European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 16, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday september 16,1977 the stars and stripes Page 5 Senate panel kills Energy rate plan Washington a president Carter s Energy plan suffered a new setback wednesday As the Senate Energy committee deleted most of the electric Utility rate proposals made by the administration and approved by the House. Without a dissenting vote the committee agreed to scrap the entire Carter plan for new rate structures for electricity throughout the country. The Carter plan would have prohibited utilities from discounting electricity for Large Industrial Consumers. It would also require utilities to offer lower rates to con Sumers when demand is Low. The House approved this approach last month and also voted to give the Federal government an even stronger say in determining electric rates. But Senate Energy committee chairman Henry m. Jackson d-wash., said we Don t feel the government should take Over functions now exercised by the  in place of the Carter plan the committee tentatively agreed to a much Milder alternative which would Autho Rize the Secretary of Energy to intervene in state electric rate making cases to recommend ways of conserving Energy. Jackson denied that the vote was a major blow to the Energy saving goals of the administration plan. It s just a different Means by which we achieve those  in a related Energy move the Carter administration reversed an earlier stand wednesday and urged con Gress to authorize speedy construction of As Many As two pipelines to transport surplus alaskan crude Oil from the West coast to the Inland . Federal Energy administrator John f. O Leary told a Senate subcommittee that the Overland lines Are needed because of an anticipated glut of Oil from the newly opened Alaska Oil pipeline on the West coast. The administration firmly believes that the construction of at least one and perhaps two of the proposed West to East pipeline systems is urgently needed in order to assure an efficient Means of delivering alaskan crude Oil to those areas of the country which need it o Lear said. In the past the administration has opposed such an approach for a West to East Oil pipeline. He testified on legislation by sen. John Melcher d mont., that would mandate a Federal decision on one of two proposed pipeline routes by feb. 1,1978. The two proposed routes Are the Ohio project involving a pipeline from Long Beach calif., to Midland Tex. And the Northern tier pipeline proposal which would bring a pipeline from port Angeles wash., to Clear Brook Minn. Europe test satellite fails at canaveral Cape canaveral Fla. Up Security guards aided by boats and a helicopter searched beaches and the Ocean wednesday for traces of a Delta rocket in Hopes of finding a clue to Why it exploded 54 seconds after launching tuesday night. The National aeronautics and space administration said a panel would delve into the explosion of the rocket carrying the european space Agency s troubled Orbital test satellite. Officials said the loss amounted to $42 million $17 million of which was covered by insurance. Many pieces of the rocket have been found and returned for analysis. David Grimes Delta project Man Ager from the Goddard space flight Center at Greenbelt md., said one of the nine solid propellant rocket motors or the liquid oxygen tank of the Delta s first stage appeared to be the most Likely cause of the explosion. The launching of the communications satellite had been scheduled for june 16, but was delayed late in May when one of the nine solid fuel boosters on the Delta broke Loose and damaged the Booster forcing its replacement. It was the first such explosion of a Delta rocket since 1966. A huge burst of flame Marks unsuccessful launching at Cape canaveral Fla. A pique denied in Vance talk with envoy Washington a the state department on wednesday denied that Secre tary of state Cyrus r. Vance s recent meeting with taiwanese ambassador James Shen was intended As an expression of administration displeasure toward China. State department spokesman Kenneth Brown said Vance considered it appropriate to meet with Shen in Light of his trip to China last month. He attached no significance to the fact that the meeting took place just four Days after chinese vice Premier Teng Hsiao Ping told editors and directors of the associated press in peking that the Vance mis Sion had set Back the goal of normalization of relations Between the two countries. Teng s assessment of the trip was much More negative than Vance s own state ments although Vance has never said that the trip produced any Progress toward normalization. Vance s decision to meet with Shen came As a Surprise to most diplomatic observers. Last saturday was the first formal meeting Shen had had with an american Secretary of state in almost three years. Shen s Lack of Access to the state department generally had been interpreted As a Symbol of attempts by both Vance and his predecessor Henry a. Kissinger to disassociate the . From the nationalist China government on Taiwan. Testimony of confessed killer of time 4 murdered just for the fun of it sept. 16, 1947 More than 50,000 people rioted in downtown Trieste in a con fused frenzy of nationalism As Trieste officially became a free state. Three people were killed and hundreds were injured during the riots. Sept. 16, 1957 Gen. Lauris Norstad supreme Allied commander Europe said that nuclear weapons would have to be used to defend Western Europe in a Gener Al War. He added that nato Powers have a source of atomic weapons. Sept. 16, 1967 the european Exchange system yes was reported to be investigating graft and bribery running into millions of dollars. It was reported that bribes to yes buyers bad Cost untold millions of dollars in inflated prices paid for goods yes confirmed an investigation was under Way but said the millions of Dol Lars was probably an exaggeration. Hartford City ind. Up just for the fun of it four men who were influenced by the television version of the Manson murders picked out a Home at random last St. Valentine s Day and blasted four Brothers to death with shotguns a confessed killer testified. Daniel Stonebraker 20, testified As a prosecution witness in the first degree murder trial of Roger Drollinger 24, the Man he named As the ringleader. Stonebraker is charged As one of the four men who broke into a trailer Home at Hollandsburg in Western Indiana and opened fire. In testimony tuesday he said the killers had Laid their plans during a car ride in which Drollinger first talked about going out and killing some people just for the fun of  poles to get . Farm goods Washington a Poland will be Able to buy $150 million Worth of . Farm commodities under a new three year com Mercial credit arrangement the agriculture department said. Stonebraker who faces four charges of first degree murder himself said the slay ers talked about writing helter shelter the title of a movie and Book about the Charles Manson killings on a refrigerator with their victims blood. Parke county prosecutor Clelland Hanner asked Stonebraker if he and Drol linger had seen the  saw it two or three months before feb. 14. It was the movie of How Charles Manson killed people for no reason Stonebraker said. We were at Roger s House. We talked about  Stonebraker said the four drove from Crawfordsville ind., on the night of feb. 13 and headed toward Hollandsburg where they invaded the trailer of Betty Spencer and killed four Brothers in the Early morning hours of feb. 14. The victims Mother survived the shoot Ings by playing dead. We seriously surveyed eight to 10 houses before the Spencer House was picked he said. Asked Why they selected that Home Stonebraker testified Drollinger had pointed to several cars parked outside and thought a party might be going on. Would you say the primary purpose was to kill people asked Hanner. Yes Stonebraker replied. Hanner said another of the four defendants Michael Wright 21, Crawfordsville ind., would be called As a witness. The other accused killer is David Smith 17, Wingate ind. All were charged with four counts of murder for the slayings of Gregory Brooks 22, and his teen age Stepbrother Ralph Reeve and Raymond Spencer. Pope names Cardinal Felici chief of Vatican court Vatican City up Pope Paul i has named Cardinal Pencil Folia of Italy As chief of the Vatican s highest Judic Ial court the signature tribunal of theroman curia. Felici 66, will continue As chairman of the pontifical commission Tor revision of Canon rights codes the Vatican said. Noted As a Jurist and an expert in latin Felici has been a Cardinal for 10 years