e 12-'Wednesday, February 6, 1980-The Michigan Daily Reporter: Reactor security lax From AP and UPI HARRISBURG, Pa.-A reporter who got himself hired as a guard at the Three Mile Island nuclear plant later gained entry through an unlocked door to the sensitive control room, his newspaper reported yesterday. The Guide, a muckraking Harrisburg area weekly, printed copyright stories about the exploits of cub reporter Robert Kapler following a court battle in which Metropolitan Edison Co. tried to block publication. A JUDGE RULED against the power company. In two articles, headlined, "Paradise Isalnd for the Saboteur," and "I Waltz into Unlocked Control Room of Unit 2," Kapler alleged that security was lax at Three Mile Island and company and government protection regulations don't work. Kapler- said he was hired as an unarmed watchman, a low level guard who is not supposed to have access to the eontrol room. Armed guards, who have a higher security clearnace, do have such access. UNIT 2 IS the facility severely damaged last March in the worst accident in the history of U.S. commercial nuclear power. Its control room is where vital reactor functions are still maintained. The Guide published photographs by Kapler identified as the interior of the control room and an unlocked control room door, with the knob missing so that a piece of rope was used to pull it open. The photos were taken, the Guide said, with a concealed Minox spy camera-"the kind the CIA uses." The newspaper also detailed what it claimed was laxity in the plant security operation, which allowed Kapler to get a job as a security guard with bogus identification and apparently without having his background checked. THE 26-YEAR-OLD reporter contended it was relatively easy for him, or anybody else, to obtain a job at Three Mile Island as a guard. Once inside the plant, he learned personnel were not carefully monitored nor searched for weapons, an employee could violate security rules by taking home his plant entry badge, and public address systems didn't function properly in times of safety drills. "Since I was a guard, I was neveO frisked. I had an opportunity to roam by myself throughout the complex," Kapler said. "If I had indeed been a saboteur, I could have taken explosives, weapons and ammunition onto Three Mile Island, into vital areas, into the control room," he said. Sandy Polon, a spokesman for Metropolitan Edison Co., declined comment on the newspaper articles aO did the contractor that supplies the company with guards, Gregg Security Co. Camp Counselor Recruiting Expo Recruiters from the major midwestern Jewish camps MONDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 3-5pm and 7-1 pm Michigan room of the Michigan League STATE DEPT. RELEASES HUMAN RIGHTS REPOR T: World oppression up-U.S. I 01 WASHINGTON (AP) - Human rights were repressed all around the world in 1979 as dictatorships, of the left and right, practiced torture and cracked down on dissent, according to a State Department report. But here and r Z z .Z z i. Z2. .. # r A _ / t School getting you down? TaeAbreak! there, freedom took a step forward. In two Warsaw Bloc countries, Poland and Hungary, internal controls were eased. In Argentina, the incidence of people seized without explanation dropped sharply and may be near an end. In Egypt, liberalization moved ahead under President Anwar Sadat, THESE ARE among the findings in the State Department's annual human rights report, submitted yesterday to Congress. For the first time, all 154 countries were surveyed. The 854-page document is a catalogue of extensive violations. Only a few, such as the seizure of an estimated 50 American diplomats in Iran, are well- known. For the most part, the victims are faceless to the world at large. The abuses are set down in dry, bureaucratic language. IN CZECHOSLOVAKIA, "overt op- position in any field is punished." In Ethiopia, "'it still appears likely that the government tortures political and military prisoners to extract in- formation or confessions." In Iran, "several thousand persons ren in in custody for political reasons." In Libya, "detainees in criminal and security cases reportedly are frequen- tly beaten during interrogation." In South Africa, "the governing reality of life . . . is apartheid." IN VIETNAM, "deprivation of adequate medical and nutritional care for political prisoners and prisoners of cohscience over extended periods has resulted in acute suffering, per anent physical impairment and death in numerous reported incidents." The report is sharply critical of the Soviet Union, estimating the number of political prisoners at 2,000 to 10,000. The government, it says, "recognizes no right to any opinion or behavior it chooses to regard as deviant." The world's other major communist country, China, gets a mixed review. Since Chairman Mao Tse-tung's death in 1976, "movement in the direction of greater freedoms" is reported. There is some tolerance of dissent and a livelier press. "But the reforms have not yet broken the entrenched patterns of harassment arbitrary arrest and harsh punishment for political dissent," the report said. COUNTRIES ARE not compared one to another or to their own past records. But in the case of Cambodia, the report writers were moved to make the flat statement that "nowhere in the world are human- rights mor* beleagured." Life in North Korea, another com- munist regime, is described as "perhaps the most highly regimented and controlled in the world today." Iran appears to be a case of one repressive regime succeeding another. BUT UNDER Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini ~s rule, more -than 700 executions were carried out, thousand of Iranians fled their countries an vigilante groups wereaallowed to take actions against the Bahais and other minority groups, the report says. Residence halls tabulate savings as contests end SUBSCRIBE TODAY. . . 764-0558 i f sI A," ySMWp 'Mrt 4e stock a full line of clothing, boots, camping equipment, hunting clothing & winter coats. 201 E. Washington at Fourth Open M-Sat 9-6 994-3572 MMM16-- -AI6- Iglbm,,m 1 15% Mern wI (ex Expires Feb. 16, 1980 OUFF ALL 1 1 chandise1 th this coupon1 ccept sale items) I (Continued from Page 3) of $800 over last year at that same time, and Mosher Jordan saved $900 among electrical, steam (heating) and water costs. THE INDIVIDUAL halls can set the contest up any way they desire. MoJo merely compared , this year's result with last year's, but in Markley the various houses within the dorm com- peted against each other for individual awards which came out of the seed money from housing. Response from students varied, some expressing enthusiasm and others MARTY'S... GOES DUTCH TREAT WITH THEIR FIFTH ANNUAL .,.. apathy. Steve Fleischnann, a resident of Frost house, the winning house in Markley, said that he contributed to conservation by shutting off ?lights and closing his drapes more often, which he said he is continuing to do now. His house won $200 for their treasury. Valerie Vener from MoJo said the contest was a good idea. "We cut down on heat by turning it up as high as it would go for about five minutes an* then shutting.it off for the rest of the night," she said. She added that in a loft, one doesn't really miss the heat at night. ANOTHER MOJO resident, Ann Steele, claimed the contest had little ef- feet on her habits. "I always do it anyway," she said. Many residents of the two dorms had previously complained of the heat problem, saying it was an obviou waste. SanFacon explained that the hot' water heater must be kept at a level high enough to keep the coldest areas of the building up to temperature. Often one area or wing gets much more sun or heat than another and consequently is overheated. Several dorms are already installed with special devices than can compensate for the colder areas by "zoning" the building and supplying different amounts of heat to each zone, depending on what is needed. San Facon said he would like to see such a devic' installed in Markley. The University is considering this for the future. 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