European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 25, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday july 25, 1988 the stars and stripes Page 3 secret service opposes plan for Hinckley recreational trip John Hinckley or. A file photo Washington a St. Elizabeths Hospital wants to allow presidential assail ant John Hinckley or. To leave the mental institution for a supervised recreational Day trip with other patients a District of Columbia official said saturday. The secret service however is opposing the proposed Outing saying that the 33-year-old Hinckley remains a threat to president Reagan and other Federal officials that it protects. Hinckley was committed to the Hospi Tal in 1982 after he was found innocent by reason of insanity in the March 30, 1981, shooting of Reagan White House press Secretary James Brady a secret service agent and a . Policeman. The proposed Outing would except for court appearances be Hinckley s first trip off the Hospital grounds since . 28, 1986, when he received a 12-hour pass to have dinner with his parents. Or. Raymond Patterson administrator of the forensic services division of the . Commission on mental health said a review Board at St. Elizabeths has approved Hinckley s participation in an out ing to a museum or other Public place. Patterson who declined to say when or where the Day trip might occur said that such outings Are routine for St. Elizabeths patients once physicians decide they Are capable to participating in such activities. These activities Are considered therapeutic and allow physicians to see How patients Are Able to handle themselves Patterson said in a Telephone interview. He said that outings generally last from two to 12 hours and that there is always at least one staff member for every five patients on a trip. Federal prosecutors have asked . District judge Harrington Parker to hold a hearing on the proposed Day trip. Par Ker who presided at Hinckley s trial was not consulted about the 1986 pass and Hospital officials agreed to inform him in Advance of such activities. Patterson said that St. Elizabeths d9es not inform the courts about impending Day trips by other patients committed there As a result of criminal proceedings. Or. Hinckley will Benefit therapeutically from participation in this activity the Hospital said in a letter to Parker. It has also been clinically determined that he can participate in this activity without posing a danger to himself or to  secret service spokesman Richard Adams said the Agency disagrees. We Don t believe he should be released under any conditions Adams said. We believe him to be a threat to our prote tees and will continue to believe that. There s nothing that s been shown to us to indicate he s any  expert questions ski study s objectivity new York times a senior weapons scientist said sat urday that his evidence that Edward Teller had exaggerated the Promise of the nuclear a Ray laser a key Star wars project had been removed from the final version of a recent congressional report. The scientist Ray e. Kidder of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California said that the removal called into question the objectivity of the report from the general accounting of fice an investigative Arm of Congress. In a report made Public last week the Agency said that Teller a physicist credited with helping prompt president Rea Gan s program to defend against missile attack was in most cases no More optimistic than his colleagues in hailing the status and prospects of the a Ray laser a weapon that in theory would Channel the Power of a nuclear explosion into beams of radiation to destroy enemy missiles. The report also said that there was no agreement among atomic scientists Over the accuracy of Teller s statements. The Agency report was requested by Congress after the former head of arms development at Livermore Roy d. Woodruff charged that Teller repeatedly had exaggerated the laser s prospects in secret correspondence with top administration officials. On saturday officials of the general accounting office said they had re moved Kidder s one Page statement be cause it added nothing significant to the final report. It did t swing the balance one Way or another said James Ohl chief investigator for the Gao study. It was just one More  but Kidder said that his statement originally was included in the report be cause he had been involved deeply with Teller s a Ray laser an impossible dream the laser dispute and had worked closely with Teller during the period in ques Tion. From 1983 to 1985, Kidder advised Teller on the laser project and wrote a series of top secret reports that were pessimistic about its potential. It had been the position of the Gao that my testimony was quite important Kidder said. I was definitely on the in Side working with Edward  the statement removed from the re port said Kidder had cautioned Teller that the a Ray laser might not reach expected Levels of brightness a key Mea sure of a Power. It also warned that the weapon could be vulnerable to soviet countermeasures. Although work on the weapon began nearly a decade ago it has failed to materialize and remains a top secret research project buffeted by budget cuts and controversy. Although it placed Teller among his Peers the report did cite instances in which he went far beyond his colleague s assessments of the laser s potential. For instance he suggested in a letter to Paul h. Nitze the state department s senior arms control adviser that a sin Gle a Ray laser module the size of an executive desk could potentially shoot Down the entire soviet land based mis Sile  drought gets jump on frogs in Competition Pousman wis. A the drought is even beginning to interfere with Good clean fun. Officials of the annual Derby Days festival said the dry conditions this summer made it difficult to find enough frogs to compete in the 33rd annual state Frog jumping contest this weekend. Last year 300 Frog trainers ranging in age from 2 to 99 years entered their leapers. But not everyone conies to the Competition with his own Frog so contest organizers sell locally raised jumpers for $ 1. Jane Abbott 76, a contest organizer said marshes Are dry this year and there s been a dra. Matic decline in the Frog population. Usually by this time of year we have lots of frogs hopping around croaking and just having a Good time Abbott said. But not this  contest organizers called local companies that use frogs for research and asking them to donate competitors Abbott said. The woman at one company said we have some but they re All bullfrogs i told her i Don t care what the frogs Are full of i just want frogs " Abbott said. Abbott who has judged the Competition for 33 years said participants have no shame about the Way they go about trying to win. Once a Frog is put in the jumping Circle and the timer is ticking owners often drop to their Knees and coax cajole and even sing ballads trying to persuade their Green athletes to jump she said. It is anything but dignified she said. Frogs Are funny you know. Sometimes they la jump for Ward and then just turn around and jump Back