European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 11, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes saturday May 11,1991 of orders evacuation As flooding hits Alaska Galena Alaska up1 a ice jams 350 Miles Northwest of Anchorage on the Yukon River posed enough of award Spring temperatures were Caus flood threat thursday in Interior Alaska ing the ice breakups that forced the that the air Force was prompted to vac Yukon and Kusk Kwim Rivers to Over flood threat at Galena Airport t uate 270 non Crit ical personnel from its f-15 fighter base at Galena Airport. A critical Alert people remained but they have the ability to get out quickly a a said sgt. Dave Haulbrook at Elmendorf. Fab in Anchorage. A a the air Force kept 55 people and a contingent of f-15s in Galena one of three places in Alaska where the it fighters Are used for Frontier defense. The River was Frozen near Galena but jams upriver created ice dams that caused water to Back up and Rise Over a mostly uninhabited Region stretching 70 m i i is u is t re a a said la Rry Rund quist a National weather service hydrologist in Anchorage. A we Are expecting a Hood and we Are prepared Quot said Galena City controller Tony Ranon a Galena with a population of about 900, is on the North Bank of the Yukon River 270 Miles West of Fairbanks and arc Tki Ocean flow Rundquist said. The Kusko Kwin River towns of Mcgrath Aniak Kwethluk an Napaskiak have been flooded Chena River flooding hit some Fairbanks neighbourhoods. Flooding is an annual threat in Alaska when Spring ice jams Block River flow but evacuations Are rare. Some Alaska residents said the flooding was worse than it has been in Many years. A the biggest evacuation was by the air Force in Galena. A amps Sharon Kilday Yukon River ice a few Miles upriver from Galena was 4 feet thick and stretched across the mile wide River in huge broken sheets that blinked smaller broken chunks which got stuck and dammed the River flow Rundquist said a a a a a a a Quot a. In Mcgrath flood Waters overran the property of Lee Chamberlain who last week won $70,000 for correctly predicting the Date hour and minute for the Tanana River breakup. Homes in North pole Alaska sit surrounded by flood Waters caused by Spring ice  targeted for nuclear reactor by Thomas w. Lippman the Washington Post Washington the House armed services committee has virtually mandated that South Carolina be chosen As the site of a new reactor for the production of nuclear weapons even before the Energy department begins hearings on where to locate the facility. The committees directive provoked protests from environmental groups and watchdogs of the Energy departments nude a weapons program who charged that it put pork barrel politics ahead of science. After years of ignoring environmental Laws they said the Energy department was attempting to follow prescribed pro cedi res in deciding which site would be safest and least disruptive to the environment. A a a a v a a you re getting the political decision before the scientific one a said Brian Costner director of the Energy research foundation a Columbia  that. Monitors developments at the Savannah River nuclear weapons Complex. A a it a the worst kind of policy making. There s no excuse for  a this is perverting the process that Congress established in the National environmental policy act said Dan w. Richcr a natural resources defense Council lawyer who has often sued the Energy department Over environmental issues. By attempting to override the environmental assessment process that should determine the outcome Reicher said the committee had forged an unlikely Alliance Between the Energy department and environmental groups that have Long criticized it. Voting wednesday night on the 1992 defense budget the armed services committee added a a sense of the Congress Section declaring that Savannah River a would be the Best site Quot for construction of the reactor because of the facility a Long experience in producing and handling tritium a radioactive Gas used to enhance the explosive Power of nuclear warheads. The new reactor is intended to replace three aging tritium producing reactors at Savannah River. Energy Secretary James d. Watkins is to decide in late december which Type of reactor to build and where to put it. Washington apr twelve universities Are engaged in  Dol Jar a gamesmanship Quot with the government trying to claim that luxury expenses such As Golf club memberships and resort travel Are needed to support their Federal research projects investigators told Congress thursday. The Federal audit officials identified More than $14 million that a dozen schools tried to claim As expenses related to Federal research which could be reimbursed by the government. The officials said they expected to find More. A the purpose of this Money is to Advance science Quot said Richard Kusserow inspector general of the health and human services department. A we should not be subsidizing the University for its Normal  Kusserow told the House Energy and Commerce investigations subcommittee that at 12 schools where Federal research accounts Are under review his office found expenses for entertainment catered affairs and personal housing among other things being included As overhead costs related to the Federal research under the current system schools draw up lists of indirect expenses which Are supposed to include items such As utilities Library services and common space. A portion of these Cost pools Are reimbursed by the Federal government As expenses not directly related to but necessary for the research. The Federal government awards More than $9.2 billion a year for research. About $2.5 billion of that is for indirect costs. If All the $14 million identified at the 12 schools had been allowed in their Cost pools about 10 to 20 percent of the total would have been reimbursed to the schools said has budget chief Kevin Moley. Seven of the 12 schools have agreed to remove $9.5 million in questionable charges from their Cost pools Kusserow said. A a. A they Are Dartmouth Yale University Rutgers University Johns Hopkins Pitts Burgh Washington University at St. Louis and the University of Southern California. Five schools have not agreed to any withdrawals Kusserow said. They Are the University of Pennsylvania Duke University Emory University the University of Chicago and Texas southwestern medical Center. Kusserow a office is also reviewing finances at the University of Michigan but it is too Early in the investigation to identify any inappropriate costs he said. The audits Are continuing and the inspector general is notifying 270 other schools that their finances May come under review he  Bart to shirts unsuitable los Angeles a twentieth Century Fox is suing to Block a White supremacist from using the Bart Simpson character on nazi Bart to shirts an anti discrimination group said. According to the anti defamation league Fox filed the lawsuit wednesday in . District court against Tom Metzger Leader of the White aryan resistance group. The league said Metzger a group illegally infringed on the Bart character by advertising nazi Bart to shirts in its newsletter Metzger who said he has not seen the lawsuit said he a already stopped using the Bart character. A i guess Bart was under 18 and he  join the nazi party. That a sort of a problem Quot he said