The Michigan Daily-Tuesday, February 5, 1980-Page 7 '..".4C+........................ . ,. , .' .. ...s.......................................................................,'-....-.-....-J.N. It may be mid-winter but at the Trueblood Theatre it's the . 0 Speakers ............... .......... ............ encourage "new nuke plant ban at hearing By MITCH STUART Special to The Daily DETROIT - Support for a five-year moratorium on new nuclear power plants was nearly unanimous yesterday at.a public hearing on a state House bill that would mandate a ban on construction of the plan- ts. Only two of the more than 15 people who testified in Detroit's City-County Building before the House's Committee on Public Health, voiced opposition to the bill. State Rep. Lynn Jondahl, sponsor of the bill, ex- plained why he feels it is necessary. "There are many questions about nuclear power that we haven't an- 9wered. Let's stop until we do have answers," he said. JONDAHL SAID he supports smaller community- based power generation as opposed to centralized systems. He cited the Fermi II plant now under con- struction as a prime example of centralized plant that is captial-intensive rather than labor-intensive in its operation. There are five people needed to run Fermi II, Jondahl said, three of whom are secretaries. House bill 4528 has the following major provisions: * A five-year moratorium on the construction of nuclear fission power plants in Michigan; * A "certificate of reliability" would have to be ob- tained from the Department of Public Health before construction could be started or continued; * Relatively harsh standards would have to be met before a certificate could be obtained; and * All certificates would have to be approved by the state House and Senate. LSA JUNIOR Beverly Johnson testified at the hearing that she was concerned about the limited liability of power companies. The Price-Anderson act limits utilities' liability to $560 million, but, she said, the old Atomic Energy Commission estimated that damage from a nuclear plant accident could go as high as $17 billion. "Why can't the utility companies get full coverage," she asked. "Do the insurance companies know something the public doesn't?" A spokesperson for Public Interest Research Group in Michigan (PIRGIM) also read a statement of sup- port for the bill. Wayne Denz, a Detroit Edison vice-president, spoke against the bill. "Safety is a very serious mat- ter to both Detroit Edison and the NRC (Nuclear Regulatory Commission)," he said. Jim Murphy, President of the University's Public Health Student Association read a resolution from the Association "strongly supporting House bill 4528." ........................ I pm Trueblood Theatre. Uaiversity Showease Productions. Tickets $2 available at the PT.P ticket Office is the Michigan League. 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The House ethics committee quickly called a meeting to begin its probe after disclosure that FBI agents posed as aides to a wealthy Arab sheik who was willing to pay bribes to congressmen and other officials, in exchange for political favors. Sources say some of- ficials were photographed with video- tape equipment in the act of taking ?money. MEANWHILE, Justice Department spokesman Robert Smith announced a separate investigation into how the story was leaked to the news media. 0 "The disclosures by the media are regrettable because they may injure the reputation of innocent people," Smith said. He said the Office of Professiqnal Responsibility, which polices the conduct of Justice Depar- tment and FBI employees, "will initiate an intensive investigation to see whether deliberate disclosures have been made by federal employees." Sources said the probe began as an FBI "sting" operation in which agents posed as fences willing to purchase stolen art, stocks and bonds. 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Viewpoint Lectures presents KOLISCH: "Phenomena of the Mind" Michigan Theatre Tuesday, February 5, 1980, 8:00 p.m. Admission: $2.00 SESSIONS HELD AT MICHIGAN UNION, CONFERENCE ROOM 4 Student and university staff discounts available. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION AND RESERVATIONS CALL 769-0661 Pressler ... cleared in FBI probe .Inmates burned, tortured, murdered in prison riot ,,._. -- -- .. . _ K~OlSC U I I p (Continued from Page l) member of the National Guard body detail, helped take 22 bodies to Bernalillo County Medical Center in Albuquerque on Sunday, night. He said one of the dead prisoners had a rod stuck through his head. "THERE WAS A rod stuck into one of the prisoner's ears, forced through his head, and through the other side. He still had it in when we took the body out," Ortiz said. Ortiz said many of the dead had been tortured. "One of them still had a rope around his neck and then they smashed his head in," Ortiz said. "It was horrible." MARGARET BABCOK, a prison secretary, said she was looking through binoculars from a prison fence when she saw one inmate being tortured with. a blowtorch near a cellblock. "Four or five men were holding one man down and burning his head and face with a torch," she said. "He was screaming. I couldn't believe it. It was like a nightmare." Guard} Fred Herrera said, "Some of the guys' (inmates') faces are totally gone." State Sen. Ben Altamirano said he saw the body of a black inmate who had been decpaitated and his head stuffed between his legs. Guards said - another inmate had his arm cut off before he was hurled from an upper window. REPORTERS PERMITTED to tour part of the devastated prison followed the warden past about 70 prisoners, some of them barefoot, being held in a 15-foot-wide fence and barbed wire outside corridor dubbed "no-man's land." The inmates, who had managed to escape the carnage and surrendered to authorities, slept on the ground Saturday and Sunday nights with only blankets for warmth in sub-freezing temperatures. At least 80 per cent of the prison's structure was destroyed, according to Adolph Saenz, newly appointed secretary of the state's Criminal Justice Department. State officials said it might cost as much as $50 million to replace the state's only maximum security prison. W HEN: , FEBRUARY 16, 1980 1:00 P.M. to 1:00 A.M. WHERE: 1ST PRIZE from tech 1il ^MARKLEY HALL Nikko NR-515 Receiver Philips GA-222 Turntable TDC Loudspeakers Audio-Technica AT-90e Cartridge r The school raising the largest amount of money will win the"Little Brown Bottle trophy. Sponsored by Budweiser and the Muscular Dystrophy Association. For more Information contact: Bob Krinsky-764-4928 Registration Required U