European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 15, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Fogs 4 the stars and stripes july 1977 blackout affected 10 million new York a Here a summary of what a massive Power blackout did to the nations largest City area affected ten million people in All five new York City Westchester county to the North and parts of lung Island to the can wore without Power Over night and into Public safety about people were arrested overnight for and 78 policemen were including one who was youths roamed times smashing setting Hugh Carey ordered state police into the City to assist local firemen re ported being overburdened from fire Calls in slum areas of the Bronx and and from emergency Calls to free people trapped in elevators and Supply emergency Power to police auxiliaries and volunteers were called out indirect traffic at Busy transportation commuter rail Amtrak service through the cily were Kennedy and Laguardia airports were with airliners i Mcnod to Boston and other municipal buses remained running As did Many taxicabs charging exor Bitant gasoline supplies began run Ning Low because electric powered pumps could not thousands of people trapped in subways were led to emergency hospitals a stale Law made it mandatory for hospitals to have emergency Genera tors after the but at Bellevue and metropolitan the generators proved unequal u the police and fire units sent auxiliary Power other most telephones remained but the lines were jammed in the first several Resi dents of High Rise buildings had no water because water pumps did not business mayor Abraham came urged businesses financial markets in Wall Street were As were stale office buildings and of track betting offices and summer Cost officials Only began to estimate the but 11 was Clear it would be enor police and tire departments spent several million dollars in in the police department Olf duty officers reported for Heaters Esti mated their loss at to taxi fleets said to per cent of their Day shift Drivers did not show up for a loss of about the new York Telephone expected a Large increase in cause lightning storms in West Cheater county first knocked out transmission lines that might have drawn Power from other then hit a Large Power trans which the explosion forced shutdown of a Large nuclear generating Plant putting a heavier Load on other Power plants on a muggy night when demand was High for additional lines were nun hit to keep the system consolidated Edison ordered voltage tint of s per then 8 per cent but when another in the Borough of tripped safety devices designed to protect against overloads shut the whole network Down at 36 escape vendetta charges Italy Upil iwo Tyski per sons charged by police with killing 19 per sons in an 11year calabrian vendetta did not do a Ucris examining magistrate de magistrate Francesco Origlia said there was insufficient evidence hat members at the rival and Porroni Franco families Hadi Tarcen part in the kill wounding and threats Over the years and declined to Send them for look who came to dinner seven Earold Jennifer Cave screams with Deal gel a Chipmunk picks out her Lummy for dining table and proceeds with its meal As if it win its Reg ular eating Jennifer was stretched out on a Lawn chair at her family cottage in when the Chipmunk took advantage m her recumbent concerned Over safeguards car Ripe 01 h ing a expert t r a psf erred Washington i Wasj a nuclear Safe guards expert who charged that the government has had considerable difficulty keeping track of bomb Grade nuclear materials has been summarily transferred from his Job at the nuclear regulatory since the summer of 1975 the James has pressed a number of internal complaints within the charging thai the Agency was not getting Access to classified information Field by other agencies that would allow 11 to determine whether safeguards had been properly enforced in the one of the matters raised by Conran deals with the loss of 206 pounds of highly enriched uranium at a private Plant called Numen at during the Early that amount of highly enriched an Niue could be used to make As Many As m atomic the official explanation of the incident by the old atomic Energy commission and the its to that the material was lost somewhere in the pipes and in the waste processes of the As a senior safeguards analyst for the office of nuclear materials safety and was assigned to develop a study of past practices of Safe of slovenes was thai documents dealing with the Apollo incident were still highly sensitive in 10 years after the loss was the documents were so sensitive that a panel of other safeguards experts assigned to look Imo Conran charges concluded that it had no need to have Access to the Apollo files to determine that they Wen not essential to the work of the safeguards although it is Clear that die sensitive Abouo Numen information has not been disseminated and is not available to the technical the task Force has found this situation to be based upon commission and management determinations regard ing the  nature of the inform Tio nand the absence of a staff Nee to the task Force concluded in a report released in on Conran he was called into a meeting of arc including Lea arcs director for opera and was told that to was being transferred to a Job in another arc one which sets standards for commercial nuclear Power Senate confirms Smith As special nuclear envoy Washington Impi the Senate has approved one of former president Richard Nixon top disarmament negotiators to be president Carters special envoy for curb ing the spread of nuclear Gerard who negotiated the bulk of the first strategic arms was approved by voice vote along with five other diplomatic a District of Columbia will simultaneously serve As special representative for  mat ters and representative to the International atomic Energy Agency in others continue were Louis publisher of the Lemer Home newspapers of to be ambassador to Howard a Columbia University to be ambassador to sri Lanka and the Republic of the William formerly assistant Secretary of stale for african ambassador to Hie made Over Conran object was reportedly approved by the former arc Marcus and the Agency two other com missioner shortly before Rowden re signed at the end of leaving the Agency without a quorum to make further three commissioner on the five member commission Are a spokesman for the arc said the allegations raised by Conran did not have any involvement in his Hie arc management determined that his career development and the interests of the Agency would be Best served by the trans the Transfer Nas already raised interest on Capitol a spokesman said that Morris chairman of the House Interior Wilt investigate the matter through his Energy sub which a Fol hold an initial hearing into Cowans augat Lowland the response of the arc thereto Conran said for several months i have withheld Public but i no longer feel so i can Only con Sider this an Adverse he said he objected to the move Becu Tsa he wanted to remain the safeguards on its the Transfer is a move because it involves no reduction the safeguards study prepared by entitled overview of existing safeguards has been Classi fied by a source within the arc Hierarchy planned the matter this Way Jim Conran has made some valuable contributions in not sure you could get everyone hew m agree with but he we now have Access to a lot More information than we but the problem was one of organism you cant have a staff of with every one of them allowed to be an in Spector