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The Putnam County Banner Graphic, January 24,1980

Reaction to revival of draft registration mixed

WASHINGTON Congress appears ready to back President Carter’s tough new doc-trine aimed at containing the Soviet thrust toward the oil lifelines of the Middle East But reaction to reviving peacetime draft registration is decidedly mixed. Carter used the annual State of the Union address to reverse much of the foreign and military policy established in the first three years of his administration He drew support from many Republicans as well as from leaders of his own party. But some long-time advocates of bolstering the nation's military defenses were openly skeptical about the president's determination to fully develop his new approach. Many Republicans claimed Carter is exploiting the foreign policy challenge posed by the Soviet intervention in Afghanistan to quell criticism of what they said are the overall failures of his administration The president’s speech Wednesday night before a joint session of Congress was interrupted repeatedly by applause. The loudest and most sustained ovation came when Carter said neither he nor the American people will support sending an Olympic team to Moscow while Soviet occupation troops remain in Afghanistan. The president also confirmed that the Soviet action in Afghanistan has caused

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him to shift his strategy in the continuing effort to persuade Iran to release 50 American hostages held in Tehran since Nov. 4 He said the United States now will attempt to persuade Iranian leaders “that the real danger to their nation lies to the north from Soviet troops in Afghanistan and that the unwarranted Iranian quarrel with us hampers their response to this far greater danger.” The core of what amounts to a Carter Doctrine on the Middle East was delivered in these words: “Let our position be absolutely clear. An attempt by any outside force to gain control of the Persian Gulf region will be regarded as an assault on the vital interests of the United States of America. And such an assault will be repelled by any means necessary, including military force.” Sen Richard Stone, D-Fla., chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations sub committee on the Middle East, said Carter outlined “a clear containment doctrine and if it means what it implies, it is the strongest statement that any president in recent years has ever made.” Sen. Sam Nunn, D-Ga., a vocal and influential advocate of strengthened U S military defenses, said the president clearly drew the lines and defined the sphere of

Meltdown narrowly avoided

WASHINGTON (AP) - Last year’s accident at the Three Mile Island nuclear powerplant came within “30 to 60 minutes” of a meltdown that would have required evacuation of thousands of people in the area, a special investigating team reported Thursday. The Special Inquiry Group, headed by private attorney Mitchell Rogovin, recommended to the government that future nuclear powerplants be located 10 miles or more away from population centers. It said some

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vital American security interests in the Persian Gulf region. But Sen. Ted Stevens, R-Alaska, the acting Senate Republican leader, sawdangers lurking beneath the surface of the president’s words. Stevens said the president had, perhaps unwisely, committed the United States to defend “every inch of the Persian Gulf.” “If the Carter Doctrine had been in effect before Afghanistan, we’d be at war with the Soviet Union now,” Stevens said “We’re attempting to speak strongly while carrying a short stick.” The sharpest divisions in initial reactions to the speech came over the president’s proposal that the Selective Service System be revitalized and that peacetime draft registration be revived. Sen. John Stennis, D-Miss., chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, said the step is essential and will properly lead to renewal of the draft itself. Nunn, a member of the Stennis committee, said reviving registration will enhance national security, permit the nation to mobilize rapidly in case of emergency and “demonstrate a degree of will that has been lacking in this country since the Vietnam war.” He said the allvolunteer Army is not working.

existing plants too close to cities might have to be shut down. But the group left it up to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to figure out how local circumsances should influence those decisions. The Rogovin report noted improvements already made by the NRC and the nuclear industry and said “an accident identical to that at Three Mile Island is not going to happen again.” But it warned that unless

Metabolic disorder keeps teen-ager eating all the time

JACKSON, N.J. (AP) Eighteen-year-old Amy Brown eats a dozen eggs for breakfast and two steaks for lunch to keep her weight up to 90 pounds. And doctors say there is little she can do about her metabolic disorder except keep eating. The teen-ager suffers from malabsorption, an unusual syndrome that requires her to eat almost hourly to replace lost potassium in her body. Her food bills take $l7O a week out of her father’s $13,000 annual salary. Her mother, Lois Brown, 48, says only help from friends and civic groups keeps the family afloat. “Aside from the food bills, we have to pay gas and electric. We have two refrigerators downstairs for Amy,” she said in a recent interview. “We don’t like accepting charity, but we never know what tomorrow may bring.” Doctors say malabsorption, which usually afflicts younger children, can strike a range of

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more fundamental changes are made, “similar accidents perhaps with the potentially serious consequences to public health and safety that were only narrowly averted at Three Mile Island are likely to recur.” The group rejected the idea of a moratorium on operating reactors or the licensing of reactors already under construction, but it urged that the NRC not process future construction applications until licensing reforms are considered.

fats or vitamins needed to keep the body’s system in balance. A faulty valve in Miss Brown’s kidney is releasing almost all the potassium in her system, and the doctors say there is little Miss Brown can do except take potassium supplements and eat. Miss Brown is weak unless she eats constantly. She has difficulty lifting herself out of a bathtub “I’ve been in and out of all the hospitals,” said Miss Brown, who cannot work and is tutored at home. Meanwhile, her meals equal those of four adults. For breakfast, she consumes a dozen eggs, fried potatoes and often a whole can of Spam. Lunch is the equivalent of two steaks, two vegetables, potatoes and at least two glasses of soda. It is not the life she had as an energetic 13-year-old. “I was healthy then,” she said. “I did everything playing tennis, wrestling, beating up the boys. I was a tomboy.”

Khomeini hospitalized in satisfactory condition

By The Associated Press Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini was reported in a Tehran hospital today with heart trouble, but his doctors said he was in satisfactory condition and would give a radio-television interview “in the very near future.” All revolutionary committees throughout Iran were placed on alert to guard against trouble during the presidential election Friday. Khomeini, Iran’s 79-year-old revolutionary leader and Shiite Moslem patriarch, had been reported suffering from fatigue and went into seclusion Jan. 12 for two weeks at his home in

Site of Winter Olympics anything but placid as event approaches

LAKE PLACID, N Y. (AP) The first irony is the name. This place is anything but placid. Preparing for the XIII Olympic Winter Games, which will open Feb. 13 and run for 12 days, has put an understandable strain on Placidians, as the natives call themselves. They like to think of their town of 2,800 as a quiet little mountain village, and so, in normal times, it is. A few weeks ago, though, amid all the Olympic hustle and bustle, the town experienced its first stickup in 25 years. You can’t remain placid about'things like that. Lake Placid tenants aren’t placid. A number of them, without leases, have been told to take a vacation, or at least a walk, during February so their rooms can be rented for, say, $2,000 That has made local employers far from placid. Employers have to‘find rooms for the evictees so they will have enough help when the expected 50,000 visitors a day arrive One restaurant owner has made arrangements for a valued waitress to bunk in the basement. She is not placid. Landlords, alas, aren’t placid either because fewer reservations than expected are being made. Nobody hereabouts, it seems, is placid about the visiting press, which has been the messenger for some of this unplacid news. In the window of a popular restaurant, Chair Six, a sign says: “New York Times and Daily News not welcome here, especially Fatßreslin.”

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Qom, the Shiite holy city 100 miles south of Tehran An announcement from his headquarters, broadcast today by Tehran Radio, said: “Owing to some slight heart trouble suffered by the Imam, his doctors have decided that he should be confined to bed in a Tehran cardiology hospital. Consequently, at 1930 hours on Wednesday, the Imam left Qom for Tehran.” An announcement from the ruling Revolutionary Council said Khomeini entered the hospital at 1 a.m. today for “more rest, more careful examination and complete attention.” “His condition is satisfactory and there is no cause for worry,” the council said.

The government radio said the revolutionary committees were alerted because of reports that “mercenaries trained in Iraq have arrived in Iran to make trouble” during the election this weekend. Most of Iran’s ethnic minorities have an nounced they would boycott the elections to show their opposition to Khomeini because of his refusal to grant them autonomous home rule. The militants holding some 50 Americans hostage at the American Embassy since Nov. 4 blamed Khomeini’s illness on pressure resulting from the disunity among Iranians and called on their countrymen to pray for his health.

The latter, a New York columnist, was further greeted by a local newspaper, the Lake Placid Reporter, in a not very placid banner headline: “Down With Jimmy Breslin!” and an even less placid editorial. It suggested his image be used as a dart board. American Broadcasting Co. technicians aren't placid ABC will televise the Olympics and is spending big bucks getting ready. One of its problems, in this northern wilderness, is with bears and porcupines'placidly chewing cables strung along the hillsides. Nobody, most assuredly the Chamber of Commerce, is placid about the weather. The weather has been lacking in its usual quantities of snow Last week, the Chamber fired its director who had been overheard saying that snowless landscapes might inconvenience cross-country skiers. The official line is that they certainly will not. The National Guard is not placid. The National Guard will provide ambulances for the Olympics. The other night they parked two of them outside the Olympic Arena during a preOlympics hockey tournament The state cops had the ambulances towed away. They wereparked, someone explained, in spaces reserved for emergencyvehicles ail a big mistake. Finally, people looking for Lake Placid aren’t placid The lake: at Lake Placid is called Mirror Lake. The lake called Lake: Placid is somewhere else.

Kennedy aides asked to skip pay

WASHINGTON (AP) Some /f aides on Sen. Edward M. Kennedy’s presidential campaign are being asked to skip next week's paychecks to conserve batlly needed cash, according to one Kennedy campaign official. “There is a squeeze, obviously," the official, who asked not to be identified, said late Wednesday. “I think people who can afford to (skip a biweekly check) have been asked to do so." It was riot clear how many members of Kennedy’s campaign staff had been asked to forego pay. Tom Southwick, press secretary to the Massachusetts senator, could not be reached for comment Meanwhile, former President Gerald Ford, still insisting he won't run for the Republican

Soviet ambassador expelled WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) New Zealand's government announced the expulsion of Soviet Ambassador Vsevolod Sofinsky Thursday for paying Soviet government funds to a small pro-Moscow political tyPrime Minister Robert Muldoon said in a press statement that Sofinsky was declared persona non grata and ordered to leave the country immediately. Muldoon said the ambassador was personally involved in the transmission of money from the Soviet government to the Socialist Unity Party, which is led by prominent trade unionists. The prime minister told a news conference the expulsion order had no connection with the Soviet military intervention in Afghanistan. “There is no doubt the Socialist Unity Party has been financed by the Soviet government for some time," Muldoon said. He refused to reveal how; much money the ambassador was alleged to have piad the! party but said it was “substan-' tial.”

Throngs Of People from throughout the world will crowd the streets of the "quiet little mountain village" of Lake Placid, N.Y. when the town hosts the XII Winter Olympics, Feb. 13-24. While the games are still almost three weeks away, the "Placidians" are already finding pveir lives disrupted and anything but placid.

nomination, has criticized President Carter's foreign policy fof* the first time since the Iran and* Afghanistarvcrises began. > Carter's foreign policy “slides from crisis to crisis,> Ford told a Binghamton, NY** news conference But he still in - sists he won't seek the nomination, ' although he said he; would accept a draft Kennedy, seeking the Demo-; cratic presidential nomination* suffered an overwhelming do-; feat Monday at the hands of President Carter in the lows caucuses. "Every campaign that loses something comes up flat broke," one campaign worker said. The official said Kennedy ini tends to leave next week on a * cross-country fund-raising tripand hopes to raise $1 millions