European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 8, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                June 1985 the stars and stripes Page 7 chemical arms debate turns to safety Campaign stepped up for production of binary weapons by Norman Black Washington a the defense stepping up its Campaign to win congressional approval for the production of modern chemical has turned the focus of its arguments to a High ranking official on thursday said Congress should consider the Prospect of having to move Large amounts of old chemical nerve agents around and Over Many communities and states in the event of a military i dont know anyone in including our oppo who would want lethal munitions moved through or Over is or her said Thomas Dep Uty assistant to the Secretary of defense for chemical Welch appeared at a Pentagon news conference to discuss an upcoming debate in the House on president reagans request to begin building binary chemical unlike existing chemical shells and a binary Shell contains two chemicals that Are harmless until they Are mixed after for three years the administration has been stymied by House opposition to the production of chemical Wear last month the Republican controlled Senate once again approved the plan amid predictions it would again be Defeated in the the United states stopped producing such armaments in the Pentagon has used the safety arguments although it has focused More on charges the soviet Union has used or supplied chemical weapons to Afghanistan and Southeast Asia and the importance of building a credible critics contend the stockpile is enough to serve As a deterrent and that the United states should not voluntarily surrender its Superior moral position of refusing to build such Welch said the Pentagon believes 16 countries have chemical weapons and six others Are seeking if they Haven obtained them he declined to name the if Congress Welch said the Pentagon would begin destroying the aging stockpile of toxic nerve agents now stored at eight depots in the United West Germany and on Johnston Island in the Welch declined to discuss the size of that but it is believed to total about he said the average age of the stockpile is 26 years and that 97 percent of the nerve bombs and rockets Are militarily Welch added that the Pentagon has a total now of about 900 chemical munitions that Are we spend million a year to constantly look for leaks and quickly neutralize or decontaminate them and to guard All of these he the Pentagon would like to spend about billion Over the next eight to 10 years to destroy the old plus another billion to build binary weapons Over the next seven to eight he the chemicals used in binary weapons would be kept at separate he eliminating any safety Welch also responded for the first time to criticism by the general accounting office that the binary bomb does not work and is modifications made Over the past three years have ensured that the weapon is he int suspected in army storage depot blast a a storage facility believed to contain int exploded thursday at the  army depot near no one was injured in the which occurred at said Kathy Public affairs officer for the the explosion didst involve chemical weapons at the where obsolete nerve Gas rockets Are she the cause of the explosion was not immediately and a team of explosive disposal experts from fort Knox arrived shortly before Midnight to inspect the said Robert Good the depots commanding the explosion ripped apart three Quad ters of the top of an in which the material was Whitaker the damaged an aboveground is about Miles South of the area where chemical weapons Are she the nearest Igloo containing conventional explosives was 385 feet away and it apparently was not damaged i the Goodwin the explosion shot debris straight into the the igloos Are designed to prevent the debris from Goodwin is no Chance of it the explosion getting out of the about 900 igloos Are located at the each has Concrete 16 inches thick at the inches thick at the top and is covered with 2 feet of the steel doors Are 6 to 8 inches Goodwin said those who heard the blast said it sounded something like a sonic the army notified officials As soon As possible and didst want to create he we wanted people to know it was not chemical that was the thing we wanted to Squash As soon As Goodwin Howard local civil defense coordinator for Madison said no evacuation of the area was planned be cause the explosion did not affect the chemical storage nearly obsolete nerve Gas Rock some of which Are Are stored at the the army has proposed building an incinerator at the depot to dispose of the world War Vintage which Are too old to be but some area Resi dents have opposed such a saying it could be new evidence supports Black Hole theory California a scientists have re ported Strong new evidence that a massive Black Hole exists in the Center of the Milky Way surrounded by a cavity 60 trillion Miles the announced thursday by a team from the University of May help solve the mystery of a cosmic phenomenon that has been the subject of intense research and discussion by astronomers in recent one of the key discoveries of the led by Nobel prizewinning physicist Charles was that gases at the inner Edge of the gaseous ring at the Galaxy nucleus swirl at a faster rate than gases farther indicating that the gases surround a single massive calculations by the team showed that the invisible mat Ter in the Hole is compressed so tightly by its Gravity that its mass must be 4 million times greater than the suns so dense is the Center of the Black Hole that neither Light nor any other form of radiation can gases at the inner Edge reach speeds of Mph to according to the and Are sur rounded by a huge cavity of Low density inside this cavity 10 Light or about 60 trillion Miles across is a Cluster of beyond the cavity is another Swir Ling Circle of glowing it is now Clear that the distribution of mass in the galactic Center is most said with this new the Case for a Black Hole now seems quite of we must All continue to examine the orbits of the gases indicate that the Hole sucked in enormous quantities of gases within the past million Townes this huge collapse of he triggered a Supernova size explosion in the Black producing the cavity detected around the Galaxy a Black Hole is a collapsed Star so dense that not even Light rays can escape its gravitational thus it is not and its existence must be inferred from its effect on objects around the funded by the National science foundation and the National aeronautics and space adm Nistra was published thursday in the British journal a in the there have been a number of puzzles about this Townes the pieces of the Puzzle that Are finally falling into place Are quite other astronomers were also excited about the new Evi if that there May be Black holes All that the interesting said Jeremiah a theoretical astrophysicist at Princeton there May be a million other ones elsewhere in the a biological doctor says mom seeing double after fourth set of twins Cap Regina now convinced that children come in has declared that eight is the Lakewood woman gave birth to bar fourth consecutive set of twins tuesday at the Jersey Shore medical we Fly she said she was thrilled at the birth of her fifth daughter and third she said thursday she would not have any More Chil she Steven who called it a biological said the 5ounce girl named Alicia and 8ounce boy named Andrew were in excellent Feld said doctors were once thinking about a caesarean Section operation for delivering the but decided against it after seeing that they were in a favourable headfirst position for were very pleased with the he the babies will probably be going borne with the Mother this Wick is the Best measure of Dor cays first set of fraternal twins was born in a boy and a the second pair came in both the first it was a Shock but i i had she it was the second time that was the biggest by the time her third 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