2 The Daily Tar Heel Thursday, October s, 1975
Says U.S. must build more plants
Ray speaks on nuclear power
by Laura Toler
DTH Contributor
To maintain the present standard of
living, provide more jobs and revitalize the.
economy, the United States must build more
nuclear power plants. Dr. Dixy Lee Ray,
former chairperson of the- now-defunct
Atomic Energy Commission (AEC), told a
Duke University audience Tuesday night.
Although the United States has
progressed from the days of back-breaking
farm labor to a mechanized age of material
comfort, Ray said, "There are still inequities
(in income), and the only way to go about
solving these problems is by using more
energy, not less." .
If the United States fails to pursue nuclear
technology further, she said, "the economy
will never recover from the doldrums it is in.
And if we do not have a strong economy, the
United States will not have a leadership role
in the world."
The U.S. faces an energy shortage, she
said, because it has been too dependent on
petroleum, now a scarce and expensive
resource.
She called for mining shale in Western
states and researching technology for solar,
geothermal, wind and fusion power.
"But we've got to have a strong economy
to support this research if we're going to
reach the millennium of diversification,"
Ray said. "The world as a whole has chosen
nuclear power as the only reasonable thing
to do."
The 53 nuclear power plants now
operating in the country produce 9 per cent
of the nation's energy, and the AEC
estimated there will be 1,000 plants by the
year 2000.
Nuclear power has been opposed
continually by environmental groups,
consumer spokesperson Ralph Nader,
Committee for Nuclear Responsibility
scientists, the Union of Concerned Scientists
and a number of U.S. Congressmen and
Senators.
v But Ray insisted nuclear power
commands wide public acceptance. She said
the news media have emphasized criticism of
nuclear power and downplayed statements
supporting it.
She cited a recent Harris Poll which found
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63 per cent of the American public favoring
nuclear power plant construction. In a
question and answer session after her speech.
Drew Diehl, executive director of the state
environmental group Ecos, Inc., said that
in the same poll 48 per cent said they would
oppose nuclear power if environmental
groups opposed it.
Ray said opposition to nuclear power is
supported by misinformation. For example,
she said, it has been feared that liquid,
radioactive wastes from nuclear plants
would leak from storage containers, but
scientists can now solidify these wastes.
Because atoms of radioactive plutonium
239, another nuclear waste, is fissionable,
opponents of nuclear power have said
terrorists might steal the chemical and
construct an atomic bomb.
But Plutonium theft is impossible, she
said, because the smallest amount that can
be removed at a time is 12 tons. Also, she
said, the thief would receive a lethal dose of
radiation within two seconds of exposure to
the plutonium.
A marine biologist who taught zoology at
the University of Washington for 24 years,
Ray, 61, became the first female AEC head
in February, 1973. She served until October,
1974, when the commission was divided into
the Energy Research and Development
Administration for research and the Nuclear
Regulatory Commission for licensing and
regulation.
In January, 1975, she became Assistant
Secretary of State in charge of scientific
affairs a post she quit in June, saying she
was frustrated by the department's
cumbersome bureaucracy.
Vickery to address
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on the North Carolina criminal justice
system to the Dialectic and Philanthropic
Literary Societies at 8 p.m. Thursday in 300
New West.
Vickery is a graduate of the UNC law
school and was admitted to the bar in 1970.
He currently represents the 16th Senatorial
District, composed of Chatham, Moore,
Orange and Randolph counties.
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Ford said to be considering
Shultz as new CIA head
WASHINGTON George P. Shultz, a Cabinet member in the
Nixon administration, was reported Wednesday to be President
Ford's choice to head a reorganized CIA. But the White House said
there are no plans to replace current CIA Director William E. Colby.
At a news briefing, presidential Press Secretary Ron Nessen said
Ford believes Colby is doing a good job and that "there are no plans
to replace Colby." He also said, "Shultz has not been approached."
But his statements did not quiet the reports that Shultz is in line for
the job when the current investigations of the CIA are completed and
the spy agency is reorganized, possibly later this year.
President Ford is said to be planning to disclose a series of new
proposals to shake up the CIA and revise some of its operations
because of revelations by the Rockefeller commission and
congressional committees investigating covert- activities of the
agency.
The reforms will await completion of the congressional
investigations, and Ford reportedly is in no hurry to replace Colby
until the reorganization proposals are in place.
According to the sources, Shultz has not been definitely tabbed.
They said other names are on Ford's desk and in his mind. But they
said Shultz is the only one who fits all the job requirements Ford has
set.
For the past year and a half Shultz has been president of the
Bechtel Corp. of San Francisco, and is reportedly reluctant to return
to government service on a full-time basis. He is currently the
President's representative at planning sessions for the international
economic meeting in Paris later this year.
Reagan campaign underway in New Hampshire
CONCORD, N.H. Conservative challenger Ronald Reagan's
presidential campaign team opened operations in New Hampshire
Wednesday, guaranteeing a showdown with President Ford in the
nation's first 1976 presidential primary.
Twice-elected governor in the nation's most populous state of
California, Reagan will confront President Ford in the showcase
primary Feb. 24. Ford last went before the voters as a congressman
from Michigan.
Five days before Wednesday's announcement of a "Citizens for
Reagan" committee, Ford campaign chief Howard Callaway said the
President would open his own drive for the GOP nomination in New
Hampshire.
Both Republican contenders were here in mid-September to
campaign for Republican Louis C. Wyman, an unsuccessful
candidate in the rerun of a deadlocked Senate race.
Reagan has yet to formally declare for president.
Calling Reagan, 64, a "citizen politician," national coordinator
Sen. Paul Laxalt, R-Nev., told a news conference the former
Hollywood star had the "very independence from Washington that
will enable him to make the fundamental changes the country needs."
Laxalt pledged a "total effort within this state to make a strong
showing," saying Reagan planned two weeks of campaigning before
the primary.
"I can't overemphasize the importance of the New Hampshire
campaign to our effort," Laxalt said. "We're the challenger."
While Reagan's newly named state chairman, former New
Hampshire Gov. Hugh Gregg, said "we intend to win this primary,"
he added, "if we could get 35 to 40 per cent of the vote, this would be a
victory." Laxalt said that under the right circumstances, 35 per cent
"may be all right."
Reagan organizers said selection of a moderate such as Gregg was
an attempt "to broaden" Reagan's appeal beyond conservatives. A
single term chief executive in the I950's, Gregg, 56, led the
unsuccessful 1964 New Hampshire primary campaign of Nelson
Rockefeller.
Lightner re-election bid for mayor fails
RALEIGH, N.C. Mayor Clarence E. Lightner, wtio failed in a
reelection bid, mounted despite adverse publicity from his family's
legal troubles, said Wednesday he viewed the loss with "personal
regret" but with hope for the city.
Lightner, Raleigh's first black mayor, was soundly defeated in
Tuesday's primary by former State Legislator J yies J. Coggms and
City Councilman J. Oliver Williams. Coggins and Williams, both
white, will meet in the runoff election Nov. 4.
Coggins led the field with 10,201 votes to Williams' 7,542. Lightner
had 5,644 votes.
In 1973, Lightner won by running strong in black residential areas
and winning in a number of predominantly white North Raleigh
suburbs.
However, Tuesday he won only seven of the city's 42 precincts, all
of them in the predominantly black south area of the city. The
suburbs went for Coggins and precincts around North Carolina State
University supported Williams, a professor at the university.
Lightner Wednesday declined requests for interviews and issued a
statement on the race through the City Information Office promising
to remain active in city affairs and noting nis earlier commitment to
improve the city.
"I received the results of the primary with personal regret but with
hope for the future of this city and my fellow citizens.
"It is with that hope and commitment that I shall continue to work
to meet the needs of Raleigh. The people have my assurance on that."
Lightner's statement in which he congratulated Coggins and
Williams made no mention of his family's legal problems.
Spencer said original dirty trickster
WASHINGTON President Ford's new political director,
Stuart Spencer of Los Angeles, is the original "dirty trickster" of
politics who taught others to wiretap, spy and disrupt opponents'
campaigns, it was reported Wednesday.
The story by the Washington bureau of Scripps-Howard
Newspapers quoted Raymond V. Humphreys, a Washington-based
political consultant and three unnamed sources as saying they were
taught "political thuggery" in a series of congressional campaign
..management seminars conducted by California Republicans
Spencer and his associate, William Roberts, in the late 1960's.
Spencer vigorously denied the charges and said he had emphasized
winning in his talks but had never advocated underhanded or illegal
practices.
The Scripps-Howard sources said Spencer had as his motto: "It is
not how you play the game that counts, it is whether you win or lose,"
and taught these tactics:
How to install electronic surveillance equipment.
How to pay janitors for the contents of trashbaskets from
opponents' headquarters.
How to disrupt campaigns by planting phony information
which, for instance, might result in the candidate showing up for an
indoor rally to find the doors locked and the place deserted because
those staging it had been told falsely the date had been changed.
Humphreys said he was "quite shocked" by the seminars, and said,
"I don't regard political thuggery as a good way to make a
contribution."
The other sources agreed with his assessment, and called the
'seminars the forerunner of the brand of dirty campaigning on
" Richard Nixon's behalf which brought about the Watergate scandal.
In denying the charges, Spencer said he did teach his followers how
to use scramblers to ensure that a telephone line cannot be tapped,
but said this is a protective rather than an offensive device.
"I've never done it," he said. "Just look at the campaigns I've run.
The record shows that we've never been involved in any of that. It
makes me sick to think about it."
Spencer-Roberts campaigns include the victory of Ronald Reagan
over Edmund G. "Pat" Brown for the California governorship in
1968; and Nelson Rockefeller's unsuccessful 1964 "California
Republican primary against Barry Goldwater.
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