European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 5, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 4 the stars and stripes monday december 5.1988 nuke weapons Plant restart delayed new York a the Savannah River Plant the nation s sole source or a critical nuclear weapons component May not reopen until the end of 1989, months later than the Energy department projected the new York times reported sunday. The later than projected restart is because of delays in implementing a department plan to overhaul train ing safety inspection management and other opera Irons at the Plant the newspaper said citing govern ment engineers. Savannah River is the nation s Only source of tritium a radioactive farm of Hydrogen used in nuclear weapons. The Gas decays rapidly and must be replaced. None has been made since april. Pentagon experts have said that if Savannah River docs not have All three reactors operating by next sum Mer extraordinary Steps might be needed including deactivating warheads and taking the tritium for higher priority weapons. On tuesday Energy Secretary John s. Herring Lon said one of the three reactors at the government oper ated Plant near Aikin s.c., would open by Spring or summer. The reactors have been closed for safely Rea sons. Robert m. Keller a senior nuclear Engineer at the Energy department who wrote the overhaul plan said it May take until december 1989 to restart the first of the reactors according to he times. The newspaper said engineers estimated that it would probably take until the end of 1990 to restart the others. C. Arisen Franklin the Energy department s chief spokesman said Herrington last week was not making a firm prediction Only a Guc Simale that May or May not be validated when All the information is Franklin said a report due to be completed thurs Day would outline the schedule for pulling the plan into effect and offer 8 firm Date for reopening. Dressed to live Melissa Sadr a Joan Collins look alike mod Els an $80,000 Bullet reset ant russian Sable coat it the showroom of Juliana originals inc., in new York. The custom made Coats destined for women who dress not to be killed Are lined with panels of Kevlar a synthetic fiber five times stronger thin steel. Crash caused by disgruntled worker leaves Mark on u. S. Airport Security los Angeles a one year after a fired air line employee smuggled a gun aboard a Jet to kill his former Boss traces of the crash that killed 43 people have disappeared from a cow pasture but Eft their Mark on the nation s airports. Since the dec. 7, 1987, crash of Pacific Southwest airlines flight 1771, All airline employees including uniformed pilots must pass through Security Check Points. The Fri has closed its criminal investigation and the National transportation safety Board is expected to Issue its report this month. In april the Federal aviation administration pro posed computed coded cards that would allow employees Only into areas when they work. The system would reject cards of former employees and note when some one tries to reach a restricted area. The Faa has yet to require the computerized sys tem said Faa spokesman Fred Farrar. But los an Geles International Airport where right 1771 originated has adopted a similar computer aided card thai gives Security guards instant Access to information about the employee who must also give a personal identification number. The Airport also plans to erect Concrete barriers and fences lopped with barbed wire to keep intruders off the Arr fiend said manager Steve Yee could a gunman carry a weapon onto flight 1771 today nothing is absolutely impossible but it would be extremely More difficult to accomplish that said Clif ton Moore Airport executive director Farrar also called it unlikely adding at that time he should t have gotten through but he apparently used a Cord that he kept after he was fired David Augustus Burke 35. Of Lone Beach a 14-year us air employee smuggled a .44-Calibcr magnum re Volver aboard the plane that Day and probably shot both pilots in route to san Francisco Federal authorities said. The cockpit voice recorder picked up six shots and Shultz defends decision to bar Arafat from entering the . Washington a the United states broke no . Agreement when it barred Palestine liberation organization Leader Yasser Arafat from entering the country to speak at the Headquarters of the . In new York Secretary of state George Sulu said Sun Day. Related Story on Pige the treaty that allowed the world organization to locate in new York generally prohibits the United states from imposing any impediment to the entry of those having business with the United nations Shilz acknowledged 1 but we carefully preserved our right to exclude people who we think threaten the Security interests of the United Stales Shilz said on abcs this week with David brinklcy.". Do we have the right to exclude anybody that Thev . Invites the answer to thai is clearly yes we Shilz continued. And then second within the scope of that reservation Given our Law was it proper to exclude Arafat on the grounds of terrorism and terrorism s relationship to our Security and i think the answer to thai is yes Shutlz said he is comfortable with the decision he made a week earlier to bar Arafat even though Only Israel backed the United Stales when his move was condemned on a vote in the , Genera Assembly. Silly Highl senators and senators elect of both Par Arafat Shultz lies signed n Tetter hailing Shultz s decision. The Secretary of stale was asked Why he would allow nicaraguan president Daniel Onega whose govern ment the United Stales opposes to come to the United nations. There is a Law in the United slates that finds the Plo to be a terrorist organization and denies visas 10 members of the Plo he replied. There is no Law having to do Wilh Nicaragua fell silent with the plane at 22,000 feet. In seconds the jetliner smashed into the pasture killing a aboard Burke s airline badge was found amid the wreckage providing a clue to How he bypassed Security with the gun. Us air maintains Burke turned in his badge. Burke had been fired As a ticket agent three weeks earlier by us air spa s Parent company for allegedly stealing $69 in cocktail receipts. Raymond Thomson 48, Burke s former Boss was on the plane. Investigators at the crash site found a note on an air sickness bag that read i Ray i think it s sort of ironical that we end up like this. I asked for some leniency for my family remember. Well i got none and you la gel at least 31 lawsuit have been tiled on behalf of the passengers families according to attorney Mimi Blacks Lee. Many of the cases were consolidated and Are scheduled for trial May 1. Several cases have been settled in june a Granite and Bronze memorial was erected at a Southern California cemetery where ii never identified victims arc buried. Bill Harwell has reseeded his pockmarked pasture. You d never be Able to Letl thai anything happened said sgt. Jim Mulhall with the san Luis obis to county sheriffs department. It looks like any other Gloria Gottesman of Veradale Wash whose Daugh Ter Julie was killed in the crash said she remembers taking the 20-year-old flight trainee to the Airport a week earlier. She watched pilots walk unchecked through Security and recalled thinking boy if you wanted to sabotage a plane ii d be really easy to do it like other relatives she remains bitter about the Security system that allowed Burke to smuggle the gun aboard it would be Nice if it did t happen if they were doing their Job she said. Who can say it s just a damned Burke s Mother said her son it missed i Don t believe he d do any of those things she said in a Telephone interview ram her Home in Rochester , "1 dont know what to say what happened Only the lord Safe twin cities hit by 14 killings in 10-Day period St. Paul Minn a police Are puzzled by. A rash of 14 homicides in the 10 Days since thanks giving in the twin cities area considered one of the sales metropolitan areas in the country. It s very strange said sgt Marvin Rorvick of the Minneapolis homicide unit which it investigating seven deaths in two arson fires nov. 26 and 27. We go months without any murders and All of a sudden there s a fifty six homicides have been recorded in. Minneapolis this year already breaking the re Cord of 48 in 1975 and 1986. In 1987,46 homicides were recorded. In is. Paul two stabbing and two strangling in the past week boosted to is the number of homicides there in 1988, six More than last year but fewer than the record of 20 in 1985. I think what you have is coincidence said Eicr Parilu a sociologist at the College of St. Thomas with a per tip in criminology. As a general Rule 1 would t say there s cause for con -. According to Fri figures for i 986, Minnesota s major crime Rale per 100.000 people was 2.5, compared with 10.7 for new Yore ,
