European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 9, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 10 the stars and stripes wednesday july 9, 19b6 columns Mary Mcgrory nuclear dumps removed As election Issue the administration has moved quickly to Remote he dangerous nuclear waste dump Issue my the i98a election. The department a Energy announced thai it has postponed indefinitely any action on the a Van Stales that were told last january that the wire on inc list for inc so called Eastern permanent High Lex Al waste repository. To As 3 Muir thai real Relief o Republican candidates in maim. Be Hampshire Virginia North Carolina Georgia. Wisconsin and Minnesota which had vociferously protested the Prospect of having their land Sci de and torn up in inc interest of providing Bury ing grounds for High level waste. Til the decision also pm off shoe1. Waves of indignation in the three West Ern slates left holding the hag. Having seen what an uproar can produce in Hie Way f changing the Federal mini. Washington. Trixi and Nevada Are engaged in strenuous Why us campaigns. The governors of a Vada and Washington appeared before o Senate Energy committee recently to protest the pro Cess which their Saij is what they mean is that they think the process is tainted. They feel that inc nuclear waste policy act of 1982 mandates the Secretary of Energy to choose a second site. Enc go Secretary John herring on. However Sayi it is not required. He cites the de Cline in the amount of waste being Gener ated As the reason for the pause. Sen. Paul Lii Alt a Nev. The presidential pal and potential presidential candidate was also a witness. He said inc Federal government should go Hack to Square one on the problem and consider other Means of disposing of he waste maybe at the Bottom of the sea. Sen. Lloyd Bentsen. Dictas. Asked to a 10-year delay in he procedure. Republican sen. Slade Gorton speak ing for Washington said that the Deci Sion to halt the second site showed a totally defective administration of the Law and fails to take into account the waste being Buill up by president Rea Gan s nuclear weapons buildup. The three Western Stales feel imposed upon. Washington already has the world s largest atomic waste repository and although it is largely passive on Mai lers nuclear withdrawal of the Ace of Spades from inc seven Eastern Stales has stirred intense resentment. Gov. William Carl Rowan Booth Gardner suggested to senators that they bring inc process to an immediate nevadans. Said their governor Rich Ard Bryan feel they got the the department of Energy refused to provide them with funds o mate their own geological Survey As required by inc nuclear waste policy act of 1982. Every office Holder in Nevada hat joined in lawsuits recently filed in Federal court questioning the Way Nevada got on Doe s wanted list. Herring on observed rather redundantly in the context. Not one elected representative has come and said to us. We want your nuclear waste " but if Reagan has saved his party from immediate anguish in 1986, he has Yei to remove inc lethal Issue from inc 19ss Campaign. Vice president George Bush it is True will now not have to face hos tile homeowners in new Hampshire in inc first presidential primary. Bui what about Texas i is his adopted stale and of major concern 10 any presidential con Lender. Texas is still on the list and he proposed dump site cuts through the richest agricultural area of Texas and a source of much of its water Supply. If the president feels obligated in any Way to Bush he May want to give some reassurance to texans. And what of Nevada it recommends itself both geologically and demographic Caily its population is More than 300.000. But in is the Home stale of lax Alt who is leaning Back and wailing unlit the republicans come to him and say they would like the Man most like Ron Ald Reagan to Lake his place. The dump site is a huge Issue in Nevada and lax Alt s hand picked successor former rep. James Santini is behind partly because he has not yet like his a socratic rival. Rep. Harry Reid voiced outright opposition to the dump under any Circum Laxalt it is Well remembered opposed Reagan on the location of a race track system for he my missile in Nevada. And he won. He is being needled by Nevada news papers to gel Nevada off the Hook again. That leaves Washington anyone with the Wisp est sense of fairness would have 10 admit that Washington has had More than its share of the nuclear Burden. Hanford is the site of the world s first atomic reactor. Washington feels it has done enough. It begins to Jolt As Hough a decision on nuclear waste has been postponed Reagan May just dump in on the next generation. An interim solution of sorts would be monitored retrievable storage. This would be less Safe and could occasion retrieving of plutonium to mate Hill More nuclear weapons and create a Lull More waste cd unto we prom syn Deit Maine sends Clear message on pornography that was a Clear and important message to Alloney general Edwin me Csc from Maine. By an almost 3-to-j margin. Maine voters last month rejected a proposal to make it a crime to make sell give for value or otherwise promote obscene materials in thai note ought to make it Clear to me Csc that americans Don t wan i he government controlling which books they can read sell buy or tend or what they can Waich through their Home Vars. Melesc has had a commission on pornography roaming through the Leazier neighbourhoods of America s cities and the Smellie Backrooms of porno bookstores try a by in 8 Ca or lne argument that dirty books and movies Are a major cause of rapes and other Vio Lent crimes in America. Maine voters made it Clear that they Don t buy this argument but will go on buying whatever meets their desires and needs of sexuality. I Hope in is True that As Maine goes so goes the nation. I remember the National sensation when Kathleen Winsor s forever Amber was published and then the Hoohing and aching when Jacqueline Susann wrote Valley of the i hear that the me Csc commission s formal re port will make those novels seem like sunday school tracts. 1 know that Meuse. Like Jasper Wyman of the Maine Christian civic league which suffered overwhelming defeat on its referendum thinks he is saving Amer Ica from a decline into Sodom and go Morrah status. But Melesc and an administration once dedicated to getting government off the people s backs had better understand thai government ought not indeed can not circumscribe the sexual voyeurism. Curiosity and tastes of the american peo ple. A leading Var tape renter in suburban by Thesda. Md., told me that rentals of hard Core porn tapes account for about 20 percent of his business. More surprising was his statement that a High percentage of these hard Core tapes Are rented by women. These Days a Rich looking woman will walk in and say give me the dirt Iest tape you be got.1" the dealer told me. "1 Ell her she s Gonna be shocked and she tells me i m old enough " a Case can be made thai a lot of less than Happy women woman s Day mag Azine finds that Only half of american women say they would marry the same Man Given another Chance Are watching sex tapes to see what they Are missing or not doing or doing wrong and that these tapes become a source of marital discord and a reason for More and More infidelity and divorce. Even if his could be proven is in government s role to Stop it if government cannot make it a crime for two people to have Intercourse can government make it a crime for them to watch a movie in which two other people have inter course there Are appropriate Laws against using and abusing children in pornography schemes and against making women slaves in the porno movie Industry. But when it comes to Reading renting Selling and watching obscene material Maine voters Nave told their Christian civic league to educate its constituency. People who cannot sell their sermons cannot get government to impose a draconian censorship. The Mim a in in to funny ind a Vitoon in 1nf� Foffi if hmm Itoi. At it Man my � Xiy to b could ital no Willna n not the Sun lid strip or Tom undid Simm Oman in
