European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 23, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday january 23, 1992 Doe radioactive waste disposed of Washington apr at least several million pounds of radioactive wastes have been improperly shipped from Federal nuclear weapons facilities to commercial waste treatment plants to be burned the Energy department acknowledged tuesday. The department said the improper disposal of the wastes a practice dating Back nearly a dozen years stemmed in part from a inappropriate methods being used. To define what needed to be controlled As  the shipments containing Small amounts of radioactive materials were uncovered in an investigation ordered by Energy Secretary James d. Watkins a year ago after reports of radioactive wastes having been sent to a Louisiana treatment Plant. The department imposed a ban on off site waste shipments in Early 1991 until the reports could be investigated More thoroughly and said tuesday that the ban would remain in place. Man who arranged Rawlins Wyo. Apr a Man who had a witness killed to keep him from testifying about three previous slayings he ordered was put to death by injection Early wednesday in Wyoming a first execution in 26 years. Mark Hopkinson 42, died at the Wyoming state Penitentiary after the Wyoming supreme court a Federal judge and the . Supreme court All rejected last minute appeals. The last previous execution in Wyoming was in december 1965. Hopkinson a death also marked the first time since 1976 a when the . Supreme court allowed capital punishment to resume a that a person who arranged a murder but Wasny to present at the slaying was executed. Earlier wednesday Joe Angel Cordova 39, was executed by injection in Huntsville Texas for murdering a stranded Motorist 10 years ago. Cordova abducted 32-year-old Masel Williams from a phone Booth in Houston and took him into the Woods where he was shot in the Chest at close Range improperly the wastes mostly liquid solvents and motor Oil were contaminated by a minute amounts of radioactive materials including uranium slightly enriched uranium and technetium-90. The contaminated wastes went to 11 private treatment and disposal plants in nine states where in most cases they were burned said Doe spokesman Fred lash. The department said its analysis of the Levels of radiation believed to have been involved showed they were extremely Low and posed no serious health problems to workers handling the wastes or people living near the waste disposal facilities. A the results of the Doe analysis show that the maximum potential yearly dose to a worker handling slightly contaminated waste at Rollins would be less than 0.7 Milliren per year a said the department adding that the average person receives 300 Milli rems of radiation a year from natural background  is executed with a Shotgun. Cordova on parole for burglary at the time then took his car. Cordova became the 43rd Texas inmate to be executed since the state resumed capital punishment in 1982, the highest total in the nation. Hopkinson was convicted in 1979 of ordering the bombing deaths of lawyer Vincent Vehar his wife and a son and for procuring the slaying of Jeffrey Lynn Green. Vehar was representing a sewer Board and had had a dispute with Hopkinson Over whether sewer lines would be extended to Hopkinson a trailer Park. Green 23, disappeared in 1979 two Days before he was to testify against Hopkinson before a grand jury investigating the Vehar bombing. Greens body was found with some 150 cigarette Burns and a gunshot wound. Hopkinson received three life sentences for the Vehar deaths and the death penalty for greens slaying. The stars and stripes c Page 7 .schools in . To give condoms to students from wire reports los Angeles a the Board of education in the nations second largest school District voted tuesday night to provide students with condoms and aids testing As a Means of stemming the disease. The los Angeles boards plan was opposed by the Catholic archdiocese which earlier presented the Board with a petition signed by 10,000 residents. Cardinal Roger Mahony argued that sexual abstinence is the Best Way to avoid  to assist klan Little Rock Ark. A american civil liberties Union lawyers agreed tuesday to represent a Kun flux klan group seeking to participate in a state adopt a Highway anti litter program. Members of the knights of the Kun flux klan had sought to adopt one mile of . 65 at the Arkansas Missouri state line. But their request was rejected last month by the state Highway and transportation department. Participants in the program Are announced on signs posted along the highways they have  in probe quits Boston a a state lawmaker resigned from the legislature on tuesday nearly three months after he fled Massachusetts while under suspicion of stealing Money from his Legal clients. A there is nothing i can do to change the past a rep. Timothy of Leary said. A i can Only act to Correct my mistakes and to continue the process of trying to make things  his resignation is effective feb. 29. Of Leary 46, faces 18 counts of perjury falsifying documents and stealing More than $115,000 from Legal  gives up vacation Buffalo . A the judge in an Attica ., trial bowed to the wishes of his judicial Superior on tuesday and agreed to Cut Short his Caribbean vacation to preside Over jury deliberations in Buffalo. Judge John t. Elfvin said last week before flying to Barbados that the nine member jury could deliver its verdicts to a magistrate presiding in his absence. But on tuesday he agreed to return to his Buffalo courtroom 2vi weeks Early after several conversations with Michael a. Telesca the chief judge for the Western District of new York. The trial is to determine the liability of four new York state officials in the 1971 Attica prison  gets 6 to 10 years mount Gilead Ohio a a pickup truck Driver who hit an Amish family a buggy killing six people and injuring four others was sentenced tuesday to at least six years in prison. Douglas Lyons 26, of Fredericktown showed no emotion As judge Dean curl sentenced him to six to 10 years in prison. Lyons could have been sentenced to 18 years. On Friday a jury convicted Lyons on three felony counts of aggravated vehicular assault and six Misdemeanour counts of vehicular homicide for the aug. 5 crash in North Central Ohio. Prosecutor Howard Hall said Lyons was drunk when his truck hit the buggy. Witnesses testified that Lyons was staggering and that his speech was slurred. He did not consent to a blood alcohol breath test. Defense attorney Ralph Bove argued his client was not drunk but rather traumatized by the Accident. The defense suggested that the kerosene lanterns and reflectors on the buggy were not Bright enough. Lyons did not  daily dipper Jack Tuite braces himself for an icy plunge at Wollas firefighter takes a daily swim a no matter what the ton Beach near Quincy mass. The 84-year-old retired weather a in the Ocean or in Walden Pond at Concord