Nuclear Plant Dumps Waste Into Riverof War.” Sadat Told Reporters in Wash HARRISBURG, Pa
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. , . Foods sales controversy - page 3 VOL, XIII, NO. 108 an independent student newspaper serving notre dame and saint mary’s FRIDAY, MARCH 30, 1979 Board of Commissioners Analysts say introduces amendments spark could by John Ferro/i second elected HPC represen Staff Reporter tative was chosen as the ninth member position according to trigger war Twenty-three amendments to Jayne Rizzo, Judicial Coordina the Student Government Con tor, “because the HPC is the " ' ■ , CAIRO, Egypt (AP) - Egypt stitution were proposed last most representative body on and Libya have their armed night by the Student Govern campus.’’ forces on high alert and military ment Board of Commissioners. The Board elected to add the ■ analysts said yesterday that the One of the proposals would HPC representative but also slightest spark could trigger the create an Off-Campus Commis considered filling the spot with second war in two years bet sioner and add a third represen an Ombudsman Commissioner ween the Arab neighbors. tative of the Hall President's or a Student Union representa : “Both states are armed to the Council to the Board of Com tive. teeth and in a high state of missioners. Since the Chairman of the alert,” said one source. “If one The amendment process will HPC is a member of the Board, soldier fell on his face and fired include a special meeting of the the addition of a second Board his gun into the sand, it could HPC to present the amend member elected from the HPC trigger a shootout.” ments to the public and to would result in havng three Each state has sought infor educate the hall presidents HPC representatives on the mation through intermediaries about the amendments. Board--the Chairman and two about the intentions of the other Following the presentation of elected representatives from and neither Egypt nor Libya the proposed amendments for the HPC. appears to desire a military public discussion, the amend Bill Roche, Student Body confrontation, the source said. ments must then be ratified by President-elect, also agreed The new round of tension two-thirds of the Hall Councils with the choice of an HPC follows the signing of an Egyp- to become effective. representative as the ninth tian-Israeli peace treaty, which The proposed amendment, commissioner. “A hall presi Libya has bitterly opposed. which adds an Off-Campus dent is intimately involved with Libyan leader Moammar Commissioner to the 7 member hall life,’’ Roche stated, “and Khadafy is one of the hardline group, forced the Board to add is a directly-elected representa Arab opponents of the treaty another commissioner to pre tive of the student body.’’ Yesterday’s spring rain resulted in a muddy quad. But that and is leading radicals in de vent voting deadlocks that may The Board also proposed a did not deter these students from their frolic, {photo by manding the most severe econ occur in an 8 member group. A {continued on page 4] Tracy Jane McAuliffe\ omic and political sanctions against Egyptian President An- : war Sadat. On Monday, Libya’s mission Without reason for panic to the United Nations circulated a statement accusing Egypt of intending to “ set up the flames Nuclear plant dumps waste into riverof war.” Sadat told reporters in Wash HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) - said late yesterday. need to begin discharging,’’ ing the plant since an accident ington on Wednesday that Lib more than 400,000 gallons of The discharge can be made said Jones. was reported early Wednesday. ya would have to “ bear the contaminated water from the without harmful radioactive The water is contaminated “Our readings show radia consequences” if it allowed a disabled Three Mile Island pollution of the river, said with a very slight level of tion levels have dropped signif new round of fighting. nuclear power plant is being Clifford Jones, head of the state xenon, a low-level contaminant, icantly,” he said, adding that Sadat said Egypt had no discharge into the Susquehanna Department of Environmental according to DER officials. contamination remains a prob plans to launch a pre-emptive River, federal and state officials Resources. “There is an urgent Officials from the Nuclear lem at the plant and radiation strike against Libya, as it did in Regulatory Commission and the was expected to leak through July 1977. federal Department of Energy vents into the air for 24 hours to Reliable sources said that said such diluted waste water is a week. both sides have been moving discharged routinely from the The xenon concentration in artillery, tanks and men to the O ‘Meara stays optimistic plant under normal operating he waste water discharge is border area since Monday. conditions. only 1 percent of the allowable In Egypt, the desert road J ones said plant officials fear federal discharge standards for between Cairo and the port city on new dorm that unless the diluted water is new nuclear plants, authorities of Alexandria was closed for discharged, holding tanks said. two days and the road between would nil up and undiluted The plant began discharging Alexandria and the Libyan bor by Pat Mangan waste water would run directly the waste water at about 2:30 der remains closed to civilian Senior Staff Reporter into the river through storm p.m., but the discharge was traffic. drains. suspended four hours later for Convoys of trucks have been University Provost Timothy O’Meara indicated before break that “ Most of it (xenon) will be review by federal and state seen moving through the out he was “personally optimistic’’ that a new dormitory would be dissipated like bubbles in soda officials. It resumed after tests skirts of the Egyptian capital, erected by 1980 or 1981 . O’Meara, Thomas Mason, vice president pop, ” said DER spokeman showed xenon was the only lending credence to Libyan for Business Affairs, and the Ellerby architecture firm were Dave Milne. He said the gas element in the discharge. claims that troops were being hurriedly developing a “ somewhat detailed ” plan of the proposed decays after a few hours. transferred from the Suez Canal dorm. “DER is notifying down “The problem is that 400,000 stream municipal water sys area. Reserve officers have O’Meara said yesterday that he is “extremely optimistic” that gallons of the wasted water tems of the discharge, but there been called up and reportedly the University will get the new dorms, but declined to say when. have accumulated in the sump is no cause for concern,” said sent to the border. O’Meara also hesitated to reveal detailed information about the of the plant’s turbine building. J ones. 4 ‘The state of Maryland One factor that makes both status of the government loan the University is applying for, and The water apparently became is also being notified.” sides reluctant to fight is the about the possible donors he mentioned earlier this semester. He contaminated^ because of radio The Maryland border is group of 200,000 Egyptians who explained that too many comments at this time might be active gases released into the about 35 miles south of the work in oil-rich Libya, where premature and could interfere with the progress of the planning. plant,” said Jones. plant. wages are more than 10 times O’Meara did say that the two new dorms would probably be The NRC said it expects no Senator Gary Hart, D-Colo., what they are in Egypt. And located between the Memorial Library and Grace and Planner. detectable levels of xenon in the chariman of the Senate Public Libya needs the Egyptian doc However, he added that the decision was not final. river a few miles downstream of Works subcommittee on tors, engineers, teachers and According to O’Meara, the new dorm facilities will provide the discharge. nuclear regulation, said earlier laborers to keep its economy additional living space on the campus for 500 more students with A federal inspector said during a visit to the site that going. each dorm housing 250 students. earlier Thursday that the threat the incident was “the most Tensions between the two O’Meara said that the extra space provided by the new dorms of contamination to neighbors serious accident” involving states erupted in the bloody will probably be used to accomodate future Notre Dame women. of the power plant was past, nuclear power generation in the 1977 border war, during which He quickly added that he didn’t necessarily mean that the new although low-level radiation United States. Egypt claimed to have destroy facilities would be for women, but rather that it was a continued to escape in one of ed scores of Libyan tanks and “probability.” “This correspondence to a the nation’s most serious major fallout patten from a planes and wiped out the A1 When specific plans for the additional living space were nuclear accidents. nuclear bomb test,” said Dr. Adam air base and two radar announced, the provost offered to consider student input “ At this point, the danger is Ernest Sternglass, progessor of installations. The Libyans presented to him by Student Body President Andy McKenna. over for people off site, ” said radiology at the Univ. of claimed to have downed two Since that offer, a meeting was held with several members of the Chares Gallina, an inspector for Pittsburg, who measured radia- dozen Egyptian warplanes, in {continued on page 3] the NRC who has been monito- {continued on page 7] cluding long-range bombers. 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