European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 28, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse A Saab the stars and stripes wednesday october 28,1987 . Plans defense against Iran s missiles signs Point to stockpiling of silkworms Washington up alarmed by Lisa % in creasing accuracy in silkworm missile attacks on kuwaiti Oil targets the untied Sutt has a special technical team helping plan a defense to shoot Down the weapons administration sources say. Pentagon concerns have deepened of Intelli gence data showing Iran is attempting to Hoard larger silkworm stockpiles by negotiating a second major Purchase or As Many As 300 of the deadly anti snip weapons made in China the sources told United pros International monday. The . Technical team will help Kuwait use its ,-supplied, sophisticated Hawk Ami aircraft mis Siles 10 try to destroy the Mobile silkworms which Iran is learning to operate with deadly accuracy according to one . Expert. The silkworm is a slow air breathing missile like Abig old air plane and the Hawks Are capable of Shoal ing them Down the analyst said speaking u did other sources on the condition of anonymity. State department spokesman Art Dorger refused to comment on the report. Ust week the department announced hat the United slates was freezing further Transfer to China of technology on sensitive military equipment because of a chinese refusal to Slop supplying Iran with the silkworms. . Intelligence analysts have warned thai the silkworms pose a key threat to Navy ships escort ing .-nagged kuwaiti Oil Ankers through the War torn persian Gulf. China under mounting . And International pres sure to halt arms sales to Iran consistently has denied any silkworm transactions. But last month after an other silkworm attack Kuwait s foreign minister met with the five permanent members of the , Security Council in new York and displayed fragments of a missile with distinct chinese calligraphy a . Intelligence source said. In the words of one Wilh knowledge about the High stateside quake shakes sea floor off Baja California coast Pasadena Calif. A a moderate earthquake entered about 100 Miles South Ofsan Diego Shook the Ocean floor monday afternoon officials at the California Institute of technology reported. The quake measuring 4.2 on the Richter scale was entered off the coast of Baja califor Nia Mexico said Cal tech spokesman Robert finn. There were no reports of damage and there were no Calls from ships in the area finn said. Coal Miner pinned Down by vehicle Dies instantly Black lick a. A a Coal Miner with 16 years experience died instantly when he was pinned by a mine vehicle authorities said. Robert d. Shaffer 58. Of Aultman suffered massive Chest injuries in the Accident at Helen mining co., said the Indiana county Coroner Thomas streams. Another Miner was Hurt but not seriously said company spokesman Mark Lucas. Federal state. United mine workers Union and company officials investigating Lucas said. Nielsen Survey focuses on number of Vars in . New York a Jusi Over half of All is. Homes with televisions have a videocassette re Corder according to the . Nielsen co. Nielsen said monday its Survey shows that As of july there were Vars in 50.9 percent Zofih estimated 88.6 million Homes with televisions. Nielsen also said 21a percent of All House holds with televisions have pay Cable. Nielsen cautions that irregularities in the Sam ple affect the accuracy of the figures but it s the first time the television ratings company his estimated Vars in More than half of Homes with televisions. Level meeting. The chinese representative just about the chinese embassy in Washington did not return Telephone Calls monday. Until now it was thought hat he . Sanctions on High technology sales to China could be traced to continued delivery of about so silkworms under a pre Vious 11.6 billion arms contract with Iran. But it was Learned monday that China and Iran Are pushing ahead on a second Sale with initial deliveries that could number Between 25 and 100. A . Intelli gence source said that while there Are no Concrete figures available Iran May be trying to buy As Many As 200 to 300" additional silkworms. If Iran obtained that Many silkworms the threat to . Forces in the Gulf would triple another source asserted. This analyst said it was unclear if the latest negotiations involved a new Sale or merely a significant modification to the previous chinese iranian agreement. Kuwait meanwhile has bought improved Hawk missiles known As i Hawks under . Military Aid agreements in recent years. Several . Sources said most of those Hawks had been deployed in Northern Kuwait at a Border station until re cell attacks. Last week. Silkworms hit two Oil tankers a . Owned ship flying a liberian Flag and a kuwaiti ship flying an american Flag. The Navy responded to the second incident by destroying two iranian Oil plat forms but officials expressed concern at lie increasing competence and accuracy of the iranian attacks. A few weeks ago the silkworms were dropping rather aimlessly an analyst said. Now they re Able to hit what they aim another worry is the silkworm system s mobility. It takes Only half an hour to break Down the launcher and drive it on a truck to a new site and analyst noted. He said thai attacking the missiles at a launching site becomes Tricky because they could be defended by Hawks sold to Iran in the Days of the Shah the persian Gulf and later on a smaller scale As part of president Reagan s secret . Arms sales to iranian contacts in 98sand 1986. Administration officials justified . Aid in deploy ing kuwaiti Hawks because of the Small Gulf nation vulnerability. They noted that a significant portion of Kuwait s population is pro iranian and provide targeting data to the government in Tehran. Cities not getting anti drug funds Washington a one year after president Reagan signed legislation to wage a War on drugs Little of the Money authorized for local Anli dog programs has reached the cities where the Battles Are to be fought the . Conference of mayors said tuesday. The mayors released a Survey of 42 major cities showing that less than half reported receiving commit ments for Money under the new Law for drug Educa Tion treatment and enforcement programs. Fewer still had actually received any of the Money and the total received was just a fraction of the nearly 1700 million authorized by Congress for local pro Grams. This Survey suggests that America has lost fun first Battle in the War on drugs by default said Richard Berkley he Republican mayor of Kansas City mo., and president of the conference of mayors. A year ago Reagan signed the anti drug abuse act of 1986, which provided j 1.7 billion in fee Raj Money in addition to 12.2 billion already spent each year to combat drugs. It also toughened sentences for some drug violations. The legislation was passed amid heightened concern Over the problem of illegal drugs following the drug related deaths of some celebrity athletes and after the Reagan administration ordered drug testing of certain Federal employees. Included in the legislation was iji5 million for enforcement programs 1200 million for education pro Grams and $262 million for treatment and rehabilitation programs during fiscal 1987, most of the Money was to go through Stales to local governments an agencies he conference said in a report on its find Ings. The conference surveyed 42 cities whose mayors Siton its executive committee or task forces on drug control. Counted were the nation s largest cities including new York los Angeles. Chicago Washington mum Atlanta Philadelphia Detroit san Francisco and bos ton in the education programs category 14 cities or 4spercent of those that responded said they Hod received commitments for Money under the act the commit ments totalled 3.3 million. But Only five of those cities said they had actually received Money totalling $ i Mil lion. In treatment programs 11 cities or 37 percent of those answering the question reported receiving commitments for Money under the act. The totalled s3 million. But just sin reported actually receiving Money totalling $400,000. In enforcement programs 14 cities or 40 percent of those responding reported receiving funding commit ments totalling 19.6 million. Foreign student total sets record new York up a record 348,609 foreign students attended colleges in the United states last year a 1.7 percent increase again paced by asian nations As enrolment from Oil dependent countries falloff a report said monday. The open doors report issued by the Institute of inner National education also said foreign graduate student enrolment was greater than foreign undergraduate enrol ment of the first Lime in 20 years 146,100 to 141.250, the asian students were the largest and Fasihi growing segment of the foreign population up 8.8 per cent compared to an Overall foreign increase of 1.7 percent the report said foreign enrolment As a percentage of College enrol ment remained Al about 2.7 percent for the decade. The largest number of foreign students 25,460. Came from Taiwan. Malaysia was second with 21,640and China third with 20,030 students decline we recorded front Africa latin America and the Middle East according to Richard Krasno president of the he the nation s largest higher Edu cation Exchange Agency. Iran which regards the United states As the great satan sent 12,230 students Down 3.9 percent from a year earlier the report said. The study said the graduate students bowed a prefer ence for technical courses thirty one percent close Engi Neering computer or math sciences 19 percent business and management and � percent physical and life sciences. Florida s Mumi Dade Community College with 5,010, became the first College to Register at let 5,000foreign students. The University of Southern califor Nia was the most popular four year school with 3,746, and the University of Texas Al Austin followed with 3,000. More foreign students 47,388, chose to attend school in California than any other sure followed by new York with 32.821 and Texas Wii 25,123
