Court gets nuclear liability case
WASHINGTON (UPI) —The Supreme
Court agreed yesterday to rule whether
Congress violated the Constitution when
it set a $560 million limit on damages
that, may be claimed after a nuclear
power plant accident.
Congress in 1957 sought to spur private
construction Of new-technology power
plants by approving a ceiling on liability
for any accident that might occur at one
of the facilities.
But last March 31, U.S. District Judge
James McMillan in Charlotte, N.C.,
ruled unconstitutional that section of the
Price-Anderson Act, saying under its
terms untold destruction of lives and
property might occur without
"reasonable certainty" the victims
Would be justly compensated.
Study says alcoholism
inheritance connected
KANSAS CITY, Kan. (UPI) New
research indicates alcoholism might
be linked to a biochemical hereditary
factor, according to an authority on
the disease that has affected nine
million Americans.
"The cause of alcoholism, in truth,
is unknown," said Dr. Donald
Goodwin, "but it does run in families
and this is a starting point.
"Severe or 'classic' forms of
alcoholism , may have mainly a
genetic basis, whereas heavy
drinking may have mainly
psychosocial origins," he said. "The
next step is finding what is being
inherited."
Goodwin is chairman of the
psychiatry department at the
State Dept. tightens visa restrictions for. Ugandans
WASHINGTON ( UPI) The State Department,
-admitting it had not realized 12 Ugandan police pilots
were training in the United States, yesterday an
nounced tighter visa restrictions for Ugandans.
State Department spokesman John H. Trattner
confirmed a report by columnist Jack Anderson that 12
Ugandan police pilots are being trained by Bell
Helicopter in Fort Worth, Texas.
"The State Department was not aware that the
training was going on in the United States - until - we
heard about it from press sources last week after the
training had begun," Trattner said.
N.C. flood death toll set at 10
ASHEVILLE, N.C. (UPI) Workers
'digging through mud and rubble found
seven bodies yesterday in the flood
;ravaged Blue Ridge Mountains of North
Carolina, boosting the number of victims
in Sunday's flash flooding to at least 10.
Gov. James B. Hunt made an aerial
'touro of the region and said he would
declare it a disaster area and seek fed-,
' eral relief. Officials estimated damage
in the tens of millions of dollars and Hunt
'`said he expected damages to be about
$4O million to roads and bridges alone.
. The bodies of two 3-year-old children,
who had previously been listed as
presumed dead, were found yesterday.
They were William and Paul Hendrix,
who died along with their mother when
they were thrown from their house
trailer after it was dislodged by flood
waters in the Candler community near
Asheville. ,
The youngsters were found near the
spot where the body of their mother,
Carolyn Hendrix, was located Sunday.
The bodies of three teenagers who
drowned while apparently trying to
swim a creek in Morgantown were also
recovered. They were Chris Hamby, 18,
his brother Tony, 16, both of Valdese,
and Mark Hawkins, 14, of Morganton.
Searchers' at Morganton found the
body of Ike Peterson, 75, in a shack
Correction
' The Daily Collegian incorrectly
identified Pam Downs (10th-home
economics education) as a pledge at
Delta Gamma sorority yesterday.
I)owns is a member, not a pledge. Downs
also was incorrectly quoted as saying she
was concerned about the unfair, big
party image of her sorority. Downs
actually said she was concerned about
the image of fraternities and sororities
'ip general, not her sorority in particular.
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The Nuclear Regulatory Commission,
appealing to the Supreme Court, argued
that the ceiling is essential to fostering
further private development of nuclear
power.
The high court,• issuing a batch of
orders yesterday, agreed to hear
arguments on the test case later this
term.
The law limits the total liability of
investors, suppliers and others for
damages in a nuclear catastrophe to $560
million or the amount of insurance
required of the licensee, whichever is
greater. The commission estimates
insurance requirements will pass the
$560 million level by 1980 and exceed $1
billion by 1985.
The suit was initiated by members of
University of Kansas Medical Center
and author of the book "Is Alcoholism
Hereditary?" •
Between 1970 and 1976, Dr. Goodwin
conducted a two-part study to
determine the influence of heredity
and environment in alcoholism. For
the first part, he established two
groups of men, all of whom had been
adopted in infancy.
In one group, each man had at least
one alcoholic parent. In the other
there was no record of alcoholism
among the parents. Results of the
project were startling, Goodwin said.
"The children of alcoholics, both
daughters and sons, were found to be
four
,times more likely to become
alcoholics."
"There is no U.S. government involvement in this
training and there was no State Department assistance
to the group of trainees."
The department did not comment on Uganda
President Idi Amin's charges in a speech yesterday in
northern Uganda that President Carter is a prisoner of
Zionist interests in the United States and "must con
tinue the game lest he be assassinated."
Amin's regime has been a target of strong human
rights criticism by the administration, but Trattner
acknowledged until the incident of the helicopter pilots
where he lived in an abandoned
coalyard. The body of Steven Roger
Allison, 30, of Old Fort, was found about
50 yards from where his pickup truck
was left in the Catawba River Road
section of McDowell County.
"The people were poor to begin with
and many of them have lost everything
they had," Hunt said. "I've seen a town
that was almost completely destroyed.
The governor said he was concerned
that many mobile homes have been
placed in flood-prone areas without the
owners realizing the dangers.
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Norman in North Carolina, where the
twin-reactor McGuire nuclear station is
being built, and Lake Wylie in South
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ahead on the Catawba nuclear station.
The population within 50 miles of each
plant is estimated at 1 million to. 1.5
million.
McMillan concluded no nuclear ex
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there is a "real" possibility of an ac
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uncontrolled radioactive decay might
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and discharge radioactive contaminants
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Murderer Zamora gets
sentenced to
MIAMI (UPI) Convicted 15-year-old
murderer Ronny Zamora whose TV
intoxication defense proved un
successful was sentenced to life in
prison yesterday by Circuit Judge Paul
Baker, who recommended that the boy
be placed in a youthful offender facility
and receive psychiatric care.
Zamora, dressed in white jeans, an
open-necked red sports shirt and san
dals, stood with his arms folded before
the judge showing no reaction as the
sentence was read.
, Under Florida law, Zamora must
serve at least 25 years in prison before
being 'eligible for parole meaning he
cannot be released until he is at least 40
years old.
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the United States has had no "special procedures" for
issuing visas to Ugandans.
"However, in light of the possible incompatibility
with our human rights policies, for travel by Ugandans
to the United States for such purposes (training), we
have reviewed the procedures involved to insure we
have more control over the situation in the future so
that, in addition to the normal processing, we are
tightening up procedures to insure that the State
Department is kept informed of all such cases," he said.
The Ugandans, Trattner said, are being trained for
nine civilian-model Bell helicopters. '
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Such a meltdown never has occurred.
But the judge said if one does happen it
"can reasonably be expected to procluce
hundreds of thousands of fatalities,
numerous illnesses, genetic effects of
unpredictable degree and nature for
succeeding generations, thyroid
ailments and cancers in numerous
people, damage to other life and
widespread damage to property."
He said death or serious injury to even
a relatively small number of people
could push damages above $560 million.
The court earlier this year agreed to
review two other nuclear power cases,
one dealing with hazards of reactor
wastes, the other with recycling spent
fuel.
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bor, 82-year-old Elinor Haggart, with
her own gun. Zamora and another youth
were surprised by the woman as they
were burglarizing her house.
Zamora Was convicted Oct. 6 by a 12-
member jury. The foreman of that jury
later told the press that the "television
intoxication defense" was "ridiculous."
Defense attorney Ellis Rubin had
argued during the trial that after years
of constantly watching violent television
programs, Zamora could not tell real life
from fantasy.
Rubin pleaded with Baker to use the
"alternate sentencing procedure."
But Baker rejected the argument. He
said that if the juvenile judge before
whom Zamora first appeared following
his arrest had wanted him placed in that
program he wouldn't have turned the
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