European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 16, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse The stars and stripes saturday August 16,1986 Smith & Wesson wins vote in fight Over gun contract Washington a Smith Wesson has won the first round of a Bat the to overturn the army s $75 million contract with the italian Berea company to replace the Standard sidearm or . Armed services. Despite protests from the Pentagon the House appropriations committee voted 24-12 thursday to order the army to Stop payment on the contract for the 9mm handguns unless the Springfield Masv base Asmil & Wesson gets another Chance to army last year awarded Beretta a five year contract for 302,030 handguns replacements for the longtime Standard military sidearm the Colt .45. That action came after Smith & Wesson the Only manufacturer to seek the contract lost a Federal court Challenge. The amendment to the fiscal 1987 appropriations Bill which blocks toe spending of $19 million unless the com petition is reopened was offered by two Massachusetts congressmen democratic rep. Edward Boland and Republican birthday gift was phone a Wichita. Kan. A Lind Mcclintock hoped the 5-Pound Box delivered to her Home was birthday present a Friend had the delivery thursday was from us sprint and contained 981-Page Bill for Long distance Calls totalling nearly $30,000.sprint, a Long distance company based in Kansas City mo., Tola mrs. Mcclintock and her husband Kenneth thai they will not have Topay the Bill or a similar one they received last month for$7,325.83. The company suspects the Mcclintock Are victims of hackers who steal millions of dollars i Long distance services by using computers to tap into the nation Telephone systems. Sprint thinks several people Ille Gally made the 25,019 Calls billed to the Mcclintock. Officials be Lieve the Mcclintock Access number was posted on an electronic bulletin Board computer link ups that allow computer buffs to Exchange information. The Access number has since been s physically impossible for one person to Start dealing and sunup that big of a phone Bill said Syd Courson a sprint is investigating but it May be impossible to find every one who used the Access number. Rep. Silvio fact is there is an american com Pany established 154 years ago that has been thrown out eliminated on the basis of unfair treatment Boland total of 114,030 of the Beretta guns Are already on order and 20,000 Are to be delivered by the end of the month. The amendment would also Stop the spending of any of the $31.2 million previously appropriated for the contract but not yet spent pending an agreement Between the defense department an Beretta on cancellation feet. In june the House government operations committee voted unanimously to recommend that the army stage a new Competition for the handgun contract. The committee s vote followed a report by the general accounting office that found the army had unfairly eliminate Smith & Wesson during service life and firing pin the tests Only two weapons the Beretta and a gun offered by the Mare Mont corp. Of Saco Maine that was initially to be built by Swiss based Sig Sauer in a German Plant remained in the appropriations committee action was strongly opposed by rep. Steny , d-md., Beretta s chief congressional must Start manufacturing and assembling the guns in the United state Sas of next year and it has built a Plant in Accokeek has vowed to continue fighting a new Competition but admitted it maybe an Uphill Battle Given the congressional clout of Boland and Boland Conte amendment still must Clear the full House and Senate to become Law. The army also opposes reopening the Competition. Army undersecretary James r. Am Brose told the government operations committee the Federal courts had re fused to overturn the Beretta award and that the army had no intention to re open the Competition on its own. Turned in Bobby Dale Yoang of to to Calif appear in court to suit an charted with ing pair fab. Young and he wife junk an were arrested after their Danter Deanna 13, brought police mtrtf$3.000 Worth of cocaine she food in the Yoong Home. She Sau in bad pad Eden win Tor her parents to top Wing drag. Deubig f action won Praise from first lady Nancy Reagan. Radon Gas found in nation s Homes poses risk of lung cancer Epa says Washington a the environmental Protection Agency says that one out of eight sing family Homes May have risky concentrations of radioactive radon Agency said thursday it believes that 12 percent of the nation s 75 million single family Homes contain enough radon to pose a risk of lung cancer to occupants about the same As smoking half a pack of cigarettes a radon to just that concentration 4 Pic curies per liter of air which is Epa s new guideline could save 2,000 to 8,000 lives per year said Richard Guimond head of the Agency s radon think that using some fairly Sim ple things like sealing Homes and venting Homes can bring those radon Levels Down significantly in Homes to the level we suggested. And provide a measure of health Protection to people that Are Liv ing in those Homes a. James Barnes Epa Deputy administrator said Friday on Abc s Good morning even if nothing is done people i those houses Stroud not permit smoking indoors Epa particular states you May want to Contact. The state health Agency and ask whether they re aware of any Anas in the state where elevated radon level shave been identified Barnes told a news conference you happen to be living in one of those areas i think you could prudently decide to have that screening a screening test for radon in the Home could Cost $100 to several Hundred Dol Lars. It can determine whether there is no radon danger or whether further tests Are Homes with High concentrations can be found anywhere Epa believes they Are More Likely Over uranium Rich soils. Over the Reading prone for mation in Pennsylvania for example up to 60 percent of the Homes May exceed the 4-Picocurie guideline. The Agency released a map of areas with uranium Rich soils near the surface much of new England the Reading prong area of Eastern Pennsylvania Northwestern new Jersey and Southern new York the Eastern slopes of the appalachian mountains phosphate Rich soils in Florida Andon the Georgia and Carolina coasts and other soils scattered widely throughout Wisconsin Minnesota and the West generally West of the the Rockies and the appalachians Only West Virginia Ohio Illinois Mississippi Louisiana and Iowa had no soils of is a naturally occurring decay product of uranium. A tasteless odourless Gas it enters Homes through basement Walls and floors partly because of the slightly lower air pressure in most base is quickly cleared out of the lungs but its radioactive decay product Lodge in the lungs and irradiate the tis sues in Homes with High radon concentrations is considered risky Becaum Many experts believe smoke panicle Cany radon s decay products into the Hing an Lodge them there greatly enhancing the chances of lung cancer said or. Vernon Houk director of the Center for Environ mental health part of the centers for Dis ease control in Atlanta. Epa said an Energy department sur vey of 550 Homes in 22 areas chosen to avoid known concentration areas such Ashe Reading prong and uranium Beta of the Southwest revealed a typical indoor radon concentration of 1.0 to 1.5 Piccou Ries per liter of air five times the average outdoor concentration. A Pic Curie is a measure of radioactivity which is slightly More than the disintegration of two atoms per Reading of 4 Pic curies per liter in i Home will raise the chances of lung cancer fora lifetime occupant by 1.3 percent to 5 percent this is also about one fifth of the concentration permitted for uranium min said the 4 Pico Cune concentration was picked As the level for recommended action because the Agency believed that existing techniques could reduce concentrations to that Point at reasonable costera estimated earlier that radon causes 5,000 to 20,000 deaths each Yea from lung cancer or up to 17 percent of All lung cancer deaths. Of those radon deaths about 2,000 to 8,000 result from concentrations above 4 Pic Curie Perliter Guimond said. Abortion stand bars girl j a from Catholic school Toledo Ohio a an 11-year-old who spoke on television in favor of abortion rights cannot enrol in a Catho Lic school this fall until she writes a letter saying she does not believe in abortion priest says. Sarabeth Eason whose Mother is a abortion rights activist was to attend sixth Grade at St Agnes school this fall. But in a letter to Sarabeth s Mother the Rev. Richard Miller superintendent of the school said because Sarabeth miscarried along with your enthusiasm made out of sympathy feelings of mercy and lightness As you understand it and has been so Public namely to appear ances and the Public press by and we reach a serious hard Sarabeth s thinking to become so Dif Ferent and so opposed to the meaning of the school that she should attend another school according to the letter. The roman Catholic Church opposes Abor Tion. If Sarabeth would desist and top from Public and exposed support of pro Choice and write a letter to the principal that she does not personally support abortion i think we could move for Ward Miller said in the letter dated thursday Sarabeth said she would not write the was interviewed by a television reporter last january during a demonstration against a Bill requiring parents be notified before birth control could be Given to minors. She also signed her name to a newspaper advertisement that month on the 13lh anniversary of the supreme court decision that mad abortion Legal said her Mother Concep is the former assistant director of an abortion clinic that was the target of a firebomb in was a pretty Good school but i would t want to go Back to it though said Sarabeth who was a student at Slagnes since kindergarten. I d rawer got another school and find out How the feel about the Issue. With that school it always follow by the rotes or you re out. Miller did not return a Telephone Cau to his office and there was no answer Athis Home. Eason said the family is considering sending Sarabeth to a private non Secu Lar school
