European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 01, 1980, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes sunday june 1, 1980 recession Carter says Sif Safion is worse than administration s forecast Washington up president Carter said saturday the United states economic recession is More severe than his administration had thought it would  s been much steeper than we had anticipated but we be taken action to alleviate the problem As much As possible Carter said. Carter s remarks followed the announce ment Friday that april s economic Indica tors showed a record 4.8 percent drop. The president spoke briefly to reporters on a Street after taping two television inter views for later airing. Later he and his wife departed by helicopter for the Camp David presidential Retreat where they planned to spend the weekend. We be got serious recession projects steeper than we expected. But we re doing everything to alleviate the problem with individual americans and also to shorten it Carter said. One thing obviously has been to reduce the inflation rate and the interest rates which will help us with Home construction automobiles and consumer spending. That process is already under Way Carter said. We be got very carefully defined gov 2 Sites in Ufah Nevada named main my bases Park City Utah up the air Force has selected tentative Sites in Utah and Nevada for the two main operating bases for the proposed my missile system. Ken Olson director of Utah s my task Force said that air Force planners in formed state officials the Nevada base would be just North of Ely and the Utah base would be near Beryl a Small Rural Community. The Beryl base would employ about 8, 000 civilian and military personnel he said. Olson said the project would generate a population growth of at least 1.5,000 people. In order to Deal with the population explosion Olson said the air Force would have to build a whole new City House All my personnel on the base or use a combi nation of  the task Force director said he doubted base workers would be willing to commute 35 Miles from the larger Cedar City. Olson said the base Camp at Ely would be somewhat smaller than the Utah facility. He said it would bring in about 6,000 new people including base workers and their families plus the people who would move in to provide goods and services. The air Force s tentative plans concen trate the entire my system in the great Basin area of Western Utah and Eastern Nevada. But it is considering splitting the system and locating half of it in Utah and Nevada and the other half in new Mexico and Tex As. But even if the split Basing approach is used said Olson the air Force planners Are still saying that the main and largest base would be in Utah at  he said the Utah facility would also be the test facility for the missile system. There would be a very Small base at Ely under the split Basing system Olson said while new Mexico would be the site of what he termed a second level  there would not be a base in Texas. Olson predicted Congress will make a final decision on the my system within two years. President Carter wipes Wiy pen Ira Tion during Cam Palgi appearance la Pinna Ohio. Up photo mass youth takes male Date to prom Sutton miss. A Aaron Fricke smiled and Stock oat his Tongue it onlookers is he walked into country Chib Hen. He wis going to is senior prom armed with court order and mile Date. What the Heck he s got right to one student Slid of Fricke in avowed homosexual who went to court to fight to Tike Paul Huubert to the Cumberland , High school dance. But others among the 500 Stu dents it the prom Friday night accused Fricke of being publicity bound and complained be was ruining their big night. Doubts surface in old diary Truman was troubled by a bomb new York a a personal diary kept by president Harry s. Truman at Potsdam during world War ii discloses his deep concern Over the atomic bomb which was dropped on Hiroshima less than a week after the conference ended. Discovered in the Truman Library by in Diana University diplomatic historian Rob Ert Ferrell the diary is reproduced in its entirety in the current Issue of american heritage Magazine. It is Clear from the diary Ferrell says that Truman was More deeply concerned about the atomic bomb and its awful Poten tial for destruction than Many historians believe he  in a july 25, 1945, entry in the diary Truman wrote we have discovered the most terrible bomb in the history of the world. It May be the fire destruction prophesied in the Euph Yugo group holding talks in Tehran with Oil officials Tehran up a High ranking yugoslav delegation including chemical and petrochemical Industry experts is having talks with iranian Oil ministry officials pars news Agency  said the delegation will meet officials of Iran s petrochemical Industry to discuss the possibility of expanding relations in the petrochemical  rates Valley Era after Noah and his fab Ulous Ark. This weapon is to be used against Japan Between now and aug. I oth. I have told the Sec. Of War or. Henry Stimson to use it so that military objectives and soldiers and sailors Are the target and not women and children. Even if the japs arc Savages ruthless merciless and fanatic we As the Leader of Tram portrait piloted la 1971 by Thomas Hart Beaton hags la Mana Library la Independence to. A the world for the common welfare can not drop this terrible bomb on the old Capitol Kyoto or the new Tokyo. He and i Are in Accord. The target will be a purely military one and we will Issue a warning statement asking the japs to sur Render and save lives. I m sure they will not do that but we will have Given them a Hance. It is certainly a Good thing for the world that Hitler s crowd or Stalin s did not Dis cover this atomic bomb. It seems to be the most terrible thing Ever discovered but Itcan be made the most  the Potsdam conference ended on aug. 2, 1945. Four Days later the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima. The War ended aug. 14. 23 canadians killed 11 Hurt in bus Accident Swift current Saskatchewan a Twenty three persons were killed and ii injured two critically when a bus carrying Canadian railway workers was sideswiped by a car and after rolling Over hit from behind by a truck carrying hot Asphalt Oil officials said. Some of the victims were crushed by the truck s Impact and the top of the bus was ripped from the Chassis. Others were burned when the truck carrying 7.500 Gal Lons of the hot Oil exploded and engulfed the wreckage in flame witnesses said. Eminent programs already on the books that will help minimize toe damage to family afflicted with unemployment we re trying to preserve those programs and strengthen some of them particularly youth employment Home construction and that sort of thing he said. $1.5 billion suit filed by Viet vets Baltimore up a group of Vietnam veterans and their families hied a st.5 billion lawsuit Friday against seven manufacturers of agent Orange claiming their exposure to the chemical defoliant in Vietnam gave them cancer. The 84 veterans and their 67 wives and 54 children said exposure to agent Prange used by the army to defoliate Trees in Viet Nam also caused them to become ill with other slowly developing diseases that could be terminal and generated emotional prob lems. The suit said the manufacturers were negligent and liable for damages because they knew agent Orange contaminated with dioxin was being sprayed in Vietnam and its use was inherently dangerous to he  the suit also said the manufacturers were guilty of fraud because they implied that the herbicide was Safe and harmless for its intended use when it was  agent Orange was used extensively in Vietnam from 1962 to 1972 to defoliate Trees to determine locations of enemy sol Diers. Lawsuits asking for damages from agent Orange manufacturers have been filed by Vietnam veterans in at least eight other states. James Green an attorney for the Mary land veterans and their families said the suit was not a class action and All the Veter ans should have their Day in  however the suit probably will be joined with a similar suit being considered by is. District judge George Pratt of new York Green said. Pratt is considering whether to allow All veterans believed to have been exposed to agent Orange to join in the suit named As defendants were Dow Chemi Cal co., Monsanto co., Hercules inc., Diamond Shamrock corp., Thompson Hay Ward chemical co., North american Phillips corp. And uniroyal merchandising co. Green said the requested $1.5 billion in damages equals is million in compensatory damages and is million in punitive dam Ages on each of the 18 charges for each Veteran wife and child. Teamster Driver upsets incumbent local president Detroit a a truck Driver backed by a Reform group in the teamsters Union beat the incumbent president of teamsters local 299 Here in a government supervised election of officers for the Vio Lence plagued local. Peter Karagozian 55, who headed a re form slate of candidates upset  Robert Lins by 394 Voles. 6 die in family feud Zamboanga. Philippines up six people including a 10-year-old Bey were killed by machetes in a Street Flam do pc Udine families in the South Ern Philippines a military report said. The report said the half hour clash be tween the clans of Tamayo and Canada occurred in the Munci Pally of Molave