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Associated Press reports
FCC delays
phone fees
WASriiNCTON — The Federal
Communications Commission on
Tuesday suspended a new $2-a
month fee on residential
telephones until at least April 3,
1984. The commission also
delayed a proposed 10.5 percent
cut in long-distance rates.
Jerald Fritz, the acting chief of
the FCC's tariff division, said the
commission took the step
because the agency could not
complete its review of the various
rate changes by Jan. 1, the effec
tive date of the breakup of
American Telephone & Telegraph
Co.
Fritz stressed the FCC's action,
taken on a unanimous vote,
would have no effect on the an
titrust settlement, which is being
overseen by a federal judge.
If the commission takes no fur
ther action, the new $2 residential
“access" charge — $6 for a
business — and the lower long
distance rates would automatical
ly take effect on April 3. But the
FCC reserved its right to order
changes or to postpone further
the effective dates.
Fritz said Tuesday, "In going
through the 43,000 pages of tariffs
and 160,000 pages of cost-support
material, we've found many con
troversial and substantial issues
which we are going to have to
resolve. This extension will pro
vide us adequate time for a review
by the commission as well as by
the public."
Reagan says
vow violated
WASHINGTON - Pres. Ronald
Reagan accused the Soviet Union
on Tuesday of beginning a new
campaign against human rights
activists and said Soviet opposi
tion to Jewish emigration and
dissidents "has sunk to a new low
of brutality and repression."
Reagan tied his written remarks
to the sentencing of Iosif Begun,
who he said has been trying to
emigrate to Israel for 13 years.
He said that Begun had been
sentenced to seven years in prison
and five years in internal exile.
Reagan pointed out that the
Soviet Union joined the United
States and 33 other nations in
renewing their commitment to
human rights during an interna
tional conference in Madrid last
month.
Now, he said, "The Soviet
Union has gone back on its word,
launching a new campaign of
repression against human rights
activists.
"Soviet persecution of religious
and political dissidents is not
new," Reagan said. "But Soviet
policy iowaid Jewish emigration
and dissident movements has
sunk to a new low of brutality and
repression.
"Anti-semitism has escalated
dramatically, as has harassment of
other human rights defenders,"
the president said.
Reagan said that a Lithuanian
priest, Sigitas Tamkevicius, "ac
tive on behalf of religious
freedom, is facing a similar fate as
Iosif Begun."
He added that he had received
reports that Oleg Radzinskiy, a
member of an unofficial Soviet
peace organization, had been
tried after being held nearly a
year.
Mill granted
waste permit
PORTLAND — Oregon's Depart
ment of Environmental Quality
would permit a Toledo pulp mill
to discharge 14 million gallons of
industrial waste water a day into
the Pacific Ocean under a new
plan.
DEQ officials have agreed to a
new five-year water pollution per
mit, allowing continued operation
of a Georgia-Pacific Corp. mill
about 6 miles east of the central
coastal town of Newport.
Department officials said the
new permit would be granted
unless the public raises major
issues by Nov. 4.
The permit would allow
Georgia-Pacific to dump waste
water with higher discharge limits
than those that apply now.
Georgia-Pacific would be able to
dump waste water containing up
to 38,150 pounds of suspended
solids a day provided the total
monthly discharge does not ex
ceed an average of 19,075 pounds
per day.
The wastes are piped from
Toledo to Newport in a buried
pipeline and contain pulp fibers
and chemical residue from the
pulp-making process.
Leo Baton, permit coordinator
in the DEQ's water quality divi
sion, said the wastes have not
been found to cause damage to
fish life or offshore water quality
because wastes are diluted.
However, Baton said the depart
ment had not gathered detailed
evidence to do fish or water quali
ty studies to determine the
discharge does not damage.
"As an agency, we are just not
prepared to go out in the ocean
and conduct detailed studies,"
Baton said.
Hot winters
on the way
WASHINGTON — The only way
to handle an inevitable buildup of
carbon dioxide in the atmosphere
is to learn to live with major
changes that will start showing up
in a decade and eventually disrupt
food production and melt polar
ice caps, government scientists
said Tuesday.
Scientists at the Environmental
Protection Agency pictured a
world in the next century in which
New York City could have a
climate like Daytona Beach, Fla.,
and today's Midwestern wheat
belt could shift significantly nor
thward into Canada.
"We are trying to get people to
realize that changes are coming
sooner than they expected," said
John Hoffman, EPA director of
strategic studies. "Major changes
will be here by the years 1990 to
2000 and we have to learn how to
live with them."
The EPA report concluded that
no matter what restrictions are
placed on the burning of fossil
fuels, the warming of the earth's
atmosphere is inevitable.
The "greenhouse" effect is the
name given to the buildup in the
atmosphere of carbon dioxide
gases, which act like the glass in a
greenhouse by allowing the sun's
rays to warm tne eartn ana tnen
trapping the heat.
While the greenhouse
phenomenon has been described
by scientists for years, the EPA
study is the most pessimistic yet
on the potential impact.
The study said there was a great
amount of uncertainty over how
fast the earth's temperature will
rise, but that best estimates
predicted an increase of 3.6
degrees in the average
temperature by the year 2040.
Even if the burning of all coal
was stopped in the next 20 years
— a highly unlikely possibility —
that 3.6-degree warming would be
put off only to 2055, the study
said, adding . that no strategy
would offer more than a few years
delay.
EPA Assistant Administrator
Joseph Cannon said the
greenhouse study should not be
viewed as a “doomsday" docu
ment, but rather as an alert that
more research is necessary to ac
curately predict changes that will
occur as the world warms up and
to mitigate adverse effects as
much as possible.