University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, April 20, 1988
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OSHA told to falsify reports federal safety inspectors say
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Federal safety inspectors told a Senate committee yesterday that they were instructed last September to "generate numbers" through sham inspections emphasizing quantity over improving the quality of the nation's workplaces.
"Because the office was short on numbers for the year, they wanted compliance officers to generate double the number of OSHA 1 (inspection) reports," John Barry, an industrial hygienist in the agency's Philadelphia regional office, testified yesterday.
Barry and other field inspectors stationed in Texas described in the second day of hearings by the Senate Labor Committee how the Occupational Safety and Health Administration boosted its inspection totals last year by more than 2,000.
... has been supervised and carried out by the highest levels of this administration."
The committee, chaired by Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., has been preparing the hearings for more than a year. None of the seven Republicans on the panel has attended the first two days.
first two days.
Before the first witness was called
Monday, Kennedy vowed to "show
that the decision to let workers die
administrator Assistant Labor Secretary Michael Baroody and OSHA Administrator John Pendergrass are scheduled to testify before the panel on Wednesday.
"I'm sure we'll be able to set the record straight then," said Terry Mikelson, an OSHA spokesman.
NBC takes first in ratings race again
settled soon, ABC and CBS might not have new shows ready for air in September and could be forced to continue summer reruns, which could speed a continuing defection of viewers to cable and other alternatives.
Nielsen ratings showed the three-network average down 9 percent from last year.
Search for chopper continues
NEW YORK — NBC won the battles war for the third television season in a row yesterday and is already looking toward another victory next season when its Summer Olympics coverage could give it a jump on the competition if the writers' strike continues.
MANAMA, Bahrain — A French warship found three mines and Iranian speedboats raided two tankers yesterday, the day after battles in the southern Persian Gulf in which Iran fired missiles from shore at U.S. Navy vessels.
If the six-week-old strike isn't
The Associated Press
The Associated Press
said five Iranian missiles were fired from shore Monday at a three-ship "surface action group." They were the first such attacks reported on U.S. warships.
After the confrontation Monday, the Pentagon reported no confirmed U.S. casualties, but a search was being conducted for an missing AH1 helicopter with two crewmen aboard. Iran claimed to have shot it down.
The three Navy ships took evasive action and fired chaff into the air, which confused the missiles' guidance systems and caused them to
A marine executive said the gulf appeared "ghostly" from lack of shipping. He and others said commercial vessels were avoiding the waterway, where Iran and Iraq have been at war since September 1980
and the U.S. Navy sank or damaged six Iranian vessels Monday.
President Reagan said things were quieter in the gulf yesterday and "we hope it continues that way."
They also said the United States had suspended escorts of Kuwaiti oil tankers temporarily, but Defense Department spokesman Dan Howard denied it. The United States gave U.S. flags and registration to 11 Kuwaiti tankers last year.
destroyed two Iranian oil platforms Monday.
Iran claimed its speedbats in the southern Gulf sank an "American naval logistical ship," killing its crew, an hour after Navy ships
The official Islamic Republic News Agency headlined the dispatch "Yankees Go Down To Watery Grave As Revolutionary Guards Sink U.S. Ship," but it contained no details.
sip,
At the Defense Department in
Washington, Howard said of the
claim: "No report has reached us
from our forces in the gulf of any
hostile acts (against them) today."
At the United Nations in New York, tran lodged a formal complaint yesterday about attacks by the "warmonger" United States.
news Roundup
HAMADI CONVICTED: A court in Dusseldorf, West Germany, convicted Abbas Hamadi yesterday of abducting two West Germans in January 1987 as ransom for his brother, Mohammed, who is accused of hijacking a TWA jetliner. Abbas Hamadi, 29, was sentenced to 13 years in prison.
to Lebanon yesterday, including six involved in a stoning attack on teen-age Israeli hikers April 6 in a West Bank village, the army said.
TORNADO SWEEPES FLORIDA: A pre-dawn tornado exploded through Madison, Fla., a rural north Florida community, early yesterday morning, killing four people, destroying homes, throwing people from their beds and leaving much of the North Florida Junior College campus in ruins.
PALESTINIANS DEPORTED: Israel deported eight more Palestinians from the occupied lands
WARSAW VICTIMS REMEMBERED: Poles and Jews remembered the men and women who fought Nazi Germany and died in the Warsaw ghetto. Anti-Israeli Arab students marched to the main monument of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, and a PLO delegation laid a wreath. Forty-five years ago yesterday, heavily armed squadrons of Nazi troops entered the walled Jewish marter of Warsaw.
BOMBING WITNESS DIES: Harvey Comstock, 44, the only known witness to a Monday morning bomb explosion in Kansas City, Kan., died yesterday of injuries sustained in the blast. His
couisin, 11-year-old Linda Green, also was killed. KENNEDY FILES OPENED: The Los Angeles Police opened its files on the assassination of Robert Kennedy to the public. More than 2,400 photographs from the assassination had been unaccountably destroyed nearly 20 years ago along with ceiling tiles and door jambs from the murder scene. There was no explanation in the 50,000 pages of documents in the file of why the evidence was destroyed or its significance.
PHONE PORN BANNED: The House yesterday approved a nationwide ban on "dial-a-porn" telephone pornography services despite arguments that the bill was unconstitutional. The legislation, identical to an amendment approved earlier in the Senate by a vote of 98-0, was passed by the House 379-22.
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