European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 29, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes thursday. September 29. 1.994 Energy Agency delays arrival of waste ships Wilmington . A the Energy depart ment on tuesday decided to delay the arrival of ships carrying radioactive waste from Europe giving sout Carolina More time to try to get the courts to Block the shipment. /. A  Hazel o Leary As a Courtesy to the state has for a Short time delayed delivery department spokeswoman Jayne Brady said. The two ships were several Miles off North Carolina on tuesday they Are carrying 153 spent fuel rods from re search reactors in Austria Denmark the Netherlands and Sweden. The shipment is part of a . Effort to keep weapons Grade uranium out of the wrong hands. The material was to be shipped to the Savanna River weapons Plant near Aiken s.c., for storage. Last week a three judge panel of the 4th . Cir Cuit court of appeals threw put a lower court s ruling blocking the shipment. The state contends the Energy department used negotiations to delay a lawsuit then allowed the ships to sail. As a result the department How improperly claim the matter is an emergency the Appeal says. State attorney general Travis Medlock said papers Al ready have been sent to the . Supreme court to take the Case there in Case the 4th circuit rejects the Appeal. We will. Use All Means at our disposal to keep South Carolina from becoming the dumping ground forthe world Medlock said wednesday. The Federal Energy department has encouraged re actor operators around the world to Stop using highly enriched uranium fuel and move to a Type of uranium that cannot be converted easily to weapons use. The Federal government promised to take Back All the spent fuel it sold to foreign reactor operators. The department wants to import 409 fuel elements in the next six months and 10,000 to 15,000 during the next 10 to 15 years. Day in court civil rights Pioneer Rosa Parks 81, testifies tuesday in Detroit before judge Richard Halloran of the 36th District court. Parks spoke of How she was hit in the face and robbed of $53 by a Man who broke into her Detroit Home aug. 30. The judge ordered the Man charged in the attack Joseph skipper 28, to be bound Over for trial. Bully Bobbitt gets 30 Days in jail for a Las vegas a John Wayne Bobbitt was convicted of a second Domestic Battery charge tuesday and or dered to serve 30 Days in jail by a judge who called him a  Kristina Elliott testified that Bobbitt. Her former Fiance twisted her Arm be Hind her Back and threw her against a apartment Wall May 6. Bobbitt served 12 Days of a 15-Day sen tence earlier this month for battering Elliott in a separate incident. One thing is apparent and that is that you Are a bully municipal judge Ron a Parraguirre said. I Don t know How we re going to get this across to  that this is unacceptable  Bobbitt gained International attention when his wife Lorena sliced off his Penis last year claiming he had sexually assaulted her. " a. She was found innocent by reason of insanity and filed for divorce. Bobbitt whose Penis was surgically reattached was acquitted of assault charges. Bobbitt 27, met Elliott 21, a former exotic dancer while in Las vegas on a publicity tour. Bobbitt took the stand admitting hews frustrated the night he attacked Elliott but said he never Hurt her. When attorney Michael Stein asked his client Why he did t hit Elliott Bobbit said because it s not right. I did t grab her and squeeze her Arm he said. Stein attempted to show that Elliott was lying by pointing out inconsistencies Between her testimony and statements she made on talk shows and tabloid Tele vision programs. Elliott and her brother Jason Cooper admitted they had lied about some aspects of the assault but said they did so under instructions from Stein. Cooper testified that Stein told him to hot Hurt John s future or Kristina  Stein argued that his client had Learned his lesson needed counselling in Stead of jail time and wanted to go on and make  Parraguirre sentenced Bobbitt to 90 Days in jail with 60 Days suspended and placed him on probation for one year during which time he Trust remain Alco hol free and receive counselling. Stein said he would Appeal. Bobbitt was ordered to begin serving his sentence immediately then was it leased from the Las vegas jail after his lawyer filed an Appeal. That Means he probably will be Able to attend thursday s premiere of John Wayne Bobbitt. Uncut a hard Core pornographic film starring Bobbitt As himself. The premiere is at the Academy of motion picture arts & sciences Sam Uel Goldwyn theatre m los Angeles. Aids infected Gay Parent appeals for visitation rights Annapolis my. A a homosexual Man info jetted with the aids virus asked an appeals court tuesday to overturn a ruling barring  with his daughters. A lawyer representing the children joined David North s lawyers in arguing before the court of special appeals that it is Best for the girls Ages 9, 6 and 3, to have Normal visits with their father. Their Mother Kathryn Dionne North said outside court that she wants to limit Contact be cause of religious objections to homosexuality and her fear of aids. I Don t want my daughters to die Kathryn North said. She said she was not satisfied with med ical testimony that the girls Are not in danger. The couple separated in 1991 when David North revealed he carried the aids virus saying he got it from sex with a woman. Kathryn North allowed overnight visits until a year later when David North revealed he was homosexual and was living with a Man. She won a circuit court order restricting visits and barring him from discussing his alternate lifestyle with the girls. Tots survive on food scraps.  v for Days next to mom s body los Angeles a the television blasted in Side apartment 7 and a stench seeped out the door for Days before a 4-year-old summoned neighbors to investigate. They found a woman s bloated body face Down on the floor next to her bed one Arm folded beneath her the other outstretched a Telephone by her Side. Her three children stayed silent As the neighbor stared. I think they had cried so much that they weren t crying anymore building janitor Sylvia Garcia said. Investigators said tuesday that the children Ages 4, i and 4 months had spent the last three Days sitting by their Mother s decomposing body and crying. Food scraps littered the apartment. The eldest child apparently had been feeding the younger ones fire department spokesman Brian Humphrey said. The children were treated for dehydration and re leased into state custody. Authorities did not release their names or that of their36-year-old Mother. Her body was found tuesday morning after the old est child knocked on a neighbor s door looking for help said 14-year-old Perla Napoles. I said where s your mama " Napoles  said she had a heart attack " police had t determined when the woman died but neighbors had noticed a smell from the apartment and the sound of the television which had been on for Sev eral Days detective Charles Salazar said. A computer at a nearby video rental store showed that the woman came in saturday night and rented dirty dancing a House in the Hills Amityville a new generation and my life owner Tony Tao said. Police said the woman apparently died of a heart at tack. Heart medication was found next to her body. She had a very serious heart condition and was a candidate for open heart surgery Coroner s spokes Man Scott Carrier said. Garcia said the woman approached her last wee about baby sitting her children because she planned to undergo heart surgery. I never heard from her again Garcia said. Neighbors said the woman moved to the building about six months ago after a tire gutted a nearby hotel where she had been jiving. Her husband was arrested and jailed three months ago neighbors said