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VOL. IX I No. 48 University-of South Carolina, Columbia, S. C. 29208 Friday, February 5, 1971 Sen As far as the USC stuc Ps boycott is on. By roll call vote the 32 passed a bill to boycott the L no abstentions and none o The bill states that "the operate without considera urges "all students to boy The bill also creates a cor solutions to the problem of man committee includes th Affairs, the manager of the Auxiliary Services and the Also included are three students. Harold Brunton, vice pr said that he welcomes the c( of settling the problem. One provision in the t Business Affairs to offer assistance. David Yarborough, a spo assures the committee of ac the Campus Shop. Containnation Ra4 AEC uses By MICHAEL BALL Two deaths resulted fron radioactivity accidents at Lo Alamos Scientific Laboratory (on in '45, one in '46). The Atomic Eri ergy Commission (AEC) release the information to the public ir 1962. One workman was killed an: three in.jured at a flash fire at th ~Oconee Nuclear Station at Seneca --South Carolina. An A EC spokesman verified tha a 250 square mile area in Nevada will be contaminated ani uninhabitable for the next 24,001 vears. T'hese and other pieces of ir1 formation concerning our deatti dealing atomic blunders are slowl: being released. A lengthy frightening, well-researched ar ticle on the AEC is in the January February Center Magazin< (available at MKissick an' .Journalism libraries). Lte ca lent senate is concerned, the senators present unanimously JSC Campus Shop. There were )posed. 'ampus Shop has continued to tion of student welfare" and :ott the Campus Shop." nmittee to investigate possible the campus Shop. The twelve e Vice-Presdident for Business campus shop, the Director of Dean for Student Actitities. faculty members and four -esident for Business Affairs, )mmittee approach as a means >ill requires the Division of this committee its complete nsor of the bill, said that this cess to the financial records of cliation kill TAOSIKo FIM ~SOAxe., trial-error In the article, Gee Schrader presented evidence on the chief atomic research method used in this country--trial and error. - A good example of our ignorant d probing was the 1954 Bikini test. Area natives had been stationed in what was considered a safe area. The natives and Japanese f ishermen were covered with fallout. The AEC stated the natives were well and had been returned to their islands. The deaths of the fishermen were unanticipated by. the AEC since It occurred many miles from the designated danger -area. 17 or 19 children of the closestc island have developed thyroid j abnormalities; 150of them have had ~thyroid nodules removed and some show growth retardation. An A EC report released nearly a year later said the test dangerously contaminated an area'or 7,'MN square* miles' (or an' u1s foi pm. Wednesday the Student Sen ing at ho New anaysi -rate9 ieofNwJesy. IN 16 e sa tet euphemistically labeled "the a 'aultless test," nine large ear-c :hquakes were recorded in the tate in the following two months. s "Venting" of gaseous radiation u as been another major and mnexpected problem. The United States Public Health Service's southwest Radiation LabQratory n -eported the 10 of 190 tests con- t lucted between 1961 and 1969 leaked rom 200 to 1,000,000 curies (the nit used to measure radioac ivity)> per explosion. A Tlhe AEC refused to identify the 'xplosion which released the 1 b nillion curies. Plutoniugn ceaused thg 24,000 yeard Meti AUFA' P. 8. Co. I boyc Senate votes tate passed legislation enacti Campus shop. me and SI FOR"W"OFEo GOING ON OV ALLO S -M SINGYOU A )0 News black BYv MARGARETSWENDSEID reca Cultural Affairs of Ja 25o The five day blackout of all beer merican news media in Southeast ~sia has ended. nam Despite the "no comment" from so ecretary of Defense Melvin Laird NLF nd his advisors, and despite the tuar ontinuing pressure of the Foreign yiet telations Committee and various 't enators and political leaders to to L ncover the secrecy, there is one dev~ bvious speculation as to the at why" of the news embargo: the at fixon administration is trying a Acl ew offensive tactic in escalating from te war in Laos, and Cambodia. News Intermittent wire reports chett stimate there are 25,000 South comr ietnamese troops and 9,000 hom4 merican troops in Khe Sanh sear< ear the southern southeasterti high wrder of Laos - an area which now I ould make ground troop invasion the< flicult because of the mountains. battli orth Vietnameae troops have ' ott - Parker Renmua ng a boycott of the 5 Asia A; S out ends ptured a garrison in the Plain irs - a strategic military area; her centers in Laos have also taken by the North Viet ese. cording to a Saigon military cee, the North Vietnamese and have reoccupied their sanc ies along the Cam bodia sam border. In answer to the eat" Nixon has increased aid os and Cambodia -- but more stating, he has stepped up air ~ks. ording to preceptive reports Orville Schell of the Pacific Service and William Bur e of the "Guardian," Nixon is ritted to bringing the troops .* There are no longer large h and destroy operations with U. S. casualties.. .The war is eing fought in the air: "under rover of reducedi American afield casuaalties and a falling lnckout Ends Paga, C. t4