European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 1, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday february 1, 1987 the stars and stripes Page 5 Reagan oks $4.4 billion physics project Washington Jap president Reagan will seek Money to build the s4.i billion super Collider eagerly sought by physicists to answer the most fundamental scientific questions of All what is matter and How is it created the decision to build Llic super Collider so called because it will whirl counter rotating beams or protons into each other shows America believes there arc no frontiers beyond our reach Energy Secretary John s. Harrington told a news conference Friday. In High Energy physics the development of the supercollider is the equivalent of putting a Man on the Moon he said it will have spinoffs discoveries and innovations thai will profoundly touch every human  the already designed particle accelerator to be placed in a nearly circular Tunnel 52 Miles in Circum Ference about 20 feet underground will be one of the most eagerly sought Federal installations in decades. Its construction win require 4,500 people at Peak work Load. In operation it will have 2,500 jobs and a $200 million annual budget. The Proton collision Energy will be 20 times what is possible today and three times the Energy of a projected Collider in an existing smaller Tunnel at Cern the International european accelerator at Geneva Switzerland. Herring Lon said Reagan s decision made Friday after a meeting of the Domestic policy Council on thursday fits the president s concern Tor International competitiveness and Means you have the makings of the most aggressive scientific Basic research Effort of ibis government in  the question always arises what arc you going to get Oul of it it s in the nature of Basic research that you Don t know going into it. In the past these machines have been amazingly successful he said. By some estimates one third of the Gross National product and Industrial activity including All the nuclear Medicine major super computing ability and a lot of electronic Chip technology arose one Way or an other from research in High Energy physics during the past 50 years the Secretary said. The Energy department s budget request for fiscal 1988, which begins oct. 1, contains no Money for the machine. However Hemington said the $60 million needed for 1988 activities could be found easily another projects. Energy Secretary John Herrington answers reporters questions about the proposed particle accelerator. However requests for new Money would be Nec Essary in subsequent years. The Energy department has been spending about j2q million a year to plan the supercollider. An Energy department official said 45 Stales have expressed interest in getting the project. Harrington said there is no front runner. He promised to detail he selection process at a feb. 10 news conference. According to Leon Lett Nan director of the department s for Milan near Chicago Home of the most powerful . Accelerator physicists had bitten off their fingernails and Are Down 10 the stubs in their anxiety. Scientists Lack a fundamental understanding of the physical world and there is reason to believe we Are closing in on it. The convergence of particle physics and cosmology is very end Ting he said. Cosmology is the science that studies the origin of the universe. Collisions of protons in the super Collider will concentrate in ii Region almost unimaginably Small in an almost unimaginably Brief Lime the Energy density thought to have existed during the big bang begin Ning of the universe billions of years ago. Texas killer executed after refusing Legal help _huntsv1lle, Texas a convicted killer Ramon Hernandez was executed by injection Friday after spurning Legal efforts that officials said almost certainly would have kept him alive for at least a few More months. Hernandez convicted of killing a Gas Oline station Mechanic during a burglary in 1980, received the injection at 1 05 . And was declared dead at 1 13 . Hernandez described As a real Good jail House lawyer refused outside Legal help for his defense fearing acceptance would Force him to surrender his Nghil to represent himself in court. Had he been willing to participate i think a stay would have been granted attorney general Jim Mattox said shortly after the execution. His unwillingness hastened the  Hernandez 44, could have remained alive for maybe another year Mattox said. But based on the trial record he certainly would have been executed  on thursday Hernandez rejected the assistance of his former defense attorney Richard Lovelace who had unsuccessfully challenged in state and Federal courts Hernandez s competency to make Legal decisions. When the . Supreme court rejected a final Effort at 12 38 ., the state proceeded with the execution. In his final statement Hernandez declared his love for his wife Velma who watched him die and his four children. Ill always love you. You know that he said. He smiled and added that s  Mattox who informed Hernandez of the supreme court rejection said the convict was concerned to the end that the courts recognized his desire to rep resent himself. He did not want to be represented by attorneys maalox said. He was a real Good jail House lawyer better than most the Case was very strange highly unusual said assistant attorney Genera Bill Zapalac. There Are provisions in the Law thai anyone can file on behalf of an inmate he said. But if the inmate refuses to have it considered the court does t have to consider  Hernandez was convicted of murder in the june 20, 1930, killing of Oscar Frayre at an Elpaso service station. Frayre was asleep at the station which was closed for the night when Hernan Dez broke in and shot and killed him during a struggle according to evidence presented at his trial. Hernandez denied any involvement. Nobody wants to die Hernandez said in an interview earlier. But some dead astronaut s father sues Nasa Houston up the father of challenger astronaut Gregory Jarvis has filed a is million claim against Nasa and he and the Mother of dead flier Judith Rucsnik Are seeking damage awards from the shuttle s rocket Booster maker their attorney said Friday. A. Bruce Jarvis accuses the National aeronautics and space administration of negligence in launching the doomed shuttle on Jan 28,19kb. The claim addressed to administrator Jai Rici Fletcher was received Friday at Nasa Headquarters in Washington said spokesman David Garrelt. Jarvis declined to discuss the Case when reached at his Home in Orlando a. He said any comment would have to come from his lawyers David Slaughter and Ronald Krist of Clear Lake. Slaughter and Krist also arc represent ing Jarvis and Sarah by for of Cleveland Resnik s Mother in talks with Morton Thi Okol inc., maker of the shuttle s solid fuel rocket boosters. We have told them Morton think old what we thought about the cases and said let s late about it " Slaughter said. The Ball is in their court. We re wailing on a response to our demands. We old them we would withhold filing suit until they have a Chance to respond to our  Krist earlier hied suit for Cheryl me Nair wife of challenger astronaut Ron Ald Mcnair against Morton Thi Okol seeking unspecified damages. The Suil was filed after negotiations with Morton Thi Okol failed Krist said. Jarvis can sue Nasa because his son was not a government employee and his relatives therefore Are not barred by the Federal employees compensation act from suing the government. The 41 year old Engineer worked for inc space and communications group of Hughes air Craft co., and was aboard the shuttle to conduct experiments with fluid in space. Times people have to make a stand. I have a Paramount right to represent myself. If i get a stay i won t be malting a stand. Seeing that i m a human being it s very important for me not to die. But at the same time it s important for me to make a  Sands of time in the stars and stripes 40 years ago today. Feb. I 19