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Confiscated bomb explodes
WIESBADEN, West Germany ? A bomb similar to the one that
destroyed Pan Am Flight 103 exploded while being examined Monday,
killing an investigator in a case involving Palestinians suspected of
terrorism.
The federal prosecutor's office reported evidence contradicting U.S.
media reports that a Lebanese-American passenger inadvertently carried
the bomb onto the jet that exploded over Scotland on Dec. 21. All 259 people
on the plane and 11 on the ground were killed.
Another officer was critically wounded in the explosion Monday at
federal police headquarters, said spokesman Arno Falk of
Bundeskriminalamt, the police bureau.
It was not clear whether the bomb was seized in connection with the Pan
Am investigation, but the manner in which it was disguised was said to be
similar.
Fusion fiasco causes fallout
ATLANTA ? A premature claim by Georgia Tech scientists that they
created low-temperature fusion may dent the school's reputation in the
short, run but should have few long-term effects, scientists and administrators
said Monday.
The experience has not prompted the school to put a tighter rein on what
its scientists announce, said Thomas Stelson, Tech's executive vice
president.
"We are fundamentally an open institution," he said. "Academic
freedom is a sort of a sacred issue. A faculty member can do whatever he
wants. We do not centrally review the hundreds of papers that go out of
here each year nor do we intend to."
The "cold fusion" claim was retracted two days after the announcement
when the researchers found there may have been problems with
instruments.
Chinese march for martyr
BEIJING ? Hundreds of students in Beijing and Shanghai marched today
to mourn the death of former Communist Party Chief Hu Yaobang,
an outspoken reformist toppled by conservatives two years ago.
"Long live Hu Yaobang, long live democracy, long live freedom, long
live the rule of law!" chanted more than 600 students from Beijing's
Political Science and Law College.
Marching behind a huge red flag bearing their school's name, the
students laid wreaths in Hu's honor at the base of a monument to Communist
martyrs in Tiananmen Square, the symbolic seat of power in China.
Hu, who died Saturday at age 73 after suffering a heart attack, was
regarded by intellectuals as favoring greater artistic and scholarly freedoms
than other Chinese leaders.
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1 Several university students
1 Nuclear pla:
By MICHAEL BROWN
Staff writer
Several USC students will testify at two public
hearings the U.S. Department of Energy will hold
in Columbia on the restart of the Savannah River
Site's three nuclear production reactors.
The hearings are in preparation of an Environmental
Impact Statement and will be held at 9
a.m. and 7 p.m. April 20 at the Sheraton at Bush
River Road and 1-20.
Preregistration is not required for the hearings
and anyone may speak. The DOE asks that anyone
planning to speak provide a written copy of their
comments.
Helen Hutson, president of Students Allied for a
Greener Earth, said some of the group's members
intend to testify at the hearings, but because of
finals, some members' schedules won't allow them
to attend.
Last December, three environmental groups ?
Greenpeace USA, Energy Research Foundation
and the National Resources Defense Council ? filed
a suit to force the DOE to prepare an Environmental
Impact Statement prior to the restart
of the SRS reactors.
The DOE has said an Environmental Impact
Statement will be prepared, but it is not a prerequisite
to restarting the reactors.
"The Department of Energy believes that the
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Savannah DOE spokesman Rick Ford said.
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operate within the same parameters as they have
operated in in the past.
"Therefore, no new EIS would be required foi
the restart."
Ford also said the DOE acknowledges problems
caused by past practices, but the hearings will deal
in part with these issues.
"The whole purpose of these scoping meetings is
to raise any new issues that should be included in
the strategy and implementation plan," Ford said.
Local environmentalists disagree.
Sue Jane Johnson of the Columbia office ol
Greenpeace said they would like the EIS completed
before the reactors at SRS are restarted.
Johnson said Greenpeace hopes three main decisions
come out of the hearings with the DOE: no
new production reactor, no restart of SRS's reactors
until the completion of an Environmental Impact
Statement and immediate clean up of current
wastes at SRS.
She said the hearings are legal obligations of the
DOE to listen to concerned citizens.
"This is a chance for individuals to speak to
representatives of the Department of Energy and to
realize that the DOE is listening," Johnson said.
Until SRS was closed last year for upgrading, the
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ingredients in nuclear weapons ? plutonium and
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: SRS was one of two sites in the nation producing
plutonium and the only plant producing tritium.
Since it is generally conceded by the DOE that
there is a sufficient stockpile of plutonium, SRS's
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SRS' future is uncertain, but it is clear that the
upcoming hearings in Columbia, Aiken and Savannah
could play a serious role in deciding its fate.
For anyone unable to attend the hearings, a written
comment may be sent to: S. R. Wright, Director,
Environmental Division, U.S. Department of
Energy, Savannah River Operations Office, P.O.
i Box A, Aiken, S.C. 29802.
Envelopes should be marked "Reactor Operation
EIS" and postmarked by May 8.
whom he'd dated since junior high
th, 18, who is school.
class at Berea After playing football at the
ille, says: "I University of South Carolina and
nt. It's not professional ball with the San Diego
. . I really do Chargers, Fair became an insurance
agent. He worked his way up through
in Greenville, the political ranks until he won his
in a Christian legislative seat in 1985.
With a smile, Fair ticks off the
names he's been called: right-wing
ne for me to zealot, religious fanatic and underts
a relatively miner of the First Amendment,
o make," he "When you are guilty, what can
you say? It's better than being
Judy Hodge, wrong," Fair said.
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