European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 22, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse Saturday april 22. 1989 the stars and stripes pages breaking with family tradition ii we unexpected but of boy there s Rirl Lii i lie family now. The new arrival Kehe Kah held by her father Paul Brown and surrounded by her clansmen wednesday crashed the men s club when she broke the 101-year tradition of Only boys being bom into the Brown family of Lars show Valley Ontario. Shaffn birthday by sending out Bright new signal Princeton no a fifty years after Clevi Sion s debut a station has demonstrated the first com Mercial broadcast of an improved to signal that could Clear the Way for the next generation of viewers. Viewers at a research Center were treated thursday to the first glimpse of the signal which was used by a new York City television station to broadcast a Seg ment of its evening news show. Viewers with regular televisions saw Little or no Dif Ference in the signal but it showed up As a Bright wide picture on prototype sets at the David Sarnoff re search Center in this University town about 50 Miles Southwest of new York City. The broadcast on the anniversary of television s debut at the 1939 new York world s fair was another Milestone on lie Road toward a new Genera Tion of televisions for the 1990s, called High definition. To that will have nearly the brightness and Sharpness of Magazine pictures. Those sets May not arrive until 1994 or 199s and initially could Coil s3.0cio to $4,000, said James Ticer Jan president of inc research Center the broadcast by Abc s new York affiliate in by to is part of a wave of experimental authorized by the Federal communications commission. Khz to an Independent station in los Angeles on wednesday began testing an enhancement of the Stan Dard to signal that is intended to remove distortions on the edges of brightly coloured objects As they appear on regular sets. At the end of april dbl Al in Las vegas is scheduled to begin inline a different system for enhancing the signal received by Standard sets. In addition More highly advanced television signals have been transmitted Over channels 58 and 39 in Washington d.c., which Are Low powered and exclusively for research purposes. In by to however is the Only commercial station that is transmitting a signal that can be displayed on special wide screens that have the proportions of a movie theater screen the system Falls Short of full fledged High do Filion television because it has to til into the same narrow portion of the broadcast spectrum As the regular television signal does. Engineers say full High definition television will re quire at least 50 percent More band Width than regular channels provide. Thursday s Tot was part of a six year s60 million research Effort at the Sarnoff Center that is supported by Abc Abc s local affiliates Abc s Parent general electric co. And Ria consumer electronics which is owned by France s Thomson advanced to demonstration shown during the news program live at was a videotape from the tournament of roses Parade that had been recorded on a special video camera. It was encoded transmitted from the top of new York s world Trade Center and then decoded by the prototype equipment in Princeton. Fifty years ago thursday. Gen. David Sarnoff the chairman of Thel Ladio corp. Of America the former Recai introduced television at the new York world s fair. Afghan rebels fire rocket into soviet embassy Kabul Afghanistan a afghan guerrillas fired a rocket into the soviet embassy on thursday shattering windows of an administration building but causing no casualties. Soviet officials said. Soviet diplomats speaking on condition of Anonym Ity said they did not believe inc attack was deliberate. They said the rocket was fired from about 20 Miles Northwest of the capital. The soviet news Agency Tass reported in Moscow it was Only by Mere Luck that no resident of the soviet embassy compound was the jotted Stales closed its embassy in Kabul be fore soviet troops completed their withdrawal feb. 13. Since then moslem insurgents have attacked Kabul intermittently but have concentrated their attack on the Eastern City of Jala Labad. Afghan foreign ministry spokesman Mohammad Armani said wednesday that government forces killed 148 insurgent and wounded 67 in fighting around Jala Labad and killed 50 More in Kandahar Herat Pattia Loghman and Faryab provinces. Guerrilla spokesmen claimed their fighters am bushed a military Convoy North of Kabul and killed 50 government servicemen. Neither Side said when the fighting occurred but government reports usually concern the previous 24 hours. Each Side consistently exaggerates the other s losses and their claims can not be verified. Radio Kabul monitored in Islamabad Pakistan reported thursday that rebel rocket attacks on Jalapa bad killed two people the guerrillas were reportedly blasting the City from key positions to the South and cast said radio Kabul. The radio also said four people were Hurt thursday when rockets blasted Kabul. Jala Labad s fall would he considered a coup for the rebels who have not yet managed to take any of Afghanistan s key cities. In Islamabad the. President of the guerrillas new Govch mint in Cilc on thursday offered Afghani Stan s marxist president Najib Protection if he resigns and hands Power Over to an interim guerrilla govern ment. Singh Atullah Mojaddidi said we will give him Protection. If they ruling marxists Transfer Power to our government then we will give them Protection and amnesty he did not say if Najib would qualify for am Wiy. He Only offered him Protection. Mojaddidi was responding to Najib s offer wednes Day to resign fit would end the decade Long War. Yahya Naurez the provisional government s Mili tary chief of staff said in Islamabad that the govern mint in Chile will begin receiving arms directly from its supporters rather Pakistan. Among nations supporting the guerrillas Are the United states. China and saudi Arabia the Mujahed Cen holy warriors will directly receive the next consignment farms possibly within two weeks he said but he would not name the sup pliers. The United Stales is a Lead ing arms supplier to fac guerrillas who began fighting after a communist coup in april 1978. Soviet soldiers entered the War in december 1979, and an estimated 115,000 were in Afghanistan when the withdrawal began in May 1988, Wright accuses chief pro Berof dragging his feet1 Washington a House speaker Jim Wright says the House ethics com Mittee and its chief investigator arc drag Ging their feet in granting Wright an Opportunity to defend himself personally against 69 alleged rules violations. The ethics panel meanwhile is investigating yet another investment Deal that yielded huge profits for Wright and could yield headaches As we 11. Committee members will travel to Texas next week to interview business men who helped Wright s investment partnership Parfay a $9,120 investment into a $440,000 return in a Short period Tut year. Published reports on thursday indicated the businessmen had an interest in Selling Jet trainers to the air Force. Question before the ethics committee is whether Wright received favors from people Vii a direct interest in legis lation. Wright said thursday he has met requirements to move to the next phase of his Case a Chance for him to confront the ethics committee and seek to rebut the allegations of failure to report gifts accepting gifts from someone with an inter est in legislation and evading outside in come limits through bulk sales of a Book he wrote. He particularly blamed the commit tee s special outside counsel Richard j Phelan for what he termed the delay. I m Puz Edas to Why he is dragging Hii feel Wright told a reporter. We re very anxious to have the matter resolved As soon As and he added it s a Little bit distract ing that i write letters to the chairman and ranking minority member of the commit lec and gel a reply from or. Pc Ian and it s always some foot dragging Riri anxious to let them air me ques a Wright supporter rep Charles Wil son a Texas accused Phelan of trying to set the speaker twist As Long As possible and be battered by the news Media. A la John Tower the prosecutor Fig ures As Long As he can delay it s Wope for the accused Wilson said after a meet ing with Wright and aides to plan Politi Cal strategy. Wright s chief accuser rep. Newt . It a said pressure is build ing on House leaders to urge the speaker to step Down soon from his High visibility Post,"1 would be very surprised if these Nior members of me democratic leadership Don t try to talk the speaker into stepping Down before going through the agony of a Public defense Public Cross Gingrich the House re publican whip said at a luncheon with s ethics committee announcement the equivalent of an indictment on charges of violating House rules there has been a series of negotiations Between Phelan and Wright s lawyer William c. Oldaker and a flurry of letters Between the speaker s office and that of the committee
