European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 14, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Weather radar enters the next generation fast accurate forecasts predicted Washington apr for More than a decade. Doppler radar has been the weather technology of the future. At the National weather service the future finally is now. The first next generation weather radar a a Farad a is being installed in a Bahoma City. A Farad will bring substantial improvement to the forecasting of severe storms and hoods predicted Commerce Secretary Robert a. Mosbacher. That already has begun says National weather service director Elbert a Friday or. During a 5 /2-month test in Oklahoma a Farad was used in preparing warnings for 450 severe weather events Friday said. A it was a Beautiful season to test a system but it was a terrible season for the residents of Oklahoma Quot he said. A this was one of the most Active seasons they had had in a Long  during that period weather offices accurately warned of storms about 59 percent of the time. The Neurad results were 91 percent Friday said. And the false alarm Rale was Cut from about 60 percent to 21 percent at the doppler radar site Friday pointing to the hazy sky outside his 18th-floor office in Silver Spring md., said current radars would see nothing there. But Neurad he said would see air movement in that sky telling forecasters wind Speed and direction to help make predictions. Radars Send out a Short radio pulse and listen for it to Bounce Back. The Lime it takes tells the distance from whatever the signal bounced off. The direction can be seen from where the radar faces. Neurad can also see the invisible moisture and dust in apparently Clear air. And it can sense movement telling which Way the wind is blowing at different Levels by measuring the change in frequency of the signal bouncing Back. Being Able to see where the direction of the wind changes abruptly can help a forecaster determine where a storm is Likely to develop and can Tell a Pilot it 1 Mike Looney of Denver operates a computerized work station similar to the Type hat the National weather service w ill install in its offices across the country. Where his plane May encounter dangerous turbulence. This allowed meteorologists to give a 90-minute warning of a Tornado developing in the Denver area last year Friday said. A by seeing those Fine scale details in the atmosphere you can identify. Fac tors that will be triggering the development of the storm a instead of waiting to spot the twister Friday said. In combination with satellites and other new systems Neurad a is going to generate much More of a detailed look at the atmosphere than we be Ever had before a he  Battle looms on Campaign Reform Washington apr democrats and republicans alike Are reaffirming an old adage in their competing proposals for Campaign finance Reform if Money is the Mother s milk of politics let s dry up the other Guy s source. With serious negotiations Between leaders of the two parties in the Senate scheduled to begin behind closed doors this week both Are defining a a Reform As weaning the other from its chief Means of raising Cash. Republicans describe As a sewer Money the estimated $45 million to $60 million in unreported dollars that tax exempt organizations primarily unions spent last election on so called Independent get out the vote drives largely on behalf of democratic candidates. Democrats accuse republicans of wanting to introduce More rather than less Money into the political process by a greatly expanding the role of wealthy  both want to increase the roles of their state and National party organizations As a conduit for Money. The two parties also agree on wanting to diminish the influence of political action committees or pics and republicans would like to abolish them entirely. Pics accounted for $45 million nearly on fourth a the Democrat Bill fails the truth in advertising test. What we have Here in effect is a big Money laundering  a sen. Bob Dole of All the Money spent on Senate campaigns in 1988. Democrats favor spending ceilings and a revived Public financing scheme paid for by taxpayers a a volunteering to increase by $3 what they pay to the internal Revenue service each year. Pics would be prohibited by the democratic plan from contributing directly to candidates. But the democrats would continue allowing pics to give $ 15,000 a year to party committees. A the Democrat Bill fails the truth in advertising test a said Senate Republican Leader Bob Dole of Kansas. A what we have Here in effect is a big Money laundering  president Bush and the republicans would prefer to eliminate pics altogether. But. Recognizing that the courts Likely would hold such a Broad ban to be an unconstitutional infringement on Freedom of speech and association they have a Fallback position. Union corporate and Trade association pics still would be abolished. And the amounts that non affiliated ideological pics can contribute to a candidate would drop from $ 10,000 to $2,000 per election Cycle. To make up for the Tost Revenue. Republicans would raise the $25,000 aggregate ceiling on individual contributions to candidates and parties for use in National elections to $340,000 a year. A wealthy individuals and corporations could continue to give unlimited amounts of Money to state party organizations a Senate democratic Leader George Mitchell of Maine said of the Republican  fire the charred Hull of the panamanian chemical freighter Seta sits in dry Dock saturday in the Houston ship Channel after an explosion Friday night set the ship ablaze. At least three Crew members were injured authorities said most of the 20 to 25 Crew members were accounted for. The freighter was in dry Dock to be cleaned. Peace corps again in demand after years of neglect rejection Washington apr the peace corps is undergoing an impressive revival As increasing numbers of foreign governments seek the kind of Low Cost expertise the Volunteer Agency provides. Peace corps had previously been excluded. When the Agency was created in 1961, East bloc countries were asked whether volunteers would be Welcome. The answer no thanks. A in the next 18 months we will enter More countries than were entered in the last 18 years combined Quot says Paul Coverdell the former Georgia state legislator who has served As peace corps director for the past year. President Bush who has stressed the importance of volunteerism is a big Booster of the peace corps. At a time of budget austerity. Bush is showing his commitment by asking for $181 million for the peace corps for 1991, a record $16 million increase. With English becoming increasingly accepted As the language of International business what better Agency than the peace corps to fill the need for classes a everybody wants to learn English a Coverdell said. The peace corps also sends out experts in agriculture Urban development engineering health nutrition and a new area suddenly in Vogue the environment. Congress also has been supportive partly because of the 20 former volunteers who have since become lawmakers. After an auspicious beginning under president Kennedy almost 30 years ago the peace corps eventually fell into Disfavour in the mid-1970s. Everything seems to be going the peace corps Way lately. Internationally governments Are showing less interest in ideology and More concern about solving human problems. For Many of them the peace corps is a logical place to turn. The anti communist evolution in Eastern Europe last year opened up a whole new Region from which the the current enrolment 6,500 volunteers and trainees is still far below the late-1960s High of More than 15,000. But Coverdell predicts that almost 7,300 will be serving by the end of 1992. The average age of Alt volunteers is 31, a More mature Force than the one envisioned by Nixon who campaigning against Kennedy in 1960, said the peace corps would become a discredited Haven for restless youth a what Nixon called a Quot kiddy