European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 13, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Page the stars and stripes tuesday september 13,19b8 Carlucci oks burrowing nuke project by Norman Black a military writer Washington defense Secretary Frank car Lucci has authorized development of nuclear tipped missiles with warheads thai can Burrow Inlo he Earth before detonating officials said monday. Such burrowing nukes Are needed if the United slates if to hold at risk the underground command centers built under Moscow and other cities to pro Ica soviet leaders the Pentagon officials added. The weapon which is the responsibility of the air Force has been under study for years. The Energy department disclosed in june t97 that it had begun preliminary development work on the warhead needed for a burrowing missile. With Carlucci s approval of the plan the Energy department will be expected to step up its work Uli Ile the air Force pursues missile development and integration work. Spokeswoman Jan Boyani said inc Pentagon s defense acquisition Board last month recommended approval of the air Force Mission needs statement for an Earth pc Tralor. And Secretary Carlucci subsequently approved she said inc final authorization was dated aug. 19 and approves this program As a new but she said she could not discuss such details As funding and anticipated deployment schedules. Another Pentagon official who insisted on anonymity said Carlucci had directed the air Force to provide Cost estimates and predicted performance data for a More rudimentary version of the weapon Hal could be produced by modifying an existing missile or bomb. There will almost certainly be an interim Earlh pen Chalor this official said. But the authorization clears the Way for the Broad based research needed to produce a Brand new the Reagan administration Haj recently begun spotlighting soviet construction of bunkers saying it appears that the russians Are convinced they can protect their leaders while waging a nuclear War. Last Spring he defense department reported in its publication soviet military Power that such construction had been under Way for 40 years and the bunkers could accommodate thousands of the secrecy of the program and the uncertainly about inc extent and nature of these facilities arc major causes for it said. The Pentagon sources said military scientists Are convinced that a burrowing warhead would be far More effective against bunkers than other nuclear devices hat explode on the surface even if in does t pack the same explosive Power. Such a device would not have to penetrate More than a few feel before posing an increased threat to a Bunker but it s not easy to develop a warhead that can withstand the Shock of striking and burrowing through the ground one official said. It could not be Learned whether the air Force envisioned placing the burrowing warhead on a ballistic missile or on a slow dying cruise missile launched by bombers. This summer a lop Energy department official suggested it would be much More difficult to build a burrowing warhead for a cruise missile. Author Sticks by claims in biography of Lennon Yoko one and John Vonnon embrace in i Rhale family photograph. New York a Yoko Ono says a to rape j1 pwt Nyal of her late husband 3ota Izawa u enl schizophrenic to addict fat nun to ascend murder. It s like John has been a Saui anted he mid in mid tit new York past. Bat the tatter of the the of John Arthur Goldman Laid in an it Carriew in May � new a times that be was sticking by the claims he Bate in the wat seller. If Yon wort to encounter the my John Lennon and live with him for six months i think Yon would be very Dis gusted Goldman said. The former Beatte who was kitted in front of hts Manhattan apartment building on dec. 8, 1980, did not Hare anorexia of dyslexia As the boo claims. Too said. These Are by Marioh diseases and fort Ucli John did not Kan any o theft a the said. She to toot Issue with Gam nun s cuban that Lennon but an affair with. Beatles Aua Ater Brian pert Eta. I was i wife Aad i jut Kew he Wasut homosexual the told the pm i on aay that far certain Bat it be we bite Nal there was no reason he Owlen t be told me Beanie we Dent think there was anything wrong it she acknowledged that both she and Lennon used drags at one time but said they Holh had conquered in the times interview Goldman admitted nuking same Tactual errors in the Book but maintained there were no errors on which a great Deal turns like the interpretation of u Epi Sode or a major a act denounces la police for alleged abuses los Angeles a police arc using the tight against gang violence Tol Egil Imizo abuse of people s civil rights an naac1 official said. Under Lheu be of the gang crisis in our Community innocent people arc being harassed and rights Are being in fringed upon. We Are desperate to Cor rect thai said Anthony esses local chapter president of the National association for the advancement of col ored people. Essex spoke saturday at an Nayci sponsored hearing on allegations of police misconduct. We should t have to be concerned about the fact that when we Call for Protection we have to be subjected to the same degradation inflicted on com Mon criminals Essex said Alicia Jones one of six people who spoke at the hearing said she found herself on the flour with a gun pointed at her head one night when she in sacred a Knock at her door she was held Down by a los Angeles county sheriffs Deputy while six other officers searched her apartment for co Caine she said. When no drugs were found and she had been questioned she said the deputies realized the vehicles they had been watching actually belonged to someone next door. I just could t believe this was Hap pening to me. 1 fell As if i was watching this happen to someone else she said. "1 Don t bother anybody. I Don t use drugs or associate with people who do. I Don t even like to cmdr. William Booth spokesman for the police department said the police have support from the general Community. In was t thai Long ago that the Community was demanding More police officers to do something about rising gang he said. And the Community is safer than in was before we started saturating the Community with police officers mexican fest draws 100,000 to la Parade los Angeles a More than 100.000 people cheered a Parade of Beauty Queens movie stars and floats through seven Miles of City streets to Mark Mexico s struggle for Independence from Spain. This Holiday is to mexicans what inc fourth of july is 10 Juan Arellano who moved to California More than 50 Yean ago said sunday. Grilo de Dolores Marks Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla s impassioned speech in 1810 urging his peasant congregation in the City of Dolores to Lake up arms against Spanish monarchs who had ruled Mexico for More Laii three centuries. By 1621, the mexicans had won their Independence Sal Lopez 74. Whose parents immigrated from Mexico in 1921, has organized the Parade for the past 25 years and has attended twice As Many. When the Parade was first organized it was nothing but a Bunch of brewing companies that put a couple of mexican hags on i hair trucks and drove Down first Street but As the mexican population Here increases the Parade get bigger and bigger he said. Men thrust their fists in inc air and shouted Viva la independen Cia As military bands marched by and fans swooned Over the singing group a Condo and such mexican movie stars As Parade grand marshal Richard Iniquez
