European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 04, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday May 4, 1989 the stars and stripes Page 7 court clears Way for Staten Island port new York invt citing nation Al Security concerns a Federal judge in Brooklyn tuesday removed the last major obstacle to the Navy s plan to open a new port on so Alan Island that critics have said will he 2 Baso for nuclear weapons in new York Harbor. The decision clears the Way for the completion of the port which has been a subject of debate since the department of defense announced it in 1986. The battleship Iowa on which 47 sail ors died after a gun Turret exploded last month is one of the ships the Navy has said would be berthed at the port on the Eastern Shore of Staten Island. Judge Charles p. Sifton ruled in the three year lawsuit brought by a coalition of environmental and arms control groups. The groups had argued that the Navy had illegally planned to place nuclear weapons in the Harbor without considering the dangers and environmental consequences. Sifton said he had to dismiss the suit because of the Navy s National Security policy under which it refuses to confirm or deny that any ship is carrying nuclear weapons. The Navy has never said whether the ships on Sta Len Island would have nuclear weapons. But the critics have said it is an open secret known even to the soviet  that some ships that would be based there carry nuclear arms. For the court to consider the Environ mental claims. Sifton said would inevitably Compromise privileged inform  he cited court decisions dating from the last Century that he said have held that some confidential government operations arc beyond the court s reach. The judge s decision came on the eve of wednesday s dedication of the port s main pier. Construction of the entire Complex is expected to be completed next year. Leonard m. Marks the lawyer for the coalition of groups that sued to Block the plan said an Appeal was planned. We think this is a tremendous blow to the Public s right to know about the health and safety risks which arc going to be placed in the Middle of their Environ ment he said. Holocaust victims honoured at Capitol memorial Washington a six White candles each symbolizing a million lost lives were lit in the Rotunda of the . Capitol tuesday in a memorial to the 6 million jews killed in the holocaust in nazi Germany during world War 11. Our memories Are of the millions who died and the Many Many others who though they survived carried with them throughout their remaining lives the permanent scars of the horrors they suffered said Senate Republican Leader Bob Dole of Kansas himself a wounded Veteran of the w a. With the division flags of . Military units that Senate majority u a incr George Mitchell with Kitty Dukakis at memorial in Noriyu holocaust victims. Liberated the nazi concentration Camps flying in the background the Eisenhower liberation medal was presented posthumously to general of the army Omar n. Bradley who was present at the liberation of the concentration Camp at Ohr drug Germany in 1945. The medal was accepted by Bradley s daughter. Mrs. Benjamin Henry Dorsey who said that when Bradley returned from the War the first thing he told his wife was about his visit to the Camp saying he had been almost overcome by the stench of  nothing he had seen during the War had prepared him for this horror Dorsey said. The memory of what he saw stayed with my father All his  Bradley died in 1981. Speakers at the ceremony noted thai construction of a holocaust museum will begin next month near the mall leading from the Capitol to the Washington Monument. Harvey m. Myerhoff chairman of the . Holo Caust memorial Council said its purpose will be a. Tell the store of the victims in their own words with a few material remnants of their destroyed  i in made an Appeal for donations by governments and individuals of artefacts of the holocaust period so that we can Tell the Story accurately and  this museum will Rise like a Phoenix from the ashes to be a Symbol of remembrance for All Ameri cans myerhoff said. Each of the six candles was lit by two people one a member of Congress the other a survivor of the death , at a meeting called to present a Progress re port on fund raising for the museum. Senate majority Leader George Mitchell of a Maine said the new institution will be a Symbol of the Hope that no other such memorial need Ever be built anywhere on the  Kitty Dukakis wife of Massachusetts Goy. Michael Dukakis was appointed to co chair the governors events a fund raising Arm of the holocaust memorial Council. Cuny students Hinckley wants to Start a new life in another country attorney says profess propose tuition increases new York not thousands of students from the City University of new York marched through lower Man Hattan tuesday protesting a proposed tuition increase and calling for a meeting with gov Mario m. Cuomo. Police estimated the number of pro testers downtown at 5,000 while student leaders said the crowd was closer to 10,000. While the demonstration was going on. Classes were being held at most Cuny campuses a University spokeswoman said. However she said classes were sus Pended at the John Jay College of Crimi Nal Justice in Manhattan and at Laguar Dia Community College and York College both in Queens because Stu dents had taken Over classroom build Ings. The students arc protesting a budget Bill before Cuomo that gives the City University $18 million less in state Aid than the University is authorized to spend. University officials have said that to close the Gap the school s 20 campuses must either Lay off faculty members or raise tuition for students by about $200, to $1,450 a year. Washington a  assailant John w. Hinckley or. Wants to leave the United states and Start a new life attorney Mark Lane said tuesday after meeting with Hinckley. He has a Fiancee and together they would like to go to some other country and Promise they la never  Lane said. He wants logo abroad and try to live a Normal  Lane said Hinckley did t specify what country he wants to live in. Hinckley is engaged to Leslie Deveau. A former mental patient acquitted by Rea son of insanity in the 1982 Shotgun slay ing of her 10-year-old daughter. . District judge june l. Green on april 20 gave Hinckley. 33. Permission to Start negotiations to hire Lane As his lawyer. Hinckley contacted Lane by Tele phone and the two met for two hours tuesday afternoon. Lane said. He s asked me to represent him and i agreed that i would read All of the files in his Case at St. Elizabeths Hospital and Tell him if it would be appropriate for me said Lane who has written books about the assassinations of president Kennedy and civil rights Leader or. Mar tin Luther King. Lane said Hinckley wants to be re turned from maximum Security to medium Security and be allowed to speak with the news Media. In 1987. Prosecutors turned up Evi Dence Hinckley was corresponding with serial killer Ted Bundy who was executed last year. A Cache of letters about actress Jodie Foster was uncovered last summer. Lane said. Each time. Is. Elizabeths administration was embarrassed when he was taken to court said Lane. They retaliated by placing him Back in maximum Security Lane acknowledged that Hinckley told him it was stupid of him to write to Bundy. In the Case of the Foster letters. Lane said Hinckley told him a Guy kept writing him asking if he d like Pic Tures of Foster and Hinckley finally re Iii sled the pictures in an Effort to Stop the letters prosecutors contend that Hinckley shot president Reagan and three other men Here on March 30, 1981, to impress Foster. Lane said that shortly after Hinckley was committed lost. Elizabeths after being found not guilty by reason of in sanity the Hospital administration passed a policy directive prohibiting the news Media Froni interviewing Maxi mum Security patients. I think this is first amendment in  said Lane. He s asking that people in the news Media go to court to Challenge thai. I think the american people have the Righi 10 know something about this Man. To Sec what it is he has to say and what happened the Day that president Reagan was almost  asked if he was leaning toward rep resenting Hinckley Lane said "1 think he needs assistance and i think thai his rights Are being  Lane said he would make a decision within two weeks. He emphasized that Hinckley sought him out and said he would t exploit him. I be never written a Book about any client of mine said Lane who wrote Rush to judgment a citizen s Dis sent the Best Selling Book about the Warren commission report into presi Dent Kennedy s assassination and co authored with Dick Gregory code Unnic  a chronicle of the assassination of King