European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 19, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday december 19, 1988 the stars and stripes Page 7 aide says nuclear Plant funding found Washington a president Reagan s chief of staff disagreed publicly sunday with Energy Secretary John Harrington saying there will be enough Money in the president s budget to safely operate he nation s nuclear weapons facilities. The president has said consistently we Svon l operate any of these plants unless we can operate them in a Safe Man  Kenneth n. Dubers Cin said on the Abc television s meet the  Herrington. In a dec. 9 letter to Dube Sicin said the Energy department would have to shut some of the plants because there would not be enough Money to comply with safety and environmental taws herring Ion said the president s pro posed budget to be submitted Jan. 9, Falls Short by $360 million. He told dub Stcin i must in Good conscience advise you that. The system will in All likelihood he operating beyond he Bounds of acceptable  details of the letter were published sunday in the Washington Post. Dubers Cin during the Abc appear Ance said the Money needed had been found within the Energy department crack found at Savannah Plant Aiken . A a Small crack has been found in a Cooling pipe at a reactor at the Savannah her plan nuclear facility Bat it should not if text next summer scheduled restart of he reactor Energy department official said saturday. Ten seas Betm he department of Energy s acting assistant manager for reactor operations said that the cracking the 4-Lneh pipe occurred in a Weld Are where two pipes join the Augusta pm chronicle reported sunday. The pipe supplies Cooling water to reactor control rods which Are raised and lowered within the reactor vessel to control the fission protest. Sjostrom mid the crack  detected Friday by ultrasonic eats Dar ing Al routine Check of the reactor s piping. A three  reactors known As the a l and p reactors Tia ire Bee shut Down since summer for safety up grades and maintenance. The Plant is the nation s Only source of tritium a Radl actin Gas used to boost the Power of nuclear weapons. Because tritium decays $5 percent annually some Federal officials say the nation could face forced reductions in nuclear weapons unless the reactors Are restarted soon. In Washington Richard w. Staros Tecku he Energy department s Deputy assistant Secretary for safety health and Quality Assurance said a team of experts to the weapons Plant next neck to assess the situation the new York times reported sunday. Budget. What f am suggesting is you can either do it through new spending and additional Money or you can take some a obligated balances thai Are still there Nutcracker Street in the Energy department and funnel them to operation of the plants dub Rstom said. Or. Herring Tori suggested that he wanted some additional spending rather than going in to the Energy department resources and looking for some Money which we have done he said. As reported in the Post. Harrington said the Energy department might have to choose Between upgrading Plant safety and meeting the defense department s production goals for nuclear materials. If the department gives priority to production goals then unresolved Environ mental and safely issues arc Likely to Lead to further shutdowns in the weapons  Harrington said in the letter. Herrington said that the country s ability to produce and maintain a nuclear weapons stockpile is in serious Leopar  the risk is great that without a significant increase in resources Over the next five years we will no longer be Able to sustain a Strong nuclear deterrent in which we have invested j57 billion since 1980," he wrote. The Energy department operates 17 weapons plants. The department has proposed spend ing s50 billion in the next 20 years to build new facilities and Correct the most pressing environmental problems. Children Frum buro Park in new York City stare up at a Christmas decoration of nutcrackers at a Manhattan building. The toy soldiers Are 12 feet tall. Homosexuals say judge faces voter vengeance Dallas a a Gay rights Leader says voters will remember a judge s statement that he gave a lighter sentence to a murderer partly because his two Vic Tims were homosexuals. The Texas human rights foundation a Gay rights group meanwhile filed formal complaint against slate District judge Jack Hampton with the state commission on judicial conduct. These two. Guys that got killed would t Nave been killed if they had been cruising the streets picking up teen age boys Hampton told the. Dallas times Herald in Friday s editions. I Don t much care for queers cruising the streets picking up teen age boys he said. I be got a teen age boy Hampton who has been on the Bench eight years said the Hotnog sexuality of the murder victims entered into his decision on nov. 28 to give 18-year-old Richard Lee Bednarski a 30-year prison term instead of inc maximum term a life sentence. Hampton expressed no reservations about his statements the paper reported. Just spell my name right Hampton said. If it makes anybody and they a forget it by 1990," when he is up for re election. William Way Boum president of the Dallas Gay Alliance said he Hopes Ham Pton s remarks will prompt the Public to work to remove him from the Bench when he comes up for re a Lection. Judge Hampton said it himself no one will remember this in 1990. But we Wilt re member Waybourn said. Father arrested in child s death meta1r1e, la at a Man who pleaded tearfully on television four months ago for the Safe return of his missing i  has been arrested in her death authorities said. Gerald Estrade. A 32-year-old Posta Carrier was arrested Friday night on a charge of first degree murder and was ordered held without Bond said Jeffer son Parish sheriff Harry Lee. He was a suspect All along. From the first Day he was a suspect Lee said. There were a lot  thai kept leading us Back to Estrada. We Don t have an eyewitness. But we have physical evidence in our  Hunters discovered Melissa Estratis s remains dec. 3 in Woods near pass Christian miss. Estrado had said his daughter disappeared after he dropped her off at a Mel agric Day Camp aug. 3. A staff member at the Day Camp reported Melissa missing when she failed to show up fora Roll Call. Estrade is divorced from Melissa s Mother Sharon Smith who had hired a psychic to try to find her daughter. Computer Hacker apologizes Livermore Calif a a Hack. Or who cruised for weeks through inc unclassified computer system of a Federal nuclear weapons Laboratory has been identified and apologized to authorities. 1 no arrests were made and officials1 would not identify the  a communication he regretted the difficulty caused by his actions and agreed to Stop accessing Lenl computers said Jeff Garberson spokesman Tor  rence Livermore National Laboratory. Officials pleaded through local Media for the Hacker to Contact them. That Ted to several phone identifying suspects. An official said earlier that the Hacker did t invade the lab s top secret nuclear weapons research computers which arc physically and electronically. Separated from the unclassified system. The lab run by the University of Cali fornia at Berkeley is a Center for design manufacture and testing of nuclear weapons.". The Hacker first appeared on the lab s internet system about two weeks ago. The Hacker accessed various lab computers and gave himself super user status so he could roam through files but no data or files were destroyed. Lab officials said he made at least ii system tres passes the list on dec 10