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Western media hurt in Chernobyl
By MARC ROSSEN
The failure of the Ukrainian community to
mobilize and a misunderstanding of the Soviet
political situation hurt Western media coverage
of the Chernobyl nuclear accident, two experts
said this weekend.
Victor Malarek, a senior reporter for Can-
ada's leading daily newspaper The Globe and
Mail, said the media in the United States and
Canada were starved for a human interest story
when the nuclear accident occurred at Cher-
nobyl, but were unable to find anyone to speak
for the Ukrainians.
"We know nothing of the victims of
Chernobyl - their history and their suffering,"
Malarek said. "There was more concern about
crops and livestock than people by the Soviet
Union."
Malarek spoke as part of "The Ukrainian
Spectrum," a week-long series of events spon -
sored by the Ukrainian Students Association.
Malarek said that the Ukrainian commun-
ity's response in the media to the Chernobyl
accident was "pathetic." Malarek, of Ukrainian
descent himself, said Ukrainians should have
been at the forefront of the issue, making
informed statements to the press. He told the
audience that the Ukrainian communities of the
United States and Canada need to gain a better
understanding of how the media works and how
they can use it to represent their interests.
David Marples, a specialist on the Ukraine
and author of the newly- released book,
"Chernobyl & Nuclear Power in the USSR,"
said Friday that the political fallout following
the accident was much less severe than the
Western media believed.
Although several lesser officials of the
Communist Party of Ukraine were purged or
reprimanded, the political repercussions were
essentially low-level and often ritualistic,
Marples said. Party members were often
reinstated at a later date, he added.
Marples said the Soviets have done nothing
that might affect their party program or nuclear
energy program. Since the Chernobyl plant
opened in December 1983, he said, the plant
was never taken off line. Despite the accident,
"the Soviets have continued to have confidence
in nuclear power," he said.
Marples does not think that that the death
toll of 32 people reported by the Soviets is
unrealistic, but added "the vast majority of
victims will be long-term."
Pro-choicers march at
By SUSANNE SKUBIK
Special to the Daily
KALAMAZOO - Chanting
"Free choice now!" 20 Ann Arbor
women joined 350 marchers from
three states here Saturday to protest
the December bombing of a local
Planned Parenthood Clinic.
The clinic, which provided a
variety of health care services for
women, including abortion, was
destroyed by an early-morning
explosion and fire Dec. 1. While no
one was injured, the value of lost
supplies and equipment was
estimated at $750,000. Local and
federal officials confirm the blaze as
the work of an arsonist, but they
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have made no arrests.
The Kalamazoo protest started a
nation-wide week of demonstrations
to commemorate the 14th
anniversary of the U.S. Supreme
Court's Roe vs. Wade decision that
legalized abortion. Ann Arbor
activists plan a march and two
rallies to mark the occasion
Thursday.
Saturday's marchers, heavily
dressed for the cold weather and
carrying signs reading "Protect
women's rights," began their trek
near the burnt shell of the clinic and
continued through the campus of
Western Michigan University.
Several times during the three-
mile walk, passengers in a compact
car covered with photos of aborted
fetuses and anti-abortion slogans
taunted the group. The marchers,
many of whom were wearing purple
armbands to symbolize their own
WMU
abortions, did not respond.
Because protest organizers had
expected harassment, police officers
accompanied marchers. Near the end
of the march, protesters were
greeted with shouts of "No
abortions!"
"It's really important to show
pro-choice support wherever it's
most needed, but especially after an
attack like the bombing," said
Catherine Fischer, a University
employee and volunteer at the
Women's Crisis Center.
Another Ann Arbor resident,
Susan McGee, spoke at a rally
following the march. "Gains we
have won are being taken away,"
she told the 400 women, men, and
children who gathered at WMU's
Methodist Church. "We must stand
up and we must not allow those
who would take us back to the 14th
century triumph."
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Activists vow to march
again despite attack
IN BRIEF
Compiled from Associated Press reports
W. German seized in Beirut 0
BONN, West Germany - A West German businessman was kid-
napped in Beirut, the Foreign Ministry said yesterday. Two newspapers
said the kidnappers apparently hope to trade him for a Lebanese jailed as
a terrorist in West Germany and wanted in the United States.
West German authorities said it was too early to say if Saturday's
abduction of Rudolf Cordes .was linked to the arrest Tuesday at Frank -
furt airport of Mohammed Ali Hamadi.
Hamadi, who was carrying a fluid used to make explosives, was later
identified as a suspect in the 1985 hijacking of a TWA airliner to
Beirut. In that hijacking, the terrorists killed a U.S. Navy diver and held
39 other Americans hostage for 17 days.
Police in Beirut said yesterday they could not confirm that a West
German had been kidnapped. The West German Embassy in the Leb-
anese capital was unstaffed.
Hotel bartender committs
suicide before f acing police
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - A bartender at the Dupont Plaza Hotel
has killed himself by leaping from a building, police said yesterday, and
a newspaper reported he faced questioning about the fire there that killed
96 people.
Julio Verges Gaetan, jumped from the ninth floor of a building in
the Rio Piedras suburb Saturday, police said.
El Mundo newspaper quoted his wife, Juanita, as saying he had been
despondent since learning Friday that investigators planned to question
him this Tuesday. Two men, including a bar busboy, have been charged
with arson in the New Year's Eve inferno, and investigators have said
there may be additional arrests.
Aquino proposes peace talks
COTABATO CITY, Philippines - President Corazon Aquino,
touring violence-ridden Mindano island yesterday, offered peace talks to
a Moslem rebel faction whose attacks last week killed 46 people.
In Manilla, troops went on alert to keep Moslem violence from
spreading to the capital.
The Moro Islamic Liberation Front gave no immediate reply to the
offer.
The group on Saturday ended five days of attacks on the island which
left at least 46 people dead and 89 injured. It said it launched the attacks
because it had been shut out of talks between the government and a -
rival Moslem faction, the Moro National Liberation Front.
AIDS drug nears approval
ROCKVILLE, Md. - A government advisory committee re -
commended approval Friday of what would be the first drug generally
available to doctors for treatment of AIDS.
The 10-1 vote by the Food and Drug Administration committee is
not binding on the FDA, which will make the final decision, but is
expected to carry heavy weight.
The panel, acting at the end of a day-long meeting to consider the
drug AZT, voted to recommend general availability despite serious con -.
cern about a lack of as much clinical data as usually precedes drug ap -
provals as well as concern that there would be no iron-clad way to en -
sure that it would go to the patients most in need once available for
general prescription.
The drug manufacturer outlined a procedure for voluntary constraints
if the FDA approves AZT and promised to work closely to continue
monitoring its effect. - -
EXTRAS
Household appliances meet
the Philadelphia Orchestra
PHILADELPHIA - William Smith will use a pistol to conduct his
players as they coax music from three vacuum cleaners an a floor
polisher in a whimsical concert by the Philadelphia Orchestra.
"We've done nothing before, at least not for adults, where we really
tried to help the audience cross the footlights and join the orchestra,"
Smith, the associate conductor, said Friday.
The program Jan. 28 at the Academy of Music will begin on a "nice,
happy, irreverent note" with Malcolm Arnold's "A Grand Grand
Overture for Three Vacuum Cleaners, One Floor Polisher, Organ and
Full Orchestra," Smith said.
"People will be surprised," he said. "These unusual instruments
actually make a very pleasing sound that can be controlled by a switch
... or a pistol shot from the podium."
During the second half of the program, illustrator Rae Owings will
draw to reflect what she hears in Mussorgsky's "Night on Bald
Mountain."
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organizer of a biracial civil rights
march halted by violence in an
all-white county vowed yesterday
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eve of Martin Luther King Day
condemned the attack.
Civil rights leaders discussed
taking part in another march in
Forsyth County north of here,
whereSaturday's "brotherhood
anti-intimidation march" was
stopped by Ku Klux Klan members
and supporters.'
"There's definitely going to be
another march in Forsyth County,"
said Dean Carter, the white resident
of nearby Hall County who took
over the planning for Saturday's
march after it was abandoned by a
Forsyth County man who had
received death threats.
About 75 people, black and
white, who marched Saturday
became the targets of rocks, bottles
and racial jeers from hundreds of
Klan members and supporters.
Several marchers were hit but no
serious injuries were reported.
Eight people from the hostile
crowd, seven of them Forsyth
County residents, were arrested on
charges including obstructing
officers, terroristic threats, and
weapons charges. All were released
on bond.
Carter, who was hit in the face
by a rock, said he would welcome
the continued help of Atlanta City
Councilman Hosea Williams, who
helped organize Saturday's march,
or other civil rights leaders.
"But with or without anyone
else, I'm going back," he said. "I
still haven't made my statement.
There's a lot of good people in
Forsyth County who are being
hampered by this kind of threats and
intimidation."
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