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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 17, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday. June 17, 19bb the stars and stripes Page 7 App held ji.?1,.?,"rtl to Ifil la e recuperating Turbo who one wildlife expert feels should be destroyed. Finder refuses to abandon Gigantic Toad Orlando Fla. A a Security guard rescued a giant Toad from a downtown sum and splinter its broken leg with a paint stirrer but one wildlife expert suggested the Pesky 4-Poundamphibian would be better dead than led. Jim Bartlelt 20. Found the 9-Inch Grcen and Brown Load when he got out of his car after seeing an animal thai had avid Cully been struck by a vehicle. I was t prepared for this Bank Cut said wednesday holding up the Toad he named  believe Turbo is a Bufo Marinus giant tone Toad native to coastal areas in South America but introduced to South Florida in the 1930s to control the Beetle population in sugar can reids. They grow up to a foot Lonj and arc some times found around Miami. I have never heard of one that tar North said Henry Mushinsky a biologist at the univer sity of South Florida m Tampa. Bufo Marinus has glands near its eyes con taming a Strong Poison that can cause temporary blindness in humans if the fluid comes into con tact with the eyes. The White secretion also can kill Small animals i including cats and dogs. Drug probe shut Down at nuclear weapons lab Washington a the Energy department prematurely shut Down an undercover investigation of widespread drug trafficking at a top secret California nuclear weapons Laboratory and tried to prevent con Gress from finding out House investigators Learned. At the Lime the drug investigation code named operation snowstorm was killed agents were still pursuing leads on 127 employees at the Lawrence liver More National Laboratory near san Francisco who were suspected drug users or dealers witnesses said. Rep. Ron Wyden d-ore., said inc nine month in vast Galion was abruptly halted in september 1986 tic cause officials were fearful of publicity about rampant drug trafficking at Livermore where highly classified research into president Reagan s Star wars missile de sense system is conducted. It seems to me that this operation snowstorm should be called operation Snow Job Wyden said. He said de officials seem to think just saying no is enough. Doe is too afraid of the stigma of drugs to do anything about  rep. John Dingell d-midi., chairman of the House Energy and Commerce subcommittee on oversight and investigations declared or have serious questions about the integrity of Security at our nation s most sensitive nuclear weapons and research  Dingell said thai after Doe and liver More officials shut Down the drug investigation hey attempted of conceal this fact from the subcommittee by providing conflicting statements to the subcommittee staff Andy withholding key documents Dingell said operation snowstorm began in january 1986 because of an alarming number of Laboratory employees who were becoming involved in drug re lated incidents and arrests including the Sale of computers and other govern ment property for drug Money. David a Leary who managed the undercover investigation. Testified that Many of the drug pushers among Liv Ermord s 8,500 employees held top secret a Secu Rity clearances. He said the illicit drugs they we reselling included cocaine marijuana Metha Phela mine and barbiturates. Dingell quoted John wed it Hunt head of safeguards and Security at Livermore As telling investigators that if operation snowstorm had been allowed to continue we would have to arrest 20 percent of the  detective Robert Buda who was recruited As an undercover agent from inc University of Californi police Force for the investigation said he was very. Very surprised at being Able to make his first drug Purchase from a liver More employee within one week Buda said this convinced him that drug traffickers regarded classified areas of the Laboratory As a com plete Sanctuary where they were  within a few months confidential informants had fingered 35 suspected dealer or drug users at the Laboratory Many of whom held a clearances. Buda said he was flabbergasted to learn that the investigation was terminated three Days before he received clearance to pursue drugs Speis in Livermore a classified Green badge area Pingell said the subcommittee staff has evidence that senior Doe officials exerted pressure on authorities at Livermore to shut Down operation Snow storm prematurely and to conceal operation snowstorm from House investigators. More than half of new mothers return to work within a year Washington a the working Mother has become the Norm in America with a new census re port that More than half of All new mothers Are Back in the Job Market within a year of giving birth. The share of women returning to work or actively seeking jobs within a year after arrival of a baby climbed to 50.8 percent last year the first Lime it has topped half of new mothers according to the report Fertility of american women june 1987." in 1976, when the census Bureau first asked the question Only 31 percent of mothers went Back to wort within a year of a baby being born. It climbed to49.8 percent by 986, every time a statistic approaches the so percent Mark of the labor Force it s not an oddity anymore it s a Way of life Martin o Connell chief of the census Bureau s Fertility statistics Branch said wednesday. The real Story is the number of dual employed Cou Ples where they have a child. That s the big news that s been happening the last 10 years said o con Nell. At 13.4 million dual earner couples with children make up More than 40 percent of All married couples in the  o Connell pointed out that he added Means that american businesses Wilt have to pay close attention to the needs of these workers and families. O Council addressed the topic last year in a Sepa rate privately published analysis juggling jobs and babies America s child care Challenge other findings of the new census study included the National Fertility rate for the 12 months ended in june 1987 was 71 births per 1,000 women aged 18-44, not significantly different from he rate of 70.3 a year earlier. The rate was 68.5 for while women 83.2for Blacks and 95.8 for hispanic women. The rate was 95.0 for married women 38.1 for those who were single and 23.5 for women who were widowed or divorced. Labor Force participation for new mothers was s3 percent for Black women Al percent for whiles and 36 percent for hispanics. The labor Force participation rate for new mothers with College degrees reached 63 percent compared with 38 percent for i Host Wilh jus 12 years of school ing. Widowed divorced and separated mothers were most Likely to be working at 66 narc Cal. Married women were second Al 49.8 percent followed by single mothers 49.5 percent. New Jersey guard recruits veterans of All Ages Towt Tow m t t a is  . Trenton . A the new Jersey National guard commander apologized wednesday for a recruitment let Ter which was accidentally sent to a 91 year old world War 1 Veteran and hundreds of other men too old or Loo disabled to enlist. The world War 1 Soldier whose name was not released by stale officials wrote that he was Filfli iced but ill state s adjutant general maj. Gen. Francis r. Gerard said he feels some of the other ineligible Are upset there s enough for us to be concerned about and to publicly apologize. I wish we could have avoided in Gerard said. It is something that is very embarrassing to  the new Jersey army National guard needs recruits because Only 80 percent of its 13,000 authorized positions Are filled. The unit is considered combat effective at 85 percent. Officials say new Jersey s booming Economy and Low unemployment rate Are primarily responsible for the shortage. The mailing which included an a peal signed by Coy. Thomas h. Kean went out nearly two weeks ago to 300,000 new Jersey veterans. The guard targeted this group in order to save the 140,000 in training costs incurred every time someone with no military experience enlists. The direct mail Campaign Cost s203.000, but will pay for in scuff if Only six veterans enlist a guard spokesman said so far the response has been prom Ising More than 2,800 veterans have written or called the guard expressing an interest in signing up. Of those contacted veterans like the world War i Soldier were thrilled or in some cases amused to gel the Teller and the accompanying certification of appreciation from the governor. "1 am tremendously flattered by go Kean s offer said Albert Marks 7i, a world War ii Veteran. If he would offer me a liar at my age All i would like is one Star i would consider  Harry Romano 67, of West new York said he was surprised to find the letter in Bis mail and added to Don t even think 1 can hear the Bugle in   
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