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MOSCOW — A Sovlet-Bulgarlan space team landed
aataly in the steppes of Soviet Qentrai Asia Thursday night
after aborting an attempted linkup with an orbiting space
laboratory. Moscow radio reported
The broadcast said the Soyuz 33 space capsule, which
failed Wednesday night to dock with the orbiting Salyut 6
space laboratory, parachuted to a soft landing It reported
that despite darkness the craft was located quickly and said
Bulgarian Georgy Ivanov and Soviet commander Nikolai
Rukavishnikov were feeling fine
It was the first failure In four Intercosmos operations and
dampened Thursday's celebrations here of the 18th an
niversary of the first manned space — that of Russia's Uri
Gagarin,
PORTLAND - The CIA Is less than happy with an ac
count of spy activities m Uganda scheduled to be published
in Oregon Magazine by a former agent who once shared a
swimming pool with all-but-ousted President Idi Amin and
coached his basketball team
I was idi Amin s Basketball Czar/’ Is an account of spy
activities by Jay Mullen of Medford. Ore., who spied on
Uganda — and other nation's spies — for the agency in the
early 1970s
Editor Tom Bates said CIA Associate General Counsel
John Greany was flying to Portland from Washington Thurs
day night to negotiate deletion of certain material from the
story
T asked him to state what his objections were, but he
declined to do so." Bates said "He said he didn't consider
the telephone to be secure transmission "
Bates said Greany said something about protecting
identities of persons still in Uganda, but he figures the spy
agency's real objections might be over an account of "a
certain spy mission "
"I told him we would consider their objections on their
merits We suspect their real objections might be our rela
tions with another country." Bates said without suggesting
which country it might be
KAMPALA, Uganda — A frenzy ol looting swept Kam
pala Thursday and thousands of joyous Ugandans rallied in
a city square to cheer the tall of Idl Amin But the defeated
dictator, broadcasting from somewhere in eastern Uganda.
Insisted the country was still his
We have got our soldiers controlling the country,"
Amin declared His troops were reported streaming toward
the Kenyan border in a chaotic rout, however, fleeing the
Tanzanian forces and Uganda rebels who captured Kampala
late T uesday
Residents of towns east of the capital said the ragged
soldiers were looting, harassing local residents at gunpoint,
stealing cars and retreating beyond Jinja — the city 50 miles
east of here said to be Amin's new headquarters — to Mbale
and Rorcro near Kenya
A gunfight at a Jinja bus station reportedly left 15 sol
diers dead
"All Ugandans who love their motherland must from now
on help find Idl Amin wherever he is He deserves the
gallows." the victorious exiles in command of Kampala radio
declared Thursday
LUSAKA Zambia (AP) — Rhodesian commandos dropped
Into this Zambian capital before dawn Friday and destroyed
the headquarters, residence of Rhodesian guerrilla leader
Joshua Nkomo, a Zambian government spokesman said
The spokesman said there were casualties but gave no
other details
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Nuclear regulators issue
warning to 34 U.S. plants
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Nuclear
Regulatory Commission told operators of 34
atomic power plants Thursday to beware of the
kinds of mistakes and breakdowns that plunged
the Three Mile Island plant to the brink of
disaster
The NRC had already issued new orders —
shortly after the March 28 accident near Harris
burg, Pa — to the operators of the nine nuclear
plants designed by Three Mile Island's builder
Babcock and Wilcox The new directive went to
34 plants designed by Westinghouse Corp and
Combustion Engineering Corp
The NRC made clear for the first time that all
43 of the "pressurized water reactors" in the na
tion might be vulnerable to the same kinds of
mishaps that damaged the nuclear core of Three
Mile Island's Unit 2 and raised the danger of a
melt-down that could have released large
amounts of radioactivity
‘ Several aspects of the incident" apply to all
of these pressurized water reactors the commis
sion said
The NRC ordered the operators of the 34
plants to take steps to either avoid or learn how
to cope with the kind of problems that plagued
Three Mile Island
At the Three Mile Island installation, the
NRC found valves in an auxiliary water circulation
system were incorrectly left closed, preventing
the system from cooling the reactor after the main
circulation system failed
The new directive told plant operators to
study ‘ the extreme seriousness and con
sequences" of that kind of mistake and to adopt
procedures to make sure vital safety systems are
restored to operation after testing and
maintenance
The NRC also told operators not to override
automatic safety features before they understand
fully whatever problem may be confronting them
The commission had learned that operators
at Three Mile Island manually turned off an
emergency cooling system when no other
cooling system was working
The operators were told be be alert to the
previously discounted possibility that a gas bub
ble could form — one large enough to hamper the
circulation of cooling water And they were told to
figure out in advance what steps to take to cope
with such a situation
At Three Mile Island, the unexpected forma
tion of a hydrogen bubble complicated efforts to
completely and safely shut down the stricken
reactor
The NRC said plant operators should not
rely on a single type of instrument to tell the
condition of the cooling system but should check
one reading against another and turn on emer
gency cooling if pressure in the reactor gets too
low
Islamic executions alter focus
TEHRAN. Iran (AP) - Despite
Western protests. Iran's Islamic
tribunals continue to dispense
revolutionary justice in nightly
rounds of executions More and
more the victims — who at first
tended to be generals and
police chiefs — are diplomats,
mayors and other politicians
Perhaps only Ayatollah
Ruhollah Khomeini — architect
of the revolution — knows how
long the trials will go on or how
many people eventually will be
caught in the nets of Islamic
justice More than 5,000
members of the old regime are
believed to be m jail now
The provisional prime
minister appointed by Khomeini
— Mehdi Bazargan — said in an
interview Thursday he hoped
the revolutionary courts "will
stop within a year and . our
Justice Ministry will take over
this work "
Last month his denunciations
of summary revolutionary jus
tice as “irreligious, inhumane
and disgraceful" led to the sus
pension and a supposed review
of the system by Khomeini.
As other officials of his
government have done, Bazar
gan in the interview in effect
washed his hands of the bloody
purge, saying he supports the
executions but "that's the
business of the courts We
don't stick our noses in there ”
Although ordinary Iranians
still appear to approve of killing
off police and army men res
ponsible for the past murder and
torture under the shah, the
deaths this week of prominent
civilian officials gave some
people pause
Critics of the executions are
still reluctant to speak in public,
but increasing numbers of
Iranians talk of the need for
authorities to tend to other
problems — particularly
unemployment and unrest
among the nation's ethnic
minorities
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