European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 16, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sphinx in Sydney residents of Sydney Australia locked out Over their Harbor Friday and were astounded to see what appeared to be Kepi s great Sphinx being pulled official warns against troop use against drugs inside . Borders the Hague Netherlands a a senior Amer ican official Friday defended the use of the . Armed forces to Hall the now of illegal drugs into the United states but warned against their deployment to enforce drug Laws inside the nation s Borders. Ann Wroblski. The state department s Deputy assistant Secretary for International narcotics matters said. There is a role for the american military in surveillance and interdiction of drug smuggling into the United slates. But she said i Don t think people want to see sol Diers with arrest Powers replacing civilian police in Side . Territory Wrobleski spoke with reporters at the . Embassy Here after a three Day conference of 90 . Drug enforce ment officials working in Europe Africa and the Mideast. . Military personnel including air Force and coast guard forces arc being used routinely to spot and intercept drug smuggling operations into the United states using specialized equipment like radar spot Ting planes. You wan to use the assets Only the miliary have Wrobleski said. However there s a Point at which the military need to hand Over to the civilian Law enforce ment authorities and that s at the Border she said. Sunday october 16, 1988 the stars and stripes Page 3 Lockheed wins Job to modify patrol air plane Washington up the Navy selected lock heed corp. On Friday to build 125 new submarine Hunting patrol planes an award Worth an estimated 14.5 billion. A Navy spokesman said the new aircraft is a modified More capable version of the p-3c Orion anti submarine warfare patrol plane thai Lockheed has been producing for the Navy for More than two decades. The bid by Lockheed s aeronautical systems co., Burbank calif., had been favored Over those submitted by Boeing co. And Mcdonnell Douglas corp., which were modifications of civilian airliners. Lockheed will continue production of the land based p-3c until 1991, a Navy spokesman said. Production of the new aircraft called the Long Range air ask capable aircraft or Lra Aca. Will begin in 1994, the spokesman said. He said the contract has an estimated value of be tween $4 billion and s3 billion. The Navy s announcement said a full scale Engi Neering development contract will be awarded to lock heed after a review by Pentagon civilian officials a $200,000 engineering analysis contract was being awarded to the company in the interim the announce ment said. The spokesman said the Price of each plane when development costs Are excluded is estimated at �39,1 million compared with the j32.3 million the Navy paid for the p-3c Orion in 1986. Paris sees Pyramid four years and $15 million later Paris Jap thousands of visitors streamed into Ihn refurbished courtyard of the louvre on Friday for their first close up look Ai a giant Glass Pyramid Des tined to be the museum s new Entrance. President Francois Mitterrand Cut a Trico lored rib Bon leading to he Cour Napoleon a vast Walkway Between the museum s iwo main wings that had been closed to the Public for four years. The Pyramid 71 feet tall and costing $15 million was designed by . Pc who was also on hand for the inauguration. Surrounded by three smaller Glass pyramids and set off by seven triangular basins in deep Blue Granite the Pyra mid seemed to change with the weather Dull Gray when Clouds blocked the Sun then Brilliant in the Sunshine. It s like a jewel a Diamond sparkling in the out doors said Chrisline Weiler a visitor from Toulon. It s much More Beautiful than i  the louvre built by King Philippe Augusta in 1200 As a fortress underwent Many structural changes according the tastes of its inhabitants Over the centuries before it become a museum after the French revolution in 1789. The Pyramid had been the subject of healed debate since inc project was proposed at the beginning of Miller Rand s term of office. But Many of Friday s visitors said they weren t shocked by the clash of the old and the new. La s breathtaking said Peggy Curran 22, a Colum bus Ohio native. The contrast Between the classical style and the Pyramid seems to sum up  across the water. The bust of pharaoh Khafre mod eled in plastic after the original is to a the Cen Ter piece in a production of inc Verdi s opera "  she added that the . Government has bought and armed about 120 Small aircraft Over the past decade and Given them away to governments of nations where drug related crops arc being grown such As Mexico and Colombia. Another two dozen aircraft have been bought in the past two years of which the . Government has remained the Legal owner although those planes Are also being used in countries like Peru Bolivia and Guate Mala she said. During the Hague conference. Drug enforcement administration chief Jack Lawn had met with dutch officials and made some suggestions As to How icy could step up their drug enforcement efforts after the 12 common Market nations open their internal Bor Ders in 1992, she said. Lawn had told the dutch officials whom Wroblski did not identify about an american program known As operation pipeline in which local police Are alerted to the nationwide movements of drug Traffick ing suspects she said. . Police have had Good Luck catching both narcotics and Money coming from the drug Trade using such methods she said adding they would also be useful for police in a bord Erless Western Europe scouts to examine policy on killing animals Harrisburg a. A National boy scout officials will review their policy on killing animals for food As part of wilderness survival training in Light of complaints by animal rights groups. National spokesman Frank Hebb said thursday that National scout officials would take a look at it and Sec whether we should ban this son of thing. It s no  at a Sampoul in nearby Perry county this fall scouts were shown How to kill a Rabbit and then prepare it for eating. Five to 10 scouts then accepted an invitation to test their skills on rabbits and the same procedure was done with four or five chickens said William j. Hawkins executive director of the Keystone coun cil the local scout affiliate. H. Clay Criswill executive director of the humane society of Harrisburg area inc., said the most important things in survival arc finding shelter and water. You Don i have to have meal to stay  Hebb said we looked at the Wilder acis survival Merit badge pamphlet and in put food Al the very Bottom for  Hawkins said he will recommend discouraging troops in the 11.500 soul Keystone Council from killing animals in survival programs. If we discourage it at the Council level in won t be done Hawkins said. "1 Don t appreciate the Hue and cry. It s unfortunate he said noting that he had received about 50 phone Calls mostly negative la s been blown Oul of  trans species unlimited of Williamsport. Pa., a National animal rights group that has fought Pigeon shoots and fur sales demanded that the boy scouts adopt a ban after the Patriot news newspapers reported the incident this week. We re very pleased to hear about that policy review said Dana Stu Chol the group s vice president. More than 75 boys and 20 to 30 leaders from 10 troops attended the Camp where other sessions touched on building fires and finding edible plants Hawkins wid. He added that the survival Camhout was the first held in the is years he has been associated with the Council. The decision was made by the Camp organizers he said. Hawkins said he believes the reports he received from scout leaders who said the animals were not cruelly bludgeoned. G. John Giba scoutmaster for one of the troops involved but who was unable to make the trip said his boys thought inc killings were done prop Erly