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tray Cats to join Willie
or Fourth of July show
United Press International
ATLANTA — After can-
eling his annual July 4th pic-
lic concerts in 1980, country
music singer Willie Nelson re
turns to the holiday stage next
week for a three-day series of
festival shows expected to
[raw thousands of fans.
The concert series begins
hth a July 2 show in Syracuse,
N Y. at the Carrier Dome, a
■uly 3 concert in East Ruther
ford, N.J. at the Meadow-
inds’ Giant Stadium and the
llimactic Fourth of July con-
lert at Atlanta International
pee way.
Joining Nelson on stage for
Ihe 12-hour Atlanta festival
be Waylon Jennings,
Hank Williams Jr., David
^llan Coe, Merle Haggard,
Linda Ronstadt, and the Stray
tats. The line-up also in-
lliides a group of un
announced artists who are ex
pected to appear briefly to
play a few songs with “Willie
and Friends.”
Nelson began his July 4th
concert bashes on a very small
scale in 1972 in Dripping
Springs, but over the years,
the event mushroomed into a
huge festival, drawing as
many as 100,000 people on
some occasions.
Although some fans in his
native Texas may be dis
appointed the event has
moved out of state, Nelson
said Monday that he doesn’t
think anybody back home will
be real upset.
“We’ve had some of the
concerts outside of Texas
already — one in Tulsa,” he
said. “I think they will be glad
when we come back to Texas,
but I don’t think anybody is
upset about it.”
The annual Texas festival
was cancelled in 1980, when
Nelson held a concert in Au
stin at a lakeside country club
estate, which he had purch
ased specifically for the
annual event.
Authorities said the huge
concert crowd was unruly and
facilities at the site were inade
quate. People stood in long
lines for hours for food, drink
and toilet facilities and there
were miles of bumper-to-
bumper traffic.
At the time, Nelson said he
called off the concerts because
it took six months to plan and
six months more to recover
from.
“This is for sure the last
one,” Nelson said. “Maybe in a
couple of years we’ll have
another, but it won’t be an
annual event anymore. It just
takes a lot of time.”
But he apparently is recov
ering faster than usual and
said he is especiallly looking
forward to the Atlanta con
cert, which is expected to
draw about 50,000 people.
“Atlanta has always been a
good music town and has been
particularly good for us,” Nel
son said. “I think the line-up is
exceptionally good. It’s one of
the best lineups I’ve ever
heard of anywhere.”
The collection of musicians
is a homogenous group with
the exception of the Stray
Cats, whose New Wave garb
and Rockabilly sound make
them stand out from the other
performers.
“Their songs and the style
they play go way back, and the
fact they are young and popu
lar all over the country was a
good enough reason for me to
have them on the show,” Nel
son said.
Professor outlines plan
for nuclear waste burial
ipalloons fly into West Texas
United Press International
OXFORD, Miss. —A Univer
sity of Mississippi professor said
Monday if the Department of
Energy does its job, nuclear
waste can be buried for
thousands of years without pos
ing a threat of pollution.
“If DOE does its job even in a
half-decent way, nuclear waste is
not going to be our problem in
10,000, 15,000 or even 20,000
years,” said Dr. George D. Brun-
ton, chairman of the university’s
geology department.
“Unless they put it in a bad
place where they know water is
flowing or volcanism is rampant,
the chances of any of that waste
ever contaminating the bios
phere is probably zero,” he said.
The plan for burying the
waste also will keep it from be
coming a threat, Brunton said.
Effective long term isolation of
nuclear waste will occur through
use of a multiple-barrier plan in
volving placing residue in a sea
led container, placing it more
than 2,000 feet undergrond and
covering it with more rock and
material.
“Nothing has happened
2,000 feet underground in most
{ )laces in this country for a mil-
ion years,” he said.
He added salt domes would
provide the best insulation for
the waste of any surface.
“The fact that the salt domes
exist indicates that water does
not flow through them,” Brun
ton said. “Water doesn’t pene
trate salt, since salt has the per
meability of compacted plastic,
and it is a good thermal conduc
tor which carries away heat.”
Brunton also said the chemic
al and physical properties of
pure salt are predictable, mak
ing it possible to predict whether
the repository will contain toxic
materials for the 10,000,000
years necessary for its radioac
tivity to diminish.
Mississippi’s Richton salt
dome in Perry County is among
the top three sites Brunton said
he would recommend for loca
tion of the nation’s first nuclear
waste repository.
Ahead of Richton, Brunton
said he would recommend a salt
bed in west Texas and one in
Paradox Basin, Utah. Six sites
are being considered in Missis
sippi, Texas, Louisiana, Nevada,
Utah and Washington.
The sites now under con
sideration will be narrowed this
fall to three or four that will
undergo extensive test and
study. Congress is expected to
receive a nomination for a per
manent repository in 1987 from
the president.
Brunton also says DOE offi
cials already believe the Richton
site is the best but are not reveal
ing the opinion publicly.
“The main reason for the in
terest in the Richton dome —
which is considered the best
dome by DOE — is because it is
the biggest of the interior salt
domes and is at a reasonable
depth,” Brunton said.
I n an effort to avoid a big poli
tical flareup in Mississippi,
Brunton said DOE officials are
not revealing their interest in
Richton.
United Press International
PALESTINE — Halfway
through their flight into the
ozone layer the instruments
ftard two high altitude bal-
Hns were performing as ex-
jMted and moving towards a
■ding in West Texas or New
Mexico.
■ “The scientific experiments
■ functioning perfectly,” Betty
Fin man of the National Science
galloon Facility said Monday
■ Delayed Sunday because of
jvinds, the first balloon lifted off
■ launch pad at 11:40 a.m.
>to by Breodil
on man
: a iSto face
harges
Monday, and the second one
rose into the sky five minutes
later.
Furman predicted they
would land between 8 p.m.
Mondy night and 1 a.m. Tues
day CDT near the NASA
ground station built for the ex
periments. .
Monday’s launch followed a
two-balloon launch Friday
morning. Those balloons came
down Saturday just west of
Pecos.
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The four balloons were fol
lowing a path designed to take
them over West Texas, where
LSA had established a second
ground station at Pecos.
Government and private
groups joined in the effort to
test the chemical composition of
the ozonesphere, with the parti
cipation of about 50 scientists
from the United States, Canada,
Japan, England, France, Bel
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)Tlff|p AN ANTONI ° — Con -
vllGl|ctcd con man Frederix P. De-
Vtau, a former protected feder-
Jwitness, and his attorney face
multiple counts of securities and
mail fraud in a scheme author-
lown there l s sa y ne tted more than $1
1. ■llion from an Austin firm,
d removal * j ur y selection was to begin
lallthetimtTuesday in the federal court
ople that ii ^,1,
and use tin* Q e v eau anf i his attorney,
here fining Drobny of Chicago, were
indicted by a grand jury in Au-
ie area' 1 $tin Dec. 13 on criminal secur-
n Sunda; i Ities fraud charges because of
angerous Jheir involvement with Jet In
dustries of Austin, an electric car
hildreti" company.
DeVeau, who testified in
1982 against four co-defendants
jiceused of defrauding Elvis Pre
sley, has reportedly helped the
Jvernment convict 60 people
■federal cases, including sever-
| Abscam-related investiga-
Ins.
■DeVeau was participating in
bodies'^ :he federal witness protection
D.m. on jlograrn when he acquired Jet
‘ ‘ ‘ in April 1982. The government
contends that DeVeau plun-
flered more than $1 million in
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