European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 19, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse Thursday november 19,1987 the stars and stripes f Page 9 f-16 project expected to help notion soar into 21 St Century by Daryle. Green staff writer Ankara Turkey a project to provide Turkey with 160 f-16 fighter jets also will help launch the nation into the future according to . Officials Over swing the join project. Actually this a a step for Turkey into the 21st a Colury sad Robert c. Willis Quality Assurance Divi Sion crier of uti 34, air furan a Iii Center. The detachment is overseeing the contract lha Calls for the co production of the aircraft at the aerospace industries inc. Factory near the tit Drysh air base in muted. The project known As peace up fris designed to help the turkish an aircraft in do jury and nuke it Cap Abs a competing for aircraft contracts worldwide cum future. In i not just Laaff aircraft to the turkish people said it. a fair detachment commander the Milc than $4 billion co production project hti983 and ii expected to produce its first air Cut attn 1988. The con includes $3.4 billion for 136 discs and 24 f-16ds, $176.8 million for support aids on the Rise among applicants fir military services just thro study among dry medical disease infections the Malthe More i Able now Only Are to they Are Mark said. From a world i it will cripple los. Expert it. Cant inroad Sini Mark was virus confere health and h army col Pentagon is general disease a Burke a search quire in Iran rate million aide Sai disease military tested i it be Maui in ton a flip crts say they re ing at How rapidly us is spreading the american population but a Pentagon own that the fatal disease is on the Rise ung people applying for military service. N Mark Churman of the Harvard ool said monday that a centers Tori tool estimate of 1.5 million aids the unite states is just a 1 hear of pets talk on this subjection lifted thai the figures Avail Luite i accurate said Mark. Not Ile about the numbers but the about How fast the Dis son the effect of aids rang organization projection that Iza Tion to the View of some disease will make no signify neral population experts attending an aids Day at the department fan Mally. Said tips Ding alter Reo. Said in Defi 1-5 the two Yea Reading but " ily is Low coi american a statistical Bias. . Burke discussing the can t be applied to the it does suggest that the a for military scr ii Bis or drug addicts with the highest incident f More important quest i of aids getting belter i. From our data it s Gettis f is continuing to increase. 1 Nitoiu each year is Mote Thanh agreed however that any 1 number of infected army Institute of re study showed an a syndrome virus infect based on tests of 4.5. Service showed that the rate found by the Jared with the in ii t not perfect Buiji. He said include few to the population of aids. N is is it the worst " said one. The Inci number newyear image of the is just t nobody can rationally say wait is the cur no number he said. 1exp Cru at the conference said let won t be a valid estimate until some son of is conducted. Such a study would have to involve blood testing of a statistically significant number of randomly selected americans. The problem is that nobody knows and we better find out said Mark. Equipment including the building of two ncw$52.s million or spare parts $ i publications and 1138.8 million for Mhz Knous costs. The people assign jul sure that the . everything it a tar look at this As an invest fit in the future. Worldwide importance Blo compete with general dynamics they r to compete with the Lar Cairn made Nair age they re going to compete with Fokker the israelis everybody fair said. While possibly competing with the likes of general dynamics in the future the Young turkish aircraft Industry is greatly dependent on the . Company now. It s a joint venture pair said. General dynamics a United Stales company has formed a separate company called general dynamics of Turkey. And his company has gotten together with tusks which is turkish aircraft industries inc., a turkish state owned company and formed tusks aerospace industries inc. The turkish air Force foundation and the turkish league also have bought Stock in the company which is organized completely under turkish Law. The company will assemble f-6s using parts manufactured in other countries. To f-16 aircraft that s flying today is produced completely by one country fair said. They re All produced As part of a consortium of contractors that have been pulled together from various countries with Sato. Eve he i Fott a co produce Wing and Center and aft fuse Lages Fly Coral to fair. Some of the vices will be produced in Turkey. That manufacturing capability has not yet been established. The building is just bout finished for them to Start putting their tooling although supervised by . Technicians and Man agers Tai is destined to be a turkish owned and turkish controlled company. The goal is that after seven years 3vt of which have recently passed the company will be completely managed by turkish people and americans will be pulled out. England gets an to for psf time by Dave Diehl . Bureau Raf Lakenheath England a satellite an Cable Hookup is bringing an to for the first time to americans living in base housing in England. Al about 4 . Monday engineers dialled in the american forces network satellite signal and fed it to Cable subscribers in the base housing areas at Laken Heath and at nearby Raf Mildenhall according to Ian Barthorpe the general manager of Cable com invest ments Ltd. The company since last summer has been wiring the bases and housing areas for pay Cable television Andain. About 20 housing areas around the nine major air Force installations in Britain will be getting an in the next week Barthorpe said. We re try Imp to fix the glitches said John Scaife Cable com chairman. Scaife said his employees Are working to get the Mildenhall and Lakenheath base housing on line in the next Day or two. He said he expects to have some 5,000 users from among the nine bases hooked up to an by nov. 27. But maj Dick David executive officer of of Frankfurt stressed that for at least the next 30 Days the signal to England would be Les cd and could be Cut off without notice to viewers. An programming was t possible in the United kingdom until an he in Frankfurt began beaming its programming via satellite. Previously an Frank Furt received programming from the armed Fortes radio and television service in los Angeles and sent it in its affiliates through an elaborate and outdated microwave system. One person who has taken an interest in the new Hookup is it. Col. Buzz Rogers communications Man and viewer. To a sports nut said Rogers the vice commander of Mildenhall s 2147lh corny Wing the unit instrumental in getting the Cable and an link going. Rogers formerly was stationed in Germany where he could eel at least a taste of the sport he craved from the states. You gel used to that. You come Over Loeu rope and you re literally in the dark Ages he said. Barthorpe said there were some initial problem with getting the an signal piped to each of the to sets on the end of his cables. Although they be been getting he an signal engineers have had a difficult time getting a perfect picture and sound. It was a Little More complicated than we thought he said. Scaife said the process at the other areas should go smoothly and More quickly once they get the problem worked out at Lakenheath and Mildenhall. Air Force officials in England last year said they d have an in base housing by june but contract negotiations and technical problems set Back the Dale. Scaife said people who own american and Multi system sets will be Able to pick up the an signal from the Cable with no problem. He said British tvs will Only yield a Black and White picture. Some 14,000 to 15,000 potential customers rewired up to the colecom system Scaife said. The customers arc Only in concentrated housing treat and dormitories. Such facilities As recreation centers and24-hour work centers can also get in on the Deal with the air Force picking up the Tab. Cable com is wiring the housings reas to three Sepa rate satellite dishes at each base. The company is sup plying to of the dishes but some 50 receivers used to pull in an Are paid for by an according to Rogers. People willing to pay the initial $25 Hookup fee ands25.95 per month can get a dozen channels including an sports music children s shows movies and inc four British stations. Households also can opt for Only the four British stations and an and pay Only the initial fee plus $2.2 5 a month. People at american military bases Are among the first in Britain to receive Cable to a relatively new product in the country. It was t until 1985 that the British parliament passed a Law allowing Cable to Navy ends exercise held off Alaska Adak Island Alaska Vii the Navy has held War games involving More loan 10,000 service members and a Carrier Battle group in the of timid Waters Between Alaska and Siberia in an Effort to Demosk a . Presence in the fact of a soviet buildup in i far North officials said. The ships and sailors were sent to the frigid i Era Waters As further proof that he Navy isn�4anger just a warm water Force at least not Jlong As the soviets Are making their presence Iacre singly Felt in this pan of the world official Udas the games were ending monday. The Maneu vers called nor Pace. Were another demonstration thai the United states is going to in crease in presence in the North Pacific in response to the Jowell buildup in die Region it cmdr. Chuck Connor of the 3rd Fleet said. We Don t come up Hene to sail around and look pretty he said. Sailors suited up for Vic Cju winds and bitter cold testing new Cakl a Kalher a so they could con mm0frguing the enemy not the weather said. Navy planes conducted simulated attacks ships in the Battle group. Hernandez told reporters aboard the nuclear a wired aircraft Carrier Enterprise that the soviet Inte Urgente Jet hiring ship Balzam closed in under cover of a Snow Juall but moved away when ordered to do so by radio. The soviet vessel had been ski 4owing the task Force for four Days but monday s insider it Ai us first time it had approached the Carrier. He s Beta minding Bis manners Hernandez said. It was a to everything else that s been going
