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National/International_ European countries attack Soviets about accident COPENHAGEN. Denmark (AP) — North and West European countries, confronted with drifting radioac tivity. on Wednesday sharply attacked Soviet secrecy aland the nuclear reactor accident in the t'kraine. "Soviet society is far too primitive to use such a sophisticated technique as nuclear power." wrote the daily Svenska Dagbladet newspaper in Stockholm. Sweden. Radiation in Sweden from the accident at (he Cher nobyl reactor was disclosed hours lief ore the Soviet Union admitted anything had gone wrong. Svenska Dagbladet said Soviet authorities "show ed a nonchalance bordering on the unbelievable" by failing to warn other countries. "What kind of people govern the Soviet Union?" asked the conservative newspaper Die Welt in .West Germany. “What happened in the Ukraine is not a tragedy It is a crime " West German Foreign Minister Hans-Diet rich r Trade deficit widens with imports surge WASHINGTON (APJ — The United Stall*' foreign trad*! defii it widened to $1T5 billion last month as chea|»er off prices worn overwhelmed hv a record-high level ol iin|M>rts ol maniifaclured goods. the government reported Wednesday. Thetradedefic.it jumped Hi.3 percent over the February imbalance of $t2.f» billion- The deficit with |apan was up 27.fi percent to an all-time high f or the first three months of this year, the trade deficit totals $4:t.fi hilliun. JO pertamt higher than the pace set last year. Despite this surge, the Keagan adminislra •lion is maintaining that the deficit for all of itIHti will fall itelnw last year's psa'ird „$ t.48.!V hilliou imlialanci!. This forecast is-luised on a lielinf that the impact ol a declining dollar ancf : lower oil prices will narrow the deficit in the second half of the year. Treasury Secretary lames Maker III recent- . Iv predicted the trad*’ deli* it would decline to * 12.r» billion this year, with $IH hillion ol the improvement coming from the draniatii plunge in oil prices. Tho.March rejxjrt showed that America is • already receiving * substantial tmiiefils from •lower oil prices. . / . • The cost ol petroleum imports dropptsl by ' i:» percent last month despite the tact that the v volume of imported oil n>se by 11 percent. The " difference was explained by the fact that each - iiarrei of oil cost on average imly’$.1!r.4!>.'2B " I'wj'rt eot Imlciw the price at the i>eginning of the .* veat . Daikon Shield claim letters flood court RICHMOND. 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Foreign Secretary Sir Geoffrey Howe of Hrilain said the meeting's participants "expressed deep concern at the Soviets' failure of giving early warning or intima tion — a serious lapse in European good neighborliness." As winds shifted Wednesday, the radioactivity was reporhd to have stopped drifting into Scandinavia and to have latgun appearing in Austria and Switzerland. Switzerland's second-ranking Foreign Ministry of ficial, Edouard Hrunner. said it was astounding that the Soviets confirmed the accident only after Scandinavian countries asked for information. “The new reactor catastrophe demons!rates not on ly tile weaknesses and deficienc ies of the Soviet system, hut also especially the incredible danger that arises from the isolation of a nation, especially a super power.” said the Zurich newspaper Tages Anxeiger, In Austria, where some grocers were being told not to display vegetables and fruit outside, the conservative daily Die Fresse complained that lor “two unbelievable days the Soviet Union left the world in the dark about the mishap near Kiev.” Kven in I inland, which has a delicate (>oliti( ,i| relationship with the neighboring Soviet Union.' newspapers criticized Moscow’s handling ot the accident. (■'inland's biggest newspaper, the llelsingin Sanomat. said it was "likely the Soviet Union would have tried to keep ipiiet .about the accident altogether if . the radiation had not reached Scandinavia U.S. reactors lacking necessary safety domes WASHINGTON (AP| - Five largn U.S rear for* tmd to produce nuclear ivi'd|»ws !.» k ihn k <nntatoment domes l«> trap escaping radiation II other ftafntv system* tail in all a*i i d«nt. ami me* of them has burnt deteriorating tor y«tn> of fiend* said Wlirintitdav" The absence of sur h a jmilw tiw steel and ww ri'tif dntll around the Chernobyl realtor behoved to have melted down in the Soviet Union is blamed bv U.S. irflk ials for the release of massive amounts of radiation in the worst mu leaf |imviw accident m history. In response to a suit from environmental group*. I» s of ticbds considered building a containment doom an Mind am: of four weapons reactors n««r Aiken. SC., two yours a|tn but concluded that — with a $H!W» million prkr tag - it was un msfssrtrv to do so Tin* concrete and itwl damns used at U S. t nmmcn bd plants am four feet thick, In addition according to Energy Department documents officials have boon concerned for year* about the warping graphite core ami embrittled and bowing process tot*:* m dm N weapons reactor at Hanford. Wash — the IIS, plant closest in design to the .Soviet reac tor where the accident cHrc;urred. Like the Chernobyl plant, the N reactor is cooled with water and uses graphite to control the fission reaction inside hui has no containment dome Energy Department official* maintain that differetK.es between the Washington and Soviet plants — the type fuel used, structural design and and operating condition# ant sufficient to make any com parison unwarranted. 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