European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 10, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes saturday. September 10,1988 Quail behaviour put in chickens French report by the Washington Post Washington French researchers have apparently succeeded in the first behaviour transplant putting brain Issue from quails into chickens with he result Hal the Chicks peeped Tike quails. The transplants were done while the Birds were still embryos. The brain grafts look and the tissue from the Quail established itself in the Chicks. When the Chicks hatched they had Fea Tures of both Birds. Transplanting brain tissue is now common and in the Pas decade Many experiments have taken brain tissue from one animal and inserted it in another. Fetal brain tissue has been inserted in the brains of people with Parkinson s disease in an Effort id replace damaged cells. But researchers said the report in this week s Issue of1 science Magazine is the first in which brain tissue was transplanted and the resulting creature displayed behaviour of Bolh animals. The mixed animals Are called chimeras. No one knew it would be possible la Transfer behaviour in this Way said or. Peter Marler an animal Cha violist 31 Rockefeller University who has worked with the French group. The Experiment has tremendous potential especially if it can be done in other species he said. The Ehi Mcrice animals lived for some Lime and showed thai donor cells can live and function in the brain to which they arc transplanted. Confused stressful scene aboard Vincennes detailed Washington Cap one of the radar operators on Board the Vincennes was so nervous in the moments before the Cruiser shot Down an iranian Airliner that he tried and tailed five times to punch a Button providing radar images of the plane a Navy investigator said Friday. The problem was one of a series of stress caused errors that Ted la the . Destruction of the jetliner that killed 290 people on july 3, rear adm. William m. Fogarty told the House armed services commit tee. The radar operator finally got the Correct image on his sixth try Fogarty said. The Navy will try to make its training More realistic but there s no Way to simulate combat and eliminate the stress caused errors that led to the , action service officials told the panel in a second Day of hear Ings on the incident. Unless you get shot at you re not trained in com Bat Fogarty said thursday. Fogarty headed inc Navy investigation into the shooting Down of Iran air flight 655 by the guided missile Cruiser Vincennes on july 3 in the persian Gulf. The Vincennes command thought it was firing at an iranian f-14 military Jet when it launched two mis Siles and killed All 290 persons aboard the Airliner. Fogarty s investigation found the sophisticated Aegis tracking equipment aboard the Vincennt worked Well bul the data were misread by Crew Mem Bers who were taking the 4-Ycar-old ship into combat for inc first time. Although the equipment functioned As it should. Navy officials told Congress they plan to add new radio equipment to ships assigned to the persian Gulf area and Are upgrading inc ships tracking sensors. Fogarty s report was released three weeks ago and he repeated its general conclusions to senators who were generally supportive. I believe this was a tragic mistake said sen. James Exon neb., echoing other legislators Fogarty detailed a confused and High stress situation in the Vic Ennis combat Center. The iranian plane was approaching As the ship was concluding a firefight with iranian gunboats that had attacked the pro Cennus helicopter while the chopper was on patrol. We try not to be hysterical we try not to be Yel Ling Fogarty said although on that Day there were a lot of items that caused the excitement level to Rise. There were people raising their voices above what we would like to  the Vince incs guns were firing As it made a High Speed turn to bring its All deck guns id Bear fog any said. Amid the confusion one unidentified officer called out a warning to the Vincennes skipper. Capt. Will c Rogers that the approaching plane might not be Mili tary. Bul other factors prompted Rogon to order two missiles fired at the Jet in inc mistaken belief in was an iranian military plane. Those factors in included the just finished firc fight the Assumption thai any plane coming from Iran was a potential military Threal intelligence warnings about possible iranian attacks Over inc july 4th weekend and the memory of the frigate Stark Fogarty said. The Stark was hit by an iraqi missile in the persian Gulf in May 1987, killing 37 . Seamen. The Slark s lop officers were disciplined for not firing their weapons to protect the ship. In the Vince incs shooting two errors never could be explained satisfactorily Fogarty said including the mistaken belief the 1 ran Ian Airbus was descending and inc initial identification As an f-14. Suspected is Camp guard loses his . Citizenship Trenton