayed behind police lines around the monoliths Wiltshire assistant chief Constable David Cooke said the police wanted to be reasonable and had agreed to let the hip pies near the Monument provided that the travellers Are reasonable in  la was the tint time such permission had been granted at the summer Sci Stine since the hippies annual festival there was banned two years ago. The ban Fol Lowed violent clashes with police and complaints Over the noise and unsanitary conditions the hippies created the hippies sunday moved toward stonehenge from their base Camp at Devil s Dyke about 8 Miles away. Most obeyed the rules but a handful tried to break through wire barriers and were arrested police said also on hand for the Slone hinge Sun Rise were some 50 modern Day druids Clad in White Robes and clutching tickets issued by English heritage the foundation that manages the Monument the druids believe Slon Phengc was possibly erected and certainly used by othere of the cult As a religious Center thousands of years ago. English heritage for the past decade has allowed the Public no closer than about 20 Yards to the Monument As a result of dam age from Graffiti. The foundation insists that a massive hippie invasion would endanger the stones even More. With the hippies druids and police sunday were some 250 reporters photographers and television cameramen for the Sunrise ceremony thai one journalist described As an example of English  soviet Union 1986 traffic toll reported Moscow a about 39.000 peo ple were killed in traffic accidents last year in the soviet Union and nearly Quarter of the victims died because of inadequate medical assistance a newspaper reported saturday. The government newspaper Izvestia said 260,000 people were injured income 241,000 traffic accidents and 13 percent of the fatalities were children. In the United slates the National safely Council reported thai there were 35,870 traffic fatalities nationwide Dur ing he first nine months of 1986, com pared with 34,140 deaths in the same period of 1985. Figures were not immediately available for All of i9b6. Izvestia in its account of Lack of medi Cal assistance said part of the problem was poor Telephone Contact Between traffic police posts and hospitals. It said the ministry of communications has failed to Complete the installation of emergency telephones on National roads. It added thai Over the past six years Only 6 percent of the designated Road length was equipped with emergency phones and 100 Miles of nearly 300milei of communication lines tested were not working. It did not give the mileage for the Road lengths to have emergency phones. The report said the traffic problems were discussed at a recent meeting of the All Union commission on Road safely. Izvestia said that in comparison to the volume of Road traffic the Soviel Union s fatalities and injuries Are sever Al times worse than in the United slates Britain West and East Germany Italy and  one Oul of seven accidents was caused by alcohol the newspaper said a statistic that May have fallen since last year be cause of soviet Leader Mikhail s. Gorba Chev s crackdown on alcoholism. France commemorates end of algerian War Paris a Twenty five years ago fighting stopped in the algerian War and throughout France on sunday ceremonies marked the anniversary of the War in which an estimated 166,000 men lost their lives. In Paris president Francois Mitter Rand and Premier Jacques Chirac re viewed troops from the army Navy air Force and National police following a Brief ceremony at the invalids Monu ment. Mitterrand then presented the legion of Honor. France s highest award to seven algerian War veterans. On sunday morning Chirac participated in a mass at the Saint Louis Church at the invalids dedicated to the memory of the civilian and military victims of the War. According to official estimates i 1,000 Algeri ans and 25,000 French were killed during the War which lasted from november 1954 to March 1%2. Fighting in the War was so bitter and feelings so Strong that even after an Accord was signed at evian ending the War on March 19, 1962, fighting continued for three months. Chirac was accompanied to the mass by defense minister Andre Giraud for eign minister Jean Bernard Raimond and veterans minister Georges . Fowles also participated in a Ceredo Ney saturday evening at the Tomb of the unknown Soldier at the Arch of Triumph. Other military ceremonies were held in mimes ales Carcassonne Perpignan and Mon Pollier in the South of France where thousands of French resettled after fleeing Algeria during and after the War. Ceremonies were also held in Arras Lille Beau Vais Laon eve Crux and Rouen