European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 13, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse                                T Page j tre sta3s fusion breakthrough claimed Miami Ilii scientists at Princeton in Uverity have produced a controlled thermonuclear fusion that could be a major breakthrough in generating clean elec Cal government experts if the Experiment has that 5 the end of live Oil one of the experts said the which is to be an r a Jned during the next week by the us apartment of was reported sat urday in a dispatch filed by the Miami heralds Washington Bureau no details of the upcoming announce were but an unidentified gov source said the findings were extremely significant for the future of fusion thermonuclear a continued Colli Sion and joining of Light atomic such As in a Hydrogen releases great amounts c Energy it could be classified the reverse of fission an atomic expo in which dense atomic particles Are split controlled fusion for Only one second would be regarded As a major break some experts speculated Friday the Princeton announcement would be just that a Large fusion reaction sustained for rear i v one generation of electricity through fusion would resemble the existing fission read it would use the extreme heat produced by a nuclear reaction to create steam that would drive turbines which word in turn drive electrical fusion is considered to have than vantages Over fission it would create less Rad Felfe substantially reducing hens of nuclear waste it would produce no fix Sun such As tint used to create atomic it would use common at oof ments deuterium and Drogen isotopes commonly food h instead of rare uranium Carter takes Kennedy at his word1 Washington it ii president car in an interview released said any decision by Edward Ken Nedy to seek the presidency in 1980 would not influence his decision on whether to run for Carter said that in when he first be Gan planning to run for he thought his two opponents would be Kennedy and Alabama George 1 was perfectly even to meet both of them even when i was an absolutely unknown Carter said so if he should decide to i would certainly not let that influence my decision As to whether or not i would run i take Ted Kennedy at his car Ter he has said he is not g ing to run in he said if 1 run he will support he is a great person and a close Friend of mine there Are some times when we but it is a difference with a Mutual degree of Carter made the comments in a meeting with out town editors the 30th interview of its Type he has held the text was released saturday Carter also praised his w Rosalynn is an extremely knowledgeable and sensitive has a very Strong Carter she understands the consciousness of the american people and their perhaps better than i Carter criticized the news Media for fail ing to have enough interest in the Energy Issue and for having an exaggerated in Terest in his differences with in discussing Carter criticized reporters by asking whether it was the news Media who were grooming the late presidents brother for a 1980 in an interview in business week Magazine he claimed the Public sup ports his chief policy goals and suggested us plunging poll ratings Stem from con Gress failure to achieve those his comments coincided with two White House moves that could improve his stand ing with one interest group and weaken it with another aides confirmed Carter has selected Louis a prominent Black executive and democratic political to direct White House Liaison with the Black other aides mounted a harshly worded counterattack against a flip president George saying Carter is fed up with Means unstinting criticism of administration economic he addressed the question of his decline in Public opinion polls in an interview re leased Friday by business week Maga Van Houten Given 3 concurrent life terms los Angeles a Leslie Van Hou who joined Charles mansons roving band of killers As a was sentenced to three concurrent life prison terms for killing a grocer and his and conspiracy in the deaths of actress Sharon tale and four the sentencing in her third trial came nine years after the bloody 1969 deaths of Leno and Rosemary Labianca Laving More of the blame at con Gress door than he has in the he said he doubts that anyone who interprets the polls would decide that the people disagree with the goals our nation has accepted under my admin they Are dissatisfied with the Pace of achieving those goals this is something that concerns me As Well the Progress has not been rapid i think this is what the polls he singled out three priority areas of Domestic policy Energy conservation legis efforts to curb inflation and pro Grams dealing with unemployment and there is some about what the Congress is Golf dealing with the programs out of the Energy have used All the influence we cat a Mil exert on the Congress to Deal with my portent where visitors can Barge in residents of paddle through floodwaters to inspect inundated although the storm caused floodwaters began to it will be weeks before Maydl can be lived committee member wont sign it Accord on natural Gas hits a Snag Washington Lapi a plan to lift Federal Price controls from natural Gas Over the next seven years ran into a new problem Friday when a member of the House Senate committee that reached the Compromise refused to sign the agree ment sen j Bennett said the report written by the House Senate conference committee contained provi Sions that differed from the fragile com Promise worked Oik in principle several months his decision not to sign the report left an important part of president Carters ener package in jeopardy the text As drafted is unacceptable to me and i will rot sign the conference com report form John Ston he added that the draft report contains what he called serious deviations from the terms of the May agree House Senate negotiators wrangled for months Over the Issue of natural Gas pric ing before reaching apparent agreement last a on a plan for gradually lifting Price controls the Compromise agreement apparently worked out last Spring would allow Price ceilings on natural Gas to use Eradus 1985 31 conference commit y a a Enaw in to House for a final v ote a ate conference the country needs a settled policy that ensures incentives for Price deregulation at the ear ble he does not believe this can be Johnston said he believes so changes were made in drafting us language of the legislation am been approved in principle by conferees last Johnston said he significant great value to agreement the state could he that while that the i the legislative draft