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' these c? enter, SJ ssofeac^ w Office resident er lay 5, ladder 8,504^’' Rudder ■Mi Monday, May 5, 1986/The Battalion/Page 5 World and Nation ss& Soviets angry over withholding charges MOSCOW (AP) — The Soviet Union responded angrily Sunday to Western charges it withheld essential information on the nuclear reactor disaster, and one top Kremlin offi cial said that although the plant still was leaking radiation there was no danger outside a 12-mile radius. The official media claimed the United States was trying to poison world opinion against the Soviet Union and draw attention away from its own nuclear test program. Boris Yeltsin, the Moscow Com munist Party chief, told The Asso ciated Press in an interview in Ham burg. West Germany, that 49,000 residents of four settlements near the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in the Ukraine had been evacuated. He said it was difficult to say when they could return home, and said farming had been halted and live stock slaughtered within a 12-mile radius of the plant because of radio active fallout. Yeltsin said the accident at the re actor 80 miles north of Kiev oc‘- curred April 20. Another Soviet offi cial. Georgi A. Arbatov, speaking from Moscow over the British Broadcasting Corn, radio, said it oc cur! ed late April 20 or the next day. Atmospheric radiation levels soared throughout Europe imrtiedi- ately after the accident, but by Sun day had returned to normal or near- normal in most places. However, in creases in ground-level radioactivity were recorded in Austria and parts of central West Germany, where readings reached five times above normal. West German authorities stressed that there still was no health hazard, hut advised against swimming out doors or eating leafy vegetables. Both Yeftsin and Arbatov, who is Poland not downplaying nuclear disaster WARSAW, Poland (AP) — The Communist gov ernment of Poland is confronting the twin problems of protecting people from radiation originating in the Soviet Union and being candid, about the issue without offending the Kremlin. Poland’s eastern border is 300 miles from the Chernobvl nuclear plant in the Soviet Ukraine that sjjewed clouds of radiation. And in contrast to efforts by the Soviet Union to play down the disaster and limit information about possible dangers, the Polish government moved (inickly to inform the public and take measures to re duce health hazards. Most Soviet bloc countries took the Soviet position anti provided little news about the nuclear accident. But Poland was more open, an approach that in part reflected an effort by the government to give the public more information following the 1980-81 Soli darity labor upheaval. Government spokesman Jerzy Urban said that otice it Was confirmed part of Poland was contami nated bv radiation the government decided “the event has such a character that Polish public opinion should know about it.” Some Western diplomats said they were im pressed by the government's quick response. Poland set up a special commission to monitor radiation, banned the sale of milk from grass-fed cows and or dered protective iodine solutions be given to chil dren. Members of a government commission appeared on a special television call-in program Wednesday to reassure people and answer viewers’ questions about ihe radioactive threat. “This is the fastest I’ve seen the government react to anything except for imposing martial law in 1981 (to suppress Solidarity),” said one Western diplomat, who spoke on condition he not be identified. “The authorities have acted in a very natural way with one exception — while everyone in Western Eu rope is yelling and screaming at the Soviets, they are not. The government is trying to protect its citizens Without offending or condemning the source of the problem." The Polish government has not publicly blamed the Soviets and Urban has delicately sidestepped questions from Western reporters about when the Soviet Union notified its ally about the accident and potential radiation threat. The state-run media has not mentioned com plaints by West European countries about the Sovi ets’ delay in reporting the accident nor has it ques tioned the safety of Soviet nuclear facilities. Poland is building its first nuclear power station on the Baltic coast with Soviet help. Western diplomats and some opposition activists also have criticized the government for failing to provide complete data on radiation levels. Members of the government commission told a news conference Thursday that they took great care in releasing information to avoid creating what they called “mass hysteria” that occurred after the United States’ Three Mile Island nuclear plant accident in 1979. At the news conference, commission members dis closed for the first time that maximum recorded ra diation levels were 500 times above normal in Miko- lajki, 100 miles north of Warsaw. director of the institute of U.S. and Canadian Studies, stressed that no nuclear explosion occurred. “The fire has been completely put put," Yeltsin said. “The radioactive emissions are there as they have been, but the level is constantly sink- ing." He said sand, boron and lead were being dropped from helicopt ers over the reactor to create a kind of protective shield against the emis sions. Arbatov, a frequent spokesman for the Kremlin, said the Soviets would release all information on the accident to the director of the Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency, Hans Blix, who is to arrive in Moscow today. The Kremlin has never said exac- th what happened at the reactor. It did not tell the world about the acci dent until April 28, after fallout in Scandinavia had signaled something was wrong. Ihe ilel a\ prompted criticism , from Reagan and other Western leaders. But Arbatov said the delay was because the Soviets' initial con cern was to save lives and “not to think about how to please the Amer ican government or some other gov ernment.” Arbatov, Yeltsin and the state-run -media joined Sunday in harsh rebut tals of Western reports of wide spread devastation and contami nation f rom the accident. T he official news agency Tass is sued a commentary charging that “attempts are being made by definite circles to use what has happened for unseemlv political ends.” “Rumors and fabrications which are at conflict with fundamental norms of morality were put to use for propaganda purposes. For in stance, faked reports are spread on a death- toll running into thousands, panic: among the population, etc.” The Communist Party daily, Pravda, said Western propagandists were trying “to draw world attention from the barbarity and disgraces of recent U.S. aggression against Libya, from’ tlie- nuclear blasts in Nevada which have outraged all mankind and from the militarist Star Wars, program.” Yeltsin repeated that only two people died, and said 154 were hos pitalized — up from the 148 the Kremlin said were hospitalized Wednesday. FREE SUMMER SHUTTLE $275. up Huge 2 8c 3 Bedroom Hot tube • Basketball courts • Pool PARKWAY CIRCLE Apartments 401 S.W. Parkway 696-6909 Sign lease before 5-31-86 to be eligible for Free Rent drawing M-F 9-6 Sat 10-5 Sun 2-5 THEATRE GUIDE Plitt Information 846-6 714 ‘ Post Oak III Post Oak Mall 764-0616 Gung Ho (PG-13) nightly 7:30 9:40 — . IXII OCX.MY ttrtWQ I Murphy’s Law(R) 7:40 9:40 Critters (PG-13) 7:20 9:20 Cinema III Skaggs Center 846-6714 Actor Robert Alda, 72, dies after long illness LOS ANGEUES (AP) — Actor Robert Alda, who starred as George Gershwin in the story of the composer's life, “Rhapsody in Blue," and was tlie father of actor Alan Alda, has died after a long illness. He was 72, Alda, who suffered a stroke two vears ago and never fully re covered. died Saturday night at liis Los Angeles home, Ro'lxert Za- rem. Alan Alda's New York pub licist, said Sunday. Alda’s son. star of the “M-A-S- H" television series and many films, was on his way back to Los Angeles from New York to lie with the family and could not lie readied for comment, Zarem said. He said father and son had re mained close, and Alan Alda had visited his father frequently in the last few months. “He taught me how to tell jokes,” the younger Alda said of his father during a 1973 inter view. “We would do Abbott and Costello routines. . . . We'd do ‘Who's on First-,’ ” Rolielt Alda, born Alfonso (l Abt uzzo in 1914, combined the first two letters of bis first and last names lot a stage pseudonym and wot keel many years in New York theater. He created the role of Skv Masterson in the musical “Guys and Dolls” on Broadway. He married Joan Browne, now deceased. Their son Alan was l»orh in 1930 in New York. Afghan leader gives up office BINDING -VELO -SPIRAL kinko's 210 College Maih 846-8721 ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) — Afghan leader Babrak Karmal re signed Sunday as head of the coun try’s ruling Communist party be cause of poor health and was replaced by the former chief of the state secret police, the government said. 1 he new party leader, and thus head of government, was named by government-run Radio Kabul as Na- jtbullah, who has a single name. The announcement said Karmal resigned as secretary general of the People’s Democratic Party of Af ghanistan but remained chairman of the Revolutionary Council and a member of the ruling seven-member Politburo. , Najibullah had been head of the Khad secret police with overall re sponsibility for state security. Moscow Radio also reported Kar- mal’s resignation. The radio identi fied the new Afghan leader as “Comrade Najib” and said he was Lincoln Square and Creekwood unanimously elected party secretary general. The Soviet Communist Party newspaper Pravda published an arti cle April 27 criticizing the Afghan leadership for its failure to defeat a Moslem guerrilla insurrection and for slowness in making changes in the backward Central Asian nation. Karina! was installed by Soviet troops in December 1979 when they entered Afghanistan and deposed Hafizullah Amin, who also was a communist. An estimated 115,000 Soviet troops have remained in Af ghanistan and support the govern ment's fight against the insurgents. . The announcement of the resig nation came on the eve of tlie re sumption in Geneva of U.N.-spon sored talks between Af ghanistan and neighboring Pakistan on a nego tiated settlement of the Afghan war. Karmal, 57, returned Friday from a month-long trip to the Soviet Union for medical treatment. Speculation about his future mounted last week after lie failed to appeal at key April 27 celebrations of the 1978 communist seizure of power. Afghan and Soviet diplomats in Islamabad said last week that Kar mal was in poor health but denied he was being replaced. Karmal returned to Afghanistan Thursday and the government said his medicaljUreatment in the Soviet Union took longer than expected. Karmal reportedly has a lung prob lem and there have been frequent reports that his health is poor. 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