Thursday, April 8, 1993
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Radioactive waste pollutes Siberian region
MOSCOW—A radioactive cloud moved across Siberia yesterday after a tank of radioactive waste exploded in what the government called the worst nuclear accident since Chernobyl.
Experts said Tuesday's explosion at the Tomsk-7 nuclear weapons complex was far less severe than the 1986 Chernobyl disaster.
No deaths were reported and no one was evacuated from the contamina ted region, about 1,700 miles east of Moscow. Only one firefighter received a high dose of radiation.
The State Emergency Committee said radiation levels around Tomsk 7 were.03 roentgens an hour yesterday.
The average acceptable dose for nuclear workers is 2 roentgens a year, according to the International Commission on Radiological Protection. A roentgen is a measure of the human body's exposure to radiation.
New York may break even despite cost of bombing
NEW YORK — The World Trade Center bombing cost almost $600 million so far, but insurance, assistance and other factors could see the region break even, an official said today.
A preliminary estimate shows overall expenditures — including dealing with the emergency, the investigation, relocating businesses and repairing and reopening the twin towers — cost between $541 million and $592 million, said Richard Leone, who heads the Port Authority, which owns the complex.
"When you consider the scale of the recovery effort, including thousands of temporary construction and repair jobs created, the overall economic result of the bombing is likely to be neutral for the region," he said.
Officer's denunciation ends testimony in King trial
LOS ANGELES — Both sides rested in the Rodney King betting trial after a dramatic prosecution finale turned one policeman's year-old videotaped testimony into an explosive denunciation of his three code defendants.
"My perspective was too much force was used," Officer Theodore Brisoen said on the tape, a condensed version of his testimony at the four officers' state court trial last year.
Testimony ended Tuesday in the two-month-old federal trial. U.S. District Judge John Davies discussed yesterday jury instructions with lawyers. He set closing arguments to begin tomorrow.
"The case will be yours for decision Friday afternoon," Davies told the jury.
Jackson withdraws from running for NAACP post
WASHINGTON — The Rev. Jesse Jackson, citing a move by some NAACP board members to weaken the position of executive director, said yesterday that he is no longer interested in heading the civil rights organization.
Jackson withdrew in a five-page letter to William Gibson, head of the board of directors for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, dated yesterday. The withdrawal comes two days before the NAACP's full board votes on a successor to Benjamin Hooks, who is to retire at the end of the month.
"It would not be in the best interest of the NAACP membership for me to continue to permit my name to be considered," Jackson wrote.
Cuomo out of running for justice
The Associated
ALBANY, N.Y.
— G. Mario Cuomo has withdrawn his name from consideration to fill the seat of retiring. U.S. Supreme Court. Justice Byron
Mario Cuomo
Press
White, a newspaper reported yesterday.
Briefs compiled from Associated Press reports.
Quoting unnamed sources, Newsday said Cuomo told President Clinton of his decision April 1. White announced in March he would retire from the high court this summer.
Cuomo did not return calls from The Associated Press to the governor's mansion yesterday, and press secretary Anne Crowley refused to comment on the report.
"The governor has said all along that he does not intend to comment on the Supreme Court, "Crowley said.
Deputy White House press secretary Arthur Jones also declined to comment. He said Clinton was not scheduled to make any announcement regarding the seat or Cuomo.
"He intends to have a nominee in place and confirmed by the fall," Jonesaid.
Newsday said its sources refused to discuss what reasons Cuomo may have given for withdrawing his name. But one source close to both camps speculated Cuomo was not prepared to give up his high profile in the political arena.
Cuomo, 60, has sent mixed signals on whether he would want to be on the Supreme Court. In a recent interview, he compared the position to both "heaven" and being "entombed." He has been governor of New York for the past 10 years and is preparing to run for a fourth term in 1994.
One source at the White House told *Newsday* the withdrawal threw the door open for a host of potential candidates to succeed White.
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