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TAR WARS: Starts up SanfaFe, July 1,1986 THE NEWMEXICAN A-9 3 Continued from Page A-l But U.S. Sen. Pete Domenici, who attended the ground-breaking, warned that Congress probably will cut spending on the Star Wars program. He said Senate Armed Services has recommended a billion cut and the House wants a $3.4 billion cut. Domenici said he supported the program as a way to diminish the threat of nuclear war.

it or not, we're not going to put the genie back In the bottle change the laws of physics;" he said. THe research will bring up to In federal funding to the lab in the next five to six years, said lab director Sig Hecker. The overall projct is expected to cOst another $800 million, 90 percent of which will be paid to defense contractors to build the space hardware using LANL designs. Research will concentrate on developing a technology that is suitable for space, one that is lightweight, compact and that can be operated remotely, said Tom Starke, the lab's project manager. The project is different than fl most lab projects in several Ni ways.

For the first time, Department of Csfense is paying for construction of the center. The lab is owned by the Department of Energy. Hecker said the project is part of a trend toward closer ties among the lab, the Defense Department and the branches of military service. It Is also the first star wars project that will have International collaboration. Culham Research Laboratories of England has a $2.5 million contract to work on the ion source for the beam.

The beam of uncharged, energetic particles is created by accelerating negatively charged hydrogen ions and then stripping them of their electrical charge. Having neutral charge means the beam will be unaffected by the Earth's magnetic pull. The beam also can not enter the earth's atmosphere. Up fo 30 British researchers will work on the project that is already underway. And, the lab will work closely with the McDonnel-Douglas or Lockheed, the two companies competing for the more than $720 million project to build the space test.

Life different living with Liberty NEW YORK (AP) Kathy DeHart knew from the start there was something special about her new home. "This is really going to be different," she recalls thinking as she looked straight up at her new neighbor the Statue of Liberty. Mrs. DeHart is one of 16 people living on Liberty Island, where the symbol of freedom stands. Her husband, Bill, is chief park ranger on the island, the focus of the statue's centennial celebration this weekend.

The DeHarts became one of Lady Liberty's neighbors in 1981, after the ranger served stints in the relative quiet of the Smokey Mountains and the Everglades, where he met his wife. He saw the move as a chance to live in New York City without having to deal with urban life. Mrs. DeHart, who is from Brooklyn, had never been to the island before. "There's a great view of Manhattan, and It's really quite a nice place," she said.

"It's like living in any other neighborhood, except this neighborhood's only a block long." "My favorite thing, I guess, was living 20 minutes from one of the largest metropolitan centers in the world and still going to bed with the back door unlocked," said DeHart, a North Carolina native and 13- year Park Service veteran. "Even though that's 20 minutes by boat, and getting a boat is not always easy, it's a real kick." For the DeHarts, home is a one story- brick house, to the side of the statue, that they share with a 2-year-old son. Four other homes on the 12-acre island are occupied, each by a park ranger family. "We get together every now and then, but people have different days off and that makes it hard. Our kids are always playing together," said Mrs.

DeHart, who works for the Park Service in Manhattan and takes her son into town by boat to his daycare center. The year-long renovation of the statute and the island meant inconveniences for the families. Their vegetable gardens gave way to trenches, and "I would go to work in the morning never knowing what the terrain would be like when I came home at night," said Mrs. DeHart. For DeHart, the problems were a little closer to home specifically, in his office.

"The restoration has totally upset me personally. I've had no desk to work at," he said. "But I remain very optimistic every, thing will be back to normal soon." Even after five years of walking, talking, eating and sleeping beneath the statue, Mrs. DeHart said, Lady Liberty retains its grandeur. "When I first got here, I was really Intrigued.

I took pictures of it day and night; I studied it in minute detail," DeHart said. "But for the last two years, I wake up at 6 a.m., see the statue and go to work. It doesn't hit me until about four hours later that, hey, people are still Interested In this thing." Both are looking forward to the reopening of the island to tourists. However, they may not be able to join the celebratory throngs for the torch relighting July 3. DeHart said he will be working, and Mrs.

DeHart said she might be on the job in Manhattan that night. "But one way or another I'll get a view of it, even if it's the next day," she said. U.S. companies bow out of Libya WASHINGTON (AP) All American companies have met the June 30 deadline set by President Reagan for halting U.S. business activities in Libya, the State Department said Monday.

According to U.S. government estimates, the ban will cost the businesses mostly oil companies somewhat less than $500 million a year in revenues. Michael Armacost, undersecretary of state for political affairs, said the with the termination of American operations hi Libya, the administration has gone a long way toward achieving its objective of reducing Libyan oil revenues as much as possible. The oil companies affected by the decision are Conoco Inc, Occidental Petroleum Marathon Oil Amerada Hess Corp. and W.

R. Grace and Co. They were given almost six months to shut down their operations to give them what one official called "an appropriate exit" from Libya. Since Reagan's announcement of new Libyan sanctions In January, Armacost told reporters, there has been a "sea change" In the attitudes of many West European governments toward Libya, which the United States accuses of harboring and financing terrorists. He said France, West Germany and the Netherlands are importing far less oil from Libya.

Of the 17,000 Italians who resided in Libya just a few months ago, only about 2,000 remain, and Britain sent home 200 Libyan aviation students, he said. U.S. officials who briefed reporters on the condition they not be identified said Libyan oil revenues are expected to fall from $11 billion last year to about $4 billion this year. Part of the decline, however, is the result of the sharp drop in the world price of oil. SEX; Acts not constitutionally protected GERALD L1NDSTROM Stay ing on EAAMETT ARMSTRONG Retiring ZIA: Part of history Continued from Page A-l as they send out inal W-2 forms, tell retirees about their benefits, and prepare Zia's final report for the lab.

After that, "I guess I'll be looking for a job," Thornton said. Armstrong is retiring, but most of the 1,700 other employees will be staying on with Pan Am. About 1,600 Zia employees have transferred to Pan Am, said Sam Calanni, Pan Am's general manager in Los Alamos. Today, "will be business as usual. I don't think anyone outside of the company will see a change," Calanni said.

Most of the 100 or so employees not hired by Pan Am either decided to retire or not take the company's offer. "Only In a few cases was employment not offered," Calanni said. The company is negotiating contracts with 12 craft unions, he said. But the unions and the company have developed an understanding that will allow the employees to work for Pan Am for 90 days while the new labor contracts are negotiated. Gerald "Swede" Lindstrom, who's worked for Zia for more than 30 continue for Pan Am.

"I was a loyal employee for Zia and I'll be a loyal employee for the next company," he said. On Lindstrom's wall is a plaque of appreciation from the Apollo crew that landed on the moon. Zia, working at White Sands Missile Range, did the test work on the Apollo module and engines. "We did an excellent job for NASA, we did an excellent job for the lab and we'll continue to do an excellent job," he said. In a story Sunday, The New Mexican incorrectly identified director of the city's DWI Task Force.

He is Julian Grace. Four Seasons Nursing Home took second place in St. Vincent Hospital's 4th Annual Great Bed Extravaganza Sunday and Distributors took third. The teams' showings were reversed in a story about the bed race that appeared in Monday's Mexican. Continued from Page A-l seeking to have the law declared unconstitutional.

He had won in the nth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, but that ruling was reversed Monday. "Plainly enough, otherwise Illegal conduct Is not always immunized whenever it occurs in the home," White said. "It would be difficult to limit the claimed right of homosexual conduct while leaving exposed to prosecution adultery, Incest and other sexual crimes even though they are committed In the home." The court swept aside arguments that the Georgia law has no rational basis without explicitly ruling that it is rational. "Law is constantly based on notions of morality," White said, "and if all laws representing essentially moral choices are be Invalidated the courts will be very pusy Indeed." White was joined fay Chief Justice Warren E.

Burger and Justices Lewis F. Powell, William H. Rehnqulst and Sandra Day O'Connor. Powell wrote separately that the heavy penalty attached to violations of the state's sodomy law could represent unconstitutional "cruel and unusual punishment" because it is the same punishment meted out to convicted arsonists and robbers. Justices Harry A.

Blackmun, William J. Brennan, Thurgood Marshall and John Paul Stevens dissented. Writing for the four, Blackmun called the decision "revolting." "This case is about the most comprehensive of rights and the right most valued by civilized men, namely the right to be let alone," he said. Blackmun said he saw no justification for "invading the houses, hearts and minds of citizens who choose to live their lives differently." Gays denounce decision, pledge renewed efforts The Associated Press Leaders of gay rights groups said they feared the U.S. Supreme Court's decision that consenting adults have no constitutional right to private homosexual conduct would encourage states to take action against homosexual activity.

Others pledged to continue campaigning for repeal of state sodomy laws and said the decision would prompt increased gay rights activity. "Over the past 20 years, there has been a process of decriminalizing sodomy hi about half the said Eric Rofes, executive director of the Gay and Lesbian Center in West Hollywood, Calif. "This decision is an outrageous violation of personal dignity. It says people don't have a right to do what they want in their own bedroom, whether they are two men, a man and a woman or two women." "I think this will promote a witch hunt" against homosexuals, said Dan DeLeo, co- publisher of Gay Chicago, a weekly newspaper. "I wouldn't be surprised if other states now tried to enact such laws." He called the decision "devastating.

Despite the conservative nature of the court, I find It really difficult to believe." The high court, ruling upheld a Georgia law which defined sodomy as "any sexual act involving the sex organs of one person and the mouth or anus of another." The court overturned an appeals court ruling that the law infringed on fundamental constitutional rights. "We're just stunned that the Supreme Court of the United States would say that this kind of intrusion by the government is constitutional. It plainly Is not," said Rich- ard Swanson, administrator of the Atlanta Gay Center. Georgia Attorney General Michael Bowers, whose office defended the sodomy law, praised the decision as "tremendously far-reaching." But an Atlanta police official said the ruling will not cause a mass invasion of privacy. "If we see it, we're going to make the case" for prosecution, said Maj.

J.E. Oliver. "Nobody is going to be going Into people's homes looking for sodomy." Ron Najman, spokesman for the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force in New York, predicted the decision "will energize the gay rights movement in a way that will knock people's socks off. We have just begun to fight." "I urge everyone to support one another to come out. Our real victory won't be in the courts but in our homes and workplaces," said Morris Right, a member of the Los Angeles County Human Rights Commission and gay-rights activist.

Said Roberta Achtenberg, an attorney with the Lesbian Rights Foundation in San Francisco, "It's not going to be the end of the gay rights movement In the least. It will make all groups work harder on the legal front." In Boise, Idaho, the Rev. Ed Sherriff of the Metropolitan Community Church, which ministers to the area's gay population, estimated at 5,000 to 10,000, said he was disappointed by the decision but pleased that the court was so divided. He believed it would be difficult to enforce morals laws. FIRECRACKER SPECIALS FOR THIS WEEK (Good through July 6) MEAT (Alameda Market only) Ground Turkey reg.

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