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Residents try to prevent
start-up at 3 Mile Island
United Press International
IheemiB WASHINGTON — Neigh-
irector ’b 015 of Three Mile Island, seek-
sajdJirfg to prevent restarting of the
nuclear plant, have urged the
d w j] {t Supreme Court to spare them
t befcriffnom reliving the anguish they
»d faith-experienced following the na-
Tjn’s worst nuclear accident.
- A lawyer for residents
Bound the Three Mile Island
ipclearpower plant told the jus-
:es Tuesday that the commun-
toni'Mty had suffered severe mental
is rlwidistress after the March 1979
ity ini^ferciclent.
shrinitS “Restart brings with it the
id psychological reality of another
accident,” William Jordan said.
“A traumatized population is
now facing the possibility of
another accident.”
Jordan is asking the justices
to uphold a lower court ruling
requiring the Nuclear Regula
tory Commission to weigh
neighbors’ fears of recurring
catastrophe before allowing a
start-up of the undamaged reac
tor at the plant near Harrisburg,
Pa.
Metropolitan Edison Co.
wants to put one of the reactors
back to work generating electric
ity. Both reactors at the island
have been shut down since reac
tor No. 2 was so seriously dam
aged that radiation leaked into
the air.
Under questioning by Justice
Lewis Powell, Jordan said the
mere knowledge the plant was
running — even without visible
evidence — would be traumatic.
Last May, nearby residents
voted overwhelmingly against
reopening the reactor.
But the government’s lawyer,
Paul Bator, argued that anxiety
produced by fear of environ
mental harm is not the kind of
environmental ill the NRC is re
quired to review under the Na
tional Environmental Policy Act
of 1969.
The NRC has postponed in
definitely a decision on reopen
ing the plant until the Supreme
Court decides the case, probably
spring,
nds the
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Bator contends the govern
ment should weigh psychologic
al concerns only when it directly
alters the environment, which is
not the case at Three Mile Is
land.
Some justices were uncertain
about exactly what he meant.
“Is it because, in this instance,
it has been concluded it (starting
the reactor) is safe to physical
health?” Justice Sandra Day
O’Connor asked.
Bator replied that, “When it is
clear there are actual changes in
water, land or air that directly
propagate mental health
changes, emotional stress may
be considered.”
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United Press International
WASHINGTON — Farmers
„ f ()St millions of dollars
^ rorth of grain because the cur
rent bankruptcy laws do not
protect them if the grain eleva-
prs storing their grain go broke,
i Nebraska congresswoman tes-
jfied Tuesday.
t —I Rep. Virginia Smith, R-Neb.,
Jold a House subcommittee that
|here were 177 grain elevator in-
jolvencies, many of which ended
In bankruptcy, during a six-year
period which ended in 1981.
“Producers had lost between
R25-$50 million because their
bsets were not properly pro
tected,” she said. “Since that
time there have been some 25
bther elevators that have gone
bankrupt.
“Millions of dollars more
(have been lost to grain produc
ers because the present bank
ruptcy laws are not sufficiently
explicit about the status of assets
such as grain when farmers have
merely stored the grain in eleva
tors without transferring the ti
tle to the grain operator,” she
said.
Smith is a cosponsor of a one
of several bills introduced in
Congress that would give grain
producers a priority position in
the distribution of assets in
volved in a bankruptcy.
Another co-sponsor is Rep.
Bill Emerson, R-Mo., whose dis
trict includes the Ristine, Mo.,
elevator whose bankruptcy drew
nationwide attention when Pux-
ico. Mo., farmer Wayne Cryts
withdrew 33,000 bushels of his
soybeans from it in July 1981 in
violation of a Little Rock, Ark.,
federal judge’s order.
The warehouse was one of 1 1
owned by a bankrupt Corning,
Ark., company, and the judge
ruled the soybeans were part of
the firm’s assets under federal
bankruptcy law.
Cryts, who has been found in
civil contempt, is scheduled to
testify at a March 14, Kansas
City, Kan., meeting of the sub
committee.
“More and more of our farm
producers are finding them
selves held hostage by the bank
ruptcy process,” Emerson said.
“In fact, it has been said that
the failure of the law to adequ
ately protect the farmer whose
grain becomes entangled in an
elevator bankruptcy has jeopar
dized the integrity of the na
tion’s entire grain storage sys
tem,” he said.
Agriculture official Ed Hews
told the House Ad Hoc Subcom
mittee on Grain Elevator Bank
ruptcy that the department was
setting up plans to ensure that
farmers would not lose under
the program — where farmers
are paid surplus commodities to
stop producing crops — if an
elevator went bankrupt.
“The need for creative
thought and sound solutions to
this problem is especially urgent
in the wake of the recently
announced payment-in-kind
program,” said Rep. Dan Glick-
man, D-Kan. and subcommittee
chairman.
“Under this program, far
mers may be given ownership to
grain stored in elevators that are
far from their own farms and
with whose management prac
tices they are not familiar,” he
said. “If this program is to have a
chance at working, farmers
must have confidence in the ele
vators where their commodities
are stored.”
The sucommittee, appointed
by Rep. Kika de la Garza, D-
Fexas, held a second hearing
late Fueday on the bankruptcy
problem.
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■ WASHINGTON — The Sup-
■ reme Court, dealing states a sig-
■hificant blow, ruled 5-4 Wednes-
■ day the federal government can
■enforce age bias protections for
■state and local government
■ workers.
The decision was a victory for
g the Equal Opportunity Employ-
51 inent Commission, which had
T challenged a ruling that the fed-
I’eral age discrimination act could
K not be applied to state workers
y in Wyoming.
Justice William Brennan deli
vered the majority opinion,
which held that extending fed
eral anti-bias law to states was
not “federal intrusion that
might threaten their (states)
‘separate and independent ex
istence.’”
Wyoming had argued that
federal age discrimination re
quirements interfere with tradi
tional state functions. At issue
was whether Wyoming could
f orce a wildlif e warden to retire.
The state’s arguments were
supported by four dissenting
justices.
At the center of the age bias
dispute is the Age Discrimina
tion in Employment Act of 1967,
which prohibits employers from
discriminating on the basis of
age against workers between 40
and 70. Congress in 1974 ex
tended its protection to state and
local government workers.
The case before the court was
sparked by a Wyoming law that
permitted forced retirement for
some state employees as early as
age 55 and ordered mandatory
retirement at 65.
The law was tested when Bill
Crump, a district game division
supervisor for the Wyoming
Game and Fish Department, was
forced to retire at 55.
He filed a discrimination
complaint with the commission,
and it sued on his behalf, charg
ing the Wyoming law violated
federal regulations.
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Monday, April 4, 1983
8:00 P.M.
Rudder Auditorium
Tickets on sale March 7
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Prime Minister of Great Britain
1970-74
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1974-82
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President of the United States
1974-77
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