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Head dressing
David and Melody Blankenship of Springfield, Mo , adjust the head band on
their daughter Amber The family is preparing for the first Inter- Trib- al Pow-wow,
which continues through today at the Boone County Fairgrounds
Safety report calls
N- pla- nt ' disgrace'
JEFFERSON CITY ( UPI) - The
Callaway nuclear plant has thou
sands of welds that may be unsafe
and serious problems with electrical
wiring, a group called the Govern
ment Accountability Project has
charged after a six- mon- th probe
The investigators also claim to
have found numerous incidents of
drug use, prostitution, gambling and
wholesale waste of construction
materials on the site That raises
questions about cost overruns and
the quality of workmanship, the
group said
R A McAleenan, manager of nu-clear
information for Union Electric
Co , said that commenting on the al-legations
would be impossible until
company officials had an opportuni-ty
to review them
During the hearing for our oper-ating
license, there were weeks of
hearings relatine tn th onabtv of
construction All the allegations
raised by intervenors were found to
be without grounds," he said
The Government Accountability
Project is a non- prof- it organization
based in Washington, which acts as a
watchdog of the unclear industry In
the Midwest alone, its investigators
have documented construction flaws
and the breakdown of the quality- assuranc- e
programs at the Zimmer nu-clear
plant near Cincinnati and at
the Midland plant in Michigan Both
plants have since been shut down
Nuclear reaction to begin
By Carolyn McMaster
Mlssojrlan stall writer
After more than 10 years of plan-ning,
construction and controversy,
the Callaway nuclear power plant
will achieve initial cnticality early
this week beginning a sustained nu-clear
reaction
Its the start of nuclear opera-tions
at the plant," said Mike
Clearv, a spokesman for Union Elec-tric
Co ' Up until this point, we
haven't done anything nuclear " The
start up may come Monday, he said,
but there may be delays
The amount of radioactivity inside
the reactor core will increase with
the ; trt nf the reactier Fission, vr
the splitting of the atoms of the ura
mum fuel, results in a different,
more penetrating type of radiation
than is emitted by natural uranium
decay, Cleary said.
The plant reaches what is called
" cnticality ' when the uranium used
About 40 specific allegations are
contained in the report and a petition
sent by the Government Accounta
bflity Project to the Nuclear Regula-tory
Commission The documents
to fuel the reactor is capable of sus
taining the reaction The increased
radioactivity produces intense heat
that will be used to create the steam
to power the plant's massive tur-bines,
which will run the generators
for electrical output
' Achieving cnticality is mainly an
exercise m testing our operations,"
Cleary said At initial cnticality, the
plant will operate at up to 5 percent
of capacity, which is not sufficient
power to produce electricity, he
said
To increase operating capacity to
more than 5 percent. Union Electric
needs approval from the Nuclear
Regulatory Commission When per-mission
is granted, the plant will en- t- ci
euiuuwr pnase in systems testing
It is not until the plant generates at
15 percent of capacity that it will be
capable of sendmg out electricity.
The Callaway plant will probably
go " on line," which means it will be-gin
producing etectneal power for
commercial use, early in 1985
were scheduled' to arrive at the com
mission Jaondav However, they
were made available Friday to the
Sae PETITION, Pag 10A
Psychics get metaphysical
as they compete for gold in
A mind- alterin- g event
By Laura Brown
Missourian staff writer
It was all in the mind
There was no heaw promotion or
commercialism, no corporations
pushing their ' official" Olympic
toothpaste and cars Eleven Colum-bia
businesses, however, thought
this Olympiad was worth sponsor-ing
But this brand of Olympics wasn't
a contest between nations and their
burly weightlifters, leggy track and
field stars and nimble gymnasts
For these Olympics, concentration
was the keyto success
Ten Columbians the city, that is
and a Minnesotan tested their psy-chic
skills Saturday in prediction,
clairvoyance and thought projection
during the first Psychic Olympiad at
the Columbia branch of the School of
Metaphysics, 210 Third Ave.
The 11 competitors vied for make-shift
gold, silver and bronze medals
in a seven- eve- nt psycathlon. They
also consumed food and drink, for
thought, provided bytheir sponsors
For rowing events, this was not
the place togo But mere was a com-petition
in which the participants
psychically attempted to pilot Styro- foa- m
boats across water
Another event had the clairvoyant
contestants trying to use their
thoughts to determine the image of
objects hidden in boxes, as others
tried to pick up " vibes" about a per-son
by feeling an article of the own-er's
clothing
Steve Ozark, director of the
school, also gave crystal ball read-ings.
He said he doesnt attempt to
tell the future with his readings, but
he does attempt to " tell people about
their attitudes and how they relate to
what they can do "
Mental exercise won out over
physical exercise in this Olympiad.
Although the competitors had to
walk to testing stations located
throughout the school's bouse, the
emphasis was on stretching the
mind.
Ozark said the competition was de
signed to stimulate interest m the
use of the mind to give Columbia res-idents
the opportunity to " discover
the ( psychic) abilities they take for
granted."
To test then concentration ability,
contestants in " thought- put-" at-tempted
to determine colors on a
card The colors were sent psychi-cally
to the competitor from a meta-physics
student To check their
taste- bu- d development, competitors
in the " elixir" event tried to deter-mine
eight ingredients in adnnk
In order to place well, the versa-tile
psycathloner also had to do well
m the " card clairvoyance" event,
determining the suit and number of
five cards turned upside down on a
table Contestants also tumbled 01
the " psychometric gymnastics,"
trying to pick up " vibes" from arti-cles
of clothing and attempting to de- sen- be
characteristics of the owner
The Minnesotan, Larry Revelle,
competed in " thought projection"
SmMIND Pa10A
Shultz- Gromyk- o talks yield ' a milestone' 1
WASHINGTON ( UPI) Secretary of State
George Shultz and Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei
Gromyko met for two boors Saturday, and the
White House said the two " established a nec-essary
milestone" toward better relations- -
The Shultt- Gromyk- o meeting was a follow- u- p to
President Reagan's session with the Soviet diplo- m- at
at the White House Friday.
Deputy White House Press Secretary Robert
Suss said Shultz telephoned Reagan at Camp Da-vid,
Md., to fin him in on details of the two- ho- ur
and 15- minu- te Saturday session.
Sims said Shultz tcM Reagan, " We established a
necessary milestone on the way to more stable re-lations"
Sims said " The secretary told the president
that both sides have a far better understanding of
each other's purposes, and we will await Soviet
reflection on what they have been given with the
hope- - that a more regular discourse will be estab-lished."
Gromyko had met with Smuts on Wednesday as
well, and the Saturdaysession brought the weeks'
superpower talks to eight hoars and40wiinntos.
Gromyko waved and smiled at reporters at the
State Department after ths Saturday meeting, bat
Soviet reaction Page 7A
made no statement, ihe talks had been expected
to last about one hour, according to U. S. officials.
Shultz said " Mr Gromyko and I had another
substantive discussion and among other things,
we agreed, as the president suggested yesterday,
we would keep in touch, and we will do so not
casually, but carefully through diplomatic chan-nels."
In his weekly radio address from Camp David,
Reagan said the United States would be ready to
talk with the Soviets about moves toward peace
His Friday meeting with Gromyko was his first
with a top- lev- el Soviet official as president
" Now the Soviets wQl return home to ponder our
exchanges," Reagan said. " And while they know
they will not secure any advantages from inflexi-bility,
they will get a fair deal, if they seek the
path to negotiations to peace."
Reagan did not go into details of the talks, but
said human rights and arms control were discuss-ed
A State Department official said the adminis- tratfongop- es
that the meetings will give the Sovi-ets
araner understanding of Reagan's position
t
and lead to a regular series of exchanges through
diplomatic channels.
" The fundamental objective of this week's
meetings was to give Mr. Gromkyo an opportunity
to hear from the president himself as well as the
secretary of state, our views in detail on the most
pressing problems of our tune," the official said.
" That was the key objective
" Now, if that produces a Soviet decision to re-engage
in a constructive dialogue with us, that
would be an important achievement But that is
up to the Soviets The important point is we got
our view across "
After Reagan's meeting with Gromyko Friday,
the administration said progress was made in
U. S-& m- et communications
But the Soviets, in statements issued in Gromy- ko- ' s
name through the Soviet news agency Tass,
were more bleak Friday, stressing the Soviets
were looking for changes in deeds on the part of
the UJS. administration and not words
" Theonversation with President Reagan does
not, unfortunately, make it possible to draw a con-clusion
about practical positive changes in the for-eign
policy course of the U. S administration,"
Gromyko said.
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