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EPA scraps
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Environmental Protection
Agency, calling the risk "relatively trivial," yesterday
scrapped standards it proposed last year for governing
radiation leyels around the nation's atomic weapons plants,
uranium mines and university research reactors.
The agency was under a court order to make a decision on
standards for low-level atomospheric radiation from the
facilities yesterday.
INSTEAD, EPA withdrew entirely the proposed standards
for Energy Department weapons-manufacturing plants,
elemental phosphorous plants and certain non power
facilities licensed by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Also withdrawn were proposed standards on radioactive
radon-222 emissions from underground uranium mines,
though agency officials said they would develop new stan-
dards for mining.
"In our judgement these risks are relatively trivial,"
Assistant EPA Administrator Joseph Cannon said at a news
conference. "We are trying to develop the kind of at-
mosphere where we can issue our regulations with a sense of
radiation standards
credibility."
A FEDERAL court in San Francisco in September 1982 or-
dered EPA to develop the standards after environmentalists,
led by the Sierra Club, accused the agency of dragging its
feet in regulating radionuclides - radioactive substances -
as a pollutant, as required by 1977 amendments to the Clean
Air Act..
In response to the order from U.S. District Court Judge
William Orrick, EPA issued the proposed standards in April
1983.
However, they were criticized by the Energy Department,
NRC and even EPA's own independent Scientific Advisory
Board as being based on poor risk analyses. EPA Ad-
ministrator William Ruckelshaus asked for a 90-day exten-
sion beyond yesterday's deadline to resolve the dispute, but
Orrick refused to grant it.
The Sierra Club, along with the Natural Resources Defense
Council and the Environmental Defense Fund, said yester- Ruckelshaus
day that they would challenge the agency's withdrawal of the
regulations in court. . .. aware of radiation risks
IN BRIEF
Compiled from Associated Press and
United Press International reports
Seasame Street, Big Bird fight child abuse
NEW YORK (AP) - "Sesame
Street" is joining the fight against child
abuse this season - indirectly - by
allowing some of the show's adults to
finally believe that Big Bird's best
friend, Mr. Snuffleupagus, is real and
not imaginary.
For more than a decade, the award-
winning public television series for pre-
schoolers has. used a running gag in
which its mainstay Muppet Big Bird, is
the only cast member who comes into
contact with the fuzzy elephant charac-
ter, Mr. Snuffleupagus.
IT WAS frustrating for Big Bird -
and adults in the audience, for that
matter - when the show's grownups
repeatedly missed opportunities to see
the cast's largest character. "That was
the original joke," said executive
producer Duly Singer. "But the audien-
ce always knew he was real."
The problem with that situation, Ms.
Singer and head writer Normal Stiles
now say, is that it may have created the
message for children that adults would
not believe them about serious matters.
"It could have been keeping children
from divulging things to their parents,"
Stiles said.
Specialists say one way of dealing
with child abuse in both the preventive
and therapeutic stages is for children to
have complete confidence about talking
to parents. At the same time, the paren-
ts must trust what the children are
saying.
In the first episode of the new season,
Nov. 19, Big Bird will say he's tired of
assaults on his credibility. 'I know the
difference between real and imaginary.
Why don't they believe me?" the
character played by Carroll Spinney
will say.
THE PROGRAM IN JUDAIC STUDIES
presents
DR. MICHAL PALGI
Director of Research, The Institute for Research of the
Kibbutz and the Cooperative Idea, University of Haifa
"CHANGING ROLES OF WOMEN IN THE KIBBUTZ"
Wednesday, October 24 - 7:30 p.m.
RACKHAM AMPHITHEATRE
CIA orders recall of
Nicaraguan manual
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WASHINGTON (AP) - The CIA has
ordered a "full recall" of its controver-
sial manual for Nicaraguan rebels and
is asking that its contents, including
advice on "selective use of violence" to
"neutralize" government officials, be
ignored, the spy agency has told
Congress.
Sen. Patrick Leahy, (D-Vt.), a Senate
Intelligence Committee Member, said
yesterday that he was informed of the
recall by CIA officials Monday night. A
committee source said that the CIA also
mentioned the recall of all copies
during a three-hour briefing of the
panel earlier Monday.
LEAHY SAID the CIA, in ordering a
"full recall," is telling rebels that the
manual "is inoperative and should be
ignored." He said the rebels are being
instructed to follow another book con-
taining a code of conduct that reflects
tradional guidelines of war.
The committee source, who insisted
on anonymity, said the agency was
trying to recover several thousand
printed copies of three versions of the
manual. He said only about two dozen
of the original uncensored edition
remain in existence, with about 12 in
Washington and 12 in Central America.
A copy of one of those originals was ob-
tained by The Associated Press.
During Monday's briefing, CIA
officials told members of Congress that
some deletions were made from the
original manual produced last October,
but that all editions - including one ap-
proved at CIA headquarters - con-
tained references to using violence to
"neutralize" Nicaraguan government
officials.
PRESIDENT Reagan had asserted
during Sunday's presidential debate
that pages dealing with assassination
were removed. He added that 12 copies
of the original with references to such
violent acts "some way ... got out down
there."
Reagan said the original manual was
the work of a CIA contract employee in
Central America, butCthatswhen it was
turned over to his CIA superior, "a
number of pages were excised by that
agencyrhead there... and he sent ithon
up here to CIA, where more pages were
excised before it was printed."
Meanwhile, in Green Bay, Wis., Vice
President George Bush said he expects
the president to ultimately "take the
responsibility" for the manual's
distribution.
Plotters named in Aquino killing
MANILA, Philippines - The head of a commission that probed the murder
of opposition leader Benigno Aguino blamed a general and six soldiers for
the assassination, but cleared the Philippines armed forced chief in a
minority report challenged by the other panel members.
The seven military men were named by commission chairwoman Corazon
Agrava. President Ferdinand Marcos immediately ordered the seven con-
fined to barracks and said they would have a "speedy trial" in a special:
civilian court.
The four other members of the civilian panel were to submit their own.
majority report to marcos yesterday.
The Agrava report did not link Marcos and his powerful wife, Imelda, t
the assassination plot in any way. But it said the other four panel members:
would identify Armed Forces Chief of Staff Gen. Fabian Ver - Marcos's
closest military aide - "as a member of the group" responsible for
Aquino's death.
Despite their differences, the two reports rejected the army's claim that
Aquno was killed by Rolando Galman, an alleged communist hitman.
South African police search
black townships for dissidents
SEBOKENG, South Africa - Seven thousand police and soldiers swept in-
to three black townships yesterday, hunting house-to-house for dissidents,
interrogating thousands of people and arresting more than 350 people.
Police said they were searching for agitators they blame for two months of
sporadic rioting against the racial policies of the white government. But;
most of the 357 blacks arrested were picked up on minor charges. No violen'
ce was reported and there were no known casualties.
The force of police and combat-ready troops moved into Sebokeng, about;
40 miles south of Johannesburg, before dawn, then regrouped at mid-
afternoon and launched similar operations in Sharpeville and Boipatong
about six miles away.
Of 82 people who were killed in the recent riots, one - a 3-week-old boy
struck in the head by a stone in Sharpeville two weeks ago - was white.
Yesterday's raids were the most extensive deployment of the army again-.
st the black majority since riots began, and drew speedy criticism.
Trevor Manuel, a spokesman for the anti-apartheid, multiracial:
organization United Democratic Front, said the sieges were tantamount to
the start of civil war.
Rainstorms swamp Louisiana:
Violent thunderstorms swamped Louisiana's low-lying Cajun Country
with 11 inches of rain yesterday, feeding 5-foot floodwaters, forcing
evacuation of hospitals and nursing homes and threatening the area's vital
sugar cane crop.
The Louisiana storms struck eight low-lying Acadiana parishes, forcing:
hundreds to flee. In Erath, authorities evacuated 300 people, including
residents of a hospital and a nursing home, and another nursing home was
prepared for evacuation yesterday.
Officials in New Iberia, La., a city of 40,000, reported every street flooded,
60 families evacuated, and five shelters opened to receive an expected influx
of people.
Two cars were swept off Louisiana 182 south of Lafayette by rushing over-:
flow from a drainage ditch, but no one was injured.
Iberia Parish Civil Defense director Joe Valenti said the flooding could
ruin the region's agricultural mainstay, the sugar cane crop,~just ready fo
harvest.
Orders for durable goods plunge
WASHINGTON - Orders to U.S. factories for "big ticket" durable goods
plunged 4.3 percent in September, their steepest decline in five months, the
government reported yesterday.
Some private economists took the decline as further evidence of the far-
reaching extent of the current economic slowdown. But the Reagan ad-
ministration blamed the brief auto strike and other temporary factors for
the downturn.
The Commerce Department reported that factory orders - a good signal
of future production levels - fell by $4.4 billion inSeptember to a new total of
$97.6 billion.
The decline was the steepest since a 6.5 percent drop in April. It followed a
tiny 0.3 percent August increase in orders for durable goods - items expec-
ted to last three or more years.
Michael Evans, head of a Washington forecasting firm, said the severity of
the drop "is consistent with the fact that we are in a very serious slowdown."
Evans predicted that growth between now and April would average 2.5
percent.
"There is growth ahead, but it is not very impressive growth and it cer-
tainly isn't enough to keep unemployment from rising," he said.
Officials save frozen embryos
SYDNEY, Australia - Legislators approved an unprecedented measure
yesterday night blocking the destruction of two frozen embryos and clearing
the way for their adoption and implantatioq in surrogate mothers.
A committee of scholars had debated the future of the embryos at the
request of the Victoria state government and recommended that they be
destroyed. But after a public outcry, the Upper House of the Victoria state
Parliament yesterday passed an amendment allowing the embryos -
produced and frozen in 1981 for an American couple who later died - thawed
and implanted.
Women in the United States, Australia, Japan and other nations have
volunteered to become surrogate mothers of the embryos. Scientists have
warned, however, that the embryos were frozen when the technique was
being developed, and said they probably would not survive attempts to thaw
them. Other frozen embryos have produced successful births.
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involvement has been to deny people
their human rights.dThis history has to
be changed in order to protect the
rights of Central Americans."
THE INTERFAITH Council for
Peace is not supporting LASC through
any funding, but by support through
personal involvement with the
promotions of the event. "Central
America Day is an opportunity to learn
about involvement of the United States
in Central America," according to Kim
Groome, disarmament coordinator.
"People are poorly informed on the
situation in Latin America," said Oscar
Ballester, a member of the Latin
American Cultural Project, a group
giving "moral" support to the event.
"We're happy to support an event that
offers open debate and discussion."
Although Lee said there has been
strong support by various groups and
organizations, she added that funds
have not yet been raised to cover the
costs of the Day's activities.
According to Lee, many of the mem-
bers have had to front as much as $200
each to get the Day's activities off the
ground. "But we're not too worried,"
said Lee, who explained that there
would be a bucket drive, and if that
wasn't successful, they would stage a
fund-raising concert.
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Homes burglarized
An intruder Monday between 5 and
6p.m. entered a residence on the 100
block of Hill Street through a broken
window, and stole a stereo valued at
approximately $25, Ann Arbor Police
Sgt. Jan Suomala said.
A similar incident occurred Thursday
evening on the 300 block of John Street
in Ann Arbor, when a burglar climbed
through an open window of a residence,
and stole a camera and jewelry valued
an approximately $1,325, Sgt. Suomala
said.
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