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Show Accident U.S., World Newsin Brief ; Stirs Up PALO ALTO, Calif. (UPI By United Press International In California and Oregon they held a vigil and carried candles In Philadelphia they staged a “die-in.” In New York it was a peaceful march and elsewhere around the country anti-nuclear groups vowed to fight against the construction SEVERAL HUNDRED demonstrators Mile Island nuclear power plant in Penn- disaster in U.S. history (UPI Telephoto) quarters building in Sas Francisco. The protest HARRISBURG, Pa. (UPI) — Hereis a chronology of events on the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant accident Wednesday, March 28 4 am. Accident begins, possibly as a result of Ing into the atmosphere. Thursday, March 29: 10 a.m. Scrantontells reporters Met-Ed was still unableto cool down the No, 2 reactor and that small amounts of radiation continued to seep from the atomic plant. But he said the situation remained human errors and several mechanical problems. Uranium fuel rods melt. It is believed that “stable” overnight. Metropolitan Edison Co., the plant’s owner. did nc! 5 p.m. In his first public statement on the matter realize for three hours that radiation was seeping Thornburgh said, “There is no cause for alarm, nor into the air any reason to disrupt your daily routine, nor any 7 a.m. Pennsylvaniaofficials are notified and Metson to fee] that the public health has been afEd officials request a state pulive tielicopter for an fected. overhead inspection team 6 p.m. Ina statementreleasedin Parsippany, N.J 8 a.m. Public receives first news reports of the General Public Utilities Corp. a consortium that mishap. runs the plant, said ‘'There is no possibility of a 11:30 a.m. Lt. Gov, WilliamScrantonIII, in charge meltdown.’ The statement, released 38 hoursafter of Pennsylvania’s energymatters, calls thefirst of- ficial press briefing and said. ‘There has beenan incidentat Three Mile Island, Unit No. 2. Everything is under control. There is and was no dangerto public health and safety.” Noon. Don Curry. Met-Ed spokesmanin Reading Pa., said he would not describethe occurrenceat the plant as ‘‘a nuclear accident.”’ but rather a mechanical mishap, a broken water pump, that happened to occur at a nuclear powerplant. (1:50 p.m. Pressure in the reactor containment building surges by 30 pounds per squareinchforless than a second, an incident not detected until a review of data two dayslater. Now believed to have heen an explosion of hydrogen gas given off by metal fuel rods that burned.) 4:30 p.m. Scranton called a second briefing and said, ‘The situation is more complex than the companyfirst led us to believe." Scranton, speaking for the state government, said hebelieved ‘'thereis still no dangerto the public heai 10 p.m. Scrantontells third official press briefing he reported to Gov. Dick Thornburgh that more radiation — but not an excessive amount — wasleak- the mishap, said the firm could not “verify exactly the sequence of events resulting in yesterday's in- Friday, March 30: 8:42 a.m. An uncontrolled plumeofradiation burst into the air around the power plant 10:35 a.m. Paul Critchlow, Thornburgh’s official spokesman said the governmentwasadvising people living within a 10-mile radius —up to 300,000 residents — tostayindoors as a result of the new, abnor- mally high, radiation release. Critchlow said the governmenthad contingencyplansto evacuate | million persons from central Pennsylvaniaif necessary. 12:30 p.m. Thornburgh orders closing of 23 schools and urges pregnant womenand youngchildrentoflee a 5-mile radius of the accident site because of the newradiation and a fear that further uncontrolled and unexpected releases could occur. 4 p.m. In Washington. senior U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission official Dudley Thompson said, ‘Weface the ultimaterisk of a melt-down,”’ the mostserious type of nuclear catastrophe, becauseof an air bubble in the reactor cooling system that hindered efforts to cool down the No. 2 reactor. device,” McGill said. ‘1 understand it to be harmless. but I am very concerned about the growing apprehension on campus. This stress has now reached serious dimensions and must be anti-nuclear groups marched onutility companies that cident.’ Teaching Reactor Action Taken NEW YORK (UPI) — TRIGA MarkII teaching Columbia University reactor on the Columbia president Dr. William J campus," McGill said McGill has asked that the late Friday. univeristy's nuclear reacThe teaching reactor tor, the center of an en- has been housed in the vironmental dispute Engineering building at spanning 16 years, not be 119th Street and Amsteractivated, dam Avenuesince 1963. “After considering the However, due to a public reaction to a series of court actionsinSerious accident in the volving regulatory and operation of a nuclear jurisdictional disputes, it “power plant in Mid- has never been put into dletown, Pa., I have operation. decided to request the “T am making this refaculty of engineering to quest not because of any reconsider going forward altered concern for the with the developmentof a safety of the Columbia a concession area and roamed the streets for more than twohours. Eight people wereinjured, including three children twotrainers anda policeofficer Twoof the elephants were cornered in a grade own The note from Peking’s foreign ministry said “the Chinese government has repeatedly declared \\ readiness to hold negotiations speedily with the Viet school playgroundnine blocks from thecollege gym: jamese nasium where the George Hubler International risburg The Vermont nuclear plant was closed two weeks ago to replace faulty fuel rods. That process is near completion And there was a candlelight vigil at the Trojan nuclear power plant near Rainier, Ore by residents who wanted to show support and sympathy for the poeple living near the Three Mile Island plant. agents reported Friday BALTIMORE(UPI) — Nearly 150 people camped William R. Barton, special agent in chargeof the Treasury Department's Los Angeles field office identified those arrested in of Charles 1. Hale, 32, Rancho Palos Verdes Stanley Adams 59, Long Beach, and Linda LeeFitz simmon, 34 San Pedro. airport in hopes of obiaining 99-cent and 63-cent flights to Los Angeles and Dallas that leave Monday Texas International Airlines, which begins opera tions out of Baltimore Sunday offered the roundtrip Angeles and Las Tenament Fire Kills 5 Vegas. Theflights leave Monday with an open return for the next 30 days. JERSEY CITY, Thefirst 99 peoplein line forflights to Los Angeles or Las Vegaswill be eligible for the 99-cent fares The Houston andDailasflights for 69 cents will beof N.J. (UPI) — Five people. in cluding three children. werekilled in a tenement blaze Friday night. raising the number of tire related deaths in this waterfront city to 20 since late fered to the first 69 people in line. January City Fire Chief John Mullins said the blaze, whi left about 25 people homeless. was not considered suspicious Thevictims wereidentified as Manuel Corderno 57; his two daughters Lorna. 10, and Blanca 11 Dump Carter Drive? DES MOINES, Iowa (UPI) — political meeting ittended by some of lowe’s top labor leaders Satur day may signal thestart of a drive to dump President Carter from the1980 Democratic ticket and replace the state's nuclearplants and demanded the closing of all of them. in Vermont, an antinuclear groupcalled for the continued shutdown of the Vermont Yankee atomic plant because of the incident in Har LUS AN UPI) — Three persons have beer arrested on counterfeiting charges and approximate. ly $1 million in bogus bills seized, U.S. Treasury out Saturday at Baltimore-Washington International Dallas government Police Nab Suspects Cheap Airline Flights flights to Houston China Saturday accuse ot fabricating numerous lies about rawal of Peking’s t ‘oops to obstruct jons between the two Communist na noteto the Vietnamese foreign ministry, Ching expressed deep regret and indignation of Hanc lies nd preconditions and repeated stalling ot Sino-Vietnamese negotiations. {) val New China News Agency reported vircus was performing. The third was chased down ind tranquilized by city amimal-contro! otticers demonstrators Friday for ‘ and blocking access to the Philadelphia Electric Co About 700 people in NewYork held a peaceful demonstration Friday night, marching to Times Square and handing out leaflets with the message, ‘‘Ban Nuke Power.”’ In Sacramento. Calif about 150 candle-bearing protesters launched a weekend vigil ouisidethe Rancho Seco nuclear plant —described asidentical to the stricken Three Mile Island facility. Elsewhere in Caiifornia, EKING UPL) DECATUR, Ill. (UPI) — Three circus elephants got loose during a performance Saturday stampeded Philadephia-area Chronology of Events Covering Nuciear PowerPlant Accident China Accuses Vietnam um Elephants Stampede Police arrested 11 Magdalena Oldineres, 25. and her two - year Lester prison bodyguard Divorced and the father of twochildren. heis now a San Francisco police- man Miss Hearst's parents Randolph Hearst, presi dentof the San Francisco Examiner and chairman of the Hearst Corp., and her mother Catherine who were legally separated in December after 40 years of marriage. will attend the ceremony along with 300 invited guests Reporters will not be permitted inside because Look magazine lias an exclusive $50 000 coverage contract After the exchange of vows. the bride and groom and guests will walk a short distance to the Casa de la Vista, a Navy community building with a sweeping view over the water of the San Francisco skyline. The Carden-Lee Primary School admits students of any race, color, national and ethnic origin to all the rights, privileges, programs, and activities generally accorded or made available to students at the school. It does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national and ethnic Arrangements to hold the ceremon:es on a Navy base were made by Charles Gould, a Hearst executive, who as a retired captain in the Navy reserve, has the rightto usethefacilities. in administration of it’s educational policies, admissions The wedding comeslittle more than five years after Miss Hearst was carried screaming from her Berkeley apartment by the Symbionese old son NOTICE OF NONDISCRIMINATORY POLICY AS TO STUDENTS Patty, Body Guard to Wed SAN FRANCISCO (UPI) — Newspaper heiress and kidnapvictim Patricia Hearstwill marry the man hired to protectherlife Sundayin a Navy chapel on Treasure Island in San Francisco Bay The Rev. Ted Dumke, an Episcopal minister who headed a committee to free Miss Hearst from prison, will marry the couplein a private chapel located securely behind the Navy base's chainlink fence. Miss Hearst 25 met her policemanbeau, Bernard Shaw 33, in 1976 while he was moonlighting as her with lowa’s first-in-the-nation precinct caucuses bag pulled over his upper body nuclear sylvania was triggered by the malfunction at the Three protesting nuclear power plants participate in “die in’’ in frontof the Pacific Gas Electric head against way Carter grabbed the nomination in 1976 early organizational effort and a strong showing sentence hearing was scheduled for April 20 Professor Karel DeLeeuw, 48 was found d August by a janitor in his campus office a gathered this weekend to facilities such as the Three Mile Island plant near Harrisburg Pa site of the worst nuclear The union officials, whe formthe backbone lowa Democratic Party, were to discuss aimed at placing Kennedy atop the ticket the s A Stanford Univer sity graduate student apparently frustrated by his 20-year inability to complete a doctoral thesis. has been found guilty of second-degree murder in the jammer killing of his former teacher A Santa Clara County jury Friday returned the ver dict against Theodore Landon Streleski, 42. 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