European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 26, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday april 26, 1990the stars and stripes a a a of sgt. Samantha company in the operations room of the Backstatter radar station in Bangor Maine tuesday. Of unveils a huge new radar Eye with 4-million-Square-mile vision a by the Washington Post Bangor Maine a the air Force has put into service Here a new Rad a system designed to detect every aircraft flying Over 4 million Square Miles of the Atlantic an area stretching from Iceland to the azores to the Northern coast of South America. Although the a Over the horizon backseat term radar originally was built to provide Early warning against soviet strategic bombers air Force officials said the system would also be used to help interdict drug smuggling flights. The Pentagon plans companion systems on the West coast Alaska and North Dakota at an undisclosed Price. The systems High powered radio Energy bounces off the ionosphere and scoops up billions of a a return signals at massive Antenna farms on the Northern coast of Maine. An array of computers then surveys the myriad returns to detect aircraft at extraordinary distances. The result a computer generated radar picture of every aircraft flying Over the huge Ocean expanse. A the world has changed since we started this program a maj. Gen. Eric b. Nelson chief air Force procurement officer for electronic warning systems told a news conference Here. He said the program had been scaled Back and part of it transferred to the Pentagon a drug interdiction budget to meet air Force budget cuts. The installations computers linked to civilian air control systems military air defense tracking networks and using pilots in flight position reports can match detected aircraft with known flight plans of commercial airliners giving the radar operators Here accurate Long Range information. In one example sgt. Richard Moreland put the cursor of his computer screen on an aircraft a a track East of Cuba. Instantly Speed and Altitude data were displayed showing that the aircraft matched a properly filed flight plan. This was not a drug flight. While most radars can detect aircraft at a distance of 300 Miles using a line of sight bursts of radio Energy the oth a blasts require enough Power to Light a Small City a 1 megawatts. The Energy beams Are blasted skyward to the electrically charged ionosphere then refracted Back Down to Earth at distances of 500 Miles to 2,000 Miles from the transmitter. Whatever the radio Energy strikes a Ocean Mountain tree soviet bomber or private aircraft a some of it bounces Back along the same line to the ionosphere and Down to the systems Large collecting Antenna. Probe led official to resign Post Washington not a two weeks alter or. Richard Berendzin startled american University Here by abruptly resigning As president Law enforcement and University officials said he was forced out because of a police investigation into complaints that he had made obscene Telephone Calls from his office. Robert d. Horan the prosecutor in Fairfax county va., told reporters tuesday that Berend in was the subject of an investigation based on a series of complaints made to county police. Horan did not discuss details but other Law enforcement officials said it involved the obscene Calls. Horan said that the investigation was continuing and that he did not expect to file any charges within the next few Days. Now 10 years after he arrived in Washington to set about promoting american University by courting the capitals Rich and powerful As he acknowledged in his autobiography Berend in is in effect barred from the Campus in Northwest Washington. In a statement released on monday Edward r. Carr the chairman of the trustees said that Berendzen had been forced to resign because of allegations about his a personal behaviour Quot but that the allegations a were in no Way related to his role As president of the  Carr said that although the a a resignation would not be effective until the end of the academic year Berend in would not be returning to Campus or to the mansion provided by the University. An air of mystery has enveloped the University since april 10, when Berendzin abruptly resigned. A a few accepted his explanation that he was simply exhausted. Berendzin 51, was a highly visible Washington figure and commentator on education issues who was also an aggressive  woman shares lotto due to divorce delay Phoenix apr a a woman unlucky in love found Good Fortune in divorce when a paperwork error delayed her marital split Long enough for her husband to win the lottery. On tuesday a state appeals court upheld a judge s ruling cutting Bonita Lynch in for $550,000 of her sex husbands winnings. A Fortune favored husband with a Jackpot but because his marriage had not ended Fortune dealt his wife a share a judge Noel Fidel wrote for the three judge appeals panel. Bonita Lynch had been living apart from her husband Michael for about two years when she testified at an uncontested divorce hearing on feb. 10, 1987, that their marriage was irretrievably broken. Due to a court delay the matter still Wasny to final 11 Days later when her husband won $2.2 million in the state lottery. Lynch a computer expert had bought the ticket with Donna Williams a Girlfriend he mar Ned after the divorce became final. He died last oct. 30, but his widow fought on behalf of his estate to keep his first wife from taking a Cut. When it comes time to Light up smokers Arentt bashful about in Chicago apr common Courtesy often goes up in smoke when it comes to lighting up indoors. Smokers do not ask first and non smokers Are unwilling to kick Butts researchers say. Half of the smokers surveyed said they Light up indoors without asking anyone if they mind according to a study in wednesdays journal of the american medical association. And despite the habits declining social acceptability non smokers Are reluctant to ask smokers not to puff. Even though about 90 percent of non smokers consider secondhand smoke annoying and harmful the study found just 5 percent asked people to put out their cigarettes in 1974 and 1987. A the Low percentage is striking Given that most non smokers Are annoyed by secondhand smoke and consider it harmful to their health a the researchers wrote. A a plausible explanation is a desire to avoid a  the Survey of 22,043 people found that the proportion of smokers who say they done to smoke in indoor Public places Rose from 5 percent in 1974 to 33 percent in 1987. The study also found that when they Are inside Public places that have no rules on smoking 21 percent of smokers will Light up without hesitation and 26 percent will look around first to see if others Are smoking then Light up. Fourteen percent will ask others if they mind before lighting up 33 percent will refrain from smoking and 5 percent will do a something  in Washington on tuesday tobacco Institute spokeswoman Brennan Dawson said the surveys findings that just 21 percent of smokers Light up without hesitation demonstrate a an enormous application of common  but the study a Lead researcher or. Ronald m. Davis of the centers for disease control said it will take Laws a and not just Courtesy a to dissuade Many smokers from lighting up around non smokers. Davis noted that surveys have found 29 percent of americans smoked in 1987, compared with 40 percent in 1965 and 44 percent in 1949. The article said that authorities have concluded that passive smoking causes lung cancer in non smokers and that a report estimated passive smoking causes 3,800 lung cancer deaths among non smokers each year in the United states. The researchers data were based on results from the 1987 National health interview Survey of cancer epidemiology and control and compared with surveys conducted by the Roper organization in 1974, 1976 and 1978. The 1987 nationwide random surveys margin of error was plus or minus 2 percentage Points