state/nation/world President hoping to establish an enduring relationship By JAMES GERSTENZANG AP White House Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) President Reagan embarks today on the first leg of an 11,000-mk journey to 1 / 4 , China, hoping to establish a "stable, enduring and comprehensive" relationship with the world's most populous nation. But Secretary of State George P. Shultz said the possibility that Rea :- gan and the Chinese leaders would sign a nuclear power agreement remained up in the air. • The president and top Chinese officials scheduled seven hours of meetings, which Shultz told report ers yesterday would amount to "a very full agenda." 4 Reagan's journey to Peking will take seven days to complete. His first stop is Tacoma, Wash., this afternoon, for a meeting with timb er industry officials. The president will spend the rest of the week at his ranch northwest of Santa Barbara, Calif., and will fly 4 to Honolulu on Easter Sunday. After two days in Honolulu, he will fly to . • • - Hogs and kisses Paul Barton, horsing around, gives a six•week old piglet a smack on the nose during a recent fraternity fund-raiser at the University of New Hampshire Some make a living preaching nuclear power pros By RICHARD T. PIENCIAK Associated Press Writer LOS ANGELES With all the bad news about nuclear power, it wouldn't be surpris ing if the people who make their living preaching the industry's virtues were a depressed bunch. But that's not the case. To hear nuclear power's public relations experts tell it, atomic energy is on its way • back, and someday soon will be bigger and better than ever. • Still, says Paul Turner, vice president of • the Atomic Industrial Forum, the industry • trade group, selling nuclear power is no picnic "It's a very frustrating job. I feel like we have a first-class product which is absolute : ly essential to this country. It's safe, it has the least impact on our environment of all fuels and it's at least as economical as other options. "Yet it seems that everything about nu- clear power is beset by public perceptions that are quite opposite of what I believe to • be true," Turner said in an interview. "You know, the ironic thing is that nuclear power has kept its main promise to provide safe, reliable, environmentally benign power." Reagan goes to China Guam and eventually reach Peking on April 26. By spreading out the travel, the 73-year-old president will have sev eral days to adjust to the 13-hour time difference between Washing ton and Peking. The trip will be Reagan's first to a communist nation, and the third by a U.S. president to China, while in office. Richard M. Nixon visited China in 1972 and Gerald R. Ford made the trip in 1975. Reagan will spend nearly three days in meetings with Chinese lead ers. He will visit the Great Wall; spend a day in Xian, in central China; and then visit Shanghai, where he will tour a commune and a factory supported by a U.S. man ufacturer. Shultz told reporters that "we see ' this relationship evolving into some thing that will be stable, enduring and compehensive." The secretary of state said ear- Her, in a news conference via radio with Asian journalists, that the United States was prepared to in crease its military aid to the nations 1 . , .:-...0-:-.: • ..- :' , 77*,.:.; , ..,:,•te;,. •.•••• , , , •••:::••••••;/.f . . , •;.....4••••,?••••••••;:• - :'' . • • •• • . • ••••••••...:,:-.*-4 `4 l, * Turner was keynote speaker last week when more than 100 public relations work ers from nuclear utilities gathered at the plush Century Plaza Hotel just outside Bev erly Hills for their annual pep talk and strategy session. Attendance was down slightly this year. Among the missing were representatives from several utilities involved in nuclear construction projects beset with huge cost overruns. But those who did journey to the AlF's Public Affairs and Information Program heard speaker after speaker take the ap proach that while the industry does face a few problems, the good news outweighs the bad. "We're perceived as being either black or white when the truth is that we are, just like everything else, shades of gray," Turner told the group. "The purpose of our exercise is to keep the public aware that the nuclear option, after all, remains." When increased demand for electricity requires construction of new power facili ties, according to several speakers, there will be little choice but to build a combina tion of nuclear and coal plants. It was clear from the conference that of Southeast Asia, including tanks for Thailand, to help U.S. allies in the region resist incursions by Viet nam, a Soviet ally. "There is absblutely no excuse for Vietnam's incursions into Cambo dia and Thailand," Shultz said. "They have no business being there." In his briefing for U.S. reporters later in the day, Shultz said a nucle ar agreement with China "is cer tainly possible." But, he stated: "I can't say when or whether an agreement will be reached." While the Chinese have expressed strong interest in purchasing nucle ar power technology from the Unit ed States, they have balked at a U.S. requirement th'at they assure that the spent nuclear fuel, which could be made into weapons fuel, is not reprocessed or sold to another na tion. Shultz also said Reagan would do nothing in China to weaken U.S. ties to Taiwan, although he said the Chinese are expected to raise anew their objections to U.S. relations with Taiwan. ~;~ ~; ,~~~3: `Puffery and apple polishing is very inappropriate for this industry.' —Douglas H. Bedell, manager of communications services at Three Mile Island those who promote nuclear power have kept their sense of humor while waiting for better days. One speaker joked of having been warned never to tell anyone at parties what he does for a living. And there were laughs about a former colleague, a public relations man for a Midwestern utility until the company aban doned its nuclear project. These days, the story goes, the guy works for an X-rated cable television company, trying to convince ministers in conservative Southern towns that they should not object to his firm's license application. It was almost universally agreed during Other topics likely to be raised, Shultz said, include developments in Central America, international terrorism, Korea, and Soviet behav ior, particularly along the Chinese border. The subject of arms sales could also be raised, he said, adding that "both sides are sort of exploring that issue." The secretary of - state portrayed the Central American issue in terms of "an exercise in Soviet aggressive behavior." "The subject needs a very good and thorough discussion," he said. Shultz said that both the United States and China would like to see tensions reduced between South and North Korea. The trip is Reagan's second to Asia in six months, reflecting a sharp focus on that area during the last year of his term. He visited Japan .and South Korea in Novem ber. "It shows the importance to the United States of the Asian-Pacific region," Shultz said. MEE Aniericans' personal income sees smallest in 7 months increase By. MARTIN CRUTSINGER Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON Americans' personal income in March posted the smallest gain in seven months while their spending rate edged up only slightly, the government said today, providing further evidence that economic growth is slowing. The Commerce Department said personal income rose 0.5 per cent last month, the smallest in crease since a 0.3 percent rise last August. The March rate was below the 0.7 percent February increase and less than one-third of the 1.6 percent January surge in income. Even more significant, many analysts said, was the slight 0.4 percent increase in personal con sumption spending, which includ es essentially everything except • interest payments on debt. Purchases of consumer prod ucts were actually down during the month, but the overall catego ry showed a small increase be cause spending for services, which include such things as monthly housing costs, were up. The March increase followed a sharp 1 percent drop in consumer spending in February, the first spending decline in seven months. Many analysts said the Feb ruary and March performance showed that the surge in consumer spending, which has fueled the recovery from the 1981-82 reces sion, is tapering off substantially. "The slowdown has definitely started," said economist Michael Evans, head of his own private forecasting firm, noting that Wednesday's report is just the latest to show economic activity down in March. The government reported Tues day that construction of new homes and apartments fell 27 per cent in March, the biggest drop-off on record, while other reports have showed retail sales down a sharp 2.2 percent and unemploy ment unchanged last month. Jerry Jasinowski, chief econo mist for the National Association of Manufacturers, said it was ob vious that the "pent-up consumer demand caused by deferral of purchases during the last reces sion has now been met." He and other economists said recent increases in interest rates were also partly to blame for the spending drop-off. Jack Carlson, chief economist of the National Association of Real tors, said spending by businesses l on new plants •and equipment, which normally keeps a recovery going in its latter stages, was currently lagging because of high interest rates. He said it was likely the econ omy could experience a "rather abrupt decline" in growth for the rest of the year, predicting the 7.2 percent pace first reported for January through March, would slow to 3 percent in the final quar ter of the year. • The Commerce Department is due to release its revised estimate of economic growth Thursday and some economists predicted a sub stantial revision downward from the 7.2 percent preliminary esti mate based on weaker March ac .tivity. However, not all economists were gloomy about the direction in the four-day meeting that credibility re mains the industry's biggest problem, a disease lingering from 1979 when the na tion's worst commercial nuclear accident occurred at Three Mile Island. Douglas H. Bedell, a former newspaper editorial writer who serves as manager of communications services at the Middle town, Pa., plant, said his job is not to sell the technology but to help rebuild the public's trust. "The only way you can be believed is to be honest," he said. "Puffery and apple-pol ishing is very inappropriate for this indus try." Midway through the conference, Consum ers Power announced a new cost estimate for the nuclear units it is building in Mid land, Mich., and a common stock dividend reduction to reflect uncertainties over the project. But that bad news illustrated a point raised several times by the industry rep resentatives. Consumers Power is only the third utility to reduce or eliminate its dividend because of financial difficulties from nuclear pro jects, yet these developments have been the focus of many news stories. The Daily Collegian Thursday, April 19, ‘1984 which the economy is headed. Roger Brinner of Data Re sources Inc., a private forecasting firm, said the new report on per sonal income and spending was "good news. It should show the financial markets we are not in an overheated, boom situation." He said fears that higher inter est rates might "terminate the recovery prematurely" should now ease. `lncomes are growing and people are confident about the future so the consumer sector of the economy should continue to do very well.' -Robert Ortner, chief economist for the Commerce Department Robert Ortner, chief economist for the Commerce Department, blamed part of the weaker March activity on late winter storms, which he said held down both consumer spending and employ ment activity. He said a more realistic picture was obtained by looking at the quarter as a whole. It showed personal income up at an annual rate of 13 percent, com pared to 11 percent in the final three months. of 1983. "Putting it all together, the out look is still excellent," he said. "Incomes are growing and people are confident about the future so the consumer sector of the econ omy should continue to do very well." Details of the income and spend ing report: Personal income rose $13.9 billion in March to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of $2.94 tril lion. Disposable, or after-tax, in come also rose 0.5 percent to a rate of $2.52 trillion. Persopal consumption spend ing increased $9.7 billion,' follow ing a $23.7 billion February decline. The department had origi nally put the February decline at a lower • 0.7 percent drop of $16.1 billion. The March spending decline included a $3.9 billion drop in purchases of durable goods such as autos and appliances, which followed a drop of $11.2 billion in February. Purchases of nondura ble goods were down $4.5 billion following a $lO.l billion February drop. Only service's showed an increase of $lB.l billion, following a $2.4 billion February decline. Personal savings rose slightly during the month to an annual rate of $168.2 billion. That left the na tional savings Fate savings as a percent of disposable income at 6.7 percent, up sharply from a low of 4 percent in the April-June period, last year. Private wages and salaries increased $5.4 billion in March, compared to an $8.4 billion rise in February. Government wages were up $1.3 billion, compared to $1.7 billion in February. The complaint is that news about the 70 or so nuclear projects that operate with little, trouble has often been neglected. Carl Goldstein, public Kelations director for the U.S. Committee for Energy Aware ness, another pro-nuclear group, suggested that Rad of the industry's image problem come from a general anti-expert mood in America. "The expert is suspect in almost every sense. There's almost an undermining of expert opinion," said Goldstein. "In the case of nuclear, the point is that surveys show the majority of scientists believe nuclear is safe and necessary. "Nuclear power doesn't have a champion. It's not a warm, furry thing that you love," Turner said. "We've got an enormous amount of folklore and mythology to get around before we can get very far." Many still believe a nuclear plant can explode like a bomb. It can't the uranium fuel isn't concentrated enough. What the industry must overcome, Turner added, is the lack of a perceived need for nuclear power and an exaggerated percep tion of the risks when compared with more dangerous but accepted things, such as driving a car. state news briefs rules against foreign metals Court HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) More than a dozen steel and aluminum products from five foreign nations cannot be used in government-financed projects because the countries violated Pennsylvania law, Commonwealth Court ruled yesterday. The court said Brazil, South• Korea, Spain, Mexico and Argentina discriminated against Pennsylvania mills by subsidizing their own steel and aluminum industries, thus creating lower-priced exports to the United Stites. Judge James Crumlish Jr. wrote that the five nations had violated Pennsylvania's Trade Practices Act of 1968. He listed more than a dozen steel and aluminum products that cannot be bought from those countries for government buildings. Frank Lucchino, the Allegheny County controller, filed suit against the five foreign nations because "they are ones that we have found have dramatically increased their exports to the United States over the past 12 months," said Ron Brown, administrative assistant to Lucchino. Pittsburgh inmate missing at roll call PITTSBURGH (AP) A 30-year-old Philadelphia man serving a life sentence in a state prison here was absent at roll call yesterday and is presumed missing, authorities 'said. Tom Seiverling, spokesman for the State Correctional Institution at Pittsburgh, said Ernest Fowler may have escaped in a delivery truck. "We went through the institution and could not find him, and we have to assume that he managed to escape," he said. Fowler had been at the maximum security prison since October 1981, - serving a life term for second:degree murder, burglary, robbery, and possesson of a weapon, Seiverling said. Seiverling said he was unable to provide a description. nation news briefs U.S. proposes chemical-weapon ban GENEVA, Switzerland (AP) The United States yesterday proposed a new treaty banning chemical weapons and Vice President George Bush told the Geneva Disarmament Conference it would eliminate "the possibility of chemical warfare forever." In an address to the 40-nation conference, Bush said the 66-page draft provisions are "indispensable to an effective treaty" and urged the Soviet Union and other countries to adopt "open invita tion" provisions allowing on-site inspections of chemical weapons facilities any time, anywhere. "The goal of our propos'al is a treaty to require states to declare the sizes and locations of their chemical weapons stocks and production, facilities, to destroy the stocks and facilities and to forswear creating new chemical weapons," the vice president said. In the first direct response to the full U.S. proposal, Victor Issraelyan; the chief Soviet delegate, said it would be studied "like any other paper," but then seemed to link it to the U.S.-Soviet negotiations on medium—and long-range missiles that collapsed here last year. Jackson undergoes surgery Micheal CULVER CITY, Calif. (AP) Pop idol Michael Jackson under went surgery yesterday to stimulate new hair growth on a patch of scalp burned during filming of a TV commercial. His doctor said he should be back in rehearsals for his world tour within "a couple weeks." The superstar singer of such recent hits as "Beat It" and "Thriller" was "doing well and feeling fine after a successful operation," Dr. Steven Hoefflin told a news conference following the 7:30 a.m. operation at Brotman Memorial Hospital. "We reconstructed an area of his scalp the size of a palm, using Michael's own skin," the plastic surgeon said. Jackson, 25, had general anesthesia for the 80-minute "major surgery," and there were no complications, Hoefflin said: world news briefs Fugitive surrenders on the television SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) A fugitive convict accused of bankrolling terrorism with funds from a fraud scheme walked onto the set of a television news show and surrendered on the air. Carlos Rodriguez Rodriguez appeared at the WAPA studios Tuesday night and gave himself up on the late night news show. Rodriguez was convicted April 14 of bank fraud and heroin possession, but was not in the courtroom when the verdict was announced. He had been free during trial on $120,000 bond and failed to appear-early in the day April 14 after prosecutors filed a motion to revoke bail. The prosecutors' motion alleged Rodriguez was connected with subversive groups and used proceeds from the $50,000 bank fraud to finance terrorist activities. U.S. District Judge Gilberto Gierbolini declared Rodriguez a fugitive when he did not show up for the hearing on the bail motion. Rodriguez appeared at the television station with two attorneys, who said he chose to surrender publicly because he feared for his life. FBI agents arrested Rodriguez at the television station and took him to the state penitentiary, according to anchorman Pedro Rosa Nales. Boats collide with 150 feared dead DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) Two boats collided in the Buri ganga River south of Dhaka, police said yesterday, and as many as 150 people were feared drowned. The motor launch Nahar, carrying about 200 passengers, broke in the middle and capsized after the collision Tuesday night, eyewit nesses said. An estimated 50 people reportly swam to safety. Many passengers were believed to have been trapped inside the boat's hull. Strong winds and a power outage delayed rescue efforts, police said. River police said they pursued the double-decker launch that hit the Nahar and steamed away to the south. Crew members of the steamer Mary Anderson, which was anchored nearby and serves as a floating restaurant, told The Associated Press they did not realize there had been a collision until the Nahar sank. 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