European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 15, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes monday december 15,1986 test of nuclear Winter successful experts say san Dimas. Calif. A scientists say they gathered adequate Dala even though Only half the planned area was burned in an Experiment to see if the smoke from an atomic War could dim sunlight and create a nuclear  a Hal Torch helicopter flew repeated sorties Fri Day dripping a napalm like gasoline fuel on 300 acres of Brush 30 Miles cast of los Angeles. It was the first Large scale test of the nuclear win Ter theory which holds that smoke from an atomic War might Darken the sky enough to Cool the climate disrupting agriculture and bringing the extinction of numerous species possibly including Man. We be done about half of what we wanted but it still meets our objectives. We can still come Back nest Spring and Burn the rest Forest service spokesman Bob Swinford said. He said that although they did t Burn As much acreage As hoped we believe we got the scientific objectives  project scientists said it would be March before re sults of the test would be Complete. About 55 scientists flew in five aircraft to Monitor the Reddish Brown smoke that Rose from Lodi Canyon. The chopper ordinarily used to bum Brush before it can accumulate enough fuel for a major fire dumped at least four loads 80 Gallons per Load on the slope Over More than four hours. Flames leaped 50 and 60 feet into the air but the Green rain moistened Brush burned slowly and there was no wind to spread the flames. A 6,500-fool-High plume of smoke Hung Over the san Gabriel mountains. The plan had been to gel a pillar of smoke 10,000 to 12,000 feel High. At this Point we re satisfied. Any Large smoke plume will be of Benefit. It s still the first Field measurement of a fire and it is important said Peter Lunn program manager for the global effects division of the defense nuclear Agency. He said that even after months of study the 1983 nuclear Winter theory proposed by astronomer Carl Sagan and researcher Richard Turco will remain open to debate. Other scientists foresee a nuclear autumn of less drastic and Shorter lived temperature drops. The 1750,000 Experiment had to be halted a week earlier when another Hal Torch chopper snagged Tele phone wires and crashed without injuring its Pilot. Compose yourself has he gof just the St. Paul Minn. A closet conductors music lovers who secretly be stimulate to their favorite scores with Finger Pencil or Chopstick now can upgrade their equipment. The portable Maestro Complete conductor  19.95, includes a Cas Scute tape of eminently con Duc table baroque music instructions a diploma from the North american school of the Artsy and somewhat musically inclined and a Cork handle wooden Baton. I insisted on the Cork handle because after All i you re going to conduct Handel s water music1 in the Bathtub you be got to have one that floats said Nich Olas Nash. Nash an educator Public radio Programmer an operator of a classical music store in St. Paul said he s been a closet conductor since he was a child. As he grew older he decided he wanted a Baton that was the real thing but i was too embarrassed to go into a music store and buy  he thought there might be others who d have More fun with a real Baton than a no. 2 Pencil so in 1985 he created a smaller version of the kit to be sold As promotion by Public radio stations around the coun  sold about 4,000 or 5,000 without making a lot of Effort. It had enough of a positive reaction that i thought let s develop this one step further Nash said. He added the cassette enlisted twin cities conductor Philip Brunelle far help in writing instructions and created the mythical conducting school in the base ment of his Home. Degrees issued by hash s school note that it s a diploma Mill and All recipients receive a master of music in conducting Magna cum loud the degree program ran afoul of guidelines set bythe Minnesota higher education coordinating Board which asked Nash to change the degree to Maestro of music because the supposed school in t certified. Phil Lewenstein. Director of communications an legislation for the Board explained that private institutions must be registered and licensed to offer program sin Minnesota and must have approval to use certain academic terms. Nash says his school has four requirements for graduation. You have to listen to the tape you be got to read the brochure you have to like music and you have 10 pay the tuition in full. No exceptions he said. Nash said he expects to sell about 2,000 of the expanded kits by the end of the year. Apparently there ire a lot of closet conductors All Over the world. I trying to reach those people he said. Music Over kit for you Nicholas nub whom of Lii. Appam. Stateside cleanup no Small chore after truckers toss salad eff1ngham, Iii a workers clean Dup what amounted to a 21-ton Tomato salad on interstate 57 after a truck carrying Peanut ail rammed the Back of a Tomato truck. Troopers said 42,000 pounds of fresh Toma toes spilled along with some Peanut Oil when the truck Driver Haulton the Oil fell  Osblom 26, of Drasco ark., was charged with driving too fast for conditions and received safely violation for driving while fatigued police Sal Herbert Finkston  Osblom nor the Driver of the Tomato truck Rodney Jones 55, of Vinson. Iowa was injured. Hundreds visit Church to see weeping painting Chicago a hundreds of believers and curious onlookers have been crowding into a Small Church to View a painting of the Virgin Mary that appeals to be shedding tears. They have been coming through All Day  said the Rev. Philip Koufos pastor of the St. Nicholas albanian orthodox Church. He added that he and his parishioners were exhausted from serving As guides. They have no doubt As to its Validity Kou Fos  visitors crossed themselves said silent prayers kissed a copy of the picture and wept softly. Some left change and currency on a parti Tion railing but Koufos said the Church has no desire to profit from what some officials have called a miraculous  japanese firms reject Call to Block Home taping san Francisco not japanese electronics manufacturers have rejected american request to include in new digital audio tape recorders a lockout device that would prevent Home taping of commercially recorded music. Specifically the japanese declined to Back legislation being requested by United Stales record companies to install in the new digital recorders a special electronic Chip that would Block such Home taping. Good Samaritan learns her tumor in t cancerous Bremerton Wash. A a woman who talked a Telephone caller out of suicide by telling him How she was coping with the belief that Shehad cancer has Learned her tumor is benign. Stacie Cut mings 26, said her doctor gave Herthe Good news two Days after a Georgia Man telephoned her by mistake and said he was plan Ning to kill himself. Cummings kept the Man on the phone for two hours accepting charges when he Hung up and called Back collect Wink authorities traced i recall to an Augusta ga., hotel. Police took the 38-year-old Man who had been trying to Call a relative who works in Bre Merton to a Hospital for mental  and workers at Bremerton s emergency dispatch Center praised Cummings for her Capa ble handling of the Call Oliver North hero Button declared popular item Washington a a Button Laudin fired while House aide Oliver l. North As an american hero u proving a popular item atthe Headquarters of College Republican a spokesman  group distributed about 200 buttons in Capitol Hill and through Telephone requests inthe lint in Days they were offered said the group s executive director Dennis  Button with a picture of die former National Security Council tide and the words North american hero Cilli for $2, with proceeds earmarked for a Legal defense fund set up for the Marine lieutenant colonel. North u under investigation for hit role in the diversion of iranian arms sales profits to the Contr in Nicaragua