European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 31, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday. March 31, 1987 the stars and stripes Page 9 of studying Small nuke generators would produce Power during War by Richard jul Loran in a protracted nuclear War according to air Force department of Energy congressional and Industry officials. The reactors which would be transported by air around the country and overseas would produce Emer gency electrical Power for computers communications lines weapon launching Sites support equipment and repair shops the officials said they would be used if die commercial Power Grid on which the air Force relies was destroyed by nuclear attack. The officials estimated the plan would take five Yean id execute and would Cost about $20 billion. The department of defense has requested $5.5 Mil lion for the project in the fiscal year beginning oct. I thai Money would be for partial payment of an $11,9 million contract being negotiated Between the govern ment and Westinghouse. Six companies in the nuclear Industry submitted design concepts and Westinghouse was selected to submit a detailed design for reactors that could pro Duce 10 Mega wills according to Gary s. Flora the air Force s associate director of engineering and services the dimensions and weight of the reactors and the nature of containers and other safety devices for trans porting Idem have not Yel been decided. If the program goes into production the air Force and department of Energy would probably place the fint orders in the United slates in More than 10 years for nuclear Power plants. Politically the project which officials said the air Force had tried to keep out of the Public Eye seems Likely to provoke dispute As it proceeds. On one Side the officials said the project is vital to the Reagan administration s strategy for fighting a nuclear War and to the air Force which is charged with developing most of the weapons and supporting Struc Ture to Flint such wars. The nuclear Industry that would produce the reactors it deemed Likely to support the project. On the other Side would most Likely be anti War groups environmentalists who oppose nuclear Power and a variety of people who would say the plan will add to the Federal deficit much of the debate will probably go on in the con Gress which must approve All funds for research development and production of the nuclear reactors. Today the air Force depends largely on commercial Power grids for electricity to operate everything from gyroscopes aboard ballistic missiles standing ready in silos to support facilities for bombers armed with nuclear bombs or cruise missiles. Air Force official have testified before Congress that Dairy Power requirements for bases today Range from five to 60 megawatts during Peak demand and Cost $900 million last year. The officials have Esti mated that wartime demands would be double that requirement. The electric Power grids arc highly vulnerable to attack sabotage and terrorism air Force officials said Only Small diesel generators and batteries would be available in emergencies and Many of those would be As vulnerable As the commercial Power Supply. The Small generators moreover would require Oil or gasoline supplies that Are certain to be disrupted during a nuclear War. Thus the officials said the air Force is seeking sources of electricity that could be protected from re pealed nuclear attacks and could continue to provide Power to command posts communications apparatus and weapons As american nuclear forces kept firing. The Reagan administration s doctrine Tor protracted nuclear War has called for the deployment of the my intercontinental missile the Trident ii submarine launched missile the by bomber and the stealth bomber the latter designed to evade detection by radar and a variety of cruise missiles administration officials have said survival of communications would be the critical element in a nuclear conflict the president his senior aides and military commanders must be Able to get information relayed from space and around the world and to transmit orders to dispersed forces. After a Survey of bases Flora told a House subcommittee ii Days Aeo that the key components of our Energy Supply and distribution systems Are vulnerable to Accident natural disaster terrorism sabotage War and economic  Flora told the science and technology committee s subcommittee on Energy research and production the department of Energy recommended Small nuclear reactors As one viable option that could satisfy our needs and proposed to assist us in the evaluation of this  congressional officials informed about the program said each nuclear reactor would Cost Between �5 Mil lion and $75 million to build when the line is at full production. Thus 300 such reactors could Cost about $20 billion. Underground Concrete and steel shelters would be designed to protect the reactors. An executive in the nuclear Industry said the air Force project would not be Large enough to bail out the ailing Industry but the project has a lot of Promise a spokesman for Westinghouse said the company would have no Public comment until the contract under negotiation bad been signed. Vermont town sweetens Winter s Dregs. Barre it. A most peo ple think of Snow As a nuisance something to shovel off the drive Way or at Best As a medium for play As in skiing snowmen and snowball fights. Here they eat it coated with Maple syrup. Sugar on Snow is a late Winter tradition in Vermont where the end of March often finds the Woods slip deep in Snow and the Days just warm enough to make the Spring sap flow. And on saturday the town served it up on a plate of alumni num foil 1,320 feet Long in a bid to get into the guinness Book of world records As the biggest scr. Ingo sugar on Snow. The event attracted a huge crowd of people who sat at 90 tables Down the Middle of main Street. Some people ate the sugar on Inow As it was others used it As a dip with 1,500 doughnuts supplied by a local grocer and some used it Bocoat Kirtles. Falwell accused of using just $300,000 of $3.2 million raised for Africa Relief Washington up evangelist Jerry Falwell who newly agreed to cad the Ftp ministry shaken by another to evangelist s sex scandal has been accused of raising s3,2 million for famine re Lief in Africa while actually spending Only a fraction of it on the program. Falwell came under lire in a . News and world report Story sunday that said he raised $3.2 million in 1985 86 for famine Relief in Sudan but spent Only $300,000 mostly to Send 15 col lege students there to refurbish a Camp and to buy trucks for the project. The Magazine said Falwell raised 1740,000 from four moral majority appeals and $2.5 million from other fal Well groups. Falwell told the Magazine the $2.5 million figure was absolutely Ridick  his spokesman Mark Domoss added the organization bad been committed to a 10-year famine Relief project in the Sudan that was Cut Short by about nine years because of political  according to state department cables and key Falwell aides the Magazine said the operation never directly distributed any food in Sudan because of obstruction against such Aid by the sudanese govern ment. Jerry Falwell Faleu s project was unable to per form any services in Sudan the mag Azine quoted an oct. 3, 1985, internal state department Cable As saying. At his Thomas Road Baptist Church in Lynchburg a sunday. Falwell referred repeatedly to the si72 million it Empire he took Over March 19 when founder Jim Baiker resigned in a sex scandal that Shook some of the giants of television evangelism and the assemblies of god Church. There Are people today just rejoicing in this scandal Falwell said. But sin is not something new that was invented with Jim  Falwel saturday raised the possibility of a criminal investigation in the pal sex scandal telling the Atlanta journal Constitution that when you get to pay ing extortion Money that s real close to the Edge especially if it s not your Money it was the first time Falwell had used the word extortion in comments about the Bauter affair. Oklahoma City evangelist John Wes Ley Fletcher told the Charlotten cob server he urged Church Secretary Jessica harm who had been a Babysitter for Fletcher s children to meet Bakker for a sexual tryst in 1980 because he feared the pal Leader was suicidal. Fletcher by his own admission an Al Coholic at the Lime said Bakker threat ened suicide unless he found a Way to make his wife Tammy jealous and win Back her affections 5 officers reported killed by mutinous Viet troops Bangkok Thailand up cambodian Resis Tance radio monday said demoralized vietnamese troops in Cambodia this month turned on their superiors in an incident that left five officers dead. In an earlier reported Larup soldiers fought among them selves and two were killed. The voice of democratic Kampuchea said that on March 15, vietnamese troops posted North of Kom Pong Thorn Cambodia 75 Miles North of phenom penh fought Over their failure to detect land mines that injured three soldiers. Two soldiers were killed in the dispute and the rest were jailed the radio said. In an incident two Days later vietnamese troops attacked their officers it said. On March 17, vietnamese soldiers National in Kampong Thorn town planted mines underneath their superiors Beds and exploded them killing five offi cers the radio said. The perpetrators then fled Home 10  the incidents could not be independently confirmed and diplomatic sources have said Post resistance claims often have been proved false or exaggerated. Vietnamese deserters in Western Cambodia however have said morale among troops especially Hose drafted from the South is Low and relations Between officers and men Are often poor. Vietnam maintains an estimated 140.000 troops in Cambodia propping up the it inborn penh government installed after a 1978 invasion. The vietnamese face a three part resistance coalition that numbers less than 50,000 and has confined itself to Small scale guerrilla attacks