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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 25, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday August 25, 1988 the stars and stripes Page 3 Road hog with wings traffic on a freeway South of Calgary flatbed truck from fort Macleod. The Canada became slow and very orderly aircraft which was bought at an auction when about three lanes were taken Over was being transported to the Spring Bank by this air plane cruising along atop a Airport West of Calgary. Nuclear arms treaty would do Little to Cut casualties study says Washington a a proposed treaty to Cut . And soviet Long rang nuclear arsenals would do Little to reduce casualties in a War because it does no eliminate the most advanced weapons according to a new study. In an article published in the septem Ber Issue of scientific american four scholars estimate that 12 million to 27million americans and 15 million to 32 million soviets would die in the initial stages of a nuclear holocaust and that tens of millions More would die later of starvation and disease. The scientific american article by Frank von Hippel Barbara g. Levi Theodore a. Postol and William , Breaks new ground by Esti mating the possible number of victim based on the proposed strategic arms reduction treaty Star which would slash the superpower nuclear arse nals by 30 to 50 percent. Their calculations Are based on the As sumption that the superpowers with reduced nuclear arsenals would concen trate on military rather than civilian targets. The estimates include the number of people who would be killed by each War head those who would be killed shortly thereafter by super fires ignited by the intense heat of nuclear explosions an those who would die from the immediate effects of radiation. Estimates of the number of people who would die in a nuclear War vary greatly. Many More would die if the superpowers concentrated on civilian rather than military targets. Both superpowers have enough War Heads to enable them even after their strategic forces had suffered a worst Case nuclear attack to explode the equivalent of 200 Megatons Over enemy cities and cause about 100 million immediate deaths in the United states and soviet Union according to the scientific Amer ican article. A . Government study released Las year reached a similar conclusion. The Federal emergency management Agency which directs the . Civil defense program predicted that most american manufacturing and administrative Cen ters would be destroyed in a nuclear War resulting in the deaths of an estimated111.91 million people. The authors of the scientific american article in calculating the relationship be tween the proposed Start agreement an the number of Likely casualties concluded that a dangerous situation can be prevented if nuclear forces Are structured in such a Way that neither Side would gain an advantage by striking  a Start agreement As outlined in the current negotiations would not achieve this since it would allow each Side to retain its most modern multiple warhead mis Siles the article said. The authors hypothesized that if each Side kept multiple warhead missiles rather than switching to single warhead missiles they would favor so called counterforce attacks designed to destroy an enemy s nuclear Arsenal in the opening minutes of a War. Such a counterforce strike could vastly reduce the ability of an opponent to launch counterattack. The authors estimated that there are1,215 military facilities in the United states and 1,740 in the soviet Union. The disparity Between the numbers Issue to the fact that the soviet Union has More missile silos than the United states they said. Wallenberg seen 20 months ago in soviet Camp writer maintains Stockholm Sweden a Raoul Wallenberg the swedish Diplomat missing in the soviet Union since 1945, was seen in 1978 in a soviet psychiatric Hospital and was sighted in a nearby labor Camp As late As 20 months ago a swedish author was quoted As saying wednesday. As a swedish consular officer in Budapest during world War ii Wallenberg saved 100,000 hungarian jews from deportation and probable death in nazi extermination Camps by providing them with swedish citizenship papers. The soviet Union has insisted that the Diplomat who was arrested at the close of the War by soviet liberation troops died in prison in 1947. But persistent reports from former inmates indicated that Wallenberg was alive Many years after that. Kenne Fant named several witnesses claiming Mohave seen an elderly swede in 1978 in the psychiatric Hospital in Blagoye Schenka North of the soviet Bor Ders with China and Mongolia the swedish news Agency to said. Fant said a prisoner who must have been Wallen Berg also was seen in the Blagoye Schenka labor Camp in december 1986, the Agency said. Wallenberg would be 76 years old. He is related Toone of Sweden s wealthiest and most powerful Indus trial families. Fant said he gathered his information during six years of research and interviews with 63 dissidents for a documentary novel about Wallenberg he is now pub Lishing. The soviet Union denied until 1957 that Wallen Berg had been taken prisoner. It then admitted he had been detained and said that he had died of a hear attack. It has refused to say Why he was arrested but the common theory is that he was suspected of being an american spy. File Raoul Wallenberg Only 11 % of wives in Japan fit Ideal of moles poll finds Tokyo up a 1079 hit song extolled the Virtues of a japanese wife who faithfully Waits up each night to Greet her bar hopping husband with a warm meal but a Survey of women reported tuesday that Only 11 percent stay up to meet their husbands. Japanese wives including an increasing num Ber who work outside the Home Are often expected to take care of their tired or drunk Hus bands when they return. Singer Masashi Sada Drew a picture of what Many japanese men View As the Ideal japanese wife in his song the husband s  never sleep before i sleep never Wake up after i Wake up Sada Sang. Always make your self As Beautiful As you  but a Survey of 500japanese couples said 30 percent of wives do not stay up for their husbands 27 percent wait for a Short time and 11.2 percent always wait up. Traditionally japanese businessmen work late or go out drinking with business associates each  to the Yasuda Mutual life insurance co. Survey nearly 60 percent of the women said they get up earlier than their husbands 21 percent said they get up at about the same Tim and 19 percent reported they get up later. The couples surveyed said they talk to each other for an average of about an hour a Day. They usually talk about discipline and Educa Tion of their children they and discuss their jobs their parents and other relatives. One third of the couples said they usually argue when they talk about these topics  
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