European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 4, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 28 the stars and stripes sunday May 4, 1986 an Tokyo a president Reagan sati Day accused Union of stubborn refusal to Tell the world about the common dancer posed by the nuclear catastrophe in the Ukraine and he demanded a full accounting of what a harshly worded report to the american people in i weekly radio address Reagan expressed sympathy for Hose affected by the Accident at the chernobyl Power Plant. The soviets owe the world an explanation n full accounting of what happened at Char Nobyl and what is happening now is the least the world Community has a right to expect he in id. The soviets handling of this incident manifests a Dis regard fur the legitimate concerns of people everywhere Reagan charged.-.,. Reagan said he and his fellow leaders of democratic nations arc meeting to Deal openly with common con Cerns in contrast to he soviet government with its secrecy and stubborn refusal to inform the International Community of the common danger from this Reagan made the soviet Accident his lop priority Ell ing american in his pre recorded radio address that the Accident could hardly be called an internal soviet affair because the radioactive fallout threatened the world Community. When Reagan called on prime minister Yasuhiro Nakasone the Summit Host and chairman the two leaders agreed it is essential to continue pressing the soviets for More information about inc disaster us. And japanese officials said. The officiate said Nakasonc agreed to put the soviet Accident As Well As he subject of terrorism on the Agenda for discussion at the opening of the Summit sunday in remarks to a . Chamber of Commerce group Here Reagan did not mention the soviet disaster stressing instead the Trade issues that will be discussed at he sum Mil when the leaders take up economic matters monday officials speaking privately said Reagan and Nakasonc made no headway to heir talks on me yen Dollar upheaval that is battering Japan s Export Market. The officials said Nakasone told Reagan that japanese business has been Hurt by the 40 percent appreciation of the yen against the Dollar in the past six months and Nakasone stressed the importance of stability in currency markets. Reagan said he understands the difficulties created by the Strong Yea but he also noted a currency fluctuations must make an Impact on external balances refer ring to Japan s huge Trade surplus with he United states. On the Issue of terrorism Reagan suggested to prime minister be Lino Praxi that Italy and other nations that buy Oil from Libya take advantage of the world Oil glut and consider switching to other suppliers to punish to in mar khad Afy s regime. Presidential spokesman Larry Scakes called for Art site inspection of soviet nuclear Power plants complaining that information about the disaster is still sketchy. Asked to comment on soviet charges that the United states is engg Crivling the damage caused by the Accident Reagan told reporters there would t be a problem if they the soviets would come Forward and Tell everybody exactly what cakes said Reagan had received a written report from vice president George Bush providing the government s latest information about the Accident collected by a special task Force in Washington and reviewed by Bush s special Cabinet level committee. Bush told Reagan we have every reason to think that the fire has diminished but there is evidence that the reactor or associated equipment with the reactor continues to smolder Speakes said the spokesman added Itiat . Medical and technical teams have been dispatched to Moscow and Eastern euro Pean countries to offer assistance and assess the damage from radioactive fallout which is serious enough in some purls of Eastern Europe 1o prompt a ban on drinking milk asked what information the United states is still seek ing from the soviets Scakes said we would like to have the extent of the Accident the measurements in the Specif. Be area the efforts and the Success or Lack thereof regard ing the controlling of the fire in the area and we d certainly like to know about the safeguards that they have for their nuclear soviet from Page 1 saturday hat the reactor at the Power Plant Stilt appeared to be soldering and Secretary of slate George p. Shirlow Laid casualties appeared to be worse than the soviets were acknowledging. Shultz who accompanied Reagan to Japan for a seven nation economic Summit told reporters that the Kremlin s account of two dead and i9t wounded 18 of them seriously looks very Low from information we have from a variety of he said the sources include sightings of emergency equipment that canc there and is Iliff the disaster at the fou Mactor facility one week ago sent a huge Cloud of radiation Over much of Europe and Many govern ments were nervously monitoring fallout and ordering precautions against possible contamination. Although Many european countries re ported abnormally High radiation Levels none of the readings indicated any danger to life according to government officials. Western experts said hazards from the disaster had abated Friday but a southerly wind was blowing the radiation into a new area the Balkans Yeltsin in Hamburg to attend a German communist party Congress said the cause. Of the disaster lies apparently in the subjective realm in human error. We Are undertaking measures o make sure that this does t happen Yeltsin a close associate of soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev said water reservoirs around the City of chernobyl Are contaminated but did not elaborate on How the local population was dealing with that. The Plant is near the Junction of two Rivers the Prip Yat and the Dnieper which feed into Rivers and reservoirs thai May be connected la the water Supply Tor Kiev a City of 2,4 million in the soviet Union s Winter wheat growing heartland. Yeltsin repealed the soviets earlier re port that residents of four settlements in the Vicinity of the reactors were immediately evacuated. No one was exposed to radiation he said. The soviets have never said which four settlements were evacuated but it has been presumed thai one of them was Pri Pat the town that arc up around the Plant site in the 1970s, and that a second was probably chernobyl which is nearby. Arp provided a full tape of the inter View with Yeltsin to news agencies after the evening telecast. He spoke in russian and his comments were dubbed in German a Citrin said that the three Oiher nuclear reactors at the chernobyl Complex were shut Down after the Accident but that he urea surrounding the Plant remained dangerously radioactive. People May not go Back at this time he said. Yeltsin in separate comments to the German communist party complained of Western Media reports that said thousands were killed in the disaster. The Kremlin official said the reports were aimed at stirring More anti Ovici hysteria in the Hope of driving a wedge in the soviet Union s relations with fallout brought Down by rain raised radiation Levels in Belgrade Yugoslavia to eight times the Norm. In Romania Between Yugoslavia and the soviet Union stale Tele vision told people to keep their children in doors Wash fruits and vegetables and avoid Rural water. In Scandinavia the area the Cloud passed thousands protest German nuke plants Bonn up several thousand peo ple throughout Germany look part sat urday in demonstrations to demand the closing of the country s 20 nuclear Power plants. Police said 8,000 attended a rally in West Berlin 4,000 in soul gurl 1,200 in Stade 900 in Frankfurt and 300 in Munich. Rallies also were held in a number of other places. Police said the rallies mainly were peace Ful. Three windows were broken in Frank Furt and in Slade about 12 Miles Northwest of Hamburg. Some demonstrators tried to break through police lines to an atomic Power rallies were called by the anti nato Green party under Tow Mollo today chernobyl tomorrow the accidents in Harris Hurt and Cher Nobyl show there is no peaceful use for the atom Rainer Trampert a member of the greens National committee old n rally attended by several Hundred people in Hamm about 75 Miles Northeast of Bonn. Bernhard Fischer of the Darmstadt environmental Institute told the Stuttgart rally disasters similar to the soviet one also could happen in Germany German authorities said saturday radioactivity has declined considerably but they advised people to continue to refrain from drinking fresh milk. Shipments of food and trucks from East Ern Europe were checked for radioactive contamination. In the slate of Hessen the social affairs ministry warned people not to go outside if it rained because radioactive dust in the air then would sink into the ground and in crease its radiation. The ministry said close Contact with the ground should be avoided after rain and shoes cleaned thoroughly. Blast from Page 1 a possibility and the official did not say where he got his in formation. Security officials say a bomb May have been smuggled into the aircraft during a Stop in Dubai or in packages of raw meat loaded in sri Lanka. The packages were strewn across the runway. Sri Lanka exports raw meat to the maldives. Police estimated in would take 110 pounds of explosives to cause such a Power Ful blast. Officials said the plane s departure to the maldives was delayed because of an unspecified technic no hitch but when the ground Crew fixed the problem and closed the cargo door the explosion ripped the fuselage apart. The Airport was closed indefinitely and was scaled off by troops. Incoming flights were diverted and the terminal and runway were damaged by the blast. The hindu tamils Are a minority on the Island nation formerly known As Ceylon. Some 70 percent of sri Lanka s is million population consists of sinhalese buddhists and tamil separatists have been fighting for an Independent state in the North. A four member delegation sent to co Lombo by Indian prime minister Raji Gandhi is working on peace proposals to end the fighting. Over first authorities said radiation Levels arc expected to remain above Normal for weeks. .-.". Police seized ions of salad greens at markets throughout Italy and milk trucks re turned full from their rounds saturday after the government fearing radioactive contamination from the soviet nuclear Acci Donl issued a decree. Despite claiming that radioactive Levels were heading Back to Normal Levels he health ministry decree forbade the sate of Leafy vegetables for the next two weeks and warned pregnant women and children under age 10 not to drink fresh milk. Temperatures mat i l h � 7i5� to 33 a n a m is m 45 it � 17 5s Elas n h aass us n s Nabi it this a Albany Ajia la Atlantic cell Baltimore Bengt Birmingham Boise , . Chir Hloi Cincinnat Cleveland Mallei Forl a in Lei a troll it 33 Fargo 41 s3 harllord47 is Honolulu 43 a Hou Ilont h in Dunnelli w 91 Jacksonville. 47 to Kansas Clov Toh lat vet l h � 71 Lino Rock 61 lot Arta Elat 5 47 Loulli Velleu to Memphis i 10 Miami Boner h 55 mils is. 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