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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 11, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                I Cut Motyl no cow Plant  Otto a families Wem relocated. _.  Yort town photo ukrainian City and still other workers have been dispatched to Power plants elsewhere in the soviet Union. The 3.000 people working Al the Plant who have 15-Day shifts Al double or treble their Normal salary and then rest for 15 Days in Kiev live during their work Chw n the settlement known As Zeleny mys outside the 18.6-mile zone. Their work and the work of the military units whose tents Are visible Al Zeleny mys is supervised by a powerful hybrid Agency that began work last oct. ?. And is the most powerful administrative unit in the 400 Square Milo zone. The focus of the construction work now is the new permanent town of Savulich 35 Miles East of the Plant which is to House chernobyl Plant workers freeing Zeleny mys for other uses. Two villages within the Kiev subdivision have been resettled and 22 More have been decontaminated and Are being prepared for resettlement Kovalenko said. But Kiev regional authorities say they have Given up any thought of decontaminating 27 other settlements. Responsibility for the Accident is apparently being Laid primarily to Viktor Brukha nov former director of the chernobyl Plant and Nikolai Fomin the Lormer chief Engineer. A soviet government report said the explosion occurred during a lest during which a number of key reactor safety systems were shut Olf or bypassed. The test began just Over 24 hours before the explosion Al 1 43 . On april 25, at the time Brukha nov and Fomin the two top Plant officials were at Home in bed. The former Plant director and live aides went on trial in chernobyl last week charged Wilh safety violations leading to the Accident. Allot them  Brukha nov contested Parl of the charges especially those blaming the Accident on human error. Brukha nov who said he arrived 30 minutes after the Accident admitted culpability because it occurred during his absence. In addition to Fomin. Brukha nov and Kovalenko. The defendants Are Deputy Engineer Anthony s. Dyal Jov Boris a Rogozhkin shift chief at reactor 4. And Yun Laushkin a senior Engineer. Nearly 70 communist parly officials wore reported to have been demoted or dismissed for cowardly or irresponsible behaviour in the Wake of the Accident and 27 of them were expelled from the parly a penalty that usually Means the loss of housing schooling and vacation perquisites As Well Solher privileges. To armament arriving in Wathington Lett november. Which critical decisions were left automatically to sanctified experts politicians in Washington.  Olhorn decision makers Lar from Florence. Ii also launched discussions on the arms race in the South Carolina City s churches and rotary club. It s a Model or How concern has started for the first time in communities All across the country he said. Loeb found the pattern repeated elsewhere. In Baylor University a traditionally conservative institution in Waco Texas the activist journalist was invited last March to talk Aboul the peace movement loan audience of 2,000 students. A local methodist Church goer related that sunday school classes now were devoted to nuclear issues in line with a document by Bishops issued the previous summer that criticized the arms race. Ii May not yet be inc majority but there is now a building sense that these mailers can no longer be left solely to the White House Pentagon and state department Loeft said they Musl be the province of Ordinary  asked whether the Reagan administration Musl take the peace movement into account in shaping its proposals in negotiations with the soviet Union the writer was hesitant. They Are certainly trying to adopt the peace movement rhetoric he said. They Are certainly circumscribed by citizen action m what they can do. Bui based on us historical Irack record it will take item endows citizen pressure Lor this admin Stalion to Lake seriously the reversal of the arms  America s future pent Urbia by Randolph e. Schmid associated presso it beyond the giant metropolitan areas and their suburbs the Small cities and owns Hal once were America s heartland May again represent its future. Jack Lessinger a professor of real estate and Urban development Al the University of Washington at Seattle Calls this emerging Region of Opportunity pent Urbia contending that the shift to these communities represents the nation s filth major migration. Look Lor pen Libia beyond the Normal commuting Range of inc nation s Central cities. 11 is Small cities and towns new subdivisions homesteads Industrial and commercial districts interspersed Wilh farms Lores is Rivers and  Lessing or reports in american demographics a Magazine specializing in population issues. This Shilt represents a change in priority systems Lessinger said in an interview. In the 19th Century we. Were a kind of society and Economy interested in saving ice the future and building up a vast Industrial plane. We did Loo Well and developed the problem of overproduction he explained. As an antidote we developed a consumption Economy that put All the stress on the present Rattler than the future. Again we went Loo far with that kind of Economy and As a result of Iho excesses of consumer Economy we have begun developing a conserving Economy. It is. Just beginning to Manifest Itsell end the perturbs Are just one of the Many features of the new  Lessinger said. Leading the Way to this new promised land is a Type of american whom Lessinger Calls the caring conserved people who save and guard. Their resources work for preservation of air Waler buildings Parks and cultural a lilacs. Theft conserving americans Wilt succeed those Consumers who settled the suburbs from 1929 to 1958 in the last major migration on Lessinger s Lisl. Before that tie said the major National migrations included movement away Iron coastal alias into colonies such As Versoi and the Carolinas in the 1700s the Westward movement along the Ohio and Mississippi Waterways in the Early 1 flows and the rapid growth of the great Industrial cities in the Lale 19lh Century. Throughout most of this Century the major cities and suburbs Havn been the booming growth centers Lessinger wrote in the Magazine. Just As the cities were nursemaid for the suburbs those City suburb cores Are nursemaid to the new be blurbs he said. But Over time jobs will follow to the More Rural communities. The Rural Renaissance Wilh rapid growth reported by Many smaller towns and cities in the 1970s was the hrs sign of the emerging Penl Urbia Lessinger said recent studies indicating that since 1930 that Rural movement has diminished Are More apparent than real wrote Lessinger. The Light from the suburbs will continue counties most Likely to emerge As pent Urbia Are those thai grew rapidly Early in the nation s history Hil a plateau Between 1850 and 1910, and then decelerated until about 1970. With particularly Low growth rates from 1950 to 1970. Since then they have grown faster than the National average. Lessinger reported and they Are where the action will  counties meeting these criteria were Home to Only 4 percent of the 1980 population but they Are everywhere from Shelby county in Alabama to Amadou county in California Lessinger wrote. His report gives a Lew examples but does not list All of he counties in each of the classes discussed. In addition to primary pent Urbia Lessinger says other counties will form groups he Calls secondary pent Urbia and latent pent Urbia the secondary counties have had histories similar to the primary ones but their growth since 1970 has been less rapid they have Strong growth potential and Are heavily represented in the Mississippi Valley he said. Examples include such counties As Cape Girardeau to and Pike county miss. The group extends to other regions also such As Grafton county n h latent pent Urbia counties Are those that barely grew Between 1980 and 1985 but which May increase in the future As More people become caring conserves  speculated these Aro counties like Caswell n c Coos. N Hind san Miquel  the stars and stripes Page 15  
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