European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 6, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday novembers 1987 the stars and stripes Page 7 a giant inflatable booted leg hangs Over the facade of new York s Martin kicking off the act Beck theatre to promote the currently running play into the  attorney general out to get me Mecham claims Phoenix Ariz. Ai1 Civ. Evan Mecham said wednesday that state at Torney general Bob Corbin is out to gel me in his investigation of the Gover nor s Imrch ported $350.000 Campaign loan. You ask me is Boh Cochin out to gel me you d belter believe he s out to gel me Mecham said in the television interview contending the attorney general has used his Power in the office so Many times and abused  Corbin replied he thinks everybody s out to get him. I m not out to gel him. A parcs now i m in the group of news Pap,.,., and others that the governor sees As his opponents. Meanwhile the Man who provided the $350.000 Campaign loan said he received a $100,000 payment wednesday to pc Developer Barry Volfson reached at his vacation Home in Mexico said he received some checks totalling $100.000. And that some of the promissory notes that were signed to Back the loan had been cancelled. No loan from Wolfson is listed on Mecham s Campaign or personal finance reports to the Secretary of state s office. Mecham has said the loan was reported but has declined to specify How or where. However he promised to outline How the loan was reported in a later inter View. The Arizona supreme court is to con Sider tuesday whether c Orbin. Like Mecham a Republican should be re moved from the loan probe because of Mecham s allegation he has a conflict of interest. Also during the interview. Mecham would not say whether he plans to mount a Legal Challenge to the 391.738 petition signatures filed this week by the Mecham recall committee. Mecham was asked if he would resign if enough of the signatures Are validated to Force a recall election. I really hardly Ever answer speculative  he said. Bath Iron works facing record $4 million in fines Bath Maine a Federal officials wednesday proposed a record $4.2 million in fines against Bath Iron works charging that the shipyard s health and safety program had suffered a Complete  it would be the most severe penalty Ever levied against a single employer said a labor department official. Bath Iron works is the largest private employer in Maine. Investigators for the occupational safety and health administration who inspected the shipyard in May documented More than 3,000 instances in which it allegedly failed to meet Federal standards said John a.  assistant Secretary of labor for Osha. A six month investigation found Asbestos Laden dust in work places the spraying of some workers with raw sew age and a Lack of proper respirators for others he said. The company has 15 working Days to Appeal. Terrorist nuclear risk increasing Washington not the risk that terrorists will obtain commercial nuclear materials As they arc transported Between nations is Likely to increase in coming years according to a review of Security Mea sures conducted by the Pentagon. Opportunities for terrorist acts including attempts to steal civil plutonium. Will increase substantially As a result of the increased commercial use of plutonium the defense department said in a report delivered without fanfare to Congress. Plutonium a by product of nuclear Power plants that is recycled for further use is also a main material used in  weapons. Because of changes in the design of Nui Icar Power stations around the world the amount of plutonium used in the world s Power re actors is expected to expand greatly and plutonium separated from nuclear Plant wastes is expected to move from nation to nation increasingly. The United Stales produces plutonium Only Al Mili tary installations for use in weapons. France and other countries however arc exploring the feasibility of breeder reactors to produce plutonium commercially to fuel other reactors or for weapons. International agreements and . Law govern the Security provisions enforced when plutonium is moved. The Pentagon s report on the adequacy of these safeguards which was one of several Reagan administration reports requested by Congress expressed greater concern than reports sent by the slate department and others. The report delivered Long after its due Dale As Feder Al agencies wrangled Over the tone of the Security assessments estimated that by the late 1990s As Many As 300 shipments of separated plutonium will leave waste reprocessing plants in Europe every year bound for other countries in Europe and for Japan. Study probing earthquake potential los Angeles a military satellites will help measure How the Earth s crust stretches and Squeve is As scientists try to assess the earthquake threat Lonu Clear Power plants East of the Rockies. Eventually we d Hope to use this method to understand when and where earthquakes would occur in the Eastern United  said William strange act ing chief scientist of the National geodetic Survey. The Multi year study begins nov. 12. In will use five Globa positioning so slim navigational satellites along Wilh ground based radio receivers to measure ground movement. Strange said. We re interest cd in understanding As Best we can the source of the earthquake Hazard in the  United states said Andrew Murphy chief of structural and seismic engineering for the nuclear regulator commission. National geodetic Survey scientists will calculate distances Between 45 ground Sites by measuring radio signals Scal by the satellites to receivers. The measurement system is so precise that for two receiver Sites 500 to 1.000 Miles apart the calculated distance should vary no More than one Inch from the exact distance strange said. If Money is available the agencies plan to repeal the process every two years for at least 10 years so they can measure gradual changes in those distances. Student default of loons colled intolerable Washington not Secretary of education William j. Bennett wednesday called the rate of de fault on student Loans intolerable and said he plans to draw strict new guidelines that Cui ild make hundreds of schools ineligible for Federal student Aid. Beginning in 1990, educational institutions would be disqualified from receiving Federal education Grants a it Loans if their default Rale in the Federal Guaran teed student loan program exceeded0 percent. If that Standard were applied now 32 per Tell of the institutions in the loan program would of disqualified according to statistics released by the eau Tion department. Bennett said the education department would spend about $1.6 billion on payments toward de faulted Loans during the present fiscal year the third most costly program in its budget. Most of the institutions with High default Rales Are Beauty schools other Trade institutions or inner City two year Community colleges. Most four year colleges and universities have default Rales under 20 Percy no. Among those that would be disqualified with rates exceeding 20 percent arc several units of the City University of new York including the John Jay College of criminal Justice Kingsborough Community College York College and Bronx Community College and two branches of Long Island University the Brooklyn Cen Ter and Connolly College