European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 16, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes june 1977 link Between peaceful atom use and weapons called world threat blasting of Durban rails alerts african police Stockholm up the direct link Between inc spread of nuclear technology for peaceful purposes and the spreading of nuclear arms threatens world Stockholm International peace research Institute Sipri said at the end of a total of 173 Power reactors in 19 countries were capable of producing pounds of Whitn Giuin an about 30 per int of the nuclear capacity was in 15 nonnuclear the Institute said in its 1977 by 29 nonnuclear weapon countries Are Likely to have nuclear Power reactors with a potential annual plutonium production rate of pounds theoretically enough to produce 10 atomic bombs per Day the size of the bomb dropped on naga Sipri Sipri yearbooks have been used by the and the Geneva disarmament negotiations As an authoritative source of information and the funded by the swedish was formed in 1966 to Mark Sweden 150th anniversary of unbroken there have been at least 125 nuclear weapons accidents in the past 30 years a frequency of one every three the yearbook since nuclear explosions were 593 of them be tween the signing of the partial test ban treaty in August 1966and the most dangerous current development in strategic nuclear the report is the continuous improvement of the accuracy of warhead the strategic warheads Likely to be available in the mid1980s May have an accuracy of about 90 feet at a Range of in 1976 world military expenditure was j334 about 30 times More than in 1900 constant natos and the Warsaw pacts declining share in the arms race reflects the growing global spread of nuclear the Nat Warsaw pact share in 1976 was 70 per cent compared with 85 per cent in the third world is steadily in creasing its share of global military spend ing 15 per cent in 1976 compared to per cent in 1955 and about 12 per cent in the nuclear arms race increases with time the probability of general nuclear and so does the Trade in which fuels conventional arms races in different parts of the sip i the spreading of the capacity to produce Argentina says it has released nuclear weapons threatens to turn some of the nonnuclear weapon countries to contestants in the major exporters of nuclear material and equipment Are the soviet Brit West swe Den and the 92 nuclear Power reactors constructed or being constructed abroad by these countries valued at approximately billion have a total electrical generating capacity of the National electrical Grid of 40 billion Watts of prompted by the accidental release of dioxin in the Institute called for a comprehensive prohibition of the de production and stockpiling of chemical Johannesburg up armed South african police searched commuter traffic before Dawn wednesday and saboteurs blasted a Section of railway line near Durban As tensions grew on the eve of the first anniversary of bloody riots which began a year police Robbie Van commanding officer of the South african railway called the explosion an act of sabotage and said a Large charge had been the Early morning blast sent rocks Hurt Ling through inc air and shattered windows in houses More than 100 Yards an Engineer spotted the blown out Sec Tion and stopped his train before an Acci Dent could there were no reported injuries in the Security Branch and railway police have launched an investigation but report no in the township of Soweto 15 Miles South West of Johannesburg police carrying weapons and wearing camouflage uni forms threw roadblocks up around Soweto and searched private cars and buses enter ing and leaving the sprawling residential standing passengers on buses were asked to get out while officers searched for unspecified items in overhead Racks and under seat brigadier Jan chief of Soweto to acknowledged there was tension in the air in the township but accused the press of creating Visser said the news Media had pre pared the climate and the mood for thursdays commemoration of the in at this stage the commemoration of the riots amounts to a Token participation with a Small number of Soweto youths taking part in sporadic Stone throwing at Lehi stealing from and intimidating bus he jumping rope the hard Way this unidentified steel worker uses is safely rope to do a Little breaking the routine of painting the Alexandra Bridge under construction be tween Ontario and it takes some expertise to tackle 383 prisoners Peoples party wins India voting Buenos Aires a Argentina military government says it has freed 3s3 political prisoners in the lust in among those Ixl eased were i foreign including one italian All were de ported the government a government communique tuesday said 248 of the prisoners released in the last the largest number of re leases since last december when nearly 500 were the italian was identified As Marcus but there were no background de tails on the other foreigners included fair two two bolivians and one those released were held for Security Mcsons As subversive suspects under state of siege the government said there Are 257 other subversive suspects still in of them on terrorist charges new Delhi a in an impressive display of political prime minis Ter Morarji Deshais janata party govern ment on wednesday won a sweeping Man Date in India state the janata Peoples which just six months ago was a powerless pickup team of political clinched decisive majorities in six of the 10 Indian Stales electing new assemblies in the current round of India other 12 states were not holding with much the same Fervour that it top pled former prime minister Indira Gan this Congress party in the March National the janata party was also car ing a thundering majority in utter Pra the huge Northern state thai had Long been the Anchor of Congress party the Southern state of tamil Nadu and the Eastern state of West which includes the City of did How fall under the spell of what the in Dian press Calls the in tamil which encompasses the City of a regional parly headed to Ward a Clear in the traditionally left leaning West Bengal the marxist communist party scored a decisive in the impoverished northeastern state of scene of opening Day election Vio Lence that claimed at least 20 Early returns showed the janata party running Al jut even against a statewide Alliance of the Congress party and the pro Moscow communist it appeared that thir Winner in Pihir probably would not be determined until All results Are tallied on the janata sweep appeared certain to enable India new leaders to virtually select the nations new the Corse Tut ional head of in the August Psi dental the National parliament and the state assemblies at that time will elect a Suc Cessor to president Fakhruddin All who died in vice presi Dent b Patti has been serving As acting the janata Victory also enables Deshais three Montgold administration to turn its attention from transition politics to the enormous social and economic prob lems facing his nations 625 million the once mighty Congress party that had ruled India for 30 uninterrupted the devastating election results rep Rose Nice a threat to its very the Gandhi and her forces had managed to retain control of the Pany fallowing its debacle in the March parliamentary but the state election verdict raised the possibility that Tho Pany might split along pro and am Indira