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mmwmvkwwiu i From page one Page A12 THE SACRAMENTO BEE Saturday October 13 1979 Senate Unit Kills SALT Action Delay By Charles Mohr New York Times News Service WASHINGTON In an unannounced vote Thursday the Senate Foreign Relations Committee defeated a motion that it postpone action on the strategic arms treaty with the Soviet Union Senate sources said Friday The motion which was offered by Sen John Glenn D-Ohio a skeptic on the full verifiability of the treaty was defeated 10-5 during a closed-door meeting of the committee called to discuss plans for action on the arms agreement The committee later voted to begin marking up the treaty on Monday The meaning of the vote on motion was open to different interpretations In one sense it could be said the treaty surmounted the first of many obstacles expected before final approval is reached However the membership of the committee is heavily weighted in favor of the treaty The fact that Glenn and the Senate minority leader Howard Baker Jr R-Tenn voted for delay might also be significant some sources thought It is believed likely that during full floor debate of the treaty there will be other motions to put off action on the pact Although Glenn has expressed doubts about the verifiability of the treaty pro-treaty forces have been hoping for his support Baker has said publicly several times that he favors bringing the treaty to a vote this year although he would consider proposals for delay President Carter said Friday of the treaty's prospects for Senate approval that issue in the Senate is genuinely in The president also seemed to hint that a delay until next year would be harmful saying there would bo some "partisan in an election year Carter who was speaking to a group of community leaders from Minnesota and Missouri at the White House endorsed the idea of televising the treaty debate in the Senate commenting that would be a superb contribution to tbe awareness of the American people" Page A1 Brown Says He'd Order US Homosexual 'Bill Of Rights' NATO Warned Against Testing Soviet Patience ing against the vigorous competition from Japan and West Germany among others that US manufacturers faced Japan Brown said spends only 1 percent of its gross national product on defense and West Germany only 2'2 percent Both face communist nations he said and in the case of West Germany "if the Russians are coming then the Germans ought to spend at least as much as we in their own defense "And until they do Brown added not prepared to increase the level of (defense) spending in the Brown later said Germans should spend more than they now do but denied saying least as much as we A tape recording showed he had Brown also said that he considered the current economic plight of the United States more of a threat to the security than the threat of Russianaggrcssion Castro Continued From which he claimed had committed "the most terrible crime of our era" That was Castro's way of describing the plight of the Palestinian Arabs His phrase drew loud prolonged applause from much of the assemblage He did repudiate "the merciless persecution and the genocide that the Nazis once visited on the Hebrew He suggested that the plight of Palestinians "pushed off their land persecuted and closely paralleled the Nazi terror He also accused the United States of "direct or indirect collaboration in the maintenance of South criminal policy and racist He said that the use of the dollar as a reserve currency was the cause of global monetary disorder The United States must from its to perpetuate Puerto "colonial he said US arms spending in the next decade he predicted would be more than six times the $300 billion he was demanding for the poor For the first hour Castro read from his text with few oratorical flourishes He was particularly vigorous when he urged the wealthy nations to cancel the loans they have made to the poor i I Continued From Page A1 vehicles are expected to be passing daily in 1980 And while most of the parade of speakers focused on I-5's potential for creating international goodwill it was a remark by California's biggest freeway booster that brought the biggest ovation Former state Sen Randolph Collier of Siskiyou County known as the father of the freeways asked the crowd: it wdnderful that we have this outpouring that shows that America is still in love with the The loud applause indicated the peopled liked their freeway link and their cars They were impatient to get the freeway open after years of delays resulting from court battles and state freeway funding cutbacks Also speaking briefly from a portable stage in the freeway median strip were Canadian Consul HG Horne Mexican Consul Rafael Reyes-Spindo-la and AJ Gallardo acting division administrator of the Federal Highway Administration The last link cleared for public traffic exactly two hours after the official opening by Gianturco was a 46-mile $103-million segment built at the Seco Continued From Page the agency said SMUD and California state officials tried to dissuade GAO from sketching the dimensions of a worst-possible contingency arguing it would the public controversial scenario is based on release of "substantial amounts of radioactive following a hypothetical meltdown of Rancho reactor core and rupture of the reactor vessel and containment building It also assumes the worst weather conditions possible in the area Given these assumptions NRC calculations performed at request show that persons within a wedge-shaped area of 1350 square miles could receive excessive radiation exposure areas within a 150-mile radius of the plant should be used to estimate the affected area since wind direction cannot be the report states "State and local governments do not have emergency plans covering all of the areas which would be affected in the worst possible accident an effort would require planning and coordinating efforts of 44 counties in California and several in Nevada with an affected population ofover8 million Even on a much more modest scale by just doubling the current planning radius from five to 10 miles state and local officials have considerably more difficult insuring public nations The Cuban leader repeatedly insisted that he was not speaking for Cuba but as chairman of the 92 nations who claim to be aligned with neither the Soviet nor Western blocs Nevertheless he managed to insert ideas that the non-aligned nations had not approved in their meeting last month in Havana Experts who have read documents emerging from that meeting say that its does not mention the $300 billion figure Castro urged Friday Castro proposed that his fund start with $25 billion the first year The money would be handed out as gifts low-interest loans or in the form of material resources Castro then enjoyed a standing ovation clasped his hands together in thanks and went off to a lunch with Secretary General Kurt Waldheim and about 120 others US Ambassador Donald McHenry was among the guests in his capacity as a mem-berof the Security Council After lunch Castro returned to the Cuban Mission There he was due to serve as host Friday evening to diplomats from the group south end of Sacramento County by the Madonna Construction Co of San Luis Obispo Earlier a 102-mile $17-million stretch of 1-5 in northern San Joaquin County was completed They were the finishing touches on a freeway building program that began in 1956 in the Los Angeles area Largely federally funded it eventually was to stretch 800 miles across California and cost $1 6 billion Its statistics are impressive: In a state full of freeways it is longest Its construction devoured 78 square miles of land including some top-grade agricultural property in the Sacramento and San Joaquin valleys Interstate 5 used up as much concrete as Shasta Dam 65 million cubic yards There are nearly 3000 miles of wire fencing along its edges The project took 63800 of work Among the uncounted years of toil were those put in by the Interstate 5 Association the group that argued longest and loudest for the completion of the last sections of the highway The association was formed in late A1 the GAO said Federal safety experts who support the 10-mile radius argue that it would be adequate because the number of early fatalities and injuries beyond that distance would be the GAO reported Among serious shortcomings in current preparedness plans the GAO lists: Lack of a comprehensive information program to acquaint the public with potential hazards at Rancho Seco and emergency measures The report suggests that such information be disseminated in SMUD bills or through a permanent schedule of public meetings Annual required tests of emergency procedures have been too Since 1975 local state and utility officials have conducted drills on weekdays during regular work hours The GAO points out nuclear accidents canoccur at night oron weekends Complaints by county and state officials that in an emergency SMUD give a sufficiently high priority to prompt communication between Rancho Seco and local authorities outside the plant a 1978 exercise the county was forced to contact the plant several times to obtain current data on the progress of the simulated the GAO reports officials told us that communications during the most recent exercise were even The California Department of Los Angeles Times MANCHESTER NH Struggling to get national attenton in his Democratic presidential campaign Gov Brown offered these two ideas Friday: As president he would sign a federal executive order prohibiting discrimination against homosexuals in federal jobs possibly including the armed services If he were president the United States might not increase defense spending until West Germany for example at least as much as we Brown madehis comments as he campaigned on three New Hampshire campuses as part of a 12-day swing through five key primary states The federal homosexual of would parallel a similarorder covering state jobs that Brown recently signed The reference to German defense spending came when Brown was rail 1974 when it appeared 1-5 be finished before 1983 Its president John Serpa seriously burned in an industrial accident recently left his Stockton hospital bed to serve as master of ceremonies at the highway dedication Suffering obvious discomfort from his unhealed burns the 54-year-old Tracy service station operator conducted the ceremony then attended a barbecue in nearby Thornton before returning to Dameron Hospital Hospital officials didn't want to release him even for four hours He willingly signed a release absolving them of any responsibility for turning him loose "It would have taken more than that to keep me he said gesturing stiffly with a badly swollen left arm and hand It was a special occasion for many including about 40 members of the Sundance Running Club of Stockton They jogged 10 kilometers to inaugurate the festivities calling the run the Last Annual Thornton International Classic Buses brought every schoolchild from the two nearest towns 145 from New Hope School in Thornton and 125 from Walnut Grove Elemen Health still has no plan for detecting food contamination and the California Department of Transportation has yet to complete an adequate blueprint for its important role in a possible Rancho Seco accident State officials are of federal guidelines for removal of contaminated foodstuffs from the food chain A complete test of the capabilities to help out in an emergency has not been conducted (The state Office of Emergency Services rejected this critcism the GAO reports arguing that for a have not been Although federal agencies in California would have a key role in case of a Rancho Seco mishap they have no specific plans to assist nor have they participated in preparedness exercises find it rather ironic that federal agencies do not participate in drills while the utility state and local agencies are required (by the federal government) or at least encouraged to prepare detailed plans and participate in the reportstates Under the current five-mile radius the emergency preparedness area intrudes slightly into San Joaquin County which has no detailed plan to cope with a Rancho Seco accident With a 10-mile radius San Joaquin would have to be heavily involved In a letter to GAO San Joaquin Emergency Services Coordinator Cleo Ja-nijv applauded the report but added tries recognized the "positive character" of proposal continue to put forward farfetched arguments in order to carry through the dangerous plans for deploying American medium-range nuclear-missile weapons in Western Europe "Perhaps someone wants to test the patience of the countries of the socialist community to see whether it is possible to make them abandon their policy of relaxation of international tension" The Kremlin in adopting the harsh tone of the Tass analysis apparently was expressing its disappointment with President Carter's response in his news conference Tuesday to Brezhnev's proposal Carter remarked that the Brezhnev initiative was a step in the direction of disarmament but not adequate to make the United States abandon its Pershing 2 proposal Page A1 wide Control The ARB staff had recommended that only rice stubble be burned from Oct 1 to Nov 15 but the adopted regulations would permit other crops' wastes to be torched The 335-ton daily limit on particulate emissions approximately equals the amount of smoke created when 25000 acres of rice stalks are burned Rice was picked as the common factor because its stalks are the waste most often burned There were approximately 530000 acres of rice planted in the Sacramento Valley this year Morgestersaid for this but included cases of rape incest and when prolonged health damage would be incurred by the mother as determined by two physicians Friday the Senate and House conferees struck a compromise under which the House agreed to include cases of rape and incest and the Senate agreed to drop the health damage provision The abortion compromise was designed to last only until the Nov 20 expiration date of the continuing appropriations bill Further fights are expected over the abortion issue in the regular appropriations bills now pending Agreement to the compromise came swiftly in the House with only several voices raised in protest No attempt was made to get a recorded vote SMUD Continued From Page A1 the area 10 to 50 miles from Rancho Seco But Martin is puzzled at the GAO suggestion that the worst possible accident at Rancho Seco could affect an area 150 miles away He said that while he had a chance to review drafts of the GAO report done by a GAO staff member in San Francisco SMUD had no opportunity to review the basis for the 150-mile concern a situation he called on part Further he said in response to a GAO charge that SMUD had tried to avoid discussion of the worst accident scenario never has there been a study of what could happen if a meltdown did occur at Rancho Seco Thus not only may the public be confused but utilities also he said Martin said SMUD hopes to have the basic plan rewritten by March and ready for a public hearing next May NRC wants it fully implemented by June Martin added A MOSCOW (UPI) The Soviet Union Friday warned that NATO should not "test the of the Kremlin with "dangerous plans" to deploy the American Pershing 2 missile in Europe The official Tass news agency also suggested in its analysis that the Carter administration was handling the question of Western European security the same way it did charges that a Soviet combat brigade operated in Cuba Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev in a speech Saturday in East Berlin offered to withdraw medium-range Soviet missiles from western Russia if NATO did not deploy the Pershing 2 in Europe He also said the Soviet llnion would unilaterally pull out 20-000 Russian troops and 1000 tanks from East Germany Tass said that though NATO coun Burning i Continued From tions on no-burn days only one ex- emption was allowed in Sacramento County The board also ruled that farms in western Placer County must conform to burning regulations for lower elevations rather than for mountain regions Burning regulations at higher elevations are more liberal because farms in the hills often are above inversion layers In what was termed local control over burning the ARB said for determining how the (burn) acreage will be allotted to each crop waste and to each district shall rest with the Sacramento Valley Busin I 1 Continued From Page A1 1 paychecks Monday their normal payday) Part of the compromise bill is temporary federal policy on abortion funds limited to cases when a life is endangered and instances of incest and rape At one point Friday night the Senate killed the compromise by a vote of 62 to 26 primarily because it contained the congressional pay increase that the Senate had rejected three times in recent weeks Reversing itself the Senate revived the compromise by a vote of 44 to 42 Next an attempt to kill the congressional pay increase was defeated by 43 to 42 Then by a vote of 43 to 41 the Senate approved the abortion part of the compromise The compromise now cleared by Congress is designed primarily to allow government departments and agencies whose regular appropriations bills have not yet passed to continue spending at levels of the last fiscal year which ended Sept 30 It would permit this spending until Nov 20 In the meantime Congress would be expected to pass the regular appropriation bills During the 12 days of the new fiscal year affected federal agencies have been unable to pay their employees their full salaries travel has been limited and in some cases supplies have runout 1 The Senate had three times in recent weeks opposed a congressional pay raise each time by large margins The House had insisted on the 55 percent increase and this was made part of the compromise forged by Senate and House negotiators earlier Friday For weeks the Senate and House had been deadlocked over two principal issues congressional pay and abortion limits in the otherwise non-controversial continuing appropriations bill As passed by the House the bill provided federal funds for abortions only when a life was endan-red The Senate version provided tary April Arden the first baby born on Interstate 5 was in the audience She came into the world in 1965 as her mother was on the way to the hospital in San Diego George and Grace Vonasek of Or-land got up at 4 am Friday to attend the ceremony along with other members of the North Valley Unique Car Club from the Chico area Theirs was among two dozen classic cars joining the parade down 1-5 to Thornton after the ceremony The new section of freeway also had its first traffic jam as cars from a mile-long temporary parking lot in the median poured onto the pavement One who traveled far 900 miles to attend the event was Robert Harvey government counterpart in British Columbia A 32-ycar veteran of the Canadian highway program and a former senior highway design engineer Harvey quipped that are only two kinds of highways under construction and Reconsidering ho created a special category for 1-5: "I suppose this one will have to be considered adequate fora appears that once again federal and state agencies have dumped the workload on the locals" The GAO said that the NRC in tightening federal regulations should address the question of financial help for stronger state and local preparedness programs The report also recommends that the NRC use Rancho Seco as a model for a new computer system that can project the effects of radiation releases on areas surrounding a nuclear plant The system which could help to plot evacuation routes and to pinpoint food contamination areas has been developed at the Lawrence Livermore Laboratory The lab is set to install it at Rancho Seco with enthusiastic support from state county and SMUD officials But the NRC so far has balked arguing that the first test of the system should occur at a nuclear plant near a more populated area and with more complex surrounding terrain the probability of a significant radiological release from Rancho Seco may be the GAO report concludes "it nevertheless remains a possibility may be no advance warning of such an accident and time for action could be short this reason a high degree of planning and preparedness must exist among all the organizations charged with emergency responsibilities".