European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 11, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 a a a the stars and stripes wednesday april 11,1990�?~good Witch Cheryl St. John self proclaimed Witch  the 37-year-old computer pro performs a ritual in her Manassas va., Grammer said she never casts evil spells Home after talking to reporters about a i m a Good Witch but bad witches have her nighttime role As a lady Cassan More Hin a she told an interviewer. Pact reached on cleanup at Ohio uranium Plant Cincinnati apr the environmental Protection Agency and the Energy department agreed to a new accelerated plan for the $1 billion cleanup of the female uranium processing Plant the Federal agencies announced monday. The Epa last november added the nuclear weapons Plant to its National priority list of hazardous waste Sites. Radioactive and non radioactive wastes Are still stored on the site even though the plants private contractor Westing House materials co. Of Ohio stopped production in the Spring of 1989 to concentrate on cleanup work. The proposed agreement subject to Justice department review replaces a 1986 pact Between the Epa and the Energy department. Valdas Damkus the Epa s regional administrator in Chicago said the Epa will ensure that the Energy department properly handles the cleanup at the feed materials production Center. 18 Miles Northwest of Cincinnati. The Plant proc Essed uranium for the governments production of nuclear weapons. The Energy department said the cleanup could Cost $950 million Over the next 12 years. The agreement would require the department to finish removing radioactive ground water from under Plant buildings collect contaminated storm Runoff from ground waste pits contain contaminated water in a nearby Creek and stabilize tanks containing radioactive residues from the governments world War ii Manhattan project that helped develop the atomic bomb. A lawsuit on behalf of 14,000 people living or working near the Plant led to an unprecedented 578 million settlement last summer by the Doe. Hunter Thompson charged with assault drug Possession Aspen Colo. Apr Hunter Thompson the Dean of gonzo journalism was charged monday with assault and drug Possession after a former Pom actress said the writer to tested her in his Home. Thompson 52, appeared in Pitkin county District court with three lawyers and pleaded innocent to three misdemeanours third degree sexual assault third degree simple Thompson assault and Possession of marijuana. Those charges were based on allegations by Gail Palmer Slater 35, Star of a the erotic adventures of Candy a that Thompson threw a drink at her twisted her breast and shoved her during a visit to his Home feb. 21. Her allegations led to a police search of Thompsons Home feb. 26 and 27. Police said they seized blasting Caps and substances they allege to be Ltd cocaine the tranquil Izer diazepam and marijuana. An april 23 hearing was set on five felony charges three counts of Possession of a controlled substance one charge of using cocaine and one charge of unlawful Possession of incendiary devices. Palmer Slater who lives in port Huron mich., said she went to Thompsons Home in Woody Creek to discuss a business Enterprise and claimed he became angry when she refused to conduct the discussion in his hot tub. John Henry Faulk blacklisting foe Dies v. John Henry Faulk a file Austin Texas apr humorist and Folklorist John Henry Faulk who confronted blacklisting head on with a lawsuit in the 1950s and became a Champion of civil rights has died after a Long bout with cancer. He was 76. The Austin born author and lecturer whose objections effectively ended blacklisting in the entertainment Industry died monday at his Austin Home said his Niece Anne Mcaffee. Faulk was a popular lbs radio and television personality when in 1957, he mounted a six year Legal Battle in a new York court against an organization that tried to Brand him a subversive. He recounted the struggle in a Best Selling Book a fear on  the Book was made into a made for to movie that was broadcast on lbs in 1975. Faulk often said he never expected the first amendment to become Pivotal in his life. A i never had the slightest inkling that i would Ever be embattled in invoking its protections a he said. A a it a the main nerve Center of our entire self governing democratic  Faulk studied and taught at the University of Texas before joining the merchant Marine during world War ii. He also worked for the american red Cross in the Middle East. Despite Eye trouble he was Able to join the army in 1944. While on Christmas leave in 1945, Faulk was approached by executives from lbs who had heard him perform and were impressed with his character sketches. The network signed him in 1946 to do a weekly one hour radio show. He worked for lbs until 1957, when he was fired after aware inc., a group that blacklisted entertainment personalities accused him of having subversive associations. Faulk sued aware in 1956, charging the group had lib eled him and destroyed his career. He won the lawsuit and was awarded $3.5 million but the judgment was later reduced to $725,000 on  reports make Pensacola hot place to hold conference Pensacola Fla. Up a ufos enthusiasts Are signing up at a record Pace to attend a july symposium in an area where hundreds of sightings have been reported organizers said monday. The three Day 21st annual International ufos symposium is expected to attract 600 people to Pensacola. Among the speakers is de Walters a local builder who claims to have taken dozens of pictures of unidentified flying objects. Vicki p. Lyons chairwoman of the event said monday that the conference is a setting records for Advance  the symposium is sponsored by Muon the Mutual ufos network of Seguin Texas a non profit private organization that investigates reports of sightings nationwide. Charles Flannigan my font a Florida director said Pensacola was picked because of a a scores of reported ufos sightings. There have been 200 sightings in the Pensacola Gulf Breeze area since november 1987, when a weekly newspaper published Polaroid photographs of an alleged ufos in the night sky. Bizarre tales began emerging and were documented by investigators for Muon. Among other things some people reported seeing diminutive aliens. Others have reported being  shows moms unopposed to daughters in combat units new York up a a Survey of 75s . Women around the country shows 60 percent would not oppose their daughters serving in military combat units Mccall s Magazine reported monday. Seventy nine percent of those questioned said they approved of combat duty for women in general. Those questioned said they saw no difference Between women a risking their lives As policewomen or firefighters quid those who put their lives at risk in the military Quot the Magazine re ported. A a. _ ill e the Telephone Survey of Mccain s readers conducted Between feb. U and feb. 19, was a joint Effort by the Magazine and rep. Patricia Schroedr d-Colo., who has proposed a four year Experiment in which women to serve in army combat units. In the poll 83 percent of women in the armed forces Are officially barred from combat