European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 16, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday september 16, 1987 the stars and stripes Page 5 of picks Boeing to test Mobile my missile by Norman Black a military h Riler Washington the air l orc has selected hoi ing aerospace co. M con duct less designed to show Hiil the giant my nuclear missile can he carried and launched from a rail car. The service in a grief contract announcement monday said in selected the Seattle.  Boeing Over Manin Marietta corp. For the peacekeeper rail Garrison Basing lest and system  Boeing will receive a ji35.5 million contract in the work of which  i nillion a i awarded monday the air Force said the my. Duh Ned the peacekeeper by the Reagan administration is a giant h warhead missile that is entering the air Force s inventory As a silo based weapon. The administration has asked Congress to author a the deployment of 100 of inc missiles hut so tar Only 50 i ave been Aulhorn cd. President Reagan in a hid to obtain approval for the second so. Proposed last december that a rail version of the. Mis Sile he produced to improve its chances of surviving a soviet i nit strike attack. Unlike the soviet Union the United slates currently docs not have any to bile intercontinental ballistic missiles Al though a truck mounted single warhead missile known As the Midge Man now under development. The president s my proposal envisions placing he missiles inside rail launch cars that would be stored inside military leases ready to Sintler across the country on the commercial rail network Ai the first sign of worsening tension or attack. C ingress has yet to authorise such a deployment hut has allowed the air Force to pursue the testing needed to produce such a system. The air Force said hoeing and Martin Marietta were the Only two companies to respond to ils request fur bids. The serv ice declined to disclose what Martin Marietta had bid on inc project. Western firefighters get help from cooler weather by the Assor bled press weather turning cooler and More humid helped fire fighters Battle the remains of the Blaes that have scorched More than 1,100 Square Miles in inc West. But an advancing storm threatened to fan the flames. Certainly it appears we be gotten the upper hand but the stronger winds will really prove who s $01 the stronger  said Ray Schaaff the California department of forestry in Sacramento. He said firefighter in Northern California were tackling More Nigger country in their Battle against about Ifim Forest and Brush fires thai remained Union Tai cd among Lac 1,247 Bla is since aug. 28, n stanislaus National Forest however one of the largest fires was contained two weeks after lightning san pcs sparked More than 50 Blaies in tinder dry underbrush that eventually merged. By the time a 33-mile line around inc fire was completed 138,960 acres of grass Brush and Trees had been blackened said diet Wisehart. A . Forest service fire information officer. Elsewhere Crews dropped water from helicopters onto a 29,400-acre Forest fire in Oregon battled a for est fire in Southern California and protected ranches from a Blac in Idaho. A storm system about 750 Miles off the coast of Washington was is petted to move eastward bringing winds up to 48 Mph and a Chance of Light showers said Ron Wagoner Lead forecaster with the National weather service  san Francisco this is what we Call a major fall weather pattern. And the winds in brings could really cause firefighters some major problems said Wagoner. No More than a few Hundred los of an Inch of rain is expected to follow the winds he said. Weekend lightning strikes ignited about a dozen Small fires in California including one that quickly grew to 50 acres but Schaaf said All were quickly contained. Officials let the number of firefighters on duty in North pm California drop 2,500 this weekend to 10,000, once they go Home firefighters and evacuees must still Cope with languishing memories. In Tallma Ore Delia Fisher plays for rain amid possessions from fire threatened Homes. This is everything like being in a War and not knowing if on any Given Day you re going to die said or. Thomas Curtis a los Angeles psychiatrist four firefighters have been killed in California since the rash of blazes began. The first three died in vehicular accidents. David Ross Erickson a 34-year-old . Forest service engine Foreman from Etna calif., died when a tree fell on him in the stanislaus National Forest the top priority blazes in Northern California re main Hose in the Shasta Trinity and Klamath nation Al forests. The Klamath where 42 fires remained has consumed 139,638 acres. The Shasta Trinity Bla is have blackened 76,739 acres. Guccione s a scam suit dismissed new York a a Federal judge has dismissed Penthouse publisher Bob Guccione s $400 million lawsuit against he government Over he a scam investigation Federal officials said monday. Guccione sued the government in 1984, claiming thai the Fri s negligent supervision of undercover operative Melvin Weinberg in the Public corruption investigation Cost him financing for a proposed Atlantic City hotel Casino. A scam. An Fri undercover sting operation in the late 1970s, led to the conviction of several members of Congress and local politicians in new Jersey and Philadelphia on various charges. Guccione was targeted in inc investigation but was never charged. His suit claimed that Weinberg who posed As inc a genl of a fictitious Arab investment company said he could gel Guccione a Casino License if he would pay a bribe to a new Jersey official Guccione said he refused but claimed Weinberg made false and defaming statements about Guccione to prospective lenders for his multimillion Dollar Atlantic City project. . District judge Constance Baker Motley dismissed Guccione s suit on the grounds thai the government and its agents Are immune from such lawsuits. Motley also found thai Guccione knew All he pertinent facts of the a scam investigation by March 1982, and thus his november 1984 claim was barred by the two year statute of limitations. A statement issued by David a myer son chief operating officer of Penthouse International said we just received the opinion and Are reviewing it. We will Appeal. We believe the judge has wrongly  Tennis again delays lbs news rather stays new York a Tennis Cut into the lbs evening news again monday but Dan rather was in his Anchor Seal anyway with nothing to say to viewers about a i up three Days earlier that halted network programming for several minutes. A 4-hour, 47-minute final men s match of the . Open Tennis tournament extended until shortly after 7 ., leading lbs to cancel its 6 30  News broadcast and Cut a couple of minuses of the second edition of the news. On Friday. Rather angrily left the set in Miami where he was temporarily based to cover the Pope s , Lour when he Learned that lbs sports would continue live coverage of a semifinal open match past 6 30  Est. When the first lbs news feed to its affiliates was supposed to begin. But the Tennis wrapped up quickly and before rather could be fetched Back to the set from a nearby office lbs stations who use the 6 30 feed were stuck with is minutes of dead air before the news began. The 7  Version of the news sent on As scheduled. Rather made no mention of the Inci Dent monday during his slightly Short ened 7  Newscast. In a statement sunday he had said that letting the network go Black on Friday was an Accident but stopped Shon of apologising for the incident. The always believed the audience should be Able to count on seeing the news at its regularly scheduled time and in us entirety. That was Al Issue  he said. Hut i would never nor would anyone at lbs even think of deliberately allowing the network lot  Sands of time in the stars and stripes 40 years ago today. Sept 16. 1947 machine guns rattled hand grenades exploded and riot squads raced through the streets of Trieste As it officially became a free slate. Three people were killed in the rioting Over the Severance of Trieste and a Large part of the Venezia Giulia Region from Italy 30 years ago today. Sept. 16, 1957 Early election re turns showed Chancellor Konrad Adenauer taking a substantial Lead in West Germany s general elections. With More than 4 million Voles counted. Adenauer s Christian democrats and their German party allies were far ahead of the opposition socialists. 20 years ago today. Sept. 16, 1967 the european Exchange system in Nuernberg. Germany. Which operates stores for 400.000 . Servic members and their families Over seas was investigating graft and bribery running into the millions of dollars. 10 years ago today. Sept. Of. 1977 the death loll in Ilie Kansas by. Mo., Flash Trad Rose la 24