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ham Post-Herald SCRIFN HOWARD Final Edition 25 Cents WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 25 1985 oviet warns of 'nuclear catastrophe' Space defense net leakproof scientists report Story page C6 fied called the speech and He was not a very good preparation for referring to the Nov 19-20 summit between President Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev The speech received polite but unenthusiastic applause the same Shultz received at the end of his is expected to outline a new Soviet strategy for breaking the impasse at the US-Soviet arms control talks in Geneva In his speech Shevardnadze voiced hope fa a successful summit But rather than the general agenda favored by the Reagan administration Shevardnadze said the focus should be on arms control I have in mind is the problem of inventing an arms race in outer space and terminating it on Earth limiting and reducing nuclear arms and enhancing strategic he said Please tun to SOVIET page A2 UNITED NATIONS Foreign Minister Eduard A Shevardnadze of the Soviet Union yesterday waned that the Reagan space defense plan threatens nuclear and called instead for an international program of Shevardnadze said the United States has for the militarization of outer space that would ignite an and global arms race "In the final analysis this is a road leading to a nuclear be said in an address to the 40th UN General Assembly Secretary of State George Shultz who was in the audience stalked unwillingly past reporters after the Soviet minister had finished ignoring shouted questions for a reaction It was Shevardnadze's first speech at the United Nations since he succeeded Andra A Gromyko as foreign minister earlier this year A Western ambassador who did not want to be identi Administration officials had been hoping for indications of flexibility in the Soviet address that could help set the stage for a succesful summit but there was not much to encourage them Shevardnadze will meet with Shultz in New York today and with Reagan in Washington Friday when he Mexicans fear disease as rescues continue 1 4 iK- 1 a iv-v' 'y' jjA-'- MEXICO CITY Rescue workers who have become the heroes found two crying babies in the ruins of a hospital yesterday one a boy born Just a day before the devastating earthquake that brought the building down Searches went on throughout the smashed heart of the Mexican capital Work era dug and listened on ultrasound equipment and specially trained dogs siuffed and pawed in the desperate effort to find the estimated 1500 people still thought buried before it is too late Crowds of people praying to see their relatives emerge alive watched the rescuers pull survivors from debris that had imprisoned them since the quakes struck Thursday and Friday Cheers were raised for every victory when the men pulled someone to i Not even disaster can chan tal human behavior Teams digging I the rubble id an apartment building i a 70-year-old woman but she refused at first to come out I am naked and people are going to think I have no Please turn to RESCUE page A2 The infant and a 2-month-old girl found in their metal cribs in a small pocket that had been missed earlier by dogs sniffing through the rubble for signs of life Members of the rescue team said they were covered with debris but that the strong frames of the cribs saved their lives Miguel Gonzalez Juarez who was the first to hear the babies crying said their condition was considering that they had gone without food and water since Juarez Hospital was destroyed Thursday in the first of two quakes to strike Mexico of all the crying they were quite he said Graymont resident pleads for halt to parking plans Two workers helping to build the SouthTrust Tower stand far above the streets of Birmingham to earn their pay Legion Field Mrs Taylor said Motorists ignore barricades put up in alleys she said Once a driver went around a barricade and sideswiped Mrs Taylor's 7-year-old daughter and several other children who were riding their bicycles she said Those attending games also leave behind litter and endanger Graymont residents because the fans drink and drive she said Although stadiam supporters have cited the contribution that football games make to the city's economy Mrs Taylor said Graymont residents do not reap the benefits She presented statistics showing that the neighborhood's median family income is 15750 and that 445 percent of the residents have incomes below the poverty level folks who live in our neighborhood don't go to football games They afford Mrs Taylor said catch the problem" Even so Graymont is trying to improve Itself she said Mrs Taylor said the armory is across the street from the vacant Graymont Shopping Center which the commu By Michaelle Chapman PM-Herald Reporter For nearly five years Robin Taylor has lived in Elyton Village a housing project in Graymont one of poorest neighborhoods And during that time Mrs Taylor has been fighting to improve the neighborhood Yesterday she took her fight to the (Sty Council hoping that the adage fight city would prove false She said she believes dty officials who want to tear down the Graymont Armory and use the land as a parting lot for Legion Field have their priorities crossed Instead she said the building should be turned into a community center and used as at least a temporary location for the Smithfield Library which is in need of extensive repairs Armed with a book of large hand-lettered charts the young woman stood before the (Sty Council yesterday mailing with a solemn look on her face don't want to see our neighborhood turned into a parking die said Another parting lot would be a further blight in an already blighted neighborhood she contended Graymont already experiences serious problems with traffic crime and trash whenever a football game is played at With one floor to go SouthTrust Tower offers a view from the top of Alabama The building has gone up quickly called fast-tracting Fisa Hid explaining that many aspects of the project are under way use about 35000 cubic yards of concrete and about 3W million pounds id reinforcement steel to complete the job The building sits on caissons 3 to 8 feet in diameter that drop 40 to 75 feet to bedrock supporting the huge structure earthquake could not knock this building down" said David Fisa one of the project supervisors nity hopes to revitalize Several grocery stores and other shops have failed in the center Please tern to GRAYMONT page A2 So while the main structure is gong up workmen hang the granite outside covering of the building and install windows Please turn to TOWER page A8 Browns Ferry to miss deadline By Andrew Kilpatrick Psat-Herald Reporter Perched almost 500 feet above the ground operator Dewey Richey sits in the cab of a huge crane feeding building supplies to the SouthTrust Tower under construction at 20th Street and Fifth Avenue North Richey sees nothing scary about his lofty occupation helping to build what will be the tallest building in Alabama just like being in the living room of your Ricfaey said with a laugh yesterday speaking by radio to a viator who was standing atop the unfinished S3rd floor of the building Construction crews have been adding a floor to the building just about every week and they have only one floor to go The addition of the roof win complete the building's main structure sometime in mid-October After that interior work must be finished before the August 1988 opening date At 34 floors 453 feet high the building will be the tallest in Alabama taking that distinction away from the First National Bank in Mobile which stands 422 feet high Before the SouthTrust building reached fa the sky local officials said the hona of being the highest building in Birmingham belonged to two structures: the South Central Bell and First National-Southern Natural buildings each at 390 feet Richey is one of 300 workers helping to build the 852 million project They will until 1987 and the Unit 1 reactor after All three reactors at the TVA facility have been shut down since March 19 when Coffey decided the IS million kilowatt plant could not be operated safely Last month the TVA shut down its other nuclear power plant the Sequoyah facility near Chattanooga because of safety con- ATHENS A cheerful sign decorated with Christmas lights and bearing the slogan on line by Christmas has been taken down at the Browns Ferry Nuclear Plant because the facility wont make the deadline sign was put up when we were hoping to get at least one of the reactors back to power production before the end of the JA Coffey Browns site director said Monday night after TVA offi- TVA officials named Coffey site director at Browns Ferry IS months ago to turn it around At the time the Nuclear Regulatory Commission Hid the plant had gone from being one of the nation's best-managed to one of the nation's worst-managed nuclear facilities Since then Coffey has brought in 200 new cials ordered the sign removed looked good a few weeks ago but if we kept it up I suppose it would eventually read off line at Christmas Coffey said Hugh Parris director of nuclear power for the Tennessee Valley Authority said he expects no electrical production from the plant before April 1985 The production will start be said with the Unit 2 reactor Coffey said the Unit 3 reactor at Browns probably resume production Chattanooga and he has laid off 91 other plant employees be said were not needed One of SouthTrust Tower's 300 construction workers 'urveys his work 4 2 IMi Wl ha DMKOATMNNHMMa i4ADV i 14.