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     European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 11, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 a the stars and stripes sunday March 11,1990nuclear test jolts Nevada areas Yucca a Flat Nev. Up a a a nuclear weapon detonated 1.500 feet beneath the Nevada desert saturday generated the Force of a moderate earthquake and was fell by some observers on High Rise gambling resorts 85 Miles away in Las vegas. The test code named Quot Metropolis a was the first nuclear lest announced by the United states this year and the 700th at the government s 39-Ycar-old Nevada test site. Eleven anti nuclear protesters conducted a Vigil near the Gates of the Nevada test site 30 Miles from ground Zero where the weapon was triggered beneath Yucca Flat an arid desert Flat on the Nevada test site. Two men were arrested on charges of trespassing when they stepped Over the government properly line at the top secret department of Energy facility. Eighteen protesters briefly picketed the department of Energy building in downtown Las vegas without incident. A spokesman at the earthquake information Cen Ter in Golden colo., said the nuclear blast measured 5.1 on the Richter scale a magnitude equivalent to a Quot moderate earthquake. The recent Southern California earthquake had a magnitude of 5.5 on the Richter scale. Chris West a spokesman for the department of Energy said government observers on the High Rise Fitzgerald a hotel Casino in downtown Las vegas reported feeling a a slight Earth motion Quot but they were unable to determine the direction of the Earth movement. Observers at the High Rise Regency towers a posh condominium on the Las vegas country club near the strip also fell slight motion. There were no other reports of Earth motion and no damage. West said. The detonation at 8 . Had a yield of 20 to 150 Kilotons or a maximum equivalent of 150.000 tons of int. The atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima during world War ii was a 13-Kiloton weapon. The United states announced 12 underground nuclear weapons tests last year at the Nevada test site six of which were in the 20 to 150-Kiloton Range. A no radiation escaped into the atmosphere and initial data indicates the test was a  West said. The nuclear weapons test conducted by the Livermore National Laboratory was the 700th at the Nevada test site since the facility became operational in 1951. Quot Metropolis was no. 495 since the United states and the soviet Union signed a treaty in 1963 mandating that nuclear weapons tests be conducted underground to avoid the release of radiation into the Earth a atmosphere. The 20 to 150-Kiloton yield of the saturday test also conformed with conditions of the  threshold treaty negotiated by former president Nixon. The treaty never ratified by the . Senate has been the subject of International peace talks for the past year while . And soviet scientists have exchanged information on verification in Hopes of winning final ratification. Newborn boy saved from trash Presser new York up a a Newborn boy was pushed Down a Chute into a trash compactor in the basement of a housing project where a caretaker heard his cries and saved the infants life saturday by shutting off the machine police said. The caretaker Ferris Brown heard the wailing baby about 8 40 . While Brown was cleaning up trash in the basement of the building in the East new York Section said sgt. Mary Wrensen. A police spokeswoman. Brown turned off the trash compactor and then called 911, when police and an ambulance Crew arrived they discovered the baby in a plastic bag inside the compactor Wrensen said. The baby was taken to a Hospital where he was listed in guarded condition in the neonatal intensive care Nursery Hospital spokesman Stephen Phelps said. Police were searching for the baby s Mother Wrensen said adding that it was unclear whether she lived in the building. She said the baby had apparently been pushed Down one of the chutes that transport trash to the garbage compactor in the basement.3,000 gather in Montgomery to wind up March from Selma Montgomery Ala. Apr the reenactment of the historic 50-mile March from Selma to Montgomery ended saturday with 3,000 people arriving in the Shadow of Alabama a Capitol to rekindle the spirit of the civil rights movement. The turnout paled in comparison with the 1965 March when 25,000 people gathered in a the Cradle of the confederacy Quot to demand voting rights but organizers hoped the 1990 trek would Herald a new age of activism. A it would be a shameful waste if we marched All the Way from Selma to Montgomery to go Home and sit on our scats of apathy a said Joseph Lowery president of the Southern Christian leadership conference who led the week Long commemorative March. At the Capitol where the Confederate Battle Flag still flies Over the White dome despite Blacks protests Jesse Jackson told the chanting crowd their message must be taken to the nations capital. A on to Washington for jobs Quot Jackson exhorted the gathering. A on to Washington for peace dividends. Keep Hope  Coritta Scott King encouraged the mostly Black crowd to keep fighting for racial Equality. A these arc the faithful few and god always uses those who Are willing to be used Quot said the widow of slain civil rights Leader Rev. Martin Luther King jr., whose first Church is a Block Down the Street from the Capitol Steps. Coritta Scott King and the Rev. Joseph Lowery president of the Southern Christian leadership conference walk  in  with marchers in Montgomery on  Sellers compiled by the new York Tolmei fiction 1 a of vices and desires by  James last Wook 2 Wooks on list 7 2�?oh. The places you la go by or. 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