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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 10, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes tuesday june 10, 1966 plutonium Plant upgrades Security to handle terrorism Highland Wash. A concern thai terrorists might attack the Hanford nuclear reservation has prompted increased Security at the weapons Grade plutonium Plant officials say. In the past six years the us Energy department s Hanford Mairul has grown from about Iso officers to More than 425, and is training with More sophisticated weapons said Joe Sulcy director of site and Laboratory manage ment at the Southeast Washington Complex. A local gun club Wai recently removed from a Reser vation firing Range it had used for 23 years in order to lighten Security and make room for the patrol to train with machine Gims and anti tank weapons. It was hard to remove the desert Rifle and pistol club but we did t have much of a  Sutey said. Energy department spokesmen refuse to discuss specific measures aimed at thwarting terrorist attacks but say Security officers arc training for any contingency. We re getting our people attuned to be aware of Poten tial external threats said . Walker associate director of safeguard and Security at the 570 Square mile reservation and a former patrol chief we re considering All kinds of threats including terrorism and arc trying to Gearou training  however there have been some embarrassing apparent lapses in training at the reservation which makes plutonium for nuclear weapons. Support for rebels Ilsc  j. By Chipulo holds by to shirt durum � sunday la latin title Park. Cross from the while House. About 1,000 people Nalini opposite us i Muir Rufu Bod us Csc Creed Baba in u he urged Congo cd not to permit Whit Lupp nud to cub to happen in  a patrol officer at a Security barricade recently shot himself in the foal when his Uzi machine gun accidentally discharged. In May 1985. Another officer s machine gun went off during a firearms Check packing the floor of a reservation building with bullets according la Energy  document. The Energy department is beefing up Security forces at most of its facilities and is requiring increased anti terrorist training Sulcy said. Several Hanford officers have been sent to i he depart men s new Meiko raining Center for specialized instruction said Walker. The Hanford patrol uses my rifles arts the israeli made Uzi and plans to train with m-60 machine guns m 11 grenade launchers and hand held m-72 rocket launcher. Walker said. The reservation s Arsenal also includes sophisticated French made helicopters and heat seeking infrared cameras. The us. Bombings of Libya in april Promp cd Han Ford to tighten Access to the Plant. Fewer employees at he Complex receive High level Secu Rity clearances because of a cutback president Reagan ordered last year said Energy department spokesman Tom Bauman. The clearances allow employees to enter sensitive areas of the reservation and the Richond Federal building out serves us Hanford operations Headquarters. Carter papers photos being moved from storage to new Library Atlanta a beginning this week 26 million papers from the Carter administration will be hauled out of storage and transported to the Jimmy Carter presidential Library scheduled to open this fall. Workers also will haul 1.5 million photographs 18,000 gifts. 600 hours of videotape and 300 hours of audio tape from the Carter presidential materials project in the Richard Russell Federal Anne building in downtown Atlanta. The material is headed for the 55,000-Square-foot archives at the new Library Complex. Located Slop co pen Hill the Hill from which Gen. William t. Sherman viewed the Battle of Atlanta during the civil War. While the archives will be for scholarly research the Public will be admitted to a nearby museum which will feature High tech displays manuscripts photographs and Folk Art. One exhibit is a Haid Cir cd sculpture of the former Peanut Farmer from Plains Hal cracks Peanut shells with a chomp of his famous Teeth. Donald b. Schwec director of the Library said presiden tial libraries Are shrines to a political past. But he said Carter insisted that the eighth is. Presidential Library not set out to deify him. Great Salt Lake still poses threat Salt Lake cite a water kept pouring Mon Day through a Dike breached by the record High great Salt Lake and authorities said Ponds used by a chemical extraction Plant were hooded. The Inland sea at its highest recorded level bunt the earthen a Max magnesium corp. Dike late saturday and threatened to surge toward iwo interstate and the Union Pacific Railroad tracks. By ale sunday the water was flowing Over a secondary Dike and moving toward one Highway interstate 15, and the tracks. However Francine Abni an aide to gov. Norm bang Erter said a Tike protecting the Highway and Railroad appeared to be Strong enough to hold Back the flood a ten. The opinion of our experts is that they 1-15 and the tracks will not be in any danger Giani said after Engi neers from the department of natural resources and Utah National guard inspected the area. But Utah Public safety director John Nielsen Laid the 200-Yard-wide Bole in Hie i3-mile Dike still concerns stale officials. La would be afe to say we have a major problem on our hands he said. Well just simply have to let nature take its  Jerry Marshall assistant superintendent at Amax i processing Plant said wind whipped Waves reaching so Mph crashed through the Dike about 9 1 . Saturday. Danger Ter flew Over the flooded area with Nielsen on sunday then left on a previously scheduled trip to new Vort to meet with officials of Standard and poor a Bond rating service about a proposed Bond Issue to raise Money to pump excess water from the Lake into the desert to the West. The legislature last month approved a s72 million pin to pump the Lake and reinforce dikes protecting 115 and sewage treatment Plant on the East Shore of the. So life Long 30mile-wide Lake. The governor is seeking to Issue $40 million in Bonds to help pay for the plan. The Lake swollen by Beavy precipitation has men about 10 feet during the past four years causing More than $175 million in property damage. Last month it reached ils highest recorded level at 4,211.6 feet above sea level. Stateside cocaine derivative becoming drug of Choice report says new York a . A Polenz and Addic Tive cocaine derivative is funding from the slums to become the drug of Choice on Wall Street and in the suburbs according la a report published sunday. Increasing numbers of Aji lege educated and Profet Lional people Many of whom have used cocaine and marijuana in the past re smoking crack and finding themselves addicted the new vote times reported. At my company people Are getting loaned All Over he  said a 31-year-old Programmer working at a Large computer manufacturing firm in Wesle Hester county North of the City. Of his 12 co workers eight smoke the drug during he Day he said. 10th annual Poleto festival in Charleston sets record Charleston . A this year so Leto festival . Set a Boi office record and closed with a gab celebrating its 10th anniversary and the Isth birthday of festival founder Gian Carlo Minolli. A standing room Only audience or More than 2.10o crowded the Gaillard municipal auditorium on sunday night for the show which included performance by Ballet Star Mikhail Baryshnikov and 64-year-old cuban Ballerina Alicia Alonso. The annual festival set a recant for ticket sates this year surpassing its goal of 11.2 million in sales fes Uval general manager Nigel Redden said. Rights of aids victims affirmed by Justice dept. New York a Quilice department Law yers have tentatively concluded that people with aids Are handicapped individuals entitled to pro Lection under Federal civil right Laws according to a report published sunday. A confidential Legal opinion drafted by lawyers in the civil rights division says that people with so new York times reported. The Law also Covert people who Are regarded u having such in impairment even if they Don l. For that reason the opinion suggest that people with antibodies to the aids virus but no symptoms of the disuse May be protected by the Law 31 Weyh pop Rock concertgoers attack elderly tourists on Broadway new York a about iwo dozen Yourns went on a rampage sunday to mid Manhattan Ai faulting code Ray tourists and theatregoers snatching their jewelry and stealing Money from Hen Afong Broadway police said. The youths who had attended a pop Rock concert at Madison Square Garden were arrested tale Sun Day on a variety of felony and Misdemeanour charges police said. A band of youths were running up Broadway ripping people off said police sol. Michael spam ing. The victims were it lot of older tourists in the theater  people were assaulted punched knocked to the ground and had their chains watches and Money taken said Spalding about a dozen people were victimized he lid. The youths went on the rampage after they at tended a concert by the pop Rock group new Edi Tion at the Garden said sgt. John Venet Uwi a police spokesman. 18 cars of train derail but no injuries reported Morgan City us Hap about in cars of a Union Pacific train derailed Early sunday and careened into a car Dealership but there were no injuries authorities said. Part of the 54-car train derailed about i a.m., crossed commercial Street and stopped in the Heiner Ford car lot said Morgan county Deputy sheriff Harold Briskie adding that nine new and used cars were damaged. I would not venture any guess on the amount of damage. Some of the cars were totalled he said. Briskie said the cause of the derailment was under investigation  
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