European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 12, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday. April 12, 1987 the stars and stripes Page 5 Utah Hopes pumps will counter rising level of great Salt Lake to glop Ridge Utah a Utah struck Back a Ibe unruly great Salt Lake on Friday As gov. Norm a Tungert or fired up the first of three giant pumps thai Wilt Send rising Waters into the desert. The $70 million pumping project is designed to spew briny Nood Waters onto the desert at the rate of 430,000 Gallons a Day eventually reducing the fake level 4 feet that s great it looks like a lot of water,1 Banger tar joked after sending water gushing into a canal. A crowd or 100 applauded. I am just pleased to have the pumps on even though they Are 45 Days behind schedule the governor said. The main question is can you control the Laker of course no one knows that but we think we arc on the right track this is not a two week project or a two year project it is a 100-year project Banger tar said. The 80-mile-Long, 30-mile-wide Inland sen Al its highest level in recorded history has caused some 1200 million in flooding damage since it began rising in 1982. The project is the stale s first All out attempt to control the rising water which in re cell years has threatened plants that extract Salt from the brine tracks owned by Western Pacific and Southern Pacific railroads and interstate 80, skirting the Lake s South Shore. Slate officials opted to take their chances with unpredictable weather pal terns which could Render the ambitious project useless. Some fear record rain that boosted the take level 12 feel in five years May ease and the pumps May chum nothing but air. A More Remote Prospect is that continued High precipitation will raise the water level so much the pumps will not make a difference nobody knows what the Lake is going to do lamented the suite s water re sources director dec Hansen last Yea they were saying we were in a Wel Cycle Ana it was going to continue. Now they relaying we re going into a dry  nonetheless the Lake is still  taken april i put the level at 4,211.85 feet above sea level lying the historic High established in june Tennessee s sen. Gore plans White House bid Washington not sen Albert Gore or. D tenn., Friday announced plans to seek his party s presidential nomination saying he can offer clearer goals for the nation than anyone else. Gore who said he intended to declare his candidacy formally later this Spring begins his quest for the Nomi nation Wilh two distinctions Al 39. He is the youngest candidate and he s also the Only southerner in the demo cratic contest. At a news conference in the Capitol Core said that although the South provides him a Strong political base he does not intend to be merely a regional Candi Date. This Campaign will be an All out Effort in every Region of the country he said. Answering questions about Bis age con said that after the Reagan presidency americans May feel As they did in i960, it a time Lor our country to turn to youth vigor intellectual capacity in choosing the nation s next president. Asked Why he s entering such a crowded Field Gore said i Hope to bring to the race a discussion of issues thai Are not being dealt with today. I Hope to articulate a Clear vision of the  the issues that Core said he intends to emphasize Are arms control education environmental concerns and competitiveness in Trade. When pressed to say How he differed from other democratic candidates on these issues Gore said i Don t wish to stress differences with the other candidates. I have no doubt that Many differences will emerge in the  in his opening statement the senator said his goals Tor the nation included 100 percent literacy by the year 2000," the lowest infant mortality rate in the world jobs for every american wanting to work and International cooperation in combating such health threats As aids and alzheimer s1 disease Gore made his announcement in the same Senate room where less than 24 hours earlier another democratic senator Paul Simon of Illinois declared a similar in Tention to seek the presidency. On monday Gary Hart a for Mer senator is to declare his presidential candidacy formally in his Home state of Colorado _. Gore who Send four terms ignore the House of representatives be fore winning his Senate seat in 1984, is the son of former sen Albert Gore of Tennessee. Whitehead allowed 2 hours weekly with baby Trenton n j. A the new Jersey supreme court on Friday re instated surrogate Mother Mary Beth Whitehead s right to visit the daughter she bore under a $10,000 contract but Only for two hours a week. The 6-1 ruling came 10 Days after lower court judge stripped Whitehead of her parental rights and granted sole Cus Tody of the year old girl to William Stem the biological father. The supreme court refused to slay Superior court judge Harvey r. Sor Kow s March 31 decision upholding the surrogate contract but said Whitehead could visit her baby pending a. Decision on her Appeal according to court spokeswoman Beatrice Kellum. It s a really Good feeling to know they re giving me a Chance Whitehead said outside her Brick township  m just so Happy i m going to Sec her again. I got it Back. It s reinstated and i m very very Happy she will be Home i fed it in my heart we Lochead said of the girl she Calls Sara. "1 Joist want to see her. White bad also said she was allowed to continue calling the contested child Sara. I think that says a lot from the supreme court she said. Stern and his wife Elizabeth who has adopted the baby Call her Melissa. Apparently the court recognized that the issues presented Are Complex and Are not easily resolved and further recognized that mrs. Whitehead would have suffered irreparable harm if she did not have Contact Wilh her daughter said Harold a Cassidy her attorney. Prosecutor cites escape plan fights easter visit by Hinckley Washington a John w. Hinckley or. Wrote a letter discussing plans to escape from the mental Hospital where he has been held since 1982 for shooting president Reagan a prosecutor said Friday. The letter involving discussions or. Hinckley had Wilh people regarding escaping from is. Elizabeths Hospital Wilt be introduced monday Al a hearing on Hinckley s request to make an unescorted easter visit to his family assistant . Attorney John o. Birch told a Federal judge at an Impromptu hearing. The letter will be among several Hinckley wrote in 1982 and 1983 thai Federal prosecutors will introduce As evidence to oppose Hinckley s request. Birch told . District judge Barrington d. Parker. Birch gave no further details about the letters. Hinckley was committed to the Federal Hospital after he was acquitted by reason of insanity of attempted murder charges in the March 30, 1981, shooting of Reagan while House press Secretary James s. Brady. A secret service agent and a District of Columbia police officer. Parker convened the hearing to consider a motion by Hinckley s attorney Vincent j. Fuller to prohibit the government from releasing diaries and letters writ ten by Hinckley As Well As medical records it subpoenaed from St. Elizabeths Hospital. These papers Are personal to or. Hinckley Fuller argued. I do not think they should be put in the pub Lic  Birch said prosecutors Don t plan on filing every thing Pell Mell that we be gotten from St. Elizabeths Parker instructed prosecutors to inform Fuller in Advance about what documents they plan to introduce As evidence. Hinckley s request supported by his psychiatrists is for court permission to make an unescorted visit to his family at a time Date and place specified by St. Eliza Beths officials. In a Tetter 10 the judge Hospital psychiatrists have said Hinckley has shown steady improvement since a 1983 suicide attempt and is no longer taking psychiatric medication. The letter said the unescorted visit will enhance or. Hinckley s self esteem and provide him the Opportunity to lest out the insights he has gained through his   in the stars and stripes 40 years ago today. April 12, 1947 Charlie Chaplin said at his first foreign press conference that he had not become an american citizen after 30 years in the United Stales because he was not a  30 years ago today.,. April 12, 1957 the Justice department said Congress would be justified in establishing a 10-hour workday for Federal employees if such a move became necessary for government efficiency or Economy. 20 years ago today. ,. April 12, 1967 new Orl Cuns criminal District judge Bernard j. Bagert ordered Sandra Moffett me Mames to return to new Orleans from Omaha neb., to answer questions before a grand jury investigating the assassination of president Kennedy. To years ago today.,. April 12, 1977 Jerry d. Michael or Geraldine e. Carmic Huet a transsexual who had a partial sex change operation although allowed to Wear women s clothes while standing trial for car fraud was sentenced by a los Angeles Superior coun judge to serve in a men s prison