European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 29, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse Wednesday. May 29, 1991 the stars and stripes a a Page 7 round the clock radar watch for soviet bombers to be Cut Bangor Maine apr air Force technicians monitoring the world s most advanced radar will Cut Back their round the clock watch for soviet bombers to 40 hours a week beginning saturday. The Over the horizon Backstatter radar created at a Cost of $1.05 billion As a Linchpin in North americans air defense has become the latest victim of military budget cuts brought on by the end of the cold War. The Pentagon originally wanted to shut Down the radar in Maine and a companion system at Mountain Home fab in Idaho that watches Over the West coast. But protests from Maine Sens. George Mitchell and William Cohen persuaded the air Force to keep the Maine system operating part time. The Pentagon will save about $38 million a year by shutting Down the West coast radar july 1 and reducing operations in Maine officials said. The radars supporters in the air Force conceded that staffing the system 40 hours a week wont provide a credible Early warning against a bomber attack. But they said the radar is just one part of a classified system of sensors and intelligence gathering that guards North americans perimeter. A if this radar was the Only thing that indicated the bombers were on their Way i would be worried about operating 40 hours a week a said col. Harris n. Madson commander of the air Force s 7 76th radar so the unit staffing the system at the Bangor air National guard base in Central Maine. Madson plans to keep the soviets a and anyone else who might try to launch an attack a guessing about when the radar is staffed. As the cold War eased and budgets tightened the radar took on the role of tracking planes suspected of smuggling drugs director of operations it. Col. Marty Zahn said the nation s War on drugs might become the radars de Facto primary Mission when its hours Are reduced. The system can peer Over the Earth a horizon by bouncing radar signals off the ionosphere giving it a Range of 500 Miles to 2,000 Miles off the North american coast a 10 times greater than conventional line of sight radar. From Maine it can cover 6 million Square Miles from Greenland to Cuba. The system sends out signals from a transmitter with three antennae located in a of All places a Moscow. Maine. A receiver with three antennae picks up the returning signal in Columbia Falls along the Eastern Maine coast. The signal is then fed into a Bank of 28 mainframe computers along with the Llight plans of All aircraft headed to or from North America. The flight plans Are compared with the paths of aircraft picked up on radar to find matches and identify the plane or Jet. The North american air defense come Center at Cheyenne Mountain colo., is notified about anything that does no to match. The radar also is used for special assignments such As tracking air Force one when president Bush travel overseas. Inside the Bangor command Center one recent morning tech. Sgt. Nora Hemphill kept watch Over a 500-mile a amps chunk of the North Atlantic. Hemphill of Santa Rosa calif., double checks the computers match of the planes or jets in her sector with the flight paths. Although it will Cost $19 million to keep the radar operating Madson said lie does t think the Money will be wasted. By keeping it running part time he said the air Force could bring the system Back to full operation within six months. A the ability of this radar to see at Long ranges and the technology it offers need to be retained a lie said Quot from a military planning perspective the soviet unions military strength is still 40 hours a week wont provide a credible ionosphere giving it a Range of 500 Miles one recent morning tech. Sgt. Nora planning perspective the soviet unit Early warning against a bomber attack to 2,000 Miles off the North american Hemphill kept watch Over a 500-mile military strength is still Texas passes ethics Bill but budget on hold Austin Texas apr Texas legis texans to carry concealed handguns Capitol. Contributions gators worked until the Midnight deadline allow speeders to get off with $5 coupons voters will have their Sav on the plan lawmaker overhauled the school Austin Texas apr Texas legislators worked until the Midnight deadline of their 1991 session passing an ethics Bill in the. Final minutes but leaving next years budget until a july special session. Lawmakers also overhauled the Public school finance system for the second time in 12 months. Having no budget to write left the 1991 session with plenty of time to consider a Host of other ideas a most of which failed. Debated but killed were Bills to allow texans to carry concealed handguns allow speeders to get off with $5 coupons repeal the a a lbs Law that lets . Senators from Texas seek re election and National office simultaneously and promote so called a potty parity to provide More women a restrooms in Public Arenas. The ethics Bill rushed through in the final five minutes of the 140-Day session late monday follows years of reports of lavish spending on lawmakers by lobbyists. It also comes amid a grand jury investigation of influence peddling at the Capitol. Voters will have say on the plan nov. 5 in the form of a proposed constitutional amendment establishing an ethics commission which would have Power to enforce the new Law and recommend How much legislators should be paid. The Bill would increase Public disclosure of lobbyists expenditures Cap the amount a lobbyist could spend on a lawmaker at $500 per year and close a loophole in the state bribery statute that critics have said allowed politicians to disguise bribes As Campaign contributions. Lawmakers overhauled the a a school finance system for the second time in 12 months. An earlier Reform plan,.adopted in 1990, was thrown out by the courts late last year. V the biggest Issue facing the legislature when it convened in january was writing and funding the 1.992-93 state budget. But with a $5 billion deficit looming lawmakers and gov. Ann Richards decided in the first weeks to postpone spending and tax legislation until Anchorman Dies from aids new York a Tom Cassidy a Cable news network business Anchorman who told his viewers what it was like to have aids died sunday of complications from the disease. Hewas41. Cassidy came to in no a business news department in new York in 1981 As an Anchorman and reporter. The following year he founded the networks Pinnacle program a weekend show that profiled business leaders. Cassidy was. Diagnosed with aids in 1987, and last March he was the shows topic. He discussed his life with the fatal disease and his decision to go Public with it. A it was unbelievable the pressure that was lifted off my shoulders when suddenly everybody knew a Cassidy said a a there a something about aids that a quite powerful a its awfully final. A i do remember the Surprise in my heart and my mind at the unchallenged support. I got. People loved me and i did t know it. I just said 1 did no to Trust Thern and that was my scepticism As a reporter i a Cassidy came to Atlanta based can from Mutual radio in Chicago where he was business editor. He began his broadcasting career in 1978 As a reporter and Anchorman for Kezi to in Eugene Ore. He then moved to go to in san Francisco. A Tom was one of the country a Best business journalists and his courage and dignity were inspirational to Alt of us fortunate enough to have known him a Lou Dobbs vice president and managing editor of can business news said in a statement. Cassidy hidden children from was tearfully thank their rescuers by Larry Lipman Cox news service new York the a hidden children of the holocaust paid tribute monday to the christians who saved their lives. In a ceremony at the first International conference of hidden children nearly 1,600 such holocaust survivors and several Hundred More friends and relatives stood applauded and wept As they expressed their thanks to 22 Christian rescuers who hid them during world War ii a we pay tribute to your Noble deeds of More than 40 years ago a said roman Kent trustee of the jewish federation for Christian rescuers that annually spends $500,000 supporting Many of the people who skied thousands of jewish children at great personal risk. Robert Goodkind chairman of the foundation which is affiliated with the anti defamation league of by Nai by Rith said today a parents should a inculcate in our children the values of altruism and moral courage As exemplified by the one of the Honoreen Gustave Collet a former belgian Soldier who helped smuggle hundreds of jewish children into Sanctuary with a belgian priest said a we All Are the sons of the same father and there is no reason there should be they Are known As the a righteous gentiles and were praised for their courage. Among them were a Gisela Sohnlein a member of a group of Young dutch people who helped save thousands of jewish children. She was caught by the Gestapo in 1943 and spent the next year and a half in a concentration Camp. A we did no to feel like rescuers at All a Sohnlein said. A we were just Ordinary students who did what we bad to a Wanda Kwiatkowska Biernacka who when she was 20, pretended that a 1-month-old jewish baby born in the Warsaw ghetto was her illegitimate child. A Marion Pritchard who hid a jewish family behind a false Wall in a country House. One Day a dutch policeman led a group of nazis on a search of her House but Pritchard was Able to fool them. When the policeman made a Surprise return visit a half hour later Pritchard shot him to death. An undertaker helped cover up the killing by placing the policeman a body in a casket with the Corpse of another Man. Nec Hania Tec a professor of sociology at the University of Connecticut said the rescuers were a heterogeneous group who crossed religious and. Socioeconomic lines but had several common traits. She said those characteristics included a desire to be Independent of mind and a refusal to Bow to Community pressure. Many of these people had Long records of helping others and saw rescuing As a duty. A these were people who did no to see the victims As jews but As people in need a she said. In Many cases the rescuers did not previously know the people they were saving but acted out of religious moral or individual convictions a. Often assuming the role spontaneously or gradually. Emanuel Tanay a psychiatry professor at Wayne state University said it was not uncommon a particularly in Poland where anti semitism was nearly Universal among the Christian Community a for jews to be saved by anti semites. A rescuers were person to person a Tanay said recalling How he was saved by a polish Monk who denounced Judaism As an archaic religion described jews As a a despicable and said a what a Nice boy i a the question of Why polish anti semite protect a jew from death can be answered with an old jewish cliche Why not a Tanay said. He rejected suggestions that Christian rescuers acted for profit even though Many were paid to help hide jews. �?o1 done to think people risked their lives and rescued for Money. They took Money a so what it does no to trouble me that somebody risked his life and got paid for it. He is still a hero to
