European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 5, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes saturday november 5, 1988 sister plan to Star wars behind schedule Gao says the Washington Post Washington development of a Complex radar and Ami aircraft network to protect the United states against soviet cruise missiles and stealth bomb ers is behind schedule and its eventual Cost remain unknown according to a congressional study. The program known As the air defense initiative was begun in 1985 3s a counterpart to president Rea Gan s strategic defense initiative or Star wars pro Gram to develop a space based shield against ballistic missiles. Its funding has undergone a fivefold increase in he past two years reaching s1is.6 million for fiscal1989. But Pentagon officials have still not decided How Long it will take or How much it will Cost to begin full scale development of associated sensors and anti air Craft weapons according to the general accounting office study. Critics of ski have asserted that any ballistic mis Sile defense will be useless unless nuclear lipped cruise missiles and bombs can also be stopped. But the project has so far received less than 2 percent of the fund allocated to ski. Although Reagan directed that the air defense pro Gram run concurrent with ski Only ski has received the Pentagon s Blessing to begin preliminary technology tests. The project to devise a Means of protecting the continent against nuclear attack by soviet bombers and cruise missiles Wilt not begin similar tests until fiscal 1990, a year later than planned. Pentagon officials told the Gao the schedule slip Page for preliminary research did not necessarily mean full scale development would also be delayed. One goal of the project is to develop radars an optical sensors capable of detecting hacking and identifying bombers and cruise missiles attacking in All types of weather from virtually any direction another is to develop a communications network capable of analysing this information quickly enough to ire a series of defensive weapons. The Navy Alto is trying to develop acoustic sensors capable of locating soviet submarines carrying cruise missiles close to . Coasts and weapons capable of destroying the Low flying zigzagging cruise missiles shortly after their launch. These regions of the Ocean have acoustic environments that differ from those of the High seas and Are not Well understood the Gao report said. The report was requested by rep. Jack Brooks d Texas chairman of the House government operations oversight subcommittee. Stateside doctor out of operation after thief steals instruments Coral Gables Fla. A a thief who stole a heart surgeon s instruments from � rented car has put the doctor out of operation for u Long at three months. Among the tools stolen from or. Beethoven Brown was a custom fit pair of magnifying eyeglasses that Pip vide close  of Small blood ves Sels. -. Basically it to extremely difficult to tee the coronary arteries without them Brown Laid. Therefore it is impossible to work without  having a new. Individually tilted set of the $1,200 glasses made could take three month. Brown said meantime be will have to restrict himself to non surgical treatment and rely on colleagues to perform operations. It s depressing Brown said. The customized glasses contained in a wooden Box with his name on it Are no Good to any one else he added. He said he will gladly take them Back at his Miami office no questions asked. Tom nay s top 10 Healing super food super tend nub on Fiammi air. It Louin. Cyncar. High Hoo pressure Cunt. Mph Cho Tottel or jul choral Biol. I. Vim c. Push ctn oar  fitly nod Hwn Sei. Manwood pm mat  to of does t work for the Bureau. James Garay an Albuquerque agent contended in ins affidavit thai his gun and car were stripped from him under the pretext of a medical condition. He said the Bureau claimed he was too badly injured in an on uie Job car Accident the three agents who submitted the affidavits testified in the two week non jury trial before Bunton in August. The 311 latino agents who joined the suit successfully argued that the Fri As signed them less desirable jobs promoted them too slowly and did t give them the recognition they deserved for their successes.  \ hotel pays toll to get toll free phone number Greenwich Conn. A for 12 years Hank Oscar s toll free business Telephone number was 1-800-243-2546, which meant Little to him. But to the Hyatt hold Chain the number spelled out 1 800-Check-in. Thai meant easy advertising for Hyatt and big Bucks for Oscar. The Chicago based Hyatt corp recently paid him $40,000 for rights to the number. A Felt like 1 won the lottery said Oscar owner of Oscar vision systems inc. Oscar began using the toll free number 12 years ago when he and Bis wife Marie went into business supplying movie and slide projectors to companies. We had a number assigned to us. We did t choose it Marie Oscar said. Some other hotel chains also have easy to re member toll free  a spokesman for american Telephone is Tele graph co. Said at to has no records on How often a company pays to get the rights to a particular 800 number. Numbers Ait transferred through arrange ments Between the parties in which one releases the number at the same time that the other requests  to does t sell 800 numbers. We loan Athanor ass Jun them to somebody said company spokesman Pete Webster. Hyatt agreed to cover the Cost of printing Bro Chures with Oscar vision s hew number and to have operators provide the number to any caller who requests it during the next year. Hyatt operators began answering the oscars for Mer toll free number this week. But because Hyatt has yet to begin promoting the number employees still answer that number by saying "oscaryision.1