European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 18, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday May 18, 1977 the stars and stripes Page 7 life practically stops for 3 million in blackout Miami a buzzing dental drills Feu silent. Elevators stopped Between floors. Drawbridge gaped open clogging major traffic arteries. People could buy gasoline or even withdraw Money from Banks. The blame for the chaos was placed on a faulty $50relay switch that Short circuited on monday and caused a blackout affecting almost three million people over15,000 Square Miles of South Florida. No deaths or injuries were attributed to the outage which tasted seven hours in some places. A dentist in Miramar Southeast of fort Lauderdale said he was fixing a Man s Mouth plate when the Power i was just to the Point of smoothing everything  said. He s going to spend the Day with a very rough Mouth Carolyn cutting a Hairdresser said customers we resent Home in rollers. It s amazing How dependent we Are on electricity she  sudden loss of Power kicked on emergency generators except at Miami Beach s it. Sinai  there successfully finished an open heart operation by  outage also stopped pumps at service stations. Cooled off food of restaurants and stopped registers Abanks. We can t pump Gas we can t work on cars. Even our tools Are Power lamented Jay Turnan owner of a t Miami resident Gloria Gasman by flashlight dental drills stilled Miramar service station during the blackout. "1 tried to get some lunch and can t even get a cup of Coffee. I can t make a Deposit at my Bank. I went Dow there and everybody s just standing around because their machines Are All electric the Short circuit shut Down a nuclear fuelled Genera Tor at Turkey Point South of Miami at 10 12 . Said officials of the Florida Power ought co. For a shaky 12 minutes automatic devices allowed other generating units in the giant Utility s network to absorb the  attempts to keep the juice flowing failed at 10 24 . As major plants toppled. Operators manually shutdown one nuclear unit because of wide fluctuations in voltage. That triggered the automatic shutdown of five Oil fuelled generators. In Short order Fps customers from Marathon in the Florida keys up the coast to St. Lude just North of fort Pierce were without Power. The outage stretched across the state to Naples on the Gulf coast. Some were without Power until shortly before s , such As those in Naples were out for about 10 minutes. Fri. The state s largest Power company. Isolated the Northern half of its system in order to maintain service in North and Central Florida. We were Lucky it was a Balmy Breezy Day said Anfel spokesman. It helped Cool off buildings and tem pers. And it s a Good thing it did t happen at night reveals she has cancer sen. Brooke s wife gets divorce Cambridge mass. Up the wife of sen. Edward w. Brooke r-mass., monday asked for a divorce from her Hus band of 30 years and also disclosed she is suffering from cancer. They agreed i court to a divorce settlement under which she will receive $18,000 a year in  the agreement remigia Brooke 59, also will get ownership of Homes in the West indies and Newton mass. The settlement was announced before Middlesex county probate judge Law rence Perera following several hours of testimony by remigia Brooke during which she made the disclosure she is suf Fering from cancer. Under the agreement which was to be formalized in court wednesday. Brooke will keep title to property in Martha Vineyard As Well As some 10 acres of land near the Home on the Island of St. Martin inthe West indies that is going to remigia  senator was absent during his wife s emotional testimony but was summoned tothe courtroom late in the afternoon. Attorneys for Brooke said he was on a plane when the agreement was reached. The Eastern airlines flight to washing ton was stopped on the runway and the sen Ator was driven to the courthouse several Miles from Logan Airport. Brooke visibly upset declined to talk to reporters asked by judge Lawrence  if he understood the agreement the senator said. I understand it and 1  remigia Brooke in her divorce suit alleged mental but not physical cruelty by various acts Over a number of  and his wife hied separate divorce petitions on july 21. 1976, alleging cruel and abusive treatment. They were unable to reach an out of court settlement that included jurisdiction Over two. Vaca Tion Homes one on Martha s Vineyard and the other on St. Martin. My health is not too Good. 1 have Blad Der cancer. I had two operations one last March remigia Brooke said. Her two daughters Remi 25, and Edwina 28, were present in the  said her first operation was in 1969 and that last year a second tumor was found. Throughout her testimony Remigi Brooke continually referred to her Hus band As or.  she recounted How they met during world War ii when Brooke As a member of the All Black 366lhcombat infantry regiment was in Italy. Remigia Brooke sobbing throughout her testimony recounted her Early Days in this country when she and her husband lived in one and two room apartments in the Roxbury Section of Boston while Brooke was attending Boston University Law  said she is plagued by Back prob lems and that she was recently ill for on week after raking the Lawn outside their three bedroom Home in Newton. She said she was forced to Rake the Lawn herself be cause her husband has not Given he Money to maintain the Home. She testified that after her husband was elected Massachusetts attorney general she received a monthly allowance of $450that was used for All household expenses including food clothing heat and  said the allowance was later increased to $500 per month. In 1955, she testified Brooke purchased Small cottage on Martha s Vineyard and that he later sold it and bought a 10-roomhome on the Island. I worked from eight in the morning to11 at night washing the floors and cleaning the place up she said. It took a couple  she testified that in 1969 Brooke Pur chased a House on St. Martin that she de scribed As a Beautiful Home located on As ii acre site overlooking the  she said Brooke paid $200,000 for the House and 10 acres of surrounding properly pipeline is called target for terrorists Washington up the Alaska pipeline poses a unique target for saboteurs and there Are people in the stat with grievances enough to disrupt it an Arctic expert told Congress in secret Testi Mony released monday. The trans Alaska pipeline represents target for political terrorism that is unique in the american experience said Leon Ard a. Leschack a consultant on Arctic projects for government and Oil clients. National defense never before could the potential destruction or merely the threat of such de. Striction of private property have such ramifications to the National defense As will soon be possible when the pipeline comes on  Leschack testified at secret hearing before the defunct Senate internal Security subcommittee a year ago and his Testi Mony was released monday along with that of other witnesses. All witnesses called for greater cooperation among the Federal government the state government and the Oil companies to guard the pipe line. Panel says civil defense Effort would be useless Washington not the joint con Gressional committee on defense production said monday that a Large scale civil defense program such As the one the soviet Union reportedly is developing could be readily overwhelmed by offensive nuclear  Prospect of achieving a defensive capability effective against an adroit an determined nuclear retaliatory attack and adequate to protect All the prerequisites Ofa major Power status will continue to be a practical  the committee majority said in a special report. The study is the most comprehensive yet made in Congress in the developing debate Over whether the strategic nuclear balances in danger of being upset of the soviet civil defense program which the Russia shave apparently Given renewed emphasis to in recent  minority dissenting views three re publican members of the committee said the majority took a too narrow Short sighted and at limes inaccurate View of the strategic consequences of the combined effect of a continuing buildup i soviet civil defense and offensive Power. The Basic question in the emerging debate is whether a War survivability Gap is developing in which the soviet Union because of its civil defense pro Gram could survive a nuclear War Bette than the . Which has virtually no civil defense program. After a Brief Experiment with such program 15 years ago the . Decided that a passive defense Effort was ineffective too costly and strategically provocative and contradictory to the Basic concept of Mutual deterrence. In contrast the soviet Union in its Mili tary literature and organization has continued to give High priority to civil defens with plans to disperse the population protect Industrial plants and stockpile Foo supplies. While there is still disagreement within the american intelligence Community Over the extent and effectiveness of the soviet civil defense program som military commentators led by maj. Gen. George Keegan jr., the former chief of air Force intelligence have argued that the soviet Union was trying to get itself into a War fighting posture in which it could attack the . And then Blunt any Retalia tory response. In its report the joint committee major Ity took the position that civil defense Mea sures can generally be overcome by a adroit adversary through such tactics As the heavier concentration of warheads Uncertain targets. Somewhat the same position has Bee expressed by defense Secretary Harold Brown who has taken a far less ominous View of the soviet civil defense program than his predecessor Donald  said the soviet civil defense Effort if it continued to grow could adversely affect our ability to implement the . Deterrent strategy thus providing the soviets with both a political and a Mil itary advantage in the event of a  the committee majority said that Many of the vital economic assets of the soviet Union and the . Cannot be protected by passive defences and that destruction of these targets in thermonuclear War could severely limit or eliminate the ability of either nation to continue functioning As a world  to adopt the View that either nation can attain the ability to win a major nuclear Exchange in any meaningful sense of the term or to survive it As a major Power through passive Industrial defense run the risk of encouraging potentially danger Ous strategic miscalculations the report said. The minority countered that the Basic fault in the majority s argument was that it overestimated the capability of Ameri can weapons against soviet targets and thus underestimated the effectiveness of the soviet civil defense efforts. While acknowledging that information about the soviet program was incomplete the minority said it must at least be granted that the soviets May be striving for a War survival capability that could be