'Nuclear waste
misuse charged
WASHINGTON (UPI) --
Government management of
hazardous nuclear waste is
faulty and "a cause for
concern," a report prepared
for the, U.S. energy research
agency warned yesterday.
The report urged more
administrative and policy
reforms, saying many
problems can be solved but
that the last chance for such
corrective action may be at
hand.
The report was prepared
for the Energy Research and
Development Administration
by , Mason Willrich, a
University of Virginia law .
professor who worked on it
this summer at the
Ford signs child-care bill
WASHINGTON (UPI) President Ford yesterday signed
into law a bill carrying additional aid to states for child day
care programs, and delaying for a year the imposition of
federal standards for staffing the centers.
The President said in a statement that his veto of an earlier
measure, sustained by Congress, produced a compromise he
welcomed because "ensuring adequate day care for children
is an important social service."
C., The legislation, for the fiscal year starting Oct. 1, adds $240
million to the roughly $6OO million states were getting to
operate day care centers. The vetoed version called for a $375
million increase.
' And the bill satisfied Ford's chief objection to the earlier
measure by suspending until 0ct.,1, 1977, federal guidelines on
the number of persons needed to staff day-care centers.
The standards were approved by Congress in 1974, but were
;.suspended last October when center operators argued they
were so co s tly that entire programs would have tope cut back.
At a signing ceremony in the sunny White House 'Rose
Garden with wife Betty looking on, the President said:
"Earlier this year, I vetoed the predecessor version of this
Nickel missing in disease tests
HARRISBURG (AP)
Medical investigators have
failed to find any nickel in
.taken
tests on hair samples
from living victims of
the mysterious legionnaires'
disease, the state Health
Department announced
yesterday.
"They were initial tests,"
said Health Department
spokesman Robert Costello.
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Technology's energy
laboratory. A Sept. 1 draft
was obtained and released
yesterday by consumer ac
tivist Ralph Nader.
Radioactive wastes that
must be sealed away from
mankind , and the en
vironment for thousands or
even millions of years
already are "an unavoidable
consequence of our nuclear
age," the report said.
It said approximately half a
million_ tons of ' highly
radioactive waste and
millions of cubic feet of less
dangerous "low level" atomic
debris—all but a fraction of it
_produced during three
decades of nuclear weapon
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out."
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samples, taken from victims
and ,nonvictims, that were
sent to a laboratory at Har
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shipments , during late
August.
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with immediately.
"We are concerned about
radioactive waste because it
is a potential radiological
hazard to man and other
forms of life," the report said.
"If a human being is ex
posed to excessive amounts of
radiation, depending on the
circumstances, the harmful
effects may be immediate
death, life shortened by
radiation-induced cancer,
radiation-induced genetic
change which may affect
subsequent generations, or
temporary ill health followed
by complete recovery."
That, the report said, is why
it is so important to find ef
fective ways of storing such
wastes as plutonium, which
loses only half its radioac
tivity in 24,000,years.
"Thus far, the U.S.
government's record of
management has been
bill not because I disagreed with its goals, but because that
bill was the wrong means to a worthwhile end.
"The Congress sustained my veto. Today I have signed a
new and better child day-care bill the result of compromise
and cooperation between the Congress and my ad
ministration." .
Referring specifically to the standards provision in the
earlier version, Ford said: "Had the other bill become law, it
would have brought about an unwarranted federal pre
emption of state and local responsibility to ensure quality day
care services."
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"Postponing the federal standards until Oct. 1, 1977, will
enable the stales to operate day care programs for more than
another year free of onerous and costly federal intrusion," he
said, while the Health, Education and Welfare Department
studies the situation.
*the $240 million increase in aid is designed to repay states
for putting some of the stronger standards into effect volun
tarily.
Ford said he had "serious reservations" about this aspect of
the legislation.
earlier findings of unusually
high nickel levels in body
tissues- from deceased vic
tims:
Because of possible con
tamination from containers
and instruments, the tissue
tests have been inconclusive
so far.
The Center for Disease
Control still lists 29 deaths
With ono or more toppings
marred in a number of in
stances to be a cause of
concern," the report said.
It said 18 leaks from high
level waste storage tanks at
Hanford, Wash., have poured
more than 430,000 gallons of
waste into the ground. The
hazard there "will remain for
hundreds of thousands of
years."
The report's key recom
mendation was that a
radioactive waste authority
be established to take over all
management of nuclear gar
bage.
It urged that NRC establish
a comprehensive waste
management regulatory
policy, and said ERDA should
continue research on the best
storage methods.
"Thus, we have an op
portunity—perhaps our last
clear chance—for in
stitutional development."
among the 179 cases related
to the pneumonia -like disease
that first attacked members
of the American Legion who
attended a state convention in
Philadelphia in July.
Doctors in New Jersey have
questioned the addition of the
29th fatality, J. Bruce Rogers,
a Philadelphia hotel
manager, who died Friday.
Fighter
U.S.
WASHINGTON (AP) U.S. military sources said
yesterday they expect an intelligence bonanza from
examination of the first advanced Soviet Mig2s jet fighter to
land within reach of U.S. Air Force experts.
The sources said American technical intelligence
specialists have been all over a Mig2s "Foxbat" interceptor
since it was flown to norhtern Japan Monday by a defecting
Russian *Air Force pilot, to whom President Ford said he'd
grant asylum. .
Of special interest to U.S. technicians is the radar used by
the Russians to guide the missiles that the Foxbat would fire
at U.S. fighters such as the Fl 5 in an air battle.
American specialists also are reportedly gathering vital
first-hand information on the Mig2s's twin turbojet engines,
its airframe design'and construction.
Officially, the United States ,avoided saying whether
Japanese authorities had allowed U.S. experts access to the
Mig2s, which has been described as the fastest weapons
carrying warplane in the world.
Pentagon spokesman Alan Woods told a briefing "I'm sure
we'd be interested," but "it is up to the Japanese to decide
who is going to be looking at it."
Other sources indicated the United States wants to spare its
ally, Japan, any diplomatic difficulties with the Soviet Union.
Pentagon officials anticipate the Japanese will return the
Mig2s to Russia. The Mig2s has been a source of concern to
U.S. military officials since it demonstrated in the early 70's
its ability to fly faster than 2,000 miles per hour at altitudes of
80,000 feet and above.
A reconnaissance version of the Foxbat drew special at
tention several years ago when Isreli-piloted F 4 Phantom jet
No minimum wage
increase this year
WASHINGTON (UPI) '
There will be no increase this
year in the federal . minimum
wage, the chairman of a key
House subcommittee said
yesterday.
Rep. John Dent, D-Pa.,
head of the labor standards
panel, said there was so little
chance of congressional
approval that he has shelved
for the year a bill to raise the
wage floor.
The panel held two months
of hearings last year on
legislatibn which would have
raised the minimum wage
from $2.30 an hour for one
class of federally covered
employes to $3 an hour,
beginning next Jan. 1.
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Dent's subcommittee had
scheduled a session this week
to write a bill. But Dent said
yesterday that there was too
much "serious doubt on my
part that the Senate would
have considered and passed a
minimum wage bill once the
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House had acted."
With the current Congress
scheduled to adjourn next
month, wiping , out all
legislation still uncompleted
at that time, Dent said a new
minimum wage bill would be
among the subcommittee's
first businesses next year. -
"There was no question in
my mind as to the equities of
a minimum wage increase or
that we could have got a bill
through the House," Dent
said.
"But the risks were too
great that the Senate would
not have had sufficient time
to act as well and that all we
would have accomplished
would have been a waste of
valuable legislative."
Employes of businesses
covered by federal laws prior
to 1966 now earn a minimum
of $2.30 an hour. Under the
legislation, they would have
received $3 an hour next Jan.
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fighters tried unsuccessfully to intercept Soviet-piloted
Mig2ss flying over the Sinai. Those Migs were based in Egypt
at that time, but the Russians have since withdrawn them.
If they'd had their preference, U.S. technicians probably
would have preferred getting their hands on the recon
naisance version of the Mig2s because that would have given
them an opportunity to study sophisticated cameras, sensors
and "black box" intelligence gathering electronic equipment
now in use in Russia's most advanced surveillance planes.
However, U.S. Air Force officers are openly gleeful that
their technicians will be able to tell them about the specific
technical details of the MIG2S in its fighter form, referred to in
1973 by then Air Force Secretary Robert Seamans as
"probably the best interceptor in production in the world
today."
U.S. Air Force experts concede that the Foxbat is faster
than the Fl 5, whose mission is air superiority. But these ex
perts insist that the Fl 5 is more maneuverable and thus could
offset superior MIG2S speed with agility in air-to-air combat.
Federal workers
miss pay freeze
WASHINGTON (UPI)
The Senate tentatively agreed
yesterday to exempt top-level
employes of the government's
judicial and executive
branches from a proposed
wage freeze for members of
Congress.
With elections just eight
weeks away, the Senate
seemed ready to join the
House in banning an
automatic salary increase
scheduled for its members
Oct. 1.
The House voted last week
for a far-reaching, one-year
freeze covering senators and
congressmen, cabinet of
ficers, Supreme Court
justices, federal judges,
many agency heads and any
federal employe earning
more than $37,800.
The Senate, ona voice vote,
tentatively decided to allow
cost-of-living increases for all
but members of Congress.
Congress approved
legislation last year per
manently tying Senate and
House salaries to the
automatic cost-of-living in
creases provided for all
federal employes except
those in the "super grades"
and above.
The provision was widely
regarded as an attempt to set
up a permanent program so
senators and House members
would not have to go on
record every time they voted
themselves a pay increase.
Last year's pay hike was 5
per cent, and congressional
salaries climbed from $42,500
to $44,625 in the first pay raise
since 1969.
Sen. Robert Taft, R-Ohio,
backed by Sen. Roman
Hruska, R-Neb., urged the
Senate yesterday to exempt
top-level executive and
federal positions from the
freeze.
If passed, a galary freeze
would make it even more
difficult to attract top people
into government work and "to
keep first class' people in
government," he said.
But Taft joined others in
demanding the freeze for
members of Congress, calling
last year's bill a "back-door
approach. There is no lack of
candidates for the jobs we
hold."
"I believe that was a very
bad public relations move for
Congress," Sen. James Allen,
D-Ala., added. "Congress has
enough problems maintaining
a good image before the
public."