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Health officials declare
no danger in Love Canal
At first, residents were angry and
frustrated at not being able under
stand Axelrod’s technical presenta
tion. But the mood lightened as it
became clear that most residents
were getting good news. Axelrod
recommended, however, that some
blocks were still unsafe, affecting
about 10 families.
The go-ahead for resettlement
will add to a revitalization under way
in the area.
Love Canal, an abandoned water
way project, was used by the Hooker
Chemical Co. to dispose of thou
sands of pounds of chemical wastes
in the 1940s. The company made
herbicides and pesticides.
In the 1950s, the canal andiii
contents were covered over anil
homes and an elementary school
built. It wasn’t until the early IW
that people began to notice fool
smells in their basements and oil
puddles in their yards.
I hey also began to notice highei
(ban-usual incidences of miscar
riages, birth defects, cancer, leute
mia, neurological disease, allergies
epilepsy and suicide.
In all, 728 homes in a 50-blod
area were evacuated and the d
ementary school and 228 house!
torn down.
Radiation device
sounds ‘too late’
NIAGARA FALLS, N.Y. (AP) —
State, health officials declared Tues
day that it is safe for hundreds of
former residents to return to Love
Canal, the neighborhood that be
came world famous for chemical
contamination.
State Health Commissioner Dr.
David Axelrod said most areas of
Love Canal contain no more chemi
cals than other neighborhoods in the
industrial city.
The long-awaited finding was
hailed by Love Canal residents who
feared that the neighborhood would
not be resettled but would be left va
cant as a symbol of environmental
disaster.
“We’ve been waiting for this for
10 years,” Nunzio LoVerdi, who
lived in a housing project in Love
Canal said. “I’ll be the first to move
back.”
As part of the state ruling, a task
force of local officials will create a
plan to resettle the community and
assist homeowners in renovating
their homes, many of which have
fallen into disrepair.
Hundreds of families had been
awaiting the decision to determine
whether they can return to the
homes they left 10 years ago when
President Jimmy Carter declared the
area a national disaster. As many as
80 other families were hoping the
study would confirm their decision
to stay in their homes near the for
mer chemical dumpsite.
Niagara Falls Mayor Michael
O’Laughlin said the decision will be
good for the city.
“It won’t mean a landslide of peo
ple moving back,” O’Laughlin said.
“But it will mean the city will begin
to put the nightmare behind it.”
Axelrod met with some 200 resi
dents of the area Tuesday night to
announce his findings.
Phillips’ plan
to relocate
affects 125
BARTLESVILLE, Okla. (AP) —
Phillips Petroleum Co. is relocating
part of its operations from its
Denver office to Texas in a consol
idation that will affect about 125 em
ployees, spokesman Dan Harrison
said Tuesday.
Harrison said the regional explo
ration and production office and the
partnership,operations now based in
Denver will be merged with com
pany offices in Houston and Borger,
Texas.
He described the consolidation as
part of the ongoing effort to im
prove profitability during this pe
riod of low (crude oil) prices.
The Denver office, headquarters
for Phillips’ operations in the north
western United States, has about 240
employees, Harrison said.
Approximately 210 of those em
ployees are in exploration and pro
duction, he said.
Of the 125 Phillips employees in
Denver affected by the streamlining
move, Harrison said a large portion
of those people are going to be of
fered jobs in the other areas where
Phillips operates.
About 80 of the Phillips employ
ees affected are professionals, he
said.
“We think the bulk of those pro
fessional people will be offered posi
tions,” Harrison said.
He said jobs would he available in
Houston, Borger and elsewhere as a
result of the consolidation.
Those employees not offered po
sitions will be given enhanced sever
ance packages, Harrison said.
Regional exploration employees
and support staff will remain in
Denver, he said.
“We think that these reductions
are going to be completed by the end
of the year,” Harrison said.
CHICAGO (AP) — A Nevada
company selling a home radiation
detector like a smoke detector ad
mits it won’t go off until five times
the standard set by the government,
and safety officials question other
company claims.
“Over a hundred nuclear power
plants are a prime source of peril for
some 30 million households situated
nearby,” Jack Little, president of
Unique Products Inc. of Reno, said.
In a mishap, he said, people should
get out as soon as possible.
“We’re not merchants of fear,”
Little said. “On the contrary, we
want people to understand that a
nuclear mishap is not like exploding
a nuclear bomb. People can protect
themselves,” he said.
The EarlyWarning Radiation De
tector sounds an alarm at about five
times the minimum government
standard for exposure of nuclear
plant workers. Little said such stan
dards are a matter of scientific con
troversy.
A six-page manual advises that
when an alarm sounds, people
should stay calm, gather essentials,
lock their homes and head away
from the radiation source without
speeding. Every few miles, they
should check the detector. “When it
no longer sounds, then you know
you have reached safety,” the man
ual says.
If the alarm sounds at a higher
WASHINGTON (AP) — Abu Ni-
dal, after lying low in 1987, appears
to be resuming his terrorist cam
paign with support from Libya, the
top U.S. counterterrorism official
said Tuesday.
L. Paul Bremer, ambassador-at-
large for counterterrorism, also told
reporters that the number of terror
ist incidents appears to be headed
for a record level of 1,000 this year,
although the number of Americans
killed in such attacks has fallen.
“Any effort to make an assess
ment of where we are in terrorism
leads you to the inevitable good news
and bad news,” he said.
“The bad news is that terrorism is
certainly continuing. According to
the figures that we keep, . . . 1987
was the worst year in history. We
had 832 recorded incidents in inter
setting than the minimum, you need
to change directions, it says.
Nuclear Regulatory Commission
spokesman Jan Strasma said more
than a sound-and-light alarm would
he needed to decide how to handlea
radiation emergency.
Strasma said evacuation is not al
ways the answer, because a building
may provide protection. "The an
swer to dealing with a nudearacd-
dent is to f ollow the emergency plan
and the advice of state and local offi
cials,” he said.
T he consumer could use a radia
tion detector because the NRC ac
knowledges nearly 3,000 accidents
occur every year at U.S. power
plants, Little said.
Strasma said that number refers
to situations that include minor pro
cedural infractions, and called
Little’s wording a vast overstate
ment.
Nonetheless, NRC spokesman
Russ Marahito said he could foresee
no agency action to counteract any
statements used in selling the device.
“If he feels it’s correct, that’s be
tween him and the buyer,” Marabito
said.
Little had no sales information on
the device, which he said was test-
marketed in California. He said US.
and European distribution beganaf-
ter the National Hardware Show
here in August.
national terrorism” up from 774 in
1986, he said.
For the first six months of 1988
“terrorism is up substantially ovet
last year, perhaps by as much as a
third. So it is possible that we will
end this year with as many as 1,009
incidents, maybe more, which would
make 1988 the worst year,” he said.
The number of Americans killed
in terrorist incidents has fallen from
38 in 1986 to 12 in 1987 andthreein
the first half of 1988, he said.
Most of the increase in terrorism
consists of attacks in Pakistan by
agents of the Kremlin-backed re
gime in Afghanistan, he said. He
said he had no evidence that the
Afghan government was responsible
s for an airplane disaster that claimed
the life of Pakistani president Mo
hammad Zia ul-Haq and the U.8
ambassador to Pakistan on Aug. 17
Official: Terrorism
may hit record level