Japanese TOKAIMURA, Japan (AP) - were in Nuclear officials scrambled today to ation, e find a way to stop an uncontrolled the leve nuclear reaction at a uranium process- receive ing plant, which seriously injured three Yukio K kers and possibly contaminated nuclear dozens. serious i More than 310,000 people within six A tea miles of the plant were ordered today to cooling stay in their homes. The facility, which early to refines uranium so it can be used to fuel press fu nuclear power plants, is located in and T Tokaimura, a town of 33,000 people 70 Eiichiro miles northeast of Tokyo. Nucle Government officials said yesterday's trons hi accident spewed a gas containing alpha, split, rel beta and gamma radiation into the It is th I sphere, forcing the evacuation of bomb. V1 I neighbors of the plant. The plant spurring was not designed to block the escape of At lea radiation, company officials said. injured Two of. the three injured workers ble co Waiting to get in a 4 Chechnyani refugees tine up and wait outside Nazran, Russia yesterday as 78,000 people h1 C hiana eXpa rights for ci HEZE, China - Wang Xingzhou's son will probably never walk again, not after doctors at a local hospital botched treatment of his broken leg -twice. First they reset the bone so badly that the splin- tered ends failed to join up. A second operation thtfestered, undetected, beneath te cast for near- y half a year ~e young man was finally sent home with a ri leg2 inches shorter than the left and unable to bend at the knee. The 24-year-old now spends most of his time lying down But his father refused to take the news that way. Instead, Wang and his wife, simple farmers in this provincial outpost, struck back in a manner Continued from Page 1 All eight cases this weekend appeared to be 9eational use, including the two that occurred in or outside the Nectarine Ballroom, said University officials. Clinical pharmacist and University Pharmacy Prof. Mary Himlin said that part of the problem is the ease of obtaining the drug. "It's readily available," she said, citing the Internet and home laboratories as possible sources. LOCAL/S TATE The Michigan Daily - Friday, October 1, 1999 - 7 radiation may contaminate many critical condition from the radi- stimated at about 4,000 times I considered safe for a person to in a year, said hospital official Kamakura. Never before has a accident in Japan caused such injuries. rm was removing water from the equipment around the tank day in hopes that it would sup- urther nuclear fission, Science echnology Agency official Watanabe said. ar fission happens when neu- it uranium, causing atoms to easing huge amounts of energy. t principle behind the atomic Water stimulates the neutrons, along the reaction. ast 34 workers other than the were being examined for possi- rntamination, said Junichi Takahashi, an official with JCO, the pri- vate company that runs the plant. JCO is owned by Sumitomo Metal Mining Co., one of Japan's largest business groups. Five residents were exposed to radia- tion, a local official said on condition of anonymity. "This is something that Japan has never experienced," government spokesperson Hiromu Nonaka said late yesterday. The radiation level outside the plant does not pose a significant threat unless the nuclear reaction were to continue for a long time, he added. Radioactivity levels - at one point 10,000 times above normal at the plant - remained high several hours after the accident. Although no official govern- ment reading was released, Ibaraki state officials said radiation levels were about 10 times above normal 1 1/4 miles from the scene. Major highways into town were closed, smaller roads had electronic billboards asking motorists to pass through the area as quickly as possible. Train services were stopped in the area, Kyodo News service reported. The three injured workers were mix- ing uranium with nitric acid to make fuel when they suddenly saw a blue flash, JCO officials said. Plant officials believe they accidentally put too much uranium in the tank, setting off the nuclear reaction, which appeared to continue to this morning. Tokyo Electric Power Co. delivered 880 pounds of sodium borate, but authorities were trying to figure out how to get close enough to dump the neutron-absorbing powder onto the radioactive tank to snuff the fission, company official Kohgo Usami said. AP PHOTO Japanese nuclear reactor workers block the plant that experienced an uncontrol- lable uranium roaction. Residents for six miles were confined to their homes. * , ;4 * 1 Cohen orders army to begin investigating Korean killings AP PHOTO a registration office at the Ingush capital of ave fled from airstrikes. nds legal tizens WASHINGTON (AP) - Defense Secretary William Cohen ordered a top-level investigation yesterday of accounts of mass killings of Korean civilians by U.S. soldiers at No Gun Ri in 1950, saying a thor- ough and quick inquiry was needed to maintain "the confidence of the American people" in the military. Accounts by U.S. veterans and South Korean villagers who said they witnessed killings at the No Gun Ri railroad bridge early in the Korean War - including six ex-GIs who said they shot civilians - were report- ed by The Associated Press on Wednesday. Cohen told Army Secretary Louis Caldera to conduct the review, which he said also was important to veterans and to U.S.-South Korean relations. President Clinton gave assurances that the Pentagon "wants to get to the bottom of it," and South Korea promised its own investigation. Both countries for years have rejected appeals from survivors and relatives, telling them the stories could not be verified. The AP report prompted South Korean villagers to renew their calls for investigation of the incident in which they said 300 men, women and children were shot to death under the bridge, which still bears marks where bullets ricocheted off its cement walls. An additional 100 were killed in a preceding U.S. air attack, they said. "These reports are, of course, very disturbing," Caldera said at a news conference. He said soldiers from the war would be interviewed - acknowledging that no interviews had been conducted in previous Pentagon inquiries into the allegations. "This review will go beyond the documentary records," he said. "It FUNDING Continued from Page 1 new four-tiered method of grouping and funding universities, which was expanded to a five-tiered system in the finalized budget. The University is one of three universities grouped in the "research tier," along with Michigan State and Wayne State universities. "I'm still not totally pleased with the formulas they used and how they calculate the per-student funding," Brater said.4 Bollinger told the House subcommittee that state appropri- ations should be determined individually for each university rather than by arbitrarily grouping them together. "President Bollinger was very clear on his feelings of the tiering," Wilbanks said. "He felt pretty strongly that the unique mission of each institution should be judged on its own." The University's per-student funding was increased from $9,042 to $9,472. The research university tier has a funding U m floor that theoretically guarantees at least $9,000 per student for each university. Wilbanks said the programs at the o i University are not conducive to appropriations levels being dependent on the size of the student body. "We also believe that per-student funding for the research universities is not a good way to think about funding,' she said. Department of Management and Budget spokesperson Kelly Chesney said the fiscal year 2001 budget should look 26 fairly similar to this year's proposal. B "We're going through our research and analysis stages, Chesney said. "Obviously the governor is in favor of develop- INT ing a funding formula that truly treats universities fairly and removes some of the political debate from the process." Chesney said the tier system is almost guaranteed to appear in the proposal. "That's something that was implemented by the Y< legislature, so that will serve as our starting point; she said. unimaginable only a decade ago: They took the government-run hospital to court. What is more, they won - even though in suing the hospital they were essentially fighting the Chinese state, which has traditionally acted with impunity throughout its 5,000-year history. "I didn't know much about the law before,' said Wang, 52, who called a local legal-aid hotline for help. Now he thumbs purposefully through rum- pled leaves of paper bearing official court seals and points out relevant passages with a dirt-stained finger. Lawsuits like Wang's are multiplying across China as ordinary people learn to stand up for their legal rights in a society long accustomed to not having any. GHB is known by variety of slang terms including lemons, liquid ecstasy, cherry meth, grievous bodily harm and scoop. Possession of the drug carries a potential five-year jail term and a felony charge. The drug is detectable in urine up to 12 hours after inges- tion. University spokesperson Julie Peterson said that the Department of Public Safety, who arranged transport for at least one of the subjects to the hos- pital, is not carrying out criminal investigation. The Ann Arbor Police Department is conduct- ing an investigation. will be an all-encompassing review" that will take at least a year. He said it was too early to speculate on compensation to the Koreans. In Seoul, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Chang Chul-kyun said officials would "try td verify the truth of all related things con- cerning this case." He said any further action would be decided after that inquiry. Caldera said previous Pentagon reviews, which concluded there was no evidence of mass killing, also would be examined to evaluate mili- tary handling of the matter. He said the AP report "clearly has raised new information that demanded that it be looked into." Caldera said the early weeks of the conflict were chaotic and many U.S. soldiers at that time were ill-trained and ill-equipped. He said that was "not an excuse" for the reported acts. Cohen, in a letter to Caldera, said, "This review is important to the active and retired members of our armed forces, the confidence of the American people in the finest armed forces in the world, and our rela- tionship with the people of the Republic of Korea." He asked Caldera to devote "whatever resources are appropriate to accomplish this review as thoroughly and as quickly as possible." Clinton said he was briefed on the AP report yesterday. Asked about it at a White House question-and-answer session, he responded by endorsing the inquiry ordered by Cohen. "He wants to look into this," Clinton said. "He wants to get to the bot- tom of it. 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