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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Saturday, August 14, 1993

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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 14, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes saturday August 14,1993 new arms featuring flexibility precision Agency says London a Post cold War warriors Are getting a new High tech arse Nal to Cope with smaller unpredictable conflicts. British defense researchers Are work ing on a Host of military advances from tiny missiles that can distinguish Between enemy and Friendly aircraft to powerful radar systems that can target numerous supersonic missiles fired simultaneously at a warship. Scientists already Are testing an a Mored fighting vehicle with twin computers that can track the world outside and a computer system for intelligence analyst that can sift through masses of data rep resent it on a screen and highlight key pieces. In this new world order flexibility in formation and precision have to be the watchwords said John Chisholm chief executive of the defense research Agency which is owned by Britain s ministry of defense but operated As a private company. To see and not be seen this is Cru Cial for the future the Type of technologies that allow us to gain an information advantage. Because Well be operating in unfamiliar  the Agency with a staff of 10,500, con ducts research in 150 different areas holds 5,000 Active patents and has 400 licenses with industries exploiting its inventions. There s no doubt that the Agency. Is the Premier research and development Agency in Britain and probably in Europe Paul Beaver publisher of Jane s in formation group said thursday. The powerful radar the Agency has developed for warships can function even when partially damaged by an enemy and is very very difficult to Jam said project director Tim Crowfoot. It is similar to the . Navy s highly successful spy-1 radar system but is More advanced and cheaper the Agency said. The . Ballistic missile defense pro Gram is spending $3 million to $4 million to help test the new system in Scotland Crowfoot said. Scientists at the British Agency have also developed new radar technology that can see through Clouds take raw radar data and produce images that look better than an instant camera s pictures. A number of British and . Companies Are negotiating to License it the Agency said. The computer program to help Analyse intelligence data has enabled intelligence analysts to do their work in 60 percent less time and get much More accurate Pic Tures of what is happening said project director Derek Barnes. It has been such a hit that it has been rushed into use two years ahead of sched ule he said. Suspenseful Bridge David Schmidt of Maple Shade n.j., takes the Bridge was closed for two hours while a drink As he stands on the service ladder police negotiators persuaded the 38-year of the Tacony Palmyra Bridge Early Friday old Man to come Down. Danger of famine High Angola s president says Lisbon Portugal a Angola is being driven to starvation by a civil War that neither Side has the military strength to win the nation s president said Friday. The military Field is now level but famine worries me As much As War Jose Eduardo Dossantos told tsp radio. . Officials said As Many As 2 million angolans one fifth of the population could starve within months if a settlement in t reached. But the civil War will continue until Jonas say Inibig s Unita rebels troops put Down their arms Dos Santos said. I Don t believe there will be serious negotiations in the near future Dos Santos said. Sav Imbi himself said he had military superiority. These Are not words of  his comments came a Day after Sav Imbi appealed for an immediate end to the War. While stepping up attacks on three Central angolan Cit ies. Sav Imbt s troops have taken control of More than 80 percent of the country and Are reported to be close to capturing several provincial Capi tals. 3rd inf div identifies units for deployment to Kuwait Wurzburg Germany is the 600 3rd inf div soldiers who will spend 30 Days in Kuwait in sup port of a . Central come exercise will come from the 2nd in 37th army regt in Vilseck Germany. They will begin leaving next week to participate in exercise intrinsic action 93-3, according to a division spokesman. The forces will arrive in Kuwait Over the next three weeks and use preposition cd equipment upon Arri Val. The Materiel located at Camp Doha about 10 Miles North of the City of Kuwait includes my Abrams tanks and Bradley fighting vehicles. The deployment the battalion s first since operation desert storm includes two Armor companies and one mechanized infantry company a division spokesman said. Other combat support soldiers also will deploy with the battalion. Also special forces elements from the 5th special forces group fort Campbell ky., will participate in the exercise. Before departing soldiers will go through administrative and medical checks. In total about 1,500 soldiers will be involved. The Central come headquartered at Macdill fab Fla., is in charge of the operation. The command is responsible for . Forces in the persian Gulf Region. Woody a entrails Farrow visits son Senft takes Over command of support Wing at Sembach Sembach a Germany is air Force col. Bruce h. So nil assumed command Friday of the 601st support Wing at Sembach. Senft replaces col. Joseph d. Ferris who will head the 646th support group at Eglin fab Fla. A career Pilot Senft was most recently commar Itier of the 20th support group at Raf upper Heyford England. The 601st provides tactical air control capability to . Air forces in Europe and nato. It also offers support to 38 tenant and associated units in Germany Belgium and the Netherlands. Dublin Ireland a actor Woody Allen visited his 5-year-old son Friday in Dublin after a new Portr judge ordered Mia Farrow to give him Access tothe boy. Allen had followed Farrow to Ireland where she is filming in Hopes of seeing Satchel his biological son with Farrow and adopted daughter Dylan 7. Both Are travelling with their Mother. Leslee Dart Allen s spokeswoman said attorneys for the actor director obtained an order from Manhattan judge Elliott Wilk on thursday stipulating that Allen must be allowed to see Satchel. The visit took place without incident she said. There was no immediate indication of whether he would bellowed to see Dylan. Allen was quoted in Friday s Irish Independent newspaper As saying he wished to see both children if am  an operator at the Shelbourne hotel where Allen is staying said Friday that Allen was out. Allen 57, arrived in Dublin on thursday night with soon i Previn 22, Farrow s adopted daughter. Farrow s discovery last year that Allen and Previn were having an affair precipitated her highly publicized breakup with Allen. She and Allen had had a decade Long relationship. More than 1,000 died in India flooding ktt7\ir Iturri i i Imi to.  a i new Delhi India up the recent flooding in India triggered by monsoons killed 1,065 people and displaced 17.6 million others in 14 of the country s 25 states the government told parliament on Friday. Minister of state Kamal Moraski said most of the deaths occurred in Punjab India s breadbasket where 326 people perished in the worst flooding in decades. Torrential monsoons last month triggered Flash or floods and landslides. The country s leading Rivers the Ganges and Brahmaputra overran their Banks. While floodwaters have receded from the Plains of the North Idia s heartland parts of the northeastern state of Assam still remain inundated. Murarka said the Federal government has decided to spend an additional $518.5 million on flood control measures  
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