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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.
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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. Ahmed Nawaf
Mansur Hasi, was arrested in
connection with the l,a Belle
bombing on April 18.
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