European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 28, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse Tuesday May 2b 1991 the stars and stripes Page 7 . To give Cash Booster to israeli defensive rocket Washington apr Israel which relict on .-made Patriot missiles to defend itself against iraqi scuds in the persian Gulf War. Is about to win a big increase in . Cash support for its own missile defense project officials say. F the exact amount a Likely to top $200 million a is expected to be set while defense Secretary Dick Che Joey visits Israel on thursday and Friday. The United states paid 80 percent of the $ 158 million Tab for the first three years of work overseen by the . Army a strategic defense come. A new 45-month contract for the projects second phase is to be awarded this summer to israeli aircraft industries. The initial contract expires in july. The second stage is designed to show whether the system will work As intended and whether the israeli government will take the next step a full scale production. The new contract will be Worth nearly $300 million . Officials said. The system called the Arrow could be ready for the Field by about 1995. Its Likely to be the worlds first sophisticated defense against Short Range ballistic missiles. The Patriot is mainly intended for the less demanding task of shooting Down air planes although it has been modified for a limited anti missile role. The United states is Likely to pay about 75 percent of the total even though the army says it will have no use for the missile in its own defences. But the army is spending hundreds of millions of dollars producing its own missile defences and improving the capabilities of the Patriot system. The payoff for the United states will be Access to technical data from israeli testing said col. Thomas j. Kunhart of the army a joint theater missile defense office in Huntsville Ala. A army officials said the United states Isnit building the system for Israel but they re Quick to note they do have the final say in most matters. The Arrow whose characteristics Are mostly secret would Home in on its target with an infrared seeker that recognizes the heat generated by a ballistic missile As it re enters the Earth a said. The first Arrow flight test designed to intercept an unarmed ballistic missile is scheduled for this summer off the coast of Israel. The exact Date is secret. There will be 11 flight tests in the second phase. Before the Gulf War Israel turned Down chances to buy the Patriot system because it wanted to concentrate on building its own system. But batteries of unowned Patriot missiles were rushed to Israel after Iraq began firing scuds at the jewish state in the opening hours of the War. The Patriot is credited with defeating iraqi president Saddam Hussein a tactic of goading Israel into retaliating which might have caused the Arab Alliance to unravel a. A a a a a a a a a. A a a a a a a a in the aftermath of the War it is becoming apparent that the patriots value in Israel was More psychological than military. It did no to prevent scuds from inflicting heavy property damage but it removed a feeling of helplessness in Israel which has no other ballistic missile defense. The Arrow would intercept an incoming ballistic mis Silc at much higher altitudes and from greater distances than the Patriot. That would in theory eliminate the problem of missile debris. Israel s new missile the Arrow shoots Coin convenient Way to Park Arlington a. A no change is a Welcome change for some Drivers in this Washington suburb. They re leaving their quarters at Home and opting for the Park la Tor a portable personal parking meter. Instead of feeding the meter Drivers hang the electronic device from their windshields. The Park Lator resembles a Small pocket calculator and counts off time like a conventional meter. A i wish i had Stock in this Little sucker. Its going to change parking forever a said Arlington county a treasurer Francis x. Of Leary or. Arlington county was the first to test the device in late 1989. It decided last summer to make it a permanent option. The Park Lator also is being used in fort Lauderdale and Tampa Fla. Boulder Colo. Latrobe a. Louisville by. Morgantown . Davis Calif. And Syracuse . About 700 Park gators which sell for $5 and Are available in increments of $25, $50 or $100, have been sold in Arlington. Of Leary estimates from 5 percent to 10 percent of Drivers use them. A Park Lator wont help find a parking spot but it does save time and Money. There is no rummaging around for change Drivers pay Only for time actually used and there is less likelihood of getting a ticket for under feeding the meter. A if you get someplace a put $2-in the meter and go to your appointment to find its cancelled you re out of Luck. With the Park Lator you just turn the thing off when you get Back in the car a o Leary said. Park gators Are programmed to a locality s parking rates. Users punch in the appropriate parking zone and the amount of time to be deducted. A personal identification code helps protect against theft. Police Check up on Park gators just As they do conventional meters. When the programmed time expires the screen starts flashing. Arlington is promoting the Park Lator it reduces the expense of collecting and counting the 60 tons of coins it pulls from its 3,300 meters each year of Leary said. A we get our. Go ahead and invest it instead of collecting it Over months in Nickels and dimes a said Deputy treasurer Donald reagent last year $1.7 million was collected from parking meters. T he county also Hopes to woo commuters metered parking for garages and lots. Fewer than half the county s 1,300 Long term meters Are used daily of Leary said. The Arkansas based Duncan industries inc., which once held the rights to the Yoyo purchased the marketing rights to the Park Lator from an israeli inventor four years ago. Duncan marketing director Robert Roenke say much about the arrangement other than that the company a a a a ing. A it shows the potential to be a huge Success and revolutionize the entire Park-ingrindu.st-Ry-, a Alaska to kill 2 cubs if no Home is found Anchorage Alaska a two grizzly Bear cubs orphaned last summer May soon be killed because zoo officials cannot find them a permanent Home a we have called All Over the United states and All Over Europe a said Sam Mye Seawell director of the Alaska zoo. A the poor Little Guys done to know How close they Are to being at the end of the /. Quot a a the cubs Bert and Ernie have been living in an 8-by-12-foot steel Cage designed for a Fox Seawell said. The cubs at 100 pounds each Are quickly outgrowing their temporary quarters. A state wildlife officer killed their Mother in july after she raided the Sec Ondy Story Balcony of an Anchorage House in Surch of food. The Al ska zoo agreed to keep the cubs for a new weeks Seawell said. But the weeks have almost turned into a year because the cubs have nowhere else to go. North Carolina officials turned them away after a Man there offered to include them in an animal Park. Now their Only Hope is a private zoo in Orono Ontario. If that does not go through Alaska department of fish and game officials will shoot the bears. Releasing the bears into the wild is not an option Seawell said. A a they lost their Mother when they were so Little they done to know How to forage for food a Seawell said. Alaska is having trouble getting someone to take the bears because grizzlies live up to 30 years and they easily reproduce in Captivity said Dave Huron ass a department biologist. This has led to a glut of the bears at. Zoos worldwide Harkness said. A a it a virtually impossible to give a Bear to a zoo a he said. Brooksville Fla. A after 2ft years of regret about passing up the love of her life a woman hired a private detective to get him Back. It worked a they re now engaged to be married. A month after she started the search 44-year-old Marie Tumaniszwili got the Call she had been waiting for and the words flowed As if the never been apart. I Ler oids Kelhear to 1 z to a Dpi re jct in 51, hopped a plane from Connecticut to Western Florida and does t plan to go Back. The couple met in 1964 in a cafeteria at the University of Hartford in Connecticut after a year of dating Tuma in saw Ilia a father who chaired til e p h i i of Ophy department ordered her to end because he feared Djordjevic a music student be Able to support her properly. 26 years without revealing that her father had a put the Kibosh on the relationship a Tumaniszwili tearfully bid her Beau Adieu. A in the intervening years both got married had children and were divorced. A a. In March Tumaniszwili spotted a phone Book advertisement for a private Eye and hired him for $250 to find out if Djordjevic was still alive. A month ago Djordjevic was teach. Ing English to. Foreigners in Stamford conn., when he got a message from his father Marie is looking for you. After a few. Minutes on the phone with her. He knew his next move would be 11> Ito Ida. A How Many Maries do you get to meet in a lifetime a he asked a we lost each other once a we re not going to lose each other
