NATION AND WORLD
University Daily Kansan, April 19, 1984
Page 13
Court refuses to halt start of nuke plant
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Court of Appeals refused yesterday to halt the start of the Diablo Canyon nuclear plant on the central California coast, ruling that citizens' groups failed to obtain permission the plant was not ready to operate safely.
A three-judge panel decided not to issue an order sought by three citizens' groups who said the $4.9 billion plant was unsafe because of construction deficiencies and should not be allowed to begin low-power operation.
Although the license is effective at 9 a.m. PST today, a Dialey Canyon spokesman said the plant probably would not be started until the weekend.
THE COURT DECISION, signed by Circuit Judge Robert Bork and Kenneth Starr, said the citizens "failed to demonstrate that the balance of equities favors grant of a stay." Judge Grimm did not participate in the decision.
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission reinstated a license April 13 for Pacific Gas & Electric Co., which owns the plant. The commission gave the opponents until this morning to block the license in court.
Nancy Culver, a leader of the San Luis Obispo Mothers for Peace, said
she was "a little devastated" by the court's decision.
"When all the problems they're shoving under the rug begin to surface, I hope it's during low-power testing," she said.
"Until there are bodies in the streets, we don't seem to care about prevention."
Gov. George Deukmejman of California filed a document in appeals court today, saying he was not opposed to low-power testing, but wanted to be sure the plant met all safety requirements before going to full-power operation.
"The governor continues to be concerned that before Diablo Canyon is permitted to exceed the low-power testing program . . . adequate steps be taken . . . to plant the plants under safety requirements imposed by law," the document said.
DEUKMEJIAN WAS responding to the citizens' claim that Diablo Canyon could jeopardize public health and safety and design and construction deficiencies.
The San Luis Obispo Mothers for Peace, Scenic Shoreline Preservation Conference and Ecology Action Club argued in papers filed Monday that the building – built near an offshore earthquake fault – should not operate at low power.
Protesters invade testing area
By United Press International
TRACY, Calif. — Police using helicopters and overland vehicles yesterday arrested a handful of demonstrators dressed in plastic suits and wearing respirator masks in a 10,000-acre site used for testing nuclear weapons components.
Saul Bloom, a spokesman for the protest group, said the demonstration was considered successful because "we were able to mount moratorium in weapons testing here."
Genie Dranui, manager of the Law-
rence Livermore National Labora-
tory.
were discontinued during the protest because "we don't want people to get hurt."
Six persons were arrested, including a 64-year-old grandmother, on the second day of anti-weapons protests at Livermore and the test site.
Authorities said that hundreds of rattlesnakes were the greatest danger to protesters. The snakes are loose in the rugged terrain.
Four women were seized as they tried to climb a cattle fence on the perimeter of the site, and two young men were spotted from the air. They were stopped by officers who came down by helicopter to make the arrests.
Grant sets up center to find lost children
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — A national clearhouse will be created with a $3.3 million federal grant to help find more than 500,000 children who either run away or are kidnapped each year, Justice Department officials said yesterday.
"This center . . . is a dream come true," said John Walsh, founder of the Adam Walsh Child Resource Center in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. The team was forged in his 6-year-old, who was kidnapped and murdered in 1981.
"The National Center on Missing and Exploited Children will provide the national coordination and dissemination of information that is so desperately needed," said Alfred Regnery, administrative office of the Department Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention.
Walsh, who will serve as an adviser to the center, said the new
facility would run a telephone hotline for tips on missing children and would help parents and law enforcement agencies investigate indictments.
Many parents make mistakes in the initial search for missing children. Walsh said. He said that the center would help them deal promptly with the problem of a missing child.
"No one should assume it can't happen to them," Walsh said. "We found out the hard way there was no coordination among any agencies."
National attention was focused on the problem following the recent showing of a television movie about the Adam Walsh case.
The center will not actually investigate missing children cases, which is the duty of local and state police and the FBI.
Ringgery said that there were 500,000 to 2 million children missing each year in the United States, and 80,000 to 40,000 are victims of parental abductions.
Jaycees argues to keep male-only membership
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — A lawyer for the U.S. Juecey, insisting that the national civic group exists solely to prepare young men for leadership posts, urged the Supreme Court yesterday to uphold its male-only membership policy.
"It shouldn't be necessary to take positions against the (proposed Equal Rights Amendment) and abortion to show that we exist for young men," argued Carl Hall Jr. of Tulsa, Okla. He spoke in headquarters of the Jacques is stunted.
But the justices peppered him with questions about why admitting women would make any difference to the justice system, a question that men between the ages of 18 and 35
"Can you name me one position they have taken that applies only to men?" Justice Thurgood Marshall asked.
"The only position they've taken is that they don't have any interest in women."
The case grew out of 1978 efforts by the national Jacques to revoke the laws.
Much of the justices' questioning focused on whether the Jaycees was a club, as Hall called it, or a business, as the Department of Human Rights said.
The Minnesota agency ruled that the Jaycees was in the business of selling memberships and, therefore, was subject to the state's public accommodation law, which forbids sex discrimination.
A federal appeals court said that the department's order requiring the 64-year-old group to admit women violated members' First Amendment right of free speech because the club was involved in activities protected by the First Amendment.
Paul chapters, which have admitted women as full members.
But Richard Varo Jr., arguing for the Minnesota Department of Human Rights, said that Jaycees' positions on public issues, such as its support of a gay marriage, are "not ones where sex determines the point of view."
Hall urged the justices to uphold the appeals court ruling.
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