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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
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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. Va. |AP) —
Mail flooded the office of a
federal bankruptcy court
Wednesday on the deadline for
women to file claims against the
maker oi the Daikon Shield
birth control device.
The A.H. Robins Co., which
sold the intrauterine device in
the early I!l7(ls. sought protec
tion from creditors under
Chapter 11 of the Itankruplcy
code Iasi Aug. 21 after s<'tiling
about of 15.000 lawsuits
brought In wnmiMi claiming in
jury from the Daikon Shield
The settlements hail cost the
i:oni|ianv ami- ils insurer $520
million
Under the* order of U.S.
District (iitlgi* Robert Merhige
)r.. Ihi' Richmond-I msed phar
maiimlii.al company liegaii an
international advertising (am
paign in iHiiiiiirv tu nnlih
women who used the device of
the April tit deadline for filing
claims
Mciliigi- stood mil,Mill* tlii*
Icderitl coil rl house here
Wednesday .mil shook his heed
as court clerk Michael Sheppard
pushed another cart filled with
mail from the adjacent Post Of.
lice to the special claims pro
cessing unit
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Genscher, attending a mooting of ministers of seven
West European nations in Venice, Italy, demanded that
all similar Soviet power plants fa? closed until the cause
of the Chernobyl accident was known.
"There is no question of national sovereignty in
this field.” said Foreign Minister Giulio Androotti of
Italy, who was at the same meeting. "There are no fron
tiers to stop atomic radiation."
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.
Nonetheless, fames Vaughan, acting assistant energy
secretary for nuclear programs, told a congressional hearing
Tuesday that the Chernobyl accident 'could have some bear
” on the future of tha Hanford reactor j
Wednesday for * thorough *
Rep
vest igat ions
qulry Into the
adequacy of Its safeguards
said the House Energy In
plans to expand an ongoing la
the Hanford reactor to include the
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