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University Daily Kansan / Thursday, October 12, 1989
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U.S. urges 7 states to store nuke waste
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The Bush administration pressed governors of seven states yesterday to help avert a shutdown of the Rocky Flats nuclear arms plant. The administration asked the states to temporarily store part of the plant's radioactive waste next year.
The states are Idaho, Colorado,
New Mexico, Nevada, South Carolina,
Tennessee and Washington.
Most had indicated earlier this week
they would not accept any of the
waste, which contains plutonium that
remains radioactive for 240,000
years.
The administration said closing Rocky Flats would amount to unilateral nuclear disarmament because it is the sole maker of plutonium triggers for warheads.
Colorado Gov. Roy Romer has vowed to shut down Rocky Flats, which is 16 miles from Denver, if waste stored in plant buildings
exceeds 1,600 cubic yards. The Energy Department estimates that limit will be topped by next March 1.
The department had expected to have a permanent repository near Carlsbad, NM, ready for use. The facility was waste, but setbacks have delayed its opening.
John Sumum, the White House chief of staff, telephoned the governors yesterday to stress that national security was at stake, said Phil Keif, a spokesman for the Energy Department, which owns Rocky Flats.
Energy Secretary James D. Watkins met resistance when he disclosed at a Senate hearing Thursday that he planned to ask seven states to agree to temporary storage.
Until now, the Rocky Flats waste problem had been a tug-of-war between three states and the Energy Department.
Idaho had been storing the waste at the Energy Department's Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, but Gov. Cecil Andrus halted shipments on Sept. 1.
ZHAO CRITIZER. An official Chinese commentary today condemned reformist efforts to reduce the role of Communist Party ideologues in government and factory management, saying this would turn the party into a mere "after-hours club."
The commentary in the Beijing Daily blamed ousted party General Secretary Zhao Ziyang for the notion that the party should stick to running itself. It was one of the few leaders on the purged leader in weeks.
After several months of steady media condemnation, the latest official comments on Zhao had taken a softer tone and credited him with contributions to China's
World Briefs
DC-10 CRASH CLUE: The discovery of a key engine part from a jumbo jet that crashed in July has intensified the search of Iowa cornfields for other pieces to the puzzle of what caused the DC-10's rear engine to fly apart, officials said yesterday.
economic reform.
"We don't know yet whether this is the golden nugget we we're looking for," said Jim Burnett, a member of the National Transportation Safety Board.
Officials of General Electric Co., which made the engine in 1972, said the discovery of the fan disk of the crippled DC-10 was important to the investigation into what hap-
opened to United Flight 232
One hundred searchers hired by GE will walk newly harvested fields in northwest Iowa this weekend.
Flight 238 crashed while trying to land at the Sioux Gateway Airport.
TOXIC TRAIN DEATHS: Four men thought to be illegal aliens were found dead Tuesday in a railroad trailer marked with skulls and a danger warning. Authorities in Victoria, Texas, are trying to determine if a pesticide used on for inside contributed to their deaths.
The Border Patrol is investigating to determine if smugglers put
the men in the trailer, said Border Patrol agent Brian French.
SOUTH AFRICA SUBMITT: South African President F. W. de Klerk told militant anti-sparethield leaders yesterday that he was ready to negotiate on Black voting rights, but they demanded more concessions before serious talks could begin.
The three-hour meeting with Anglican Archbishop Desmond Tutu and other two church leaders came a day after de Klerk was charged with his conviction to free eight longtime security prisoners, including seven leaders of the outlawed African National Congress.
East German leaders anticipate labor trouble
The Associated Press
BERLIN — Communist Party officials think labor trouble is ahead in East Germany and have demanded a report on the "critical situation" from Erich Honecker, the nation's
tion to the nation's problems.
East Germany's chief ideologist reversed himself and called for reform to curb growing unrest, but the Communist Party is only strengthening communism is the only solu-
There have been conflicting signs recently as to whether the Homeone government will yield to demands for more democracy or cling to the orthodox party line that has caused tens of thousands of East Germans to
The demand for a report, made by party members at a meeting Tuesday of the policy-making Politburo, suggests that Honecker may face an internal challenge to his 18-year leadership.
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