European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 9, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes thursday june 9,1988 card carrying camera Ufa photo a built in guidance system is part of Minolta s new Maxum 70001. The sys tem predicts the direction and spa of a moving object and Proe num aul focus and exposure information through advanced computer intelligence. The card or Chip a technician is inserting into the advanced camera at Ramsey n j., is one of several that can be used for special picture taking purposes. Among the chips thai Are available Are ones for sports photos portraits and closeups. Reagan still supports Star wars defense despite critical study Washington a the while House said wednesday president Reagan still stands by his Star Ware anti missile program despite a congressional study that says its electronic brains would be so Large and comply that there is a significant probability they would foil. White House spokesman Marlin Filz water said Reagan has not own briefed on the study. But Fitzwater said suffice to say the president still believes in the strategic defense initiative program. He believe sin its potential and certainly has no plans to change our policy or our priority stat us for  tuesday s report by the congressional office of technology assessment is the lat est in a series of scientific studies criticizing Reagan s strategic defense initiative As the 5-Ycar-old program is formally known. The study s harshest criticism was re served for the computer systems which would be needed for Battle manage ment the Pentagon term for tracking and targeting soviet missiles. In Ota s judgment there would be a significant probability i.e., one Large enough to Lake seriously that the first and presumably Only time the bad systems were used in a real War it would Sutler a catastrophic failure said the report. Bad stands for ballistic missile defense. It added that there is no effective Way to test such a system and no adequate models Tor the development production test and maintenance of software for full scale bad systems  the Pentagon based strategic defense initiative organization issued a statement which said the conclusions reflect opinion rather than real analysis and Are based Pri Marily on extrapolation from past expert As opposed to the rat Colial of the newer technologies becoming available in ski research and in the computer Indus the statement also said the Ota assertion that strategic defense software cannot be tested sufficiently for operational Confidence Short of War is already at variance with several decades of devel Oping strategic warning and today s offensive missile deterrent  Reagan said he wanted his program to have a goal of making nuclear weapons obsolete but the Pentagon and so backers have pushed for deployment in the mid-1990s of a phase one Star wars shield that would have a much More limited  officials last year estimated that it would Cost $75 billion to ii so billion to build a phase one system com prised of ground based rockets and space based garages full of missile if Al could be tired at attacking soviet missiles. The phase one proposals Call for using existing technology rather than exotic futuristic technologies such As the laser Sand beam weapons that were a focus of Early ski research. But the Ota report said the soviets could use nuclear tipped anti satellite weapons that could Knock out a phase one ski system. The soviets already have an operational asat system. The soviet Masats would pose a significant threat to All three defense system phases but particularly o the first two Ota said. Such weapons deployed in Quantity especially with multiple decoys to confuse the , system would threaten to degrade severely the performance of a first or second phase ski system the study said. Aids quark mine plan rejected by voters in California primary by he associated press Vul  rejected a possible aids quarantine in Cali fornia nominated a councilman to become the first Black congressman in new Jersey and launched a comeback by former gov. Thomas judge in Montana. In other results from seven stale primaries tuesday Volar set the stage for four Senate races California democratic it. Gov. Leo Mccarthy piled up 81 percent of the Vole against three challengers and will oppose moderate Republican sen Pete Wilson. New Jersey first term democratic sen. Frank Lautenberg trounced iwo opponents with 77 percent of the Vole and will face gop newcomer Pricr Dawkins a former Star athlete Rhodes scholar and Vietnam War hero. Montana democratic sen. John Melcher won 74b Eric no of the vote against a political unknown in his id for a third term and will run against Republica Conrad Burns a Yellowstone county commissioner. New Mexico state sen. Bill Valentine out polled three republicans for the right to take on first term democratic sen. Jeff Bingaman. The aids measure backed by extremist Lyndon Larouche was one of a slew of propositions in Cali fornia. With 100 percent of the precincts in it was soundly Defeated by 3,604,180 votes or 68 percent to 1,690,973 votes or 32 percent. Also rejected were proposals to relax limits on government spending and local measures to shut Down the Rancho Seco nuclear Power Plant and split Mam Moth san Bernardino county in two. However voters approved two state measures to Cap Campaign spend  san Diego mayor Maureen o Connor won a full four year Lerm. With 3s.1 percent of inc Vole counted she had 36.179 votes or 58.3 per cell and her closes rival former councilman Floyd Morrow had 21,334 votes or 34.4 , nj., City councilman Donald Payne Defeated a fellow Black councilman Ralph Grant to Cap Ture the democratic nomination for the scat held by rep. Peter Rodino for 40 years. Payne will be an Over whelming favorite against Republican Michael Webb who also is  gives our delegation the fairness it s been lacking for Many years Payne said of the fact that he stands to become the state s first Black congressman. I can speak from a True Urban  with 98 percent of the vote counted Payne had 39,681 votes or 73 percent and Grant had 14,570 votes or 27  Montana judge Defeated five other democrats who were enticed into the race by the retirement of two term gov Ted Schwinden people remember we had eight Good years said judge who served from 1973-1981 and was beaten by Schwinden in the 1980 primary. He said he also had put Forth a program that the people of this state have been waiting  the gop primary Victor former slate sen Stan Stephens said judge represents an administration from yesteryear.". �. With 99 percent of precincts reporting. Judge had 45,826 Voles or 39.3 percent former supreme court Justice Frank Morrison had 31,718 votes or 27.21 per cent and attorney general Mike Greely had 26,497 votes or 22,7 percent Stephens had 43,279 votes or 49.9 percent and slate rep. Cal Winslow had 37,451 Voles or 43.2 per cent. The Early favorite Secretary of stale Jim Wal termite was killed in a plane crash i april but his name was on the ballot and he had 6,045 votes or 7 percent. Controller errors at o Hare Airport under investigation Chicago a Federal safety inspection Are launching a special investigation of air traffic controller errors at o Hare International air port because of an unexplained jump in their mistakes an official said wednesday. A special investigation is beginning. We re going to be sending people out there at the end of the week because of the increase in the num Ber of incidents that have occurred out there Ihli year As compared to last year said Mike Ben son a spokesman for the National transp ctr Tion safety Board in Washington. Benson said that controllers have made 20 errors in routing jets in the congested sky Over the Chicago area since the beginning of inc year. We re in the process now of assembling a team of investigators and coordinating the investigation with the Faa Benson said wednes Day Federal aviation administration spokesman Mort Edelstein said wednesday that the Agency had turned Over to the Nosb report of three errors by controller on monday and tuesday. One of the pilots involved thought he was in a hazardous enough situation to file a near Colli Sion report Edelstein said. One of the errors involved a United airline flight bound for Ontario calif., on monday said United spokesman Dan sheeny. After take off from o Hare the Boeing 727 carrying 128 passengers came within 1,300 feet of a twin engine private plane Sheehy said. ,