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Show Page B4 - THE HERALD, Provo, Utah, Friday, June 15, 1990 Peace Corps volunteers head for Eastern Europe - le Cov-erde- Cheney will propose defense building cuts - Defense (AP) Secretary Dick Cheney will ask Congress next week to cancel "a substantial number" of military construction projects at home and abroad, his spokesman said Thurs- day. Cheney also extended a worldwide freeze on military construction in order "to help ensure the depart- ment proceeds with the projects for which there is a genuine need," Pentagon spokesman Pete Williams told reporters. Thr secretary is acting because of anticipated cuts in the Pentagon budget and expected reductions in the nation's military forces, Williams said. Cheney will select his candidates for cancellation from a list of some 207 projects including the controversial Navy "home ports" in Texas, Alabama, Mississippi and New York. Last month, Cheney ordered the projects, whih also include a facility at Tooele, Utah, to be re 207 viewed for possible cancellation. Because funds for the projects already have been approved, the secretary must ask Congress to withdraw the funding through a process known formally as "rescission." Williams said he could not how many of the projects might be canceled, added, "It is fair to say that exactly major arteries connected to and monitored by a regional traffic network. Systems involved in the tests will be tried out on test vehicles, rental cars, or in a few selected automobiles owned by commuters. "If things work out, we expect to see smart cars all over the country in the late '90s," Lyle Saxton, a specialist in advanced technology systems for the Federal Highway Administration, told National Geographic. By then the cars may be even National Geographic "It's almost as if the Peace Corps WASHINGTON (AP) Forty years after it divided the European had been in training for 30 years continent, the Iron Curtain has for this moment," said Coverdell. The volunteers will first spend parted for the Peace Corps, the idealistic creation of President Ken- several months of language training in Polish and Hungarian university nedy. towns. They are expected to begin One of the first 122 U.S. volunteers leaving this weekend for East- teaching this fall. Coverdell expects a decade-lon- g ern Europe, Felix Lap-inshas a highly personal motive effort, with the Peace Corps exfor traveling to Poland to teach panding its reach to such countries as Czechoslovakia and broadening English. "I learned Polish at my mother's its scope to include instruction in knee," he said in an interview environmental protection and busiThursday. "I had always heard the ness development. But as the effort begins, the focus stories of the old country. Now I have a chance to teach Poles En- is on helping Poland and Hungary wide-scaglish, which is really the access to set up a system for the teaching of English. language of the modern world." "In the very, very recent past, Lapinski, who has been teaching English to foreign students at night English was a closet language in for nine years, was one of those Eastern Europe; you had to learn it selected from thousands of volun- secretly," says Jerry Welch, the Peace Corps' deputy director for teers. At the invitation of the new Pol- Central Europe and other regions. "Now they have a need for a ish and Hungarian governments, the Peace Corps aims at creating a large number of English teachers," network of trained teachers to Welch told an orientation session spread the use of English, which this week for the first group of teachers going to Hungary. ll Peace Corps Director Paul D. "I think you will not find that you said has become the essential "language of commerce, science, are any kind of threat to existing mathematics and computer technol- English teachers," he assured ogy," as Eastern Europe turns its them. "They are few in number and overwhelmed." face to the West. WASHINGTON future, smart cars will help their drivers In For AP Newsfeatures There's new hope for commut- ers battling rush-ho- traffic ur jams. Advanced electronics and computer technology are creating a new generation of smart cars and highways that should make trips easier and safer. They're considered smart because they're designed to help make decisions for drivers. On highways of the future, cars poised to enter traffic will tell drivers where they are, plot the best route to a destination, and suggest alternatives in case of congestion. On the open road, and new automatic-spacin- g voidance devices will speed up or slow down cars depending on the flow of traffic. This spring, new navigation systems installed on 25 General Motors cars will be tested on a corridor of Los Angeles' Santa Monica Freeway. Small the position of the vehicle ahead. If the distance to another car were closing too rapidly, the system would alert the driver, and if no action were taken, braking would occur and even stop the vehicle to avoid a collision, unless overridden by the driver. Another radar device in the planning stage would honk a warning if there's a car in a blind spot when a driver tries to change lanes. "The object is to make traffic responsive as soon as conditions change," explains Lyle Saxton. more intelligent. "Besides being able to show you the shortest path between two points, that computer in your car will probably offer a lot of other options," says Stanley K. Honey, president of ETAK, a Menlo Park, Calif., company that publishes electronic data for vehicle-navigatisystems. Electronic systems in smart cars will also make trips safer. radar, now in the offing, will track other vehicles, while the computer accelerates or slows down the car, depending on high-milea- ge On-boa- rd collision-a- , yrm i 12-m-ile dashboard-mounte- computer-ma- p d consoles will show the vehicles' exact locations and warn the drivers of accidents up ahead or other congestion problems. Voice transmissions from the systems, which are linked to a traffic-contrs, center, will warn of so drivers will be able to leave the freeway as soon as possible. If the California test proves successful, 100 vehicles with onboard navigation systems will cruise highways in Florida's Orlando area in early 1992. Later, as many as 1,000 may hit the road in the Midwest, probably in Minnesota. The state will soon have 300 miles of freeways and ol tie-up- tVl'M'AATI Si I I - AP Laserphoto Downtown Detroit appears through the windshield and on the dashboard of a smart car. say 207 but the secretary believes that funding should be cancelled on a substantial number of military construction projects." "I would expect a decision on this next week," Williams said. The freeze, which will run through Nov. 15, affects more than $7 billion in construction. The 207 specific projects under study for cancellation have been valued by the Pentagon at $1.2 billion. Cheney first put a freeze on construction in January and extended it in April. It was due to expire on June 15. General says B-- 2 bomber top priority of Air Force - WASHINGTON (AP) President Bush's nominee for Air Force chief of staff said publicly on Thursday what has been hinted at for weeks: The service's top priority is the B-- 2 bomber and land-base- nuclear d missiles can wait. Gen. Michael J. Dugan, now Air Force commander in Europe, confirmed reports that the service has proposed to Defense Secretary Dick d Cheney that modernization of missiles be delayed. Asked if the Air Force had recommended that option, Dugan told the Senate Armed Services Committee: "I understand that. I accept that, approve that and I support that. One needs to look at affordability issues in every regard." Cheney still has the final say on whether the Pentagon will slow d down development of the Midgetman missile and delay plans to move the multiple-warhea- d MX missile from silos to rail cars. "This is a proposal. It hasn't land-base- single-warhea- been reviewed. It's subject to lots further discussion," Dugan said. In April, the defense secretary said the Bush administration supg ports the MX program, which accounts for $2.8 billion in the defense budget for the fiscal year beginning Oct. 1. The budget calls for $202 million for the Midgetman. Dugan made it clear that the No. 1 concern for the service is the B-- 2 stealth bomber, the radar-evadin- g plane that at more than $815 million a copy has resulted in increasing congressional opposition. "I rank the B-- 2 at the head of my list for all strategic modernization programs in the Air Force," Dugan said. His second priority is the Midget-ma- n missile and third is the MX missile on railroad cars, which the service should have as a hedge with research and development funds available. "I find a logic to that set of priorities," said Sen. Sam Nunn, chairman of the Senate panel. of WASHINGTON Beetle (API Bailey, the lazy but lovable GI who World War II. Beetle Bailey and his has stumbled through comic pages for the past 40 years, finally won an admiring salute Thursday from the U.S. Army. In a Flag Day ceremony at the Pentagon, cartoonist Mort Walker received a framed "certificate of appreciation for patriotic civilian service" from Brig. Gen. Bill Mo Clain, who declared an armistice in the Army's decades-olhostilities against the slovenly buck private. "Through it all, you have entertained us, although sometimes we haven't always liked it," said Mo Clain, the Army's public affairs chief. He observed: "If you can't laugh at yourself, something is intrinsically wrong with you." Tongue in check. Walker replied that it was always "the dream of Gen. Halftrack and mine to hear from the Pentagon." and it took 40 years to get the call. cartoon friends have annoyed some "I can't believe I'm actually here," Walker said. "As hard as it is to find anything in the Pentagon, they finally found ft sense of hu- mor." Since Walker created the popular comic strip In 1950, based on his experiences as an Army draftee in Vorkline 40-PIEC- dicktracy SOCKET SET 14" and 3. 8" drive. Metric. SAE and LB023. Pentagon brass who complained they presented an unflattering image of Army life. 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