European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 09, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 6 a the stars and stripes tuesday april 9, 1991 j Michigan trooper Patrick Boyd sits in his car equipped with a video camera mounted in front of the rear View Mirror. Video cameras being installed in numerous police patrol cars Detroit apr dozens of police departments Are installing video cameras in patrol cars that resemble the a Black Box Quot recording devices in air plane cockpits the manufacturer says. About 50 police departments including several in Michigan have bought the $7,300 video units and mall Security and armoured car companies Are interested according to Crim tech corp. Of Auburn Hills Mich. A a we re looking at every police car having it within four years a a said company president John Squicciarini. A a that a Over a $2 billion Market in the United states alone.�?�. A .�?��.�. A a a a a a a Quot. A. Among those looking at the system is the los Angeles police department which will test a unit for 90 Days Squicciarini said v los Angeles police have been under fire since the March 3 police beating of unarmed Motorist Rodney King. King who a Black was repeatedly kicked clubbed and shocked with an electronic stun gun by White officers in an incident videotaped by a resident of a nearby apartment. Los Angeles police it Paul Enox said the decision to test the system was unrelated to the King incident. Another department spokesman Larry Fetters said the equipment is Likely to be popular with civil liberties groups. A a a clearly it would document the behaviour of the officer a a he said. Paul Dan Confeld Legal director of Michigan a american civil liberties Union chapter welcomed the technology a As Long As the cameras Are a kept on at All a a a a a a a a. A Quot a a one of the potential benefits of having video cameras is exactly to prevent what happened in . From happening anywhere else a Dan Confeld said. Filming citizens without their knowledge can make2 panels probe Washington apr two House panels Are investigating whether the Pentagon bailed out two defense contractors by allowing them to defer repaying nearly $1.4 billion for the cancelled a-12 stealth attack plane. The House armed services committee plans a hearing tuesday. While the House committee on government operations will examine the a-12 termination thursday members of Congress have questioned the Deal for the planets two manufacturers a Mcdonnell Douglas corp. And general dynamics corp., both of St. Louis. The arrangement permits the contractors to delay a pending the outcome of Legal appeals a paying Back $1.35 billion the government gave the companies for the futuristic a-12 aircraft. Defense Secretary Dick Cheney cancelled the a-12 in january citing the programs billions of dollars in Cost overruns and schedule delays. Cheney said the manufacturers were in default on a privacy rights an Issue but no one has yet raised it Denenfeld system has a 2-Inch-Square camera mounted be. Tween a patrol cards Mirror and Windshield linked to a recorder in the trunk. Like an air planet a flight recorder it ties in to the officers body microphones a the cards radar and other systems. 1 the video picture indicates the Date time police department car number officers numbers Speed of the patrol car Speed of other cars tracked by the radar unit and whether lights or Siren Are in use. A it allows the officer to Stop rewind and review a Squicciarini said. A the can show the violator what he was doing that he was weaving in traffic or the Troy police department is testing a unit in Hopes that tapes of weaving vehicles and Drivers faltering in Field sobriety tests will Cut Down contested Quot Drunken driving cases and keep police out of court. It. Bill Tullock said. Squicciarini also said the system is tamper proof because a new recording begins where the tape was stopped. A a a a a a Quot the tapes could be offered As evidence in a court of Law to counter false damage suits against police Squicciarini said. A if would be litigants see that the tapes done to Back their accounts Squicciarini said they May drop their cases. A a a a a a a. A a a a a a it a ultimately going to turn into the vehicles Black Box a he said. Crim tech has four former Law enforcement officers among i s 15 employees. Squicciarini reveal the sales of the 2-year-old privately held company but said he expects annual revenues to reach $5 million to $10 million within 12 months. Fixed Price contract to build eight prototypes of the stealth attack plane. Pentagon officials also said the defense department would try to recover about $1,9 billion that had been Aid to the two contractors. The department has paid 3.1 billion on the $4.8 billion contract and received $1.2 billion in deliverable goods and services. Congressional sources said the amount was lowered from $1.9 billion to $1.35 billion after a final accounting that found a $400 million addition error. Michigan Democrat John Conyers chairman of the government operations panel said in a february letter notifying Cheney of the investigation that the deferral appeared to be a bailout for the companies. A if the department of defense wants a bailout for these contractors it should ask the Congress for a bailout and take the political heat a Conyers said. in new Jersey Honor state s Gulf hero. From wire reports it Cherry Hill . Thousands lined up sunday for a Parade and rally to celebrate the . Victory in the persian Gulf and to Honor Navy it. Jeffrey Zaun the Cherry Hill native who became the first known prisoner of War. Zaun 28, who was shot Down in the Early hours of operation desert storm and paraded on television by his captors said the experience taught him a How precious life is.�?�. A we regretted War a he told the crowd. A we regretted having to kill our enemy. We fought for what was right a he added. A we fought for Liberty. We made a better world. We thank god for bringing us Victory. I thank god for bringing me a. V /. Athe three hour a Salute to Cherry Hills heroes began with a 1.3-mile Parade that ended at Zaunis Alma mater Cherie Hill High school West. The Parade was followed by a rally in the school stadium. The Celebration was part of a National Day of thanksgiving proclaimed by president of Gas up sightly los Angeles a the Price of a gallon of gasoline increased by less than a Penny in the past two weeks according to a nationwide Survey. / the average Price on Friday for All grades of gasoline at four and self service stations including taxes was $1.1781 per gallon the Lundberg Survey of More than 13,000 service stations reported sunday. That was .66 of a cent More than on March 22. A this moderate increase indicates at least a partial return to driving patterns where consumption begins to increase in the Spring and peaks out in the summer a said Industry analyst Trilby Lundberg. Avanti designer die Monroe Mich a Robert Andrews a self taught Engineer and chief designer of the sporty Studebaker Avanti car died Friday at age 68. The cause of death was not career began with a Monroe Auto equipment in 1941, when he began his studies of aerodynamics and design. In the 1950s, he went to work for Raymond Loewy the Industrial designer credited with streamlining objects ranging from refrigerators to soda bottles. A a a a Over the years Andrews worked for Chrysler corp. And also free lanced designing for Saab other automakers and industries. The Avanti was introduced in 1962. The Stu Debaker corp. Went out of business the following year. A a a /. A. �/"11 slain in Chicago Chicago a eleven people were killed in Chicago Over the weekend in an outburst of violence that authorities blamed in part on warm weather. A it. Just brought gunmen out of the Woodwork police spokesman Robert Cook said. Eleven people were slain and seven wounded in a variety of incidents on saturday and sunday including attempted robberies arguments and drive by shootings. Police said few arrests were made. Temperatures were in the 70s. A it s disturbing but not All that surprising a Cook said after six homicides were tallied saturday,., a figure a not unusual for a warm weekend among these killed were a 45-year-old Man shot in an argument at a fast food restaurant a 20-year-old Man shot from a passing car and a 17-Yearold slain when he refused to hand Over his Chicago bulls warm up jacket to two men. The killings raised Chicago a homicide count to Well above 200 for the year although exact figures were not immediately available. Police had recorded 206 slayings by the end of March. Last year 851 people were killed the highest total in Chicago in a decade a a you be got to wait in line to get shot. Its ridiculous a said Pat Healy former executive director of the Chicago crime commission a Volunteer organization
