European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 1, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stabs and strikes Friday april 1,1988 Senate oks Aid to nuke fuel Industry Washington an the Senate wednesday passed 62-38 a Bill designedly cwt jaw Chedeva Saied . Uranium Industry and restructure the govern ment s own failing program to sell enriched fuel 10 nuclear Power plants. The Bill whirl faces an Uncertain future in the House also would establish a 51 billion fund to clean up or stabilize Large Mil Jim radioactive piles or uranium tailing Al 26 Sil in seven Western states. The Cost would be shared equally by uranium Mill owners nuclear utilities and the government. Among i s More controversial provi Sions the legislation which took six years to Clear the Senate would impose a schedule of escalating pc on nuclear utilities that Load it Cir re actors with More than 37,5 percent for eign uranium. Beginning in 1995, How Ever utilities could buy up to hair heir uranium from foreign suppliers without penalty. Opponents including Sens. Bill Brad Ley in j., and Daniel Evans. A Wash. Argued that this would violate the spirit of the recent free Trade pct signed with Canada a leading exporter of relatively inexpensive High Grade Ore. Bradley and Evans lost an attempt. 47-45, to delete the import restrictions from the Bill. Settle the nuclear Industry s debt to the . Treasury for Post purchases of enriched uranium at �364 million. Opponents argued that the figure should be As High at ib.8 billion. Convert the department of Energy uranium enrichment program supposedly self financing but a Multi gluon Dollar loser since the mid-1970s, into a corporation owned by the government. If and when the Enterprise Dugins turning profits the. Treasury could sell he Stock in a bid to recover previous investments. Tie National taxpayers Union the environmental policy Institute the Union of concerned scientists the . Public interest research group and environmental action All opposed key pro visions of the Bill particularly the Fea Ture that limits the government s recovery of uranium enrichment costs to s364 million. The groups argued that charging just s364 million is in unprecedented bailout for the nuclear Industry since the White House has estimated thai the Industry should be billed $3 billion and the Gen eral accounting office said the govern ment should charge $8.8 billion. The 1954 atomic Energy act required Oie government to be fully compensated for its enrichment of nuclear fuel used by commercial utilities. Enrichment is a critical process in nuclear Power. It involves increasing the percentage of fissionable material in Nat ural uranium from 0.7 percent 1o about 3 percent the amount necessary for use in Light water reactors. When the government began enriching commercial fuel in 1969, the United Stales was the Only free world supplier of the service for nuclear utilities and Busi Ness was booming. Predictions of burgeoning demand led in the expansion of the three Doe plants and. Even then i capacity was committed out then came a drastic decline in tic demand for nuclear Power with utilities cancelling plans for More than 100 additional Nastars since the late 197th. Meanwhile two european consortium and the soviet Union began to Supply foreign utilities with enriched uranium and by the 1980s, the . Monopoly had dropped to 50 percent of the Market. Even some . Utilities found it cheaper to buy foreign uranium adding to the government enrichment program s woes was the fact that the Energy department contracted with the Tennessee Valley authority for billions of dollars Worth of electricity to operate it production plants. But when demand fell off thai electricity was t i cd even though to a charged for it anyway. The Senate legislation Settle that Long term debt Al s 1,2 billion. Estranged wife has abortion thwarting last minute Legal move Salt Lake City a a divorcing couple s Legal Battle Over their unborn child apparently ended when the 18-year-old woman underwent an abortion l forc she could be served with a court order blocking the procedure. Jennifer Reynolds ended her a week old pregnancy Over her estranged husband s objections. The abortion took place in less than an hour wednesday Between the time a District court allowed the procedure and the Utah court of appeals blocked it said Rosemary gae Nick spokeswoman for the state court system. The abortion was performed before the appellate court could serve mrs Reynolds with papers reinstating a temporary restraining order vacated about an hour earlier by 3rd him Rich judge David a Young. Gacnik said. The appeals Conn had scheduled a monday hearing to consider 2 5-year-old Michael Jon Reynolds Appeal of Young s decision but her husband s attorney said the hearing might be pointless if the it Tus had been aborted. If the abortion has taken place we re going to have to make some serious evaluation. There s a pretty food argument that would malic it Moat said the attorney Mitchell Barker. Young issued the original restraining order Lai week when he ruled that mrs. Reynolds could not have an abortion pending Resolution of a divorce re rated custody dispute involving a 10-month-old infant and the fetus. Me vacated his own order on wednesday when be accepted arguments by american civil liberties Union attorneys that a woman has a constitutional right to end her pregnancy. Young said that while Reynolds May have the right to be consulted about any abortion involving mrs. Reynolds she had the Kim at authority Over whether to carry the fetus to term. Barker acknowledged mrs. Reynold s right to privacy but said her husband also had the right of procreation and that when the two clash it is the courts which rust decide who prevails. Later while barter filed an Appeal to the appellate division that reinstated the restraining order pending monday s hearing mrs. Reynolds drove off to have the abortion. Inspector wins fat Bias Case Bismarck . A a fired track weigh inspector who wit so Large the Highway patrol weighed him on a truck scale got his state Job Back and the patrol got a scolding Lor being biased against fat people. The stale personnel Board unanimously ruled wednesday thai Melvin hair leu i weight had not affected his work and hat he was discriminated against when Highway patrol superintendent Brian Berg fired him july 31. The Board ordered that Olansen. 4$, receive Back pay which his lawyer said totalled about s15.000. When he was fired Hansen weighed 463 pounds according to testimony. Slate insurance commissioner Earl Pomeroy chair Man of the five member personnel Board said the importance the patrol placed on Hansen s weight was discriminatory because it was not related to his Job performance assistant attorney general Sandra Warren said the patrol would Appeal the ruling. Llan Seu a truck weight inspector since 1977, lost his Job at a station near the Minnesota Border where he weighed trucks and inspected cargo. A letter to Hansen listed his Lack of control Over his weight his inability to Wear Agency uniforms and his body odor As reasons for his dismissal. Hansen did not attend the three hour hearing wednesday because everybody wonted to see How big he was said his attorney Hal Slutsman. " his appear Ance would Bave Only served to satisfy  Stutsman refused to give Hansen s current weight putting it somewhere Between 320 and 463 pounds. The patrol once weighed Hansen on a truck scale according to testimony at the hearing. The action was dehumanizing and showed a shuck ing Lack of sensitivity and crass attitude on the part of or. Hanson s supervisor said stale personnel Divi Sion analyst Bonny fetch who recommended Han sen s full reinstatement. Blind Man dropping Bias suit Boca Raton. Fla. A a Man turned Down for residency at a apart men i because of he blindness says hell drop a discrimination complaint now that he has been accepted As a tenant. Larry to Mycek 3s, says hell move within a few weeks into a Juso per month apartment at a condominium building at Ducr Field Beach. These people said they Are sorry thai they made a mistake or said tuesday at a news conference Al i attorney s office in Boca Raton. "1 accept their apology Tomec Csc has lived with his parents near Delray Beach since the Condo directors Rek Clatl i application on feb. 11, saying they feared that he might cause s fire or trip on stairs and that they might be sued. Tomeck s discrimination claim in Broward county also will be dropped u soon As the Keswick b Condo minium association picks up moving Cost for Bis per Sonal belongings a bib Are in storage said Larry Cor Man. Tomeck s attorney. I m glad it ends on a Happy note said Morris Barnett one of five Udwick b directors we want 10 help him and everything. It should have never happened and i m glad it s straightened out. We want to be a truck and move the Shuflin for  stateside More men than women like above knee Hemline new York a while conceding thai the style is inappropriate at times men arc far less willing than women to once again consign the miniskirt to fashion history according to a poll published wednesday. Some 36 percent of men say they prefer above the once hemlines for women s skirts according to the new York times lbs news poll. That compares with Only a Quarter of adult women who Jay they be worn a skirt that Short in the past year. In addition 11 percent of the men surveyed say they favor skirts Al or above the knee while 46 percent of women say they prefer skins below the knee. The poll of 1,654 adults was conducted by Telephone Between March 99 and 11 and bad a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 3 percent for women and 4 percent for men. The potential error for smaller subgroups ii larger. Nevada gov. Bryan to run against gop sen. Hecht Reno nov. A democratic gov. Dick Bryan announced his candidacy for the  Senate on monday with a swipe at Republican incumbent Chic Hecht. If he wits the kind of senator Nevada de serves i would not have made that decision to run said Bryan who is in the Middle of his second four year term. Tile 50-year-old former attorney general has. Won Praise for his opposition to me govern ment s proposed High level nuclear dump at Gucci Mountain and has held a wide margin Over Echt in polls taken Over the past year. Fra sues Miami company Over defective condoms Miami up the food and drug administration says it wont to destroy 1.5 million South korean made condoms stored in a Ware House and bound for Colombia and Peru be cause they have Boll s in them. The Fra filed suit in Miami Federal court contending the condoms Are defective and there fore arc Misla bled. The packages claim they Are highly effective against scuba try transmitted diseases and  the suit Laid. The condoms Worth about 1125,000, belong to Nedelec International an Imp on Eji Pon com Pany headed by Skcar Docal of Miami. Ducal agreed the condoms Are inadequate by Fra standards but he said they comply with other International standards and were always. Intended for Pori. These Are some Randoms that were bought in order to Niport Docal Laid. They ire  Colombia and Peru and Are not for commercial Sale in the United