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March 26, 1982
hurch leaders claim
sanctuary for refugees
Warped
By Scott McCullar
United Press International
Churches across the nation
tave formed a network of sanc-
uaries for Salvadorans and reli
gious leaders are trying to con-
/ince authorities to exempt
church-sponsored refugees
from deportation.
“The principle of sanctuary is
not a right that can be accepted
or neglected,” the Rev. Osvaldo
Hirschmann told a Los Angeles
news conference Wednesday.
“The principle of sanctuary is a
holy right of the church, whoev
er does not repect this does not
respect God.”
Joined by local church lead
ers, Hirschmann — whose con
gregation at Angelica Lutheran
Church is comprised chiefly of
Salvadoran refugees — said
churches throughout the coun
try plan to participate in the net
work. He said 15 in Southern
California have designated
themselves as sanctuaries.
News conferences to
announce the national ecume
nical network also were held
Wednesday in Berkeley, Calif.;
Cleveland, Ohio; New York City
and Washington, D.C. The
announcements were timed to
coincide with the second
anniversary of the assassination
of Catholic Archbishop Oscar
Arnulfo Romero of El Salvador.
“We want the sanctuary to be
public, peaceful and legal,” the
Rev. Philip Zwerling, minister of
the First Unitarian-Universalist
Church, said in Los Angeles.
“We pay homage today to the
actions of Archbishop Romero,
who gave his life trying to save
the lives of the people of El Sal
vador.”
In Tucson, a Presbyterian
minister announced his church
building has become a sanctuary
for illegal aliens fleeing political
violence in El Salvador and in
troduced a Salvadoran he said
would be taken in.
As U.S. Border Patrol agents
watched from across the street,
the Rev. John M. Fife intro
duced the man identified only as
Alfredo. Fife said he w'ould be
the first refugee to be openly
housed in the Southside United
Presbyterian Church.
Fife said he could not be cer
tain the Border Patrol w'ould
observe “the church’s traditional
role as a sanctuary,” which dates
to earliest times.
“If they intend to (make an
arrest), I certainly hope they op
erate legally for a change,” Fife
told some 40 parishioners and
news reporters. “The church
has a long and honorable history
of providing sanctuary in cases
like this.”
Gary MacEoin, an author spe
cializing in Latin-American rela
tions, told the Tucson gathering
Salvadoran illegal aliens can be
defined as refugees under Un
ited Nations classifications the
United States observes.
MacEoin, a consultant to Ox-
fam-America, a worldwide hu
man rights and anti-hunger
agency, said the United States
must accept Salvadoran re
fugees as all civilized countries
must.
MacEoin alleged aliens held
by immigration authorities in
federal detention camps at El
Centro, Calif.; Harlingen,
Texas, and Brooklyn, N.Y.,
Navy yard were physically mis
treated bv authorities.
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Nuclear plant shut down
United Press International
BUCHANAN, N.Y. — Offi
cials ordered a cold shutdown of
the Indian Point Unit 3 nuclear
pow'er plant 35 miles north of
New York City Thursday be
cause a leak in a steam generator
pipe sent a small amount of
radioactive steam into the atmo
sphere.
The officials said the amount
of radioactive gas that escaped
into the air over surburban
Westchester County was tiny.
The leak was declared an “un
usual event,” the lowest classifi
cation of nuclear accident.
A spokesman for the Nuclear
Regulatory Commission in
Bethesda, Md., said: “There was
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no reason to disturb the neigh
bors.” He said the leak was of
such a small magnitude that
emergency procedures outside
the plant w'ere not necessary.
The release of 100 gallons of
water, which became steam
when it hit the atmosphere, be
tween 9:50 p.m. and midnight
Wednesday was measured at
.002 millirems of radioactivity,
officials said. The maximum
annual federal dose limit is 500
millirems.
Jack Brumfield, a spokesman
for the New' York State Power
Authority, said the w'ater, at ab
out 500 degrees, flashed as it en
tered the atmosphere, turned
into steam and escaped through
vents in the building. Some of
the radioactive water was also
absorbed into the plant’s nor
mally non-radioactive secon
dary system.
He said the 965-megawatt
plant was at about 300 degrees at
mid-morning and w'as being
brought to cold shutdown.
which he defined as under 200
degrees. Brumfield said the au
thority believed only one of the
13,000 tubes in the steam gener
ator was affected.
“It took a while to determine
whether we had a leak or not
and if the leak was substantial
enough to shut the plant down.
We decided for general safety
reasons to shut down,” Brum
field said.
The NRC spokesman in
Bethesda said the leak was very
similar to one in January at the
Girina nuclear plant in Ontario,
N.Y., about 16 miles northeast
of Rochester. That leak was
caused by a ruptured tube in the
plant’s steam generator.
Brumfield said it would take
about a week before workmen
could enter the containment
building where the reactor is lo
cated to make assessments and
repairs. The leak and shutdown
occurred two days before the
plant was scheduled to be shut
down for routine maintenance.
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