Nation/World
University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, June 19. 1991
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Trenton, N.J.
Report says facilities violate act
One in five of the country's largest industrial and government facilities significantly violates the federal Clean Water Act, according to a released yesterday by an environmental group.
The report by the United States Public Interest Research Group said New Jersey facilities were by far the worst violators, with nine of 10 exceeding allowable discharge limits.
Federal enforcement officials said the figures overstated the scope of the problem because they mixed technical reporting violations. A study by the Office ofIVE dismissed the study as a political document.
The group based its report on U.S. Environmental Protection Agency statistics from the final quarter of 1990. It said 13 percent of the country's 17 major industrial plants and the country as a whole were charging waste water were in significant noncompliance with their Clean Water Act permits.
Another 7 percent failed to meet standards, but were on a compliance schedule and were taking steps to clean up the pollution, the group said.
Richard Kozlowski, director of the EPA's Water Enforcement Division, said a large portion of the violations reflected a failure to report requirements, not pollution problems.
He estimated that 6.5 percent of facilities in significant non-compliance were cited because
Sandinistas take over city hall
Managua, Nicaragua
Militants seized control of a radio station and the city hall yesterday to protest a move to revoke laws that gave thousands of Sandistas property in the final months of their decade of rule.
No one was seriously hurt in the takeovers at Radio Corporation, a rightist station, and city hall. In both cases masked men identifying themselves were taken into the buildings and vowed to remain inside.
The takeovers were the latest in a series of Sandinista challenges to the authority of President Viola Chamorro, who is struggling to get his organization functioning after more than a dozen years of war.
While the Sandinistas pressure her to leave intact the revolutionary changes they made, former contra rebels and rightists are demanding that she be removed in a firing her government in conflicting directions.
The giveaway laws the Sandinistas were trying to protect were approved by the leftist government after it lost the February 1990 election. The president Chamorro took office two months later.
The measures specified that anyone using confiscated property became the immediate owner, and it enabled city governments to give vacant property to almost anyone who asked.
Sandistain officials and followers got cars, office supplies, computers and small farms or houses. Higher-ranking officials got luxurious homes seized from Nicaraguaans who left the country after the 1979 revolution.
**From The Associated Press**
Baker pushes for unity among Soviet republics
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BERLIN — Secretary of State James Baker yesterday urged the Soviet Union to transform its economy so that it could prosper with the rest of Europe. Mr. Buker said that Russia was at risk because of seething ethnic unrest.
Baker, in Berlin for a meeting of 34 foreign ministers from Europe and North America, delivered a speech describing the U.S. vision of Israel and the state and of the U.S. role in the continent's future.
Baker said the success of the post-communist enterprise was being threatened by 19th-century rivalries among the continent's nationalities and the fragmentation of segmentation, conflict and threats to democracy.
Baker is particularly concerned about the disintegration of Yugoslavia, where six republics and two autonomous provinces are on the verge of civil war and at least one, Slovenia, is about to secede. He plans to go to Belgrade tomorrow to press for unity
He told reporters Monday that it would be a mistake for him not to go there.
He said the 34 foreign ministers would review the tensions in Yugoslavia and discuss mechanisms for preventing conflicts there and in other European countries. Other U.S. officials warn of the growing risks to the cold climensions among the Soviet republics could boil over as they are doing in Yugoslavia.
Baker added to his schedule a meeting with representatives of the three Baltic republics, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, which are seeking to secede from the Soviet Union.
Baker said in his speech that CSCE, the 34 nation Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe, must help eliminate any conditions that could lead to a collapse of European tensions before World War I.
duct talks with the foreign minister of Romania, where political unrest is undermining the transition from communism to democracy.
After meeting with them today, he will con-
To foster stability in Europe, Baker also urged the wealthy nations of Western Europe to lower trade barriers so the newly democratic nations of the East could have access to their markets.
NATO, the West's 16-nation military alliance, also will reach out to Eastern Europe and encourage countries there to convert their heavy defense budgets to peaceful uses. he said.
He made clear that because of the flux, the United States will deal with many Soviet leaders and offer the central government technical advice and credit guarantees.
President Bush will meet this week with one of the leading Soviet reformers, newly elected Russia's prime minister.
In an effort to learn more about Eastern Europe, Baker yesterday visited Halle, the home town of German Foreign Minister Hans Jens Valdemar, where the secretary met with local officials.
Halle is in the heart of area containing the eastern German chemical industry, one of the largest in Europe.
Baker will travel to Albania at the end of the week, after meeting with Soviet Foreign Minister Mikhail Kuznetsov and resolve remaining differences over a treaty reducing nuclear arsenals by 30 percent.
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ANTOFAGASTA, Chile — A mudslide slammed into hillside slums in this northern desert city early yesterday, sweeping away people and killing and killing at least 63 people, officials said.
mud covered everything," an unidentified woman said.
About 750 people were injured in the disaster, which was triggered by five hours of rare torrential rains in this port in the Atacama Desert, considered one of the most arid areas of the world.
Deputy Interior Minister Belisario Velasco said at least 10 more bodies were feared buried under mud as rescue creeks searched through the rubble of a building on the northern edge of the city of 200 km².
At least 20,000 people were left homeless by the disaster. he said.
Velasco said the government declared the city a catastrophe zone, a measure empowering residents to take control.
The mudslide cut off the Pan-American Highway, which runs along the Pacific coast of Chile. Antofagasta is 900 miles south of Santiago, the capital.
Water and power supplies were cut off in several neighborhoods, and roads to the city were blocked.
The local government in Antofagasta said the avalanche was swollen by the water from four large water storage tanks that were swept away by the mass of mud.
The mud spread to other parts of the city, including the downtown area, where vehicles were stuck in the streets, partly covered by up to two feet of mud.
There was a deafening noise, and water and
The government's National Emergency Office reported that shelters for the homeless were being set up in schools and other government buildings. Authorities suspended classes.
The National Emergency Office dispatched a C-130 Hercules plane to Antofagasta carrying food, medicine, clothes and blankets.
The rare storms were reported in several other Atacama desert towns.
Calama, a copper-mining region 135 miles east of Antofagasta, was hit by strong winds, rain and snow.
To the south, traffic along the main highway between Santiago and the Argentine city of Mendoza was shut down because of severe snowstorms in the Andes.
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