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MOILED) 12-D Wednesday, Dec. 29, 1982 AP Lovorphoto am1. Fusion reactor test a success rn i Hunt for Everest climber fruitless Princeton in smaller machines but at Insignificant levels. In its best performance a smaller machine produced 40,000 billion fusions, twice as large an energy release as ever before achieved. Temperatures achieved in a fusion reactor are more than 10 times than those at the core of the sun.

Reactors similar to the Tokamak are being built in Japan, England and the Soviet Union, Furth said. But the Princeton project is the first to be tested. Planning already is under way for another, larger fusion reactor, which is expected to attain "ignition" a self-sustaining fusion reaction. However, that is not expected until the turn of the century, using magnetic fields to confine and heat plasma ionized gas consisting of free electrons and free nuclei! to at least 180 million degrees Fahrenheit so that the freed nucleii fuse, converting mass to energy. Conventional nuclear power creates energy by splitting uranium atoms in a fission process.

The actual test lasted only five hundredths of one second, but Furth said the duration was not important. "It's like Columbus finding the New World," he said. "The question is not how big is it, but that they found land." Lab spokesman Anthony DeMeo said the significance of the achievement is that plasma was made in the Tokamak, which is twice the size of earlier reactors, for the first time "and all subsystems worked." The machine's larger size and greatly enhanced ability to confine energy means that, unlike smaller reactors, it will be able to achieve the break-even point at which it puts out as much energy for each test as it took to run the test. It is hoped that break-even will be achieved by 1986. The next step toward commercial application is demonstration of engineering break-even, in which the power from the plasma is equal to the power required to to operate the entire facility.

This will require a five-fold improvement in plasma performance beyond the current Tokamak's capabilities. Commercial use is not expected for about 40 years. Fusion has been created at By D.J. ROSENBAUM United Press International PRINCETON, N.J. Scientists at Princeton University Tuesday announced the world's first successful firing of a new-generation nuclear fusion reactor.

The $314 million Tokamak fusion test reactor, funded by the Department of Energy, is part of a national effort to develop fusion as a safe, economical and environmentally acceptable means of generating electricity. The reactor at Princeton's For-restal campus was turned on for the first time at 3:06 a.m. last Friday after seven years of design and construction efforts, said Harold Furth, director of the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory. Fusion reactors create power by Dlicy differences imperil new i' 9 l1l Jack Swigert Ex-astronaut, newly elected to House, dies DENVER (AP) Jack Swigert, the ex-astronaut who died of complications from cancer, was hailed Tuesday as a "genuine, home-grown hero" who survived an explosion in space and narrowly missed his goal of serving in Congress. Swigert died in Washington Monday night at the age of 51, a week before he would have taken the congressional seat he won in the Nov.

2 election. The cause of death was respiratory failure related to cancer that had spread from his bone marrow to his lungs, according to doctors at the Lombardy Cancer Research Center at Georgetown University Hospital in Washington, D.C. After failing in a bid for a seat in the Senate, the University of Colorado football standout and former fighter pilot was elected this year to represent Colorado's new 6th Congressional District, despite a cancer diagnosis during the campaign. He was to have been sworn in for his first term Jan. 3.

"Jack Swigert provided a genuine, home-grown hero for a whole generation of Colorado kids," said Gov. Richard Lamm, a Democrat. Lamm will call a special election to fill Swigert's seat. Before the November general election, Swigert had announced that his doctors had diagnosed his condition as bone marrow cancer. He had been hospitalized in Washington since Dec.

19, when he was airlifted to the Georgetown University Hospital from his home in Littleton, Colo. He was under treatment for bone marrow cancer and complications resulting from chemotherapy treatments. A staff member had him fitted for a toupee, but he rarely wore it. Swigert never married. He is survived by his mother, Virginia Swigert of Denver, and two sisters, Virginia Spinelli of Fort Collins and Bettie Berube of Stillwater, Minn.

Born Aug. 30, 1931, in Denver, Swigert took an early interest in flying. At 14, he frequently rode his bike nearly three miles to Combs Field to watch the airplanes. A small youth with flat feet, he became a football standout through sheer will during the late 1940s at the University of Colorado. Swigert joined the Air Force and later bcame a captain and served a tour as a fighter pilot in Korea and Japan.

In 1962, he applied to become an astronaut, but was rejected. Deciding he needed more advanced college degrees, he embarked on a rigorous schedule that took him through test piloting by day, weekend duty with the Air National Guard and night school for a master's degree in aerospace science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, N.Y. Four years after being rejected for the astronaut program, he applied again and was accepted. 1 fv KHALDE, Lebanon (UPI) -Lebanese and Israeli negotiators held the first round of historic, U.S.-led discussions on Israeli troop withdrawals and Middle East peace Tuesday but policy differences threatened to "bog down" the talks. After six hours of dicussions the first direct talks between Lebanon and Israel since a 1949 armistice the Lebanese, Israeli and U.S.

teams issued statements outlining the deliberations. "The delegations exchanged views on their respective positions," spokesmen for the teams said in Arabic, Hebrew and English. "The agenda was discussed and progress was made. The agenda will be discussed further at the next meeting in Kiryat Shmona (Israel), at 10:30 a.m. Thursday." After the first round of talks, Lebanese President Amin Gemayel chaired a two-hour meeting attended by the Lebanese negotiators, Prime Minister Chefik Wazzan and Foreign Minister Elie Salem, the National News Agency reported.

Egypt warned Tuesday Lebanon would be rewarding Israel "aggression" the June 6 invasion of Lebanon if it accepted Israeli demands. But the commentary on Radio Cairo also said successful negotiations at Khalde could open the way to peace talks between Israel and other Arab states. The talks began with opening addresses and later moved to closed session. In a brief opening speech, chief U.S. delegate Morris Draper An Israeli guard (right) checks Lebanese photographers' gear at the opening round of peace talks at Khalde, Lebanon.

AP Laterphoto Drew Lewis Lewis to leave Cabinet, enter private firm By ANN DEVROY Gannett News Service WASHINGTON Transportation Secretary Drew Lewis, whose political savvy and decisiveness made him one of the best-regarded members of President Reagan's Cabinet, announced Tuesday he will leave his job Feb. 1 and return to private industry. Lewis will become chief executive officer of Warner Amex Cable Communications Inr the nation's fifth-largest cable television operator. Reagan was informed of Lewis' decision on Dec. 13, but has not focused on potential replacements yet, officials said, and will probably not make a decision for several weeks.

A senior official said the administration is looking for a woman to fill the job, since the regular Cabinet is now all-male. One contender is Elizabeth Dole, currently an assistant to the president in charge of the public liaison office. Faith Whittlesey, ambassador to Switzerland, is also being discussed. A Pennsylvanian like Lewis, she has been a political protege of his. The departure of Lewis, the third member of Reagan's Cabinet to leave government, drew rueful comments from administration officials who admired his skill as a politician and his ability to get a job done, particularly the sensitive job of handling the 1981 air traffic controllers strike.

Senior officials view Lewis, along with Secretary of State George Shultz and Treasury Secretary Donald Regan, as success stories in a mostly mediocre Cabinet whose members, particularly Labor Secretary Raymond Donovan and Interior Secretary James Watt, have sometimes done the president more harm than good. Several White House officials have been agitating, with no success, for a midterm Cabinet shakeup that would send Donovan, Watt, Education Secretary Terrel Bell and HUD Secretary Samuel Pierce packing. ill. HH li Linn iiiiminninin.nw "i mil nir KATMANDU, Nepal (UPI) -Sherpa guides reported Tuesday no trace of a Japanese climber who vanished on his way down Mount Everest after the first ever winter ascent of the world's highest peak. Also missing was his Japanese climbing companion.

"It will be extremely difficult to survive those conditions," Re-inhold Messner, a veteran Italian climber, said in an interview in Katmandu, the base of climbing operations. Yasuo Kato, who lost all his toes in a 1973 ascent of Everest, reached the summit of th mountain Monday afternoon and was low on food and oxygen, the Nepalese Tourism Ministry said. Tylenol figure pleads innocent CHICAGO (AP) James W. Lewis pleaded innocent in federal court Tuesday to charges that he tried to extort 1 million from Johnson Johnson in the wake of the Tylenol murders. Lewis, making his first court appearance in Chicago since his arrest earlier this month, stood quietly as his attorney, Michael Monico, entered the plea.

U.S. District Judge John Nor-dberg granted a request by U.S. Attorney Dan K. Webb to let Lewis' $5 million bond stand. Monico did not argue against Webb's request.

Bridge blasts kill 1, wound 6 SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (UPI) Rebels forces killed a woman and wounded six soldiers Tuesday in an attempt to blow up a key bridge in eastern Usulutan province, officials said. The rebels exploded three bombs on the bridge at EI Coyolito, 66 giiles east of San Salvador, in an attack just after midnight, but the structure ''remains intact," said a local government official. Hospital officials in nearby Usulutan, capital of the province by the same name, confirmed six wounded soldiers and a woman who died of gunshot wounds were admitted early Tuesday morning. The seven were victims of a fire-fight with the rebels who planted the bombs, the hospital officials said. It was not immediately known if the woman was a guerrilla or a civilian.

3 reported dead in rebel clashes MANAGUA, Nicaragua (UPI) -Pro-government newspapers reported Tuesday a Sandinista company commander and two militiamen were killed in recent fighting with Nicaraguan rightist rebel The reports came one day after Defense Minister Humberto Ortega said Sandinista border guards had fought more than 90 clashes with Honduran-based rightist exiles in which more than 400 people have Peru prepares for offensive LIMA, Peru (UPI) Peru reinforced army troops in the Central Andes Tuesday for a full-scale offensive against leftist guerrillas given 72 hours to surrender by President Fernando Belaunde Terry Sunday. It would be the first major campaign against the guerrillas since civilian government was restored to Peru 2 V4 years ago. iGlitch' causes power cutoff MIAMI (AP) A malfunction triggered during testing at a nuclear reactor shut down three power plants Tuesday, temporarily blacking out about 225,000 electric customers, officials said. "The testing caused a glitch in the circuitry, and the reactor sensed it immediately," said Jlorida Power Light spokeswoman Stacey Shaw. "The omit said 'oops' ana shut off right away." When the 650-megawatt Unit No.

3 reactor at the Turkey Point nuclear plant tripped off, an electric imbalance called an "under-frequency" was created through- out power grid, Ms. Shaw "said. Within seconds, the 137-mega-. watt oil-fired Dlant in Sanford had switched itself out of the system, 'and the 233-megawatt oil-powered "generator in Putnam County shortly followed. 'Reagan budget writers mired on deficit issue talks AP Leierphoto Syrian and 10,000 Palestine Libera-, tion Organization forces occupying two thirds of the country.

Fattal said Lebanon was not ready to break with the Arab camp. His statement was a reference to Lebanon's refusal to sign a separate peace accord with the Jewish state a move that would alienate key Arab allies whose assistance is desperately needed to rebuild the war-shattered country. A third of ficial groused that Reagan had yet to decide on a strategy for dealing with Congress, which is expected to rewrite the budget as soon as it arrives on Capitol Hill. It's due there by Jan. 31.

"We don't know whether to submit a budget that is compromising or confrontational," said the official. He said the choices are to stand firm against major defense cuts and tax increases or to cede some ground to Democrats demanding such changes. Several budget planners say they already are giving up on solving the deficit problem 1984, and are turning to ways for reducing the deficits over the following four years. ends handyman and warned her she was ruining her marriage. The tall, slim Pulitzer claimed his wife exhausted him with her demands, forcing him to stay up till dawn dancing at discotheques, and he began snorting cocaine to keep going.

Pulitzer, known to his friends as "Herbert," has two daughters and a son by his first marriage to Lily Pulitzer, now a Palm Beach fashion designer. He and Roxanne lived together for six months, spending much of their time building his 73-foot yacht, The Sea Hunter, and his Florida ranch before they were married in 1975. "Our life was so great, the work on the boat, the work on the ranch," he said during his testimony in October. "She was happy. She appeared to love what we were doing." But after their sons were born in 1977, Pulitzer said, his wife became restless.

Roxanne Ulrich Dixon was born in Cassadega, N.Y., and was divorced when she met Pulitzer. How she was living when they met has never been revealed. urged "imagination and vision" to create a "future of hope." Draper's opening address underlined perhaps inadvertently glaring policy differences between Lebanon and Israel in the long-awaited negotiations. In his opening speech, Antoine Fat-tal, a 64-year-old jurist heading the Lebanese delegation, stressed his country's principal demand: withdrawal of 30,000 Israeli, 40,000 curity and military spending, further reductions in previously pared social programs or simply accepting a $200 billion deficit are either politically unacceptable to Congress or philosophically unacceptable to Reagan, suggested these officials. They discussed the quandary on condition that their names not be used.

"I think the big boss doesn't want to face reality," complained one official, who described budget planners as "depressed and despairing." "We're all in a dilemma. You can't dispute that," added another, who said a budget package has to be assembled in time for the president's Jan. 25 State of the Union message to Congress. and then claim benefits equal to those which would have been enjoyed had the marriage remained intact." Mrs. Pulitzer must "peacefully vacate the marital residence by January 10th." The judge appended a complicated schedule and list of rules for visiting the children.

During the sensational trial, a parade of witnesses told the judge intimate details of the couple's jet-set lifestyle. Witnesses called by Pulitzer's lawyers said his wife's lovers included Grand Prix racer Jackie Ickx of Belgium and Jacqueline Kimberly, the 32-year-old wife of Kleenex heir James Kimberly, 76. Pulitzer said he once joined the two women in bed. He claimed his wife was often put into trances during bedroom seances by her confidant, Janice "The Psychic" Nelson, while a trumpet wrapped in a black cape lay at her feet. Janice the Psychic testified for Pulitzer, claiming she had seen Mrs.

Pulitzer making love to the Pulitzer wins custody of sons as lurid trial By OWEN ULLMANN The Associated Press WASHINGTON With just a month left to prepare a 1984 spending blueprint, the Reagan administration's budget planners are in disarray over how to prevent the deficit from hitting $200 billion. Some of them say work has been slowed by the inability or unwillingness of the president and his top aides to make essential decisions on how to reduce the deficit in the fiscal year that starts next October. This is the same year in which Reagan once vowed to produce a balanced budget. The problem is that all the alternatives higher taxes, cuts in Social Se used automobile of unknown value and a $7,000 interest in a mobile home," Harper observed. "Upon departing the marriage, which she destroyed, she takes with her a $20,000 Porsche automobile, purchased with the husband's funds, about $60,000 in jewelry, purchased in large measure with the husband's funds, $48,000 in rehabilitative alimony, $7,000 equity in the husband's boat, and $102,000 in attorneys' fees," he ruled.

"Primary physical residence of both children, MacLean Simpson Pulitzer and Zachary Simpson Pulitzer, shall be with the husband subject to frequent, continuing and reasonable contact and visitation with the wife." He ruled that Mrs. Pulitzer could not remove the children from Palm Beach County without written consent from Pulitzer or the court. "Flagrant acts of adultery and other gross marital conduct demeans the sanctity of the marriage and the family unit and will not be tolerated by an enduring society," he said. "It is improper to permit an errant spouse to destroy a marriage I I i Roxanne Peter WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (UPI) A judge gave multi-millionaire Peter Pulitzer custody of his twin sons Tuesday and awarded his wife her sports car, her jewelry and a paltry $48,000 settlement because she destroyed their marriage with "flagrant acts of adultery." The blonde, 31-year-old Roxanne Pulitzer accused by witnesses of making love with a handyman, a French baker, a Grand Prix race driver and another millionare's wife was guilty of "gross marital misconduct," ruled Circuit Judge Carl Harper.

"Where such transgressions are shown," his ruling said, "appropriate sanctions must be imposed not to mention the deterrent effect on other spouses so inflicted." The brief ruling concluded the lurid, 19-day jet-set trial in which the 51-year-old Pulitzer, grandson of publishing magnate Joseph Pulitzer, claimed his wife of 6 to years introduced him disastrously to cocaine and marijuana nearly ruining his health spent his money like water and cuckolded him regularly. Mrs. Pulitzer, on the other hand, claimed it was he who introduced drugs into the marriage, smuggled marijuana into the country aboard his luxury yacht and had sex with Liza Leidy, his daughter by as previous marriage. Both Mrs. Leidy and Pulitzer hotly denied the charges.

During the 19 days of testinomy which concluded Nov. 9, Mrs. Pulitzer claimed her husband was worth $25 million. But his accountants said she had spent money so quickly his fortune had dwindled to $2.5 million. "The wife entered this marriage with limited financial resources, a 1 4.