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Drillers nearing nuclear blast cavern
GRAND VALLEY, Colo. (UPI)
—Drillers at the Project Rulison nuclear test site ran into mud 8,278 feet below the earth's surface Sunday, a "hopeful sign" they were nearing an underground cavern carved by a 40 kiloton nuclear blast last fall.
"We may be close to a break through," said Dean Thornbrough,
director of the Atomic Energy Commission's Peaceful Nuclear explosives office in Las Vegas, Nev. "It's certainly a hopeful sign."
Thornbrough said there has been no detection of gas or radiation at the surface of the drilling site on Colorado's western slope, however.
Drilling operations came to a halt when a plug designed to stop mud leads failed. The plug was removed and Wilbert Veronie, drilling foreman, said operations would resume again today.
The 75 men involved in the three month old drilling operation had expected to reach the underground cavern more than two
weeks ago, but have run into problems. Officials have agreed the cavern carved by the blast was smaller than expected, forcing them to drill deeper. Small chunks of the drill also broke off underground last week and had to be removed.
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Israel accepts U.S. proposal
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At Grand Junction, Greeley Mayor Richard A. Perchlik, who is seeking the Democratic nomination to congress from Colorado's Fourth congressional district, warned that the Energy Commission, "unchecked by congress," could produce "a wasteland of desolation."
By United Press International Israel was reported willing today to accept the U.S. plan for Middle East settlement talks provided there is a guarantee that Egypt will not use the plan's three-month cease fire to build up its Suez Canal line.
Jordan joined Egypt in accepting the American proposal Sunday as a split took shape in the Arab world. Syria, Iraq and the Arab guerrillas denounced the plan and vowed to keep fighting,
posing a danger to any agreement reached in negotiations.
Israeli political sources in Tel Aviv said Israel's answer to the U.S. plan would be basically affirmative, its tone and wording to be hammered out later this week. The final answer they said probably will be delayed until next week.
Indications emerged that Mrs. Meir was meeting substantial opposition to the plan within the cabinet. After a five hour meeting Sunday, the cabinet scheduled a special session for Tuesday. Mrs. Meir canceled a speech scheduled for today until Wednesday.
The U.S. plan calls for a temporary cease fire and indirect negotiations through U.N. Mediator Gunnar V. Jarring on the basis of the November 1967 Security Council resolution calling in part for Israeli withdrawal from captured Arab land.
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While drilling continued, there were more protests in both Denver and Grand Junction over the weekend to urge an end to nuclear experimental testing in the Rockies.
President considers Pentagon reshuffle
About 15 students and housewives gathered at the Colorado Statehouse steps in Denver to urge the Project Rulison experiment be stopped. They identified themselves as members of
SAN CLEMENTE, Calif. (UPI)—President Nixon has summoned Defense Secretary Melvin R. Laird and deputy Secretary David Packard to meet with him today to consider reorganizing the Pentagon, now under fire for heavy cost overruns.
Nixon and his advisers will have before them a far reaching report by a blue ribbon panel on
Dr. Henry A. Kissinger, national security affairs adviser, also will sit in on the meetings during a busy day for the president.
The conference is one of a string of high level meetings at the Western White House designed to reshape the massive Defense Department and to set priorities for the 1972 federal budget.
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He took pains to emphasize his demand that Palestinian refugees be allowed to return to their homes now in Israel under any settlement—an apparent move to mollify Syrian, Iraqi and Arab guerrilla opposition to the U.S. plan.
Included among the advisers at the session on economic trends were George Schultz, director of the Office of Management and Budget, Caspar Weinberger, Schultz' deputy, Paul W. McCracken, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, John D. Ehrlichman, executive director of the domestic council, and Kissinger
The President also, was expected to discuss strategy for obtaining Senate approval of the $19.5 billion defense procurement bill and the next stage of the anti-ballistic missile system.
Defense Department reorganization headed by Gilbert W. Fitzhugh, chairman of the board of Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. The year long study will be made public Tuesday in Washington.
Setting the stage for defense budget talks Tuesday and a domestic budget renew Wednesday, Nixon scheduled a meeting on the national economy.
Jordan's decision to join Egypt in accepting the proposal, announced in a message from King Hussein, came after several days of cabinet meetings in Amman. Husein, too, was reported to have encountered stiff opposition to the plan.
"The Jordanian government has adopted a position in complete harmony with the wise stance taken by the United Arab Republic."
"We accept what you accept and reject what you reject," Hussein messaged President Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt.
Nasser told the Arab Socialist Union meeting Sunday "We want peace but peace is distant. We don't want war but it is all around us. We shall pass through all risks, no matter what they are, to achieve right and justice."
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