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Thursday. September 16. 1982 4A Reno Evening Gazette Cold War came before Armv fnrmc Qnprial war unit Chicago redisricting safety, testimony says discrimination charged FORT N.C. (AP) with in special units subordinate to are regular military commands. Critics say that system downplays the importance of special operations and requires a cumbersome chain of command that prevents fast action and impairs secrecy.

Strengthening U.S. capability to wage irregular warfare coincides with the Reagan administration's increased emphasis on covert operations by the Central Intelligence Agency, which in the past has relied on the Green Berets for clandestine military activities. The Green Berets, formally called the Army's Special Forces, are the best known of the U.S. special operation units and reached a peak size of about 13,000 during the Vietnam War. Now, the Green Berets have an authorized strength of 3,600.

expertise operations, including psychological warfare and civic action, with the Green Berets acting as the core, sources said. Sources also say an active debate is continuing inside the Pentagon about placing special operation forces from the Air Force and possibly other branches of the armed services into a joint command. The Pentagon refused comment on the report. Advocates of unconventional warfare say the creation of a central headquarters for special operations with a tighter chain of command and control would be the most important step yet toward revitalizing those forces, which have been declined since the Vietnam War. Currently, special operation BRAGG, -The Army has decided to establish a "major command" for military special operations, a move aimed at improving the Green Berets' capability to wage counter-insurgency, guerrilla, sabotage and other kinds of unconventional warfare, sources say.

The decision follows a quiet but intensive lobbying drive by conservative military strategists inside and outside the administration for improved U.S. forces to respond to so-called "low intensity" conflicts, such as the current fighting in Central America. Military sources, who asked not to be identified, said the announcement of the command and details about exactly which units will be involved is expected soon. The command is expected to cover a number of Army units CHICAGO (AP) In its first such move against a major city, the Justice Department is seeking to force Chicago to redraw a new voting district map it alleges discriminates against blacks and Hispanics. The department on Wednesday cited a section of the Voting Rights Act it had never used before against in major city in seeking to join three private suits challenging a redistricting map approved by the City Council last November.

U.S. Attorney Dan K. Webb said the map was drawn "in such a fashion as to dilute and deny the rights of blacks" and "to completely fragment and dilute the rights of Hispanics." Currently, 16 of the 50 council members are black and one is Hispanic, Webb's office said. It said the 1980 census showed that nearly 40 percent of the city's population was black and 14 percent was of Hispanic origin. The Justice Department asked the court to bar the city from conducting its 1983 elections under the current ward map and to require it to draw a new map.

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) The race tor military superiority during the Cold War led the government to explode atomic bombs in Nevada with limited knowledge of their impact and fallout information to the public was suppressed, testimony in a multi-mil-lion dollar lawsuit shows. information about the atomic testing in the 1950s and early 1960s was revealed during federal court testimony read from depositions Wednesday by lawyers alleging the government negligently caused hundreds of cancer deaths and mannings in Utah, Nevada and Arizona because of fallout from the open-air tests. The non-jury trial before U.S. District Court Judge Bruce S. Jenkins moved into its third day today.

The trial involves two dozen plaintiffs selected to be representative of the various diseases the fallout is alleged to have caused. There are about 1,200 total claimants in the multi-million dollar suit against the government. "The people involved in the tests were not a bunch of callous ogres unconcerned with the public's health," said retired Public Health Service officer Oliver Placak. flomma flOuQfffa oooooma i FINAL SUMMER CLEARANCE ON Clear View Condominiums offers several outstanding financing plans that make buying your own home easy and affordable. You choose the plan that best suits your needs.

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