European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 7, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday March 7, 1991 the stars and stripes a b Page 17money matters today a tip investment advisers Are beginning to Poipao  stocks As possible beneficiaries of a boost in . Consumer Confidence. Among factors that will help automakers Over the next year they say Are lower Oil prices and declining interest rates in the United states. A an end to the War should bring about a Sharp recovery in consumer sentiment and spending for new vehicles a said Philip Fricke Auto analyst at Prudential securities. Pm and Ford Are among stocks Worth buying As Long term invest mints several analysts said. Conversion rates London up wednesdays closing rates for the . Dollar to other currencies. Figures Are expressed in dollars to the British Pound other local currencies in dollars. Gold was quoted at $366.50 an ounce Silver at $3 93 British Pound. German Mark. French franc. A dutch Guilder. Belgian franc. Italian lira. A. Swiss franc. Greek drachma. A turkish lira., saudi arabian Riyal. Spanish peseta portuguese escudo. Canadian Dollar. Austrian Schilling. Norwegian Krone danish Krone. I j Quot Quot a Tiv Viiu Usu Milf sources and they Are listed to give some idea of daily currency flue a Tuat ions. The Only official rate concerns the Sale of German Marks to . Personnel for personal use and this will be 1.50 thursday based on wednesdays noontime Price fixing. New York Exchange March 4 a March 5 1 897 1.8875 .1.5345 1 5475 5 24 5.2610 .1.7355 a 1.74 31 67 31.8050 1.149 60 1.152,90 1 3365 1.3445 .,�?�165.70 166.60 .3,363.40 3.384.80 .3.7504 3.7503 .95.85 96.08 .134.55 134.40 1 1548 1.1579 .,10 83 10.862 6 02 6 0315 .5.914 5.9330 Al rates As re new York up York Stock Exchange Stock \ Rwjr Nabisco i first Bank sys Phiilip Morris Rwjr Nabisco it we Singhouse �1 adv Micro docs Amer express Pepsico inc ism corp a Boeing co. Varity corp get corp gent electric. A. 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Dow Jones tuesday a we nes cosm ,1�e 01 avera5es .30 industrials 20 trans Pons 15 utilities ,65 stocks High 2995 54 1172 95 214.73 1066.28 Low 2913 86 1134 70 211 71 1037 66 close 2972 52 �1166 26 213.85 1059.30 change up 58 41 up 23 81 up 1 83 up 19 24 Jan Medema examines some of the . Military suits he tests for their ability to protect soldiers in chemical attacks. Business is booming for firm testing chemical gear for Giss amps Dave Tarrant by David Tarrant. Brussels Bureau the Hague Netherlands for months in a modest Laboratory on the picturesque dutch seacoast Jan my Duma has been feverishly at work to re create the stuff of every soldiers Nightmare. The scientists mind is tilled with com plex data on nuclear heat flashes poisonous chemical agents and searing lire. A Medema is not some modern scientist gone mad. His Job is to Analyse the effects of nuclear biological and chemical weapons and test the military gear that a supposed to help protect soldiers from those dangers. Lately his business has been booming. A at this time 110 percent of our business., is aimed at testing products for the Gulf a said Medema manager of the Prins Maurits Laboratory in the Hague. Among Medema v latest orders Are two from the . Air Force and marines to perform Quality Assurance tests on new lightweight chemical Protection suits. The suits Are designed with the hot de Sert conditions of the Middle East in mind. Jocular and outgoing Medema turns deadly serious when he Speaks of his conviction that the work he s doing can ultimately prevent chemical weapons from being used on the Battlefield a was Long As a Soldier is adequately warned protected and trained then the effectiveness of a chemical weapon is reduced to a Bow and Arrow a he said. The Prins Maurits lab is an elaborate substitute for testing the effects of chemical and nuclear weapons in the open air. Since such Field tests Are impossible to stage without grave risks to the environment the aim  is to Cook up Battlefield conditions a in. Test tubes and. Via computer models. All this involves a Little modern Analyn Sis and a lot of old fashioned lab work by an army of technicians. To help evaluate military protective gear they be developed a series of tests. One apparatus called the nuclear heat Flash simulator evaluates gear against a nuclear blasts Thermal effects. The heat Flash simulator uses a 2-kilowatt Smion lamp amplified live times by mirrors and concentrated on a Small Sample of fabric to duplicate the effects of such a blast. A we can simulate in this Way the total amount of heat radiation you get from a mile away from a 35-Kiloton nuclear explosion a Medema said the lab also uses two tests to measure the effects of a chemical attack on Var opus protective fabrics used by the milk tary. The first measures How much vapor passes through the fabric. The second measures How much liquid is absorbed. Both tests Are performed on a Complex piece of equipment that mirrors the velocity and. Shape of free falling droplets of toxic compounds. A in most cases we , because must ird is the most difficult one for protective clothing. If if protects you from Mustard it should protect you from everything else a Medema said. My Duma also puts protective gear through rigorous Wear and tear tests. The one most grueling involves a Soldier rid ing a bicycle 155 Miles Over a 10-hour period. Medema boasts that a cyclist Joses 10 liners of sweat cycling that distance in 10 hours. --.7 he then takes the sweaty uniform and removes samples from behind the Knees the Back and the Crotch to use in Chemi Cal agent tests. The goal if it to determine whether a uniform continues to offer Protection after its used. The Basic results show that older generations of military uniforms begin to degrade after 60 Miles of bicycling. Newer uniforms Workwell after 150 Miles. On the Standard . Uniform you begin to see the first signs of degradation in the Crotch my Duma said. I hat does no to Man a Soldier Isnit protected he added but Protection is somewhat less with greater Wear and tear. Evaluating the Overall risks involved in a chemical attack involves less sweat and More Cool analysis by scientists. Medemar a technicians have studied a Range of chemical weapons delivery svs a it Ems from hand grenades to artillery a shells bombs and missile warheads. The Woik gets very Complex and the Only Way to evaluate the risks is by using computer simulation techniques. Included in computer models Are such factors As the Type of terrain the Way the wind is blowing and How chemical agents  delivered by the enemy. In the last 10 years computer models have been developed to simulate what can he expected if for example an aircraft drops live 500-Pound bombs filled. With the nerve agent Soman on hat terrain. The resulting analysis can help provide answers to Many questions including the amount of toxic dosage caused by a chemical attack and How much exposure can be reduced by using various types of Protection. Much of the u a  Siviter est in this dutch Lah stems from a comparative study undertaken by the firm in 19x7. Some 25 types of chemical protective suits used by the United states and nine other countries were evaluated Medema said the study was designed to rate suits according to How Well they withstand fire and chemical agents. It also looked at such factors As How Long a Soldier can work and fight while wearing protective gear. A in general from chemical Protection you have Good better and Best a Medema said. A but when you look at heat stress How Long you can work in that suit these Are the main  a _ Medema is hesitant to say which nations protective suits Are the Best. But he answers when asked which gear head allow his own son to Wear. A i would give him an israeli a danish suit or if available a new . Marines Uit a he said. A but of course being dutch i might choose ours As Well because it s the  "7&Quot. / the new Marine suit to which Medema referred is a lighter weight one designed Lor desert warfare. It is expected to be available by late summer or Early tall and can be reused alter washing. Recently tic lab has also been working on computer models to simulate the effects of a chemical attack on air bases in saudi Arabia Medema said