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Wednesday, December 17, 19867The Battalion/Page 13 - areas vei ^mining wheii t: | -of-interest lad ther clients siitfl » n ngofl985j lobbying firm. ri inient, Deaiejj 1 with Canada i ;w Lewis, die I'i] ‘in pollution,! tnadians. WhJ lver had pushyJ post. S for Canada,!i<| tt Deavermath >bbying therst] )articipated sets; House. 'ogei larmai 2 more die in aftermath of nuke accident NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — The [deaths of two more men from Iburns suffered when a hot water ipipe ruptured at the Surry nu- Iclear power plant raised the toll |to four, and a watchdog group said Tuesday that made it the |deadliest accident ever at a U.S. fnuclear plant. It also brought to nine the inumber of fatalities since the Vir- Iginia Power plant opened in 11972, and officials of the Nuclear llnformation and Resource Serv- |icein Washington said its records Ishowed that was the highest total |for any plant in the country. The two workers were burned jDec. 8 when an 18-inch steel pipe Iburst and released 30,000 gallons |of boiling water and steam at [Surry Unit 2. No radioactive [materials were released, authori- Ities said. Two other workers died last [week. Two workers remained hospi- Jtalized, one in critical condition. |Two others were released after itreatment. Nicaraguan president calls Hall ‘mentally unbalanced’ MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP) — President Daniel Ortega said Tues day that Sam Nesley Hall, identified by Nicaragua as the American caught near an air base with maps stuffed in his sock, is a “mentally un balanced person.” He also said Hall brought explo sives into the country to help U.S.- backed Nicaraguan rebels, or Con tras, fight the Sandinista govern ment. Nicaragua says the man it identi fies as Hall, 49, of Dayton, Ohio, was arrested Friday in a restricted zone near the Punta Huete air base, 13 miles northeast of Managua. U.S. re ports say he is the brother of Rep. Tony P. Hall, D-Ohio. In a brief meeting with reporters, Ortega said, “Flail is a mentally un balanced person, led by mentally un balanced people who lead the North American policy against Nicaragua.” “Hall admitted that he brought explosives to combat and to help the mercenaries,” Ortega added. “Also, he came to find out about our bases and our helicopters as part of the plans by United States leaders to bombard Nicaragua.” Nicaragua has refused repeated requests by the U.S. Embassy to send a diplomat to visit the prisoner and determine his identity. No journal ists have been allowed to talk with the suspect and there was no inde pendent verification of the Nicara guan claims. The president said Hall’s case would be handled in the same man ner as Eugene Hasenfus, who is serving 30 years in prison after be ing convicted of helping fly arms and weapons to the Contras. Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Lorena Cuernavaca said the ministry was waiting for a report from the In terior Ministry, which is in charge of security, before granting access to the prisoner. Interior spokeswoman Alma Mo rales said Tuesday the only informa tion she had was two days old. “I don’t know what prison he is in,” she said. “I don’t know who is in terrogating him.” Government officials said Mon day night that the man identified as Hall was being questioned at the El Chipote prison in Managua, where political prisoners are kept. They said he had not yet been charged and was being held under a law that gives security agencies wide powers of search and arrest. According to the government, the prisoner said he belonged to a pri vate organization called the Phoenix Battalion that conducted military in telligence work on behalf of U.S. in terests. Actions by the Sandinistas in this case are similar to those after Ameri can mercenary Eugene Hasenfus was captured Oct. 6, the day after a missile downed his cargo plane in the jungles of southern Nicaragua. U.S. Embassy officials had to wait four days for an 11-minute talk with Hasenfus, who was later tried and sentenced to 30 years in prison. He is at the Tipitapa prison, 12 miles east of Managua, where an esti mated 1,500 members of the late President Anastasio Somoza’s mili tary also are held. In Washington, Tony Hall said he knew his brother supported the Contras, but the congressman added, “I didn’t know what he was doing in Nicaragua.” Baby boomers cited as focus of jump Number of unwed couples on rise E, Calif. (AP! led its way winds of Ti]i fuesdav as ik? ne headed tow! in its crew's Hit fly around ikM lonetaniofja t shot the E ■ bullet," diitfs n Snellmanst pilot Did It e northern b WASHINGTON (AP) — The umber of unmarried couples living fifogether in America has jumped Biarply to top the 2 million mark for tlie first time, the Census Bureau re- . ported Tuesday. I There are about 2.22 million un- Biarried-couple households in the IJnited States, up from 1.98 million last year, the bureau figures showed. I The post-World War II baby boom generation has been widely Cited as the focus of this increase in recent years, as young people post- placed Yortfl B° ne d marriage and families in fa- 1 the typhoocis Bor of education and careers. - Although they have not married as readily as their parents and grandparents, many have formed five-in relationships, situations that have become more socially accepti- ing up 40 if I it on its (jutsi lours into tkl ornia, the li^ h the aedi 9-foot winy;; miles on ’ fl'ght. It raveling at d over the Pk ble in recent years, sociologists say. At the same time unwed couples were increasing, a resurgence of the traditional married-couple family was being reported by the popula tion newsletter the Numbers News. Analyzing unpublished Census data, the newsletter found that married- couple families had increased for the first time in 15 years as people who had delayed matrimony were finally settling down and having families. That did not prevent the renewed growth in unwed couples, however. The estimated increase of 237,000 unmarried couples would be the largest jump in that category in this decade. Steve Rawlings of the Cen sus Bureau cautioned against over emphasizing that jump, however. “We see a lot of bounding around in (statistics) and I generally try not to put a great deal of emphasis on one-year changes,” he said in a tele phone interview. More meaningful is the increase over time, Rawlings said, with the to tal of unwed couples growing rap idly from 523,000 in 1970 to 1.6 mil lion in 1980 and then showing a gradual increase in this decade. The 1970 total constituted about 1.2 percent of all couples in the na tion, Rawlings said. By 1980 their share had jumped to 3.1 percent, and now it is 4.1 percent. The new Census study found that the majority of householders in un married couples — 51.5 percent — have never been married. But 33.8 percent were divorced, 8.3 percent separated and 6.6 percent widowed. The largest share, 42.6 percent, were between the ages of 25 and 34 years. They were followed by the un- der-25 age group at 22 percent; 35 to 44 years, 18 percent; 45 to 64 years, 12.5 percent; and over 65, about 5 percent. The median age of householders in unwed couples — the term replac ing head of household — is 31.6 years, up from 30.9 years in 1980. While the term “unmarried cou ple” can imply some sort of intimate relationship, that is not always the case, and the Census Bureau does not ask the nature of a couple’s relationship. 8, went tosk®] ir ordeal irbulence :o-pilot Jeans I fO*'- had beenesp* he front enj conomvbef m, but desi; pilot's broi istponed s still tooWj fuel r engine. 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