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University Daily Kansan, October 28. 1982
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News Briefs From United Press International
Reagan suspends Poland's favored nation trade status
WASHINGTON — President Reagan signed a proclamation yesterday suspending special trade status for Poland in retaliation to continued repression by Poland's military regime, which is backed by the Soviet Union.
"The Polish martial law government has taken steps further to increase its repression of the Polish people by outlawing the independent trade union Solidarity, leaving the United States without international trade customs and trade complaints against Poland," Reagan said in the proclamation.
The proclamation, formally made under provisions of a protocol to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, suspends the most favored nation status held by Poland for two decades.
Poland is the only Warsaw Pact nation that has had most favored national status on a permanent basis. Suspension of the status will raise concerns about the stability of the region.
In Warsaw, Parliament officials said yesterday they might charge disgraced former Communist Party chief Edward Glerek with mismanaging the Polish economy.
Three Irish soldiers die in Lebanon
Three Irish soldiers were shot to death and a fourth was wounded in an attack yesterday on a United Nations peacekeeping force checkpoint in southern Lebanon, a U.N. spokesman said. The unknown assailants escaped.
The Irish soldiers were part of the 6,000-man United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon, stationed on the Lebanese side of the border with Israel.
Earlier, U.N. officials in New York and Vienna released a report confirming Israeli allegations that PLO fighters used a U.N. school in Lebanon for nearly two years to provide weapons and explosives training to Palestinian students.
A spokesman for the U.S. Mission to the United Nations said the United States was holding up $15 million of its $62 million contribution for 1982 to the U.N. Relief and Work's Agency as a result of the report.
Police seek woman in Tylenol case
The FBI sought fingerprints on the bottle, the eighth to be found contaminated with the poison.
CHICAGO — Investigators searched yesterday for a middle-aged woman who turned in the most recently discovered bottle of cyanide-laced Tylenol, two weeks after seven people were killed by poisoned capsules.
Investigators are looking for the woman who turned in the bottle to Wheaton police Oct. 13 and identified herself as Mrs. Duane Walter of West Chicago, wife of a DuPau County judge. But Mrs. Walter said she had not turned in the bottle and had no idea who used her name.
In Denver, a poison expert said yesterday that chemical "fingerprints" might help investigators trace a deadly mercury compound that critically injured a man who swallowed three tainted Extra-Strength Excedrin capsules Tuesday.
Blast kills three in Northern Ireland
BELFAST, Northern Ireland — Northern Ireland's savage spree of violence claimed four new victims yesterday as three police officers were killed in an IRA bomb blast and a Catholic man's right hand was sawed off with a hacksaw by intruders in his home.
The backsaw victim, William Kelly, 37, was rushed to a hospital where microsurgicals reattached his hand.
His brother and sister previously were in sectarian violence, but police said the latest assault might have stemmed from a personal relationship.
The outlawed Irish Republican Army said it was responsible for detonating a 1,000-pound bomb in a culvert drainage bernadigha a road near Lurgan, southwest of Belfast, that sent a police Land-Rover flying 30 to 40 feet in the air and killed three police officers in it instantly.
Israel to try to save bankrupt El Al
TEL AVIV, Israel — Hundreds of El Al workers sprawled over runways and shut down Ben Gurion Airport for more than 12 hours yesterday until they won a government promise to try to save the bankrupt airline from extinction.
The state-run Israel radio said the workers began leaving the always this morning and regular air service would resume in the day.
All flights were cancelled at noon yesterday when irate workers, some craddling their children in their arms, laid down on the runways, commandered three jets, then fought off police water cannons.
The radio said Prime Minister Menachem Begin personally ordered government negotiators to tell union officials he would hold talks to save the debt-ridden airline rather than disband it, as the airline board of directors decided Sunday.
Twelve police officers and workers were wounded and three employees were arrested, the radio said.
Chevrolet workers vote 'no' to UAW
FLINT, Mich. — White-collar workers at a Chevrolet plant yesterday overwhelmingly voted against joining the United Auto Workers union — the first election of its kind to take place at General Motors Corp.
Workers voted against the union, 87-32, in what was seen as a setback for the UAW's fledgling drive to organize salaried workers. About 125 of them voted in favor.
A favorable vote for UAW in Flint was considered essential to encourage other drivers among salaried workers, and UAW later voted.
"We are planning to continue the campaign," said Dick Olson, UAW spokesman.
GM officials were elated over the outcome.
Chinese census tops 1 billion mark
PEKING - Using calculators and the ancient abacus, census workers reduced a mountain of figures yesterday to find the population in the world's most populous nation has broken the 1 billion mark.
Chinese leaders have assumed their country's population exceeded 1 billion people, but the preliminary census results were the first official announcement.
In Detroit, industry analysis said yesterday that the UAW's chance of getting a richer contract from Chrysler Corp. in January would hinge on an improvement in car sales.
In the 18 years since the last count was made, mainland China's population grew by 313.5 million.
A similar increase in the United States over a 20-year period would have produced a population $1\frac{1}{2}$ times that of today's.
Preliminary figures released yesterday showed China had exactly 1,031,882,511 people or nearly a quarter of mankind, all of them counted by using calculator and the black beads of abacuses.
EPA traces dioxin to St. Louis suburbs
WASHINGTON—Officials of the Environmental Protection Agency think that as a result of a calamitous chain of events, a dioxin, believed to be the most potent cancer-causing agent made by present in 25 to 50 sites in Missouri.
By United Press International
And large quantities of the toxic chemical still are missing.
EPA officials have told UPI 12 pounds of dioxin were traced to at least 14 confirmed sites and 41 "potential" sites in Missouri. EPA sources said dioxin had been confirmed at a number of the "potential" sites, some of which are clustered together and include several St. Louis trucking companies.
Federal and state officials have yet to account for 48 pounds of the chemical, which was mixed into 18,500 gallons of water from a well. By a salvage operator a decade ago.
THE NON-PROFIT Environmental Defense Fund yesterday released internal EPA documents indicating the EPA is considering cleanup actions related to the toxic waste site those used for the toxic waste site at Love Canal near Buffalo, N.Y. The
reports say Missouri's cleanup would leave dioxin in soil at levels 10,000 to 100,000 times higher than levels left at Love Canal following its cleanup.
An EPA enforcement attorney wrote in one memo that leaving such a high level would amount to using humans as guinea pigs.
A UPI investigation disclosed that EPA has known since early summer about a number of the contaminated sites, including three horse arenas and a residential area outside St. Louis, but has not extended extensive sampling until recent weeks.
EPA OFFICIALS said they probably would be trying to trace the missing dioxin for years because the trucker who dealt with the oil, Russell Bliss of Rosati, Mo., cannot remember how he disposed of all of it.
In 1974, three years after Bliss sprayed the horse arenas with the contaminated waste oil to control dust, officials of the Center for Disease Control in Atlanta and the Missouri Health linked dioxin to the deaths of health workers affected by affecting at least nine people, including two small girls who were hospitalized.
The waste oil containing dioxin came from a plant near Verona in southwest.
BY 1971, when Bliss was paid $12 per tank truck to remove the waste oil, Northeastern Pharmaceutical and Chemical Co. had taken over the manufacture of dioxin as a byproduct of its manufacture of the antiseptic hexachlorophene
orner Mahsei where Hoffman-Taff Inc
produced Agent Orange for the military
When the Food and Drug Administration banned hexachlorophene in 1972, Northeastern Pharmaceutical and Chemical went out of business, leaving forms of dioxins in a tank at the plant and chemicals several other places on the site.
Syntax Agri-Business Corp., which owned the site, engaged in a million-dollar cleanup in a settlement with the Justice Department in 1980, but dioxin levels as high as 319 parts per million still have been found there.
Contaminated soil was removed from the arenas, but recent EPA sampling confirmed high levels of dioxins still in the rafters and in dust in the arenas.
SOME OF the soil removed from the arenas was used in 1974 as landfill in a residential subdivision in the St. Louis suburb of Imperial. EPA officials now
are taking samples on that site,
connected along with the arenas to be
studied.
EPA sources told UPI that sampling already has disclosed that trace levels of dioxin has washed into the sediment a week, 5 miles from the residential area.
Although the creek flows into the Meramec River, which is used as a source of drinking water, officials see no imminent threat to the water supply.
In the memos released by the Environmental Defense Fund, EPA enforcement lawyer Edward Kurent raised questions about administration proposals to alter past cleanup policies that called for reducing dioxin soil concentrations to a few parts per trillion, the lowest detectable levels.
THE POLICY proposed by EPA toxicologist Arthur Palotta would permit levels of up to 100 parts per billion to go unattended.
Dioxins have been found to be one of the most difficult chemicals to eliminate from the environment.
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