European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 24, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Star wars tests allegedly rigged to deceive soviets new York apr officials working on the Star that conclusion directly contradicts accusations made wars anti missile defense system ran a deception pro to Congress in August by four men who worked for the Gram in the 1980s to convince the soviet Union the Star wars program and who said that the officials had project was far More advanced than it was the new rigged the fourth test As part of the deception plan York times reported. Star wars officials secretly called the homing overlay Experiment rigged a series of tests in 1983 and 1984, the times re after the first three tests failed the Success of the ported saturday Eiting a report by the general a fourth test became crucial to continued government i counting office the investigative Arm of Congress Nanc Iii for the Reagan administrations strategic de sensor equipped bombs were loaded on the target ferns initiative known  wars. Missile so it would explode even when the attacking however sen David Pryor d-ark., who requested missile missed the target the Gao report said. But in the general accounting office investigation told the the first three tests the attacking missile missed by too times he remained convinced the enhancements for great a distance to fool anyone the report said. Thet ourth test were part of a pattern of deception. Then in 1984, the deception plan was abandoned Ime times quoted the Gao report As saying a the de the report said. Instead project officials took measures Cep Jion program was started in Hopes of affecting soviet to enhance the Odds that the fourth and final test perception of . Ballistic missile defense capabilities Quot would succeed the report said describing those efforts As Well As a impacting arms control negotiations and influx As secretive but not deceptive. According to the times once soviet spending Quot on military countermeasures. Indy 100 a and gaining fast indy a baby male Black Rhinoceros slashes through a mud Hole As his Mother a Bantu keeps her Eye on him. Tuesday at the Dallas zoo. The Little Rhino weighed 49 pounds at birth july 3 at the zoo and has bulked up to about 100 pounds. An adult Black Rhino can weigh up to 4,000 pounds air Force Douglas defend cd 7 Washington Apas Congress nears a final decision on the costly c-17 transport plane the air Force and Mcdonnell Douglas corp. Are scrambling to counter two government reports that question the need for the wide body aircraft. They argue in papers released last week that congressional investigators made wrong assumptions in concluding that the plane would be less useful to the military and accessible to fewer runways than  recent reports by the general accounting office an investigative Arm of Congress contended the c-17 could land on fewer than half the overseas runways claimed by the air Force and that an Airlift study comparing the plane to competitors tilted unfairly in favor of the c-17. The reports came As Congress works out the final details of the 1995 defense budget. One Issue in dispute Between the House and the Senate is whether to accept a proposed contract settlement Between the Pentagon and Mcdonnell Douglas that defense department officials say is crucial to the survival of the c-17. The . Air mobility come agreed with the Gao that earlier estimates May have overstated the advantage of the c-17 Over the older c-5 Galaxy in terms of Landing on Remote airfields. But in its rebuttal to the Gao study the air mobility come said that when runway strength is considered the c-17 could land at 4,005 airfields compared with 2,237 for the c-5, a nearly 2-to-l advantage. Virtually everyone involved in the debate agrees that the military needs More Airlift particularly to  aging Fleet of c-141 cargo planes. The Issue is whether the c-17, with its history of design and performance problems can be improved enough to do the Job at an affordable Price. Current plans Call for buying 14 More c-l7s in the next two years for a total Fleet of 40. Total Cost including design is $21.3 billion or $533 million per plane making the c-17 the most expensive airlifted Ever ordered by the per Wagon. A. While Congress appears ready to buy the 40 c-l7s, the question remains As to whether the Pentagon will buy More or switch to some alternative such As modified Boe ing 747s. The Gao reports could become vital ammunition for critics of the c-17, thus the vigorous response Mcdonnell Douglas which assembles the aircraft in Long Beach calif., issued a five Page attack on some of the Gao a  vote in limbo Over illegal Black District from the associated press Shreveport la. A Louisiana a fall elections were put on hold after a Federal court ruled Friday that a new Black majority congressional District plan is an unconstitutional product of racial gerrymandering. The decision by the the rce judge panel came just one week before candidates were to sign up for october a primary. Judge Jacques Wiener said the incumbent congressmen in the Black majority congressional District will continue to serve until an outside specialist hired by the court draws up a new plan and elections can be Field. ,. The state plans to Appeal to the . Supreme court. If the court does not step in there will be no congressional elections in october. The new District plan was drawn up last Spring because the same three judge panel ruled last december that the shaped 4th congressional District represented by democratic rep. Cleo Fields violates the constitutional rights of some voters. A a hefty complaint lodged Portland Ore. A a 405-Pound Man is suing Denny a for $1.3 million claiming restaurant workers made him feel like a a Clown on  Gary a. Sellick 36, also claims that he  fit into a Booth and the restaurant was . Provide a chair big enough to hold him when he tried to eat there on june 8. A people began turning around and looking at me and snickering a Sellick said. A a in a disabled. Do you think they a laugh at a Blind person or a person with one leg do they think 1 chose to be heavy a the lawsuit filed wednesday says the experience. Caused Sellick emotional distress. A with them pointing at me and laughing i immediately Felt like a Clown on Parade a Sellick said. A i done to want to be stared at because in a Large. Its . Lawyers at Flagstad corp., the Spartanburg  company that owns thet,500-restaurant Denny Schain Hadnot had a Chance to review the allegations spokeswoman Karen Randall  of an error made Des Moines Iowa a David Shidler did t know his credit card was stolen a until another Man tried to use it to buy $3,000 Worth of jewelry from him. A i thought there was a joke being played on me 7 and it turned out it Wasny to a joke a shinier said. Shidler a credit cards and birth certificate were lifted from a storage building. He did no to know it had been broken into until Friday when a customer at. His jewelry shop handed him the credit card. At first Shidler said he thought the Man just shared his name. Then he recognized his signature on the card and his social Security number on the Many a Drivers License. The Man who told police his name is David Cox faces one charge of forgery. He was being held on $3,000 Bond. A a -4 found slain in Virginia Virginia Beach a a the bodies of four people were found in a House Friday. One of the victims Clifton Harper 19, was to stand trial in two weeks in a cocaine Case a tar to of Norfolk reported. The other victims were identified As his Mother Thelma Harper in her 30s Evelyn Ward 63, and her 14-year-old grandson Robert Ward. The victims a were apparently shot to death. All but Robert Ward lived at the House. Police did not know any motive.4 shot dead at Texas bar Kilgore Texas a gunmen burst into a neighbourhood bar in an apparent robbery killing four customers and critically wounding the bartender a a the two men and two women who were killed had been playing Pool at the Lime of the shooting i her Day night in Katie a lounge the bartender r called police despite her gunshot wounds police spokesman Jerdy Wolverton said. No immediate arrests were made. Several assailants were believed to have opened fire