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'Texas monster' dispute
Super Collider falls under scrutiny of Congress
WASHINGTON (AP) — Ad
vocates of the Superconducting
Super Collider face a stiff chal
lenge this week from House crit
ics, one of whom calls the $8.25
billion atom smasher "the Texas
monster" and "one of the hun
griest hogs at the federal
trough."
Longtime opponents of the
project have picked up the clout
of Illinois' powerful delegation
as the House nears a vote on the
collider's 1992 spending bill.
Led by House Ways and
Means Chairman Dan
Rostenkowski, Republican
Leader Bob Michel and Rep. Sid
ney Yates, chairman of an Ap
propriations subcommittee, the
Illinois lawmakers want to strip
the SSC of at least $43.5 million
and use the money for their own
home-state physics project, the
Fermi National Accelerator Lab
oratory outside Chicago.
The Energy Department says
that such a cut, on top of the
$100 million already trimmed by
the House Appropriations Com
mittee from President Bush's
$534 million request, could dis
rupt the construction schedule
and wind up costing the taxpay
ers more in the long run.
Opponents say now is the
time to scuttle the project, before
the Energy Department begins
tunneling under Central Texas
farmland for the collider ring 54
miles around and before too
much is invested to stop the pro
ject, scheduled for completion in
late 1999.
"The money needs for the su
per collider will grow in substan
tial amounts each year. ... It will
devour operating expenses for
all scientific researcn in this
country. That shows you the ap
petite of the Texas monster,"
says Richard Durbin, D-Ill.
The SSC would be the world's
largest scientific instrument, de
signed to accelerate beams of
protons to nearly the speed of
light before they collide with an
energy of 40 trillion electron
volts.
Scientists hope, thereby, to
discover new subatomic particles
in a bid to v unravel mysteries
about basic matter and the origin
of the universe.
But SSC critics say the huge
project already is beginning to si
phon money away from other re
search projects, and that the sit
uation will worsen as the
collider's budget increases and
budget deficits continue to
squeeze domestic spending.
The $21.5 billion energy and
water bill for fiscal 1992 includes
no new projects, bypassing.
among other things, the $43.5
million sought by Fermilab for
new particle injectors. The pro
ject at the suburban Chicago lab
is expected to cost a total of $177
million over four years.
Although Illinois lawmakers
failed last week to convince the
Appropriations Committee to
cut the SSC's budget by $43.5
million and transfer the money
to Fermilab, they'll have another
chance on the House floor
Wednesday.
"It's very ominous," said Rep.
John Bryant, D-Texas. "Now
you've got a whole delegation
mad. Ironically, they're mad be
cause the Appropriations Com
mittee would not approve a new
start at Fermilab, not because of
any cuts. But that's what got
them riled up, so they're gun
ning for us now."
Bush hopes for arms control summit
KENNEBUNKPORT, Maine (AP) — Pres
ident Bush said Tuesday he is newly opti
mistic about an arms agreement with the
Soviet Union, reviving talk of a summer
summit with Soviet President Mikhail S.
Gorbachev. "I want to go to Moscow," Bush
declared.
Bush, after calling Gorbachev on Mon
day, said their differences on conventional
arms are "very narrow" and they are not far
apart on a pact to curb long-range nuclear
weapons, either.
The two superpowers are still disputing
details of the treaty to reduce troops and
tanks that 22 nations signed in November.
"There's no reason if the Soviets will
move a little bit" on conventional arms, said
Bush, "that we can't get agreement on (that)
and then move quickly to close the START."
"I want to go to Moscow," he added, de
clining to set a date, but voicing a prefer
ence for "sooner rather than later."
"It's important enough that we would
change my schedule in order to go there if
these conditions that both sides recognize
are met," he said.
Bush and Gorbachev have aimed all along
at signing a Strategic Arms Reduction
Treaty to slash their long-range nuclear mis
sile arsenals during a Moscow summit, that
was originally set for last February.
But that meeting was put on hold by lin
gering difficulties with last year's pact to re
duce troops and tanks in Europe, by the
Persian Gulf War and by a chill over the So
viet crackdown in the Baltics. The Soviets
have been pressing to reschedule the sum
mit for June.
Bush said his call with Gorbachev pro
duced "no breakthroughs" but left him "a
little optimistic."
Bush, after completing a round of golf on
his extended Memorial Day holiday here at
his vacation home, disavowed any sugges
tion that he is trying to distance himself
from the troubled Soviet leader.
"We want to go there," Bush said. "We
want to talk. I went out of my way to tell
him that we weren't playing games.
"We're going to stay this course and
we're going to iron out these difficulties."
Then, "we'll see how we go" on such
matters as granting the Soviets preferred
trade status and $1.5 billion in credits to buy
American grain. Bush appeared to be lean
ing toward granting the food credits.
"If we can get our arms control
agreements, get our summit going, we can
accomplish a lot," Bush said.
Gorbachev is sending two top economic
advisers, Yevgeny Primakov and Grigory
Yavlinsky, to Washington to press the Sovi
ets' case for massive Western help to repair
the moribund Soviet economy. They are
said to be carrying details of a proposed
"grand bargain" to finance genuine eco
nomic reform with massive Western aid.
A U.S. official, speaking on the condition
of anonymity, said Bush pressed Gorbachev
to "go the final yards" to settle the conven
tional weapons dispute.
From fighters to rescuers
Gulf War veterans return from Bangladesh
CHITTAGONG, Bangladesh
(AP) — Thousands of U.S. serv
icemen and women who
brought food, clothing and hope
to Bangladeshis who survived a
killer cyclone will resume their
journey home from the Gulf War
on Wednesday.
"Our mission was to save
lives. I think we saved a lot — I
wish we could have saved mo
re," said Maj. Gen. Henry Stack-
pole, the commander of Opera
tion Sea Angel.
A seven-ship U.S. amphibious
task force was diverted to Ban
gladesh by President Bush to
speed relief to an estimated 1.7
million survivors of the April 30
cyclone that claimed at least
139,000 lives.
The 7,500-member U.S. mili
tary contingent provided the
backbone and logistics for an in
ternational relief effort that had
been unable to get desperately
needed supplies to cyclone sur
vivors.
During an intensive two-week
operation, Stackpole said, the
U.S. task force delivered 3,300
tons of relief supplies to hard-hit
coastal areas and lowlying is
lands in the Bay of Bengal by he
licopter, boat and amphibious
craft.
"We have virtually, directly or
indirectly, reached all of those
1.7 million," he said, noting gov
ernment warehouses that had
been full of supplies are now
empty.
In addition, he said, U.S. mili
tary medical teams and engi
neers, working with their Ban
gladesh counterparts and
international relief organiza
tions, treated survivors and
helped contain an outbreak of di
arrhea caused by contaminated
drinking water.
"Diarrhea is back to pre-cy
clone conditions, in fact less,"
Stackpole said.
Many of the 4,000 Marines and
3,000 sailors due to leave
Wednesday have been away
from home more than six
months. The Marines made an
amphibious landing in Saudi
Arabia at the start of the ground
war Feb. 24 and moved into
southern Kuwait, taking Iraqi
prisoners and clearing pockets of
resistance.
Experts question safety standards of Cuban
nuclear power plant due to lack of technology
WASHINGTON (AP) — A nu
clear power complex nearing
completion in Cuba is generating
safety concerns among federal
and other experts who question
the quality of workers on the
project 150 miles from Florida.
One scientist, Cuban defector
Jorge Oro, said in an interview
that the absence of adequately
prepared workers could lead to a
nuclear accident with devastat
ing effects not only in Cuba but
throughout Florida as well.
Several American experts
agreed that the quality of the Cu
ban work force was worrisome,
but none felt the consequences
would be as severe as Oro sug
gested.
One U.S. government expert,
asking not to be identified, de
scribed Oro's doomsday predic
tion as "very highly unlikely" be
cause of the safety features the
Cubans are installing.
At issue is a four-reactor nu
clear complex Cuba is building at
Juragua near Cienfuegos along
the southern coast. Completion
of the pressurized water reactors
is not expected before the end of
1992.
Uncertainty about the reliabil
ity of Soviet oil supplies has
given the project added impor
tance for Cuba, which hopes to
become as energy independent
as possible.
For American experts, per
haps the most reassuring aspect
of the project is that the design is
far more comparable to the
American nuclear facility at
Three Mile Island, where dam
age following a 1979 accident
was limited, than to the Soviet
installation at Chernobyl.
Most experts agreed that the
safety devices at Juragua, includ
ing nve-feet-thick concrete and
steel domes encasing the reac
tors, preclude off-site contami
nation of the kind that occurred
at Chernobyl in April 1986.
At the same time, most had
doubts about the quality of the
Cuban work force.
"They need to familiarize
themselves with the culture of
nuclear safety," said Harold
Denton, a senior official at the
Nuclear Regulatory Commission
who visited the project two years
ago.
"The key to safety is whether
they assemble a cadre of well-
trained and attentive operators,"
he said. But the likelihood of a
major accident is limited because
of the safety procedures, Denton
said.
The Soviets had about 3,000
technicians in Cuba until two
ears ago, but a withdrawal has
een under way and the figure is
expected to drop to about 1,000.
The remaining technicians will
assist' Cubans at strategic pro
jects, including the nuclear oper
ation, according to Soviet diplo
mats.
Gary Milhollin, a nuclear non
proliferation expert and former
member of the NRC board that
licenses power plants, said, "No
matter how foolproof you try to
make a reactor, a poor operator
can defeat the best hardware."
Doctors test
White House
for water
pollutants
KENNEBUNKPORT, Maine
(AP) — Doctors seeking dues to
the thyroid conditions afflicting
both President Bush and his wife
are checking the water at the
White House, Camp David,
Kennebunkport and the vice
presidential mansion where the
Bushes spent eight years.
Presidential spokesman Mar
lin Fitzwater said Tuesday that
the White House also had asked
a specialist to check whether
there was any link between the
Bushes' ailment and lupus suf
fered by their dog, Millie.
"I can hardly believe this," an
incredulous Bush told reporters
who asked him about the water
checking while he was playing
golf at his summer home. "But
let them look into it."
The water "tasted good to
me," he said, adding that he was
"not going to lose confidence in
the water at the White House
until we know more about this."
He said he still was tiring more
easily than usual because of
medication for the thyroid disor
der, but generally felt fine and
was regaining some of the
weight he had lost recently.
The president's physicians
want to see if the White House
water contains two chemicals —
iodine and lithium — that are
sometimes associated with
Graves' disease, the thyroid dis
order suffered by both the presi
dent and his wife Barbara.
The water also was being
checked at the vice president's
residence at the U.S. Naval Ob
servatory in Washington, the
presidential retreat in Camp Da
vid, Md. and at Bush's oceanside
vacation home.
One of his physicians. Dr.
Larry Mohr, who accompanied
the president to the golf course,
said, "That's something that is
being checked, largely to answer
the kind of speculation that is be
ing propagated right now.