European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 9, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday april 9, 1986 the stars and stripes Page 7 hearings set on disposal of chemical weapons by Norman Black a military writer Washington the army said monday that twill conduct eight Public hearings across the country on How to dispose of aging chemical weapons. The army announced Jan. 23 that it had tentatively decided to destroy the old weapons by incineration but had made no decision on where to do so. Among the alternatives to be assessed Are destroying the stockpile on site where they Are currently located or co locating them to regional or National Sites for disposal the army said. To explore those alternatives Public hearings have been scheduled near the eight depots within the Continental United states where chemical weapons Are stockpiled the army said monday. The hearings will begin in Oregon on april 25 and conclude May 22 in Alabama. In addition seven meetings have been scheduled from april 22 to May 8 with representatives of the Environ mental Protection Agency and state officials to assess the problems that might arise with the transportation of the chemical weapons to incineration centers the army said. The United states has not produced chemical weapons since 1969. The Pentagon has warned that the stockpile of chemical weapons has become outdated and in Many in stances dangerous to store. Until last year Congress refused to authorize the production of More modern chemical weapons to replace existing stockpiles. But the Pentagon s fiscal 1986 budget authorization sanctions the Start of limited production next year while calling for the destruction of existing stocks by sept. 30, 1994. Army and Pentagon officials have routinely refused to say How Large the existing stockpile is although source shave placed the total at roughly 25 tons. The eight installations at which chemical weapons Are stored include the Aberdeen proving ground my. Annis ton army depot Ala. Lexington Blue grass army depot by. Newport army ammunition Plant ind. Pine Bluff Arsenal Ark. Pueblo army depot Colo. Tooele army depot Utah and Umatilla army depot Ore. The army has scheduled Public hearings As follows april 25, 7 p.m., Armand Larive Junior High school Hermiston Ore. April 28, 7 p.m., Sangre de Christo arts and Confer ence Center Pueblo Colo. April 30, 7 p.m., White Hall Ark High school. May 6, 7 p.m., North Vermillion High school Neva to ind. May 8, 7 p.m., Tooele Utah army depot theater. May 13, 7 p.m., Edgewood my High school. May 15, 7 p.m., at a site still to be determined i Richmond by. May 22, 7 p.m., Anniston Ala army depot head quarters auditorium. The army said it intends to Complete a draft Environ mental Impact statement by july 1, after which it will accept further Public comments. A final environmental Impact statement is expected to be published in december setting the stage for a decision in Early 1987, the army said. Too big to ignore a photo Peter Millington of London had a sure fire method of attracting attention As he addressed a rally monday in Harrisburg a. Standing in the Shadow of a huge inflatable Beaver on the state Capitol Steps Millington argued in favor of legislation ban Ning leg hold  Austria to see Waldheim file United nations a Austria with Kurt Waldheim s consent joined Israel monday in asking for Access to a secret War crimes file on the former . Secretary general. The United nations agreed to open the file for both countries on wednesday. Israeli and austrian envoys have worked out an arrangement for inspecting and copying the file from the . War crimes commission archives . Spokesman Francois Giuliani said. A letter delivered monday to Secretary general Javier Perez de Cuellar from austrian . Ambassador Karl Fischer on behalf of the austrian government said that Access was being requested with the consent of or. Wald Heim and that Waldheim would be informed of information obtained. The letter said the austrian request was being made because of serious incriminating allegations against Waldheim in connection with his activities As a German wife s lottery winnings officer in the Balkans in world War ii. Austrian Chancellor Fred sin Watz s socialist party is opposing Waldheim s candidacy in the May 4 presidential election. Waldheim an Independent is running with conservative support. In a related development the world jewish Congress released More documents from the . National archives purporting to show that the army group to which Wald Heim was attached ordered deportations of jews from Greece in 1944. However the documents did not contain any reference to Waldheim who was a staff officer in army group e. One document said that the deportations ordered by the group s High command were being carried out by the nazi Security service. The commander of army group a Gen. Alexande Loehr was hanged in 1947 As a War criminal. Twice married pair to split prize Butler a. A a couple who divorced and then remarried must split $1.4 million in lottery winnings despite the wife s claim that her husband duped her into remarrying him shortly after she won a judge has ruled. Butler county judge John h. Brydon ordered William and Joann Gress of Slippery Rock to split the Jackpot. Brydon ruled that mrs. Gress 49, failed to prove that her husband tricked her into remarrying him and that she knowingly entered into a Legal agreement to Divide the Money. Eyeball to eyeball with drawn guns mrs. Gress had claimed that her husband threatened her life if she did not sign a contract to split the Money and that he grabbed her winning lottery ticket and signed his name on the Back after she signed her own. Gress 55, a House Painter said the couple mutually agreed to remarry and to sign an agreement dividing the Money. He said they voluntarily quit their jobs and in vested in real estate. The dresses were divorced in 1983 and remarried feb. 18, 1984, a month after mrs. Gress won the Pennsylvania lotto. She filed again for divorce last june. Goetz victim Fri agent describes Walker s arrest found san Francisco a when Fri agents with guns drawn approached John Walker in a hotel corridor the spy suspect whirled pulled a gun and confronted them eyeball to eyeball an agent told jurors monday at the espionage trial of Walker Friend Jerry Whitworth. Asked Why he did t shoot Walker As he faced him across the barrel of his gun agent Robert o. Hunter said i did t want to kill him. I wanted to talk to  Walker who is scheduled to testify against Whitworth has confessed he was the Mastermind of a spy ring that passed Navy secrets to the soviets for nearly two decades. Whitworth 46, a retired Navy radioman is charged with 13 counts of espionage and conspiracy. Seven of the counts carry potential life sentences. The prosecution Al Leges Whitworth was recruited into the spy business by Walker. Hunter recalled the confrontation at 3 45 . Last May 20, after agents lured Walker from his room with a Call saying a car had hit his Van. The Call came a few hours after Walker dropped classified documents in the Woods for a soviet agent the witness said we waited what seemed like a Long period of time Hunter said recalling How he and another agent hid in the hallway. His door opened. He came quickly around the Corner and punched the  then Hunter said he and his partner came out of hiding. He whirled around with a weapon in his hand he recalled. We were standing Eye Ball to eyeball with our weapons. We identified ourselves As Fri and told him to drop the  he said Walker dropped the gun and a Manila envelope that contained instructions and photographs dealing with his delivery of documents that night. Earlier Fri agent David w. Szady said 50 agents tracking Walker through the Back roads of Maryland lost him for three hours and then removed a signal to a suspected Contact that might have prompted him to drop a packet for Walker. Agents recovered classified information Walker had left. Szady who supervised the Walker investigation for two months told jurors How the spy drama reached its Climax the night of May 19, 1985, when Walker was spotted driving the Back roads of Maryland and so was soviet vice Consul Aleksei g. Tkachenko who Szady said was identified by his diplomatic License plate. Szady said As soon As Walker was spotted the Force of 50 Fri agents fanned out in cars and air planes to follow him. He travelled Over a variety of roads in a very circuitous fashion said Szady. At 5 o clock word came Back that we d lost him. It was three hours. I remember every min Ute of  he said the Agency had been watching Walker for four months after receiving a tip from his estranged wife Barbara that hews a spy. A wiretap picked up Walker s plans to take a trip that weekend and since he decided to skip his aunt s funeral the Fri assumed it was an important trip the wit Ness said. Of rape sodomy new York a James Ramseur one of four teen agers shot by subway gun Man Bernhard Goetz was convicted Mon Day of raping and sodomizing a 20-year-Oldbronx neighbor last May. Ramseur 19, was ordered held without bail pending sentencing april 28, Ramseur convicted at the end of a two week jury trial faces 12 /2 to 25 years in prison. Goetz said he shot the four in december 1984 because he feared they were going to Mug him. He faces three weapons charges and a charge of reckless endangerment. Attempted murder and assault charges against Goetz were dismissed in january and the Manhattan District attorney s offices appealing that dismissal. Ramseur was convicted of holding a gun on the neighbor while another Man who has not been caught raped and sodomized the woman said District attorney s spokes Man de Mccarthy. Because he held the gun Ramseur was considered to have committed the same acts As the other person Mccarthy said