European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 18, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday september 18, 1991 the stars and stripes Page 7af warns Northrop on stealth missile woes May doom $15 billion program by the new York times los Angeles the air Force issued a Stern warning to Northrop corp. On monday to fix problems plaguing the development of a new radar evading stealth missile. The warning raised speculation that the $15 billion program could be scuttled if the company cannot improve it soon. Pentagon officials said in interviews that the air Force had sent Northrop a a a cure letter which is the first formal step used by the Pentagon when it determines that a programs problems Are serious enough to potentially cause a cancellation of the contract. The officials said the stealth missile had failed in three test flights this year and was a year behind schedule. Financial analysts who follow Northrop had previously speculated that the program was behind schedule and Over budget. The officials said the most pressing problem Lay with the missiles guidance device or with a Small pyrotechnic device used to help work the missiles fins. Word of trouble with the missile program officially known As the Tri service standoff attack missile came less than a week after the air Force acknowledged that the b-2 stealth bomber being built by Northrop was less Able to evade radar detection than the company and the Pentagon had Long asserted. The missile program has apparently not encountered problems with its ability to evade radar. Pentagon officials played Down the seriousness of the problems afflicting the missile program which is still in its Early stages and whose existence was Only disclosed several months ago. But any significant problems with the missile would almost certainly Lead to further congressional criticism of the air forces management of expensive technologically Complex weapons systems especially at a time when Congress is contemplating further cuts in military spending. The problems with the missile could not come at a worse time for Northrop which is lobbying hard in Congress to keep the 13-2 alive. The company has endured a series of scandals in accent years and last year pleaded guilty to criminal fraud charges in connection with tests it performed on components for the nuclear cruise missile and other weapons. The missile is being developed in two versions a one for launching from combat aircraft and another for ground launching. Pentagon officials said the air launched version had failed three consecutive tests. One official said the problem appeared to be in the missile s guidance system and had to do with the failure of the missiles fins to align themselves properly in flight. Another official said the problem was with a Small pyrotechnic device. Although he could not say How the failure of the device caused the failure of the tests he said Northrop already has a subcontractor working on an alternative design to solve the problem. The new design he said will be incorporated into the next flight test. The missile program is the most expensive tactical missile program undertaken by the Pentagon and is intended to Supply 8,650 of the new missiles to the air Force Navy and the army Over the next decade. The program is still in the research and development phase. The missile is designed to carry conventional warheads Only and has a Range of 100  joins unemployment lines to Campaign Manchester . A Iowa sen. Tom Harkin worked new Hampshire a unemployment lines monday on his first full Day As a presidential candidate. A i understand what a happening to Ordinary hard working americans because in be been there a he said. Harkin who announced his candidacy sunday in Iowa declined to take shots at fellow democrats instead giving new Hampshire a taste of what he promised will be a no holds barred Campaign against president Bush. A i do not look upon Paul Tsongas or Doug Wilder or any other democrats who might get in the race As my opponents a he said. A i look upon them As allies in an Effort to get this country turned  a i want to put two people on the unemployment line George Bush and j. Danforth Quayle a he said. Harkin is Trie third Democrat to formally enter the race joining Virginia gov. L. Douglas Wilder and Tsongas a former senator from Massachusetts. Other potential prospects include Arkansas gov. Bill Clinton Nebraska sen. Bob Kerrey former California gov. Jerry Brown Jesse Jackson and Oklahoma rep. Dave Mccurdy. Jackson who has been considered unlikely to run this time said monday that he is giving a most serious consideration to a third presidential race next year. Harkin 51, spent the Day greeting jobless people at unemployment offices in Dover and Manchester. He called on Bush to spend less time on foreign policy and More on finding ways to put unemployed americans Back to work. A people want to work in this country and i believe the occupant of the White House ought to spend More time working with governors and City councillors and Congress to put this country to work a he said. Harking a message struck a chord with Dave Duval a 37-year-old unemployed construction worker from Auburn who agreed that not enough is spent to help needy americans. A regardless of whether you re a Republican or Democrat you feel left out a Duval said. A a he a saying what most people want to hear. Id like to believe  Harkin said he would Institute a retraining program for jobless people if he is elected. He said Bush Slack of initiative on Domestic programs has created class warfare in America and left unemployed people feeling ostracized. A the message we be been getting from the White House is one of a get what you can while the getting a Good. Done to both Quoter How you get it. The Heck with eve Rybo sen. Tom Harkin laughs it up with Barbara Holmes of Boscawen ., Center and Mary by else a Harkin said. Chambers new Hampshire House minority Leader during a rally in Manchester. Schwarzkopf to help to Mark Pearl Harbor Day new York up Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf will help americans remember Pearl Harbor As cohost of the lbs news special on the 50th anniversary of the japanese attack that Drew the United states into world War ii it was announced monday. Schwarzkopf commander of the Allied forces in the persian Gulf War will join lbs news Anchor Charles Kuralt in the program to be broadcast on dec. 7 from 8-10 . Est. Schwarzkopf who said he wanted to participate in the program from the moment he heard about it added a what cannot be forgotten about Pearl Harbor Are the countless individual acts of heroism by the soldiers and sailors that Day. This May be the last moment in history when we can hear stories of heroism from those men and women who were there. A Pearl Harbor of course marked a turning Point in american history. After dec. 7, America began a fundamental change in its own image and its View of the world politics foreign policy the role of the military and the use of technology. Everything was reevaluated. New policies were set in motion for a different world. There was no going  on dec. 7, 1941, the future general was a 7-year-old playing in a friends Back Yard in new Jersey. His sister rushed Over and broke the news. A fall Day we huddled around the big old radio in the living room and listened to the reports a he said. Lbs news is sharing information historical footage and interviews with the Tokyo broadcasting system but each organization will produce its own broadcast on Pearl  reverses damages Over Jet ski invention los Angeles up a Federal judge has overturned a $21 million jury award to an inventor who accused Kawasaki of stealing his invention of the Jet ski Kawasaki said monday. . Federal District judge John Davies ruled on aug. 30 that the july 9 award to Clayton Jacobson was a a unsubstantiated by the evidence presented and ordered a new trial company spokesman Donald Koprowski said. Jacobson of incline Village nev., had been awarded $7.5 million in compensatory damages and $13.5 million in punitive damages in his suit against Kawasaki heavy industries ltd., Kawasaki motors corp. .a. And Kawasaki motors manufacturing corp. .a. Jacobson sued the companies for libel and slander but Davies said in his ruling that a the evidence of libel and slander of title was scanty and  Jacobson claimed Kawasaki had improperly obtained patents on his technology in Japan named its own employees As the inventors of the Jet ski and claimed to be a the inventor of the Jet ski Quot in its advertising. Jacobson has claimed that he conceived the idea for the Jet ski in the Early 1960s. The machine which resembles a snowmobile and is steered by handlebars evolved into its current form about two decades ago. On monday Kawasaki said Jacobson came to Kawasaki in 1971 with a concept for a powered water ski. Kawasaki said it subsequently performed extensive research and development in order to produce a commercial product acceptable to be distributed and sold to the Public. A Kawasaki was required to develop a previously non existent Market for its Jet ski personal watercraft beginning in 1975,�?� the company said. A because of Kawasaki a marketing and distribution efforts an entire new Industry was created for personal