European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 23, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes wednesday april 23,1986 protesters fail to halt nuclear weapons test Las vegas Nev. A a major nuclear weapons test was conducted with out incident in the Nevada desert at Dawn tuesday after anti nuclear activists claimed to have infiltrated the site in a futile Effort to halt the blast. The blast had an explosive yield of up to 150,000 tons of int nearly 12 times the explosive punch of the atomic bomb that destroyed Hiroshima. It was conducted in a Hole drilled 2,000 feet into the desert 104 Miles Northwest of Las vegas. Chris West a department of Energy spokesman who was 33 Miles from ground Zero said the ground Shook following the blast which was code named Jefferson. The National earthquake information Center in Boulder colo., said the blast measured 5.3 on the Richter scale of ground motion. Steve Rohl a spokesman for the activist group Greenpeace said demonstrators from Boulder entered the 1,350-Square-mile de Sert site overnight. West said no protesters were seen near ground Zero which is monitored by ground cameras and helicopters. I be got three views of ground Zero and there s no one out there West said moments after the blast. Believe me Security was looking for anyone who might have gotten onto the  West said 29 protesters showed up at the Gates to the test site and three were arrested for trespassing on the grounds. It was the third announced . Test in a underground nuclear tests typical Experiment site at Nevada test site control Point computer room data microwave Van nuclear explosive 20 to 150 Kiloton Power Range. Steel doors slam shut after radiation passes protecting equipment from High Speed shrapnel rocks gases. Tunnel plug Concrete steel barriers Strong enough to withstand blast and shockwave. Experiment stations tests radiation effects on weapons communications equipment. Diagnostic package measures explosive s performance. Diagnostic package measure explosion s output. Test chamber steel pipe that measures inches in diameter a blast site widening to 25 it. Month and the 10th announced since the soviets began a unilateral test moratorium aug. 6. The soviets have since announced they Are ending that moratorium. The test was expected to demonstrate cortex a system for measuring the explosive Force of nuclear tests. President Reagan had invited soviet scientists to wit Ness the effectiveness of the system As a Means of monitoring the size of nuclear tests but the soviets gave no formal response. The threshold test ban treaty of 1974 limits All tests to 150 Kilotons or less. The last announced . Test was mighty Oak on april 10. Some 100 anti nuclear activists were arrested before that test including 14 people who sneaked onto the desert site. Stan Norris of the Washington . Based natural resources defense Council said Friday that a Small test would be car ried out prior to Jefferson and another Small test was planned before the end of the month. He said the Small test before Jeffer son May have already been conducted. No such test has been announced. For Security reasons not All tests Are announced. All tests that Are announced Are listed As being less than 20 Kilotons or 20 to 150 Kilotons. Many tests in the higher Range Are announced in Advance and people outside the test site Are warned that they May feel Small tremors. Managers of High Rise buildings in the Las vegas area were told sunday not to have workers in precarious positions at the time of the Jefferson test. Such warnings Are routine for Large tests. Earlier this month the soviet Union announced it was ending a moratorium on nuclear weapons tests because of continued . Tests. The White House said the United states will continue nuclear testing be cause National Security requires it. Spy satellite loss May mean More recon flights expert says Van Den Berg fab Calif. A the explosion that consumed a rocket believed to be carrying a spy satellite Means the Pentagon probably will have to Dis Patch More reconnaissance planes Over territory like Libya says a military expert. The explosion also Means the United states will have to limit the use of a spy satellite Over the soviet Union Paul stares of the Brookings institution in Washington said monday. Meanwhile William r. Graham the National aeronautics and space administration s acting administrator told a convention of newspaper publishers in san Francisco that the loss of two Titan Rock ets and the space shuttle challenger has exposed vulnerabilities in the space pro Gram. I Don t think we have enough National capability to overcome temporary setbacks to Deal with unexpected accidents Gra Ham said. The $64 million Titan 34d boost or exploded five seconds into launch Friday at Vandenberg 170 Miles Northwest of los Angeles. The air Force would say Only that the payload was classified but several Independent military space experts said it was Al most certainly a Kh-11 spy satellite. The explosion was the second failure in a Row for a Titan 34d at Vandenberg. The air Force destroyed the first Titan two minutes into an aug. 28 launch. The air Force Board investigating the disaster met monday at the sprawling base. The Board is headed by Brig. Gen. Nathan Lindsay commander of the Eastern space and missile Center at Patrick fab in Cocoa Beach fla., and is composed of 18 civilian military and Nasa aerospace experts. The Pentagon prefers to have at least two spy satellites on duty Over the soviet Union with one serving As a backup stares said. He believes a spy satellite was destroyed Friday and said the United states will have to restrict the use of the single Kh-11 believed to be in a Polar orbit that takes it Over the soviet Union. They will have to husband the re sources of the one Kh-11 they have up there now giving it fewer tasks to expend less of its propellants he said. The de sense department also will probably in crease the use of reconnaissance aircraft outside the soviet Union Over territory such As  obscene materials can be seized without special proof justices Rule Washington a police seizing allegedly obscene materials from dealers do not have to provide special proof before getting court authority the supreme court ruled tuesday. By a 6-3 vote the justices said the same standards apply when police seek court warrants to seize allegedly obscene supreme court Roundup materials As in cases where police seek to seize illegal drugs or weapons. The ruling Means videocassettes seized from a store in Depew n.y., in 1983 May be used As evidence in an pornography prosecution. A sheriffs Deputy took the films with such titles As Debbie does Dallas deep Throat and Little girls Blue from network video a store owned by . Video inc. The store owners were charged with violating the state s obscenity Law but the new York court of appeals threw out the prosecution. It ruled that the affidavits used to obtain a court warrant authorizing the seizure described numerous sex acts in the films but did not establish prob Able cause to believe the films were obscene. Led by Justice William h. Rehnquist the supreme court tuesday said the state court was wrong. Rehnquist said the state court without saying so specifically required police officers to meet some higher Stan Dard of proof than the usual probable cause test before obtaining court warrants in cases of alleged obscenity. We have never held or said that such a higher Stan Dard is required by the first amendment Rehnquist said. The Constitution s first amendment guarantees free Dom of speech and expression but obscene materials Are not Given constitutional Protection. Obscenity is a Legal term and cannot be applied to All sexually explicit material. Unless something is found to be obscene it is protected by free speech guarantees. In other action the court upheld an important provision of a 1981 budget Cut Ting Law aimed at assuring absent parents will pay child support. The court in an 8-1 ruling in a Washington state Case said Low income parents Are not exempt from having their Federal tax refunds funnelled to help support children from a prior marriage. Made it More difficult for professional groups to avoid paying Federal taxes on profits they earn by Selling advertisements in their journals. The court unanimously ruled that the american College of physicians which generally is tax exempt must pay taxes on profits earned from ads in its annals of internal Medicine a highly regarded monthly medical journal. Threw out a $5 million damage award against an insurance company because an Alabama supreme court Justice who ruled in the Case had a personal stake in penalizing the company. The justices by an 8-0 vote sent the Case Back to the state court for further study and said the Justice with a stake in the outcome is disqualified from taking part. High finance a photo Andrew Crawford a Federal worker in Columbus Ohio looks stunned As he holds up a Bill from the internal Revenue service saying he owes nearly $30 million. Since his salary is Only $30,000 a year Crawford figures somebody in the irs must have goofed be Hopes