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Friday, April 13, 1979
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Wichita Falls named disaster
WICHITA FALLS, Texas-President Carlo Wichita Falls a disaster area yesterday and city officials continued to clean up after Tuesday
A dusk-to-dawn curfew and freezes have been instituted in the city. Rescue workers recover the body of the 44th victim in Wichita Falls and Norman, Oklahoma.
City and state officials have asked for donations of mobile homes, campers and tents to provide shelter for thousands of people left homeless.
To aid rescue workers, a satellite over Christina Island along the equator is being used to relay conversations of workers, instead of using telephones.
While recovery work was continuing in Texas, new tornadoes yesterday damaged several homes at Steens, Miss., and the National Weather Service office near Rockville.
The storm that caused the tornadoes yesterday caused flooding which was blamed for three deaths near Louisville, Miss. two in Missouri and one in Ohio.
Floods kill 3 after downpour
KANAS CITY, Mo.—Three persons were killed in floods after a storm Wednesday night that dumped several inches of rain and caused 10 tornadoes in
Destruction by the storm resulted in millions of dollars of damage and Gov. Joseph Teastadla said emergency aid was available to any of the Mounts town
Tornadoes were reported in or near the town of Liberty, Bakersfield, Independence, Springville, Chaffee, Needyville, Crystal City, Fort Osage.
Liberty was hit worse than any area in the state. Ten people were hospitalized after two tornadoes hit the city. Because of the quick-developing storm, residents of Liberty, north of Kansas City, were given only a few minutes to take cover.
Study indicates dam could fail
KANNS CITY, Mo.—An Army Corps of Engineers expert said yesterday that heavy rains could result in the failure of the Old Winwood Lake Dam on
City, state and federal officials inspected the dam yesterday to determine whether emergency steps should be taken to protect residences and businesses
During Kansas City's floods in September 1977, some of the area downstream from the dam was evacuated when an eight-foot hole opened near the top of the dam.
The dam was inspected for the first time Monday by an engineering team that said the dam was not safe.
The dam inspection was part of the National Dam Inspection Program ordered by President Carter more than one year ago after several dam failures in
Atomic workers aet auidelines
WASHINGTON - The Nuclear Regulatory Commission told operators of 34 atomic power plants yesterday to watch for the kinds of mistakes and break-ins that occur at them.
The NRC said, for the first time, that all 43 pressurized water reactors in the United States might be vulnerable to the same kinds of mishaps that damaged them.
The NRC told operators not to override automatic safety features before they fully understood the problem with the unit.
The commission had learned that operators at Three Mile Island manually turned off an emergency cooling system when no other cooling system was
The operators were told to be alert to the previously discounted possibility that a gas bubble could form and could hamper the circulation of cooling water. They also were told to figure out in advance what steps could be taken if a gas bubble developed.
S. Africa says U.S. spuing
CAPETOWN, South Africa—The South African government announced yesterday that it had uncovered an American spy ring inside the country and that several American diplomats were being ordered to leave within the next week.
Foreign Minister "Pik" Botha said the spy ring was a reprehensible action of the United States. The United States has diplomatic relations with South Africa. There were no further details available from the South African government yesterday.
Florida courts allow cameras
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — The Florida Supreme Court yesterday opened the state's courts to cameras and recording equipment permanently.
The Florida ruling gave photographers and electronic media the broadest access to local proceedings of any state in the union.
a unanimous ruling, the court said that cameras would be allowed in all Florida courtrooms, unless the presiding judge found that the cameras and camera lenses were not used.
In a related development, the Ohio Supreme Court ruled yesterday that broadcasting and cameras would be allowed in courtrooms for one year on a
Ruling on airline drinks upheld
TOPEKA-Kansas Attorney General Robert Stephan will uphold former Attorney General Vern Miller's ruling that ketamine cannot be used on air travel.
The network said the ruling probably would not be issued until after the state legislature completed its session later this month.
The sale of drinks in airplanes over Kansas has been prohibited as a violation of the state's constitutional prohibition against open saloons.
Air strikes used in Nicaragua
Witnesses said the heavily-armed guerrillas of the Sandinista National Liberation Front were holding out behind stone barricades and in deep trenches.
MANAGUA, Nicaragua—National guard troops used air strikes and armored vehicles yesterday to try to remove Sandia guerrillas from positions in the mountains.
The national guard, which is President Anastasio Somóza's 10,000-military and police force, launched the attack against the guerrillas, who seized
The Sandinistas' last major uprising was last September, when four weeks of fighting left about 1,500 people dead.
Dioxin contaminates workers
However, Joseph Seifter, a health expert with the Environmental Protection Agency, said he did not think the levels of dioxin were significant.
STURGEON, Mo. — Traces of the toxic chemical dioxin have been found in the blood of two workers who helped clean up chemicals spilled in a train station.
The EFA has known of the test results for three weeks, but Mike Sanford, the County health director, said he was not aware of the findings until he was told by it.
One of the workers said he was not informed about the results and other state and local officials said they had not known.
Walter Kidwell, one of the exposed workers, was exposed to dioxin when he fell on the chemically-contaminated ground at the spill site Jan. 11.
It will be mostly sunny today with a high in the mid 50s, according to the National Weather Service. Winds will be westerly, for a 15 mph. The low tonight will be near 40. It will be clear to partly cloudy tomorrow with a high in the mid 60s.
KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) - A freeway of looting sweep Kampala yesterday and thousands of joyous Ugandans rallied in a city sounce to cheer the fall of Idi Amin.
Frenzied looting sweeps Kampala
But the defended dictator, broadcasting from somewhere in eastern India, intends to take over the airwaves.
"We have got our soldiers controlling the country," Amin declared.
His troops were reported streaming toward the Kenyan border in a chaotic rout, however, fleeing the Tanzanian forces and the rebels who captured Kampala late Tuesday.
Residents of town cost the capital said the ragged soldiers were loading and unloading their equipment.
a gunfight at a Jinja bus station reportedly left 15 soldiers dead.
"ALL UGANDANS who love their motherland must from now on help find Idi Amin wherever he is. He deserves the awards in command of Kampala radio declared.
It accused Amin, whose eight-year rule was marked by vain boasting, of being "afraid to say where he is," and it gave his son a legal right "or they will be dealt with accordingly."
The Ugandan strongman was believed to be transmitting his broadcasts through equipment at Soroti, 200 miles northeast of Kampala.
Much of Uganda, including all of Amin's
IN THE capital, residents said Tanzanian troops joined Kampalaams in plumding that shifted from already stripped shops to residential areas and government offices.
home territory in the north, was still beyond Tanzanian lines. The invaders did not mount an immediate military operation to hunt down Amin and any remaining loyal
An estimated 10,000 Kampalams—toting looted paperwork their writers on, sitting in stolen office chairs and holding baskets of newspapers to prevent theft—are Uganda Parliament for five hours of denunciation of Amir and praise for Tariq Abdulrazak, the government announced Wednesday.
30 Ugandan soldiers and no Tanzanians were killed in the final assault on Kampala
Tanzanian forces were reported to have freed at least some prisoners from Kampala jails. They claimed to have let 3,000 people out of one prison.
THE TANZANIANS estimated that about
International human rights groups say tens of thousands of Ugandans were killed during the conflict.
Judge upholds EPA ban
BAY CITY, Mich. (UP1) - A U.S. District Court judge yesterday uphold an emergency order banning the use of agricultural chemicals that may be linked to high rates of miscarriages and cancer.
Judge James Harvey rejected arguments by Dow Chemical Co., the primary manufacturer of the herbicides 2,4,5-T and Silvex, that the ban was "arbitrary and capricious and an example of government at its worst."
Dow officials were not available for comment on a possible appeal of the ruling. Dow and 20 other companies seeking to overturn
In issuing its emergency order March 1, the Environmental Protection Agency cited a study that showed probable links between the spraying of 2,4,5-T and miscarriages among women living in the Alsae Basin area of Oregon.
There have been 17 children born with birth defects since 1975 in Rolla, a small town in southwest Kansas. However, the health officials later said they found no link between the chemicals and the birth defects.
Last month, Kansas health officials investigated the number of birth defects in Rolla and the use of 4.5-5 T in that area.
The herbicide 2,4,5-T has been used on forest land, railroad and utility company rights-of-way and pastures, and Silvex is a common ingredient of "weed-and-feed" lawn and golf course preparations. The chemicals are considered hazardous because they contain dioxin, a toxic but virtually unavoidable byproduct of their manufacture.
Researchers consider dioxin to be deadly, and have linked it to cancer and other medical problems.
Dow officials say that potential dioxin contamination from the proper use of the herbicides is "toxicologically insignificant."
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"In the 30-year use history, there is no documented case of human injury resulting from 2,45-T or Silvex," said Gary G. Jones, public affairs manager for Dow's agricultural products department.
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EPA Deputy Administrator Barbara Blum said the ruling meant Americans would "not be exposed to spring to what we consider the potential dangers."
The EPA had invoked a rarely used emergency power to immediately ban both herbicides, citing an "alarming correlation" between their use and cancer risk.
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