NATION AND WORLD
New water rules may restrict levels of industrial chemicals
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By United Press International
University Daily Kansan, October 28, 1983
WASHINGTON — The Environmental Protection Agency announced yesterday it was developing new regulations to restrict levels of industrial chemicals.
The agency said the synthetic organic chemicals under review for drinking water standards included PCBs. EPS, asbestos and lead.
"The regulations eventually will become the permanent drinking water standards for all public water systems," the agency said in a statement.
Development of standards under the 1974 Safe Drinking Water Act is being done by the EPA in four phases. The first phase involves yesterday, involves standards for microbiological contaminants, inorganic chemicals and pesticides.
PCBs, technically known as polychlorinated biphenyls, are used as liquid coolant and insulating material in electrical equipment. The chemical has been identified as causing skin and liver disorders.
The agency said yesterday that inorganic chemicals under consideration for national drinking standards are asbestos, aluminum and lead.
EDB, known as ethylene dibromide, is a powerful cancer-causing pesticide used as a soil fumigant on a variety of crops. On Sept. 30, the EFA imposed an emergency ban on many uses of the substance, citing evidence EDB is contaminating ground water supplies in several states
Environmentalists welcomed the EPA announcement, but criticized the agency for what they believe is a slow drawdown in drinking water standards.
Dog mauls handicapped girl
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JENNINGS, Mo. — An 80-pound dog mauled an 8-year-old handicapped girl while her classmates watched, frozen in terror. But a teacher said Thursday that she had ignored her fear of large dogs and wrestled the animal away from the girl.
More than 70 stitches were needed to close wounds on the youngster's head and body. Police said Susan Rimerman, a 24-year-old teacher at Fairview Elementary School, had saved the girl's life. The attack
The 5-year-old boxer escaped from its leash and attacked Laurie Beckham, a physically and mentally challenged man, with classmates and Rimerman.
occurred Tuesday morning outside the school building.
"I'm usually very fearful of large
beasts, but I really didn't have time to be afraid."
In another recent dog attack, officials in Harper, Kan., are seeking a court order to destroy two pit bull terriers that attacked and killed Grace Parsons when she stepped outside to pick up her newspaper.
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PEKING — A new SOS signal was received yesterday, raising hope that some of the 81 crewmen were alive on lifeboats of a U.S. oil exploration vessel that either sank during the Sea Ocean or was seized by Vietnam.
The 5,900-ton vessel, under lease by the Atlantic Ritfield Co. of Los Angeles, Calif., first sent a distress signal Tuesday night as if listed under emergency power in the 75-foot soot swells of tropical storm Lex.
Dick Vermer, vice president of Global Marine Inc. of Houston, the ship's owner, said a second signal was received by a Japanese merchant vessel. "It is sure to be the lifeboat or the ship," Vermer said.
Officials said the vessel's SOS signal indicated it was about 135 miles east of Vietnam and within range of Vietnamese patrol boats.
"THAT SIGNAL could not have been emitted from anything other than the rig or the lifebate because it is manually emitted and that means there has to be some people aboard," he said.
There were 81 people on the vessel, including 42 American citizens, he said.
Vermeer said there probably were four fully enclosed life boats on board, each able to hold 50 people and with a hand-held SOS radio device.
The Java Sea began operations in the area last January. Hanoi said in February the vessel was violating its territorial sovereignty.
The ship "has been riding out storms all summer and should have handled this one," an ARCO Peking official said.
Officials from ARCO feared the 406-foot drilling vessel sank but said it was capable of surviving the storm.
"IT IS very possible the ship was blown over the (boundry) line and taken by the Vietnamese," he added.
In Washington, a State Department official said there was no indication the drilling vessel had been seized by a foreign governor.
Eleven Chinese vessels and aircraft were taking part in the search.
They were joined by U.S. military planes after Hanoi was told the aircraft might enter Vietnamese airspace, diplomats said. Vietnam did not object, the diplomats said.
Vermeer added he had "10th-hand reports" that Vietnam would not hinder search efforts in its waters."
Soviets offer new plan for nuclear-arms limits
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GENEVA, Switzerland — The chief Soviet negotiator at the Geneva arms talks yesterday said Moscow's new proposals for reducing medium-range nuclear missiles were "a sound basis for compromise" with Washington.
"It all depends on the American side." Soviet delegate Yuli Kvitskisny told reporters after a two-hour meeting with U.S. negotiator Paul Nitzel, during which he was believed to have explained the new proposal, outlined in Moscow Wednesday by Soviet President Yuri Andropov.
ANDROPOV'S new proposals for the stalked talks included an offer to reduce the number of Soviet SS-20 missiles from Europe from the present 250 to 140.
He said the Soviet Union also was willing to halt deployment of SS 20's in the region.
Asked before the meeting if he saw any chance of preventing NATO's planned deployment of U.S. cruise and Pershing-2 missiles in Western Europe by December, Kvitsimsky said, "There is ground basis for a compromise now."
But Andropov maintained Moscow's insistence on including British and French nuclear forces in the Geneva Agreement, which was signed France. The two nations say their
U. S. officials said Andropov's proposals had some "new angles" but were not final.
nuclear missiles are for national defense, but they can be counted in East-West war zones.
ANDROPOV also repeated Soviet threats to walk out of the Geneva talks if NATO goes ahead with deployment of the new American missiles, saying it would be impossible to continue negotiating with the new weapons in place.
Shortly after yesterday's round of talks ended, Moscow said the U.S. rejection of Androppo's latest proposition led to a host of stiffness of the Reagan administration."
U. S. officials have said such threats are designed to whip up anti-nuclear sentiment in western Europe and predicted the Soviets will negotiate seriously only after the cruise and Pershing 2 missiles are deployed.
"If they were logical, Washington and other NATO capitals would have taken a serious attitude to the new goodwill gesture from Moscow," the Soviet Novosti news agency said in a commentary.
Yesterday's meeting in Geneva was the 99th plenary session of U.S. and Soviet delegations at the Intermediate Level. A meeting limiting reclamation-rapid crush explosives
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