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f* IglBt^gga^BWg^gaMBaBa^HHByMMMaWBWWIMMWMWIWWBWPBBKMMarVWWWpgBIMafaW?UB?MB?WPqBBgBg?aW?gaiBHE^^^^ BULK RATE U.S. POSTAGE Monday, April 24,1978 University of South Carolina, Columbia, S.C. Volume LXIY, No. 43 Columbia.s.c. I ~ PERMIT NO. 213 ..- . ITMTTWWIHT llllJWIILMMIIULIJMmiUmMm-lUII.il ? ?lit?mJI-imiLL JJ HI?. 2 I * Palmetto Alii; By TERESA McCLAIN Gamecock Staff Writer NiipIoqp uracto fmm n/iwixn tUn xlnk* ...ill 1 J ?i * ? a - ?. ujiv ii win av.iwo me ^iuuc win ue uuinpeu in South Carolina unless the October 1978 opening of the Allied General Nuclear Service (AGNS) Reprocessing Plant in Barnwell is halted. "Persons living around the Barnwell Plant will receive doses of radiation many times higher than what the government calls safe," said Ernest Sternglass, Director of the Radiological Department of the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. "Because of the early onset of stroke, heart disease or cancer they simply won't live as long." Promoting safe, renewable and decentralized energy sources, the Palmetto Alliance, headquartered at 18 Old Keeping with Beer, bluegrass and bodies % were the order of the day 5|KjHmH|^ Saturday at the annual outdoor concert, me Mission Mountain Wood Band entertained the who gathered on Field A to ^ celebrate the end of the semester with some pre-exam revelry.. f Ontl> il in 01 ^1 /\ v ? w??-V/ iiiofUC Ralph Nader... page (> Student senate ... page 8 Lady (iaineeoeks win championship... page 10 Outdoor eonccrt... pa{{e 13 ?)uckwon Brow nc ... page 14 ance plans Ba Bluff Road, is a coalition of groups and individuals opposed to nuclear energy. THE ALLIANCE is sponsoring the Barnwell Project, a nonviolent rally April 29 to Mav 1. to deliver a notitinn tn tho board of directors, major stockholders and parent corporations of AGNS. The petition demands are for the plant to convert to a non-nuclear function or be permanently closed. AGNS, 70 miles from Columbia, is a partnership between Royal Dutch, Shell and Gulf oil companies. "The Barnwell Plant is the worst threat to the security of the United States that I can imagine. It's operational presence gives any nut or foreign enemy the capability of delivering an irreversibly crippling blow to America," said John Gofman, co-discoverer of plutonium. Kidnaped coed By JANE SHEALY automobile News Editor year-old U! An 18-year-old USCcoed, allegedly abducted on her way to classes rftrnvered ii r riaay, is nacK In Columbia, ac- KnoxviHe cording to the FBI Clerk rcadin Abby Lynn Stiles, reportedly "Harold C abducted in her own car, was charge of released unharmed on Bethel rtsv;?jnn nf i Valley Road in Oak Ridge, Tenn. at the ig.yearH approximately 6 p.m. Friday, abduct^j y, according to a report issued maleins.C Saturday by Harold C. Swanson, n m wk;ip t\ agent in charge of the East Ten- {^lasses!*! nessee division of the FBI. at approxi, J the report SAID,"An Bethel Vallc in well protest "Reprocessing waste at AGNS will produce plutonium (a nuclear waste), which causes lung cancer when only a minute speck is inhaled," Harris said. "If the Barnwell Plant is stopped, there will be no plutonium and the nuclear industry would soon run out of fuel CLOSED FIVE years ago as a health hazard, the only other commercial fuel reprocessing plant was in West Valley, N. Y. Within three days workers were receiving three months worth of radiation. "Siting of waste disposal plants without citizen consent cannot be done. The consensus that we feel is necessary has been agreed upon in discussions with the U. S. Department of Energy, but we need this agreement on paper," said See NUCLEAk, page 4 ;& " K S ?KsM^W^~:^mUM,f^w.ST'^^^' HT v . s^.j 'fv.: ? * *8| * J- V :> :gr$ ft**"* :*9raBS^E %\ |\\ \\ >. g^'..; ? ^ p / ?;:? ' J^ j ' *; ft ^ > SB Britten Andrew THE GAMECOCK released unharmed belonging to an 18- Tenn." 5C student, who was The report also said, "The ibducted at gunpoint in automobile belonging to the lay (Friday), has been student (Stiles > was recovered in a _ f\~?- n:J-- m * * * ii kjuk ruuge, lenn sngnny damaged condition by FBI Security Patrol Union Carbide security guards last ig from the report said, night (Friday) approximately one Swanson, agent in quarter mile from the place where the East Tennessee the student had been released." the FBI, advised that ACCORDING TO SWANSON, old student reportedly "The investigation by the FBI and esterday by a white Oak Ridee officers is mntinnino at approximately 1:30 today (Saturday) to identify the he student was en route m8n responsible for the reported as released unharmed abduction." nately 6 p.m. near Stiles was unavailable for ;y Road in Oak Ridge, comment.