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WASHINGTON (AP) — New regula-
ns for drinking water and waste trcat-
nt could cost homeowners an average
$100 or more in additional municipal
by 1996. a study by the Environ-
ntal Protection Agency estimates.
Ain in-house agency committee also
farms and some small businesses
jld face significant costs from 85 ma-
rcgulations promulgated in the past
r or two or expected in the next few
rs.
The cost estimates for the regulations
ecting municipalities dealt only with
standards for drinking water, waste
ter treatment and solid waste.
Costs for other regulations, such as as
bestos controls in schools, could not be
derived, so the committee said it consid
ered its estimates floors that could be ex
ceeded.
Based on an analysis of the finances of
207 municipality, the committee esti
mated that 21 percent to 30 percent of the
smallest —places with fewer than 2.500
people — could have trouble raising
loans or floating bond issues for the capi
tal expenditures the regulations will re
quire.
Only 3 percent to 7 percent of towns
larger than that are expected to have dif
ficulty raising money.
World Briefs
rroup: Woman not tied to U.S. hostages
BEIRUT. Lebanon (AP) — Is-
amic Jihad, a pro-Iranian group
tolding two U.S. hostages, said
donday it was not linked to the Leb-
inese woman arrested in Italy with
thotographs of captive Americans.
The group claimed the woman.
Aline Ibrahim Rizkallah. 36, had ties
o Israel's secret service.
Islamic Jihad challenged Italian au-
horities to publish a photograph of
American hostage Terry Anderson
hat was found in the woman's lug-
age at Milan airport last Thursday.
"What has been said about the
presence of a photograph of captive
Anderson is sheer fabrication and is
absolutely devoid of truth," Islamic
Jihad said in a typewritten Arabic-
language statement delivered to a
Western news agency in Beirut.
The 15-line communique was de
livered with a photograph of Ander
son to authenticate it.
The kidnappers apparently did not
know that authorities in Milan had al
ready released a copy of the photo
graph of Anderson that was discov
ered in the woman's lueaaee.
European bankers offer Soviet credit
FRANKFURT. West Germany
lAP) — West European bankers are
Bffering the Soviets huge amounts of
|redit to use in modernizing their
lonsumer economy, but Japan's rela-
lions with Moscow are cool and its
bankers arc holding back.
H State OcpAVttxteAA sources in Wash-
Higron emphasize that the deals do
Bot involve direct loans, but lines of
[Bredit. which become loans only as
|he available credit is used.
I They said the credit lines appear
Resigned to finance specific trade ar-
langements and cannot be classed as
1‘untied loans" — money to be spent
however the borrower chooses.
The Unites States does not oppose
lending at market rates for non-strate-
gic purposes but is against govern
ment subsidies of loans, the sources
said on condition of anonymity.
Peter Pietsch. a finance and trade
expert with West Germany’s Com
merzbank. told the Associated Press:
"Credit not only from West Germany
but from all of Western Europe will
be increasing and expanding in com
ing years."
"This has to do with the Soviet
Union's goal of opening up politi
cally and economically, which also
includes an increase in trade activ
ities." Pietsch, whose institution is
the third-largest private bank in the
country, said.
r ormer Marines offer peace to Vietnam
NEW YORK (AP) — Three for
mer Marines extended a peace offer
ing to Vietnam on Monday in ad-
lance of a mercy mission to that
lountry in which they will lopk for
jand mines that might still be in place
isultation FE y cars after the Marines planted
them.
| The Americans presented a plaque
the Vietnamese mission to the
lljPjiy; <| Jnited Nations saying: "In the hopes
[■Ml I ^ P reserv > n ? the peace, we come to
/ietnam once again, this time to help
an «iiJ he the preservation of human life.
JllZeni W] ith Engineers January 1989."
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ngineer Battalion. 3rd Marine Divi-
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sentimental journey, funded by an
anonymous businessman, it has the
blessing of both the U.S. and Viet
namese governments.
The Jan. 9 trip is the latest in a se
ries of moves between the two coun
tries to improve relations.
Vietnam, one of the poorest coun
tries in the world, is seeking diplo
matic relations with the United
States. American aid and investment
now banned by a U.S. trade em
bargo.
A member of Vietnam's National
Assembly and a key economic ad
viser. Nguyen Xuan Oanh. made a
rare visit to the United States earlier
this month to confer with American
businessmen.
incennes returns from Persian Gulf
SAN DIEGO (AP) — The USS
Vincennes ended a tragedy-marred
deployment Monday, returning to its
homeport more than three months af
ter it mistakenly shot down an Iranian
airliner in the Persian Gulf.
I Sailors dressed in Navy whites
lined the deck of the Aegis cruiser.
Which sported a red. white and blue
paper wreath at its bow and carried a
Sign declaring the crew's love for San
Diego and America.
Hundreds of relatives, awaiting a
reunion with sailors absent for six
months, released a cloud of red.
white and blue balloons as the ship
flocked. A Navy band played "Cali
fornia Here We Come" and the
\ ('Vincennes March."
"New fathers are going to be see
ing new kids for the first time." Se
nior Chief Petty Officer Steve Hiney
said. "The wives and girlfriends,
mothers and fathers are going to be
there."
The Vincennes, equipped with the
Navy's modern Aegis combat control
system, accidently downed the Ira
nian civilian aircraft over the Persian
Gulf on July 3. killing all 290 people
aboard.
The official Pentagon report con
cluded the crew; mistook the airliner
for an Iranian F-14 fighter jet and said
crew members misintrepreted com
puter and radar data because of stress
in their first combat situation.
The panel said the states and federal
officials may have to devise new ways of
helping the smaller communities.
In some cases, it said, smaller towns
may need to merge their services.
The panel said the increase in fees,
taxes and other charges for the three en
vironmental services would be highest in
the least and most populous cities —
SI70 in the smallest towns and $160 in
cities of more than 250,000.
In 20 percent of the smallest places,
current charges could more than double,
but nationwide only 2 percent of the
households would see an increase that
large.
Data for farms as a whole proved
harder to come by. so the committee ex
amined some speciality crops as well as
farms of three common types — an Illi
nois corn and soybean operation, of
which there are about 31,000: a Missis
sippi farm growing cotton and soybeans,
of which there are about 1.800: and a
Kansas farm producing wheat and cattle,
of which there are about 20,000.
Assuming that the agency tried to pro
mulgate regulations with minimum costs
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nancial condition had to meet every re
quirement, income before depreciation
would fall by 3 percent for the Missis
sippi and Kansas farms and by 0.7 per
cent for the Illinois farm.
In the worst case of high-cost regula
tions that all farmers would have to
meet, the Illinois farm would lose 26
percent of its income, the Mississippi
farm would lose 2,4 percent and the Kan
sas farm would lose 84 percent.
Seventy percent of the nation's 3.5
million small businesses — those with
fewer than 50 employees — are in non
polluting fields such as wholesale and re
tail trade, finance or other services.
The committee said it was able to
identify several industries where costs to
comply with future regulations had a
good chance of eating up either 30 per
cent of annual profits or requiring capital
expenditures of more than 30 percent of
the owners’ investment.
Most prominent are dry cleaners, who
may be faced with expensive controls on
solvents, and service stations faced with
cleaning up any leaking underground
tanks.
Idaho turns away
radioactive boxcar
from storage plant
DENVER (AP) — A steel-lined box
car of low-level radioactive waste re
turned to the Rocky Flats nuclear weap
ons plant Monday after being rejected by
Idaho, leaving in its tracks troubling
questions about how the nation handles
its atomic leftovers.
The boxcar, ordered out of Idaho by
Gov. Cecil Andrus on Saturday, was
moved to the Rocky Flats plant 16 miles
northwest of Denver on Monday morn
ing while officials debated what to do.
Colorado Gov. Roy Romcr on Sunday
turned down a Department of Energy re
quest to expand storage facilities for low-
jevel radioactive waste at Rocky Flats
and asked that the Department of Energy
not unload the rail car. which contains
140 drums of waste at 55 gallons per
dru m.
The state now allows storage of up to
1.600 cubic yards of radioactive waste at
Rocky Flats, and the plant legally could
accommodate the boxcar's cargo without
exceeding the limit, officials said.
"We'll cooperate with the DOE to
find an alternative site until (a proposed
disposal facility in) New Mexico is
open." Romer said Monday. "But I've
said. ‘Look, no expansion of Rocky
Flats.’"
Romer said he would press for a meet
ing of Western governors to discuss a
long-term solution to the problem and
planned to talk to DOE officials in the
meantime.
It was the second time recently that
Rocky Flats' operations have come un
der the spotlight. Earlier this month, the
plant's plutonium reprocessing facility
was closed by the DOE after three work
ers were exposed to radioactive material
inside. Building 771 remains closed, but
production of plutonium triggers for nu
clear weapons continues at the plant, of
ficials said.
Underdog Dukakis
claims Bush resorts
to using 6 outright lies’
Michael Dukakis, an underdog run
ning short of time, accused George Bush
on Monday of resorting to "outright
lies" to avoid important campaign is
sues. Bush replied that Democrats arc
desperate and said Dukakis is soft on
crime and defense "and that's the ines
capable truth."
There was no letup in a White House
campaign never noted for civility.
Democratic Rep. Richard Gephardt,
campaining for Dukakis, said of the Re
publicans, "Hitler would have loved
these people."
With 15 days until Election Day. Bush
and running mate Dan Quayle were
doing their best to protect a lead in the
national public opinion polls.
Dukakis purchased time for the second
in a series of five-minute network tele
vision commercials as he and ticketmatc
Lloyd Bcntsen looked for a way to catch
fire.
Dukakis stuck to his late-campaign
Populist theme and said Bush would per-
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Angeles. "Look in the mirror and ask
yourself: Is George Bush on your
side?.”
The vice president defended his tax
proposal as good for creating new jobs.
He said Dukakis is likely to raise taxes if
he gets the chance and the nation could
face an "economic disaster if the liberals
take over the White House."
Campaigning through New England,
Bush made an unusual departure from
his prepared speech to reject Dukakis’
charges of campaign distortions and de
ceptions. He said he could document ev
ery one of the allegations made in tele
vision advertisements criticizing a
Massachusetts prison furlough program
and his rival’s record on defense.
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