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By CARRIE DOVE
Staff Writer
With two more Democratic can
didates adding their names to the
ballot, the race for N.C. lieutenant
governor promises to be a hot battle,
but the Republican nomination is still
up for grabs, spokesmen from both
parties said.
In an effort to increase name
recognition and establish themselves
as contenders, Democrats Parks
Helms and Harold Hardison declared
their intentions early. Hardison, a
state senator, announced in April,
and Helms, a Charlotte lawyer, put
in his bid last week.
Senate Majority Leader Tony
Rand, D-Cumberland, will announce
today, and Rep. Jim Crawford, D
Granville, plans to announce later
this month.
The number of Democratic candi
dates is typical, said Margaret Law
ton, press secretary for the N.C.
; Democratic Party. She said it is too
tate board
By MICHAEL JORDAN
Staff Writer
The newly-formed Low Level
Radioactive Waste Management
Authority took its first step last week
toward selecting a state location for
a nuclear waste disposal.
The board must make a final
decision for the location of the low
level nuclear waste site by Nov. 15,
1990.
The authority has not discussed
sites for the proposed facility, but
guidelines have been set up, said
Merrill Eisenbud, chairman of the 15
member board created in August.
"We're looking for a 200-acre site,"
Eisenbud said. "So it's going to have
to be rural."
But Don Willhoit, the board's
public relations director and UNC
professor of environmental sciences
and engineering, said a waste disposal
facility could be located in a number
of places.
"The point is, it has to be safe no
matter where it is located," Willhoit
said. "My first priority is to see that
we do a careful, deliberate process
and that we not rush it to meet these
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early to predict a front-runner. But
it's not too early for the Hardison
campaign.
"We're considering ourselves the
front-runner," said Mike Mann,
Hardison's campaign director. "But
Helms or Senator Rand is going to
be the one to beat."
Educational, environmental and
economic issues will dominate the
Democratic campaign, Mann said.
During Hardison's stint as a leg
islator, he introduced a bill creating
potential for the ethanol industry and
worked to open new markets for
farmers, Mann said.
Rand will make education a big
issue, said his campaign manager,
Steve Doak. He was an original signer
of the basic education program bill,
which focused the public school
curriculum on teaching basic reading
and math skills, and has served on
the Public School Forum, which
discusses educational issues, since its
inception, Doak said.
seeks unclear waste disposal site
deadlines."
The governor, lieutenant governor
and speaker of the N.C. House of
Representatives each appoint five
members to the board for a four-year
term, said David Bagnl, a special
assistant to the governor for boards
and commissions. The governor
appoints the chairman of the board,
Bagnl said. The board met for the
first time last week.
"It's really a marvelous board,"
Eisenbud said. "I'm very pleased with
it."
Eisenbud said all board meetings
will be open to the public and the
press.
Public meetings will help convince
people of the safety of the site,
Eisenbud said.
"The main problem we have is to
reduce the disparity that exists
between the actual risk and public
perception of the risk," Eisenbud said.
N.C. regulations are more stringent
than federal safety guidelines for
disposal sites, Eisenbud said.
The disposal site can be designed
and constructed so there is little risk
of exposure to radiation outside the
site, Willhoit said.
Only low-level wastes, the type of
waste created mostly by hospitals,
will be disposed of on the site,
Eisenbud said.
"This is not a dump," Eisenbud
said. "It is a well-planned, carefully
designed disposal facility. It's sort of
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Rand plans to concentrate on
building new schools in addition to
curriculum changes, Doak said.
Helms said he will also concentrate
his campaign on educational, envi
ronmental and economic issues, but
has no formal platform. He called for
a series of debates to address these
issues.
Republicans are looking for a
candidate who will balance well with
Gov. Jim Martin, said Tim Minton,
assistant director of communications
for the N.C. Republican Party. The
party may look for a candidate from
eastern North Carolina to draw votes
from that area of the state.
No Republicans have announced
their candidacies yet, but several
expect to announce in November or
December.
John Carrington, a gubernatorial
candidate in 1984, is the front-runner
because of the name recognition his
1984 bid gives him, said campaign
manager Steve Medling.
like a high-class cemetery."
The totally autonomous board was
created because of North Carolina's
commitment to the Southeast Com
pact Commission, an eight-state
compact that decides the location of
disposal facilities in the South.
Each state in the compact must
host a facility for 20 years. The
compact last year chose North Caro
lina to host the next waste dump, but
N.C. officials, worried about the
possibility of other states failing to
keep their commitments to the
compact, threatened to withdraw.
Kathryn Visocki, deputy director
of the Southeast Compact Commis
sion, said the state must construct a
low-level nuclear waste disposal site
whether it stays in the compact or
not.
But the state will probably stay in
the compact, Visocki said.
The facility will operate for 20
years, or until it receives 32 million
cubic feet of waste, enough to fill
more than 474,000 sandboxes, which
ever comes first, Visocki said.
Eisenbud said he expects the
facility to be in operation for the 20
year period because the volume of
radioactive waste has decreased over
the last few years.
Willhoit said that because the
facility must remain safe for several
hundred years, it will be actively
monitored for 100 years after it closes.
"We need to have assurance that
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Carrington plans to announce his
candidacy sometime before Nov. 1.
His platform emphasizes eliminating
state-funded abortions and attracting
new industries to North Carolina,
Medling said.
State Rep. Bill Boyd, R-Randolph,
said he will announce his intentions
in late November or early December.
He said he will continue to work, on
legislation making AIDS testing
mandatory for marriage license
applicants, prisoners and convicted
prostitutes. He said he plans to seek
reforms in the N.C. insurance
industry.
"We need someone who will sup
port the governor, and a qualified
candidate who understands the legis
lative process," he said.
Other Republicans who are con
sidering a campaign for lieutenant
governor include former U.S. Rep.
Jim Gardner and Greensboro resi
dent Wendell Sawyer.
whatever is put in the ground will stay
there," Eisenbud said.
Visocki said she is concerned that
the board's schedule is cutting the
deadline close.
N.C. law calls for the facility to
be operational by Dec. 31, 1992. But
federal law and compact agreement
call for the facility to be operational
by Dec. 3 1 , 199 1 , Visocki said.
The present facility, located in
Barnwell, S.C., will close Dec. 31,
1992, Visocki said.
"I think it is a given that the
Southeast Compact Commission
does have the right to impose penal
ties on North Carolina (if the state
fails to meet the deadlines)," Visocki
said.
Eisenbud said he expects the
facility to be in operation in time to
meet the deadlines.
The facility will be run by a private
operator in order to cut state costs,
Eisenbud said. Potential operators
will submit bids after the board selects
the site to the Radiation Protection
Section, which will license the facility,
he said.
Visocki said the facility could bring
economic growth to the area in which
it is located.
Many people in Barnwell do not
want the facility there to close,
Visocki said.
Willhoit said, "TheyVe lived with
it long enough with no major prob
lems, and (the operator) has been
such a good corporate citizen that
they don't really want to see it go."
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in severe quake aftershock
From Associated Press reports
LOS ANGELES A sharp
aftershock from last week's severe
earthquake jolted Southern Cali
fornia before dawn Sunday, caus
ing at least one death and more
than 200 injuries, damaging build
ings, knocking out power and
sending jittery residents into the
streets.
The quake, centered in subur
ban Rosemead about eight miles
northeast of downtown Los
Angeles, registered at 5.3 on the
Richter scale of ground motion,
said Don Kelly of the U.S. Geo
logical survey in Golden, Colo.
The 3:59 a.m. quake was the
22nd aftershock registering more
than 3.0 since Thursday's quake,
which measured 6. 1 on the Richter
scale and caused six deaths and
more than $75 million in damage.
Neighboring Orange County
suffered about $8 million in damge
Sunday and a state of emergency
was declared there.
Probe shows propaganda effort
WASHINGTON An office
within the State Department
engaged in an illegal, covert "white
propaganda" effort to generate
support for the Reagan adminis
tration's policies in Central Amer
ica, according to congressional
investigators.
Since it was created in 1983, the
department's Office of Public
Diplomacy for Latin America and
the Caribbean at times arranged
news media interviews for leaders
of Nicaragua's contra rebels and
general opinion articles opposing
Nicaragua's leftist Sandinista
government for placement in
major media outlets, while care
fully concealing its own role in the
publicity effort, according to
investigators for the General
Accounting Office, Congress'
investigative arm.
For example, a March 11, 1985
opinion column in the Wall Street
Journal on the offensive threat
posed by Soviet attack helicopters
in Nicaragua was attributed to
Rice University professor John
Guilmartin. GAO said Guilmar
tin's status as a paid consultant to
the public diplomacy office and
the office's collaboration on the
article apparently were not dis
closed to the newspaper.
The GAO concluded that the
activities "were misleading as to
their origin and reasonably con
stituted 'propaganda' within the
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term" and violated a legal ban on
use of federal money for propa
ganda not specifically authorized
by Congress.
In addition, the six-month GAO
investigation turned up documents
seen by investigators as relevant
to Congress' Iran-contra probe,
but which were not turned over
by the White House under a
sweeping request for all docu
ments which could have a bearing
on the investigations.
Tibetan demonstrations kill six
LHASA, Tibet Chinese
authorities imposed a curfew
Sunday and tried to stop at least
one busload of foreign tourists
from leaving the Tibetan capital
after pro-independence demon
strations that killed at least six
people.
Dissidents proclaimed the six as
martyrs. They put up signs saying
those who died in Thursday's
demonstration "died for all the
Tibetan people, not for
themselves."
Nineteen policemen were
seriously wounded in that demon
stration, held to protest the arrests
of participants in a Sept. 27
demonstration.
Buddhist monks at the Sera
Monastery outside Lhasa said
they hoped to stage another
protest on Wednesday, the 37th
anniversary of the day that Chi
nese communist troops moved
into Tibet to annex it in 1950.
Officials discuss free trade deal
WASHINGTON President
Reagan hailed a tentative U.S.
Canadian free trade agreement
Sunday that would eliminate all
tariffs between the two countries
as a historic pact beneficial to both
nation's economies.
"Now, in addition to sharing the
world's largest undefended border,
we will share membership in the
world's largest free trade area,"
Reagan said in a statement
released at the White House.
Treasury Secretary James
Baker and Canadian Finance
Minister Michael Wilson told a
joint news conference they were
confident the agreement would be
approved by the U.S. Congress
and Canada's parliament.
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