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It Jet us Mai Rem world today More accurate non nuclear cruise missile being developed by Richard Halloray Washington not the defense depart ment is developing a High explosive non nuclear cruise missile Hal would hit within inches of its Large compared with several feet now possible according to Pentagon and congressional officials in disclosing this development in response to inquiries the officials also said the Range of such Low flying missiles had been doubled. The Navy has succeeded i firing one from a submarine and Hilling a target 3,000 Miles away they said. Taken together the officials said these developments Wil have extensive political and military implications. But they doubled there would be an imme Diate effect on the meeting this week Between Secretary of state George Shutlz and soviet foreign minister Eduard a Shevardnadze who arrived i Washington sunday. They plan to discuss the final elements of an agreement that would ban medium Range nuclear missile i including ground launched cruise missiles from Europe. The new developments Are nol expected to affect those negotiations officials said because the agreement As proposed would not cover cruise missiles launched from aircraft surface ships or submarines,.which Are the larger part of the . Inventory of such weapons. Moreover producing operational versions of very accurate missiles with conventional warheads will take five to 10 year. In the longer term officials said the implications of developments in cruise Misi Ilei would include these reducing the military toss to nato caused by a agreement to withdraw medium Range nuclear missiles from Europe since they could be replaced by highly accurate conventional missiles based at sea or launched Tram aircraft if not based on land. Lessening the temptation to use nuclear weapons in a conflict since american commanders could use precise conventional cruise missiles to achieve some of the same results. Giving impetus 10 what Are known As standoff weapons which can be fired at targets a Long distance away thus reducing the need for Aerial bombing that puts pilots and planes at risk providing a weapon for use against terrorists As new guidance systems will enable a cruise missile Lopick out precisely the building at which it was aimed lessening the likelihood of killing Civ ans nearby. The officials said the cruise missile advanced guidance program had been under Way for two years with the system having been tested in aircraft this summer. Two companies. General dynamics and Mcdonnell Douglas Are competing for the contract. White details Are secret officials said the new sys tem used a Carbon dioxide laser to look Forward and to guide Hie missile Asil approached the target. The technology they said could also be used to improve the accuracy of ballistic missiles. The defense science Board the Pentagon s top technical committee has reviewed the findings so Farand is preparing a recommendation for Secretary of defense Caspar Weinberger urging thai development of Ibe system go Forward the officials said. Today we can Fly a cruise missile through the goal posts on a football Field an official said. If we get the new system we can Hil either upright or the Cross  the development of such missiles reflects two trends in Modem weapons. One is to close the Gap Between nuclear and conventional weapons largely by making High explosive precisely guided weapons More accurate and therefore More destructive. The second is to design standoff weapons hat can be fired far from the target thus reducing the exposure of the launcher to enemy fire. When equipped with the new stealth technology designed to deceive radar along Range precise cruise missile with a High explosive warhead could baffle enemy defences. In arms control Long Range cruise missiles with High explosive conventional warheads would profitably complicate future negotiations on reducing Long Range nuclear weapons because they raise problem with verification. Cruise missiles with conventional warheads appear to be nearly identical to those with nuclear warheads Only experts up close could Tell the difference. With a multitude Oliuch weapons deployed on Ibe ground in aircraft and on ship and submarines neither Side would know which missiles of Fth other Side were conventional or nuclear. The officials said in was Loo Early to determine what he new missile program would Cost or to estimate when in could be put into operation other than to say the mid-1990s. They also said problems with guidance units for the my intercontinental ballistic missile were not involved since thai technology was different a cruise missile whose avenge Cost is 11.5 million today is a dying torpedo 18 feel Long powered by rocket with solid fuel. It flies at subsonic speeds with stubby wings that keep it Only 10 to 30 feet in the air that Low Altitude enables in to elude radar beams thai scan upward in a  missiles Are navigated by a combination of an inertia guidance system Over water and a terrain Fol lowing system Over land. The first measures each movement of the missile and feeds that data into a computer which orders corrections. The second uses radar and optical scanners to read the ground under Neath the missile the computer compares that picture with a map in its memory to order corrections the first cruise missiles could attack Only with a level head on approach. Bui refinement in guidance have made in possible to instruct a cruise missile to explode Over a target or to Fly in Low then pop up Over obstacles and dive to penetrate a target and explode. A cruise missile that can scatter 166 Small bombs has also been tested. Cruise missiles which can be fired from surface ships submarines ground launchers and aircraft were initially intended to carry nuclear warheads recently however the emphasis has shifted to conventional warheads for cruise missiles aboard ships and submarines elsewhere Pound launched cruise missiles with nuclear warheads have been deployed at one base each in Britain West Germany Italy and Belgium and Are the subject along with penning to nuclear ballistic mis Siles of negotiations with the soviet Union. One More base is being built in Britain and another is to be built in the Netherlands. By Early 19b9, a total of 464 cruise misses Are to be deployed Ai the six  those missiles were replaced by conventional cruise missiles the officials cautioned there would still be some military loss. While a precisely placed High explosive warhead could Slop an enemy installation from functioning they said Only a nuclear warhead could destroy in. Marines on Okinawa delay dismissals of locals Tokyo a the . Military on monday delayed the dismissals of nearly 300 japanese workers at american Marine bases in Okinawa but said 16 would be discharged because of financial problems. It had earlier announced that 301 japanese employees would be dismissed from the Marine restaurant Sand clubs on sept. To. A statement from the . Media Liaison office said  with the exception of the 16, the others will be temporarily retained until March 31,198b." it said the . And japanese governments have agreed to continue to make every Effort o find a Solu Tion to the financial problem which led to the initial dismissal notification before the end of 1987." 1 St taiwanese reporters on assignment in China Beijing up1 two taiwanese reporters began a series of interviews in Beijing on tuesday marking the first Lime journalists from the nationalist ruled Island have carried out a Public assignment in the communist Mainland since 1949. The journalists Hsu la 30, and Lee Yung Teh 33,of the privately owned Independence evening poll arrived late monday in Defiance of warnings by the taiwanese government. Speaking from his room at Beijing s luxury great Wall hotel Lee said the pair would spend their firs Day in the capital carrying out interviews. He said they hoped in arrange As Many meetings As possible without the mediation of chinese organizations. Afghan rebels Down soviet built transport Moscow a toss tuesday said that afghan guerrillas shot Down a soviet built transport plane carrying i i people As it approached a Northern Afghani Stan Airport killing everyone aboard. The official news Agency said the twin engine trans port carrying nine passengers and a Crew of six. Was hit sunday by guerillas missiles Asil approached Kurt Dux about i so Miles North of Kabul. The plane was rocked by three explosions an crashed Tass said tas did not say whether the plane belonged to in soviets or the afghans or whether it was a military or civilian transport. Circus elephant squeezes horse Trainer to death Sydney Australia a a circus elephant squeezed a horse Trainer to death after the mat climbed inside the animal s enclosure Al the Ashly circus in Northern new South Wales police said tues Day. The Man was the third killed by Abu the elephant in 13 years. A crowd of adults and children gasped As the 5,500 Pound elephant pinned the Man to the ground and crushed him monday night in the town of gun Nedah the i year old victim had been drinking before he climbed inside the elephant enclosure police said. The Man s name was withheld. In 1983 Abu killed a 22-year-old circus Clown and in 1974 the elephant trampled a truck Driver to death police said. Authorities said there were no plans to kill the Ani Mal. Nude Man found Drifting on latrine door in Lake Stockholm Sweden a a naked Man was rescued Drifting on a latrine door in a Lake in South Eastern Sweden news reports said tuesday the s 3-year old Man found himself stranded Mon Day on a Small Island in Lake Jam Lunden. South of i Herity link Oping. He had taken a break from fishing when he discovered Bis Rowboat had drifted away the National news Agency to reported. The unidentified Fisherman a hitched a latrine door for a raft to Chase his boat and took off his clothes to keep them dry to said. But the boat drifted too fast and the Fisherman could not paddle Back to Shore. He was later found on his unusual Craft utterly exhausted by a couple in another boat