European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 18, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                184 the stars and stripes monday april 18,1994 bomb new York a l Robert Oppenheimer and other . Scientists gave the soviets information on their efforts to build the first atomic bomb a retired russian spy says in his memoirs quote Din time Magazine. The information passed on during world War ii significantly altered the direction of soviet nuclear research said Pavel Anat Elievich Sud Platov who plotted the assassination of Leon Trotsky for Josef Stalin. Excerpts from special tasks the memoirs of an unwanted witness a health Rule gives teen slim Chance of no caning Singapore a if his final a Feal against being flogged is rejected an 8-year-old american has a Remote Hance to escape a beating on medical grounds. " the punishment of caning shall note inflicted unless a medical officer is present and certifies that the offender sin a fit state of health to undergo such punishment according to Singapore criminal procedure code. That does t happen often  average of 1,000 people Are sentenced to flogging said a spokesman forthe ministry of Home affairs. About six avoid the lash each year on medical grounds and the caning is either remitted or commuted to a jail term. Theodore Simon a lawyer in Phila Delphia who specializes in helping americans who get in trouble in other coun tries said that Fay who was sentenced to six lashes for vandalism has attention deficit disorder which often contributes to disruptive behaviour. Simon contends that Fay is unfit to handle the punishment which Breaks the skin and leaves permanent scars. Because of Fay s condition he could suffer extreme psychological consequences Simon said. /. V. Defense attorney r. Balakrishnan submitted two psychiatric reports at the youth s trial in March showing that he suffers from the condition. Lawyers have until wednesday to Filean Appeal for clemency with president Ong Teng Cheong. A fast decision is expected. Fay also was sentenced to four month sin prison and a $2,244 Fine. Caning usually is carried out in the Early Days of a prison sentence and has been delayed in Fay s Case pending the outcome of the clemency plea. President Clinton asked Ong in a per Sonal letter to reconsider the caning and 24 . Senators told Ong that clemency would be an enlightened  by leaked data soviet spymaster appeared in London s sunday Telegraph and will appear in the april 25 Issue of time. The United states and the soviet Union world War ii allies raced to beat nazi Germany in creating the first a bomb. Postwar antagonism chilled the superpowers into the cold War. Sud Platov wrote that members of the american science team who shared information with the soviets included Nobel laureate Enrico Fermi and Niels Bohr who worked with Oppenheimer on the Manhattan project the name Given to the development of the bomb. Since Oppenheimer Bohr and Fermi were fierce opponents of violence they would seek to prevent a nuclear War creating a balance of Power through sharing the secrets of atomic Energy . Sud Platov also said he had mole working in the Manhattan project labs in los Alamos . Oak Ridge  Chicago. Oppenheimer and the other scientist shared information through comments and asides and from documents transferred through Clandestine methods with v a be a battleship victims remembered a memorial Wreath is tossed from the . Battleship Iowa in Philadelphia on sat urday during ceremonies marking the fifth anniversary of an explosion in the no. 2 gun Turret upper left that killed 47 sailors. The blast occurred april 19,1989, during naval exercise in the Atlantic. The ship was decommissioned in 1990. Families of the victims were among those attending the memorial ceremonies. Their full knowledge that the information they were sharing would be passed on Sud Platov wrote. In 1945, the soviets received a description of the design of the first atomic bomb and the 33-Page design of the bomb that became the basis for their own work Sud Platov wrote. That year the United states dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki Japan. The soviet Union exploded it sown nuclear bomb in 1949. Sud Platov 87, ran espionage net works in Europe and North America for Stalin. He lives in Moscow. On shuttle focus on return Home Cape canaveral Fla. Up the shuttle endeavour astronauts Sun Day began preparing for a schedule tuesday Homecoming while radar units in the cargo Bay continued to record environmental data about Earth. Commander Sidney Gutierrez co Pilot Kevin Chihon and flight Engineer Michael Rich Clifford turned on one of the shuttle s three generators to test the flight control system. The 10-Day missions scheduled to end with a Landing at Kennedy space Center at 11 53  the flight the six member Crew has been overseeing operations of the$366 million space radar Laboratory and taking photographs of selected Earth targets for environmental studies. We can t help but notice How human shave changed the face of the planet in detail said endeavour astronaut and re Mote sensing specialist Thomas Jones. Some of those signs of human presence Are very Beautiful but we can also see the contrasting Impact people have on the planet " he added noting cleared forests raging fires and other signs of industrialization. ". What we Don t have and what this flight is designed to gather is the quantitative picture Over the entire Globe of the effects that people and the nature Are having on the planet although the astronauts routines change Little from Day to Day Gutierrez said the work is not Boring since you re doing the same task Overand Over again it s important to keep the same level of interest and the same Effort and not let anything slip by he said Dur ing an in flight press  you be taken a couple thousand photographs it s easy to Start taking for granted now the cameras Are configured. You have to double Check every  made a Case for having radars parked permanently in orbit to keep con Stant watch of changes on Earth. Commenting on the dramatic Chang observed Over two Days in the flooded midwestern United states Clifford said once you have an Earth orbiting radar. You can find the change in the Wate Content of the soil and perhaps help re Lieve some of the  Windy City earners blow off mail deliveries Byich Bagful Chicago a neither Snow Norrain nor gloom of night will Stop your mail from being delivered. Unless it Hasto go through Chicago. Postal officials found two More stacks of undelivered mail last week 2,000 pieces behind the Home of a fired Lette Carrier and As Many As 3,000 pieces in another Carrier s car trunk. Some of the mail was 7 years old. That Means that nearly 70,000 pieces of undelivered mail have been found in Chicago since Early this year. Letter Carrier Kevin sportsman was charged thursday with delaying the de livery of the mail a Federal felony carry ing a maximum penalty of five years in prison and a Fine of $250,000. A Sears Auto Mechanic found a stash of first class mail in the trunk of a car that sportsman brought in for  said the mail should have been forwarded to people who had moved or returned to senders. Under certain circumstances there could be a profit motive but in this Case it appears we re talking about Flat out laziness said Mike Sztuka a spokesman for the postal inspectors. The mail dated from 1988 to 1993. In the other discovery postal inspectors on wednesday picked up 2,000 pieces of undelivered mail most of i first class from behind a Home owned by a letter Carrier who was fired three year Sago. The Carrier was questioned but no charged. He had been fired in 1991 after missing 10 weeks of work. Similar problems have plagued Chi Cago area postal officials for weeks. Postal workers found about 40,000 pieces of undelivered mail in the Back of a letter Carrier s delivery truck feb. 10. Police found about 200 pounds of commercial mail burning on the Street March 18. The same Day postal inspectors found 20,000 pieces of undelivered mail mostly commercial in the basement of a Home owned by a former letter Carrier