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Lasers online by the 1990s
WASHINGTON tAP) — The United States
could have within to to 12 years a space-based
system of laser weapons that would afford the
entire country a ' foolproof" defense against
missile attack, according to the research direc
tor of a foundation which has explored the con
cept since 1977.
A more limited ground-based laser system
that could defend key targets such as com
mand centers and important military bases,
could be achieved in about seven years, said
Dr. Uwe Parpart, a physicist who heads
research for the Fusion Energy Foundation in
New York City.
Parpart sa»d he could not estimate the cost
of such a defense, but he suggested it ultimate
ly might require the United States to spend
about $10 billion a year. The entire defense
budget now exceeds $200 billion per year.
His projection for reaching an operational
space-based laser defense against missile at
tack from the Soviet Union is considerably
more optimistic than Pres. Ronald Reagan’s.
Last week, Reagan expressed hope for such a
defense by the turn of the century. He did so in
giving this program a high priority.
Parpart said the foundation became in
terested in what are called Directed Energy
Weapons in 1977 as an offshoot from its prin
cipal concern, to promote fusion energy.
“A ballistic missile defense using lasers
would begin to shift the entire strategic equa
tion and get us away from mutually assured
destruction as a deterrent policy,” said Parpart
in a recent telephone Interview.
He stressed that his group is not sug
gesting nuclear weapons in space, but that it
focused attention on lasers — concentrated
light beams — and charged beams of radiant
energy because they represent methods of ig
niting the fusion process in generating nuclear
energy on earth.
•‘If we want a full, foolproof area defense
of the United States, that clearly is at least a
decade in the future, possibly 10 to 12 years,”
Parpart said.
“On the other hand, a more limited system
that could defend Key targets, but wouldn't
cover the United States, could be accomplish
ed in five to seven years, probably seven."
Parpart said the first phase of such a
defense could be built around a ground-based
laser device which would shoot laser beams in
to space to be relayed off orbiting mirrors to
strike Soviet missiles as they rose upward in
their ballistic trajectory enroute to the United
States.
In a second phase, Parpart said, the United
States could put in operation a space-based
system using X-ray lasers.
With such X-ray beams, Parpart said, “You
would only have to point and shoot.”
House passes bill to pay bills
SALEM (AP) — In its first
major budget squabble this
session, the House narrowly
passed appropriations bills
Monday for a major state agen
cy and to keep the Legislature
running for another three
months.
A Senate-passed bill pro
viding $4 million to finance the
Legislature through June 30
was approved after opponents
failed on a 29-28 vote to send
the measure back to
committee.
The controversy involves a
$57,000 item in the budget that
would finance increased daily
expense allowances for
lawmakers if they pass
separate legislation raising
their payments.
Rep. Wayne Fawbush, D
Hood River, said the money
was put into the budget only
to accommodate Senate Presi
dent Ed Fadeley, D-Eugene.
Fadeley earlier had proposed
raising lawmakers' expense
payments during the session
from $44 to $51 a day, but now
says he hasn't decided
whether to pursue the idea.
House Republican Leader
Larry Campbell or Eugene led
the losing effort to return the
budget to the Joint Ways &
Means Committee. He said the
money set aside for a possible
expense increase shouid be
stripped from the budget to
settle the issue.
Although the expense
money remains in the budget,
allowances can't be increased
unless separate legislation is
passed.
House Speaker Grattan
Kerans, D-Eugene. and other
lawmakers oppose the ex
pense increase, saying it's
wrong to give more money to
legislators when the state is in
a fiscal pinch.
The overall budget for the
legislative session that began
Jan. 10, including money
already spent, is SS.6 million.
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Drug traffickers sentenced
EUGENE (AP) — Twelve participants in a Northwest drug
trafficking ring were sentenced to prison terms and given fines
Monday in U.S. District Court.
William Jobson, Woodacre, Calif., received the harshest
penalty — five years imprisonment, five years probation and a
$25,000 fine for his alleged role as the primary wholesale source
for marijuana and LSD marketed by the others.
Donald Sears, one of the alleged ringleaders in Lane Coun
ty, received five years probation. Joseph Mann, also of Eugene
and considered another ringleader, was sentenced to three
years in prison and a $15,000 fine.
The dozen were among 15 people arrested Sept. 21. A
federal grand jury indicted them on a variety of drug charges.
In affidavits filed in the case, the drug trafficking ring was
described by federal agents as a sophisticated operation involv
ing shipping, storage, sales and distribution of hundreds of
pounds of marijuana and thousands of units of LSD in Oregon,
Washington, Idaho, Montana, California, Hawaii and Canada.