European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 16, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday december 16, 1988 the stars an  Page 5 environmental group wants deep fire missiles cancelled by Norman Black a military writer Washington a Washington environmental group wednesday charged that the Pentagon is considering the use of Lonj Ranse cruise missile to deliver chemical warheads and demanded a full accounting of the program s possible Impact on arms control. The roup the foundation on eco Domic trends said the deep fire pro Gram represents a unique threat to International peace citing a link known provision of fed eral Law the foundation filed a petition with defense Secretary Frank c. Carlucci requesting the preparation of a full. Compute detailed and Public arms con Irol Impact statement for the chemical warfare program called deep fire " this program is designed to examine deep strike delivery of chemical Wear oits including cruise missile delivery of chemical warfare agents. The program represents a dangerous escalation of the chemical warfare arms race the statement Laid. The petition was filed by Jeremy if Kin the foundation s president. If the incoming administration truly wishes to Stop the proliferation of Chemi Cal weapons As was pledged during the Campaign it should immediately eliminate this program Rifkin said. Rifkin contended thai recently declassified House appropriations committee transcripts from a March 11, 1987, re Jeremy Alfkin feared to the development of the Chemi Cal weapons development program. According to the group the Federal arms control and disarmament act re quires the Pentagon to prepare an Impact statement whenever it begins work on a program involving technology with potential military application or weapons systems which. May have significant Impact on arms control and disarmament policy or negotiations the foundation asserted no such Impact statement had been prepared for the deep fire program. Clearly research into deep strike de livery systems for chemical warfare agents could dramatic Al alter strategic options for chemical warfare use the statement said the Pentagon said wednesday it did not know of any program code named deep fire but acknowledged it had been conducting Low level studies of standoff chemical weapons since being directed by Congress to do so in 198s." there is no program to put chemical weapons on cruise missiles said it. Col. Rick Obom a Pentagon spokesman. And we re not sure where this Dee fire name comes from. We have been Lold by Congress to continue Low level studies of what chem ical weapons might follow the current generation and that s what we re  the United states citing production by the soviet Union recently began making a new generation of toxic Chemi Cal weapons. The weapons being made under that program however Are either Short Range artillery rounds or a bomb for delivery by an air plane. Pulling a chemical warhead on a cruise missile would make it possible to deliver such a weapon More than 1,000 Miles into enemy territory and to launch it either from he air sea or ground. The foundation on economic trend Sis an environmental group that Long has focused its attention on the dangers of biological research and genetic Engi Neering. ,. Jury gives up judge imposes life harr1sburg, a. Ai j a judge sentenced a teen Ager o life in prison wednesday for killing a state lawmaker after a jury could not decide Between life behind bars or the electric chair. Dauphin county judge John c. Dowl ing sentenced Semard Williams just be fore 4 p.m., after jury Foreman Carey  told him jurors did t think they would be Able to reach a Deci Sion on punishment in the near future or the Distant  with the jurors split Dowling s Only recourse was to impose a life sentence on the 18-year-old Williams. Williams was found guilty earlier in the Day of Tirol