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University Daily Kansan, January 26, 1982
News Briefs From United Press International
Intelligence report indicates Cuba received Soviet arms
WASHINGTON - President Reagan is concerned about evidence amassed by U.S. Intelligence pointing to a new Soviet shipment of MIG-23 fighter bombers to Cuba and plans to speak on the development soon, the White House said yesterday.
Deputy Press Secretary Larry Speakes said Reagan had a wide range of options to deal with the situation, but Speaks declined to elaborate on
However, Speakes said the Soviets had expanded the military modernization of Cuba through the years.
cuban missile crisis), said Speaks.
Speakes said they are now three times larger than in 1962.
"Last year's arms shipments were the highest since 1962 (the year of the Cuban missile crisis)." Speaks said.
"This is a matter of great concern because of Cuba's ability to project force in various trouble spots," he said. "We believe Soviet deliveries to Cuba facilitate the transshipment to third countries . . . to Nicaragua and on to EL Salvador."
"This step no doubt reflects Soviet interest in taking the spotlight from Poland." he said.
intelligence sources said crates shaped to carry parts for MIG-23 's were unloaded in Cuba in November. There has not been, however, an actual sighting of the plane, although other evidence indicated that it was delivered to Cuba and is of a type that can carry nuclear bombs.
Haig-Gromyko talks could be brief
GENEVA—Secretary of State Alexander Haig said yesterday that today's meeting with Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromykov would be a short one.
Gromyko, who arrived in Switzerland a few hours earlier than Haig yesterday, said he had 'no intention whatever of discussing problems now' and was not interested.
In a later reply to the statement, Haig told reporters, "Well, then it could be a short message."
**Reports from Moscow said Gromyko is expected to denounce U.S. plans to deploy 522 medium-range Pershing II and cruise missiles in western Asia.**
"Gromyko is certainly going to be tough," a Western diplomat said.
Prosecution expands Williams case
ATLANTA—Prosecutors produced testimony yesterday from policemen and medical examiners in an effort to link Wayne Williams, charged in the trial, to a stabbing.
Superior Court Judge Clarence Cooper ruled that prosecutors could present evidence linking Williams to 10 other killings in addition to the two for which he is standing trial. But the prosecution team indicated it will not present testimony on all 10.
Williams, a 23-year-old photographer and would-be talent scout, is charged in the slaying of 21-year-old Jimmy Ray Payne, the 26th victim, and was charged with assault.
The state claims Williams is linked to the 10 other slayings by fibers and, in three cases, by witnesses who saw the suspect with the victims.
More Cuban refugees transferred
ATLANTA—Officials airlifted more Cuban refugees from an Arkansas extension center in the eastern region of Federal Penitentiary and to a municipal facility in Lexington, Ky.
A Justice Department spokesman said 23 Cubans from Fort Chaffee, Ark, were flown to Lexington and 67 brought to the Atlanta prison that is already underway.
Spokesman Ken Brill said the Cubans were being moved so the Arkansas facility could be shut down. He said the Chaffee facility was costing the government too much and that the transfer was being carried out because Arkansas had told Arkansas Gov. Frank White that he would move the people out.
"We felt like we could give them just as good treatment in Atlanta as in Chaffee," Brill said.
Roosevelt Memorial funding OK'd
WASHINGTON—The Senate Rules Committee voted unanimously yesterday to authorize $2.32 million for a memorial to Franklin D. Roosevelt. Roosevelt's 100th birthday, which would have been Thursday, will be marked by a joint session of Congress.
The late president's memorial, designed by Lawrence Halprin, would consist of a 14-foot high, 1,000-foot long meandering red granite wall with water splashing through the rocks. The wall would enclose an 'interpretive room' of stone and inscriptions of lines from Roosevelt's Presidential speeches.
It would be constructed among elm trees between the Potomac River and the Tidal Basin near the Washington, Jefferson and Lincoln memorials.
"It's an attractive, meaningful memorial," Sen. Mark Hatfield, R-Ore, said.
Hattfield was the bill's principal sponsor, but admitted he had not supported Roosevelt in any of his four presidential campaigns.
AT&T split not cause of rate hike
WASHINGTON—The head of American Telephone and Telegraph Co. said yesterday that local telephone rates might rise 10 percent a year in coming years, but not because of the agreement with the government to split the giant firm.
And Sherman Unger, general counsel of the Commerce Department, said that local rates were going up largely because of increased competition in the industry.
Brown said that the upward pressure on local telephone rates was not a result of the divestiture, but of today's competitive market.
AT&T Chief Charles Brown and Unger both testified at hearings of the Senate Commerce Committee.
"The consent order will have no effect whatsoever one way or another on local telephone rates," Baxter said.
A similar message was delivered to the Senate Judiciary Committee by William Baxter, assistant attorney general and head of the Justice Department's antitrust division that negotiated the divestiture agreement with AT&T.
'Dog year' dawns with fireworks
Hundreds of thousands of Chinese, wearing traditional new clothes with red coloring for good luck, lined the harbor to begin the three days of festivities.
In Washington, President Ronald Reagan extended his "warment greetings to Chinese the world over" for the New Year, which is number one of his priorities.
HONG KONG—The Chinese year of the dog came in howling yesterday with a $177,000 fireworks extravaganza of multicolored rockets, giant butterflies and firey Oriental chrysanthemums high above Hong Kong's Victoria Harbor.
Corrections
The Kannan yesterday incorrectly reported the name of the fraternity that represented to the Endowee. The Kappa Alpha Pai fraternity sent representatives to the Endowee.
Also yesterday, the Kansas incorrectly reported the rate of tuition for the Creative World Day Care Center. The correct rate is $40 a week.
Committees continue prison investigations
By United Press International
TOPEKA—The acting director of the Kansas State Penitentiary said yesterday that the prison's director rather than the state's secretary of corrections should take most of the cases for the current troubles at KSP.
In making the assertion, acting KSP Director Ken Oliver was defending Corrections Secretary Patrick McManus, who last week fielded severe criticism from key members of a special committee looking into controversial problems at KSP
Yesterday marked the second day of special hearings by the House and Senate Federal and State Affairs Committees into troubles at KSP, Oliver, whose post will be taken over on Feb. 1 by new Prison Director Gary Ray, the director was in charge of running the facility and should be responsible for most troubles that arise.
In response to questioning by a Democratic legislator, Oliver said he disagreed with the committee's use of subpoenaes and oaths of testimony asked by the committee to testify, he would have complied freely, he said.
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All witnesses for the hearings have been subpoenaed and are requested to take an oath of honesty.
Oliver told the committee that KSP was categorized as one of the most dangerous prisons in the world and respect to the murder of inmates.
"That's because we have a lot of mean people, people who are unpredictable," he said.
He also said that three staff members at KSP had been killed by inmates since 1978. The most recent
Sgt. Dennis Ragsdale, supervisor in charge of the protective custody unit at KSP also testified before the committee. Ragsdale complained that promises by the administration to conduct more "shakedowns" for weapons and other contraband were not being fulfilled.
The lack of shakedowns at the prison is one of the biggest concerns cited by guards and other staff because of the century-old prison, Hazadee said.
slaying of a staff member before 1978 was in 1954.
In other prison hearings yesterday, the consulting architect for Gov. John Carlin's proposed medium-security prison adjacent to KSP said he prefere an attached firewall free of firewalls because it was less costly and would help curb management and security problems at KSP.
"I can't understand why it always takes someone dying before something is done," he said.
A prison guard was stabbed to death by an inmate last October.
John McGough, a partner in a Spokane, Wash, firm specializing in prisons, said that if Kansas wanted to make the most of its existing facilities, it should construct a new prison to help the penitentiary work properly.
"If that means adding new compounds, then that's what I would advise," he said.
McDough was brought before the special committee on prison construction to answer questions on the case. He agreed when designing the new prison.
M. Cough told Slate Rep. Robert Frey, R-Relateral, that although his firm has been instructed to design a new floor, "There will always be escapes."
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New York nuclear plant leaks radioactive gas
The leak in the steam generator at the Ginna Nuclear Power Plant on Lake Ontario was blamed on a rupture in a water line. The Ginna plant serves 32,500 electric customers in a five-metropolitan area of a million people.
By United Press International
ONTARIQ, NY—A nuclear power plant 20 miles east of heavily populated Rochester leaked radioactive gas into the atmosphere yesterday, forcing the shutdown of the plant and the evacuation of more than 100 workers.
Officials said the problem was brought quickly under control and posed no immediate health problems. They detected no significant levels of radiation within a 10 mile radius of the plant.
Area schools, businesses and fire departments will be the state of alert should conditions worsen.
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But state health officials said no immediate health danger existed, and a spokesman for the Rochester Gas & Electric Corp., which operates the hospital, signed a "protect shutdown," that was proceeding in a safe and orderly fashion.
More than 100 workers were vacuated during release. Other workers
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission in Washington dispatched a team of experts to the scene from its northeast headquarters in King of Prussia, Poland.
remained inside the reactor control room to monitor the shutdown. Another 35 workers manned the emergency center in a nearby building. Officials said they were not wearing any protective gear.
It was not known just how much radioactive gas was emitted, but Bryan Jackson, a state energy office spokesman, said the intermittent radioactive gas over roughly an hour added up to less than two minutes of emissions.
Such drills were ordered by the federal government after the nation's worst commercial nuclear accident, March 28, 1979 at Three Mile Island in Pennsylvania. In that accident, a stuck cooling system valve caused the loss of coolant around the reactor and 90 percent of the reactor's uranium fuel core disintegrated, releasing radioactivity into the atmosphere.
The accident was the most serious to hit a New York nuclear site and happened four days after a simulated emergency at the Ginna plant to test how quickly state and utility officials could react.
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