European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 31, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes March Epa asks to add 26 Sites stateside to superfund priority list Washington up the environmental Protection Agency Friday proposed expanding the superfund toxic waste cleanup program to include 26 More of the worst hazardous waste Sites in the their new status As proposed priority Sites Means stud ies can now begin to determine How Best to remove contaminated material from the 26 which include Industrial a pig farm and a House used by a physics professor to manufacture radiation therapy equip some 540 Sites already Are on the superfund National priority and 246 others had been proposed before a place on the list Means a site is eligible for Federal financing for most of the cleanup we Are confident that the number of actual waste cleanups and engineering design studies will increase substantially Over the allowing us to move ahead with plans for remedial activities at these additional Sites and others listed throughout this said Jack acting Epa administrator for solid waste and emergency William director of the Agency office of emergency and remedial said he expects his office to propose further additions to the priority list in june and the Sites proposed Friday Are in 15 five Are in Pennsylvania two each in new new Michigan and Missouri and one each in Rhode North Indi Iowa and before the proposed Sites can be officially added to the priority cleanup time must be allowed for Public com ment and preliminary even during the review preparations May be made for removing toxic materials from the Hedeman the Epa also discussed six Federal facilities with toxic waste problems serious enough to qualify for the priority cleanup but did not add them to the list because Federal Sites Are technically ineligible for superfund proposed changes in the Law would allow them to the Sites Are military facilities in Pennsylvania and announcement of the additions came two Days after the Public citizen advocacy group named 50 contaminated Sites it says the Epa improperly omitted from the super fund priority but Hedeman said 13 of the 50 Sites already appear on the list or have been six Are covered under other three have already been cleaned two Are ineligible mining one scored too Low to and 25 Are under the Epa estimates that superfund will finance cleanup work at of the nations worst toxic waste cleanup work already has begun at 134 and engineering studies Are under Way at 317 the Agency the program is scheduled for reauthorization this year by where supporters want to add billions of dollars to the administrations requested five year Extension of the Mexico urged to return Alamo Flag Washington a House democratic Leader Jim Wright is offering the president of Mexico an Opportunity to win american Good will by returning a Battle Flag that flew Over the and the rest of the Texas congressional Del asked mexican president Migel de la Madrid Hurtado to temporarily return the Flag in time for the Texas the 150th anniversary of Texas next kept in a museum in Mexico the Alamo Flag the Only Alamo Banner that still exists is consid ered one of the most important artefacts of Texas Histo in a dated april 1 and made Public Wright wrote there is tremendous interest in the temporary return of the Flag within we feel that the lending of this Flag will be seen As a positive gesture of Good will and As a powerful Symbol of United state mexican Friendship and Charmayne Wrights press said the letter will be signed by the entire Texas relations have been strained recently by accusations of Lack of mexican support for attempts to control drug the Alamo fell on March after a ragged band of Texas Independence fighters held the Small san Antonio Mission for 13 Days against the mexican All of the roughly 180 Alamo rep resenting 19 the Flag in question belonged to the new Orleans a contingent of soldiers from the Flag was torn Down and taken Back to Mexico As proof that the United states was aiding the there have been several attempts to get the surviving Flag but it has been 20 years since there has been a congressional court suspends rape Case judge Pittsburgh a the Pennsylvania supreme court saturday suspended a 77yearold judge who re instated rape charges against a Man five Days after Dis missing the charges because the alleged victim was late for the Quint in sem retirement from neighbouring Beaver was relieved of judicial duties in Allegheny county pending an investigation of his conduct and that of Allegheny county assistant District attorney Lisa nigerian woman faces death on drug charge Nigeria up Gladys Caroline Oyamah has become the first nigerian woman to be sentenced to death for illegal Possession of Lagos television a military tribunal sitting in Lagos found her guilty of possessing the drug while she was about to Board an Iberi an Airliner at the Lagos International Airport last octo it a Mother of would face the firing squad under a decree announced by the Bihari military regime last july to Deal with drug and currency trafficking in the at least five other nigerians have been sentenced to of eat for ulc Gal Possession of either heroin or and the 8u preme military the nations highest chief Justice Robert Nix ordered Salmons suspension and the investigation after consultation with the full according to a statement issued by his Philadelphia who presided in Allegheny county to help ease the courts dismissed rape and related charges March 20 against Geoffrey of Pittsburgh Hill at the request of defense attorney David Salm on dropped the charges because the 14yearold girl who contends Adams raped and beat her last August was 15 minutes to 30 minutes late appearing in the girl and her Mother said they were on a port authority transit bus that was delayed in Vincler and District attorney Robert Colville immediately criticized Salmon and demonstrators pro tested the dismissal by picketing the judges Home and the Rothey argued that Vincler had other witnesses ready to testify and could have proceeded with the when she failed to do the Commonwealth forfeited its Case against he Salmon reversed himself last declaring that he would consider the dismissal to be a making Adams eligible for further Rothey appealed the judges arguing that the original proceeding was the technical equivalent of an acquittal and that to continue prosecuting Adams would represent unconstitutional double jeopardy skier killed by Avalanche he May have helped trigger Denver a a skier died after being buried by an Avalanche he and another skier May have authorities Robert of and another Man were skiing near Berthoud pass when they were caught in the the second who was not was buried to his Waist but was Able to get out authorities Greg president of grand county search and said the skiers caused the but Deputy sheriff Peter Bock said it was not certain How the Avalanche belter was buried in the Snow for More than two hours before he was dug out and flown to a where he died a Short time broken blood vessel gives reagans Eye a Reddish tinge Washington a president Reagan has suffered a broken blood vessel in his left causing it to fill partially with blood and appear noticeably White House Deputy press Secretary Larry Speakes he said Reagan first noticed the condition when he awoke and his appeared to be bloodshot later that Day during a trip to new by there was a Bright redness from the Corner of his Eye to the theres no it Doest affect his vision and theres no said the condition has occurred two or three times before during reagans Speakes said the problem can be caused by some thing As simple As a sneeze or he said Reagan did not know what caused this particular firm plans electronic delivery of newspaper about computers new York a the zif Davis publishing plans to publish a daily newspaper about the computer business that will be distributed electronically to subscribers with personal the computer Industry to appear each business Day beginning this will Cost a year in the United states and also will be distributed in West Ern Asia and latin zif Davis said the newspaper would receive computer news from the far East and Europe via Apt data services in London and Kyodo news service in it will be delivered both electronically and in hard copy by Sci Sci communications electronic delivery budget deficit jumped nearly j billion in february Washington a the governments soar ing budget deficit increased billion in More than three times the increase recorded the previous for the first five months of the fiscal which began the government deficit totalled com pared with billion for the same period in the billion february spurt compares with a billion jump in earlier monthly figures this fiscal year billion in billion in november and billion in the Reagan administration is predicting that the Defi Cit for the entire year will hit eclipsing the previous record of billion set in Power firm wants customers to pay for employees shirts a its nuclear Plant beset by years of delay and Cost Illinois Power Hopes to boost employee morale with shirts Reading later is and plans to Send the Tab to its this is part of the program to instill an Esprit de corps and keep before people the need to build a Safe Plant As promptly As said spokesman Al Illinois Power will ask the Illinois Commerce commis Sion to include the Cost of the shirts with other construction expenses to be paid for by Adams the company said because of changes in regulations adopted by the nuclear regulatory the Plant will open six years late and will Cost More than six times the original estimate of the Plant originally was scheduled to open in but the company now says it should begin operating in octo Ber