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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 22, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                May 1985 the stars and stripes Page 7 group says suppressed nuke test info Washington up a lobby group says declassified documents show South Africa and Israel con ducted a nuclear test in 1979 and the Carter administration suppressed the information because it was politically the report that was to be released tuesday by the Washington office on Africa is based on published information and nearly 500 pages of previously secret documents from the naval research the Laboratory concluded that there had been a nuclear test in the South Atlantic the lobbying group says other documents reveal that the Cia reported that the nuclear bomb was exploded in a joint South Afri can israeli despite that scientific panel appointed by the Carter administration summarily dismissed the Evi Dence of a nuclear possibly because it would have been an embarrassment to the report the report says the nuclear fuel and technology was made available in Large part by the United under the administration would be required to Cut off military Aid to Israel if there were conclusive evidence that Israel had a nuclear the United states has no military Aid program with South Africa but it has cooperated in its nuclear Energy one state department official is quoted in the report As it would be a major turning Point in our relations with South Africa and Israel if we determined conclusively that either had tested a nuclear the report proof of a nuclear weapons test would have shown the gaping holes in nuclear nonproliferation policy and would have exposed several decades of Western complicity in providing South Africa and Israel with the goods and technology to make their own nuclear in releasing the the Washington office on Africa Calls for a Public reexamination of the evidence by Congress and Independent scientific the finding brings together some of it but All contributing to the conclusion that a nuclear of two to three was exploded in the atmosphere near Marion Island in the South Atlantic on the night of the finding also said radioactive iodine turned up in the thyroids of sheep later in downwind from the suspected test such radioactivity was never known before and has never been seen a sophisticated new radar in puerto Rico detected a sudden and mysterious Gap in the ionosphere on the night of the in an unusual pattern suggesting a nuclear blast in the Southern underwater listening devices detected a Sharp blast consistent with a nuclear a satellite captured the characteristic double Flash of a nuclear something it had done without fail in 41 earlier but the White House commission dismissed the satellite Reading As something that might have been caused by a meteorite monitoring possibly tipped off in and Vance that a test was being were driven away from the area by South african aircraft just before the test took record Day on Wall Street a photo the new York Stock Exchange is the Day at declines in interest the Pace of business the Federal jammed moments after closing at a re rates have helped spark the rally on Wall Reserve on Friday reduced its discount Cord High monday in new the where Many analysts and invest rate to percent from 8 the Dow Jones leaped Points to finish tors feel lower borrowing costs will revive previous record High was flying Dukes take to the air in crime tight Santa a a pair of helicopters dubbed Duke one and Duke two in Honor of the late John Wayne will take to the skies to give bad Guys an air borne knockout the new Orange county sheriffs department helicopters were christened Mon Day with tequila instead of Champagne be cause Wayne favored the fiery mexican liquor Over the said Patrick a son of the a Marine corps band delivered the fanfare for the choppers in a ceremony at Santa Ana the named for the actor known for his roles As sheriffs and will Fly from John Wayne Airport in Orange where known As the during the the actors son spoke to the helicopters As his father might once have talked to a horse on a movie i wish you the Indes tractability my father had and i Hope none of your suspects is As Tough As the ones my father faced in his Wayne sheriff Brad Gates called the Duke choppers a powerful crime fighting demonstrators arrested As Duarte receives award new York a salvadoran president Jose Napoleon Duarte accepted the Man of the year award from notre Dame alumni monday As 500 demonstrators rallied outside to denounce his governments policies against re forty were arrested and charged with disorderly con police spokesman Tony Vallelong Duarte responded to the demonstration by saying he believes his War torn country is now free of death squad the salvadoran Leader was Given the notre Dame club of new Yorks Man of the year on he was in South to receive an honorary degree from notre his Alma chanting Antiwar slogans to the beat of the notre Dame fight the protesters accused Duarte of bomb ing civilians in his Central american country to rid his nation of rebels and those suspected of harbouring Gerril told of protesters Duarte flatly denied the he said that since taking Power in june there Only was one Case of bombing by the air Force on the Day he took three houses were destroyed and several civilians he i have definitely said no Duarte even in guerrilla controlled Duarte said the Only bombing allowed is in Fields where mines Are known to be that is one area we specifically throw he he said the War against the rebels is Al though 40 american provided combat three years of intense training and a quadrupling of forces have not Given the salvadoran army enough strength to defeat speaking in English and Duarte told reporters he was a Man of and that killings by death squad goons Are thought to be on a 10day visit to the United met thursday with president Reagan and Secretary of state George Reagan encourages a Guys of Regan grads by the associated press Reagan administration policies encourage entrepreneurs with the guts to White House chief of staff Donald Regan told graduating students at the University of in nearby holocaust survivor and chronicler Elie Wiesel told graduates of Haverford College that the Ami of culture is to instill sensitivity to at Boston Atlanta mayor Andrew Young challenged graduates to ease the tragedy of world during regans address about 150 of the More than students stood and faced the Back of the Philadelphia civic Center to protest Reagan administration some students yelled what about apartheid and remember others passed out leaflets criticizing the administrations record on higher but graduates of the University whar ton school of business cheered when Regan wealth int a dirty Regan said the administration has stemmed the quiet and gradual erosion of but now is the next step building up the terrain of said the former Treasury were trying to encourage people to become entrepreneurs to take a to have the guts to and said former chairman of the univer Sites weve been trying to re move the impediments to and its Wiesel told the 254 Haverford Grad the aim of literature is to fight with every Book that you you Are More with every Story you you Are less Wiesel if you and we failed As chairman of the United states me Morial Wiesel was at the fore front of the protests against reagans visit earlier this month to the German military cemetery at economist Henry James Quaker historian Mary Hoxie Jones and civil rights activist Bayard Rustin received honorary degrees at the Liberal arts col Leges 148th the former ambassador to the United said ending hunger is a matter of restructuring the Economy in the times in which we More than students received de Grees at the Boston College Young received an honorary degree during the colleges 109th  
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