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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Wednesday, May 3, 1978

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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 03, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Poge 10 the stars and stripes wednesday Sun Day May 3, 1978 attention focuses on solar Energy As Means Fomeen Feneran needs by John Hart Washington Bureau chief Washington ls4-s the Pentagon by 1985 expects  save Over 600.000 barrels of Oil annually through the use of solar and get Hcrman Energy a defense Ivy ailment official said monday. A Corge Marian Hal. Deputy assistant Secretary of defense for Energy Environ ment and safely in commenting on the International Sun pay activities said we take the pm y crisis very  president Carter established Sun pay earlier this year  focus attention on the potential of the Sun  meet a significant portion of the nation s Energy needs. The priv not sector promoter of Sun pay ated equipment lion ii  it a i some of the coalition members were the org Niers of Earth pay on april 22.19 0.richard Munson. Coordinator for the coalition said that Sun pay is being celebrated in at least 500 i a. Cities and in 31 other  pay s goal is  coordinate the growing interest in solar Energy into a Strong citizens  Munson said. Marian Hal and Munson reported that the Pentagon and military departments Are actively supporting Sun Day by joining in demonstrations of the uses of solar Energy. As examples a water pump Oscr i quoted Secretary of defense i t., there is no Harold Brown As having said. More serious threat  the Long term Saccu Rita of the United states and  its allies than that which stems from the growing deficiency of Energy resources Marienthal said the defense depart ment is the nation s largest single user of Energy. We must set the example saving it by being  present the Pentagon has Over solar heating and Cooling projects operational or in various stages of completion at of 100 teen murderer sues 3  networks Miami api Konny Zamora a teen Ager convicted of murdering an 83-year old woman and his parents filed a $25 Mil lion damage suit monday against the three major television networks claiming Vio Lent  programs showed the impression Able teen Ager. How   shooting and killing by Ronny Zamora of his neighbor was a foreseeable response  the stimulus of the offending pro Grams said the civil action that named Abc lbs and Abc As defendants. Spokesmen for the networks declined  suit was filed in i a. Pis Ricl court at Miami by Zamora. 15, and his parents Frank and Yolanda  week ago the supreme court cleared the Way for a California trial involving similar claims. In that action Abc and a san Francisco television station Are being sued for $11 million for a 9-year-old girl who was sexually assaulted four Days after a similar crime was portrayed in a fictional drama born  Zamora was convicted last september of murdering  Haggard in her Miami Beach Home the previous june. He has Al ready begun serving a sentence of life in prison at a juvenile correctional facility i Cocoa. Fla. His trial attracted National news cover age As lawyer kills Rubin sought  defend Zamora As a victim of involuntary television  the youth was de scribed in court As an addictive  viewer with a particular fondness for violent pro Grams. Rubin s defense never got far because he was unable  introduce expert testimony and studies concerning the general effect of television on Young viewers. The trial judge limited Rubin  showing the specific effect of a particular program on one individual. That crippled Rubin s strategy which had been based on trying phone postage up in Israel Tel Aviv up1 the Cost of private Telephone Calls has leaped 17 percent and postage rates soared an average of 40 per cent contributing  an inflation rate expected by Israel s government  hit 32 percent by the end of the year. To prove a cumulative effect of years of television  filing the suit monday. Rubin said he expected  be Able  make More use of expert studies this Lime since rules of Evi Dence in civil cases Are not As restrictive As in criminal trials.11 said Zamora had viewed 40,000  50. 000 violent destruction of Ellow humans on television from Ages 5  15. To sue parents Tom Hansen plans  haul his parents into a Boulder colo., court in a $350.000 suit. He says they intentionally indicted emotional distress on him. T i numerous military installations according  Marienthal. He said that these projects will provide an annual savings of about 4,000 barrels of Oil but that inc goal is  save Over 600,000 barrels yearly by 1985. Marian Hal reported that the solar efforts Are Only one aspect of the Pentagon s Energy program  preserve supplies of Fossil fuels in maintaining a Strong defense  a result of an aggressive Energy program conservation efforts and other management  Marienthal said the defense department has reduced Energy consumption by 32 per cent since 1073." Safe burial of a wastes questioned Washington a government geologists warned monday that it is impossible now and May never be possible  guarantee fully the permanent Safe burial of radioactive nuclear wastes. The . Geological Survey scientists said however that acceptable nuclear waste burial facilities can be built and that their report was not meant  discredit the idea. The report deals in one of the controversial areas in nuclear Power. Opponents of nuclear Power fear that radioactive wastes could endanger Mankind for millions of  supporters say radioactive wastes can be safely and permanently buried in underground caverns either in natural Salt formations or in hard Rock. The new report says scientists Don know everything they should about the safety of storage caverns in Salt or Rock and cannot predict with certainty the Fate of the caverns or the nuclear wastes for the thousands or millions of years it will take wastes  lose their dangerous radioactivity these uncertainties need  be faced candidly in Public discussions of radioactive waste  says the report. They said uncertainties can be partly offset by building multiple barriers be tween buried radioactive wastes and Man s environment. Priest gets jail sentence Edwardsville Iii. A a roman Catholic priest an opponent of Abor Tion was ordered  spend 30 consecutive Days in the Madison county jail by circuit court judge Thomas Gibbons. The Rev. Edward Arentson was arrested after he failed  meet probation conditions set after his february conviction on r disorderly conduct charges. Arent sen an a group of anti abortion demonstrators picketed a Granite City abortion clinic on Jan. 19. He was arrested when he fought with two police officers who stopped him from entering the clinic. Star eating Black Hole believed found in space Pasadena.  an International team of irn .,.,. Of w map International team of astronomers has discovered what they believe is a Black let super dense pocket of space material so in credibly huge that it can gobble up whole stars the mysterious object found in the Center of a Distant Galaxy known As m87. Could be five billion times the size of the Sun much larger than Black holes believed  exist in Earth s own Galaxy said or. Wallace i w. Sargent an astronomer at the California Institute of technology in an interview monday. Sargent said its gravitational pull is so Strong that stars May be drawn into us Depths sometimes More stars than it can absorb " it s almost like  Sargent said the than can Only eat so much at a time. If it tries  eat too much it Lupin some of it  Galaxy m87 is about 65 million Light Vears from Earth is Ifa Leaf bar " a " " he do slant Light us much Kolrs d " be the remnants of huge Star which have collapsed in upon themselves Are compacted too ulv Avrov a ume Thal from pm p Rad a in it  1 cannot be seen _ Black holes a Sargent said this Black Hole could not have swallowed enough stars  account for its great size so it May have been formed when the Galaxy itself was created the first hint of the huge Black Hole came last year no s s at Cal Lech s m Lle Observatory Digiov 3 of limes. A a the or bin ass resulted from a Larse group of stars which they believe Are held by Gravity about the Black they found that met s nucleus contained much More 2nd the. He d accounted for among the visible stars " m the move  
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