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Poll says Americans
still expect accident
at nuke power plant
NEW YORK (AP) — Half the
Americans in a national poll believe
a serious accident is likely at a U.S.
nuclear power plant, despite safe
guards put in place since the Three
Mile Island accident a decade ago.
Fifty-five percent of the respon
dents in the Media General-Asso
ciated Press survey supported the
use of nuclear power to generate
electricity. But eight in 10 favored
tougher federal safety regulations,
and most opposed building new
plants.
Most also opposed starting up
completed nuclear power plants
that are not yet running. And while
48 percent said currently operating
plants should stay open, 44 percent
said they should be either phased
out or shut down at once.
The national survey of 1,162
adults had a margin of error of plus
or minus 3 percent. It was con
ducted Jan. 4-12 in advance of the
10th anniversary of the accident
March 28, 1979, at the Three Mile
Island plant in Middletown, Pa.
Tighter federal regulation of the
nuclear power industry resulted
from the TMI accident, which de
stroyed one of the plant’s two reac
tors.
In the survey, 63 percent said
they believed nuclear power plants
are safer now.
However, when asked to rate the
chance of a serious accident at a nu
clear power plant in the United
States, 11 percent chose “highly
likely” and 39 percent said likely,
for a total of 50 percent. Thirty per
cent said a serious accident was un
likely and 14 percent said “highly
unlikely,” for a total of 44 percent.
The remaining 6 percent had no
opinion.
An overwhelming 79 percent said
the federal government should be
tougher in enforcing safety rules.
And 62 percent said governors
should have the power to shut down
nuclear power plants in their states.
Regulation aside, 56 percent said
they believe it is impossible to safely
store long-term radioactive waste
from nuclear power plants. Just 27
percent called safe storage possible
and 18 percent weren’t sure.
Support for nuclear power was
markedly higher among men and
Republicans. Two-thirds of those
groups supported nuclear power
generally, compared with half the
Democrats and independents and
just 45 percent of the women
polled.
Six in 10 women and as many
Democrats said an accident was
likely, compared with four in 10 of
the men and the Republicans. While
58 percent of the respondents with
high school educations feared an ac
cident, that fell to 37 percent of
those with postgraduate schooling.
Only a third overall said more nu
clear power plants should be built in
the United States; of those who fa
vored more plants, three-quarters
said they would accept one within
10 miles of their home. No new nu
clear power plant construction per
mits have been issued since 1979.
Just two in 10 said nuclear power
plants that have been completed but
not yet licensed should be allowed to
open. Such plants in Seabrook,
N.H., and Shoreham, N.Y., have
been stalled in part by opposition
from the governor in New York
and, in Seabrook’s case, the gover
nor of neighboring Massachusetts.
Crime in America
News service reporters ride with lawmen to chart a day of crime
EDITOR’S NOTE — To chart one day’s crime
in America, Associated Press reporters in major
cities rode in squad cars, shadowed undercover
officers and pored through police reports on
Feb. 22. Here are their findings.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Eric Williams, 19, sat in the fading heat of an
86-degree Los Angeles day when a car full of
menacing young men cruised down Van Ness
Avenue at 7:30 p.m.
Shotgun blasts exploded from the car, and
Williams fell dead in a crime known as a drive-by
shooting. Williams was not known to be a mem
ber of a gang. He may have just been in the way
of shots aimed at someone else, police said, or he
may have been wearing the colors of a rival out
fit.
“A wrong look or wearing the wrong color in a
certain neighborhood can get you killed,” said
Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Gapt. Raymond
Gott.
Of the 55 slayings in Williams’ neighborhood
this year, 15 are believed related to gangs wiping
out competitors and protecting their turf.
At least four gangs grossed $1 million a week
each last year in cocaine sales, according to Police
Commander Lome Kramer.
“These urban terrorists are destroying hopes
for a normal life,” said Kramer.
• Similar battles are played out daily in every
major U.S. city where police fight drugs and
crime, which often go hand in hand. On a given
day, an average of 2,568 arrests are made for
possessing, selling and making drugs, according
to the FBI.
Half to three-fourths of the people arrested
for serious crimes tested positive for illicit drug
use, according to a 1988 U.S. Justice Department
study. Drugs can lead to murder, assault, prosti
tution, theft, robbery and burglary.
“Crime and drugs are umbilically connected,”
said Peter Bensinger, former director of the U.S.
Drug Enforcement Administration and now a
drug consultant in Chicago. “The impact is dev
astating our cities and our streets.”
• New York fights the street-by-street war
with a Tactical Narcotics Team, or TNT, a sort of
special forces unit whose uniforms are filthy
jeans and shabby sweat shirts rather than green
berets.
Steady rain didn’t stop them from donning
bulletproof vests and earphones connected to
hidden walkie-talkies.
“A junkie doesn’t know rain, a junkie doesn’t
know sleet or cold, a junkie just wants to get off,”
Lt. Joseph Murphy said.
Among the busts this day, an undercover offi
cer got past a lookout and into a drug den, the
basement of an abandoned building that reeked
of urine and rotting garbage in the South Bronx.
The officer bought heroin, and others waiting
in an unmarked car moved in for the bust. Three
arrests netted a fistful of heroin packets worth
$100. A search of the dealer’s office showed 170
of 400 heroin packets were sold before the raid.
In one week, police arrested 125 people and
seized 16 cars, two guns, $8,633 in cash and a
cache of cocaine, crack, heroin and pot.
• With the temperature at 36 degrees, a 20-
mph wind whipped through southeast Atlanta, a
tough neighborhood known by the cops as “The
Zoo.”
“They should put a cage around the whole
zone,” patrolman Scott Bennett said.
The cold slowed the drug trade to about one-
third its usual pace. But Ricky Davis was arrested
for alleged possession after a chase. Police found
a leather pouch containing nine plastic bags, each
holding a pea-sized fragment of crack cocaine.
At one point, a reporter was advised to duck
behind a trash bin if gunfire erupted.
In Miami, an undercover narcotics team made
14 arrests in assembly line fashion. One was a 16-
year-old selling crack outside his apartment.
Across the city that day, about 200 of an esti
mated 1,000 armed robberies, auto thefts and
burglaries were believed to have been drug-re
lated, said police spokesman Ray Lang.
• A 17-year-old St. Louis man was busted on
his birthday Wednesday when police seized
$1,500 in cash and $4,700 in drugs.
Police saw him selling drugs the day before but
couldn’t find his stash. “Yeah, man, I’ll be 17,” he
taunted officers.
“So they paid a visit to his house on his birth
day,” Sgt. Leman Dobbins said. “If he’s going to
play in the grown folks’ world, we’re going to
treat him like one.”
Police said six of the 14 crimes reported
Wednesday were drug-related.
“We’ve run across some dope dealers (with) a
Mercedes Benz that’s paid for in cash,” Dobbins
said. “But when you got to arrest him, he doesn’t
even know how to spell his middle name. Who
ever said crime does not pay is a fool.”
• The 52 drug arrests in Baltimore on
Wednesday included a federal fugitive wanted
for allegedly helping a notorious drug kingpin
arrange a multimillion-dollar heroin deal from
his jail cell. Three other arrests followed a raid
that netted $500,000 worth of drugs.
the Placement Center and
the College of Liberal Arts
presents
Job Search Strategies
-resumes -interviews
Wed., March 1
5:15 p.m. 410 Rudder
Microsoft
WORD
One-week classes
for students who want
to learn this powerful
word processing program
ON THE iBM
Cost $35.00
Mar 6-10 6-8 p.m.
Sterling C. Evans Library
Learning Resources Department
Room 604 845-2316
1989 AGGIE OPEN
RACQUETBALL
TOURNAMENT.
MARCH 3-5,1989
Hosted by Texas A&M Racquetball Team;
1988 & 1989 State Champions.
$400 First Prize in Open divisions
Trophies in Amateur divisions
Open to all levels of play.
Entry Deadline
Wed., March 1,8 p.m.
call 764-6424 or 764-8408
HRTFeST
MARCH 6-MARCH 31
Texas A&M Annual Juried Competition of Student Art
Sponsored by 4r MSC VISUAL ARTS
Rules
-Open only to current TAMU students
(must show student ID)
-Entries must be ready to show
-Entries must have been completed
within the last year
-Winners will be exhibited in the MSC
Gallery for the entire duration of Artfest
-Prize $100 Best of Show
Categories
Drawing Painting Crafts Photography
Sculpture Mixed Media
Entries
Entries will be accepted
March 1-3, 1989
11-3 p.m.
MSC Gallery $4/entry-limit 4
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