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University Daily Kansan, January 17, 1983
News Briefs From United Press International
Dioxin cleanup could cost $47 million, estimate says
ST. LOUIS - Internal cost studies by the Environmental Protection Agency indicate that cleanup of dioxin sites in Missouri could be among the most expensive toxic waste problems ever, a newspaper said yesterday.
The estimates were contained in an Oct. 26 memorandum written before dioxin contamination was confirmed at Times Beach, Mo., and did not include the St. Louis suburb's problem.
The agency's regional staff in Kansas City made estimates ranging up to $47 million for a plan to haul contaminated soil outside the state and permanently relocate some residents, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch said in a copyright story.
The memorandum and another internal document indicated that regional officials considered the dioxin situation serious at the same time agency officials in Washington were soft-pedaling its importance, the newspaper reported.
Estimates for the nine options listed in the study ranged from taking no action at all to spending $47 million to permanently relocate residents, tear down buildings and excavate soil.
UAW battles against overtime hours
DETROIT — The United Auto Workers is “raising hell” with auto makers in an attempt to have laid-off workers returned to their jobs rather than have the currently employed work overtime, a UAW official said recently.
said recently.
"We're raising hell with them constantly," said Owen Bieber, UAW vice president. "We want people called back to work and overtime eliminated."
Labor relations vice presidents at both General Motors Corp. and Ford Motor Co. say the automobile market, in the fourth year of a slump, is too uncertain to warrant extensive commitments for additional shifts or extra permanent workers.
Overtime shifts are a relatively cheap way for automakers to adjust their production schedules to meet quickly the needs of an ever-changing market. Two weeks ago, GM had 172,000 workers on indefinite layoff, but 10 plants worked overtime shifts.
Gas industry in trouble, study says
WASHINGTON — The natural gas industry is in danger of pricing itself out of the market with skyrocketing rates that will soon make gas more expensive than oil, a major energy study warned yesterday.
The report by Cambridge Energy Research Associates of Massachusetts found the gas industry "in the midst of the most significant transition in its history — a transition that could send markets into turmoil."
The troubled industry's ability to compete with other energy resources "is hampered by a structural straitjacket, composed of now obsolete contracts and regulatory rigidity," said the study's authors, former Assistant Energy Secretary Alvin Alm and Frank Schuller, a Harvard University energy analyst.
The Natural Gas Supply Association, an industry group based in Washington, said in a statement that the contract situation was not as bleak as portrayed by the study.
IRA gunmen slay top Ulster judge
BELFAST, Northern Ireland — Two Irish nationalist gunmen murdered one of Ulster's leading judges yesterday, calmly riddling him with bullets as he left Mass in a Roman Catholic church.
In a coded telephone call to Bellast's Downtown Radio station, the outlawed Irish Republic Army later claimed responsibility for killing William Doyle, whom it described as a 'key figure in Britain's oppression of young girls' (IRA) gave no more opportunities to say it singled out Doyle, 55, for death.
The judge died in a hail of gunfire at the wheel of his car minutes after he walked from Mass at St. Brigid's Church in the university section of south Belfast, police said.
Two gunmen approached on foot and pumped a number of shots into Doyle and a female companion 100 yards from the church steps, police said.
Cambodian rebels ousted from base
BANGKOK, Thailand — Vietnamese troops backed by Soviet-built tanks battled Cambodian rebels for six hours yesterday, recapturing a strategic mortar base near the Thai border, a military source said.
"At least 1,000 Vietnamese must have been in the attack," a Thai military source told reporters at the Thai-Cambodian border, 120 miles east of Bangkok.
east of Bangkok.
The assault on the village of Yeang Dang Kum, a mortar base three miles inside Cambodia, ended a 20-day occupation by rebel forces of the Khmer People's National Liberation Front.
The source said the Vietnamese began attacking at dawn, backed by five Soviet-made T-54 tanks and 10 a-mored personnel carriers.
five South Sudanese refugees. The village is important because it is three miles from a pro-KPNLF settlement sheltering 50,000 refugees on the Cambodian side of the Thai-Cambodian border.
Prison population swells to 405,000
WASHINGTON — The number of inmates in state and federal prisons increased by nearly 10 percent during the first nine months of 1982 to more than 405,000, the Justice Department said yesterday.
more than 405,600. The Bureau of Justice Statistics said that the number of inmates rose by 11,055 in the third quarter of last year, bringing the number of inmates to 405,371 prisoners as of Sept. 30, 1982.
For comparison, there were 368,772 people in state and federal custody at the end of 1981.
custody at the end of 1980. It said that during the third quarter, the number of women in prison grew at almost twice the rate for men during the period, but women accounted for only 4 percent of the total prison population.
Of the total, 29,403 were federal prisoners, the bureau said. The number of female inmates nationwide was 17,839.
Japanese leader hopes for closer ties
TOKYO — Japanese Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone said yesterday that he hoped his meeting with President Reagan this week will cool the emotional disputes over trade and defense which are threatening traditionally close relations between the United States and Japan.
Japan.
Nakasone leaves Tokyo today on a sensitive four-day mission to Washington, hoping to strike a personal friendship with Reagan and head off rising protectionist sentiment in Congress.
head of our rising production. The 64-year-old Nakasone, in office only six weeks, said he wanted to establish ties at a "very personal level between Mr. Reagan and myself so that the bonds between our countries may become even stronger."
Like Reagan, Nakasone is known as a hawk on military issues and he regards strong U.S. Japanese ties as a cornerstone of Japan's foreign policy.
Labor leaders attack Social Security plan
WASHINGTON — A $169 billion bailout plan for Social Security that would raise levies on workers, delay cost-of-living boosts and tax benefits ran into sharp criticism yesterday that was dulled by predictions of Congressional approval.
By United Press International
THE PLAN WOULD raise $169 billion for Social Security over the next seven years, plugging its immediate cash gap, and serapeps up enough money to close two thirds of its 75 year shortfall. It would also pay a percent of the nation's taxable payroll.
The compromise worked out by the president's National Commission on Social Security Reform and approved on a 12-3 vote combines payroll tax hikes, taxes benefits paid to better-off pensioners, freezes benefit increases for six months and requires new federal workers to join the system.
The commission, which finished its work in an 12-hour session Saturday at it hit its deadline for action, told Congress that it raised taxes or the retirement age.
Representatives of business, retired people and federal workers protested the 11-point plan, but statements of support came quickly from President Reagan, whose aides helped negotiate the plan.
The plan also won support from congressional leaders — House Speaker Tip O'Neill, D-Mass., Senate Majority Leader Howard Baker, R-Ill.; Governor Mike Huckabee, R-Ill.; Wright, D-Texas; and House Minority Leader Robert Michel, R-IL.
"EACH OF US recognizes that this is a compromise solution," Reagan said. "As such, it includes elements which each of us could not support if they were not part of a bipartisan compromise."
Reagan gave the panel until Thursday to polish its report. O'Neill promised quick action to prevent Social
Security from running short of cash to pay July checks to 36 million Americans.
The 320,000-member American Postal Workers Union attacked proposals to require federal workers to join Social Security, a provision commission member Lane Kirkland, AFL-CIO president, also does not back.
The National Federation of Independent Business said payroll tax hikes would only worsen the nation's unemployment rate, and the nation's retiree group of the plan benefit curbs and tax hikes were final flaws.
Troop removal set, Lebanese leaders sav
By United Press International
Lebanon has devised a detailed timetable for a two-phased withdrawal of all foreign armies by mid-February, and has told U.S. envoy Philip Hibabi it "cannot accept any more delays," government officials were quoted as saying.
The independent Central News Agency, quoting well-informed Lebaea leaders, said the timetable will be presented today at the seventh Israeli-Lebanese meeting in the Beirut suburb of Khalde.
THE SESSION will be the first since Lebanon and Israel reached agreement on an agenda for their talks.
The timetable calls for the Israelis to pull back nine miles south of Beirut before Feb. 15, in exchange for a Syrian and Palestinian pullback from the eastern highways in the eastern Beka Valley, the Central News Agency said.
There are an estimated 30,000 Israeli,
40,000 Syrian and 10,000 Palestinian
fighters in Lebanon. The three forces
occupy about two-thirds of the nation.
with a special three-man committee — Defense Minister Ali Sharon, Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir and chief Israeli negotiator David Kimche — to discuss the withdrawal of all foreign forces.
IN ISRAEL, HABIB met yesterday
Though Habib will concentrate on achieving an Israeli-Syrian-PLO withdrawal, state-run Israel Television reported he also urged Israel to reach an agreement in principle with the Lebanese on the main issues on their recently completed agenda within the next week.
The agenda issues include security arrangements in south Lebanon and a
framework for mutual relations that are conditions for an Israeli pull-out.
In Jerusalem, the Israeli commission investigating the Sept. 16-18 massacre of Palestinian civilians in Beirut by the Palestinian militiamen held its last session.
THE COMMISSION IS expected to release its findings in February, and has warned Prime Minister Menachem Begin and eight other Israeli officials that they may be harmed by its militiamen into the Beirut refugee camps to find remaining Palestinian guerrillas.
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