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Rebels agree to leave
MANILA, Philippines (AP) —
About 200 rebel troops agreed
on Thursday to end their two
day occupation of a broadcast
complex after pro-government
soldiers called off an assault,
said Defense Minister Rafael
lleto.
"I’m glad to announce we
have ended another episode in
the history of disturbances that
have plagued us these many
months,” said lleto at a news
conference also attended by air
force Col. Oscar Canlas, leader
of the mutineers.
The announcement was made
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following a two-hour meeting at
Camp Aguinaldo, the armed
forces headquarters, between
Canlas and top pro-government
military officials including lleto
and military chief of staff Gen.
Fidel V. Ramos.
National
DOE postpones decision
WASHINGTON (AP) — The
Energy Department admitted to
Congress on Wednesday it can’t
keep its schedule to open the
nation’s first nuclear waste
dump and has allotted another
five years to do the job.
The new schedule calls for
opening a deep underground
waste depot in 2003. instead of
1998. to receive highly radioac
tive spent fuel from the nation’s
nuclear power reactors and
weapons manufacture.
The department already has
missed several important
milestones on the current
schedule, drawn up in 1985.
Regional
Goldschmidt supported
SALEM (AP) — Gov. Neil
Goldschmidt says he's lined up
bipartisan support for his
“60-day plan" to send a school
closure measure to voters and to
quickly resolve the federal tax
reform issue.
The Democratic governor's
plan contains a total of eight
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items he wants the legislature
to tackle before March 12.
Among them is a proposal for
a referendum on the federal
government’s selection of the
Hanford nuclear reservation as a
candidate for a nuclear waste
dump.
Goldschmidt said it's possi
ble the Hanford referendum and
thi? school closure measure
might 1m» put on tin; same elec
tion ballot in May.
GWEN tower planned
KLAMATH FALLS (AP) —
The Air Force is sending
representatives to Klamath
County next month to explain
plans to build a controversial
radio tower that would be used
in cast* of a nuclear attack, a
county commissioner said
Wednesday.
The announcement from
County Commissioner Jim
Rogers contradicted earlier in
formation that the Department
of Defense would be holding a
public hearing to find out what
local residents had to say about
plans to build a tower for tin*
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side Klamath Falls.
The tower is part of a special
c o m m u n i c a t i o n s n e t w o r k
designed to allow military bases
to maintain contact if a nuclear
blast wipes out conventional
communications with an elec
tromagnetic pulse in the upper
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