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University Daily Kansan, June 29. 1981
News Briefs From United Press International
Mineral may stabilize atomic waste
KNOXVILLE, Tenn.-A team of nuclear scientists say they have found a safe method of permanently disposing of highly radioactive waste by chemically combining it with a stable, non-contaminating substance and then burying it.
The waste is estimated to be in the millions of tons by the year 2000.
If the tests of scientists from the University of Tennessee and the Oak Ridge National Laboratory prove true, it would mark a solution to the crucial problems of how to get rid of atomic waste from the nation's reactors and the production of nuclear weapons.
Deadly plutonium-338, used to make atomic bombs, could also be safely even though it might remain dangerous for a quarter-million years, and nuclear bombs are safe.
The key to the solution centers on the mineral monazite, one of nature's more stable compounds.
Geologists have found monazite deposits to be unchanged after at least two billion years—half the known age of the earth. Monazite looks like granite and is commonly found in the millions of tons off the coast of North Carolina and in the Midwest, scientists say.
Paul Huray, the Oak Ridge scientist leading a team of experts in the research effort, says several ways of heating the waste to form a synthetic monazite are being considered. All of them involve heating the waste to bond it chemically with the monazite.
The monazite is then enclosed in heat-resistant borosilicate glass, which is entrained in a stainless steel vault and buried.
"I would say we've probably got another year or two years before a final exam, and I am sure this is a betttery much than lots of others been studied," Huray said.
Gay Freedom Day parade staged
SAN FRANCISCO—Thousands of members and supporters of the nation's most visible homosexual community marched arm-in-arm, singing, laughing and hugging, in the 12th annual Gay Freedom Day parade yesterday.
40,000 spectators gathered in the sunshine at the civic center to watch thousands of homosexuals and supporters, including 200 marching units and 100 police officers.
As in past years, some of the participants wore outandall outfits—men in silky dresses, black hose and high heels or skin-tight leather pants and jackets open to the waist with huge gold chains. Most of the peaceful marchers wore Levis and t-shirts.
The parade highlighted Gay Freedom展 proclaimed in San Francisco mayor Dianne Foleman followed by Estamand E. Brown Jr. and featured a memorial.
Speakers made references to the new strength of the moral majority and the conservative Reagan administration.
"While some moral majority leaders call for our execution, Congress moves to exempt us from federal programs and protections, and the immigration service steps up harassment of homosexuals at the borders," Karen Franklin, one of the parade organizers, said.
San Francisco supervisor Harry Britt, who succeeded homosexual city regulator Harvey Milk, told the cheering throne to remember "how badly advised" she was.
"The country needs to overcome the myths of white supremacy that Ronald Reagan is pushing because our nation was built on pioneers fleeing slavery and oppression."
Sect's heavenly trip doesn't occur
TUCSON, Ariz. - Members of a small gospel sect gathered beneath cloudy skies to hear the sermons of Jesus Christ to heaven as proscripted by the founder of their fundamentalist group.
The atmosphere was a mixture of church meeting, going-away party and the terminal as he mentioned the Lighthouse Gospel Tract Foundation assists the team. He is also the founder of Boulder Temple.
It was against the background of a world supposed about to be besieged by the Anti-Christ that of Maunupin's 40 to 50 disciples quit their jobs, and they were taken captive.
Maupin, 51, the owner of an ornamental ironworks business, predicted that Cinderella would come out in a rainy season, rising into the clouds like balloons and "raptured" into heaven on June 28.
Maupin said rapture day is the culmination of a 16-year vision, gleaned through detailed Bible study.
Satan's legions are poised to rule from December 1984 to May 1988, preceding the second coming of Christ and 1,000 years of peace on earth,
"In 1945, when they set up the U.N., they said it was to protect the world from communism; it wanted it. It was to protect communism for the world. Gandhi was a very strong advocate of that."
Maupin said his flock was prepared to concede that he could have made an error about the date of earthy departure.
Iranian officials killed in bombing
ANKARA, Turkey—Ayatollah Mohammad Behsehi, one of the three members of Iran's ruler presidential council, was killed yesterday when a series of explosions demolished the Islamic Republic Party headquarters in Tehran, an aide to Iranian executive affairs Minister Bahrahi Nahev said.
The explosions during a meeting of the fundamentalist, clergy-dominated party also killed 24 other people, including 18 parliamentary deputies. More than 50 people were injured in the attack.
Also killed were the minister of the environment and a deputy minister of commerce. The blast wounded 30 others, PARS said.
"The roof of the meeting place collapsed. An eyewitness report indicates that more than one bomb was involved," the news agency said.
A mirror one斗球 was involved, the news agency said PARS blamed the explosion on counterrevolutionaries.
The blasts occurred during a weekly party meeting of about 99 members of the cabinet and parliament, both of which are controlled by the Moslem fundamentalist party which two weeks ago forced President Abolhassan Bani-Sadr from office and began a wave of executions.
Behshei was appointed to the presidential council, along with Rajal and Hojatolaislam Rafsanjani, after the dismissal of Bani-Sadr.
The blast came a day after the explosion of a bomb hidden inside a tape recorder in a south Tehran mosque and injured a close aide to Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. Another bomb went off in a Tehran square and a third device was found in a Tehran street and defused.
Gunman killed after taking hostages
Agent John Glover, in charge of the Atlanta bureau, said lawmen gunned agent Murray Roberts. 2014 Atlanta after "several threatening gestures."
ATLANTA—Police sharp shooters yesterday shot and killed a heavily armed man who commanded the FBIs Atlanta headquarters and took a
Glover said the man carried four firearms, including a machine gun, with him to the building and seized another from a security guard.
The FBI was trying to locate a person the gunman asked to talk with when "the negotiations finally broke down and it was necessary to terminate the hostage situation." Glover said. "We have yet not been able to establish positive identification on the gunman."
Later it was learned that police went to a church one block from the building and asked the Rev. Michael A. Morris to speak with the gunman. Morris said he arrived at the FBI headquarters as the shooting was taking place and never saw the man alive.
"He was looking for a chaplain or his chaplain." Morris said. "From what I was told he had a problem and he wanted to talk to a chaplain about it."
An Atlanta police sergeant who asked not to be identified said, "The gunman started shooting and the SWAT team shot him."
"I cannot begin to surmise why he did it," he said.
NEW WESTMINSTER, Fox,
Columbia (UPI)—Terry Fox, who lost
one of his legs to cancer but can
managed to run halfway across Canada
to raise $23 million for research to fight
the killer disease, died yesterday.
Marathon runner dies
The freckled-faced athlete, who ran 3,240 miles and won admiration from around the world for his efforts, was one month short of his 324th birthday.
12, "Miarah of Hope," began April 18, when Fox dipped his artificial leg in the Atlantic Ocean at St. John's, Newfoundland, and headed for his home town of Port Coquitlam, British Columbia, more than 5,200 miles away.
"The only way I'll come into British Columbia is running," he vowed.
Cancer decided otherwise, Fox ended his marathon on a hospital stretcher, after 144 days and 3,000 miles, when doctors discovered he had lung cancer.
After beginning the run in neer-obscurity, Fox's quiet dignity and courage captured the hearts of Canadians.
Fox, a former high school basketball player, was struck by bone cancer in 1977, forcing amputation of his right leg.
During the next few months of chemotherapy, he became intrigued by an article his high school basketball team wrote about an amputee who ran in a marathon.
For eight months, he trained to run on his artificial leg. He worked up gradually from a half-mile to 15 miles a day.
"Somewhere the hurting must stop," he later wrote to sponsors. "I'm determined to take myself to the limit for this cause."
His success as an unofficial fund raiser left Canadian cancer officials flabbergasted as to how they would spend the staggering influx of cash from around the world. At his death the funds were worth $24 million, but were still pouring in.
He decided to cross Canada to raise $1 million for cancer research.
In a remarkable salute to the young civilian, the secretary of state ordered the Canadian flag be flown at half mast
Fox, hospitalized with a lung infection since June 19, was taken off life support systems so he could die with the dipalp that he had lived his life.
Pneumonia was the primary cause of his death, but cancer in his lungs was the secondary cause, said hospital medical director Ladasil Antonik.
"For him and the cancer patients he represents, we must not lose hope," Antonik said. "For what Terry Fox has given us, so must we give back to him our unwavering devotion to the cause."
"Terry Fox had a dream. That dream now belongs to everyone."
TRACEY THOMPSON/Kansan Staff
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