- EVENING HERALD. Mon.. Dec. 3. 1979 Black Mayor Downplays Racial Significance NEW LONDON (UPI) - Coun­ mayor of New London, black or seven men elected to the council in had the inside track for the mayoral parently the first black mayor in in too conservative a clim ate,” said cilman Leo E. Jackson has become white,” he told a crowded assembly November, but the Springfield, nod because of his seniority on the New England, but he pointed out he Green, a black. New England’s first black mayor, that applauded his election. Mass., native was tabb^ for the panel. was elected by council members and ’"rhe truth is the mayor of New but civil rights officials view his role "I’m awed by the responsibility largely ceremonial mayoral post by He lost favor with other not by popular vote. London doesn’t have that much in­ as limited in the largely ceremonial and excited by the challenge," he his fellow Democratic council Democrats when he accepted en­ “ A black elected to a city council fluence. He doesn’t run the city. It’s post. added. members. dorsement by a conservative party. represents part of the city communi­ just an honorary position,” said Jackson, 53, was chosen un­ Jackson, a submarine welding in­ About 15 percent of New London’s Democratic council members-elect ty. But a black elected as mayor of Clarence Faulk, president of the New animously by the City Council Mon­ structor, was appointed to a vacant 30,000 residents are blacks and then bolted to Jackson as their choice the people is in charge of the city London NAACP. day night and he downplayed the seat on the council six months ago Hispanics, but Jackson didn’t cam­ for mayor, giving him the necessary government, in a position of Jackson, who moved to New Lon­ racial significance of his election. and was elected to a full term last paign for the council on racial issues. four votes for election. leadership and spokesperson for the don from Massachusetts 20 years " I ’ve been asked ‘how does it feel month. He had lost a council seat by The New London mayor Commission on Human Rights and town. ago, trains pipe welders at the E le c­ to be New London’s first black 34 votes in 1977. traditionally serves a one-year term. Opportunities executive director “ I don’t think the state’s voters are tric Boat Division of General TheL^[acyof mayor.’ Well, I want to be the best He was the lowest vote-getter of Deputy Mayor Terrence W. Brennan Arthur L, Green said Jackson is ap­ prepared for that yet — we’re living Dynamics shipyard in Groton. Three Mile Island Iran Says HaurbpBtpr Data Shows As the most nuclear-intensive utility in the country, Clearly, NU did not wait for TMI to happen to strengthen Safer Nuclear Power Vol. XClX, No. 55 — Manchester,' Conn., Tuesday, December 4, 1079, NU is profoundly aware of its responsibility to public its organizational capability to cope effectively with Spy Proof » Since 1881 • 20n Single Copy » 15it Home bellyered [ For the nation . safety. It has been — and will continue to be — NU’s emergencies and to create the proper environment for highest priority. NU has 313 professional and 351 safe operations. It is important to keep this in mind in T E H R A N . Iran (UPI) — Moslem and for the people we serve. technical people dedicated to the safe operation of view of the tendency to extrapolate problems and militants announced today they will our plants, representing over 7,800 years of nuclear releasejj^ U.S. documents proving More than seven months have elapsed since March 28, practices to the entire nuclear industry. As stated by one Spy Trials experience. of the Kemeny Commissioners, Professor Pigford, in somd'oftli6w..50 American captives the day the accident occurred at Three Mile Island (TMI) — taken hostage a month ago to the his supplementary opinion, "little proof of these in Pennsylvania. Since then, a Presidential Commission The strength of NU’s commitment to public safety has day — are spies. At the same time. Definite (the Kemeny Commission) has studied all details of been borne out by the Kemeny Commission Report. As extrapolations has been established". Iran formally announced it will no tnis accident, and its report was released October 31. a result of our self-examination over the past several longer accept dollars for its oil. TEHRAN, Iran (UPI) - Foreign years, NU had previously instituted many of the A spokesman for student militants Minister Sadegh Qotbzadeh said Northeast Utilities (NU) agrees with much in the holding the U.S. Embassy denied today U.S. hostages will definitely be commission’s recommendations. Kemeny Commission’s Report, but we did not wait six news reports that eight of the tried on espionage charges and will months to apply the lessons learned at TMI to our own Let’s look at what NU has been doing, both before hostages had been separated from be judged personally by their student nuclear units. Early in April, NU established a task force TMI and after, to ensure the continued safety of the the main group and were undergoing captors. MANCHESTER -Lydall Inc. public, employees and facilities. interrogation for trials that could ■rhe minister, in an interview opened its doors to the public at its of 20 experts to study the accident and the implications sentence them to death. released by the official Pars news new corporate headquarters in for its nuclear units — Millstone I and II and • Audit Program; The TMI accident pointed out the Returns in a nationwide referen­ agency, said Iran had now done all it Manchester Monday. Connecticut Yankee. need for utilities to continually audit the effectiveness dum that would turn Iran into a fun­ could to defuse the crisis and the next The new building, of contemporary of their management, organization, communications damentalist Islamic state under 79- move was up to President Carter. masonry and glass architecture year-old Ayatollah Ruhollah He urged the Soviet Union not to in­ encloses 20,000 square feet of space. WHAT HAVE WE LEARNED and nuclear operations. NU has been doing so since Khomeini pointed toward a massive terfere in the confrontation even if A Lydall spokesman said the new FROM THREE MILE ISLAND? 1975, when the company engaged a consulting "yes" vote. the United States launched m ilitary Manchester headquarters represent group of nuclear experts. The recommendations Spokesmen for the students oc­ attacks against Iran. a $1 m illio n investm ent in the First, there will be no detectable health effects as a from these consultants have been instrumental in cupying the embassy said they would Manchester Industrial Park. result of the TMI accident. The amount of radiation reorganizing NU’s nuclear engineering and soon release more captured embassy Lydall President Millard H. Pryor received by any one individual outside the plant was documents proving at least some of Jr. greeted community leaders as operations into one department, so that the company the hostages were spies, presumably ment on the siege to individual news very low. The Miltstooe Nuctear Power Station in Waterford, Connecttcut, witi be the they toured the new facility. can be assured that it has the human resources largest eiecthc generating station in the Northeast when Unit III (shown on left) is CIA agents organizations. All statements would He said, “It seems appropriate Sscond, reactor safety systems did work as designed available to attend to plant problems quickly. completed Millstone Unit I and II now provide over 40 percent of the electricrty The captors have released batches be released on official radio or by that one of our divisions. Lydall and tor NU's consumers when called upon during the course of the accident. Employees involved in nuclear energy are also of official papers which, they said, Pars, they said. Foulds, celebrates its 100th year in proved the embassy was a "nest of In New York, the 15 member However, human errors prevented the safety systems encouraged to report any concerns for safety they Manchester as we are opening our NU has also taken an active role in the industry spies" and implicated the United nations of the U N. Security Council new corporate offices here." might have to these consultants. from doing their job. response to TMI. Last April, an industry oversight States with the shah's regime. today studied a draft resolution Pryor added, "Lydall has always calling on Iran to free the hostages Third, despite the severe damage to the reactor fuel, the • Incident Review: According to the Kemeny committee was formed to initiate several industrywide The latest move in the worsening been committed to the town's U.S.-Iranian economic crisis came in immediately and guarantee their Commission, the fact that TMI-like incidents had progress and growth, and our deci­ radioactivity was confined, and only a small fraction of programs and studies and to serve as a liaison to the an announcement from Iran's Cen­ safe exit from the country. The coun­ sion to build in Manchester rein­ this radioactivity vras released to the atmosphere. The occurred at other similar plants and the experience various investigation groups such as the NRC and tral Bank officially asking all oil cil is in its fourth day of emergency forces that commitment, sessions on the crisis. containment structure was adequately designed to had not been incorporated in plant design changes the Kemeny Commission. companies buying local crude oil to Lydall Inc. is a $100 million diver­ Khomeini moved toward certain handle the accident.