European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 19, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes sunday october 19,1986 full of Beans up photo John Mccartt of Mohani cyborg ph., enjoy meal of Beans while relaxing in his tub filled with Yon guessed it Beans As he tries to set a record for silting in a Bathtub filled  baked betas. Mccrae Besso his Bath of Beans wednes Day and is timing for i five Day slay in the tub. . Nuke Plant gets of to Load fuel in reactor Concord . A the builders Aflfe sea Brook nuclear poor Plant have received permission to Load it with fuel and conduct tests but Musl await further approvals before starting up the reactor. The Federal nuclear regulatory commission on Fri Day approved a Zero Power License for the Plant allow ing the fueling and limited testing. It s not a precursor it s not a decision to anything beyond this said Frank Ngram a commission spokesman in Bethesda my. New Hampshire Yankee Seabrook s builder said the tests approved on Friday will enable the plan to Goilo service More quickly after the reactor is started and Low Power testing begins. Tom Marshella a Utility analyst with Moody a investors service in new York said the commission s action is no Assurance Seabrook will get a License to operate commercially. Although the Zero Power License is an important event Here s no guarantee that it brings them any closer to full Power operation he said. Marthella said he expects the Public service com Pany of new Hampshire Seabrook s main owner 10 get permission for Low Power testing up to s percent by inc end of the year. But he noted that winning a full Power License is a tougher matter because the com Mission requires approved evacuation plans for communities surrounding a nuclear Plant. Last month Massachusetts gov. Michael Dukakis refused to submit those plans for the six communities in his state within 10 Miles of the plan. Dukakis maintains there is no Way to ensure that residents could be protected in Case of a major Accident. Massachusetts attorney general Francis x. Bellotti who had asked the commission s appeals Board to Stop approval of the fuel loading and reactor testing said he would continue with appeals. The Seabrook project is expected to costs billion unless further delayed. Stateside government to continue probe of corruption in postal service Washington a . Attorney Joseph i Gencva says lie will continue an investigation into corruption at the u a. Postal service following a guilty plea by a former Ronald Reagan Campaign manager who admitted he tried to subvert the postal procure ment  said Friday his office is conducting an ongoing criminal investigation following the admissions in court by John Gnau who has pledged to Coop Erate with prosecutors a 10-Page felony information filed with the court alleged 26 r overt acts Over two Yean in which Gnau and Peter Voss vice chairman of the postal Board of governors conspired to manipulate the postal procure ment system. During an appearance in . District court Gnau owner of a Bloomfield Hills Mph based Public relations firm admitted he paid an illegal Cash gratuity of $2.500 last feb. 25 to Voss. Gnau 56, also admitted in the two count felony information that he and Vosi conspired beginning in december 1983 to defraud the postal service by at templing to steer postal procurement contracts 10 manufacturing and real estate companies represented by Gnau Gnau the government said agreed to give Voss a 30 percent share of proceeds from consulting contracts which Gnau with Voss help was Able to arrange with companies seeking postal service business. Gnau s plea arose most notably from his efforts to profit from a s250 million mail sorting equipment contract that Voss sought to have awarded to recognition equipment inc. Of Irving Texas said a statement issued by Digenova after Gnau s court appearance. The proposed contract would be Worth so billion Over 10 years when maintenance and other Estt Are added in prosecutors said. The mail sorting equipment contract a not Yel been awarded and no one has been prosecuted at ret which still is in the running to Supply the equipment. Rei officials say they knew nothing of any fee splitting arrangement Between Gnau and Voss. The firm hired Gnau on Voss recommendation. Gnau and Voss attempted to influence postal projects that involved real estate in Chicago and the potential Purchase of time keeping equipment according to the felony information that prosecutors tiled with the court. They also sought to influence the proposed hiring of a real estate brokerage firm to evaluate the postal service1 property holdings the government said. Gnau who managed Reagan s presidential campaigns in Michigan in 1976 and f980, faces up los even years in prison and $500,000 in fines he will be sentenced dec 19 by . District judge George Revercomb. Voss resigned from the postal Board May 30 after pleading guilty to embezzlement and accepting an Ille Gal gratuity from Nau s firm in connection with the Rei contract Voss will be sentenced Friday. 1 St minnesotan pays grass tax1 Minneapolis a an Anonymous Man be came the first minnesotan to pay taxes on illegal drugs under the grass lax la thai took effect aug. 1. The Law requires drug dealers to buy sumps for their illegal wares but officials weren t expecting Deal Enlo actually comply according to a report in Fri Day s Minneapolis Star and Tribune. The Law  in court is designed to give state officials a Way of prosecuting dealers not Only for dealing but also for lax evasion. The state s first drug stamp customer found his Way to the special taxes division of the state Revenue department thursday and paid $150 for is a stamp tiie minimum number that can be bought for 1.5 ounces of marijuana toe newspaper Aid stale officials have no Way of identifying the Man. Report finds More youths using smokeless tobacco Atlanta a Twenty two percent of eighth Grade boys in some Wisconsin schools regularly use smokeless tobacco and 35 percent of the girls have tried it according to a health  figures on the use of snuff and chewing tobacco reflect a National Niimd of widespread use of smokeless tobacco by youngsters the National centers for disease control said Friday in its morbidity and mortality weekly report. By february 1987, Federal Law will require smokeless tobacco products to carry warnings that the products May cause Oral cancer and other diseases. Report of escaped cobra was probably bad joke Portage Mich. A a tip let King cobra was Loose left police with $ 10,000 in cod and the feeling thai the Only make in the Gran was the  have turned their efforts to tracking Down the Anonymous caller who nude but month s missing Snake report now believed to be a hoax. I would seek prosecution without question said police chief George von Behren. There i always a Chance in was i a hoax bul tight now u looks like a very slim  Man claiming to be the owner of a 14-foot Long King cobra called police sept. 9 and said the deadly reptile had escaped. Poll shows English favored As official Calif language san Francisco a a Hale ballot proposition to make English the official language m California has the 4-1 support of voters according to a new California poll the Survey released Friday by Pointer Mer Vin Field also found that proposition 63 Tut the most recognition of any measure on the novem Ber ballot seventy seven percent of those questioned said they Are familiar with the proposal to require the legislature to enforce making English the stale s official language. Backers including former sen. . Hayakawa contend the measure will prevent fracturing the state into linguistic ghettos. Opponents say to a unnecessary racist and could exclude some peo ple from  California poll surveyed 743 registered voters by Telephone from sept. 24 to oct. 2. Sex brokerage firm Boss sentenced to 30 years fort Lauderdale. A. A a judge has sentenced the former president of Securi ties brokerage firm to 50 Yean id prison for his Rote in the bilking of 1315 million from invest  b. Wallace 45, who had headed est government securities said he had hoped for a lighter sentence but understood the judge ruling minded out Friday. Wallace Matt me at least 10 years before he it eligible for parole. The collapse of the firm in 1985 parked a Ninon savings and Loans institution in toe slate or Ohio forcing Many of them to clue. To he Cott school Bonanto and cities around the Fulcd states who had invested millions of dollars Nasa selects 2 Crews to conduct shuttle tests space Center. Houston a a Tow of astronaut veterans and a Crew of rookies have been selected to conduct launch pad test at the Kennedy space Center in Florida using the space shuttle Atlantis. Nasa spokesman Jack Riley said fonday the astronauts will participate in a countdown lest and in a lest of launch pad emergency evacuation  members of lie last successful i we shuttle Mission will conduct the countdown lot. They Are Robert to Gibson Comuni Iufer. Charles f. Bolden Pilot and Muston Spe Oahu Franklin r. Chang Diaz Steven a. Haw Fly and George d. Nelson