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University Daily Kansan. October 7, 1980
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News Briefs From United Press International
Firefighters try to save Prinsendam
VALDEZ. Alaska—With all 519 passengers and crew members of the crippled luxury line, Transmand safari sailors, the Coast Guard tried to restore the ship's operation.
The cutter Mellon pulled alongside the listing vessel at daybreak and put a Coast Guard team aboard to assess the damage to the liner. The Mellon also carried a firefighting crew in case flames needed to be doused to save the $25 million vessel, a spokesman said.
Two Coast Guard helicopters also headed for the ship, which was drifting 145 miles west of Cape Spencer on the coast of southeastern Alaska.
Owners arranged for a tugboat to tow the 427-foot Prinsendam to port.
Aboard the helicopter were more firefighters, the Dutch ship's skipper, the chief engineer and an owner's representative. The ship officials and Coast Guardmen were to discuss fighting the fire, which was thought to have spread through most of the compartments below decks.
Most of the passengers and crew had been rescued by being hoisted out of lifeboats by helicopter and placed down on the deck of the oil supertenant Williamsburg, the first large ship to answer to the Prinsendam's SOS early Saturday.
Those rescued from the ship went ashore at Sika or Valdez. Dense fog at Valder prevented planes from arriving to begin a shuttle service to Anchorage.
Mishaps spoil nuclear plant's debut
SODDY-DAISY, Tenn.-The Sequoyah Nuclear Plant, years behind schedule and $1 billion over budget, was open fewer than seven hours in its first three days of operation because of mechanical problems, including a leak of radioactive water.
Tennessee Valley Authority spokesman Steve Goldman said yesterday that the plant would be closed until at least Thursday or Friday while maintenance crews removed several gallons of water that spilled into the reactor containment area Sunday.
He said that the water was slightly radioactive but that the spill was not a safety hazard.
The plant began generating electricity Friday but was shut down 90 hours later, and the company became clogged with rust. The plant remained operations about a month on Sunday.
The plant was shut down Sunday when technicians noticed a higher than normal amount of radiation near the reactor coolant pump. They determined that a leak in a pipe carrying water to the pump released the radioactivity.
Goldman said the problems were part of "working the bugs out" and were to be expected.
The TVA plant is about 12 miles north of Chattanooga, Tenn., on the Chickamauga Lake impoundment of the Tennessee River.
Abscam jurors hear final arguments
WASHINGTON—Rep. John Jenrette's lawyer yesterday asked the jury at the congressman's Abscarn trial to "photograph his soul" and discover a man who had been drunk but unwilling to take a bribe.
In final arguments, defense lawyer Kenneth Robinson urged the panel to acquit Jemma, a South Carolina Democrat, of bribery and conspiracy charges.
"There was a strain of morality in this man," Robinson said. "He was fighting for his life. He knew it was wrong and immoral. He didn't take the matter."
Jenrette and co-defendant John Stowe, a former businessman in Myrtle Beach, S.C., and Richmond, Va., have been on trial since Sept. 3 for conspiring to accept a $100,000 payment for sponsoring a private immigration bill for a fictitious sheik.
The government, in its final arguments, portrayed Jenrette as a congressman willing to sell his services.
Videotapes played to the jury showed Jenette talking about taking a bribe but indicating that he wanted time to think it over and to research immigration.
Robinson said Jenrette thought he was dealing with the mob and teared for his life.
Court to examine federal regulations
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court, beginning its 1980-81 term, indicated yesterday that it would confront the controversial issue of how far the Court could stretch its authority.
The court accepted for review cases on regulation of worker exposure to hazardous substances and stringent government strip mining regulations.
On the government control of business question, the court agreed to decide whether a regulatory agency must weigh the costs to a business against the number of lives saved when it makes rules limiting worker exposure to harmful substances.
Last year, ruling on the Occupational Safety and Health Administration's attempts to control benzene, a toxic chemical thought to cause cancer, the Supreme Court struck down the rule.
By accepting a case concerning worker exposure to cotton dust, linked to brown lung disease, the justices indicated that they are willing to try again to obtain more evidence.
The court disposed of hundreds of cases on its opening day. It refused to review school busing cases from Detroit, St. Louis and Indianapolis.
The justices did agree to consider the politically sensitive question of whether a court can reenact the passport of former CIA agent Philip Ages on grounds of national security.
Senate candidates hold second debate
KANSAS CITY, Mo.-Gene McNary, the Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate, yesterday charged that Sen. Thomas Eagleton, D-Mo., is a bigspender. Eagleton said his growing Senate seniority was a benefit in Missouri.
Nmcary, Eagleton and a third U.S. Senate candidate, Socialist Workers' Party candidate Martha Petitt, met in the last of two televised debates before a panel of four questioners. The debate was taped for broadcast late yesterday.
McNary said that business was over-regulated, one his campaign themes, and that Eagleton was partly responsible for the country's high inflation.
McNary the nation needed to increase defense preparedness and criticized Eagleton for voting against the Trident submarine, and B-1 bomber, a Nimitz class nuclear aircraft carrier, a new tank and a military pay increase.
Eagleton said his chairmanship of the Agriculture Subcommitee on Appropriation, his membership on the Subcommitee on Aging and, if relected, his chairmanship of the powerful Government Affairs Committee, was a strong voice for Missouri interests in the Senate.
Eagleton, a 12-year Senate veteran, and McNary found little common ground except the need to keep the current armed conflict between Iran and Russia.
Vietnam rejects ongoing MIA talks
BANGKO, Thailand—Vietnam turned down a proposal yesterday for regular meetings with U.S. officials about the 2,500 Americans still thought to be missing in Indochina. Vietnamese officials said the servicemen's effort to expect much progress in searches for the missing soldiers, sources say.
Two U.S. officials from the Joint Casualty Resolution Center liaison office returned to Bangkok Saturday after unsuccessfully trying to start ongoing humanitarian operations.
The sources said U.S. Air Force L.L. Col. Paul Mather and James Tully, a law enforcement officer with the concession section office that handles affairs for people missing in action, described the incident.
Iraqi planes kill 3, injure 65 in Iran raid
By United Press International
Tehran Radio reported that in addition to bombs, the Iraqi planes released pens, toys and dolls over the city. One person warned that they might be booby traps.
TEHRAN—Iraqi warplanes, in a raid over Tehran yesterday, killed three people and injured 65 others, Iranian officials said.
Tehran Radio said the planes dropped booby-trapped pens and toys in what it called a "cowardly attack on populated areas."
Baghdad said the attack on Tehran was "in retaliation for enemy air strikes against civilian targets in different parts of Iraq."
Iraqi troops also gained virtual control of the strategic Iranian port city of Khorramshahr. Commanders said it worthwhile to try to wipe out the center of the city. Only a few blocks in the central area remain in Iranian hands.
home to about 150,000 people. The port area was captured by Iraqi invaders
IRAN INSISTED its forces were holding out, but no sounds of fighting were heard.
Iraqi troops, with Khorramshahr's port area along the strategic Shatt al-Arab waterway in firm control, surrounded the city and seemed content to starve out the few Iranian defenders left there.
At the same time, Jordan prepared for full-scale assistance to Iraq.
Jordan's Prime Minister Mudar Badran placed all civilian transport vehicles under the government's
Iran may add conditions for hostages' release
By United Press International
LONDON—The speaker of Iran's parliament said yesterday that the assembly may impose demands in addition to those outlined by Ayatollah Ruhallib Khomeini for the release of the 52 American hostages.
Khoumihe has said that the captives, held now for 338 days would be freed if the United States released frozen Iranian assets, returned the late shah's wealth, promised not to interfere in Iraq and lifted trade sanctions against Iran
In addition, a number of Iranian officials have asked for an apology
from the United States for its past actions in Iran and have proposed spy trials for the hostages.
Hashemi Rafsanjani, speaker of the Majlis, Iran's parliament, said in a Tehran radio interview that Khowmeli's totality totally acceptable to the parliament.
"The Majlis is going to study the situation, and should it become necessary to obtain more from America, as the right of the nation, resolving the issue of the hostages, then we shall also raise them."
"If he were to have views about the hostages, the Majlis would immediately, and without debate, accept his views," Rafsanjani said. "As for his conditions concerning the hostages, the four well-known conditions, he did not mean to say there are only four conditions.
The Majlis has appointed a sevenman commission to review the hostage issue and make recommendations on the situation.
The Majilis was scheduled to resume its hostage debate Sunday but postponed because of the unseasonal rainy conditions had gone on to the revival of the situation in the fight against IRA.
command yesterday, apparently to make them available to supply ships to Iraq. They can be commanded at any time. Any driver who resists the driver. Any driver who resists the government order will have his vehicle confiscated.
THE MOVE CAME less than 24 hours after King Hussein returned from a brief visit to Baghdad and pledged full support for Iraq's war effort against Iran.
Hashemi Rafsanaji, the speaker of Iran's Parliament, said any Iranian conditions for ending the war would come from Ayatollah Ruhullah
Saudi Arabia reportedly prepared to
recover the oil void created by the
brain-fraud war
The hostilities between the two Persian Gulf nations have reportedly cut the flow of oil by more than 3 million barrels a day. The authoritative oil publication Middle East Economic Survey said Saudi Arabia was preparing to act to ease the shortfall by increasing its crude oil production from 9.5 million barrels a day to a maximum of 11 million.
Tuesday, Oct. 7
Rent it. Call the Kansan. Call 864-4358.
(1949)
henry V
Perhaps the greatest Shakespeare-on-
film, Laurence Olivier's vibrant film
begins on the stage of The Globe and
theatre, a story of love and con-
trol. This exciting production features
Olivier, Leslie Banks, and Robert Newton
in its fine cast (137 min) Color: 7-30.
Wednesday, Oct. 8
Les Enfants du Paradis (Children of Paradise)
[1949]
"A superbly evocative and pictorial romance of Paris" theatre street ... Marcel Carne directs with superb control of the rich detail. The line cast includes Dmitri Meyer, Jean-Pierre Brauseur and Marcel Herand." -Leslie Halliwell. One of the great works of the cinema, overflowing with love and intrigue (188 min.) & W. Frenchishstubs. 7:30.
Cry the Beloved Country
Thursday, Oct. 9
(1952)
Alan Paton's acclaimed novel of a Black preacher from rural South Africa who lives in London, searching for his son is recreated on screen by Zoon Korda, with lit pen and paper. Sidney Politer. A very revealing film, based on the real life interest today, 105 (mkt BJW; 7-30).
Friday, Oct. 10
La Cage aux Folles
A hilarious comedy from France, La Cage aux FoLES (Birds of a Feather) is the name of a transvestite night club. When the son of one of the owners plans to marry his girlfriend, a tenor senate he wishes to give the son's in-laws the right impression . . . but it doesn't work that way. An upright fanciful ason for a man who wants his daughters toMichel Mirafelt (the landlord from Get Out Your Handkerchiefs) and UgO Tognazzi, directed by Eduard Molinozio. Plus Vinton "Dinosaur" (8/17 French-suspects 3:30, 7:00, 9:30.
Pol. Adv
Paid for by Committee to Re-Elect
Arnold Berman
Marcia C., Foster, Treaser, 749-1615
Unless otherwise noted; all film will be shown at Woodford Auditorium in the Kansas Union, Weekday films are $1.00; Friday, Saturday, Popular and Sunday (Saturday) films are $2.00; Tickets available at the SUA office, Kansas Union, 4th level. Information 884-3477. No smoking or refreshments allowed.
STATE SENATOR
ARNOLD BERMAN Thoughts on NUCLEAR POWER
During the 1976 election campaign, I made the following statement:
"We are being told to blindly accept the assurances of nuclear power promoters as to their safety; even though much of the evidence and our better instincts give us concern. As an engineer, I will not just blindly accept these industry assurances. And, as a father, I refuse to have these decisions made for me."
If anything, I believe this even more strongly today. We must demand of our Congressional delegation that federal law be changed to permit Kansas to make its own decisions as to nuclear power and radioactive waste disposal sites.
A Record . . . Not A Promise!