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World news Officials reveal more details about nuclear accident MOSCOW (AP) — A chemical explosion probably caused the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, and evacuation was delayed 3t} hours because the plant staff did not realize bow serious the acci dent was, .Soviet officials said Tuesday. They brushed off Western complaints about slow repor ting of limited information on the April 2ti accident at the Ukrainian plant, which spewed an invisible cloud of radiation over Europe. None of the officials said whether the fire has been ex tinguished in the graphite reac tor core. A report in the Com-, munist Party daily Pravda earlier Tuesday suggested it was still burning or smoldering. The six men, including the top nuclear energy official and the head of a government in vestigation, spoke at the first of ficial news conference on the disaster. I.ittle new information was offered at the session, which was carefully controlled, beyond the probable cause and the revelation about dulaved evacuation. . The cloud of radioactivity still hung over Europe on Tues day and radiation was detected in the western United States, Canada and Japan China said its monitors had found nothing abnormal. None of the radiation was described as life-threatening, but many precautions still are in effect. In Bonn. West German In terior Ministry sources said Soviet officials had asked to buy or rent remote-controlled earth moving machines for use in cleanup work at the Chernobyl plant HO miles north of Kiev, a city of 2.4 million people that is capital of the Ukraine. Soviet authorities publicly acknowledged the accident two days after it happened, follow ing reports of abnormally high Summit concludes on high note TOKYO (AP) - Uaders of the in dustriaitaud democracies ended * smooth summit1' Tuesday. voicing satisfaction that they confronted terrorism while moving toward new trade talks and a revamped world monetary policy - two principal goals of the economic conference. Alihough the United States, Britain. Canada. France. |apan. Italy and Weal Ger many failed to come to grips with the divisive and volatile issue of farm export subsidies, they did agree to a host of other initiatives, in cluding coordinated efforts to improve nuclear safety In the wake of the Chernobyl reactor ac cident in the Soviet Union Bui for world leaders newly committed to fighting terrorism, the summit closed on the , same raucous note that marred its opening: Japanese radicals seeking to sabotage the pro ceedings descended on subway and train sta tion* with smoke bombs packed with firecrackers, crippling rush-hour traffic, but claiming no casualties, in a city turning weary under a welter of unprecedented security restrictions. And for President Keegan, there came a threat from Palestinian radical Abut Abbas, in a broadcast report, to target America for ter rorist attacks. "Let him try." Reagan declared, respon ding to reporters' questions. The president's top sides declared that the Reagan administration had come away from the summit with much of whet it hed sought, including a statement of unity against ter rorism. which singled out Moammar khadafy's Libya "in particular.’' Britain's Prime Minister Margaret That cher declared 'mission accomplished." U.S. Treasury Secretary {ernes Baker said. "It was a smooth summit." West German Chancellor Helmut kohl proclaimed: "We were able to achieve good results ’* And Italian Prime Minister Betti no Craxi said he came away from the summit gathering "with hill satisfaction." In saying the summit was a success for Reagan, the president's top aides cited accep tance of Baker s plan to try to stabilize curren-1| cy exchange rates through a system of economic checks and balances and an agree ment by the other summit partners to hack preliminary talks in September aimed at lowering barriers that restrict U.S. sales abroad Officials revealed that as a foliow-up to the talks here. Reagan will send several of his top aides across Asia to report to other govern ments on his economic talks here. radiation levels in Scandinavia. According to figures given at the news conference. 204 peo ple were hospitalized, a slight increase from previous official reports of 197. The government said last week that two people were killed and 49 of those hospitalized had been discharged. Of the initial casualties. 1O0 were flown to Moscow from the accident site, the officials said Tuesday. One worker died after being burned over 80 percent of his body and another died after being hit by a falling object, they said. .. m r? German I AUTO SERVICE VW’S MERCEDES BMW’S DATSUN TOYOTA Reliable service >or your QQ4 ft 2025 FranKlin BIvcJ foreign car since 1963 I ^ Eugene. Ore 97403 Two arrested in bombing BERLIN (AP) — Police said today they have arrested two )ordanian-born men In connec tion with a March bombing in Berlin, and were trying to deter mine whether the men wore in volved in the fatal bombing of the La Belle discotheque. The Reagan administration cited the I .a Belle bombing, in which an American soldier and a Turkish woman died, as a reason for the U.S. bombing of Libya on April 15. U.S. officials said Libya was Itehind the disco attack. A police statement identified the two arrested men Farouk Salameh and Fayez Sahawneh, and said both were arrested Thursday. The statement said both are suspected of taking part in the March 29 bombing of the Cerman-Arab Society building in West Berlin. Investigators are "also chock ing to determine if the two men are connected with the April 5 l.a Belle discotheque bomb ing." the police statement said. Another man. 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