European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 19, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday August 19, 19b6 the stars and stripes Page 7 a pm cats worry americans poll says new York a most americans believe the Federal government has been lax in supervising nuclear Power plants and Many worry thai the plants Lack Ades Date safeguards according to a Media eneral associated press poll. The poll also found the United slates is divided Over the use of nuclear Energy to generate electricity. In the poll of 1,365 adult americans 36 percent said this supported the use of nuclear Power to generate electricity 35 said they opposed it and 29 percent had no opinion or declined to answer fifty is percent of the respondents said the Federal government did a fair or poor Job in supervising nuclear Power Plant. One Quarter thought the government did a Good Job and 5 percent thought the government did an excellent Job. Forty four percent of the respondents raid they believed nuclear Power plants had inadequate safeguards while 35 per cent said the safeguards were adequate. People who lived closer to nuclear plants were More Likely to believe the plants were Safe than those who lived farther away. Nearly 8 in 10 respondents said most people did t know enough about the effects of radiation to make informed Deci Sions concerning nuclear Power. Among College graduates 48 percent supported nuclear Power 33 percent opposed in and 17 percent had no opinion. Among High school dropouts 21 percent supported nuclear Power 30 percent opposed it and 49 percent had no opinion. Nearly half of the men and slightly More than one Quarter of the women supported the use of nuclear Power. About one third of men and women were opposed while 18 percent of men and 33percent of women had no opinion. Of Vej ponders in the poll included a random scientific sampling of 1,365 adults across the country june 20-28. For a poll based on about 1,300 interviews the results Are subject loan error margin of 3 percentage Points either Way be cause of Chance variations in the Sample. Media general inc., a communications company based in Richmond va.,publishes the Richmond times dispatch and the Richmond news Leader in Tampa Fla Tribune and the Winston Salem journal in North Carolina. The company s television stations Are Weflin Tampa a cd in Charleston. S.c., and woks in Jacksonville Fla. Nuclear Power plants inc ago trim i Tahk some us depart Nunt of i Way Nueton Ragul my con Winlon inc to Tribune not rapid to Grain elevators Soldier s defection to Cuba shocks puzzles Kin in Miami fighting Battle of the bulge Cerro Gordo. 111. A the nation s Grain elevators Are bulging another huge Harvest is coming prices Are falling and banners Are willing to take their crop almost anywhere but to Market. Near this Central Illinois town earthen Walls Cov ered with a lamp will hold Corn in a temporary storage bin the size of five football Fields. A few Miles away soybeans will fill old wire Corn cribs lined in plastic. Across the country River barges Railroad cars caves machine Sheds Chicken houses bams and plastic sacks All Are Likely to be full of Grain this  simply will be piled on the ground by the time banners finish harvesting 8.32 billion bushels of Cornand 1.98 billion bushels of soybeans. Well not Only have to find room for much of the1986 crop Well have to continue storing the crops of earlier Yean said Donald Paarlberg & retired agricultural economist at Purdue University. Many commercial elevators and conventional Grain bins on Farnus around the nation Are still full of the record 198s crops and there May be no Home Lorthe excess of 2.5 billion bushels expected after the Harvest said Dean Brown of the american farm Bureau federation. We do not want our customers to be forced to sell at a time when prices May hit 10 or 20-year lows said elevator owner Lynn Clarkson of Cerro  would Lake a horrendous bite out of their in come when they Are already on the  this year decided to create makeshift Stor age by bulldozing 3-foot-High dirt Walls then Luti Gand covering the sprawling pit with plastic. This dirt bin neat to one of his permanent Gram elevators a nearby Oakley will hold 3.2 million bushels of Corn. The expected construction Cost is 18-20 cents a  Jim Garvey of Cerro Gordo found that for 10 cents a Bushel he could line his old cribs with plastic and wrap them with cables to secure 3,400 Bushel of soybeans in  of the elevators Are full and you a oujda i want to sell in today s Market said Darvey. Thi Way i can put my crop under government loan get the Money store the crop and Hope the Price goes  Harvest time the government offers Farmers Loans that Are secured by their stored Grain. The loan rate often is higher than the Market Price for Grain 11 commodity prices later Rise Farmers May repay the Loans and sell their Grain. However if commodity prices remain Low Fanner Smay forfeit their Grain to the government and keep the Tois Money. That adds to the Tuge Grain sure  Are Worth so Tittle now that its show add Bill Wilson Public relations manager of the . Feed grains Council a Trade group. He said however he expects Grain safes to pick up by the end of the year. Miami up Hugo Romeu s Mother fainted when she Learned the . Army private had defected to Cuba and after hearing his Coin menu at a new conference in Havana the Serviceman s family remained puzzled and  re going through hell said his sister. Maria Romu from the family Home in Miami. We Don know what drove him. Something had to drive  his Mother Enna Romeu fainted when he surface Din Havana Tut week. Romeu 31, a private tint class disappeared july 3 from his Post As a medical Laboratory specialist at the army Hospital in bad Cannstatt West  to the cuban news Agency Prensa Latina Romeu defected because he disagrees with . Policy in Central America and Vietnam and because of the poverty he saw during his studies in the Dominica Republic. I feel Happy to be in Cuba where i can work fre Elyas a doctor he said in a news conference saturday in Havana according to Prensa  telephoned his Mother monday and said he was Welt and intended to visit his uncles in quincs near Havana. I was in Shock said Enna Romeu. Ai this point.1 Haven t the slightest idea where he  she described him As apolitical and said his Only interest in Cuba which he left at age 5, had been its  studied for a semester Al Loyola University in Chicago then transferred to the University of Flor Ida for a semester. He became involved in the Hare Krishna movement dropped out of school and went Tolive in a Temple for three months. Romeu received a medical degree from the univer sity of Dominica. Neo nazi linked to Bank heist Washington not the Fri is searching fora Bank robbery suspect identified As a member of the Neo nazi organization aryan nations the Parent group of a terrorist band that two years ago declared War on the United  authorities said last year that All members of a terrorist splinter group the order or the silent brotherhood were dead or were imprisoned As a result of convictions in Seattle on charges that include counterfeiting armed robbery and murder. The Bank robbery however occurred aug. I in the Small Rural town of Rossville Iii. In the Indiana robbery two gunmen in Blue cover alls and hard hats their faces masked with bandannas held up a Teller at the first National Bank of Rossville and escaped with 144,000. The iwo men lied in a car pulled off into a Corn Field ambushed a pursuing police car and riddled it with  on about 25 Miles from Rossville across the stale line in Indiana the two men abandoned their Carand set in afire. The authorities said evidence found in the car led Fri agents to identify Thomas George Harrelson a 29 year old parole violator As a  and Federal investigators said the car was registered to a 25-year-old Michigan woman Marion elite Miles who was Garretson s Fiancee. The f8t says it has determined on the basis of evidence found in the car thai Harrelson is a member of the aryan nations a Neo nazi group based at Hay Den Lake. Idaho that subscribes to a doctrine thai jew Are the offspring of  members of the aryan nations group split off from in in 1984 and formed the order a paramilitary action group. Shuttle Booster undergoes first test Brigham City Utah up the first test fir ing of a shuttle Booster rocket under freezing tempera Tures similar to conditions during january s fatal Chal Lenger launch has been conducted by Morton Thi Okol the maker of the rocket announced sunday. The Booster rocket joints blamed for the Jan. 28disaster that killed seven shuttle Crew members were tested with Only a partial Load of solid rocket fuel about 400 pounds of propellant company officials said in a statement released sunday. Friday s test used three single motor segment linked at two joints. The segments were cooled to be tween 20 and 30 degrees fahrenheit and placed in a vertical position for firing spokesmen said Thi Okol officials said the Tesi did not result in a join failure but much of the data still needs to be studied. The test called a joint environmental simulator will be conducted several More times to evaluate the old Booster rocket joints and new designs for the solid fuel engines that help lift the shuttle into space. Data from the tests scheduled to continue into next year will be used to perfect a new Booster Seal con Taining a third of ring elastic material used to Seal in rocket s Metal joints under pressure. The spokesman said Morton Thi Okol will have Shenew rocket boosters ready for delivery in late 1987