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Texas 696-0012 By Red Lobster Across from Across fron BEN (BAJ LEYS) Maingate Page 10/The Battalion/Thursday, November 14,1985 World and Nation Military uses lasers to transmit messages Communications test successful Associated Press WASHINGTON — The Defense Department, in an experiment with significant implications for war- fighting strategy, has successfully transmitted messages via laser light from a high-flying airplane to a sub marine cruising at “operational depths.” The experiment, confirmed by Rear Adm. Thomas K. Mattingly and other Navy officials, was con ducted more than a year ago off the coast of San Clemente, Calif., under the code name “SLCAIR 84,” pro nounced Slickair. A small jet carrying an experi mental green-light laser was able to establish contact and transmit mes sages “error free” to a submerged submarine. Although precise details are classi fied, the airplane was fiying at alti tudes between 20,000 feet and 30,000 feet at the time of the trans missions, one source said. Another source said the term “operational depth” meant the submarine was more than 100 feet below the sur face. The successful test has paved the way for additional research and con vinced some officials a more ad vanced laser system can be con structed using satellites instead of airplanes. Over the next two years, the Navy will take control of the re search from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA. Although Navy officials caution the service is still years away from building any operational system, the experiment offers one promising avenue for attacking a problem that has long dogged nuclear planners — how to communicate reliably with ballistic missile submarines without requiring the sub to rise near the surface and risk disclosing its posi tion. Moreover, a laser communica tions system is viewed as having tre mendous implications for tactical warfare because it could allow sur face ships to protect the wherea- tace ships to protect the wherea bouts of U.S. attack submarines, while still directing them toward enemy submarines. The existence of the DARPA re search program involving so-called blue-green lasers has long been pub lic knowledge. The research has been cited in the past by such concerned lawmakers as Rep. Les Aspin, D-Wis., and Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., who see it as of fering an alternative to the ELF (ex treme low frequency) submarine communications system now being built in Wisconsin and upper Michi gan. Recently, however, Mattingly pro- iwlei’ ment the research had moved to the point of a successful transmission of data. A former astronaut who now directs space programs within the Space and Naval Warfare Com mand, Mattingly referred briefly to the test in an article he wrote for “Proceedings” magazine, published by the U.S. Naval Institute. In an interview, Mattingly stressed the Navy and DARPA were still engaged in basic research “and not development of an operational system.” Another Navy official, who spoke on condition he not be identified, said earlier experiments had estab lished it was possible for a sub merged submarine to be reached by laser light. “But what we did here was actu ally transmit messages,” the source continued. “We started at a certain vided the first public acknowledge- depth and everything we sent was received error-free." Philadelphia commissioner to resign from police post Associated Press PHILADELPHIA — The city’s police commissioner announced his resignation Wednesday, exactly six months after directing his depart ment’s disastrous attempt to evict members of the radical MOVE cult from their fortified row house. Commissioner Gregore J. Sam- bor, 57, told more than 200 officers at a meeting that he had sent a letter to Mayor W. Wilson Goode saying he would relinquish his duties Nov. 30. He made no reference to the MOVE confrontation. “There will be many who will sec ond-guess this decision, and many who will deny that it is mine, but the simple truth of the matter is that it is time,” Sambor told the officers, who gave him a standing ovation when he arrived at the Police Academy. Sambor, who said two months ago he had no intention of quitting, was contradicted by Goode in testimony before a special commission investi gating the May 13 MOVE tragedy. in which 11 members of the cult were killed and 61 houses were de stroyed by a fire started by a police bomb, dropped to break up a roof top bunker. Goode testified that he had been misled and disobeyed by his subordi nates. The mayor’s representative on the scene, then Managing Direc tor Leo Brooks, resigned this sum mer, citing personal reasons. Sambor’s 23 months as commis sioner were tainted by two widely criticized police operations. In “Operation Cold Turkey,” po lice detained and searched about 1,000 people on street corners noted for drug dealing. The practice was stopped when the American Civil Liberties Union sued in federal court, claiming the searches were unconstitutional. When a police officer was killed in May, police rounded up numerous residents of a Hispanic community for questioning. A federal judge or dered police to stop the “repeated, persistent pattern of unconstitu tional stops, detentions, seizures and frisks.” Sambor had 37 years of service in the department and will receive a pension of $51,000, about $10,000 more than if he had been fired. Sambor will retire from the 7,000- member force Jan. 29, according to Goode, who said he would appoint Deputy Commissioner Robert Arm strong as interim commissioner. “It was a sad occasion,” Arm strong, 55, said after the morning meeting. “Anybody who has devoted 35 years of his life to the police de partment and 35 years of his life to a career, it’s really tough to go.” Other city officials said the MOVE siege and fire were the reasons for Sambor’s retirement. “He was certainly marked for de struction since the beginning of the incident,” said Republican city Councilman Thacher Longstreth. “I don’t think I could have thought of anything more inevitable.” Mexico City rents rise since quake Associated Press DALLAS — Rents in some parts of Mexico City have doubled in the wake of a pair of devastating earth quakes that aggravated the sprawl ing metropolis’ housing shortage, urban planners, real estate agents and tenants told the Dallas Morning News. Thousands of homeless from the September quakes have battled for scarce housing made even more ex pensive by the declining value of the peso and accompanying inflation, the News said Wednesday. “In many cases, rents for housing have at least doubled,” said Martha Schteingart, an urban planner with El Colegio de Mexico, a Mexico City- based think tank. The Sept. 19 and 20 quakes de stroyed or damaged an estimated 3,300 structures and caused approx imately $4 billion in damage in the Mexican capital. Officials said about 20,000 hous ing units, most rental property, were destroyed and hundreds of office buildings collapsed or were irrepa rably damaged. “The effect this loss has had on the rental market is great,” Schteing art said. “Housing was expensive be fore, and this has made it worse.” In addition, the annual inflation rate was expected to be 60 percent to 65 percent, substantially above the government’s target of 35 percent, officials said. And the peso, which was trading at about 380 to the dollar just after the earthquake, went as high as 500 to the dollar last week. President Miguel de la Madrid said after the quakes that the gov ernment would strictly enforce exist ing laws on rent increases to protect tenants’ rights. But the Federal Consumer Pro tection Agency has received scores of complaints daily that landlords are trying to raise rents beyond legal limits. Raul Cervantes, an agency spokes man, said Mexican law prohibits rental charges in U.S. dollars and annual housing rent increases over 85 percent of the yearly increase in the minimum wage. But daily advertisements in Mex ico City newspapers quote dollar prices for rents. And residents pay higher and higher percentages of their salaries for rents. Doris Bulnes, a real estate agent, said she has been inundated with re quests for houses to rent since the quakes. “There is definitely a lack of hous ing,” she said. “Most of the people looking are people whose nomes were damaged or want to live in a_ safer part of the city. There are fewer houses for rent now than I’ve. Parents liablefof minors offspring in Wisconsin Associated Press MADISON, WIS.— Wisconsin has adopted a pioneering law that holds parents financially respon sible if their minor chilaren nave babies. Under the measure, signed Tuesday by Cov. Anthony Earl, a welfare agency could take the f tarents of both the mother and ather to court to make them pay for the expenses of raising the child. The law also allocates $1 mil lion for pregnancy counseling, requires a girl’s consent before a hospital or clinic can notify her parents of her abortion, and re peals restrictions on the advertis ing and sale of contraceptives. State Rep. Marlin Schneider, said the law was intended to re duce teen-age pregnancies by in creasing discussion between par ents and teen-agers regarding sex. By making parents financially responsible, they may at least talk about the subject before there is an unwanted pregnancy, he said. The legislator predicted the law could help promote under standing on abortion, but Bar bara Lyons, an anti-abortion lob byist for Wisconsin Citizens Concerned for Life, said it would only encourage teen-agers to have abortions. “Essentially, abortion is the eas iest option in the short term,” she said. “If the situtation is going to be complicated by the boy’s par ents going to court to decide what the support payments should be, the girls won’t tell their parents.” Critics also questioned whether the law was workable. “How are you going to make the mother’s parents responsi ble?” asked June Perry, executive director of New Concepts, a hu man service agency in Milwuakee. 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