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Red Sox close first half with loss to Braves, Sports 5B tot! Wm tirattg Monday," July 9, 2001 sir A Local Custom Serving Vermont for 175 years www.burlingtonfreepress.com 50 cents Lasting ties Rumsfeld peslhes missile plan Bush administration envisions more elaborate and more frequent tests (7 -1 budget. It would be expected to take tens of billions of dollars more before a system is ready for use, although the administration has provided Pentagon's missile defense work. The focus is on testing, and lots of it. "It is going to be structured and disciplined," Lehner said. It is also going to be expensive.

Intercept tests conducted during the Clinton administration cost about $100 million apiece. The Bush administration envisions more elaborate and more frequent tests. The proposed 2002 defense budget submitted to Congress on June 27 provides $8.3 billion for missile defense, a nearly 40 percent increase over the current By Robert Burns The Associated Press WASHINGTON The Bush administration wants to greatly expand the number and kinds of testing it believes is needed to build effective missile defenses, and is willing to spend billions more to do it. In a sense, military planners have gone back to the drawing board to fulfill President Bush's goal of creating a reliable defense against ballistic missile attack on the United States, its allies and U.S. forces abroad.

Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld sees no less urgency in obtaining a missile defense capability, but after months of reviewing options and studying the Clinton administration's approach, the Pentagon has decided to explore a wider range of technologies before deciding when the system could be ready for use. "The focus of missile defense is no longer on deployment," says Lt. Col. Rick Lehner, a spokesman for the Ballistic Missile Defense Organization, which manages the of test ranges from Fort Greeley and Kodiak Island in Alaska to Vandenberg Air Force Base, to Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands to pursue more realistic missile intercept tests. Up to now, the only flight tests of interceptors designed to shoot down long-range missiles have in volved launching an unarmed target missile from Vandenberg and trying to hit it with an interceptor launched from Kwajalein.

Just such a test is scheduled for See RUMSFELD, 7 A Mi Rumsfeld Korean War veterans reunite, VERMONT IB no firm figure. For starters, the Pentagon is piecing together a plan to create a Pacific "test bed" a collection Monk's sundial vision sees light of day Abenaki Chief St Francis dies if Middlebury professor tries to go global with invention 1 1 ill k. I lif 7 1 1 P. it fi i fi Free Press file Abenaki Chief Homer St. Francis wears a tribal headdress at a fish-In protest in Swanton in this file photo.

-b'f y'- "''-ft By Brent Hallenbeck Free Press Staff Writer WEYBRIDGE A fictional monk spurred Daniel Scharstein's new life as an inventor. He, his father and his friend read a story in Scientific American magazine in 1991 that described a monk who wanted to replace his monastery's crumbling traditional sundial with a modern digital sundial. "What I have in mind," the monk said, "is an object whose shadow changes with the motion of the sun, and at each minute resembles the appropriate time, written out in digits." "We thought, 'Wow, this is such a neat Scharstein said. They decided to turn that piece of fiction into reality. Within three years, they produced a prototype digital sundial as a wedding gift for Scharstein's brother.

Now Scharstein faces a new challenge in the world of marketing. The inventor and assistant professor of computer science at Middlebury College is trying to make the digital sundial go global. "We definitely didn't think of, 'How can you get We all have day jobs and none of us really have the entrepreneur spirit," the 35-year-old Scharstein said. "It's just a neat and kind of unusual idea." Scharstein, a native of Germany who lives in Weybridge with his wife. Amy Briggs, and 10-month-old daughter, Anna, uses the word "neat" a lot when describing the digital sundial.

The product he and his father and their friend devised does look neat the shiny timepiece is about the size and weight of a woman's compact; when stationed on a thin pole for window mounting it blooms like a metallic By Lisa Jones and Matt Sutkoskl Free Press Staff Writers Homer St. Francis, the fiery and uncompromising leader of Vermont's Abenaki, died Saturday. He was 66. He died conscious, peaceful, and surrounded by fam- ily at his camp in Berkshire, said his daughter, April Rushlow, who became the tribe's acting chief in 1996. St Francis fought lymphoma for nine years, and also suffered from emphysema and diabetes.

A descendant of Chief Graylocks, who launched raids in Massachusetts and southern Vermont in the 1700s, St. Francis was the chief of the St. Francis Sokoki Band of the Abenaki Nation of Missisquoi from 1974-1980 and again from 1987 until 1996, when he handed affairs over to Rush-low. "He had a vision for the Abenakis and never backed down, never compromised, never gave up," said Fred Wiseman, a Swanton Abenaki who directs the tribal museum in town, and chairs the humanities program at Johnson State College. "I think he's been the central person within the last 20, 25 years in the renaissance of the Abenaki." The tribe that St.

Francis grew up in was one that had been devastated by European settlement and driven underground by racism. That racism found its purest expression in the "eugenics" campaign of the 1920s and '30s, which promoted the sterilization of Abenaki and other groups of Vermont's "undesirables." St. Francis attended school through the eighth grade, and then joined the i i On the Web For more information about digital sundials, visit Services, 7A National Guard at 15. lied about his age," Rushlow said.) Later, he served in the Marines and the Navy. When he came back home, he tried to change the Abenaki world he had left.

He wanted the tribe to be respected, and he wasn't polite about it Claiming that the Abenaki had never signed any treaties and that their lands had been taken illegally, he led "fish-ins" in 1979, 1983 and 1987 to show he and his followers were exempt from state fish and game regulations. He won a short victory when Vermont District Judge Joseph Wolchik ruled in 1989 that the tribe had never ceded aboriginal rights including the freedom to hunt and fish on their ancestral lands but the Vermont Supreme Court See ABENAKI, 7 A Sundial maker, 7A flower. The digital sundial, U.S. patent No. 5,590,093, is somewhat tongue in cheek, Scharstein said.

It's based on an ancient principle of telling time by the position of the sun, yet it uses a modern presentation. "There's no electrical power or anything," Scharstein said. He has three digital sundials on display in the den and one in the living room of his window-See DIGITAL, 7 A RAJ CHAWLA, Free Press David Scharstein of Weybridge, a Middlebury College assistant professor of computer science, displays a digital sundial that he co-developed with his father and a family friend. RIGHT: A digltial sundial attached to a window. Venus holds win Lawyer explains Condit's media silence in Levy case www.burlingtonfreepress.com Volume 174, No.

190 Index Business Monday 1D Classified 4C Comics 3C A 11C Crossword- Venus Williams hugs the women's singles trophy she won Justine He-mn in the final Sunday in England. Story, 5B Li? no plans to quit Congress, Lowell said. A source familiar with the investigation and speaking on condition of anonymity said Saturday that Condit, in his third interview with Washington police and the FBI, told investigators for the first time Friday that he had a romantic relationship with Levy, who has not been seen since April 30. Police have said Condit is not a suspect. They are investigating Levy's disappearance as a missing persons case, not a crime.

"It's not important that you know the nature of the relationship," he said on CBS' "Face the Natioa" "It's important that the police do, and the police have what they need to see if it helps them find Chandra Levy." 5A -4C 3C 1C 2C 2A 4A 5B -4C Forum Horoscope-Landers Living- Movies Nation Opinion Sports TV list By Tom Strong The Associated Press WASHINGTON Rep. Gary Condit has kept a public silence in the Chandra Levy case in hopes of protecting his family's privacy and not jeopardizing the search for the former federal intern, his lawyer said Sunday. Speaking a day after a source said the California Democrat had told police he had a romantic relationship with Levy, lawyer Abbe Lowell refused to discuss what his client has told investigators and said Condit has satisfied their every request for infor-matioa Condit, 53 and married, does not know what happened to the 24-year-old California woman and has i Printed In ta U.S.A. II II IIIIIIIIHI I IHI m.Bofllnon II II iiiiiii mi I ill RICK BOWMER, The Associated Press Abbe Lowell, attorney for Rep. Gary Condit, departs CBS studios after appearing Sunday on "Face the Nation" in Washington.

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