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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Su
preme Court on Tuesday narrowed
the power of local communities to
ban or limit door-to-door soliciting.
By a 6-3 vote, the court in effect
said a Watseka, Ill., ordinance that
allowed soliciting only between 9
a.m. and 5 p.m. Monday through
Saturday violated free-speech rights.
The decision was not accompa
nied by a written opinion. The jus
tices, without bothering to hear ar
guments in the case, upheld a
federal appeals court ruling that
struck down the city ordinance.
The Watseka City Council in 1979
barred residential soliciting for any
reason prior to 9 a.m. and after 5
p.m. Soliciting on Sundays and holi
days was banned.
In 1981, a representative of the Il
linois Public Action Council re
quested permission to conduct a two-
month, door-to-door political can
vass between the hours of 4 and 9
p.m. each weekday.
IPAC is a not-for-profit organiza
tion that represents low- and moder
ate-income people in energy, tax
and economic development matters.
The organization uses such can
vasses to obtain new members, edu
cate the public and identify voters
who will support its positions.
IPAC, which contends it cannot
conduct successful canvasses if not
allowed to contact people at home
after 5 p.m., threatened to sue Wat
seka over the soliciting ban. But the
city sued first in an effort to have the
ordinance declared valid.
In other matters, the court:
• Agreed to review the power of
public school officials to censor
school newspapers published as part
of a high school’s curriculum.
The court will study a ruling that
a Hazlewood, Mo., high school prin
cipal violated students’ free-speech
rights in 1983 by ordering two pages
deleted from an issue of a student-
produced newspaper.
• Bolstered the government’s
power to collect from banks and
other lenders back taxes owed by
businesses that borrow from those
lending institutions.
The Internal Revenue Service al
ready is empowered to collect back
taxes from creditors if an employer
uses the borrowed money to pay
wages without withholding taxes. By
a unanimous vote in a case from Jer
sey Shore, Pa., the court said the IRS
can do so even if the lender was not
notified of such a tax liability.
• Agreed to referee a dispute be
tween Wisconsin and the federal
government over the placement in
nursing homes and other health care
facilities of Medicaid patients.
• Refused to say in a Maryland
case that women have a constitu
tional right to attend health club aer
obics classes without men present.
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Soviet scientist seeks rules
for worldwide nuclear safety
WASHINGTON (AP) — A top
Soviet scientist, conceding his nation
was too slow to tell the world about
the “unthinkable” disaster at Cher
nobyl, called Tuesday for global
rules on the safety of nuclear power
plants and to ensure that informa
tion about future accidents is shared
quickly.
In a rare congressional appear
ance by a Soviet official, Yevgeny
Velikhov, the man assigned to bring
the Chernobyl disaster under con
trol and to investigate its causes, tes
tified to the Senate Labor Commit
tee about the April 26, 1986,
accident and its aftermath.
Velikhov, the vice president of the
Soviet Academy of Sciences, agreed
with the complaint of committee
Chairman Edward M. Kennedy, D-
Mass.,.that the Soviet government
should have shared news of the tra
gedy immediately, rather than re
maining quiet for days.
“That is my personal view,” said
Velikhov, a top nuclear adviser to
Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev.
“At the time, I think most of our in
terest was connected with internal
developments. But I agree with you,
and, for the future, I think it is im
portant to have informational
agreements” regarding any serious
incidents involving nuclear power
plants.
When Sen. Thad Cochran, R-
Miss., asked if he favored an “inter
national regime of safety standards,”
Velikhov, in halting English, replied
“Yes. It is necessary to develop spe
cial standards. I think that is very im
portant.”
He said his government already
has agreed in principle to allow in
ternational on-site inspections of So
viet nuclear plants, adding he per
sonally would favor having such a
program administered by the Inter
national Atomic Energy Agency.
Velikhov said six human errors
triggered the Chernobyl accident,
which occurred during a special ex
periment on reactor No. 4. They in
cluded turning off an automatic
shutdown system and an automatic
cooling system.
Kennedy: ‘‘After everybody
thought these errors were impossi
ble?”
Velikhov: “They were unthink
able.”
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nition plant when thecollisi
curred, but no one on the;
was injured, he said.
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military plane and twi
aboard the private plan
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identified, and Garlinger
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Although Chernobyl inevitably
will slow down the Soviet Union’s
nuclear power program, Velikhov
said, “We have no choice” but to
press ahead with it to meet the coun
try’s burgeoning power needs.
Farmer Glenn Y'an Dyttl
w as driving his tractor in
near the installation, said
saw a bright Hash and lob
I and saw these pieces
down out ol the sky.”
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Rucker, Ala., the FAA;
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Trea
sury Secretary James A. Baker III
will meet on Wednesday with the fi
nance ministers of Canada and Ja
pan to discuss monetary issues, but
there was little indication that the
Reagan administration is ready to
join in steps to ease the dollar’s sharp
fall.
Adminstration officials, who
spoke on the condition of anonym
ity, said Tuesday that despite the re
cent plunge in the dollar — which
this week brought the currency to a
new post-World War II low against
the Japanese yen — Baker seems
content to allow the dollar to con
tinue falling with market pressures.
That’s because a lower dollar
should eventually begin to ease this
nation’s trade deficit, estimated at a
record $173 billion last year.
A lower dollar makes imports
more expensive and U.S. goods
cheaper overseas.
However, the dollar has been de
creasing in value steadily for nearly
two years, while the trade deficit has
actually worsened.
Still, administration officials and
private economists say that — de
spite a miserable showing in Novem
ber — monthly trade figures have
been generally improving since last
summer, and that a further decline
of the dollar against major curren
cies could soon translate into a
marked decrease in imports.
Baker planned meetings with Ca
nadian Fianance Minister Michael
Wilson in Ottawa and Japanese Fi
nance Minister Kiichi Miyazawa in
Washington.
Japanese and West German offi
cials have voiced concern that the
plunge of the dollar — and the ac
companying rise of their currencies
against it — could trigger recessions
in their countries.
Miyazawa is expected to approach
Baker with a request for a high-level
meeting of finance ministers and
central bankers from the world’s five
major industrial powers — the
United States, West Germany, Brit-
ain, France and Japan — to consider
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NEW YORK (AP) — The stock
market finished mixed Tuesday in
heavy trading, after being whip-
sawed through the session by bouts
of profit-taking and amid disap
pointment with IBM’s earnings for
the fourth quarter.
The Dow Jones average of 30 in
dustrial stocks closed 1.97 points
higher at 2,104.47, its 13th straight
gain, a record. 1’he closely watched
indicator had dropped by around 10
points at one time during the af
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