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Wednesday, January 25, 1978
University Daily Kansan
Nuclear satellite falls in Canada
YELLOWKNIFE, Northwest Territories—Canada (AP)—A nuclear-powered Soviet spy satellite fell from orbit into the atmosphere above Yellowknife, the capital of the Northwest Territories in Canada yesteday across the predawn sky and raising some fears of radioactive contamination.
Canadian and U.S. officials said there probably was no serious danger. But five American military airplanes, joined later by four Canadian planes, flew to the scene—850 miles northwest of U.S. border—to help with the military and possibly remonstrations of the fallen spacecraft.
"WHEN IT came overhead and we could get a good look at it, I could see dozens and dozens of parts," Yellowkite resident Mari Rueman said. "Each part had a long, bright tail. . . As it was disappearing the main pipe turned bright red. It was just like a snowflake."
Canadian officials said any pieces of the satellite would have slammed into the earth in a sparsely settled area 60 miles east of Yellowknife, a frontier town of 8,000 on
CANADIAN DEFENSE Minister Barney
Danson said he was "86 percent or more" certain that the satellite, carrying 100 pounds of highly radioactive enriched 653, had burned up in the atmosphere.
"I don't think there is any cause for
them," he said at an Ottawa news con-
ference.
Within hours, Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau was defending the government's handling of the incident in Parliament.
HE SAID he had been informed about a week ago that the Cosmos 964 satellite was tumbling from orbit, but he said that the precise location of its fall was not known even an observer could not to warn "every square inch" of Canada of the possible danger.
Dunson told reporters that residents of yellowknife were not forewarned because it was believed the town had no water.
THE CHANCES that Yellowknife would be imperilled were "somewhat less than the odds" of getting an iceberg.
Other Canadian and U.S. officials indicated that the location could not be determined.
American officials said the satellite
entered the atmosphere at 4:50 a.m. and within a few minutes President Carter and Prime Minister Trudeau were discussing the situation by telephone.
Carter's national security adviser, Zbigniew Brzezinski, who made the first announcement of the spacecraft's fall to Earth, said U.S. and Soviet officials had intensive consultations about the satellite for the past two weeks.
BRZEZINKSI said U.S. satellite trackers detected problems in Cosmos 694 in late December and decided that it might fail to Earth. In an exchange of messages through Soviet Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin, Brzezinksi said, the United States learned there would be no danger of a nuclear exile from the satellite plunged into the atmosphere.
U. S. government sources said the satellite, launched last Sept. 18, was designed to keep track of U.S. Navy ships and radar through radar powered by a nuclear reactor.
ITS FINAL, fiery plunge was seen in
communities in the Great Slave
Lake area.
Constable Phil Pitts, who saw it as he stepped out of his Royal Canada Mounted
Carter orders curbs on CIA
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Jimmy Carter ordered a major reorganization of the U.S. intelligence community yesterday, calling his action a "major step forward" in safeguarding both the national interest and civil liberties.
At a White House ceremony, Carter signed a bulky executive order designed not only to streamline the intelligence setup but also to put strict new curbs on covert action against insurgent leaders and investigators. The restrictions include an outright ban on political assassinations.
The president took the occasion to express his confidence in Stanfield Turner, whom he named as director of the Central Intelligence Agency.
The CIA chief has been a target of internal CIA dissatisfaction, particularly for his abrupt firing last year of a large number of senior agents.
Vice President Walter F. Mondale, who helped direct a months-long administration review that led to the executive order, was among the audience at the ceremony.
He said the order took direct issue with those who argued that illegal means were necessary if intelligence activities are to succeed.
Carter assigned a major supervisory role to Attorney General Griffin Bell, who henceforth must personally authorize the use of electronic surveillance, television monitoring, physical searches or mail openings by the intelligence community when American citizens or organizations are the targets.
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"I thought at first it was just a meteorite until I heard about it on the radio at 8 a.m."
S. SAO.
Police station in nearby Hay River,
described it as a huge fireball trailed by
about 20 smaller fireballs.
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP)—Waddell Boyce Floyd, an inmate at the Charlotttesville-Albemarle Joint Security Center, is charged with complaining to a free pair of undershirts.
Free undershorts sought by prisoner
Flood's petition charges that the jail administrator, took away his nowhere underwear in November and refused to give him a pair of white cotton shorts.
The administrator said the inmates had to wear white while because all the underwear was black.
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