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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 30, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars my stripes monday december 30, 1985 Weinberger warned not to sidestep ban on ant satellite tests Washington Alithe authors of i  ban on the testing of Anikst celtic s stems in space have told de sense  Caspar w. Weinberger not to circumvent the Law As a newspaper re port Sun Pes cd the Pentagon might an aide said sunday. Reps  Aucoin. I Ore. And Norman Dicks d-w.-ish., sent Weinberger a letter on fonday threatening the most severe repercussions if the Pentagon defies the ban part of a spending Bill signed into Law dec. I1 by president Reagan. The letter asked Weinberger to clarify the defense department position on tests of he weapons known is asat said Bob Sherman an aide to Aucoin. In also urged Weinberger to repudiate a statement attributed to one of his assistants who was quoted recently by the washing ton Post As saving that we will find a Way to go ahead despite the Law. The report did not identify the aide. As the authors of this provision we Musi remind the department of defense that there is no Legal Way to go ahead " Aucoin and Dicks wrote. The Law is Clear uncomplicated and unambiguous. It does not allow asat testing against an object in  Congress would not excuse any attempt by the department of defense to Circum vent the Law the letter said. On the contrary any attempt to do so would provoke the most severe  such repercussions could include at the minimum extreme denial of appropriations to related  Sherman told a re Porter. He  no response had been received to the letter which was delivered to Pentagon officials Friday. A Pentagon spokesman. Maj. Larry ice Nogle said sumy it would be premature to say anything until senior officials had studied the letter. Although Congress barred space tests it increased by $15 million a $150 million Pentagon request to develop the Antis Tel Lite system during the current fiscal year. The proposed system would consist of a rocket launched from an f-15 Jet fighter and guided to the satellite. The program is about two years behind schedule defense officials have said. The Law bars the Pentagon from conduct ing space tests of asat unless president Reagan informs Congress that the soviet Union has broken the moratorium it imposed on itself in 1983 against such tests. Congress also authorized the air Force to spend $5 million to carry out a research program to develop new and improved verification techniques to Monitor compliance with any ant satellite agreement that May be entered into by the United Stales and the soviet  the administration has declined to negotiate such a pact arguing that it would be impossible to verify because satellites could be shot Down from any of thousands of ground based missile Sites. -2098 recovered amnesia victim James Mcdonnell a Larchmont n.v., Mcdonnell showed up on his wife s Man who said he suffered amnesia for Doorstep on Christmas Day for the first time since 1971 saying he had regained his memory after bumping his head in 15 years appears As Santa Claus with a boy identified As Richard Norris in a Philadelphia department store in 19x2. Philadelphia the if jul before. Recall election enlivens politics in tiny Colorado town Pritchett Colo. Up politics were quiet in Pritchett 3 tiny farming town until the mayor and City Council can celeb an election and reappointed them selves. The resulting blowup climaxes in a new year s eve recall election. No one was interested in running said mayor Hallic c. Jordan. We even called several people but no one wanted it. We finally talked each other into serving again and we decided Why have an election if there was no opposition " that was that for the City s 1984 local election. Some of the town s 105 registered voters Are now campaigning to recall Jor Dan and the other City Council members with a vote set for tuesday. The Issue has split the normally peaceful Community of about 150 people in the spar sely settled farm and ranch country of Southeastern Colorado. Hot arguments have melted friendships. Anonymous letters were circulated. Strongly worded signs went up in the window of Upchurch hardware where townspeople also buy groceries Auto parts cups of cof fee and microwave heated sandwiches. I be been in business Here since i960, and there s never been any trouble in this town until this came up said store owner Odell Upchurch. "1 put signs in my win Dow Alt right to let people know where i stand. 1 stand behind the City  they arc supposed to have an election every two years said Edith Locke one of 26 people who petitioned for the recall vote. They were supposed to have an election in 1984. But they just bypassed it. They never did publish that there was to be one. They said they called some people but i said you did t Call me " it s really very sad Jordan said. Jordan also said she was t really elected mayor but look the office in 1984 after the elected mayor moved to Kansas. She was selected to serve by Mutual agreement of her fellow City Council Mem Bers. I did t really wan it she said. And if she is not recalled tuesday Jor Dan said As far As i know right now i la not be running in april for  apparently it will be a close election or. Tuesday. Norma Berry another Leader of the recall movement said the Way i add it up we be got a person or two on them. It just depends on How Many turn out and How Many turn  new York Man cleared in fatal stabbing arrested again new York a a Man who was cleared in the fatal stabbing of a Man trying to steal Candy from a Vendor in a subway station has been arrested again and charged with stabbing a teen Ager on a subway train. A Young Man suffered two minor cuts Fri Day after what appeared to have been an argument Over a seat according to William Murphy a spokesman for the transit author Ity police. There were other people in the cur but they said they did t Sec it  Murphy said transit police who boarded the train said they found Andrew Frederick 25, holding an open folding knife. Frederick dropped the knife As ordered he said. On feb. 21, Frederick claimed self de sense in the stabbing death of a Man who police said had been trying to steal Candy from a Vendor when Frederick intervened on the Ven Dor s behalf one of two attackers broke a Beer bottle on Frederick s head and Freder ick stabbed the Man once in the heart with a Pocky knife. Police said. Frederick surrendered to police the next Day and was charged with murder but a grand jury in March declined to indict him. In Friday s incident Frederick was arrested to face charges of s Ault and Crimi Nal Possession of a weapon Murphy said. The injured youth Sebastian Williams 17, was held on a warrant for failure to appear in court on a minor drug Case he said. According to statements from Frederick and Williams police said Williams bad been sprawled across two seats when Fred Erick asked excuse me can i sit Here according to the daily news the two men began arguing after Williams reportedly responded is that How you asked for a Seal Williams has several prior arrests and convictions on Petty drug cases. Heart patient shows improved signs of wakefulness Minneapolis up artificial heart patient Mary Lund appeared More awake sunday and doctors said the plastic and Metal mini Jarvik 7 heart she received 11 Days ago was operating smoothly. The 40-year-old Lund s neurological state including brain and related functions showed slight improvement Over saturday said or. Fredarick Gobel a spokesman for the Minneapolis heart Institute. Gobol said Lund the world s first female heart implant recipient was responding to voices by opening her eyes. She continued to show an elevated temperature or fever that could indicate the presence of infection Gobol said but All tests for infection remained negative. She was being fed intravenously and through a tube passed into her Small intes Tine he said. The health care team including physicians of the Minneapolis heart Institute arc pleased with the smooth operation of the mini Jarvik 7 artificial heart and its related equipment Gobel said. He said Lund remained in stable but critical condition in the cardiovascular in Tensive care unit at Abbott Northwestern Hospital where she received the heart implant dec. 18 after doctors discovered her own heart had been destroyed by a virus. Lund a nursing Home Secretary from kens Glon minn., had no history of heart trouble. Two types of tests performed Friday found no evidence of any permanent brain damage and no evidence of a stroke bleed ing in the brain or any structural abnormalities Hospital spokesman Mark Dixon said. To reduce the risk of strokes Lund like other recipients of artificial organs has been Given heparin a drug that reduces the risk of clots. But the blood thinner drug increases the risk of internal bleeding doctors said  
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