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J: Page 8/The Battalion/Tuesday, July 19,1983 i-'; Officials say radiation release 4 not hazardous’ United Press International AIKEN, S.C. — Technicians at the top-secret Savannah River Plant say a malfunction that re leased radioactive tritium into the air was of “minor consequ ence,” but steps are being take to ensure a similar incident does spokesman Jim Gaver said Sun- da not occur. Department of Energy ay night he could not reveal what went wrong at the plant’s chemical separation facility at 11:30 p.m. Saturday because the installation’s operation is secret. “It was due to an equipment malfunction,” Gaver said. “The cause of the malfunction has been identified. The piece of equipment that was involved is back in service.” State health officials in Geor gia and South Carolina closely monitored the incident throughout the night as did offi cials of DuPont Corp., which runs SRP for the Energy De partment. Millionaire fights to be the porno McDonald's’ United Press International PERRY, Mich. — Terry Whit man sneaked up on seven Michi gan cities and became a pornog raphy millionaire. Now he hopes to sneak up on Ohio, Pennsylvania, Indiana, Tennes see, Illinois and Kentucky and become a multimillionaire. “I sneak up on cities. We use a lot of different names so they don’t know who we are when we come in,” Whitman said. “I’m challenging every single zoning ordinance in my way. They’re all illegal and violate constitutional rights.” their towns, but they can’t do it,” Whitman said. Whitman opened a massage parlor and book store in Warren five years ago under the names Michigan Diversified Properties and Executive Arts Studio. It opened just after the city passed an ordinance requiring special permits for adult businesses and banning them from within 500 feet of residential areas. Whitman, 35, also known as Terry Shoultes, said he wants to become “the McDonald’s of the porno industry.” From his 200-acre farm in Perry, where he grows corn and raises cows. Whitman told Sun day’s Detroit News, “The law T ’s on my side.” “People all across this state have tried to keep me out of Whitman opened his shops within 50 feet of homes, without applying for a permit. The legal battle has gone on for five years. Last month, the massage parlor was ordered closed for one year. Whitman is appealing the deci sion and seeking compensation for lost earnings. Meanwhile, he earns an aver age $1,000 a month from each massage parlor and about $24,000 from each book store. Whitman says he plans to help Michigan’s economy by making some films on his farm. “Instead of spending millions on video cassettes from Califor nia, I could get tax credits for bringing money into the state,” he said. “Porno is really a big industry that could benefit Michigan.” Despite Michigan’s bleak eco nomy, Whitman’s stores in the state doubled sales to $2.2 mil lion last year. He’s opening new massage parlors and book stores in several cities and is looking to expand in the Detroit area. Whitman plans to file a $20 million harassment suit against the Warren police department for allegedly photographing and recording the license num bers of his patrons. His lawyer, Gregory Lord, said Whitman is a self-made mil lionaire and that he usually wins his legal challenges. “He’s a regular Horatio Alger story,” Lord said. “He went from being penniless and literal ly living in the streets to a mil lionaire.” lALITY - Kvboys — It day of s aks. It was r ali; choice Mined the ■The local Hses — a -oiiId have was com break! The Westlake a break from left to right: Hyline Drill Team from Austin takes an exhausting day of practice. From Anna Bayardo, Jana Howard, Erica Peterson attending University and Elizabeth Benson. U.S.A. drill team stmff photo by Brenda Du trouble-11 ee haid pin-pr ■The nam The girls veolfwo conv camp at have whether res I America Bny Dorse Ruled in Florida Monday u Court allowing execution* Safety council lists top causes of home fires United Press International CHICAGO — The National Safety Council lists the five top causes of home fires — and ways to prevent them: 1. CARELESS SMOKING. Fire most frequently occurs in the living room when someone drops a cigarette on upholstered furniture where it smoulders for hours before bursting into flame. Never smoke when you are overtired, taking strong medication or drinking alcohol. Never smoke in bed. 2. HEATING. Have your central heating system checked annually. Change the air filter to keep the fan from overheating. Never store materials near a fur nace, keep portable heaters three feet from walls or objects, and use screens in front of fire places. 3. COOKING. Don’t leave cooking unattended. Never throw water on a grease fire; it will spread the flames. Exting uish a pan fire by covering it with a lid, an oven fire by closing the oven door. 4. ELECTRICITY. Defective appliances and overloaded cir cuits are major causes of fires. Use approved appliances, and check power cords that are sub ject to wear. Don’t run cords under carpeting or over nails. 5. CHILDREN. Keep match es out of the reach of children. United Press International TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — The Florida Supreme Court refused Monday to block Tuesday’s scheduled executions of two half-brothers who beat and raped a woman before setting her body ablaze. Attorneys for the two men — William Riley Jent, 32, and Ernest Miller, 27 — immediately filed a motion in federal court seeking a stay, and a hearing was scheduled for 3 p.m. in Tampa. The two men are scheduled to die in the electric chair at the Florida State Prison at Starke Tuesday morning, but their ex ecutions were viewed as highly unlikely since neither man has had an appeal heard on the fed eral level. Eleanor Jackson Piel of New York, who represents Jent, and Howardene Garrett of Tampa, who represents Miller, argued before the state Supreme Court earlier Monday that their clients were innocent and asked lor time to prove it. “I have an innocent client. My client passed a lie detector test in March. So did his co-defendant (Miller),” Piel said. Jent and Miller were con victed of murdering a . girl known only as “Tammy” follow ing a motorcycle club gathering on the banks of the With- lacoochee River in July 1979. The death warrants for Jent and Miller were the 56th and but then ag; squeaky-cle; Birown at tl ■The list c beenjeopar me old nar :he Houstoi Tommy Kr; And, almost putting thei I|At baseb; B-timers ' 5/th Gov. bob fitahitr signed since becoming gou^i most to a in 1979. Only one oftheiliB“That (d warrants — that of Johntyjjhe g ame to elink on May 25, 1979-careri with been carried out. think i light now.” Although Florida has mBaseball’: only one execution in !tal most untc years, Attorney General | wners to C( Smith said earlier this iwBut rninii that recent U.S. Supremej et j decisions could lead to ('can't take c tions by this fall. n names Kissinger to panel United Press International HOLLYWOOD, Fla. — Presi dent Reagan has offered — and Henry Kissinger has accepted — the chairmanship of Reagan’s special commission on the prob lems of Central America, a senior administration official traveling with Reagan con firmed Monday. The official said Reagan, who spoke with Kissinger by tele phone Sunday night, would soon name eight other members to the bipartisan panel and that Republican and Democratic congressional leaders would appoint “senior consultants” to the study group. Reagan announced creation of the panel chaired by the for mer secretary of state in a speech to the International Longshore men’s Association convention, warning the United States “will pay a terrible price for our neg lect” if it fails to end turmoil south of its borders. Reagan’s speech to the union, expected to support his hardline stance on Central America, offered few specifics on the makeup and broad mandate of the commission. “The function will be to study the nature of U.S. interests in Central America and the threat now posed to those interests,” the official with Reagan said. The commission “will be asked to give advice to the president on long-term U.S. policy that will respond to the challenges of so cial, economic and democratic development in the region and to threats to its stability and its security,” he said. The official said Reagan had not planned to name Kissinger in his speech to the longshore men — but changed his mind after word of his choice leaked to the press Sunday night, the official said. The commission would report back to Reagan by December 1. Presidential spokesman Lar ry Speakes said special Central American envoy Richard Stone would continue to serve, inde pendent of the new panel, and “will be returning to the region sometime in the near future.” ' Reagan also pressed his case for more military aid for El Sal vador and reinforced the line he has sought to draw against the spread of communism in the hemisphere. “This is the first real com munist aggression of the Amer ican mainland,” he declared. “We tend to forget sometimes that here in the Western Hemis phere we are American from pole to pole,” he said in his pre pared remarks. “We cannot afford the luxury of turning away from our neigh- IpBut that’; | athletes a sleep well, t giey are ha rehabilitatu )nce-over, bor’s struggles as as if they didn’t matter,” Reagan said. “If we do run away, we will pay a terrible price for neglect.” In making his long-awaited announcement on the biparti san commission, Reagan adopted the same conciliatory tack he used earlier to overcome political hurdles to Social Secur ity reform and development of the MX missile. it’s time; The address was Reagan’s most detailed statement on Cen tral America since an April 27 speech to a joint session of Con gress and one of his strongest to date. fueled by the Soviet Uniat 11 Cuba is spreading insurMl P Iime c and threatening buddingdefr^y’ 1, cracy in El Salvador. e who Reagan also called alter■ al ‘P la y ers - to Tuesday’s fourth anniveflBr . the Sandinista revolutiorP‘ ln Nicaragua, branding it, “alf, em 8 ( volution of broken prom®. ’ and accusing the SandinistJlj 'j 1 “ replacing one dictatorship'll/ 1 ? t le another. Welcome un place ti Since April, Reagan Cuba has stepped up the! military personnel and weapons to Nicaragua anil added, “This cannot beallei Reagan suggested a recent decline in public support for his policies was due to a lack of understanding of “the serious ness of the situation” in Central America, where, he said, a war to continue. Reagan took note of plaints that El Salvador made inadequate progress civil rights, but insisted thel backed government “is mot in the right direction.” !:35-4:45- Chrlst Rict :" SUP ^ Senators say recovery hindered United Press International WASHINGTON — Two key senators and a top Wall Street banker said economic recovery could be threatened unless Con gress acts to control its $200 bil- lion-a-year deficits, but a leading economist said he expected little action before the 1984 elections. Sen. Jake Garn, R-Utah, chairmen of the Senate Banking Committee, said during an in terview Sunday on ABC’s “This Week with David Brinkley” that Congress must find the political courage to cut back on social spending. “We simply have not even scratched the surface” in reining back social programs, Garn said. McDona/ds/\ r\ £C/o«.l y \ Bryan/College Station Big Mac® 16 oz. Soft Drink ★★★★★★★★★★★★ Regular Size French Fries J" Offer good July 1-Aug. 7 ★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★ SUdcUt QcUleSuj, announcs-s. a if2zaLa£ s/zoiv and s.a£s try tfz£. joCCovaLncj toca£ aitis-ti: KeMtiee+t feoo+uz foe JJutcUuticut RoAgIuz Goi/MfUa ZJfd. VJO dd uc (js. on dii-gaij from d\/[ondcuf ffdjj iS tfz zu c^atuxdaij f-'-dy 23. go in ui foz a zenE-fitLon & ms.e.t tfzs. aztiits. on tfzuxidaij gudtj zi from 4~g:00 fi.m. 2551 <S- dde-XCLi. (doCCsgE Station, dds-xai 693-2820 Similar views were expressed by Sen. William Proxmire of Wisconsin, the senior Democrat on the banking panel, and Hen ry Kaufman, senior economist in the investment banking firm Salomon Bros. The trio said the economic re covery now underway could be threatened by the deficits and growing interest rates. But economist Alan Greens pan, who was chairman of Presi dent Gerald Ford’s Council of Economic Advisers, said on NBC’s “Meet the Press” that waiting until 1985 to act to bring down the deficit and growing in terest rates would not endanger the recovery. Proxmire. disagreed with Garn’s contention that taxes Itt SI should not be raised to deficit, and pointed to thei| O j rocketing cost of Medicareaipj^ example of a benefit growing out of control. Kaufman complained M recent years Congress has I “what is most politically [ able” — reducing taxes -t| “We have not done whatsH have been done — removel indexation on many of the] penditure programs.” He argued that automatic J creases in public and pri'| pensions and payments, ind ing cost-of-living pay ,l should be eliminated. Greenspan said now wouMJ a good time for the Federal! - serve Board to tighten f money supply a bit. mm efficient nome? CHICKEN FRIED STEAK at The Cow Hop Chicken Fried Steak Large Order of French Fries 16 oz. Ice Tea — Free Refills *00 3:! 8N0V JhtSE >00 846*1588 317 University iA$T Northgate Void . 7-26-83 WEST