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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.”
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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.
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and Miller were the 56th and
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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-
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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.
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Cuba is spreading insurMl P Iime c
and threatening buddingdefr^y’ 1,
cracy in El Salvador. e who
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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
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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.”
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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.
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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
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example of a benefit
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Kaufman complained M
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have been done — removel
indexation on many of the]
penditure programs.”
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