European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 3, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Robot helps in explosive situations by Mark Walsh bit Burf Bureau Span Dahlem a. Germany ii walks in climbs stairs and with ils nerves of steel it can make bombs Safe without sweating shaking or blinking an Eye. Bruno a robot belonging to the 7007th explosive Ord disposal right also can be armed with a 12-Gaugc Shotgun and takes some of the danger Oul of the work thai flight members face in the line of duty. It provides us with a Remote capability or dealing with i car bomb or handmade bomb said Cape. Mike Anderson Eod Light commander at Span Dahlem. Instead of having my Guy walk up Here set up and have it detonate in their face i d rather lose a 145,000  attached to a 100-meter Cable Bruno is controlled by technicians who remain Well Oul of the Way of pos sible explosions. The robot is equipped with a video camera that ii especially useful when Bruno is working inside a building or otherwise Oul of he operator s sight once inside a Structure. Bruno can go up stairs if necessary in its Hunt for a suspected bomb As the search is being watched by the operator on a video screen. After retrieving the package the robot can be guided Back outside. Actions to dispose of the object then arc taken by either Bruno or the Eod personnel. Bruno s Shotgun will come in Handy when working with explosives in briefcases and cars. Anderson said. With this capability and you be got something where you need to gel into a car you can blow the lockout trunk real  he said. The robot also can shoot monday. Augusta 1987 the stars and stripes Page s flight commander capt. Mike Anderson watches u senior airman Darin a fryc operate Bruno. Sis Pleho bulk we out windows on vehicles and dispose of a Small suspicious package but Bruno does not have the capability to Maneu Verinder a car a situation where Man would take Over from machine. Bruno has yet to work with actual explosives since its arrival at Spang Dahlen but like the people who operate in the robot is on standby ready to respond on Short notice 10 the scene of a bomb threat. Because the robot has a Boom like Arm thai can extend to 12 feet Bruno could suffer anything from scratches to destruction in an explosion. Anderson says in depends mainly upon the size of the explosive and the robot s distance from it. A Small pipe bomb say As big around As a Coffee cup can do significant damage to the front end of  bigger than that Well that s $45,000 Down the tube. It s an expensive toy but if it saves someone s life. It s Worth in he said. Star wars b/7/ could reach $ 1 trillion study says Washington a launching Star wars anti missile defences into orbit could Cost up to $ i trill Ion. Depend ing on  taken by the so Viet Union according to a congressional study released sunday. These results have disturbing implications the congressional research service said in a report that estimate the Cost of launching the Star wan system but not its development an manufacture. Many of the variables that will drive up Star wars launch costs arc influenced partially or completely by soviet actions said the report based in Parton information from Star wan scientists at the Sandia los Alamos and Law rence Livermore National laboratories. Costs could be Cut if the Pentagon registers spectacular advances in anti missile technologies and develops launch system leu expensive than those now available in said. Among the Steps the soviets could take to frustrate Star wars and drive up Cosu would be to develop rocket boosters for its missiles that leave the atmosphere More quickly by equipping them with up to $00 decoys and build ing More missiles capable of reaching the United Stales. Costs could be controlled if the super Powers reach a treaty governing strategic arms and space based missile defences. If the soviets do not cooperate How Ever the launch costs for such a defense could skyrocket the Lack of  Viet offensive arms limitations has the potential to drive up launch costs still More the report said. Scientists  officials involved in the strategic defense initiative As Star wars is formally known have made similar Points in the past but the con Gressional report offers the most detailed projection of launch costs. The computer estimates were made by congressional researchers Cosmo dimag Gio and Robert l. Civiak. They were re leased by three vocal Star wars critics democratic Sens. William Proxmire of Wisconsin j. Bennett Johnston of Loui Siana and Dale bumpers of Arkansas. La. Col. Edwina Palmer a spokeswoman for the strategic defense initiative organization said her office had not seen the congressional report and could not comment on it. No one really knows what it will Cost to either develop or deploy Star wars. The congressional study quoted a task Force of the Pentagon s science Board a concluding that As a consequence of the current gaps in system design and key technologies there is presently noway of confidently assessing system performance system Cost or  an ski Backer physicist Robert Jas irow estimated last year that in would Cost ss4 billion to deploy the first stage of a space based and ground based anti missile defense and 1121 billion to de ploy a full system. Critics say Jastrow projections arc Low. President Reagan sought s5.s billion for Star wars research for the fiscal year beginning oct. I but a Senate panel voted to Cul it to $4.5 billion and the House to j3.8 billion. The Bill awaits action by both bodies. Defense Secretary Caspar Wei Bergerand ski chief it. Gen. James a. Abra Hamson have declined to speculate How much Star wars would Cost but they have said the first phase of such a system could be deployed As Early As 1994. Such a system they have testified on Capitol Hill would consist of orbiting platforms locked with kinetic kill vehicles that is rockets that would destroy enemy missiles by colliding with them. Exotic laser and particle beam weapons would not be available until the next Century the congressional report  in is not Clear to what extent they would be based on land or in space. The congressional study calculated rial it would Cost it billion to launch what in called a Token boost phase de sense. To intercept a Small percentage of soviet missile,1 if the Pentagon registered spectacular advances in technology and the soviets do not respond. If there Are no breakthroughs and the soviets Lake countermeasures launching such a system could Cost up to 132 Tui Tion the study said. If the soviets respond for example by increasing their strategic missile Force from the limit of 2,350 imposed by the second strategic arms limitation treat to 3,500 missiles and the United slates Doss not develop lower Cost boosters launch costs might run into the hundreds of billions of  costs could reach is trillion or More i said but it is assumed. That with such poor performance Levels the United states simply would not spend i i  . State senator arrested in Fri sting operation new York a a new York stale senator was arrested in the posh Plaza hotel saturday after an undercover agent allegedly Cave him $ 150,000 in Cash  Fri said. Democratic sen. Andrew Jenkins who had booked lights for saturday night to Brussels and on to Zaire was Arribi Dafter a to month sting operation said Joseph Valiquette a spokesman for the Fri in Manhattan. In a series of meetings with an under cover Fri agent posing As an Init nation Al financier Jenkins allegedly agreed to carry currency Oul of the country with out filing the required Federal forms a Tiquet Esaid. Jenkins was charged under Federal la that makes it a crime to transport More than 110.000 out of the country without notifying the . Treasury department the spokesman said. The Law is intended to deter Money laundering. A Law enforcement source told the associated press that Jenkins had Bee promised a percentage of the Cash As pay ment for moving it Oul of lie country. The Iourtc also said Jenkins had been told the Money was ill got n. Valiqu Etc said he had indicated that he had friends in Zaire who could handle in who could take  Jenkins 46. Of Queens Wai arrested in the edwardian com a dining roam at the Midtown Manhattan hotel. A 1969 graduate of Fordham univer sity and of Fordham Law school in 1972, Jenkins was elected to the Newyork Assembly in 1979 and served until 1982, when he won election to the Senate from the 10th District. Jenkins also oper ates a Law practice within his District. Val Quelle declined to say Whai prompted the investigation and he said it was not alleged that Jenkins had engaged in such transactions before. Nonetheless he said he Fri did be come aware thai the senator might be Able to of fur some assistance to die agent. As a Nuli. A series of meetings were held Over the last two months Between the agent and the senator and in was agreed that the senator would make this trip tonight he said there was no answer at Jenkins office in Queens