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Monday, April 20, 1987 / University Daily Kansan
One year after accident, effects of Chernobyl haunt Kremlin and Soviet people
The Associated Press
MOSCOW — One year after history's worst nuclear accident, thousands of Soviets face lifelong fear of cancer, and the Kremlin's new open image remains marred by the disaster it kept secret for three days.
The accident on April 26, 1986, at the Chernobyl nuclear power station has cost at least 31 Soviet lives, done untold damage to public health and caused billions of dollars in economic losses. It also has bolstered the anti-nuclear movement worldwide and has led to better international cooperation on atomic safety.
The human toll from Chernobyl's radiation, which spread around the world from its source in Ukraine, now France, will not be known for decades.
British radiologists said last month that in the next 50 years, the cancer-causing radiation would have a lower impact on cancer deaths in Western Europe.
Exact figures in the Soviet Union and elsewhere may never be known. There has been no similar accident to compare it to.
West Europeans were outraged that the Chernobyl disaster was not reported in time for them to take steps to block contamination of crops and livestock. The Kremlin's initial silence was cited as proof that Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev's program for increased official openness had limits.
Most of those living near Cher-
nobly were asleep at 1:23 a.m.
April 26 when unsanctioned experiments at the plant's No.4 reactor went out of control. Explosion and fire tore open the reactor.
Hundreds of firefighters and plant workers tried to quell the blaze, which reached a height of five stories and threatened to kill No. 3 reactor. The heaviest cassettes were among this group.
Soviet officials estimated the accident cost them more than $3 billion. Radioactive contamination left 600 square miles of farmland useless.
A reminder of the human cost stands today at the Mitinskoye Cemetery just outside Moscow, 450 miles northeast of Chernobyl. Twenty-six of the victims are buried side-by-side in a plot that will bear a Heroes of Chernobyl monument.
More than 200 other plant employees and firefighters were hospitalized with radiation sickness after the accident. The medical team monitoring them has not stated the victims' chances for
recovery
A Ukrainian nuclear engineer who emigrated after the accident said friends who worked in two Kiev hospitals said at least 15,000 Chernobyl victims died in those hospitals during five months. The emigrant's statement, made to a U.S. congressional group, was denounced as a "100 percent lie" by Soviet officials. American experts say they see no evidence to support such claims.
The accident forced the evacuation of 135,000 people from the northern Ukraine and southern Byelorussia, where a danger zone with an 18-mile radius was established.
But the convoy of buses that evacuated the first group was not summoned until 36 hours after the accident, and some medical specialists have speculated that the evacuees already had been exposed to harmful levels of radiation.
An American bone-marrow specialist, Robert Gale, worked with Soviet physicians for weeks trying to save the lives of the most seriously injured. By the end of last summer, most of the 35 people listed in critical condition after the accident had died.
Gale, who will help the Soviets with long-term monitoring of the survivors' health, predicts a slight increase in cancer risk for those who lived near Chernobyl, but he has been reluctant to project a death toll.
U.S. residents celebrate Easter with protests, prayers, parades
The Associated Press
With colorful hats and bunny ears,
solemn protests and joyous hymns,
U.S. residents celebrated Christianity's holiest day on Easter Sunday.
trespassing.
People in newly bought finery packed into churches to give thanks for Christ's return from the dead. Others, harking back to pagan symprias, prepaint and rebirth, hunted for decorated flowers and nibbled on chocolate rabbits.
While a human-sized Easter Bunny handed out bonnets of carrots and alfalfa sprouts to the two elephants at Chicago's Lincoln Park Zoo, four people were arrested at Ellsworth Air Force Base in South Dakota for
New Yorkers by the hundreds promenaded down Fifth Avenue in an annual display of tropical hues and pastels. In Los Angeles, thousands gathered in early morning darkness for celebrity scripture readings at the 67th Easter sunrise service at the Hollywood Bowl.
About 60 people had gathered for sunrise Easter services and to place lilies at the front gate of the base. The four arrested had crossed a white line at the entrance, said lt ST. Marta Linson, a base spokeswoman
"The Easter service) is a time for a mutual gathering of people across the state who are concerned about issues, including war in Central America, the farm crisis and the nuclear arms race." Diane Kobernus, the protest organizer, said last week.
In Kennebunkport, Maine, 200 people organized by Veterans for Peace gathered on the steps of a church for a prayer, then marched to Vice President George Bush's summer home two miles away.
Things were a bit different in Cape Canaveral, Fla. at the 23rd Easter Surfing Festival. The festivities included a bikini contest and stunts involving dynamite blasts.
At the Lincoln Park Zoo, a year-old orangutan named Bat Sats, aided by zookeeper Pat Sass, hid jelly beans and about six dozen hard-boiled eggs for residents of the chimpanzee habitat bat helped dye the eggs last week.
Soloists, choirs and a symphony performed sacred music in the Hollywood Bowel as dawn lighted the sky over the Hollywood Hills. Actress Jones sang, while Robert Stack and Rhonda Fleming gave readings.
The Easter Mass at San Felipe de Neri Church in Albuquerque, N.M., was broadcast live on CBS-TV, while the Divine Liturgy celebrated by Ukrainian Catholics at Philadelphia's Immaculate Conception Cathedral was broadcast to parts of the Soviet bloc via Voice of America.
President Reagan and his wife, Nancy, celebrated Easter at a church near their California ranch.
SENIOR COOKOUT!
Here's your chance (it may be your only chance) to order a FREE burger cooked by KU's deans - exclusively for the senior class.
You'll also want to tour inside of the Adams Alumni Center, check out the records system that will follow you the rest of your natural life and consider the many benefits of alumni membership at a discount for seniors.
The Adams Alumni Center's north terrace and parking lot will be cleared so that seniors can party with FREE burgers, FREE beverages, good tunes and good times — all served with gusto!
You must present your senior class ID card to prove that indeed, rank doth have its privileges. (If it rains, we'll move indoors.)
Wednesday, April 22, 5:30 to 8 p.m. Adams Alumni Center •1266 Oread Avenue
Cosponsored for the Class of 1987 by the KU Alumni Association and the Student Alumni Association
U.S. bridges in need of repair while facing federal budget cuts
Many a bridge is falling down, and thousands are badly in need of repair, just as the federal government is hardening its highway assistance to the states.
The Associated Press
The problem has worsened enough in some states that the legislature or the voters have boosted taxes. There are bridges so bad in Missouri that children get out of school buses and walk across.
"Not only can we not replace those bridges that need replacing but we don't have the funding to patch those bridges that need patching," said John Gallagher of the West Virginia Department of Highways.
Last year, the federal government authorized $2 billion for bridge repairs, but that will drop to $1.63 billion for each of the next five years.
"Every time we get one fixed, another one needs work," said Scott Picard of the Massachusetts Department of Public Works.
According to the Federal Highway Administration, 243,646, or 42.3 percent, of the nation's 575,607 bridges of four feet in length are in need of repair.
The bridge fell down despite a nationwide bridge inspection program enforced after the collapse of West Virginia's Silver Bridge in December 1967, which killed 46 people.
It's a continuous, nagging problem which gained renewed public attention with the collapse of a New York Thruway bridge over flooded Schoenbach six people died in the April 5 disaster, and four others are missing.
It fell down despite a program to rebuild the state's transportation system, backed by a $1.25 billion state bond issue approved in 1983, the same year three people died when the Mianus River bridge in Connecticut collapsed.
In the aftermath of the New York disaster, the state closed six shaky
- Maryland will raise fuel taxes by 5 cents a gallon and impose higher registration fees on July 1.
■ New Mexico is raising its gasoline tax from 11 cents to 14 cents a gallon, its diesel tax from 11 cents to 16 cents an increasing trip taxes by 50 percent.
Other states have swallowed the same medicine;
Montana's fuel taxes go up from 17 cents to 20 cents a gallon on July 1. State officials say they need to raise bridges a year, they are averaging 18.
Missouri has the worst problem in the country. Of the state's roughly 24,000 bridges, about 16,400, or 68.3 percent, are deficient. Some state highways have 100,000 bridges ought to be closed because they can support less than three tons.
- Kentucky raised fuel taxes from 10 cents to 15 cents a gallon last year.
- Virginia last year raised its sales tax from 4 percent to $4 per cent, and earmarked the increase for highways and bridges.
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A few days after the New York disaster, Missouri residents voted to boost their own fuel taxes from 7 cents to 11 cents per gallon, which will add $133 million a year to the highway fund.
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