European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 19, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 6 the stars and sth1pes saturday. December 19.1387 trailblazer a pin la Chrysler s Assembly Plant in Sterling Heights mich., produces the company s first car earmarked for Europe a 1983 Dodge Luicir. It will be marketed in the Chrysler its in Europe House Senate conferees agree on Nevada nuclear waste site Washington api House and Senate negotiators agreed thursday to legislation that designates Yucca Mountain. Nev., As the probable site for buying the nation s High level nuclear wastes. The nuclear waste measure part of the giant budget reconciliation Bill designed to implement the recent j76 billion deficit reduction agreement would scuttle separate plans previously passed by the House and the Senate. The House had called for further studies Al Yucca Mountain and two other Sites the lanyard nuclear reservation in Washington and deaf Smith county Texas. The Senate version had listed toward the Nevada facility but left the door open for another Choice. The House Senate conferees however agreed to Hall All preliminary work at the Washington and Texas Sites saving an estimated 13 billion. Surface testing would continue Al Yucca Mountain for two years and deep Shaft exploration would begin in june 1989. Nevada would be let off the Hook Only if a special negotiator succeeds in finding a voluntary Host for tie repository by that Date. No slate has volunteered to Date. In Reno. Gov. Richard Bryan decried the Deal As a dark Day for he expressed disappointment that Congress would preside Over such a legislative Travi Sty. He said the plan has never been the subject Ofa single Public in Washington. Sen. Harry Reid d-ncv., said i feel betrayed especially by the House of representatives. They took Public health and safely put it in a bos shoved it to one Side and brought out a new Box that Haj in it base raw Power but sen. J. Bennett Johnston d-la., chairman of the Senate Energy and natural resources committee boasted this solves the nuclear waste problem. We got a site and we will be Able to put the nuclear waste there Johnston said he was Well aware thai nevadans Are not particularly Happy about in but they be known for some time they would be picked. I would bet anything that after it is built they Wou id deem it one of their treasures he said. The Senate Bill under a plan fashioned by Johnston would have rewarded the repository state with a si00 million Federal payment annually but inc conferees struck Down that provision. Johnston also wanted to construct a so called monitored Retro viable storage facility mrs for Short to provide for interim Cooling and packaging of the nation s 40,000 metric tons of High level nuclear waste mostly spent fuels from More than 100 nuclear Power plants. And he would have paid the Host state for the mrs 150 million annually. But the conferees struck Down that incentive pay ment As Well and barred construction of any mrs until construction of the repository itself gets underway. High level wastes considered lethal for 10,000 years now arc stored in pools near the reactors that generate them. Construction of he repository is scheduled to begin in 1998, with com ration five years later. Smart missile right on target in air Force test at Florida base Eglin fab. Fla. A an air to ground guided missile that would replace traditional bombs passed a major test thursday striking a target 15 Miles from the Jet fighter that launched it. Air Force officials said. The successful Leit of the agm-130 Means the project can move into full development and evaluation the next phase before operational testing and evaluation then production said col. Francis Sabo agric 130 program director at the air Force armament Divi Sion based Here. In thursday s test a prototype missile launched from an f-4e phantom ii scored a direct hit on a billboard target at this base in the Florida Panhandle said Cape. Pat Englehardt a Public affairs officer. The agm-130, guided with an infrared or television camera mounted in the nose represents a new Genera Tion of stand off weapons also known As smart bombs thai would replace uncovered Glide bombs. They were first introduced in the tale stage of the Vietnam War. Stand off weapons enable an aircraft to bomb heavily defended targets such As Bridges and anti aircraft missile Sites without flying Over them thus reducing the risk of being shot Down. The new version lakes the concept a step further by adding a rocket motor turning the bomb into a missile and enabling Illo be launched father away. Stateside woman finally becomes . Citizen at age 104 Manchester Conn. A it s taken Mary Stevenson a few years but at age 10-4, she s finally n . Citizen. We believe this is probably
