European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 28, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes thursday August is 1986 a bomb fell from warplane in 1957 paper reports on cause of non Fafa Accident Albuquerque no a newly released government documents reveal thai a 42,000-Pound Hydrogen bomb one of he Mosi powerful Ever made accidentally fell from a bomber near Albuquerque 29 years ago a news paper said wednesday. Non nuclear explosives which Are used to rigger armed nuclear devices detonated in the unarmed Mark 17 bomb when in hit the ground i Miles South of Kir tend and s control Tower the Albuquerque journal reported. The newspaper said it obtained the documents through the Freedom of in formation act. No one was injured when the bomb hit an uninhabited area owned by the University of new Mexico creating � Crater about 12 feet deep and 2j feet in diameter the newspaper said. The document said minor radioactive contamination was Ocif did in the Crater ii is possibly the most powerful bomb we Ever made said or. Stan nor Ris a research associate with the natural resources defense Council and a specialist on nuclear weapons. The government documents did not show the enact explosive yield of the bomb but Nottis said most researchers believe if was More than 10 Megatons. A megaton is the equivalent of 1 million tons or a of Kilotons of font. Norris said the largest nuclear weapon in the . Arsenal today has a yield of about 9 Megatons. The atomic bomb dropped on Hiro Shima in world War ii had a yield of about i Kilotons the nuclear weapons dal Book said the Mark 17 Wax the first Droppa blk thermonuclear bomb to be tested the Mark 17, made at los Alamos National Laboratory in 1952, was i feet Long and 5 feel in Jim Clur the Mark 17 was very primitive by today s standards in terms of safety de vices Norris said. But it did t go off and we Don t know How serious the Acci Dent  the Mark 17 Felt from an air Force bomber flying to Kirtland from Biggs array of in Texas on May 22, 1957, the documents said. The government first reported the Accident in 1981 in a Brief release saying Only that a nuclear weapon of some kind had been dropped. The documents obtained by the Jour Nal contain the first publicly disclose description of the Type of weapon involved and Why the Accident occurred. The exact reason the bomb fed from the air plane taking the bomb Bay doors with it was not Given. But the govern ment documents indicate a safely release mechanism apparently was moved to the wrong position. The bomb was supported in the bomb Bay by Means of a wrap around Sling that is release acc at one of Iti end by Means of a release mechanism said a 1957 defense department document once a safely catch is removed the Sling could be released by a cockpit Man Ual release connected by wire to the re lease mechanism the document said. A protective cover enclosed the wire near the release mechanism but the Sling was repositioned and the cover Wai moved exposing a length of the manna release wire in said. The last paragraph of the document which May have explained what happened to the exposed and unprotected release wire was edited out of the document released to the journal. Fri agent charged in connection with Union chief fired Washington l i Fri director William Webster has fired Robert s. Friedrick an Fri supervisor indicted on charges of lying in connection with an investigation of teamsters president Jackie prefer a spokesman said wednesday Fri spokesman Bill Carter read a Brief statement that said Webster dismissed Friedrick a 13-year Veter an at the Cleveland Fri Field office effective aug. 22. The decision to dismiss or. Friedrick was taken after serious deliberation and careful consideration of the facts the statement said. Because of privacy considerations these same facts cannot be made available. The Fri administrative in Quiry has been completed and the charges and findings Are Independent of any criminal proceedings Carter would not elaborate. Friedrick 42, is awaiting his dec. 2 trial on charges he lied to Justice department investigators to protect Presser. He was indicted May 15 by a Federal grand jury in Washington on five counts of making false statements to the Fri and Justice department. Presser was indicted on Federal racketeering charges May 16. On May 21, he was overwhelmingly elected to a five year term As president of the teamsters venation s largest labor Union. The Justice department had dropped its investigation of Presser without filing charges after being told by Fri agents in Cleveland that Presser was playing an undercover role and that the activities on which a potential indictment was being sought had been per formed at the Fri s request. Affectionate Dolphin a Pho Linda Urb head of a Dolphin research station has a facility also allows visitor to enter the water Wilt hug for one of her charges in Cress key fun. The the dolphins and even ride on bar tack. Guilty plea entered in capsule tampering Case Orlando Fla. A the first person to be charged in a drug tampering Case pleaded guilty tues Day to lacing cold capsules and diet capsules with rat Poison and told the judge be did t mean to Hurt any body. Edward Arlen Marks of Temple City Calif pleaded guilty to nine counts of a 27-count indictment for placing a rat Poison ingredient in Contact to Aldrin and Dietsc capsules that forced the product to be removed from store shelves in Orlando and Houston in March. Marks had special options on the manufacturer s Stock that would have allowed him to make a six figure profit when it lost value prosecutors said Marks arrest in los Angeles May 29 was the first drug umpiring arrest in a Serin of cases that resulted in at least nine deaths since 1982, although others have been arrested for making extortion demands or threat ening to Poison drugs. Marks 24, could face 54 years in prison and a hefty Fine when he is sentenced oct. 10, said assistant . Attorney Garry Steg Eind. His trial had been scheduled for next week. The prosecution charged Marks with trying to create a National panic in efforts to cause the Stock of drug manufacturer Smithk Jine Buckman corp. To drop. Fri agents said he called police and news organizations around the country and warned them of the contamination saying the capsules were laced with cyanide a nationwide Check of More than 35,000 capsules by March 25 showed traces of warfarin an ingredient of rat Poison in six pills from Orlando stores and three from Houston Fri agents said. There was enough Poi son to sicken but not kill a person officials said the tampering began in 1982, when seven people died in the Chicago area after taking extra strength tylenol capsules laced with cyanide. A Man was convicted and imprisoned for trying to extort is million from manufacturer Johnson & Johnson which is since removed All its capsule products from Over in counter Sale. Last february a new York slate woman died of cyanide poisoning. The Case remains under investigation. In Austin Texas bodies of anacin-3 capsules were yanked off drugstore shelves in May after a College senior died of cyanide poisoning linked to a bottle of anacin-3. Marks worked As a trainee at the Merrill Lynch Stock brokerage office in san Marino Calic in tote 1985, according to court documents. He was Fred. On nov. 26 because of a discrepancy on his application according to company officials. In return for his guilty plea the government agreed to drop the remaining charges. In promised not lop rpt cute Marks in any other jurisdiction court omit to said. There was no agreement Between prosecutor Ted Federal Public defender Jay Stevens on a specific a tence. That will be up to . District judge Patricia few sett who reserved judgment until a pre sentence investigation is completed