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Show 4A Ldkr The J ribunt. Thursday, Mjv 1, l'M( Nuclear Accident Sets Off Chain Reaction in Commodity Bv tt ilium H ity markets Innun Pre-'- i International iiiu-Sonet farmland in some of the rn turn gnawing regions on the globe depending on winds and uhjei otht r tii tors to contamination by the um ontrulled nuclear fire dt C'herno-bv- l Perverselv the disaster is alii adv pruvirg a boon to American farmers The propped of massive Soviet grjin purchases has sparked a wave n trenzied trading on US commod ! f and fear on precious metal markets that Russia may dump gold to buy the grain "Everything s limbering up, responding dramatically to the crisis," said Victor Lespinasse, a market analyst with Dean Witter Reynolds at the Chicago Board of Trade. "In a perverse way, this has been a very, very " big help to the American farmer "R s really too early to say how significant the damage is, although it is probably safe to say there has been some (agricultural! ddmage tn the Kiev region " says Emily Moore a Soviet economic analyst with the Ag'Much dericulture Department pends on the chemical content of those clouds "If they contain simple iodine stuff of a month of so. the with a half-lifdarruge will not be great If the isothen there will topes are longer-term- , be tremendous problems " Swedish experts say they have detected uranium in some of the debris e asse traded hghtr un xp.llover support from the wheat pit Prices also spiked upw drd for cotton oats, barley pork btll.es and sugar beets The Soviet Lmon is the worlds largest producer of barley sunflower seed rye oats and sugar beets and a world leader in feedstocks wheat and cotton Much of the production is within a few hundred miles of the damaged Chernobyl plant "Its hard to know the rumifica lions of this disaster, said Lespin- - screened, indicating a long term con taminant is afloat Other isotopes identified include iodine 131 cesium 137 and strontium 90 all of which are capable of lay ing a long term radioactive layer over plants and so.l and eventually entering the human food chain in heavily concentrated form Wheat had rallied to the upper price limit set by the Board of Trade in Chicago late Wednesday on rumors of crop damage Corn and soybeans weeks kicked drums The truth won t be known fot But if nothing else, it has the market out of its dol' We re holding steady (in gold), but people are nervous," said a New York Exanalyst on the Commodities nation's the Inc . precious change metals exchange "The Soviets know the best source fur the hard currency thev need to buy food is to dump their guld That yanks the bottom out of " this market Court Rules Race All 50 States Put Sensors Cant Re Factor To the Wind and Sniff For Traces of In Picking a Jury WASHINGTON ilTI) - The N-Fall- out Su- preme Court took a historic step Wednesday toward wiping out racial bias in the courtroom, ruling that prosecutors trying to shape a favorable jurv cannot remove potential jurors just because they are black T ne justices, voting - overturned edent in a high court oars atfinding that the Coi st torneys from discrimnia' ng during the jury selection ptcess Writing for the couit Justice Lewis Powell said. "The harm from discriminatory jury selection extends beyond that inflicted on the defendant and the excluded juror to touch the entire community. Selection procedures that purposefully exclude black persons from juries undermine public confidence in the fairness of our system of justice The decision reversed the Kentucky Supreme Court and said the conviction of burglar James Batson should be overturned unless it can be shown there were reasons other than race for removing all four blacks from his jury panel Justice Thurgood Marshall, in a separate concurring opinion, said the decision "takes a historic step toward eliminating the shameful practice of racial discrimination in the selection of juries. Charles Ralston, of the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund, praised the decision, which overturned a 1965 ruling that allowed discriminatory use of the peremptory challenge, a practice by which attorneys may eliminate prospective jurors without giving a specific reason. "Hopefully (the ruling) will er.d that practice and we will have juries truly representative of all parts of the community," Ralston said. American Civil Liberties Union lawyer Steven Shapiro called the decision "extremely important" and "a long overdue correction of one of the lingering inequalities in the criminal " justice system dunt expect that if that plume reaches the U S.. there would be any significant health effect on the population." he said. Charlie Porter, director of federal Eastern Environmental Radiation Facility in Montgomery, Ala., said it might be days or weeks before any signs are detected in North America. state officials were Washington paying close attention to readings in Alaska. "If readings increase there we 11 have lead time to decide what steps should be taken here, said Gov Booth Gardner's press secretary, Jim Kneeland Kentucky reactivated a monitoring station in Frankfort which had been idle several years, said Edsel Moore, director of the Cabinets Division of Radiation and Product Safety. A ground-leve- l station in Lincoln, Neb was also reactivated at the EPA's request Jim Setser of the Georgia Environmental Protection Division said the state was not advising residents to take any precautions now. "You can unduly alarm people and cause more stress and more damage than by the actual problem itself," he said Wednesday "We would know long before it ever reached Georgia that it was coming in." "This incident does not pose any kind of reasonable threat to North America." said Dr. Neil E. Todreas, head of the Massachusetts Institute of Technologys Department of Nuclear Engineering. Although no state official was predicting any threat, Dayne Brown, chief of the radiation-protectio- n section of the North Carolina Department of Human Resources, said it was important to take precautions "No one feels comfortable." he said, "when a bureaucrat sits down and says, we dont expect any problems so were not going to do we Associated Press A hastily expanded network of radiation sensors in all 50 states sniffed the air W ednesday for signs of fallout disaster in the from the nuclear-plan- t Soviet Union, but no increased radiation was reported. Colorado s Health Department issued a "fallout alert," but that appeared to be no more than what other states were doing watching and waiting Some states activated monitors which had been idle for years. "We don't expect a problem," said John Baghott, director of the Colorado Health Department's consumer-protectioBy The n division Associated Press Loser President Reagan interrupts his Bali va- cation Wednesday to get update from Na- - "Were still thinking we're not going to see much in the state, primarily because of the way the wind's been blowing, although the weather can change," said Larry Anderson, director of Utah's Bureau of Radiation poto tional Security Adviser John Poindexter, 2nd from right, on crippled Soviet reactor. Reagan Offers Technical, Medical Aid To Help Stop Soviet Reactor Fire Continued From l the reactor, but was an offer to make available "the full range of technical experts" to monitor and respond to the the medical and environmental effects. The State Department issued a travel advisory late Tuesday urging Americans to stay away from Kiev and the surrounding area. Redman said the U.S. Embassy in Moscow still does not have an accurate count of Americans in Kiev at the time of the accident. But he said the embassy "is making every effort to identify them and contact them " "All the Americans contacted thus far report they are fine and the situation is normal," he said. A-- Redman said the department knows of no Americans who are residents in Kiev but has been in touch with a number of tourists and tourist groups in the area It has also asked the Soviet travel agency. Intourist, for help in locating Americans in Kiev and arranging for them to leave if they wish. Speakes told reporters it was too early to tell whether the radioactive air mass from the Soviet disaster would reach the United States but said "it is highly unlikely there would be any danger to public health The spokesman said the Soviet nuclear disaster was not specifically on the agenda when the leaders of the seven Western industrialized nations hold their economic summit meeting but added, "it in Japan May would be a matter on the minds of " many leaders He said the accident has not changed Reagan's full support for nu , Control. clear power and also doubted that such a disaster could occur in the United States because of safety measures at U S commercial nuclear facilities News of the disaster dampened Reagan's journey across the Pacific to the Tokyo economic summit and his three-dastopover on the fabled island of Bali for talks with Asian leaders. The president, whose visit to Indonesia's Nusa Dua peninsula has been marked by tight security, relaxed at his beachfront hotel Wednesday, took a stroll on the seafront with his wife and looked over briefing books. Reagan was scheduled to meet with Indonesian President Suharto and the foreign ministers of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) on his final day in Bali y "Everybody's holding their breath and wondering what happened," Anderson said "We don't expect to see of days if we anything for a couple see anything at all " The federal Environmental Protection Agency ordered intensified monnoring across the nation on Tuesday Some idie stations were reactivated, and daily sampling became the rule at some stations which had only been checked once a week. The plume from the devastated reactor at Chernobyl, in the Ukraine, at first drifted toward the west and might have continued toward Alaska and the Pacific Northwest. But Sv meteorologists said Wednesday that winds had shifted, driving the plume toward Poland and Czechoslovakia. Sheldon Meyer, director of office of radiation programs with EPA, said in Washington on Wednesday that the largest particles of fallout would drop within 100 miles of Chernobyl "Based upon the data we do have. " Breath For Satellite Launch Daikon Claims Pour In, But NASA Holding Bv William Harwood UPI Science Writer CAPE CANAVERAL. Fla. With its battered prestige on the line. NASA geared up Wednesday for the Thursday blastoff of an unmanned Delta rocket with a key weather satellite on board in the agency's first launch attempt - Bailiffs Punch Suspected Night Stalker - LOS ANGELES (UPI) In a sudden explosion of courtroom violence Wednesday, suspected "Night Stalker" Richard Ramirez was jumped by three bailiffs, who punched him. placed him in a ehokehold and dragged him out of court Ramirez, 26, was not seriously injured in the fracas at his preliminary hearing on 14 counts of murder and 54 other felonies The defendant, smiling and laughthe court following a ing. recess and quickly strode to his seat His only tsible injury was a large red welt on (he left side of his neck The incident, which occurred as an elderly female witness was being led into court through a door behind the defendant s seat, apparently began when he disobeyed a standing order to face the front of the court Ont bailiff then tried to forcibly turn his head, and Ramirez threw up his hands to resist In front of startled spectators, the three bailiffs sug ie lly jumped on Ramirez and dragged the defendant, bound m his customary leg chains, about six feet out a door into a holding cell area One bailiff had a ehokehold on the defendant, who strained against the bailiffs but offered no other resistance, w htle a second bailiff. Stev e De lnnia. punched him in the fac Peering through a peephole in ihe door to the lockup area, defense law- er Arturo Hernandez cried out. "A ou don t luxe to hit him anymore lies not moving anymore." Municipal Court Judge James Nelson immediately called a recess and summoned the attorneys and (he bailiffs to his chambers. : Hernandez later said Nelson had ruled that the bailiffs had assaulted Kamu ez without provocation and oteiteaited in general K - RICHMOND. Va. (AP) Mail flooded the office of a federal bankruptcy court Wednesday on the deadline for women to file claims against the maker of the Daikon Shield birth control device. ministrator William Graham. Delta No. 178 is scheduled to take off at 4.18 p m. MST Thursday with a $57.5 million hurricane-huntin- The A H Robins Co., which sold the intrauterine device in the early 1970s, sought protection from creditors under Chapter 11 of the bankruptcy code last Aug. 21 after settling about 9.450 of 15,000 lawsuits brought by women claiming injury from the Dai- g weather satellite on board called GOES-- 7 that is bound for an orbit 22.300 miles above the equator to provide visual coverage of the eastern United States and the Atlantic Ocean. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, owner of the satellite, paid NASA about $42 million for the Delta. It will be NASAs first major rocket launch since Challenger was destroyed Jan. 28 and the first overall since an Air Force Titan 34D rocket exploded seconds after liftoff April 18 Four GOES satellites are in orbit but only one, GOES-6- , is still capable of providing television coverage because of the failure of the video system in GOES-- on July 30, 1984 Because of that failure, NOAA has been forced to maneuver GOES-about in its orbit to provide coverage normally provided by two satellites W htle equipped with a variety of sensors. the GOES satellites are best known for the satellite imagery that is used tn television weather reports "Obviously, the agency would love to see a success here." launch director Charles Gay told a news conference "Yes. in today's environment, considering what's been going on here recently, a success at this point would have to be an uplifting activity for all of us " In light of the Challenger and Titan failures, the space agency instituted t additional reviews of processing to ensure success for Delta Gay said another change from past practice is that key launch engineers participating in the "go" decis on will be required to sign a certificate verifying the rocket is ready for blastoff The presidential commission investigating the Challenger disaster has been sharply critical of NASAs decision making process in light of kon Shield. The settlements had cost the company and its insurer $520 million. Under the order of US. District Judge Robert R. Merhige Jr., the Richmond-base- Violinist Isaac Stern, nose to nose with his likeness, is flattered that his is among the 6 revelations that internal debate about whether to launch the shuttle was never passed on to top managers We tried to be, I suppose you'd say, squeaky clean, said William Russell. Delta project manager at Goddard If there wa any doubt we redid it Finally we did renew the Challenger and Titan hardware and potential iroublt areas that could relate to our Delta simj-Untie- s dozen or so faces at a New' York exhibit that will give the blind a feel for culture. blind "1 think it can be a really impor- tant breakthrough to the sightless in understanding a part of our culture." she said. Celebrated violinist Isaac Stern one of the models whose faces is in the gallery, laughed when he saw his smiling face on a pedestal in between actress Helen Haves and New ork Mavor Edward Kocl. "1 thmk It's lovely." Stern said I feel very flattered have always loved the idea of touching " 1 Singer Carly Simon, who hit the charts with "You're So Vain " mugged for photographers beside her mask crooning, "When were out together dancing cheek to cheek Top 40 beige-colore- d Sheppard, whose office has operated around the clock to enter the claimants' names on a computer list and mail out questionnaires, said 8.000 pieces of regular mail arrived Wednesday In addition, he said, the office was receiving a steady stream of ' Im sure that being blind your other senses are much further developed," Simon said adding she w as not uncomfortable with the fact that hundreds of people would be running their fingers over her face She suggested thev could make the exhibit bv display a adding a tape recording of her voice, and perhaps capture her scent "Uf coersewh.it 1 L.ste like is highlv personal." she added multi-sensor- Shalit said she has been capturing people's faces for less than H) years and has recently perfected the technique so she can get a casting in seven minutes She made President Reagan s face on commission but did not tell him he would bo on display for people to tun their hands over Im sate he woiildnt mind" she added - The exhibit which also features ballerina Natalia Makarova's right has leg and Muhammad All's fist the names of each model written in Braille under the plaster cast - Lighthouse director Arlene pharmaceutical unit. Mask Exhibit Lets Blind See Celebrities NEW YORK (UPI) An exhibit of artwork for the blind unveiled this week lets people without sight caress President Reagans face, grab Muhammad Alt's fist and touch the lips that sang You're So Vain " The exhibit which opened Monfeatures more than a dozen day plaster casts of famous people's (aces, and in two instances limbs, by artist Willa Shalit who specializes m the faces of celebrities Shalit, the daughter of critic Gene Shalit. has in the past four years made "life masks" of such memorable mugs as Whoopi Goldberg, Sophia Loren Richard Nixon, Brooke Shields and Ronald Reagan "They can hear the president give a speech but they don t know what hi looks like." Shalit said at her exhibit s opening at The Lighthouse, a Manhattan-based agency that serves the d company began an international advertising campaign in January to notify women who used the device of the April 30 deadline for filing claims Merhige stood outside the federal courthouse here Wednesday and shook his hedd as court clerk Michael Sheppard pushed another cart filled with mail from the adjacent Post Office to the special claims processing 5 pre-fligh- Times Up Now "I think it's going to be important both because we need that meteorological satellite thats on it . . . and we also need it to remind ourselves that we have a long record of success in space and we can come back to it and sustain that." said acting NASA Ad- specia deliveries, including some by attorneys The Daikon Shield was sold in the United States and more than 80 other countries until Robins pulled it from the market in following mounting complaints about infections. sterility and some deaths associated with the IUD hand-deliveri- Gor- don. who is blind, called the new exhibit a breakthrough in giving sightless people an opportunity to enjoy art In so many museums, she said mid-197- people are prohibited from touching sculpture, preventing the blind from truly experiencing the art 4 Boost your comfort with ladies' heel lifts 2.95, vr, fair; no limit Clip tins ml ,iikI Hi in,, CMI Muv Umivs lor i ml il to tiic (In-- , vim tliii'ii CMI Mine pi ii o I'll ut iluul.iv only Clmii s i 'pi'll v v lov il Nmilov u Inlay s ;li n Eggraro i |
