European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 10, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday april 10, 1992 the stars and stripes b Page 7cleanup decreed at 46 waste Sites Washington up a the nuclear regulatory commission has announced action to Force the cleanup of 46 radioactive waste Sites in the United states. While not a health Hazard the contamination represents a Long term environmental threat arc officials said wednesday. The locations include waste disposal areas buildings or soil contaminated by radioactive materials resulting from manufacturing or other processes. A the owners were dragging their feet or they weren to acknowledging they have the site a said Robert Bernero director of the office of nuclear materials safety and safeguards. Under a plan approved by the arc on april 3, companies responsible for the waste locations must Complete cleanup within about three years. The timetable was developed because companies have moved slowly to remove radioactive hazards from contaminated Sites already identified the arc said. The arc said each location must be restored so that radiation Levels Are a was Low As reasonably  most of the Sites were licensed and decommissioned Between 1965 and 1981. Twelve locations Stem from activities going As far Back As world War ii. The 46 were culled from a total of 36,000 former nuclear facilities. Among the waste Sites is a St. Louis Landfill contaminated by radioactive thorium dumped illegally after world War ii uranium recovery efforts. Near Cleve land the arc discovered uranium tailings dumped into a Ravine in a residential neighbourhood. Companies failing to comply with the arc direction face civil penalties or criminal prosecution. The most serious contamination cases Are those involving thorium a radioactive element used in electronics manufacturing and As a nuclear fuel said one arc official. The thorium Sites include Cabot corp. Facilities in Boyertown Reading and Revere a. Heritage minerals in Lakehurst . Mol corp facilities in Washington and York a. And shill Dally in Cambridge mass., and Newfield . A up in smoke  Way of Bay area cuts off funds to scouts from wire reports san Francisco the United Way of the Bay area on wednesday Cut off future general funds to the boy scouts of America because of the groups ban on Gay scouts and troop leaders. However the umbrella fund raising group said it would continue to allow contributors to earmark funds for the scouts under its donor Choice plan. Last year the United Way raised More than $57 million of which the boy scouts received $849,000 in allocations and $326,000 in donor Choice funds. Blake Lewis a spokesman at scout National Headquarters in Irving Texas said the local scouts would look for funding , 2 children buried Edinburg Texas a a 38-year-old Man was charged wednesday with three counts of capital murder in the deaths of his wife and two Young children whose bodies were found entombed in Concrete under the bathroom floor of his Home. The bodies of Leticia Ramos 42, and her two children Abigail 8, and Jonathan 4, were discovered tuesday. Roberto Moreno Ramos allegedly told Hidalgo county sheriffs officers where to look for the  seize country club Detroit a the Federal government seized a country club with five nine Hole Golf courses wednesday and began arresting 14 people on racketeering and other charges in a gambling and Money laundering Case. The Wolverine Golf club valued at Between $20 million and $25 million allegedly was the Center of a multimillion Dollar sports and horse race gambling ring said . Attorney Stephen  hit 2nd Casino Las vegas a two people robbed a casinos Cash Cage at gunpoint Early wednesday the second such Holdup in three Days. Police said the robbers stole an undetermined amount of Cash from the Palace station hotel fled to a waiting vehicle occupied by two other people and fired shots at Security guards who pursued them for several blocks. No one was injured and the robbers escaped. Police it. Charles Davidaitis said the suspects May have also been involved in mondays daring $1.1 million Holdup of the stardust  official confirmed Washington a the Senate voted wednesday to confirm vice Admiral William o. Studeman As Deputy director of the Cla. On a unanimous voice vote the lawmakers agreed to let the current head of the National Security Agency succeed Richard Kerr who has resigned. Since 1988, Studeman has headed the super secret Asa which monitors worldwide communications and Breaks codes. He was previously director of naval intelligence and head of the Navy a Long Range plan neg group. The third Section of the Central Bridge which spans the Ohio River in Cincinnati went up in smoke wednesday morning. The Bridge will be replaced by a modern four Black Hole theory from wire reports Washington a astronomers say they have made a significant Advance toward confirming the existence of Black holes a super condensed galactic centers that Are so Strong that Light cannot travel fast enough to escape their pull. The astronomers using images from the Hubble space Telescope have noticed that stars in a nearby Galaxy m32, become extremely concentrated toward the Center. Some Strong a and invisible a Force is apparently exerting enough Gravity to suck the stars toward the Black Hole. The results Are a certainly the strongest evidence yet of a very massive Black Hole a said de Weiler program scientist for the orbiting Telescope. A a we be got the feathers and the feet to show its a Duck but we Haven to got the quack a Weiler said. The main reason for the Lack of a a a quack is the Hubble a flawed Mirror which was ground to the wrong specifications and sends Back Blurry images. If a repair attempt planned for next year is successful a a we a get the quack a Weiler said. Black holes were predicted by Albert einsteins general theory of relativity but As recently As last year they were often referred to As theoretical. Black holes Are thought to form when a massive Star or a group of stars collapses inward. M32 is 2.3 million Light years Distant a in our Back Yard a Weiler said. A tight year is the distance Light travels in a vacuum in one year about 6 trillion Miles. Tod Lauer of the National optical astronomy observatories in Tucson ariz., said he and his team concluded that m32 May contain a Black Hole by measuring the movement of stars within the Galaxy and by studying the Star density near the Galaxy Center. He said they found that m32 is the densest Star system known containing about 400 million stars within a diameter of 1,000 Light years. By contrast the Milky Lane Span connecting Newport ky., to downtown Cincinnati. The Bridge is being demolished in sections so River traffic is not  ground Nasa replacing 3 engines on endeavour shuttle Cape canaveral Fla. Up Nasa managers decided wednesday to replace All three main engines aboard the new shuttle endeavour because of problems that came to Light after an engine test firing monday. While Nasa engineers still Hope to launch endeavour on its Maiden flight around May 5, officials said the Date Likely will slip a few Days. Analysis of data from the 22-second test indicates the liquid oxygen High pressure Turbo pump experienced High vibration Levels during engine operation. The pump is bolted to main engine no. 2. And Nasa spokeswoman Lisa Malone said the oxygen pump on engine no. 1 made a a a popping noise after shutdown. The oxygen pumps generate about 21,300 horsepower during engine operation and a failure in flight could prove catastrophic. Way is thought to be 100,000 Light years across. Star density at the Center of m32, he said is More than 100 million times greater than in an area of the Milky Way of the same size. A a visitor to a planet at the Center of m32 would see a starry night sky so saturated with stars that their combined Light would be brighter than 100 full Moons a Lauer said in a statement. The Gravity of a Black Hole is thought to capture nearby stars and other matter and pull them into the holes Center. Lauer said Black holes Are thought to have huge a a appetites for nearby stars dust and Gas a but a Black Hole is a Messy eater