Banner Graphic, Volume 16, Number 233, Greencastle, Putnam County, 10 May 1986 — Page 2

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The Putnam County Banner Graphic. May 10,1986

Despite warnings by authorities that livestock should be kept in stables due to contaminated grass via nuclear fallout, many European farmers are letting cows graze in the open. These animals were seen near Frankfurt, West Germany. Authorities still fear contamination of milk produced by cows grazing in meadows. (AP Wirephoto).

Europeans divided over food sales and Chernobyl pollution problems

♦. 1986 N.Y. Times News Service ROME The countries of Western Europe, deeply divided by conflicting political and economic concerns, are squabbling among themselves over their home-grown produce and whether it is sufficiently free of radiation from the Chernobyl nuclear disaster to be sold for export. The countries have adopted diverse strategies in coping with the radioactive fallout and its effect on their own agriculture. Some of the differences are explained by geography: Countries further away from the accident have been only mildly affected by radioactivity and so have taken fewer measures. But the more significant factors appear to be political and economic. Italy, for example, is furious over the guidelines set by the European Common Market on what are acceptable levels of radioactivity in fruits and vegetables. Italy, the continent’s largest producer of fruits and vegetables, says the radioactivity levels proposed by the European Community would discriminate against Italian agriculture. Italy says that looser standards were applied to milk from northern Europe. “It means that the West Germans can sell their milk, but we can’t sell our vegetables,” said an official of Italy’s Civil Protection Ministry. And this was, he added, despite the fact that West Germany was apparently affected by higher readings of radioactivity than Italy. Italy is not seeking to export produce that is potentially radioactive, which it says it plans to destroy. Instead, it is complaining that the standards would harm Italian agriculture far more than they would harm agriculture in other countries. On Friday, the European Community again postponed a decision to ban fresh food imports from Eastern Europe while diplomats tried to renegotiate the proper radioactivity levels for commerce inside the Common Market. In response, France imposed its own unilateral ban Friday night on food and fresh vegetables from Eastern Europe, similar to one already imposed by Italy, Spain, Austria and West Germany. The French move came hours after a panel of nuclear experts for the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development’s Nuclear Energy Agency concluded in Paris that the Soviet reactor accident had caused “no significant

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Ramirez: 'I love to watch people die'

c. 1986 N.Y. Times News Service LOS ANGELES tober, Richard Ramirez told a prison guard that he killed “about 20 people in California” and “I love to watch people die,” the guard has testified. The graphic statement, in which Ramirez describes himself as a “super criminal,” came to light two days after he was ordered to stand trial for killing 14 people in the Los Angeles area and for committing 36 other felonies, including rape, sodomy and robbery. Ramirez, 26 years old, is also accused in two other murders in California in what is called the “night stalker” case. Throughout Ramirez’s nine-week preliminary hearing in municipal court, a number of sessions were closed to the public. The last closed session involved the final witness called by the

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risk to public health” in any of the 24 member countries. The French Ministry of Agriculture’s communique, issued late Friday night, reversed France’s previous stance that such a ban was unnecessary and unduly alarming. Political commentators in France suggested the action had been prompted by pressure from ecological groups for stronger action and widespread criticism of France’s position in the conservative and leftist press. The strongest and earliest action was by Italy, which banned its own leafy produce and recommended restrictions on milk consumption by pregnant women and children under 10. In West Germany, some state governments have imposed much stricter standards than those suggested by the federal government. In Baden-Wurttemberg, for example, officials have ignored the national government’s calls for prudence and are encouraging their citizens not to allow children to play on the grass or in sandboxes. The state has closed public playgrounds and imposed its own ban on the sale of all leafy vegetables.

prosecution, Sheriff’s Deputy Jim Ellis, who was guarding Ramirez at the county jail Oct. 10. The jail statement came after Ramirez was given his constitutional warnings and had spent many hours with an attorney. Ellis characterized the statement as “voluntary,” and the prosecutor said it was “spontaneous” and that he expected it to withstand legal scrutiny. On Oct. 24, Ramirez formally pleaded not guilty to the charges. Ramirez was alone in his cell, said Ellis, and was angry because he disliked the dinner he was served. Ellis said Ramirez declared: “I killed about 20 people. I was a super criminal. No one could catch me.” Then, he said, he tripped up, leaving a fingerpint on his car, and, “They caught me.” Ellis said Ramirez identified one of his

25,550 acres charred in North Carolina forest fire

HAMPSTEAD, N.C. (AP) Up to 3,000 families were warned to flee, some for the second time in five days, from a two-mile-wide fire that continued its march along the coast today after charring 25,550 acres of forest, officials said. The fire, which has burned since Monday, has been blamed for at least one death and one injury, officials said. Weather forecasts held no hope of relief before Tuesday for crews fighting the fire, which Mary Ann George, Pender County dispatch supervisor, said was five miles northwest of Hampstead early today. The evacuation of families, most from the Hampstead area in southeastern North Carolina, was urged Friday night, but the blaze abruptly switched course and the evacuees some of whom had fled once before were allowed to return. “It wasn’t mandatory, so it’s hard to say how many stayed and how many did leave,” said Ms. George. She estimated that 3,000 families live in the affected areas. Sheriff’s cars with public address

Fourth NASA failure disclosed at hearing

WASHINGTON (AP) - The failure of a fourth type of U.S. space vehicle (his year has come to light, at the same time NASA has bowed to the wishes of a presidential panel that outside experts supervise the redesign of the booster rocket that destroyed the Challenger. The Associated Press learned Friday that a small NASA research rocket misfired April 25 over the U.S. Army Missile Range in White Sands, N.M. While not an accident of the magnitude of the Jan. 28 explosion that consumed the space shuttle Challenger, the small Nike Orion had a record of 120 straight successes, a scientist working with NASA said. It followed failures in the formerly reliable NASA Delta and Air Force Titan rockets. NASA’s acquiesence in the demand for outside experts came Friday as the presidential shuttle commission prepared to release the transcript of a closed May 2 session. At that hearing, National Aeronautics and Space Administration officials and engineers from booster rocket builder Moron-Thiokol testified. Sources familiar with the sometimes acrimonious session said the commission was dismayed to learn that the rocket redesign was already under way and demanded that the activity be halted, because the space agency seemed to be settling for a quick fix. These sources said the presidential panel also would demand a total redesign of a faulty joint in the booster rocket and

Soviet parents fear emissions

MOSCOW (AP) The Kremlin reported sharply decreased radioactive emissions from the Chernobyl atomic reactor, but trains arriving here from Kiev were packed today as uneasy parents brought their children farther away from the disaster site. In its latest statement on the atomic power plant accident, issued Friday, the Soviet government said work continued “to eliminate the consequences” of the April 26 non-nuclear explosion and fire at the plant 80 miles north of Kiev. “An intensive cooling of the reactor has been under was in order to lower the temperature of the active zone and has helped sharply to reduce the emission of radioactive substances,” said the statement, distributed by the official Tass news agency. Officials of the International Atomic Energy Agency on Friday said the accident at the four-reactor plant was by far the worst in the history of nuclear power, but said Soviet specialists were getting it under control. The officials from the Vienna-based

victims, Peter Pan, who was killed in San Francisco on Aug. 17. “I love to kill people,” Ramirez was quoted as saying. “I love watching people die,” Ellis said he did not tape the conversation and did not take notes. He said he kept eye contact with Ramirez in order to keep the discussion going because he realized the suspect was “incriminating himself.” Ramirez mentioned one other murder victim, said Ellis. She was Maxine Zazzara, 44, who was slain in March 1985. “One time I told this lady to give me all her money,’ Ellis quoted Ramirez as saying. “She said no. So I cut her and pulled her eyes out. I would do someone in and then take a camera and set the timer so I could sit them up next to me and take our picture together.”

systems blaring drove through the area Friday urging people to leave. In Hampstead, rescue squad vehicles and police cars with their lights flashing blocked roads to the evacuated areas to outsiders, but allowed residents to go to their homes. “It (the fire) is going where it jolly well pleases,” state Forest Resources Division spokesman Tom Hegele said Friday. “I have no idea on the size of this thing. It’s got a two-mile-wide head. “At one point this afternoon, we clocked the rate of spread at about 2 miles an hour.” “There are erratic winds so it’s really hard to tell what it’s going to do next,” said Rebecca Richards, also with the agency. The fire has already destroyed 25,550 acres of forest in coastal North Carolina and has been blamed for the death of one man, apparently of a heart attack while battling the blaze Monday, and injuries to another.

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that the work be supervised by a group of outside, independent scientific experts. “An independent group of senior experts will be formed to oversee the motor redesign,” NASA’s announcement said Friday. “This senior group ... will thoroughly review and integrate the findings and recommendations of the presidential commission.” With its space program under fire over the recent explosions of the much larger Titan and Delta rockets and the space shuttle, the government did not annoince the failure of a Nike Orion research rocket carrying a pollution-sampling device. In response to questions from The Associated Press, the malfunction was described by Debbie Bingham, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Army Missile Range in White Sands, N.M., and by Dr. Edward C. Zips, a geophysicist at the University of Pittsburgh, who conducted

U.N. agency said small amounts of radiation were still emanating from the plant despite a many-tonned “shield” of sand and other materials dumped by helicopters on the stricken reactor. The fire in the reactor’s graphite core, however, has been smothered, they said. The Soviets will “entomb” the reactor in concrete for a years-long cooling process, the atomic energy agency officials told a news conference in Moscow. Soviet officials have said two people were killed in the accident and 204 hospitalized, 18 in serious condition. However, East European journalists said on Friday that a Soviet official had told them a third person had died from radiation exposure However, U.S. bone marrow specialist Dr. Robert Gale told The Associated Press he had heard nothing about a person dying of radiation sickness. The doctor, who has been in Moscow for a week, said he was continuing to care for victims of the Chernobyl disaster. About 84,000 residents living within an 18-mile radius of the plant were

Bradley keys tax break, not fast break now

c. 1986 N.Y. Times News Service WASHINGTON - For five years, Sen. Bill Bradley of New Jersey has been trying to build support in Congress and across the country for dramatic changes in the tax code, including much lower rates and the elimination of most itemized deductions. With the approval of a bill by the Senate Finance Committee this week that incorporates such changes, Bradley achieved a long-sought personal triumph. Bradley, a Democrat, provided counsel and encouragement to the committee chairman, Bob Packwood of Oregon, a Republican, in steering the bill through a thicket of lobbyists for various interests and industries. Packwood later said he was converted and “came around full circle to think that Bradley was right” on the need for sweeping changes in the tax system. The bill approved unanimously by the Finance Committee on Wednesday would make the biggest changes in federal income tax law in 40 years, abolishing dozens of itemized deductions, slashing the top tax rate to 27 percent, from the current 50 percent, and substituting two tax brackets for the 14 that now exist. “More than any other individual, Bill has contributed to the progress that’s been made on tax reform in this country,” said Sen. George J. Mitchell, D-Maine, who also serves on the Finance Committee. “Five years ago, with considerable vision and foresight, he laid out his proposal, and he has advocated it since then with consistency and intellectual force.” Bradley describes the 1981 tax law as “the granddaddy of tax giveaways,” loaded with “a slew of high-priced sweeteners” for businesses

the experiment for NASA. “This was very rare. I think this particular series of rockets, the so-called Orion family, had flown 120 times and this was the first failure,” Zips said in a telephone interview. “This system of rockets has been flying for about six or seven years.” NASA has been using the surplus, solidfuel Nike booster in combination with another solid-fuel, military surplus rocket, the Orion. In the configuration that failed last month, the rocket and payload combination was 30 feet long. The rocket was supposed to deliver Zipf’s experiment to an altitude of 50 miles, but he said it got no higher than 6,000 to 7,000 feet. The rocket veered off erratically and deployed the parachute that brought the $40,000 payload back to Earth with only a few scratches but no data.

evacuated beginning 36 hours after the accident. About 250,000 children are also being let out of school early so they can leave Kiev. In the past four days, women with young children have poured off special trains coming to the capital from Kiev, the Soviet Union’s third-largest city with 2.4 million people. Moscow’s Kievsky railway station was thronged again this morning with arriving Ukrainians, many of them mothers and young children. One woman in her 50s who had just arrived said many Kievans were trying to leave with their children. Travelers reported no signs of alarm in the Ukrainian capital, located 450 miles southeast of Moscow, but many were visibly uneasy. Reuters correspondent Charles Bremner, who was the pool reporter for English-language news agencies in a group of foreign journalists taken to Kiev on a 24-hour trip arranged by the Foreign Ministry, said Kiev did not “have the feeling of a city in crisis.”

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BILL BRADLEY A personal victory

In an interview Thursday, Bradley traced his interest in taxation to his days as a highly paid professional basketball player, when he discovered that he was regarded as “a depreciable asset” by his team, the New York Knicks. In his book “The Fair Tax,” Bradley recalls that his tax attorney told him, when he started playing for the Knicks, that he had to decide how much he wanted to pay in taxes. Bradley, then 23 years old, was puzzled. The lawyer explained that Bradley could take his pay in cash, could defer all or part of it, could take part of it as a long-term consulting contract, or as life insurance, or as a pension, among other options. “The 20-to-0 vote on the Finance Committee represented the arrival of political maturity for tax reform.” Bradley said. “It meant that seasoned politicians believed that tax reform was a political winner. It showed that tax reform is a powerful political idea which, if persistently advocated, can overcome entrenched opposition. ”