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E-12 THE CINCINNATI ENQUIRER Friday, April 25, 19S0 Apathy, Neglect Wither Civil Defense Vermont which were issued yellow radiation monitoring kits and trained to use them. A random check of more than 100 names showed most knew nothing about the kits. And of those who remember getting the instruments during the Berlin or Cuban crises of the early '60s, few know where they are. Those who do said they don't know how to use them. RICHARD TAYLOR, who directs civil defense activities in Hartford, is also deputy fire chief and head of the town's rescue squad.

He has a box of radiation monitors in a closet, but said, "I don't have the slightest idea what's in here or how to use it." A woman in Laconla, N.H., said she found a kit in her attic last year "and threw it out because I didn't know what it was." "We're spending $100 billion a year on military defense and almost nothing on protecting the public if the country is attacked," said John McConnell, associate FEMA director of population preparedness. "We've got 460 shelters on the federal list, but a lot of the buildings have been torn down so we're really not sure what's left that's safe enough to put people in," said Robert Hannigan, civil defense director in Worcester, Mass. FEMA has a computer list of 1,749 people, businesses and agencies in New Hampshire, Maine and are absolutely useless because no one knows what to do." IN THE mid-1960s, federal engineers surveyed every community and listed the buildings strong enough to serve as shelters. But most officials say the buildings haven't been checked in years and emergency supplies are long gone. NOW IS THE TIME federal and state money: "If the locals don't provide the first buck then nothing happens.

We have no leverage to make state or local governments protect their people." Wes Williams, New Hampshire deputy civil defense director, said, "The Russian invasion of Afghanistan and the Iranian crisis have done more to remind people of civil defense than anything else in years, but now the question is: Can we still do our old Job?" Many New England officials answer, "No." "The best we could do is have police, fire and other public safety vehicles cruise the street with their sirens and public address systems on," said Frank Roumacher, Boston's deputy civil defense director. "We have no money to do the Job (repair the sirens). There's not a penny in our budget." THE COASTAL New Hampshire city of Portsmouth-bounded by Pease Air Force Base, with attack bombers, and the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, with nuclear submarines is designated a "first strike target" by the Department of Defense. Yet none of the city's 11 sirens has worked in years. "In case of attack we'll Just kiss the entire city and its people goodbye," said Civil Defense Director Herald Good.

"We've got a city council that thinks civil defense is a Joke so they won't give us any money to do anything." The four air raid sirens In Portland, Maine, have been out of service for years. "The people will have to hear about the attack on the radio," said Fire Chief Joseph McDonough. Officials in those few cities with working air raid systems said their people wouldn't be any better off. "We'd set the sirens off and we'd have instant panic," said Joe Cerullo, civil defense director in Lawrence, Mass. "There would be chaos and pandemonium in the streets" once peo-ple realized the 12 sirens in Manchester, N.H., were not being sounded for a test, said civil defense director Julie Potter.

"The sirens MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP)-Iti Boston, an extensive system of air raid sirens doesn't work. Most of the sirens were knocked out in the 1978 blizzard and never repaired. Hartford, has four bomb shelters, but the civil defense director says no one knows where they are because no one cares. And people here in Manchester would create "chaos and pandemonium in the streets" if the town's sirens went off an official says they wouldn't know what to do.

A $2 billion warning and protec-tion network designed to save Americans in the event of nuclear war is almost useless at least in New England, say regional civil defense officials. And, officials add, even more money must be spent to make it work. Congress ordered creation of the instant civil defense notification system and shelter network 30 years ago. It was to be accompanied by a force of people trained and equipped to monitor radiation fallout. But civil defense officials in all six New England states say people can no longer count on finding shelter or receiving quick notice of enemy attack.

ASSOCIATED PRESS members in Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont checked more than 100 sites that were supposed to have radiation monitoring equipment. They found that most of the equipment was not in place and those responsible had little or no knowledge of what was expected of them. Of the equipment that was in place, much of it did not work, the AP survey found. William Chipman, director of population preparedness for the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), the department responsible for maintaining the system, would not say categorically the system was a failure. But he noted, "It's a simple fact that the program isn't what it is, supposed to be." Chipman said it could work if states would pump more money into it.

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Mothballed Ships May See Duty Again 3 TriCounty Mall 1C Princeton Pike Kemper Rd. souri, saw extensive action in World War II, in Korea and In Vietnam. She was the last battleship on the seas anywhere in the world and was decommissioned in 1969 after a year of bombarding the coasts of Vietnam in her first duty at sea in over a decade. REOUTFITTING THE New Jersey with guided missiles and putting her back into service after 11 years at anchor would cost an estimated $225 million. The cost for returning the Oriskany to service, designing her to carry about 75 war planes, would be $305 million.

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