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the nation THE BATTALION Page11A MONDAY, AUGUST 28, 1978 I'S Leakage area declared safe parlici. ! should ingini I'Witllj rtsman. expeij. nave i muse is United Press International ROCK, Kan. — The Air Force al- owed 125 residents Saturday to re- urn to their homes they left two lays earlier because of a toxic rocket iropellant leak at an underground 'itan II missile silo. Col. John Hampton, commander if the 381st Strategic Missile Wing if the Air Force, declared the area afefor the evacuated civilians to re- m. One crew member was killed and two others were seriously injured in the leak Thursday. The residents of Rock and area farmers had been evacuated as a precautionary mea sure. Rock is located 21/2 miles north of the missile site. "We have determined the area is safe and residents may return to their homes,” Jim Graham, an Air Force spokesman, said late Satur day. Workers had pumped more than 80,000 gallons of water into the missile silo to stabilize the leakage of the propellant nitrogen textroxide. However, plans to dump a neu tralizer, ammonium hydroxide, into the silo, remained in the planning stages late Saturday afternoon. A spokesman for the Strategic Air Command in Omaha, Neb., said the neutralizer would form ammonium nitrate, a fertilizer, than can be ex plosive when dry. However, au thorities said the Air Force planned to keep the mixture in liquid form. A decision on how to remove the thousand of gallons of waste, water and ammonia from the silo had not been made, Graham said. The same fuel propellant leaked at a similar silo 25 miles southeast of Wichita 14 years ago. The 1964 bro ken pressure disk injured 11 maintenance workers, non se riously. • xk -roffc 11 UNIVERSITY REFRIGERATORS FREE PICK-UP & DELIVERY 846-8350 Murder link doubtful United Press International LOS ANGELES — Police said that although laboratory tests aimed at linking a Greeley, Colo., rape suspect with the 13 Hillside Strangler murders will not be completed until early next month, it is doubtful the analysis will be positive. Alan Edward Peterson became a suspect in the California slay ings after his girlfriend told Greeley authorities he ranted about "killing girls in the woods and hills in Los Angeles” while sexually assaulting her. Peterson was arrested in Greeley several weeks ago on charges of raping his girlfriend and is being held at the Colorado State Hospital for psychiatric ex amination. Los Angeles police collected samples of Peterson’s blood, hair and fingerprints last week at the Pueblo, Colo., mental institu tion. Police said results of the labo ratory tests had been expected to be completed Friday, but be cause of a breakdown in labora tory equipment, they were not expected to be completed until early September. "A lot of things Peterson sup posedly said to the girl don’t make any sense and, while very strange, don’t tie him to the Hill side killings, one homicide de tective said Friday. “Everybody knows that the victims were strangled, but no body (except police) knows how,” he said. “Nothing Peter son said to the girl indicates that he knows how, either.” The detective said the girlfriend’s information was re jected although she passed a polygraph test concerning por tions of her statement. The wo man’s statement include reports that Peterson often disappeared from the couple’s rented Los Angeles apartment and returned “scratched, bruised and with torn and blood clothes.” The detective also said none of the Hillside victims were bloodied and had no marks or scars, except around their throats. Meanwhile, Greeley au thorities said the girlfriend had disappeared and was not ex pected to return to press her sexual assault complaints against Peterson. * * * * ruEE m rmy reserves eported down United Press International | NEW ORLEANS — The Army’s live duty units are at full strength, ut the chief of staff says its reserves ve dwindled drastically since the [iception of the all-volunteer army. IGen. Bernard W. Rogers, ad ding the national American Le- tonConvention Thursday, said the selective Service System lacks suffi cient readiness to re-implement the .draft fast enough in time of ■ emergency. Rogers .said elimination of the (raft cut deeply into reserve Inlistments because young men no (longer sought duty in those units as a means of avoiding induction. ‘p Child vandals pock down ombstones United Press International BERLIN, N.H. — Child vandals young as 5 years old — and so tiny took six of them to knock over one mbstone — are believed respon- ble for damage at three local meteries, police said Saturday. I don’t know what drove them to Sgt. Philip Faucher said. “We ve had some vandalism in the but not that severe. ” Six children, aged 5 to 8, turned I'er approximately 20 tombstones the three cemeteries near their lines last week, police said. ir by t the * for t for He said the reduction in active forces since the end of the Vietnam War also lowered reserve strength. "The greatest challenge which the volunteer environment poses for our Army today is reaching and maintaining the appropriate strength levels of our reserve forces units," Rogers said. Selective Service, which super vised the military draft until the all-volunteer concept was adopted in 1973, “is in such deep standby status that, under current condi tions, it would take much too long to get our first draftees in and out of the training command and headed toward their initial units of assign ment,” Rogers said. He also told the Legionnaires the percentage of high school graduates in the Army has increased signifi cantly and hard drug abuse has de clined. He said alcoholism and marijuana use has stabilized. After Rogers spoke the Le gionnaires elected officers. John M. Carey, former four-term mayor of Grand Blanc, Mich., and holder of numerous American Le gion offices, was elected national commander of the 2.7-million member veterans’ organization. Carey, a combat veteran of World War II, was elected by acclamation for the 1978-79 term. 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