European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 15, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Monday. February 15, 19b8 the stars and stripes Page 9 naval school plays games to learn stud ends go to War in the classroom Niiva Pool. . M a Large Wondu Wlass room Here has Winic vice the Assassin Avion fan overbearing naval commander Anil maw firings when officers railed to follow orders. It has seen treaties broken and weapon used up. Bui Tini a drug of stood has been spilled. The room on inc Campus of thi1 naval War Collow is used for War games. I a Titus Samime that draws participants from around inc wild. Players Call Irir acid Why aided by maps and computers. Tun and exhilarating. Bui wartime Are placed As inc next be a thing o the real thing and Oen inc scenarios Are i in inc thinking process of i Csc players said mar. Tim Barker. Barker acts As Umpire keeping ply jars within the confines of the pos sible and shutting Ihram the consequences or i hair Deci Sions should i make my Brais Repon should i move my goals Inlo the area1, should we respond to terrorist activity All these things arc bring played he said on occasion. At no cd Are Handy. When tin i vital mules began providing naval Protection last Minnii a to kuwaiti Oil Ankers in the i Crspin Hull inc War game staff played it out. We did t Imine up with any said Cape. Joseph Luil whirl. He has since retired As head of the College War inn s department. He would t elaborate hut shoot his head no when asked if the Gulf Sima lion might cup lode. But War games can l predict All real lire actions As shown by a idler displayed in the lobby that was written to the War College by adm. Chester Simiu Emmaj incr in the Pacific during world War ii. The War with Japan had been re enacted in inc game room Ai the naval War College by so Many people and in so Many different Nihil. Wrote thai nothing that happened during inc War was a Surprise. Absolutely nothing except inc Kamikaze tactics Loward the end of the War we had not visualized often games produce no Clear Winner. Instead. Inc objective is to Lesl theories develop trends build consensus and assess technology and logistics and to give War College students an arena1 in which to practice what they be Learned. If outsiders were allowed in inc building during a War game which they Arent they would find Nio Nilor screens blinking with numbers and in big red letters the word other screens would How maps indicating the locations of ships submarines and aircraft. The Nolion of two sided War games in which players pretend to be inc adv Isary is relatively modern it was invented Early in this Century in Prussia and refined Between the two world wars. Today War games ure sometimes played in sem Inar where the armaments and Bailie lines Are drawn in inc imagination. Bui the naval War College prides itself on its use of computers As a resource for reality. They give More dimension to the simulation by bring ing in political variables and millions of facts. Computers hold the information from which the players re create the world including statistics on the shape and climate of ports the inclinations of their inhabitants and the details of other countries ships aircraft and bombs. The number of players varies from a Doyen to hundreds depending on the complexity each summer world War Iii begins anew Pla cd Oul in three weeks with 1.200 participants. There Are nato games and games with other allies. Players Are assigned to a Force in computer equipped rooms called cells. One is designated the red cell far communist forces. Cmdr. Robert Sime ral is a Navy intelligence expert with vast knowledge if the Sovil Union so he often plays inc soviet Side. The goal of the red cell is to play a Consi Lient red Chr Clit. However you can never really crack the skulls of the soviets he said pointing up a flaw inherent in War games the Besl you can do is imitate the enemy. Each game takes on a life of its own animated by inc players and their options Simeral said. Tempers flare. People gel fired. Military leaders gel upset with the civilian command. You get an acting president firing a commander in charge of inc Pacific for Contra dieting the professional warriors All stressed thai the ultimate objective of Iryma o 1 such scenarios is in keep the peace. We Don l necessarily want a Good Juicy War. But to make people think about it Barker said. Thai agents seize heroin valued at $2 billion uan tikk. I Hail ind a customs Ipanis Sei cd m tuns of Ernin hidden in Kales of Ruh her shirt. Hound for new York in what is mined i be the world s largest heroin in a quid saturday. "1 he 2.s22 rounds of no. 4 Grade heroin with a Street i Luc i 12 billion were aboard a Fri ghz a Al Klong Toey ton in Bangkok said v or ii la Shaphan director general of it Munnis depart Mcnol. No. 4 Grade heroin is 1? percent pure. Viroj said the heroin was discovered when cd ions a Telaak acting on a tip. He an opening items Hales earlier this week. Heroin been found in 62 Bales by the time the search was completed to riday night he Lold a news conference. The Patk ing in rubber sheets prevented police Dis Ikhi smelling the virus Saivii. If this amount of heroin had left Thailand in Unold have kilted an uncountable number of Vinji said thai authorities have questioned an employee of the shipping com Pany Bui made no arc Sis. The ship As to leave for new York later this month aul homilies said. Usinas officials who spoke on condition of anonymity said a rainstorm thursday aroused suspicions about inc cargo. The officials said ool Hing was found until officials noticed the White powder seeping Oul of Bales wet Wilh rain and Noli cd Hal some soaked Bales weighed More than others official uses a Chain Salu open crates filled with rubber packed heroin. Viroj said inc previous largest heroin bust was of 2,640 pounds seized in Fiance in 1972. Ross pc Zine. Spokesman fur the . Embassy in Bangkok said the biggest previous heroin seizure thai . Drug enforcement administration officials in Thailand could recall was a haul also a 2.640 pounds. Thai seizure was made several years ago on a shrimp boat of Fth coast of a Cebu Rel american country pelting said. He said he had no further details afloat bust. Petting said no. 4 Grade heroin Cut. Diluted and sold on the streets of new York would bring about si.6 million a kilogram which equals 2.2 pounds lie quoted data agents As saying the drug probably was bought in Northern thai land for about $4.400 a kilo. The officials said the heroin was in lie cd to have come from Southeast Asia s Golden Triangle a major drug producing Region where attic Borders of thai land Laos and Burma converge. Me said the rubber Bales were to Hae been exported by the rubber plus import sport co. To the . Co. In the new York City Borough of Queens. He said . Authorities had inspected 300 Bales at the company s Elmhir isl. Queens warehouse but did not find incriminating evidence. Viraj said he received information however that a woman representative it . Was arrested. News reports said the manager of the rubber plus import Export had disappeared and police found their offices to Bangkok deserted. Thai authorities Sei cd 1.496 pounds of heroin aboard a trawler off the South Ern province of chump on last Oci. 20. In what was then described As Thailand s biggest heroin bust. Picnic of 2,000 Mecham backers is o real Bash Glenual. An. Al about 2.000 supporters of impeached i his. Fijn met Ham Lumen Oul losing songs sign Petil Iris and hails u ill sledgehammers a tar Symbol i Al j fund raising picnic. Becharn and in Wile. Florence wearing tools. Blue jeans and i hiked Cimbou shirts Wilh Siler my Lury Oiw boo ties Turco finished their meal before fans began lining up fur hues autographs and word of Chneour Juc ment. There uric Mirham for president to slip its and in site tapes of in january 1937 Irta Gural address. There were leaflets being distributed and there was an auction in which a bidder paid s15.600 for inc j20,000 car that Mcchamp s Suto Dealership had Lei Mecham drive As guv Cranor. Mecham brought the crowd gathered Al a Park Here to its feet with a prediction Hal he would prevail despite Lial he said was the unwillingness of his opponents to abide by inc 1936 election results that saw him win a Ihrck Way race on his fifth try at governor. You know in some countries they d Call in a coup he said. But in this stale in s not going to he added without my threatened veto you re going to act our uses increased this year unless i gel tack Iacre before the appropriations Bill goes Booths offered voters petitions la Force recall elections on Mcchamp s political opponents much As the Republican governor s foes have forced one on him for May 17 if he survives impeach Cal and a criminal trial. Supporters flocked to a battered Chevy Chevelle Wilh inc words Media Bias special interest groups hid Den government and selective prosecution painted for is. Icy bought Ihrck whacks at their Kavonic tar get with a sledgehammer. A Stream of children and adults some in Coats and tics Kepi up a steady rain of blows until the sledgehammer broke. Additional hammers were found and the battering continued. Tucson chef Greg sealer put huge dents in a panel labelled Media As his wife. Cheryl look her Lurn. He said too bad it was t a couple of Don Ruzicka. Chairman of a Mecham Suppon group known As concerned Ana a voters had already taken his whacks but said of 1 Sec what 1 want to i i and promptly ponied up another Dollar. I had a hard Lime choosing he said. I m going 10 have to spend More Money to hit All of organizers say they sold 3,000 tickets at s25 each. The was Sci Imald at 2,000
