4 Page 2 - The Michigan Daily - Wednesday, October 24, 1984 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 Also withdrawn were proposed standards on radioactive radon-222 emissions from underground uranium mines, though agency officials said they would develop new stan- dards for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 . i 44 540 E. Liberty St. 761-4539 I I 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. t I 0 I Corner of Maynard & Liberty U-M DEPARTMENT OF THEATRE AND DRAMA PRESENTS JEAN ANOUILH'S ANTIG ONE OCTOBER 22-27, 2:00 p.m. OCTOBER 28, 2:00 p.m. TRJEBLOOD THEATRE IN FRIEZE BUILDING Tickets at PTP - Michigan League (313) 764-0450 0 C. America Day wins funds (Continued from Page 1) 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. 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