Page 2, The Herald, Friday, November 2, 1979

Pump is a nuclear plant problem

WASHINGTON (AP) — A
new study questions whether
emergency coollng pumps at
atomic power plants can be
relled upon to work an em

cled, posing what.one U.S.
Povernment official calls “a
potentially significant
problem” for the nuclear
industry.

The concern caused the
Nuclear Regulatory Com-

mission ta call a meeting on
43 hours notice Thuraday of
more than 60 industry
representa’ives, . including
reactor designers, {uel
euppliers and utility of-
ficlals

The government study,
based on tests at the Oak
Ridge National Laberatory
and outlined in a commission
ataff report, says earller

findings appear to have
underestimated the damage
that might be done to
cladding — metal coverings
on reactor fuel rods — during
a nuclear accident. ;

Darrell Eisenhut, acting
director of operating
reactors at the commission,
said in an interview the
agency is concerned because
the more cladding damage

there is, the more diffleuit it:

would be for cooling water
from, emergency pumps to
flow through the core during
an accident. ,
Elgenhut aald the problem,
which he described as being
‘‘notentially slgnificant,’’
might affect all U.S. nuclear
reactors. But, he em-
phasized, it is too early to tell
how many planta will have to

make adjustments.

“On most plants I don't
think It's going to be a big
problem, but a Jot of work is
going to have to be done to
show us that it’a not,"
Elsenhut sald.

Nuclear critic Ralph
Nader said the concerns are
significant enough that thoae
plants belleved to be affected

No chickening out on this policy

By ALEX BINKLEY
OTTAWA (CP)
Agriculture Minister John
Wise is hatching a policy for
dealing with chicken im-

ports, but he says it will’
remain a secret te avoid
ruffling any feathers in the
poultry business.

As details have dribbled

out about an agreement
under which Canada has to
accept 45 millton pounds of
U.S. chicken this year, thé
minister has been harshly

critized in the Commons and
by farm groups,
Butchicken processors are
also unhappy because they
say two firms, which have

Co-operation found lacking

By STEPHEN SCOTT

OTTAWA (CP) — You
would think when grown
persons want to get on with
the people’s work they would
co-operate and agree how
best to go about it.

Wouldn't you?

It's not necessarily so in
the Commons,

By appearances, two of the
most important people
charged with getting
business moving, Walter
Baker and Allan MacEa-
chen, are bickering aa much
as co-operating.

Baker is president of the
Privy Council and govern-
ment leader in the Com-
mons. MacKachen is former
president of the Privy
Council
leader of the Liberal Opposi-

on,

They are charged with
formulating their respective
parties' strategy in dealing
with business before the 260

They gave an indication
Thursday how they are
getting along with that. —

As is usual on that day,
MacEachen asked Baker
what “business the govern-

and now is House .

ment wants to deal with in
the next week, 4
Baker said he couldn't say
becawe questions posed to
the Liberals in a House
loaders meeting this week
had not been answered.
posed to be confidential,
sup to be ¢ ential,
hut everybody knows that
the government is asking for
limitations on debating

time.)

MacEachen told Baker he
would have an answer today
but the Tory should be able
to say what the business of
the Commons will be without
those answers.

Baker said no and that was
the end of that exchange.

Baker and MacEachen ap-
pear to be getting along just
as well ap they did when
thelr roles were reversed in
the last Parliament.
MacEachen has said rather
acidly that he will give
Baker as much co-operation
as Baker gave last
seaslon — little.

Baker has made clear he
considers the Liberals are
obstructing the business of
the Commons, Liberals say
that they are not ob-

. atructionist but they are not
about to give a bunch of
debate-restricting com-
mitments that they falled to
get from Baker when he was
in oppoaltion,

Tories admit they playeda
bit of a holdup game on occa-
sion last seasion but they be-
lieve the Liberals are
playing it dirtier this session.

And so it goes.

The basic Liberal premise
is that any government
claim to ency has no
credibilit ecause the
Conservatives waited -4 1:2
months after their election
before opening Parliament.

Meanwhile, the Commons
continued Thursday stut-
tering through clause-by-
clause debate on govern-
ment legislation to give
legistative authority to Lib-
eral budget programs that
came into effect last fall. In
this case, Liberals and Con-
servatives sit atill while the
New Democrats criticize.

The government says that
all legislation relating to the
last budget must be ap-

_ proved before the Commons
goes on to business resulting

from the change of govern-
ment May 22. .

After May 22, Baker said
he wanted frequent con-
sultations with House
leaders so that the business
of the Howse can be swifter,
He talked then and now

about co-operation with the.

oppoaiton.

Threatening
to quit talks

LONDON (AP) — Black
nationalist guerrillas
_threatened to "pack our baga.
and go back to war” unless
aeteeals modifies ' Ita
pro over contro
Zimbabwe Rhodesia during
@ proposed ceasefire and
new elections in the African
country, :

“Britain's. Conservative
government will not ‘rest
until we actually
capitulate,'' guerrilla

spokesman Eddison Zvobgo

said Thursday night,

"Tf they insist we will pack
our bags and go back to the
war. This Is make or break
for un. _

* deliberately tried under the —

agreement to hurt, poultry
producers, will be rewarded
with a virtual monopoly of
the imports,

Meanwhile those elements
of the processing industry
which have been much more
supportive of Canadian
producers will be denied
equal access to the usually-
cheaper U.S. chickens,
varlous company spokesmen
Bay.

Thetwo firmaMaple Lodge
Farms of Norval, Ont., and
the Loblaws Ltd. grocery
store organization —
imports of usually-cheaper
U.S. chicken in the last four
years to try to weaken the
recently-formed Canadian
Chicken Marketing Agency,
farmers and processors Bay.

When questioned, Wiae
will only say there will be no
special treatment for the two
firms, He refuses to
elaborate saying that under
the law, processor are en-
titled to imports based on
their foreign buyings of
chicken Inthe last few years,

But government sources
say that Wise has made it
clear. to the trade depart-
ment that there is to be no
preferentlal treatment for
the two firms and other
companies are to be treated
equally when import permits
are being sought.

In the Commons Wed-
neaday, the minister said he

FRIDAY

5 1) 10 midnight

has told June Menzies, head
of the. National Farm
Products Marketing Council,
to suggest to Maple Lodge
and Loblaws that they

deliberately increased their -

should be shut down "until
such time as the safety of
these systems is assured,’

Ina letter to Senator Gary
Hart (Dem, Colo.) and
Representative Morris Udall
(Dem, Arit.), chairmen of
congreasional nuclear power
subcommittes, Nader sald
the findings “place a grave
cloud of doubt” on the ability
of an atomic power plant’s
emergency cooling system to
cool, the core adequately
during an accident, — .

The emergency cooling
system automatically starts
when there is an interruption
of normal core cooling in a
reactor.

But, explained Elsenhut,
since. additional cladding
damage In the core would
reduce the flow of the cooling
water, the question Is
whether the emergency

cooling system can keep:

plants coal enough. -

Fuel cladding is made up
of long, thin zirconium alloy
tubes. that hold the fuel In
place inside the reactor core.
Selentista have known for
years that.the cladding can
expand or even rupture
during an accident in which

the normal flow of coollag .

war is intertupled. '
ut, Be & new repert,
“the trend of recent data
shows the likelihood of more
Fuptures, larger ruptures
and greater flow blockages
than previously believed” In
the cladding.

The new report apparently
has no direct link to the
nuclear accident at the
Three Mile Island plant last
March, In that accident,
large amounta of fuel
cladding were damaged but
the emergency -cooling
system cooled the core down
to a manageable tem-
perature,

TRIUMF
TREATS
CANCER ©

VANCOUVER (CP) -
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accelerator treated its
first cancer patients
Thursday.
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NEWS

BRIEFS -

WASHINGTON (Reuter)
— Senator Edward Kennedy
of Massachusetts on
Thursday night rellved the
incident at Chappaquiddick
10 years ago in which a
woman drowned when his
car went off a bridge and
sald: “E wish that I'd done
other things’’.

In his first television inter-
view since his aides laun-
ched a Kennedy for

- President. committee
Monday, Kennedy said:

“It will remain a personal
tragedy for me. I've ac-
cepted full responsibility for
it. There isn't a day of my
Ife that goes by in which I
don’t feel a sense of anguish
anda sense of loss about it.”

On the night of July 13,
1969, a car driven by Ken-

nedy went off a bridge on
Chappaquiddick Island,
Mass. His passenger Mary
Jo Kopechne, a 28-yearald
alde to his slain brother
Robert Kennedy, drowned.

Asked Thursday night on
ABC television's 20-20 why
he did not report the accident
until 10 hours later, the next
morning, Kennedy said;
“]'ye relived this a thousand
different times and wished
that I’d taken other kinds of

actions.

*] wish I had, on that eve-"
ning, 1 don’t question, I don't
question that. But this is the
way that it happened, this is
the way that It happened. 1
wish that I'd done other
things, but this is the way
that it happened.”

IRA weapons seized

DUBLIN (Reuter) — Irish
police have seized almost 200
guns and a large amount of

ammunition during a raidon

a foreign ship in Dublin,
polles sources sald today.

The sources said the arms,
which included U.S. military
rifles and revolvers, were
believed to have come from
the United States and were
deatined for the Provisional
Irish Republican Army.
Some heavier weapons were
also found

It was believed to be one of
the biggest arms seizures in
the republic,

Police raided the cargo
boat. early Thursday after
they were Upped off about
the shipment, the sources
sald, ’

Several persons are belng
questioned in connection
with the shipment, the
sources added.” Police
sources refueed to name the
veasel and the police have ao
far made no officlat
statement on the raid.

Its us or more war

SAN SALVADOR (AP) —
Ei Salvador's new ruling
junta, hit by a wave of
political violence that has
taken 72 lives since it came
to power 18. days ago, ap-
pealed to the public to accept

+ the new government or risk
clvil war.

“There are two roada to
resolve our problems.” junta
leader Col. Adolfo Arnoldo
Majano sald in a television
address to the Central
American nation Thursday.

“The road to violence and
civil war that extreme right-
and left-wing minorities
want, to force us into, (or) a
regime of participation and
true social change urged by
the armed farces.""

Arnoldo Majano and a
second army colonel led the
coup that toppled President
Carlos Humberto Romero on.
Oct. 15. Three civillans then
joined the junta in a bid to
give’ it -broad-based
representation,

French ganster shot

PARIS (CP) — French
gangster Jacques Mesrine,
wanted in Canada for
murder and armed robbery
and regarded as France's
Public Enemy No. 1, was
shot and killed today in a
working-class neighborhood
in Paris, government af-
ficials said, coe

A girlfriend of Mesrine
was reported shot and
seriously wounded in the
shootout with 50 police of-
fleers directed personally by
Police Chief Maurice
Bouvier,

The handsome, flam-

boyant Mesrine had em-
barrassed French police for
months, slipping in and out
of Paris and France despite
a, country-wide dragnet,

A special police antl-
banditry squad, which had
been tracking Mesrine was
several weeks, finally,
cornered him at Porte de,
Clagnancourt, northern
Paris. .

Mesrine was reported
taken unawares by police at
the wheel of his car and shot
before he had time to use two
hand grenades found in the
vehicle.

Jaggers get divorce

LONDON (AP) — In a
brief 18-minute hearing after
months of transatlantic legal
argument, rock star Mick
Jagger and his jet-setter
wife, Bianca, were granted a
divorce today in a London
court. Terms of any financial
settlement were not dis-
closed. ;

The 36-year-old leader of
the Rolling Stones rock
group and the 32-year-old
Nicaraguan-born Bianca had

been married for eight
years. ;

Jagger was not present but
his wife, who filed for
divorce on grounds of
adultery, seemed to had
back tears as she took the
witness stand in the High
Court, reporters said.

Dressed in black and
wearing a pillbox hat and
veil, the discoloving Mrs.
Jagger was in the witness
box only three minutes.

So much for freedom

LA PAZ (AP) — Bolivia's
new military strongman,
Col. Alberta Natusch,
declared a state of siege,
dissolved Congress and had
himself named president
only howra after ieading a
bloody coup and promising
his countrymen political
freedom.

The state of siege, which
- suspends all constitutional
arantees, Was announced
te Thursday and came
amid rumors that a counter-
coup would be attempted,
Students, unions and major

political parties oppose
Natusch, denouncing him as
a military dictator.

At least six students and
workers were killed in
Clashes with soldiers
throughout the count
Thursday after Natusc
seized power from President
Walter Guevara’s civilian
sovernment. Guevara's
regime was Bolivia’s first
democratically elected
government in a decade and
took power only 11 weeks’
ago. Natusch declared
himself president and named
a cabinet.

Assassination reported

LONDON (AP)
Ayatollah Ruhollah
Khomelni's envoy in
rebellion-torn Kurdistan
province in northwestern

. Iran haa been assassinated,

. Tehran Radio
today. ;

“One or more persons
tiding motorcycles” shot
and killed Ayatollah Haj
Seyyed Mohammed All Hadi
Tabatabal, the radio said in
a broadcast monitored in
London.

reported

It did not say when the
assassination occurred and
gave no other details of the
shooting. Tabatabal was
described as Khomeini's
representative In the Kur-
dish city of Tabriz...

The radio quoted another
Moslem leader, Ayatollah
Shari Atmadari, as saying
the assassination wes ‘the
result of conspiracies of the
enemies of Islam and Iran
Against the islamic
Republic,"

Blacks attack police

SOWETO (AP) — Black
Ruerrillas blasted a police
Station with hand grenades
and automailc weapons fire
in an earlymorning attack
today in this sprawling South
African black ghetto,

Two policemen died of
bullet wounds. Another
policeman and a civilian

yetande: also) = Were
wounded,

All the shooting victims
were black,

Police units poured into
the community of more than

one million people, located 16
kilometres southwest of

Johannesburg, to mount
roadblocks and search

house-to-house f t-
-_tackera, or thes