European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 13, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes tuesday september 13,1968 Money Short ski officials Cut interceptors in space stateside Washington up the pc Wagon to meeting ils Star wars budget by cutting the More effective bul costly use of rockets from space to intercept soviet missiles shortly after launch a senior official said. It col Bradford Brown of the strategic defense initiative office said the planned number of satellite platforms which would fire rockets to intercept soviet missiles from space has been reduced from 300 to about 150. The space based interceptor was a huge Cost Driver Brown said. So we have concentrated on figuring out How to make Ihal in ing  last year the ski office estimated it would Cost nearly 1120 million to meet joint chiefs of staff requirements for a first phase defense More than double computer goof costly to airline Dallas not a computer glitch in american airlines inc s passenger reservation system May have Cost the company As much As $50 million in lost ticket Revenue in the second Quarter. The company s Sabre reservation system indicated that pianos were sold Oul of discount fares when in fact such scats were available the chairman of the Amr corporation Robert l. Crat Idall. The airlines Parent company told analysts in new York passengers requesting inexpensive fares on Ameri can were told that none were available and were referred to competitors a company spokesman said. It won t show up on the balance Sheet bul without this glitch we would have earned More than we did said Lowell a Duncan jr., american s director of corporate communications. Amk s Stock closed Friday at $46.50, up 75 cents in heavy trading on the new York Stock Exchange. American reported near record earnings of shi.4 Mil lion on revenues of s2.16 billion during the second Quarter we put a new program into our software system Duncan said. " unfortunately it was not fully tested. It slopped Selling discount fares before they ran out. The software in question was adopted at the beginning of the Quarter As part of a continuing Effort to improve revenues by using yield management programs to Fine tune the airline s computerized reservation system. Such programs juggle Supply and demand on routes to produce a mix optic Kcal prices that allows the com Pany to maximize revenues on All flights. For example under Normal circumstances the sys tem automatically limits the number of discount scats on heavily travelled routes. On less popular routes on which scats need to be filled the computer assigns a lower Price to a greater number of tickets. La was designed to heighten the i Duncan said. Unfortunately it closed off the Selling of the discount tickets  american executives discovered the problem in the software when reviewing the company s second Quarter performance and comparing the figures with those of the previous year he said though american s business has improved markedly this car Over bal there were wide discrepancies in the number of discount tickets sold Duncan said. We were having lower Load factors than we expected and lower Load Factor than our competitors he said. We knew something was wrong its goal of $40 billion to $60 billion. The current Cost estimate is somewhere below �15 billion. And we re moving Down to. The goal of $40 billion to $60 billion said Brown chief of the team reviewing the proposal to be sent to defense Secretary Frank Carlucci next month. Brown said ski would compensate for the fewer space platforms by adding to the originally planned 1.000 ground based rocket interceptors and being new technology to pack More rocket interceptor. I each  technology achieves the same performance at lower Cost brawn said. As your technologies Malure. You can look at How Cost compares to performance and you can make some reasonable trades he said. Golden Harvest Granite witty proudly holds the Golden plow award High Over his head after being presented with the trophy at an awards ceremony saturday witty a Farmer from Malton Yorkshire. Eng land represented great Britain at the world plotting championship matches in Amma Iowa. Hot dog Vendor provides a gift for museum to relish new York a the Guggenheim museum received a $1.000 donation toward its expansion from a Man who shows up of the fifth Avenue institution every Day but has never gone in to Sec the Art. Folios veils a greek immigrant who has been sell ing hoi dogs and other snacks from his cart in front of the museum for 12 years said he wanted to say thanks. Veils 35, came to new York City in 1976 and had his own cart by his second Day. Since then he Esti mates he s sold 1 million hot dogs. This is my new country and i had to show my gratitude by becoming a Success he said. Why has he never gone in to Sec the museum s Dis plays i m working when they Are open he said. Halfway House to open in closed Sheraton hotel , a. A a closed Sheraton hotel in this Pittsburgh suburb will be converted into a Halfway House for Federal prisoners under a prison War Den s plan. The Federal Bureau of prisons has approved the plan Butler county Warden Charles Fenton said. Fenton said he will have 45 Days to open the Center at the four Story 100-room former Sheraton inn after he signs a Federal contract which has been mailed to him. Under Fenlon s proposal the Halfway House would hold up to 50 non violent prisoners. Butler county would be paid a fee for each prisoner. Cardinal o Connor decries attacks of homosexuals new York a Cardinal John o Connor who has been the target of protests by homosexuals condemned recent attacks of Gays As the work of utterly stupid people. I wish 1 had language Strong enough to condemn this kind of cruelty o Connor said at St. Patrick s Cathedral before his Sermon sunday. Anyone who performs such actions in the belief that he or she is in some Way helping society is utterly stupid said the head of the new York archdiocese. Anyone who docs such a thing thinking it is justified by Church leaching about homosexual behaviour is Gros sly ignorant of what the Church actually  Perry s battleship returns to Lake Erie after 175 years Ekie a. A Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry s Brigan Linc Niagara returned 10 the great lakes exactly 17s years after his Fleet Defeated the British in the Battle of Lake Eric. We arc starting a new Page in Pennsylvania s history and you All arc a part of it gov. Robert Casey told an estimated 5,000 people gathered for the launching ceremony. Casey s wife Ellen lifted a Boltuc of Erie county wine and struck the 182-foot, 278-ton restored ship bedecked with the american Flag and Perry s Battle nag Don t give up the  the bottle did t break however and she had to strike the ship again this Lime successfully shortly afterwards a Crane lifted the ship into Lake Erie s Presque Isle Bay. Ftp try .k.t-,. J11 -.si, m a findings pandas Cincinnati Ohio up scientific tests that included a study of chromosomes have apparently re solved a longstanding dispute among scientists Over whether giant pandas arc raccoons or bears. Stephen o Brien a molecular biologist at the National cancer Institute in by Lucida md., said giant pandas arc bears More or less. O Brien and a team of other scientists applied five different tests to blood and skin samples from the Panda Chia Chia who is on loan to the Cincinnati zoo As Well As to two other pandas Ling Ling and using Hsing giant pandas at the Washington zoo. Using tests based on a concept called the Molec ular clock o Brien found that giant pandas Aren t much like any other species bul they re More like bears than raccoons the Raccoon family and the Bear family split about 35 million years ago he said. Red pandas spilt from raccoons a few million years later. Pan Das split from bears about 25 million years Ojo. O Brien said the Panda s family True has been the subject of a 119-Vear-old dispute among scientists. The naturalist who discovered the giant Panda in 1869 said it was a Bear bul his Boss claimed it resembled the much smaller red Panda which looks like a Raccoon