European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 3, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse The stars and stripes tuesday june 3,1986 Tunnel blasted to chernobyl reactor Moscow a soviet army Sand hogs have blasted a Tunnel through to chernobyl s crippled no. 4 nuclear reactor carefully setting explosive charges so As not to shake the ruined Block and working quickly to avoid Long exposure to radiation a newspaper reported sunday. The reactor wrecked by an explosion and fire on april 26. Now will be entombed in Cement to Seal off radiation. The Tunnel has been fitted with pipes through which the Cement will be poured beneath and around the reactor said the defense ministry daily Krasnaya zvezda. Officials have said the reactor will remain entombed for centuries until he fuel element decays. The newspaper did not say How Long the Tunnel is or when it was completed. It said the people who built it have been decorated. The workers had to blast through Walls of ventilation shafts to reach the foundation said the newspaper. Precaution was necessary first of All because the openings of the required size had to be made with mini mum blasts As unwarranted shaking in the area of the reactor was undesirable the newspaper said. And secondly it was necessary to considerably shorten the time of the operation in conditions of High the newspaper did not indicate what Protection against radiation the workers might have had. Ogonek a weekly news Calure Magazine said regional communist party officials in the Northern Ukraine expected to approve the design of the ventilated Tomb by june 20. The Magazine described the project As a Gigantic sarcophagus with a Complex ventilation it gave few other details. While Crews worked to Encomb the reactor others readied the undamaged blocks at the four reactor Power Sta Tion for reactivation before the end of the year. Soviet news Media have said. Hundreds of soviet soldiers and civilians were working in the danger zone to decontaminate the reactor and its adjacent communities. After the disaster about 92,000 people were evacuated from the danger zone which extends 18 Miles around the Plant. Soviet officials have Given no estimates of when the towns in the danger zone might be habitable again. Kiev regional government officials have indicated that some evacuees face Long Waits before they can return Home. In Italy officials reinstated a ban sunday on the Sale of milk in Tome areas following overnight rainfall and a re ported Rise in Levels of radioactivity the italian news Agency Ansa reported. Officials in the Northern province of Como banned the Sale of milk from sheep and goals and issued a warning that pregnant women and children under 10 should no drink milk. Farmers were asked not to give animals Hay or other feed produced outdoors. In the Adriatic coastal City of Macerata. Officials indefinitely banned the Sale of in flip s milk and cheese. a week after the Accident the italian government had banned the Sale of Leafy vegetables and warned pregnant women and Young children not to drink milk. The ban was rescinded three weeks later. . Bone marrow specialist or. Robert Gale who has been assisting doctors in Moscow treat radiation victims meanwhile geared up for a trip to the Ukraine on monday. Gale has said he planned to visit Kiev and the Accident area to Check on hospitalized radiation victims and pre pare a program for treating victims for the rest of their lives. He has said 23 people have died As a result of the interviews last week Gale said he wants to set up a program for following up on 50.000 to 100,000 people Toi study Long term health consequences of the Accident. Sci said he hoped his plan would be approved by medical authorities in the soviet Union and the United states. I from Page 1 soviet violations of the Accord. The soviets broke the treaty by encoding messages from missiles on test rights and by deploying about 70 ss-25s, a new mis Sile barred by the pact Shultz appearing on Abc s meet the press said. Despite soviet warnings that Reagan s remarks on Salt ii jeopardized chances for a Summit meeting this year Shutlz said he was still hopeful. We feel that it s very important to have this meeting he said. We think that important things can be done there that can be beneficial to us and to the soviet Union and we Are prepared to do the hard work necessary to make it a worthwhile meet neither Shultz nor Weinberger advocated that the United states invoke a provi Sion of the treaty that allows either Moscow or Washington to abrogate the pact on six months notice. Both argued however that the soviets have broken the pact by building a phased array radar in the siberian town of Krasnoyarsk farther from their Borders than permitted. Although some Pentagon officials have been pushing the administration to abandon the treaty when it comes up for re View next year Shultz said we certainly intend to abide by the treaty. That s what we have said asked if the United states might Abro Gate the treaty because of soviet Vio lations in the same Way it has said it will move away from Salt ii Shultz said i Don t want to step into that Hole. I think what we need to do is to continue to work to have that treaty be fully observed in All of its think it is important to keep Point ing out these violations and keep working to curb them and to try to keep As much of thu treaty Structure in place As is appropriate to the circumstances he Geneva we have been trying to engage the soviets in a discussion of the treaty and to try to get it Back where it ought to struck a tougher stance say ing that while he had not read the latest soviet proposal i would certainly oppose anything that blocked or in any Way pre vented our developing strategic defense. Reaching ouf and touching becoming More difficult Washington a tens of thou Sands of Long distance Telephone callers had to reach out a Little farther to touch some one sunday As workers rallied and walked picket lines at american Telephone & Tele graph facilities in the nation s largest strike in Nrec communications workers of Ameri Ca which represents 155,000 of at to s unionized employees began the strike at 12 01 . Sunday. It has rejected at to offer of an 8 percent wage increase spread Over the next three , the company and the second largest of its employee unions the International brotherhood of electrical workers reached a tentative settlement sunday on a new three year contract covering nearly 41,000 at to workers in virtually identical jobs to those held by Cwa members. Art Perry director of the Ibex s Tele phone division said sunday night that a tentative Accord on a three year 8 cent increase wage package was signed sunday and will be submitted to the Union s members for a rank and file vote. During the interim. Perry said Union councils representing approximately 10,000 Telephone system workers and the nearly 31,000 in at to manufacturing plants will draft recommendations on whether workers should accept or reject the Perry said Ibex members Are not on strike the general policy is that we respect other unions picket however at to officials said there Are Dat ively few company facilities with work is represented by both and at to negotiators met twice for Brief periods on sunday but no Progress was can afford to stay out a lot longer than they can Cwa president Morton Bahr told reporters afterwards. This Industry is highly competitive. Beginning to Morrow they Are going to Start losing customers. After a in the pain. People will be in a More compromising said there were three Large issues still dividing the two sides at to demand for the elimination of automatic Cost of living adjustments Colas to reflect inflation an ingredient of every phone worker contract since 1972. Splitting 20.000 service technicians who now make $646 week into separate categories. One of those new classifications wire pullers could suffer As much As a $300 week Cut in pay As a result Bahr said. The company s proposed elimination of piecework incentive pay for some 20,000 manufacturing strike has taken place for one reason the company. Earning enormous profits. Is seeking unwarranted Herb Linncon an at to spokesman said there were no concessions or give backs in the company s offer. At to began the final Days of negotiations leading up to the strike with an offer last wednesday of a 5 percentage boost Over three years. That was raised to 7 percent saturday and then to 8 percent 2 percent immediately and 3 percent in 1987 and 1988 on sunday according to company of the system technicians Are being downgraded and none will lose Money As a result of at to efforts to Divide the Job into three Levels according to the complexity of the work they perform he said. Telephone users attempting to place son to person collect third number Billing or credit card Long distance Calls sunday were frequently greeted with a Telephone recording advising that at to was experiencing a work stoppage and asking them to wait for the next available operator. Nasa of exploding some than historical i Learned what Nasa did with the numbers 1 was really outraged Weatherwax was quoted As saying. Their number was absolutely arbitrary they made it up and i think that s criminally fast and Loose he told had Nasa officials accepted if Fleitis tical estimates be Independent experts had to acknowledge the ions of a space shuffle and its Crew was almost a certainty Over the planned 500-flight pro Gram. Nasa s new safely director Robert , told Knight Ridder the official Nasa risk assessment of 1 in 100,000 is unsupportable. And that he will work to ensure that any new risk estimates will with logic and statistical " met ii Tiffi As Nasa s top a Lii flail. Had remained the veto a it a j Crew of seven. Thompson said it s my role to make sure some scientist or Technocrat just does t blatantly plug in a Bunch of num Bers publish the report and hand it off to somebody he added that reliability estimates should not be done by those de signing and building the boosters. But the Marshall space flight Center which oversees the design development and production of the sys tems a Maienu assessments and fits own optimistic report. The numbers looked so bad that they essentially threw them out recalled air Force col. John Joyce the Pentagon representative on a three Agency panel assigned by the White House to assess the safety of burying atomic payloads aboard the shut find that the program tends to be safety Joyce told Knight Ridder. Hij Asa was very optimistic and i Tinct Selus unfortunately has shown Linncon said 10,000 management and supervisory personnel ran the company s Long distance switchboards on sunday. Ordinarily he said at to has 12,000 operators working on sundays. Temperatures ankh or Atlanta Atlantic Baltimore Billings Birmingham Boise Boilon Buffalo Burlington vol Charleston. S. 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