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STATS HI.- 7.7. I0- ". ' . CIST" HIT? & L; V;?. Y ." 7. ;-- ", CO!. Ui$ BI; i, IA . . G5 1 74th Year No. 254 Good Morning! It's Tuesday, July 13. 1982 2 Sections - 1 0 Page 25 ni UE expecting 30 rate hike Customers may pay for Callaway overruns By Ellen Hosmer Missourian staff writer Unless Columbia Water and light Department can find alternative sources of energy, Columbians may face a hefty increase in their electric bills as a result of constructing the Callaway Nuclear Power Plant The increase was forecast by a Union Electric official who blamed Callaway Nuclear Power Plant, which is Hearing completion in Re-form, Mo. in Callaway County, for the fact that rates could increase more than a third. The rate hike is designed to offset rising construction costs. " The cost of building these things has gone up a tremendous amount," said Charles Proctor, Union FJ. ec- tric- ' s supervisor of nuclear informa-tion. " When we actually go commer-cial, utility bills will go up by 30 or 35 percent." Columbia now buys 30 to 40 per-cent of its energy from Union Elec-tric. The city buys another 30 to 40 percent from the Sikeston Municipal Power Plant and meets the remain-der of its needs with the city power plant. Approval for the rate increase must first come from the Missouri Public Service Commission, but the city isn't waiting; it's beginning to explore alternatives now. The city will try to reduce signifi-cantly the amount of energy it buys from Union Electric to lessen the im-pact of the rate hike, said Dick Ma- lo- n, Columbia Water and light De-partment director. Inaccurate completion date esti-mates, cost overruns, inflation, addi-tions and government regulations have plagued the Callaway nuclear plant from the beginning, causin& an almost 300 percent increase over the estimated cost. Union Electric, in or-der to show any profit from the en-deavor, says it will have to pass on these costs to its consumers. The plant lies on 7,200 acres ( 2,880 hectares) of farmland, forests and wildlife areas. It is being con-structed . by Union Electric Cos. of St Louis', with Daniel International as its general contractor. The power plant's huge cooling tower which stands almost as high as the Gateway Arch and is almost as big around as Busch Stadium can be seen for miles around. Al-though the plant is nearly 80 percent complete, it is not expected to be ready to begin generating electricity commercially until at least 1S84. The nuclear- powere- d plant was originally scheduled to be ready by 1981, but construction delays and in-creasing government regulation have pushed that date back to 1S82 and then to 1934. These extensions have cost the plant an estimated $ 300 million, Proctor said. The estimates of total cost for the plant have increased, too. In 1973, Union Electric had plans to build two reactors at Callaway at a total cost of approximately $ 1.1 billion. Now, even after scrapping plans for the second reactor, the estimate has jumped to $ 2.1 billion. Union Electric had already spent $ 70 million on preliminary construc-tion for the second reactor when it was abandoned in the fall of 1981. Proctor said the increased costs for one plant precluded the possibility of building another one at this time. " Basically, we can't afford it," Proctor said. A cost Union Electric had not counted on was the construction of what Proctor calls the " Three Mile Island Addition." After an accident in which a hydrogen bubble threat-ened to cut the flow of cooling water to a reactor core at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant near Harrisburg, Pa., Proctor said it be-came necessary to train those oper-ating the plant more thoroughly. " We have a very expensive plant, and we have to make sure it oper-ates well. We're the ones who stand to lose money if it doesn't' ' Union Electric has spent $ 10 mil-lion for a simulated control building that will train plant operators to handle emergencies. The full- sca- le duplicate of the control room will be used. by. the plant operators to test their decision- makin- g skills, where they will face thousands of accident scenarios and gain expertise on how to face possible problems. Another expense, storage of high- lev- el radioactive wastes, has not been determined. It might increase costs for consumers even more. The federal government will be responsi-ble for the designation and mainte-nance of the site. " After the federal government makes the repository, we will pay for it. Then, that will be in the rates," Proctor said. " It's the customers who are going to get the benefits, and they ought to be paying the costs." Proctor blamed Amendment 1 as . . Adam J. hwl pholot Trailers serve as offices during the construction phase at the Callaway plant one of the causes of the drastic in-- r crease in consumer utility prices t that could occur when the plant be-- gins operation. The amendment, passed in 1976, stipulates that con-struction costs cannot be passed on . to consumers until a plant is fully op-erational. Instead of passing the interest of ; the construction loans on to consum-- ' ers through the rate structure, Union Electric was forced to pay the inter-est itself, Proctor said. If the compa-ny could have passed the interest on to consumers during construction, the increase would have been spread out over the years of construction rather than raising it in one lump sum, he explained. Passing the cost to consumer also would have less-ened the impact of the high prices of borrowing money, Proctor said. Other reasons Proctor cited for the increase in costs are inflation in building materials, labor expenses and the high price of borrowing mon-ey, j To pass these costs on to utility ; consumers, however, the corpora- - j tion has to convince the Missouri 1 Public Service Commission that the 8 rate increase is justified. Ron I Sluegge, director of the electricity I department for the commission, said the costs of the plant would be exam-ined before they can be put into the rate structure. " The commission's staff has been A working for two and one- ha- lf to three F years on analyzing the entire costs t of the plant" Sluegge said. f " The number that they are quot- - " ing the 30 to 35 percent is as-- ssuming that the full costs of the plant will go into the rate base," Sluegge said. a535S& 2tak fiMgaJSli MSiSfeaw T& SlgpL, iSffS KKH Workers ready the main reactor area Flightme Airlines add, drop local service By Tang Wang and JeffFox Missouriaa staff writers Ozark Airlines giveth and Ozark Airlines taketh away. And Monday it announced it's doing both. On Aug. 1, it will inaugurate a new flight linking Co- - to Springfield, Mo., on the one hand and St IluLmoubisi, athen Chicago, on the other. At the same time, it will cancel a flight originating in Milwaukee and stop-ping at Columbia before continuing to Joplin. The new service, Flight 553, will originate in St Louis at 1 : 05 pjn. and arrive in Columbia at 1 : 35 pjn., before continuing on to Springfield at 1: 53 pjm. From Springfield, it will return to St. Louis and proceed to Chicago, arriving at 4: 59 pjn. It will replace Flight 507, which originates in Mil-waukee and arrives in Columbia at 7: 10 pjn. before continuing to Joplin at 7: 25 pjn. Phil Glabb, Ozark's station manager at Columbia Regional Airport, said the airline believes the new schedule will serve the needs of a larger portion of its Columbia passengers. Glabb noted yet another adjustment in the Ozark schedule which could be of concern to Columbia's long- distanc- e travelers. Effective in August, Flight 501 will originate in Philadelphia and fly directly to St. Louis before continuing on to Columbia. The flight currently originates at Chicago. Meanwhile, Air Midwest officials said they have sold two landing slots at St. Louis' Lambert Field to Trans World Airlines one of the slots currently is used by Air Midwest on a Columbia- to- S- t Louis flight Cancellation of the Columbia- to- S- t. Louis leg of Flight 844 was announced two weeks ago and will be-come effective Aug. 15. Flight S44 is an evening flight originating at Kansas City International Airport and stopping at Columbia before continuing to St. Louis. Beginning Aug. 15, that flight will originate in Kansas City at 2: 15 pjn. but will end in Columbia at 2: 55 pjn. Air Midwest will then add to its schedule a flight originating in Colum-bia at 3: 10 pjn. and arriving in Kansas City at 3: 50 pjn. This will give Air Midwest three flights a day be-tween Kansas City and Columbia. David Ewing, Air Midwest director of flight con-trol, said that because Kansas City is the hub of the airline's operation, focusing on Columbia- Kansa- s City routes will improve his company's cost efficien-cy. He said Air Midwest hopes to increase its service ( See AIRLINE, Page 6A.) By Gerald Nadter United Press International TEL AVIV, Israel Israel's thrust into Leb-anon has threatened to turn into what the small nation fears most a grinding war of attrition. The " Peace for Galilee" campaign is five weeks old and Israel's casualties are mounting 284 dead and 1,570 wounded in battles against the PLO and Syria's regular army. But besides raising the number of casualties, a war of attrition threatens toe nation's mo-rale, harms the economy and hurts Israel's image abroad because of TV scenes showing refugees and Israel's army bombarding an Arab capital. " Israel will not accept a war of attrition," a senior Israeli official said Sunday, and the warning was repeated Monday. The bulk of the war casualties occurred in the first six days of the war that brought the army to the outskirts of Beirut There are hints that Israeli soldiers, among the world's most motivated, have questioned the reasons for the recent fighting, though mo-rale remains high. Israel will not tolerate a " war of attrition," Chief of Staff Lt Gen. Rafael Eitan told an ar-mored front- lin- e unit earlier this month in re-sponse to a soldier's question about losses in fighting for the Beirut- Damasc- us highway. But the incipient battles have continued be-tween cease- fire- s, which sometimes appear to break down soon after they are declared, and the Israelis blame the PLO. The war stretched on after the Israeli Army cornered Yasser Arafat and his 6,000 PLO guerrillas in West Beirut and held back to al-low U. S. diplomacy to prevent a bloodbath in the city, where thousands of civilians reside. Defense Minister Ariel Sharon asked this month for patience and coolheadedness to let the army complete the task of ridding Lebanon of the PLO guerrillas by keeping the pressure on. But anti- w- ar demonstrations erupted, in-cluding a gathering of an estimated 20,000 a large crowd by Israeli standards at a Peace Now protest in Tel Aviv. The war has cost Israel about $ 30 million a day, or a total so far of $ 1 billion a huge sum in a nation whose gross national product is less than $ 20 billion. And last week Deputy Chief of Staff Maj. Gen. Moshe Levy said Israel's Army is prepar-ing for the possibility of spending the winter in Lebanon. The Ministry of Defense, the newspaper Ma'ariv reported, is demanding an increase in the defense budget of $ 1.4 billion to cover the costs of the war and military preparations for the next two years. The government has raised the value added tax on all purchases from 12 to 15 percent and increased gasoline taxes in a nation where prices already double every year. The next step may be a hike in income taxes a step not likely to cheer Israelis, already one of the most heavily taxed people in the world. Aireste net millions in cocaine Largest inland bust in history CHATTANOOGA. Term. ( UPI) -- Two women and seven men were ar-rested in the seizure of $ 400 million worth of cocaine in the nation's larg-est inland drug bust Sunday. U. S. Magistrate Roger Dickson set the bonds totaling $ 3.9 million at the ar-raignment Monday. The suspects were charged with conspiracy to violate drug laws and possession with intent to distribute 1,254 pounds ( 564 kilograms) of co-caine found in a blue Chevrolet van parked at an Interstate 75 truck stop near Chattanooga. The cocaine, stuffed into 26 duffle bags with markings from South America, remained in the van Mon-day and was guarded at the Hamil-ton County Jail by deputies carrying machine guns. Bond was set at $ 1 million each for David A. Warren, 42, Smyrna, Ga., Michael Brigganee, 25, Nashville, Tenn., and James C. Trammell, 56. of Atlanta; at $ 500,000 for Robert S. George, 59, Atlanta, and at $ 250,000 for Marvin Echols, 29, Smyrna. Ga. Bonds of $ 50,000 each were set for Jackqueline Gurley, 20, Chattanoo-ga, and Jennifer Oxendine, 18, of Lumbetton, N. C. and for Mark Scar-borough, 19, of Rockwood, Tenn. No bond was set for Jackie Wayne Scar-borough, 40, of Pontiac, Mich. The nine face a U. S District Court preliminary hearing July 20. They face prison sentences of up to 15 years and a maximum $ 20,000 fine if convicted. Warren, Trammel, George and Echols, traveling in a four- vehic- le caravan, were arrested at a Cleve-land truck stop when they pulled in to buy gasoline. Agents said they ap-parently were headed to Georgia and Florida to distribute the cocaine . The other five were arrested a short time later at the Coachman Motel at Loudon, Tenn. U. S. Attorney John Gill said Brig-ganee earlier had driven the coc-aine- laden van to the motel and handed the keys to Warren. Warren, a brother- in- la- w of Echols, testified Monday under ques-tioning that he had been convicted of drug conspiracy in Colombia, South America, and had served a 27- mo- nth prison term. Although Warren identified him-self as an independent heavy equip-ment broker, Gill said Warren " is certainly the main individual in light of his past history." The cache had a street value of $ 400 million, officials said. Cockpit recorder examination delays jetliner crasti analysis KENNER, La. ( UPI) A malfunctioning cockpit re-corder will delay at least a week analysis of a tape which could determine whether pilots of a Pan Am jetliner heard wind shift warnings minutes before a takeoff and crash that killed 153 people, an investigator said Mon-day. Patricia Goldman, vice chairman of the National Transportation Safety Board, said the " wind shear" alerts warning ground traffic of sudden shifts in wind direction and speed were issued about six minutes be-fore the 727- 20- 0 became airborne Friday. " If it ( the tape) is clear enough for us to hear the con-versation ... we will know whether they heard it," Ms. Goldman said. Pan Am flight 759 took off during a heavy thunder-storm and crashed at approximately 4: 10 pjn. CST, tear-ing through a residential surburb and spraying ' a two- blo- ck area with debris and deadly, flaming jet fuel. All 145 people aboard were killed, along with eight peo-ple on the ground. At least seven people on the ground were injured, and three remained hospitalized Monday. " The purpose of giving the wind shear alerts is to give the pilot some idea of the kind of weather he may be fly-- ing into," Ms. Goldman said. " It's the nitot's decision at all times whether to take- o- ff or not" The damaged cockpit tape was sent to FBI labs in Washington, where sophisticated equipment was to be used in an effort to enhance the sound. " The head was not properly aligned on the cockpit re-corder," Ms. Goldman said. " When that is taken care of, it ( the tape) will come back to us and we will try to elimi-nate background noises. It could take a week or two weeks." The investigators said the tape should prove whether the pilots heard the broadcast wind shear warnings. " When the voice recorder is cleared up, we would be able to verify whether they had the local frequency on as required and whether they would have heard it ( the warnings). " There is no reason that I know of that they would not have had the local frequency on." At the crash scene, work crews used bulldozers to flat-ten the rubble of 13 homes ravaged by the crash and fire, and searchers continued the grim task of pulling bodies from debris. As of late Sunday, 215 black bags containing bodies or body parts had been taken to a makeshift morgue set up in a Delta hangar. 8: 15 pjn. " On Golden Pond," presented by Summer Reper-tory Theater, University The-ater. 7 pjn. Board of Adjustment meeting. Council Chambers, County- Cit- y Building. 7: 30 pjn. Human Rights Commission, Fourth- Floo- r Conference Room, County- Cit- y Building, Index Classified- -. .2- 3- B Comics 4B Opinion 4A People .3A I Sports IB .
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Item.Transcript | STATS HI.- 7.7. I0- ". ' . CIST" HIT? & L; V;?. Y ." 7. ;-- ", CO!. Ui$ BI; i, IA . . G5 1 74th Year No. 254 Good Morning! It's Tuesday, July 13. 1982 2 Sections - 1 0 Page 25 ni UE expecting 30 rate hike Customers may pay for Callaway overruns By Ellen Hosmer Missourian staff writer Unless Columbia Water and light Department can find alternative sources of energy, Columbians may face a hefty increase in their electric bills as a result of constructing the Callaway Nuclear Power Plant The increase was forecast by a Union Electric official who blamed Callaway Nuclear Power Plant, which is Hearing completion in Re-form, Mo. in Callaway County, for the fact that rates could increase more than a third. The rate hike is designed to offset rising construction costs. " The cost of building these things has gone up a tremendous amount," said Charles Proctor, Union FJ. ec- tric- ' s supervisor of nuclear informa-tion. " When we actually go commer-cial, utility bills will go up by 30 or 35 percent." Columbia now buys 30 to 40 per-cent of its energy from Union Elec-tric. The city buys another 30 to 40 percent from the Sikeston Municipal Power Plant and meets the remain-der of its needs with the city power plant. Approval for the rate increase must first come from the Missouri Public Service Commission, but the city isn't waiting; it's beginning to explore alternatives now. The city will try to reduce signifi-cantly the amount of energy it buys from Union Electric to lessen the im-pact of the rate hike, said Dick Ma- lo- n, Columbia Water and light De-partment director. Inaccurate completion date esti-mates, cost overruns, inflation, addi-tions and government regulations have plagued the Callaway nuclear plant from the beginning, causin& an almost 300 percent increase over the estimated cost. Union Electric, in or-der to show any profit from the en-deavor, says it will have to pass on these costs to its consumers. The plant lies on 7,200 acres ( 2,880 hectares) of farmland, forests and wildlife areas. It is being con-structed . by Union Electric Cos. of St Louis', with Daniel International as its general contractor. The power plant's huge cooling tower which stands almost as high as the Gateway Arch and is almost as big around as Busch Stadium can be seen for miles around. Al-though the plant is nearly 80 percent complete, it is not expected to be ready to begin generating electricity commercially until at least 1S84. The nuclear- powere- d plant was originally scheduled to be ready by 1981, but construction delays and in-creasing government regulation have pushed that date back to 1S82 and then to 1934. These extensions have cost the plant an estimated $ 300 million, Proctor said. The estimates of total cost for the plant have increased, too. In 1973, Union Electric had plans to build two reactors at Callaway at a total cost of approximately $ 1.1 billion. Now, even after scrapping plans for the second reactor, the estimate has jumped to $ 2.1 billion. Union Electric had already spent $ 70 million on preliminary construc-tion for the second reactor when it was abandoned in the fall of 1981. Proctor said the increased costs for one plant precluded the possibility of building another one at this time. " Basically, we can't afford it," Proctor said. A cost Union Electric had not counted on was the construction of what Proctor calls the " Three Mile Island Addition." After an accident in which a hydrogen bubble threat-ened to cut the flow of cooling water to a reactor core at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant near Harrisburg, Pa., Proctor said it be-came necessary to train those oper-ating the plant more thoroughly. " We have a very expensive plant, and we have to make sure it oper-ates well. We're the ones who stand to lose money if it doesn't' ' Union Electric has spent $ 10 mil-lion for a simulated control building that will train plant operators to handle emergencies. The full- sca- le duplicate of the control room will be used. by. the plant operators to test their decision- makin- g skills, where they will face thousands of accident scenarios and gain expertise on how to face possible problems. Another expense, storage of high- lev- el radioactive wastes, has not been determined. It might increase costs for consumers even more. The federal government will be responsi-ble for the designation and mainte-nance of the site. " After the federal government makes the repository, we will pay for it. Then, that will be in the rates," Proctor said. " It's the customers who are going to get the benefits, and they ought to be paying the costs." Proctor blamed Amendment 1 as . . Adam J. hwl pholot Trailers serve as offices during the construction phase at the Callaway plant one of the causes of the drastic in-- r crease in consumer utility prices t that could occur when the plant be-- gins operation. The amendment, passed in 1976, stipulates that con-struction costs cannot be passed on . to consumers until a plant is fully op-erational. Instead of passing the interest of ; the construction loans on to consum-- ' ers through the rate structure, Union Electric was forced to pay the inter-est itself, Proctor said. If the compa-ny could have passed the interest on to consumers during construction, the increase would have been spread out over the years of construction rather than raising it in one lump sum, he explained. Passing the cost to consumer also would have less-ened the impact of the high prices of borrowing money, Proctor said. Other reasons Proctor cited for the increase in costs are inflation in building materials, labor expenses and the high price of borrowing mon-ey, j To pass these costs on to utility ; consumers, however, the corpora- - j tion has to convince the Missouri 1 Public Service Commission that the 8 rate increase is justified. Ron I Sluegge, director of the electricity I department for the commission, said the costs of the plant would be exam-ined before they can be put into the rate structure. " The commission's staff has been A working for two and one- ha- lf to three F years on analyzing the entire costs t of the plant" Sluegge said. f " The number that they are quot- - " ing the 30 to 35 percent is as-- ssuming that the full costs of the plant will go into the rate base," Sluegge said. a535S& 2tak fiMgaJSli MSiSfeaw T& SlgpL, iSffS KKH Workers ready the main reactor area Flightme Airlines add, drop local service By Tang Wang and JeffFox Missouriaa staff writers Ozark Airlines giveth and Ozark Airlines taketh away. And Monday it announced it's doing both. On Aug. 1, it will inaugurate a new flight linking Co- - to Springfield, Mo., on the one hand and St IluLmoubisi, athen Chicago, on the other. At the same time, it will cancel a flight originating in Milwaukee and stop-ping at Columbia before continuing to Joplin. The new service, Flight 553, will originate in St Louis at 1 : 05 pjn. and arrive in Columbia at 1 : 35 pjn., before continuing on to Springfield at 1: 53 pjm. From Springfield, it will return to St. Louis and proceed to Chicago, arriving at 4: 59 pjn. It will replace Flight 507, which originates in Mil-waukee and arrives in Columbia at 7: 10 pjn. before continuing to Joplin at 7: 25 pjn. Phil Glabb, Ozark's station manager at Columbia Regional Airport, said the airline believes the new schedule will serve the needs of a larger portion of its Columbia passengers. Glabb noted yet another adjustment in the Ozark schedule which could be of concern to Columbia's long- distanc- e travelers. Effective in August, Flight 501 will originate in Philadelphia and fly directly to St. Louis before continuing on to Columbia. The flight currently originates at Chicago. Meanwhile, Air Midwest officials said they have sold two landing slots at St. Louis' Lambert Field to Trans World Airlines one of the slots currently is used by Air Midwest on a Columbia- to- S- t Louis flight Cancellation of the Columbia- to- S- t. Louis leg of Flight 844 was announced two weeks ago and will be-come effective Aug. 15. Flight S44 is an evening flight originating at Kansas City International Airport and stopping at Columbia before continuing to St. Louis. Beginning Aug. 15, that flight will originate in Kansas City at 2: 15 pjn. but will end in Columbia at 2: 55 pjn. Air Midwest will then add to its schedule a flight originating in Colum-bia at 3: 10 pjn. and arriving in Kansas City at 3: 50 pjn. This will give Air Midwest three flights a day be-tween Kansas City and Columbia. David Ewing, Air Midwest director of flight con-trol, said that because Kansas City is the hub of the airline's operation, focusing on Columbia- Kansa- s City routes will improve his company's cost efficien-cy. He said Air Midwest hopes to increase its service ( See AIRLINE, Page 6A.) By Gerald Nadter United Press International TEL AVIV, Israel Israel's thrust into Leb-anon has threatened to turn into what the small nation fears most a grinding war of attrition. The " Peace for Galilee" campaign is five weeks old and Israel's casualties are mounting 284 dead and 1,570 wounded in battles against the PLO and Syria's regular army. But besides raising the number of casualties, a war of attrition threatens toe nation's mo-rale, harms the economy and hurts Israel's image abroad because of TV scenes showing refugees and Israel's army bombarding an Arab capital. " Israel will not accept a war of attrition," a senior Israeli official said Sunday, and the warning was repeated Monday. The bulk of the war casualties occurred in the first six days of the war that brought the army to the outskirts of Beirut There are hints that Israeli soldiers, among the world's most motivated, have questioned the reasons for the recent fighting, though mo-rale remains high. Israel will not tolerate a " war of attrition," Chief of Staff Lt Gen. Rafael Eitan told an ar-mored front- lin- e unit earlier this month in re-sponse to a soldier's question about losses in fighting for the Beirut- Damasc- us highway. But the incipient battles have continued be-tween cease- fire- s, which sometimes appear to break down soon after they are declared, and the Israelis blame the PLO. The war stretched on after the Israeli Army cornered Yasser Arafat and his 6,000 PLO guerrillas in West Beirut and held back to al-low U. S. diplomacy to prevent a bloodbath in the city, where thousands of civilians reside. Defense Minister Ariel Sharon asked this month for patience and coolheadedness to let the army complete the task of ridding Lebanon of the PLO guerrillas by keeping the pressure on. But anti- w- ar demonstrations erupted, in-cluding a gathering of an estimated 20,000 a large crowd by Israeli standards at a Peace Now protest in Tel Aviv. The war has cost Israel about $ 30 million a day, or a total so far of $ 1 billion a huge sum in a nation whose gross national product is less than $ 20 billion. And last week Deputy Chief of Staff Maj. Gen. Moshe Levy said Israel's Army is prepar-ing for the possibility of spending the winter in Lebanon. The Ministry of Defense, the newspaper Ma'ariv reported, is demanding an increase in the defense budget of $ 1.4 billion to cover the costs of the war and military preparations for the next two years. The government has raised the value added tax on all purchases from 12 to 15 percent and increased gasoline taxes in a nation where prices already double every year. The next step may be a hike in income taxes a step not likely to cheer Israelis, already one of the most heavily taxed people in the world. Aireste net millions in cocaine Largest inland bust in history CHATTANOOGA. Term. ( UPI) -- Two women and seven men were ar-rested in the seizure of $ 400 million worth of cocaine in the nation's larg-est inland drug bust Sunday. U. S. Magistrate Roger Dickson set the bonds totaling $ 3.9 million at the ar-raignment Monday. The suspects were charged with conspiracy to violate drug laws and possession with intent to distribute 1,254 pounds ( 564 kilograms) of co-caine found in a blue Chevrolet van parked at an Interstate 75 truck stop near Chattanooga. The cocaine, stuffed into 26 duffle bags with markings from South America, remained in the van Mon-day and was guarded at the Hamil-ton County Jail by deputies carrying machine guns. Bond was set at $ 1 million each for David A. Warren, 42, Smyrna, Ga., Michael Brigganee, 25, Nashville, Tenn., and James C. Trammell, 56. of Atlanta; at $ 500,000 for Robert S. George, 59, Atlanta, and at $ 250,000 for Marvin Echols, 29, Smyrna. Ga. Bonds of $ 50,000 each were set for Jackqueline Gurley, 20, Chattanoo-ga, and Jennifer Oxendine, 18, of Lumbetton, N. C. and for Mark Scar-borough, 19, of Rockwood, Tenn. No bond was set for Jackie Wayne Scar-borough, 40, of Pontiac, Mich. The nine face a U. S District Court preliminary hearing July 20. They face prison sentences of up to 15 years and a maximum $ 20,000 fine if convicted. Warren, Trammel, George and Echols, traveling in a four- vehic- le caravan, were arrested at a Cleve-land truck stop when they pulled in to buy gasoline. Agents said they ap-parently were headed to Georgia and Florida to distribute the cocaine . The other five were arrested a short time later at the Coachman Motel at Loudon, Tenn. U. S. Attorney John Gill said Brig-ganee earlier had driven the coc-aine- laden van to the motel and handed the keys to Warren. Warren, a brother- in- la- w of Echols, testified Monday under ques-tioning that he had been convicted of drug conspiracy in Colombia, South America, and had served a 27- mo- nth prison term. Although Warren identified him-self as an independent heavy equip-ment broker, Gill said Warren " is certainly the main individual in light of his past history." The cache had a street value of $ 400 million, officials said. Cockpit recorder examination delays jetliner crasti analysis KENNER, La. ( UPI) A malfunctioning cockpit re-corder will delay at least a week analysis of a tape which could determine whether pilots of a Pan Am jetliner heard wind shift warnings minutes before a takeoff and crash that killed 153 people, an investigator said Mon-day. Patricia Goldman, vice chairman of the National Transportation Safety Board, said the " wind shear" alerts warning ground traffic of sudden shifts in wind direction and speed were issued about six minutes be-fore the 727- 20- 0 became airborne Friday. " If it ( the tape) is clear enough for us to hear the con-versation ... we will know whether they heard it," Ms. Goldman said. Pan Am flight 759 took off during a heavy thunder-storm and crashed at approximately 4: 10 pjn. CST, tear-ing through a residential surburb and spraying ' a two- blo- ck area with debris and deadly, flaming jet fuel. All 145 people aboard were killed, along with eight peo-ple on the ground. At least seven people on the ground were injured, and three remained hospitalized Monday. " The purpose of giving the wind shear alerts is to give the pilot some idea of the kind of weather he may be fly-- ing into," Ms. Goldman said. " It's the nitot's decision at all times whether to take- o- ff or not" The damaged cockpit tape was sent to FBI labs in Washington, where sophisticated equipment was to be used in an effort to enhance the sound. " The head was not properly aligned on the cockpit re-corder," Ms. Goldman said. " When that is taken care of, it ( the tape) will come back to us and we will try to elimi-nate background noises. It could take a week or two weeks." The investigators said the tape should prove whether the pilots heard the broadcast wind shear warnings. " When the voice recorder is cleared up, we would be able to verify whether they had the local frequency on as required and whether they would have heard it ( the warnings). " There is no reason that I know of that they would not have had the local frequency on." At the crash scene, work crews used bulldozers to flat-ten the rubble of 13 homes ravaged by the crash and fire, and searchers continued the grim task of pulling bodies from debris. As of late Sunday, 215 black bags containing bodies or body parts had been taken to a makeshift morgue set up in a Delta hangar. 8: 15 pjn. " On Golden Pond," presented by Summer Reper-tory Theater, University The-ater. 7 pjn. Board of Adjustment meeting. Council Chambers, County- Cit- y Building. 7: 30 pjn. Human Rights Commission, Fourth- Floo- r Conference Room, County- Cit- y Building, Index Classified- -. .2- 3- B Comics 4B Opinion 4A People .3A I Sports IB . |