European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 20, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes wednesday september 20,1989 pact reached on wastes at Rocky Flats nuke Plant Denver a Federal Energy and environmental officials announced an agreement monday for handling wastes from the Federal Rocky Flats nuclear weapons Plant an Issue that had threatened to close the Plant. Energy Secretary James Watkins said the agreement also involving officials from Colorado shows the department of Energy s commitment to follow the nation s environmental Laws. This agreement is a first in what will be a series of Steps to refocus our priorities on environmental compliance he said in a statement issued in Denver. "1 believe today s action also further demonstrates Doe s willingness to work toward Resolution of compliance issues with both the environmental Protection Agency and the  the problem arose because of concern by officials for Doe and Rockwell International corp. Which runs the Plant for Doe. About their personal liability for the Plant s failure to follow environmental Laws by storing the mixed wastes there. Officials said the concern was real because earlier this year several civilian employees at the army s Aberdeen proving grounds in Maryland were con Richard v. Secord Secord fined 2nd time for driving drunk Vienna a. A retired air Force maj. Gen. Richard Secord a key figure in the Iran Contra affair has been convicted for the second time since May of driving while intoxicated. Secord was sentenced in general District court on monday to a $500 Fine with $250suspended, and loss of his Driver s License for six months according to Vienna town prosecutor Kevin Kessler. Pcs scr said Secord failed a Field sobriety test after his vehicle was seen in june approaching at about 2 Miles an hour an intersection with a Green Light and being passed by other vehicles Secord is awaiting trial on a charge of refusing to give a blood or breath Sample the prosecutor said. In the earlier conviction which is under a peal Secord was fined $300 and ordered to join an alcohol safely program. Secord an arms dealer was the chief operative for former Marine it. Col. Oliver North in the Iran Contra affair in the diversion of iranian arms sales profile to  rebels in Nicaragua. Vic cd of illegal storage treatment and disposal of hazardous wastes there. Long term storage of such wastes at a production site in t allowed yet there is no federally approved disposal site or treatment process for wastes including radioactive or otherwise hazardous materials. Doe officials noted inc problem earlier this sum Mer and Chr Ealend to close the Plant until some Solu Tion was reached. Then last week. Rockwell officials indicated the same concern and said shutting the Plant was an option. The Plant 16 Miles North Cal of Denver employs Aboul 6.000 people and is inc Only one in inc nation that makes plutonium triggers for nuclear weapons. Federal officials arc worried that the nation s de sense could be compromised with such a shutdown. Under the agreement which first came to Light last week. Doe will handle the Waslis in compliance with requirements for hazardous waste storage and will Minimi a the production of such wastes. In addition Doe will develop a report that includes the information necessary to assess the situation at Doe facilities nationwide. Attitude change toward aids urged by Koop Washington a retiring surgeon general c. Everett Koop is urging that inc new National aids com Mission try to turn around the mean  that some americans show toward people with aids. And the outspoken physician suggests that those who acl hat fully toward victims of the incurable disease should be treated in the same Way by  could isolate inc mean spirited people in this country and if the rest of society could treat them wit the same repugnance Hal those people treat persons with aids. I think that should be your goal Koop told the commission , who has soul in to heighten awareness about aids during his tenure As the nation s top health adviser also said the government must find a better Way to reach icon Agurs who arc ignoring Ai of warnings. We know thai sexual activity is rampant and that people of the group i m talking Aboul Are nol Lis lining to  he  spoke to the National commission on acquired immune deficiency syndrome As it held its first Day of testimony from experts. The panel was created by con Gress last year to advise the president and Congress on aids issues. The Federal centers for disease control in Atlanta said there arc 105,990 americans who have been diagnosed As having aids. Of those 60 percent arc homosexual or bisexual males and 20 percent arc intravenous drug users. Koop caused an uproar with his october 1986 report on aids in which he advocated sex education for Young children i still believe in that very  he told the , he said should be joining with and nol fight ing the schools in gelling this done and getting it done  do believe if we taught sexuality in kind Loving compassionate caring ways in a family context thai we could raise a gun Calion of teen agers to be less sexually Active than inc ones we have Loday he said. The panel which Mcl for the first Lime last month will take up the work of an earlier aids commission formed by president Reagan and chaired by adm. James wat Kins. That panel called for a major escalation of Federal efforts to Sircal cure and prevent aids and for legislation to protect victims from discrimination. Commission member Belinda Mason a 30-year-old Mother of two who contracted aids through a blood transfusion said the panel can make a difference in inc lives of people with  All want nothing More and nothing less Man whal All of you Lake for Gran cd today a place to live the right to have a Job decent medical care and to Lead our lives without invisible barriers she  said she would like to Sec the commission work for Federal protections against discrimination for people with aids and for policies Hal gel expensive drug  to those who need them. Over 500,000 vehicles being recalled by Ford Washington a Ford motor co. Said monday it is recalling nearly 493,000 Ford escorts and Mercury Lynnes to fix faulty emis Sion control systems and 67,156 Mercury trac ers because of an apparent scat Belt defect. Repairs of either problem will be made at no charge to car owners regardless of the vehicle s age or mileage. Ford and the environmental Protection Agency said in separate statements. The vehicles recalled for emission system improvements have 1.9-liter engines and include the 1985 Ford escort and Mercury Lynx and the 1986 escort. Lynx and Ford exp. Cars made for Sale in California arc excluded from the Ford recall because they arc manufactured to meet that state s emission standards. California s standards Are More stringent than the Epa a a Ford spokesman said. The tracers being recalled were made in the 1988 Model year. There Are 66.314 in the United states and 842 in Canada Ford said. Sterile me flies released to protect Calif fruit crop Mountain View Calif. A two Mil lion sterile me flies have been set Loose with a Mission to protect California s fruit crop by Mes sing up the sex lives of their Fertile relatives. State officials aboard slowly moving flatbed trucks monday released the hot Pink irradiated Flics from buckets beginning the state s final assault on a Small but worrisome infestation Here of the Mediterranean fruit Fly. Which destroys fruit  wild me flies have been found since aug. 31. On sept. 8, helicopters sprayed Mountain View Sunnyvale and los Altos i Northern California. But Mcd Fly maggots inside fruit and in the ground were not affected by the  the time the me Fly eradication program ends Early next year As Many As 600 million sterile Flics will have been released in a 47 Square Milc area. Woman removes knife from Chest stabs attacker Albany . A a woman who was stabbed a half Inch from her heart plucked the knife out of her Chest and stabbed the fleeing assailant in the Back police  attacker got away said police who checked with hospitals to Sec if he sought treat  k. Croft 37, was in critical Condi Tion tuesday at Albany medical Center Hospi Tal. She was stabbed sunday night in her House in Albany s fashionable Center Square neighbor Hood. Police said the attacker had to climb a series offences some As High As 12 feet to reach the window he used to enter the House. Groft is the curator of the Albany museum or history and Art and is married to David , Stepson of financial columnist Jane Bry ant Quinn and brother of mtg personality mar tha Quinn. Secret service agent sentenced in arrest Case new York a a secret service agent convicted of using excessive Force to arrest a Man near a presidential candidate s new Yor motorcade last year was sentenced monday to six months in a Halfway . District judge Pierre leva imposed the sentence on Kevin Schatzle after viewing a videotape of the april 10, 1988 incident. At the time Schatzle was in the Security detail for  Gore then campaigning for the demo cratic presidential  jury convicted Schatzle. 28, in june of using excessive Force when he kicked and punched at Torney Christopher Gorayeb 32. He had laced up to one year in prison. During the trial Schatzle testified that the Law yer spat at him. But Gorayeb said he was attacked when he yelled an obscenity at the passing motor Cade because one of its cars almost hit him As he legally crossed the Street Gorayeb testified that he suffered a broken nose and deep bruises