European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 6, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                July 1985 the stars and stripes Page 5 math problem May take 15 years of solve Chicago a More than 300 years after his Pierre de the Prince of is keeping two professional mathematicians and their computers so Busy they May not be finished before the end of this Oliver Atkin and Neil Rickert of the University of Illinois Chicago Are trying to pull apart Fermat a 154digit number 1 million is Only seven digits in a series the French lawyer and Amateur mathematician defined Back in the 17th Fermat thought the numbers in his series were meaning they could not be divided by a whole number other than 1 or by for 11 and 13 Are mathematicians have been Able to prove that the fifth number in his series can be divided into finding component factors is a simple process for Small numbers the factors of for Are two and three 12 is six and or three and but its a difficult and laborious chore when tackling some thing like the Large numbers of the Fermat mathematicians have Long suspected that Fermat which is much larger than the no divided Fer mat might also be but no one had the audacity to take a serious crack at it until Atkin and Rickert started their attempt about a year so they have spent about 100 hours of computer time enough for 2 trillion calculations and Haven had a glimpse of their another factoring Selfridge of Northern Illinois University in says he sees no Hope that anyone will be Able to Factor Fermat nine in this Cen it was a heavy and it want reasonable to think we could solve said Atkin after their first attempt on Fermat nine but the two kept using such arcane tools As pseudo prime tests and mathematical shortcuts few others can the two keep juggling with the Mammoth problem and run it through a computer for four or five hours every few we work pretty much says its not something you can chop up and Delegate to you have to keep the whole of the problem in your mind and in your As to Why they go on against something As formidable As Fermat Atkin once said Call it Rickert was equally Blunt we want to prove we can do Alaska to Convene impeachment proceedings Alaska a the Alaska legislature will Convene in special session july 15 for impeachment proceedings against Bill Senate presi Dent Don Bennett said made the announcement after receiving word that More than the constitutionally required two thirds of the 60 House and Senate members had voted in favor of a special session when polled wednesday that Means Well see you july 15th at 11 Bennett told a we want it and the governor wants he a reference to the debate that a special ses Sion would the Specter of impeachment unprecedented in alaskan 26 years of statehood arose tuesday when a special grand jury recommended that lawmakers consider re moving Sheffield from office for his role in negotiating a state office lease in Sands of time the grand jury was probing whether Sheffield and John his chief of manipulated lease requirements so that one company could win a state con tract to provide Square feet of office that Mcbirney and Asso won the 10year lease in the grand jury recommended that Law makers consider impeachment because the evidence indicates that the Sheffield administration has not Best served the inter ests of the Public and is unfit to fulfil the inherent duties of Public the panel also recommended that the lease be voided a suggestion that won the endorsement of the states chief Legal officer tuesday in a Legal attorney general Norm Gorsuch said the state should cancel the lease it signed with Mcbirney and associates because it was tainted by favor a 57yearold said at a news conference wednesday in Ancho rage that he takes Strong exception to the grand jury saying he is unfit to serve the people of his that hurts More than anything else in the he it hurts because it questions my motives for seeking this office More than two years and most of it hurts because its simply not Sheffield said he welcomed the scrutiny of the legislature in a special i want to Clear my he As a Man who has lived and worked in Alaska for nearly 33 i take Pride in the reputation Ive strive so hard to under the Alaska impeach ment proceedings must begin in the Senate and be approved by a two thirds vote of its 20 the motion for impeachment then would go to the 40member House for a supreme court Justice designated by the court would preside and any impeachment judgement would require a two thirds vote of the in new Edwin Edwards offered to resign if attorney John Volz agreed to Block an indictment of the governor a request Volz according to secret grand jury testimony re leased wednesday by a Federal Edwards and seven others subsequently were indicted in what the government said was an illegal million scheme to obtain state certificates authorizing the construction of hospitals and nursing the state certificates were then sold to big Hospital which would be Able to recoup almost All of their expenditures through government according to the trial is scheduled for in the stars and stripes 40 ago july Moscow radio reported that the charred body of Joseph nazi propaganda was found in the courtyard of the Reich chancellery in 30 years ago today july 1955 Matus chairman of an anticommunist organization of slovak immigrants in West was assassinated in Munich when a bomb concealed in a parcel 20 years ago today july millionaire Playboy Diplomat Porfirio Rubirosa skidded to his death in an italian roadster on the Western Edge of Paris after a night spent celebrating a Polo Victory at an exclusive left Bank 70 years ago today july in Arthur Ashe Defeated Jimmy Connors to become the first Black Tennis player Ever to win the Wimbledon mens singles Billie Jean King trounced evonne Goola Gong Cawley to capture her sixth Wimbledon trial Date set in spy Case involving a Navy son Baltimore a an 28 trial Date was set wednesday for a retired Navy communications expert and his Seaman son charged with spying for the soviet John Walker and Michael walk Are currently scheduled to stand trial although attorneys for both men Are trying to have their cases in addition to setting a trial judge Alexander Harvey ii scheduled a detention hearing july 11 for the younger the sailors attorney is seeking to have him transferred to a Halfway both walkers Are now being held without Bond at undisclosed also a hearing on motions was scheduled for among numer Ous motions filed by the walkers attorneys Are requests that charges be dropped be cause of massive pretrial the elder Walker was arrested May 20 after being accused of dropping about 120 secret or confidential Navy documents in the Maryland Countryside outside Wash his a Sailor aboard the aircraft car Rier was charged two Days later with espionage after investigators found a 15pound Box of classified documents next to his the nuclear aircraft Carrier was berthed in at the the elder walkers a retired Navy lieutenant and Jerry an associate of the also have been charged in the pesticide suspected in tainted watermelons a an Oregon based grocery wholesaler and a los Angeles supermarket Chain have recalled a Batch of striped watermelons after More than two dozen Consumers became and authorities said thursday that traces of a pesticide were found in the tests were conducted after 15 to 17 people became ill after eating watermelons in the Portland another 11 illnesses were reported in none of the illnesses was considered united1 grocers of recalled a Batch of striped watermelons distributed to stores in Oregon and Southwest in los Vons grocery recalled watermelons from eight of its supermarkets after six employees became the who had eaten a Melon that arrived in a shipment were treated at a Hospital and California authorities reported an other five confirmed cases of illness from a one in Orange county in Southern California and four in Alameda near san Kenneth California health direct said the affected grocery chains and wholesalers in that state Are believed to be Lucky stores and United the symptoms shown by those who be came ill Are consistent with exposure to some said Larry Foster of the Oregon health the melons were reported by the individuals As perfectly Normal in Foster said traces of sold under the Brand name were found in some melons that were tested after they were taken from a grocery store and a wholesalers Ware said Dalton spokesman for the Oregon agriculture the granulated applied on the ground for some is approved for use on some but not for Hobbs it is considered a highly toxic he it was suspected the melons became contaminated by absorbing the chemical through the said investigators haunt determined where the melons were health officials urged customers to ask grocers whether their watermelons were supplied by United and told them not to eat any striped Watermelon bought at any stores supplied by the firm Between june 28 and july the suspect melons were not grown in Oregon and were reported to have been shipped from either or Al David supervisory investigator for the food and drug administration in said checks with health officials in Washington and Arizona found no other reports of Melon related Oregon authorities said symptoms occurred 15 to 30 minutes after the melons were eaten and included muscle twitches and blurred