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University Daily Kansan
Nation/World
Wednesday, June 4, 1986
News Briefs Chernobyl count hits 25; Soviet TV shows patients
MOSCOW — The death toll from the Chernobyl nuclear accident rose to 25 yesterday, and Soviet television went inside a Moscow hospital and interventional and balding patients suffering from radiation sickness.
The nightly television news program "Vremya" also said a decision had been made to return about 280 families evacuated from around the nuclear power station. A newspaper said they would live on boats anchored in the nearby Pripaty River once two of the plant's four reactors go back into service in October.
Television news showed the first footage of surviving victims of the nuclear accident — firemen who had lost their hair as a result of high doses of radiation they received fighting the fire that erupted at the reactor
Army-led efforts to clean up the nuclear accident area include entombing the damaged reactor in concrete to contain radiation from its smoldering core and providing safety measures to prepare for the October deadline for renewed service.
The explosion and fire at the plant, near the Ukrainian capital of Kiev, spewed a radioactive cloud that spread from the western Soviet Union to other European countries, the United States and parts of Asia.
Dispute arises over London fire
LONDON — One of London's most spectacular fires ever destroyed a giant warehouse belonging to news baron Rupert Murdoch yesterday and sparked a war between his company and fired print workers.
Bruce Matthews, managing director of Murdoch's News International parent company, blamed the damage, estimated at $9 million, on sabotage by printers who Murdoch fired four months ago.
Union leader Brenda Dean condemned the accusation as "absolutely disgraceful." Other unionists who have manned picket lines outside Murdoch's high-rise mall in central London have gested the company itself may have started the fire.
Police said only that they were treating the blaze as "suspicious" and that they were questioning witnesses claiming to have seen "something being thrown into the building" by two men who fled on foot.
Matthews announced a $75,000 reward for information leading to capture of the suspected arsonists and said he also received an anonymous threat by telephone yesterday.
He said the caller boasted that the warehouse fire was "very well organized" and said "that I would be the next to burn." Matthews he interpreted this as a threat to burn another print plant.
Murdock dismissed some 5,500 print workers in January in a dispute over their refusal to adopt new technology and accept staff cuts. In the months since, many of the employees have been with police and tried to block newspaper shipments.
Shuttle report nearing release
WASHINGTON — The Rogers Commission report, which traces the space shuttle Challenger disaster to a long history of NASA management decisions, will be presented to President Reagan Friday and released to the public Monday, commission sources said yesterday.
The commission has painted a sobering picture of a space agency struggling to maintain an overly ambitious launch schedule with limited resources, and is now waking up to the internal awareness of major booster rocket problems.
The Washington Post quoted one source as saying that the families of the seven astronauts killed in the Jan. 28 disaster probably would think the report didn't
The commission sources said the report's formal presentation to the president Friday would meet the deadline he set when he established the commission and former Secretary of State William Rogers to head it.
go far enough but that NASA was "going to scream bloody murder."
But the sources said the report would not be released to the public until Monday. Rogers is expected to hold a news conference Monday to discuss the report's findings.
NASA officials said the space agency already was examining ways to allow astronauts to escape from a damaged shuttle during flight, but experts say survival would be small in another booster rocket failure.
Bonner returns to exile in Gorky
MOSCOW — Yelena left Lemosk last night on the overnight train to the closed city of Gorky, saying she was very happy to be going back to her husband. Andrei Sakarov, who is living there in enforced exile.
Bonner, 63, told Western reporters at Moscow's Yaroslavsky railway station that she felt much better than before she went to the West six months ago for medical treatment.
She said earlier that she expected Sakharov, 1975 Nobel Peace Prize winner, to meet her at the station in Gorky, 250 miles east of Moscow, if the KGB granted him permission.
Sakharov, 65, was exiled to Gorky in January 1890,
and Bonner was confined to Gorky in August 1894 after
his release.
After speaking briefly with reporters at the train station, Bonner asked them to leave to permit her to say something.
"I don't want to think about this, or that, or about Gorbachev," she said of Soviet leader Mikhail S.
Bonner told old Western reporters earlier in her Moscow apartment that she hoped to return to the Soviet
capital by June 15 to collect baggage she sent as cargo from the West.
"I hope they will agree to let me," she said. "I want to see my husband and to rest a bit. If I'm not back here by the 15th then they haven't let me come. That's exact."
Bonner underwent heart surgery and visited relatives in the United States, then stopped in several West European countries on her way back to the Soviet Union.
No spy deal offered, Pelton says
Pelton said, however, that during an interrogation before his arrest last November, he thought the FBI was trying to cut a deal with him in return for details he allegedly gave the Russians about interception of Soviet communications by the National Security Agency.
BALTIMORE — Ronald W. Pelton, testifying for the second day at his espionage trial, acknowledged yesterday that FBI agents never told him they wanted him to work as a double agent against the Soviet KGB.
Pelton, who worked as an NSA technician for 14 years before he resigned in 1979, faces life imprisonment if convicted of charges that he sold secrets to the KGB intelligence service from 1980 to 1985.
Pelton was the only witness for the defense, which rested its case after he stepped down. Both sides are scheduled to present closing arguments *the* morning, and the case should go to the jury later today.
On the stand, Pelton acknowledged that he told FBI agents he had entered the Soviet Embassy on Jan. 15, 1980, that he had undergone extensive debriefings by Russian agents in Vienna, Austria, in 1980 and 1983 and that he collected $25,000 from the Soviets for the information.
Defense attorney Fred Warren Bennett is trying to convince the jury that the FBI tricked Pelton into the confession by interrogating him for more than five hours before advising him of his rights and arresting him, and also that the suspect was under the influence of alcohol and drugs for some of the questioning.
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