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Tuesday, September 30, 1986 / University Daily Kansan
News Briefs First of four Chernobyl reactors put back in operation, Tass says
MOSCOW — One of the Chernobyl nuclear station's four reactors has returned to operation, five months after history's worst atomic power plant disaster, the Soviet media announced yesterday.
the first and second reactors of the station were undamaged by the April 26 explosion and fire in the No.4 reactor that spread a nuclear cloud across Europe. However, they were heavily contaminated.
The re-start of the first reactor came as a Pravda editorial warned about energy shortages and appealed for conservation. The newspaper pointed to the losses from Chernobyl, as well as failure to complete new facilities and low-water levels cutting hydro-electric production.
The need to resume operation of the plant was underlined by the increasing power demands caused by an early onset of winter conditions in the western part of the Soviet Union.
There has been no date announced for the restart of the No.2 reactor, which also is to go back into operation. The No.3 reactor, which shared some facilities with the fatal reactor, is believed by Western experts to be too contaminated to ever be used.
Bombs cause damage in Idaho
COEUR D'ALENE, Idaho — Explosions rocked the Federal Building, a store and a restaurant yesterday, but the FBI said they could not link the blasts to
A fourth device was found on top of a military recruiting building across the street from the Federal Building, police said. A bomb squad planned to put it in a cannister and detonate it at the site.
another bombing incident this month in racially troubled Coeur D'Alene.
"At this point we don't know what type of bombing device was utilized," said FBI Supervisor John Campbell at the bureau's western headquarters in Butte, Mont. "There have been no allegations supporting any link between the bombings."
Campbell said authorities didn't know what type of bombs exploded or who planted them.
The first blast at 9:09 a.m. shattered windows at the Federal Building. Other explosions blew a 2 to-3-foot hole in a shop in a local building and caused damages to a local restaurant.
There were no injuries.
There were no injuries. The bombings forced the evacuation of the Federal Building and the Kootenai County Courthouse. The downtown post office was also roped off.
Frenchman kidnapped in Beirut
BEIRUT, Lebanon — Gunmen kidnapped a French television photographer yesterday minutes after he drove into Muslim East Beirut, French Embassy officials said.
The abduction of Jean Marc Sroussi brought to nine the number of Frenchmen missing and presumed kidnapped in Lebanon and appeared to be part of a new round of attacks on Westerners in Beirut.
Russsi, a photographer for France's state-run television network, was kidnapped minutes after he drove from Christian East Beirut into the city's Muslim western sector through the southern Mreijeh passageway.
Two women traveling with Sroussi were not seized by the gunmen in West Beirut, French officials said. No one claimed responsibility for the kidnapping of Sroussi, 41, who has worked in Beirut since 1982.
France has angered Lebanon's pro Iranian Muslim groups because of its peacekeeping role in southern Lebanon and its military support of Iraq.
Two Americans — Joseph James Cicippio, deputy comproller at American University of Beirut, and Frank Reed, director of the Lebanese International School — also were abducted this month.
Senate votes down Aquino aid
WASHINGTON — The Senate yesterday voted not to earmark $200 million in aid for the Philippines, refusing to go along with the House's emotional decision two weeks ago to grant the money to Corazon Aquino's fledgling government.
Despite the 51-43 vote against the aid, several senators said it was not meant as a slap against the Philippines, but against the procedure under which the aid was attempted.
Senate Democratic leader Robert Byrd of West Virginia tried to attach the aid to a crucial spending bill that needs to pass by midnight tonight to keep the government running. His amendment called for the aid to be taken from the accounts of all other countries, with the exception of Israel and Egypt.
Richard Lugar, R-Ind., chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said the United States had a special responsibility to aid Aquino and the Philippines.
"We must act affirmatively," Lugar said. "To do anything else is to create a severe foreign policy dilemma for our country. We ought to consolidate our relations."
But Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole said there had been no hearings on the $200 million in aid, and maintained the United States is already funneling about $500 million into the Philippines through its leases of two major military bases and other assistance.
The House, by a six-vote margin, hurriedly voted for the $200 million in Philippine aid Sept. 18, after Aquino's emotional speech to a joint session of Congress.
Botha says he favors law reform
EAST LONDON, South Africa — President Pieter Botha said yesterday he is committed to reform aparteid laws, but ruled out any form of government that would allow South Africa's blacks to dominate whites.
In a speech to a National Party provincial congress in East London, Botha denounced outside interference in South African affairs and praised President Reagan and British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher for their opposition to economic sanctions.
Botha told 1,200 delegates of the Cape Province Congress of the National Party that he remained committed to his program of limited reform of South Africa's racial laws, but within the boundaries of racial separation.
More than 2,300 people, the overwhelming majority of them black, have been killed since a wave of violence erupted in September 1984 over the government's policies of racial separation, known as apartheid.
Suspected Sikhs kill 4 in India
CHANDIGARH, India — Two suspected Sikh extremists wielding pistols yesterday killed four Hindus, including a child, and wounded at least two other people in a bloody rampage in northern Punjab state, authorities said.
The gunmen entered a flour mill in Jullundur, about 100 miles northwest of the Punjab capital of Chandigarh, about 7 a.m. and asked the owner to use the telephone. police said.
As soon as the phone was handed over, the suspects shot and killed the man, identified as Hans Rau), authorities said. The gunmen fled on a motor scooter, firing indiscriminately at passersby.
They said the pair killed an elderly man on a motor scooter and a man and a child who were walking in the street. They said two men riding a motor scooter also were critically injured.
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