NATION AND WORLD
NRC is said to neglect safety
By United Press International
WASHINGTON - An outgoing member of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission told Congress yesterday that the agency paid too little attention to safety problems at operating nuclear power plants.
Commissioner Victor Gilmink, whose term ends in June, said the primary goal should be shifted from planting to plant designs to checking their safety.
"The agency needs a firmer sense of its safety responsibilities," he told a House Interior and Insular Affairs energy subcommittee.
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The NRC "STILL does not have a good system for early spotting of safety problems, of learning the lessons of accidents and near-accidents," said
Gilinsky, who was named to the commission by President Carter.
He said the NRC was rapidly running out of projects to review and no new orders for nuclear plants are in the offing due to a general decline in the industry. As a result, the commission should be reorganized and seek more people with experience in operating nuclear plants, he said.
"So far as I can tell, none of the top officials or commissioners — have issued any new directives."
Gilinsky also recommended that the "too unwieldy" commission be cut to three members, a proposal supported by Commissioner Thomas Roberts.
Interior Committee Chairman Morris Udall, D-Ariz., said Gilliams tried to 'tough-minded and make independent regular members and expressed regret that he is leaving.
CITING SHUTDOWNS of some nuclear projects with losses running into
billions of dollars, Udail blamed both the NRC and industry for construction problems.
NRC Chairman Nunzio Palladino strongly disagreed with many of Glinsky's proposals, including cutting the commission to three members.
"I fear that problem may get worse," he said, adding that people must have confidence in the NRC if nuclear technology is to survive. "It is with some concern, therefore, that I see decisions made in a manner that generates suspicion rather than trust," he said.
He said the commission already is looking "to a new regulatory philosophy at laying in part" and it is time "to take up the issue and to our present regulatory philosophy."
"However, this is not an issue that can be dealt with lightly or quickly," he said.
WASHINGTON — House Democratic Leader Jim Wright said yesterday that President Reagan must show that he is serious about wanting to trim the huge budget deficit by agreeing first to cut military spending.
In a letter to White House chief of staff James Baker, Wright said the escalating military budget must be the subject of the next meeting of a bipartisan panel looking at ways to slow the flow of red ink — projected at $180 billion in the president's fiscal 1985 budget.
Cut military first, House leader says
By United Press International
Wright, D-Texas, said that other ways to reduce the deficit could be considered after Congress first agreed upon military reductions in the rate of growth in military spending.
THE PANEL, which held its first meeting Wednesday, has not set another session. No major agreements were reached at the meeting on Reagan's call for a three-year, $100 billion "down payment" on the continuing deficits, which have pushed the national debt past the $1.43 trillion mark.
Presidential spokesman Larry Speakes reiterated in California that the administration regarded all areas
of the budget as subject to negotiation, but declined to comment on the proposal of the defaltions.
"If these talks are to succeed," he said, "they should go forward in agreement. We believe that its best not to negotiate them through the press and we will not."
SPEAKES SAID that Baker conferred with Wright by telephone earlier in the day and sent him a letter, with contents unspecified.
Reagan, who is vactioning in California, has been consistently reluctant to consider defense cuts. His $926 billion seeks $305 billion for the Pentagon.
University Daily Kansan, February 10, 1984
DEPARTMENT OF RELIGIOUS STUDIES Mini-Conference Series Announces a lecture by
John R. Mav
John R. May
Co-author of Film Odyssey and Co-editor of Religion in Film
Religion and Film: Cinema's Subversive Art
Mon., Feb. 13, 10:30 a.m., Smith Hall, Room 14
Funded by the Kansas School of Religion and the College Lecture Fund
Market hits lowest level since April
"Until there is a sign that there is some compromise on the budget deficit, smaller investors will stay with larger investors. Alan Akerman of Herrdell & Forsyth in Herford and
GEOPHYSICIST OR TECTONOPHYSICIST University of Kansas
KU seeks applications for a tenure-track faculty position in geophysics. Candidates should have research interests in crustal geophysics. The successful applicant will be expected to teach undergraduate and graduate geophysics courses, develop an active research program, advise students, supervise graduate student theses and dissertations, and provide service through administrative and professional activities. A Ph.D. in geology with specialization in geophysics is required although applicants who will complete the Ph.D. within the first year of employment at KU will be considered. The position is at the assistant professor level with a salary commensurate with qualifications. Although the closing date for the nationwide search has passed, the closing date for local applications is extended to Feb. 13, 1984. The starting date for the position is Aug. 16, 1984. Send vita, transcripts, a brief statement of research interests and courses the applicant feels qualified to teach, and three letters of reference to G.H. Giry, Department of Geology, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas 66045. The advertised position is contingent on continued state funding. For additional information contact G.H. Giry or phone (913) 864-4974. KU is an affirmative-action, equal-opportunity employer. Applications are sought from all qualified people regardless of race, religion, color, sex, disability, veteran status, national origin, age, or ancestry.
"The late rally attempt was pretty anemic," said Thom R. Brown of Butcher & Singer, Philadelphia. "I'm looking for another severe decline in our economy, we've been hanging in there three years on the towel. And I think we are close."
The Big Board volume of 128,190,000 shares, up from 128,190,000 treated Wednesday was the heaviest hands. 137,594,128 changed hands. June 6.
The Dow Jones industrial average fell 3.56 to 1,112.74, the lowest level since it finished at 1,145.32 on April 12. A 24.19-point loser Wednesday, the Dow has fallen 133.90 since Jan. 6.
Over the past five weeks, the paper value of all New York Stock Exchange stocks has fallen unofficially $119.85 billion
By United Press International
The New York Stock Exchange index fell 0.37 to 89,72, and the price of an average share decreased 13 cents. Declines topped advances 1,157-499 among the 2,016 issues traded at 3 p.m. CST.
NEW YORK — The stock market fell to a 10-month low yesterday in the busiest trading in nearly five weeks.
Winners of the Chancellor's Trophy for first place in sorority grade achievement Fall 1983
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Congratulations
WASHINGTON — A federal judge refused yesterday to reinstate lucrative tax exemptions for the controversial Synanon Church of California, a drug and alcohol rehabilitation center accused of advocating "terror and violence."
Synanon was granted federal tax-exempt status in 1960. The Internal Revenue Service revoked it in 1977, spurring Synanon's court challenge.
By United Press International
Van Meter and Balboni have claimed that they were denied career advancement because of their alleged romantic involvement aboard the Rush.
"I told Van Meter to get rid of the beer and that I was disappointed at his recent conduct. I told him he should have displayed more leadership."
The court did not rule on Synason's claims that it was a bona fide religious cult.
Church won't get exemption
and
ALAMEDA, Calif. — A Coast Guard captain testified yesterday that he found a female junior officer sitting on the lap of Chief Warrant Officer Charles C. Van Meter, with another couple also in Van Meter's stateroom, who apparently has been drinking beer aboard the cutter Rush, while it was at sea.
for second place in sorority grade achievement Fall 1983
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vent the court from determining
Synanon's tax status.
U. S. District Judge Charles Richey threw out Syonan's lawsuit, which claimed it deserved tax-exempt status as a religious organization, because the group destroyed or altered crucial documents needed as evidence in the case.
Coast Guard officer tells of drinking aboard ship
By United Press International
"Finding them in the cabin didn't bother me as much as seeing the beer there," said Keyes, who served aboard the Rush between 1980 and 1982.
Capt. Phillip Keyes of Washington, former executive officer of the Rush, told an administrative hearing that he was more disturbed about the drinking aboard ship than finding women in the cabin of Van Meter.
—the Panhellenic Association
The Coast Guard is investigating charges brought by Van Meter, 38, and LJ. J. Christine A. Balboni, 25, that they were the victims of harassment by other officers in 1981-82 while serving aboard the Rush.
Richey said that the destruction and alteration of tapes, a computer inventory and transcript index would pre-
It also did not rule on the government's assertions that Syanon was ineligible for tax exemptions because of violent and illegal activities and use of net earnings to benefit private individuals.
In reference to evidence presented by the government, Richey said that the evidence raised serious questions about Syronan's financial operations and created "a chilling portrait of an organization that advocates terror."
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