=== Page 1 of 18 Postmark 6-10-86 Monday, June 9, 1986 Jeffrey Scientists: My UFOs have severely crippled NASA and taught Russia (and the world) a valuable lesson at Chernobyl -- now they will turn their full attention to obtaining their UFO Base, which means that they intend to intensify and amplify pressure on the U.S. government to provide same... by sweeping "waves" of other-dimensional psi-force across the U.S. Now anything can happen! Ted Owens (PK Man) === Page 2 of 18 May 23, 1986 Dear Rosy Rhine: I enjoyed very much hearing from you. I can still see vividly your cute little face, smiling impishly at me...a face sitting atop a chubby little girl's bod. My age then was 26 (now 66) and I had brought you a little gift on my way down to Duke from Bedford, Indiana. It was a wooden doll that danced when you pressed the bottom block of wood. I believe that you wore pigtails then. What ever happened to Robby? Read an article about the Rhine family in Fate mag...all members of the family were described, but no mention whatever of Robby. ??? No, was not aware that Louie had passed away. She was something else. Seems like yesterday that Louie and I were walking through the woods and she told me, "Ted, you have to learn to channel your psychic powers...control them." She and JB (the Bull of the Woods) were my "displaced parents" at Duke. They would have me go over to your house in the evening to eat supper with you, around that big table. A man gave me a set of drums...and Louie told me to come over to her house and set them up in front of the fireplace in the living room to test them out. When a millionaire's daughter invited me to a Duke dance...I had no tux so JB took out his tux which he used to wear to lectures and put it on me so that I could go to the dance. The pants were too short, too tight...old and frayed...but at least it was a tux. My date wore a dress covered, believe it or not, with diamonds, pearls, rubies and emeralds. Ha ha. (She was in law school; was from Miami). Your dad dictated "The Reach of the Mind" to me and I typed it out for him to send to the publisher...believe it was William Sloane and Associates. The publisher wanted JB to let Phillip Wylie write the foreword for the book but JB had a fit. He wanted a dignified scientist to do it...not some "young upstart" like Wylie. Ha ha ha. JB and Louie would have me over some nights to the house for seances. I was the medium. Betty Mac and Betty Humphreys would be there, too. One funny thing that happened...JB, Betty Mac, Betty Humphreys, myself and a few others were playing touch football one afternoon...I was on one side and JB was on the other side. After a play was over (JB had the ball) JB and his team gathered in a huddle to plan the next play. They didn't know I had sneaked across the line of play and gotten into the huddle with them. "Now here is what we're going to do..." said JB, and he outlined a play. "No, Dr. Rhine, that won't work" I said, cackling with laughter...and JB and the others chased me all over the field in mock rage. One day JB took me down into the basement and told me there was a secret door and a hidden room there. I could not figure out where the door was...until he showed me how that entire concrete wall could be pushed away from the bottom so that one could slide into the hidden room (which also had an exit into the kitchen through the floor, covered by a rug.) I used to show you card and coin tricks...but doubt if you can remember that. Once JB and Louie took you kids and me out to a swimming hole (had a bathhouse where JB and I got undressed and put on our suits) and we all swam...later we had a picnic supper and JB played that concertina and sang Burl Ives songs...with you-all singing along with him. He was especially fond of "Jimmy Cracked Corn." === Page 3 of 18 2 Later your dad got awfully mad at me. My fault, of course. Before coming to Duke I had spent two years on an island in the Pacific... as a sailor...and hadn't known any intimacies with females. At Duke I was allowed to have breakfast in the girl's dining hall on East Campus because that was where the Parapsych Lab office was. And those mischievous Duke girls had a lot of fun making me sweat copiously by going to breakfast in their bathrobes, or much less, and parading their goodies in front of me. It was sort of like a starving man being turned loose in a huge room full of delicious culinary delights. Ha ha. I had so many dates my dates had dates. JB finally got me aside and sort of suggested that I find some pretty, lonely widow in town to consort with...since I was much older than the little Duke kiddies. Then, to top it off, I found out that my best friend in the world, Granpa, was dying from cancer back in Bedford and had only a couple of months to live. Instantly I dropped my books and studies and left Duke without a word to anyone there...and hitchhiked to Bedford, where I took care of Granpa, along with granma, until he passed away. Now, JB had gone to one heck of a lot of trouble to get me to Duke, originally, to work for him as a secretary...then to get me admitted as a student. (The Dean there told me personally that he hated ex-GIs because they were on the GI Bill (had no money) and were usually goofing up (which was true...a fellow ex-GI, friend of mine at Duke, accidentally broke his Duke girlfriend's arm showing her a judo hold he'd used in fighting Japs in the Pacific.) Anyway, my leaving Duke the way I did...really sent your Dad up the wall. Not Louie... she's always been real cool about everything; understanding, you know? It was completely in character...Louie's bod folding up but her iron will and determination holding Nature off until she finished her book. I salute her...a great woman...and I also salute your Dad... both of them absolutely smashing human beings and ones-of-a-kind, most certainly. My own bod is in the process of folding up, too. Happens to everyone. * Rosy...I made a tremendous discovery myself in parapsych. You know that time and space are irrelevant and immaterial in psi phenomena. Well, doing my own research I discovered that MASS also fits into that formula. I.e., using the same psychic ability to influence the numbers on dice to come up past chance (PK) it is just as easy to make a storm occur over a geographical area...or lightning strike a target. Humans are brainwashed from birth into believing that the larger an effect the more power must be used. T'ain't so. In 1976 I was invited to go to London and appear and lecture before famous parapsychologists and physicists, etc., on my work in parapsych. It was quite an experience. There are bunches of books in your library, written by experts on psi-force and parapsych, re my work. Will enclose some newsclip xeroxes and book xeroxes. I wish the best, always, for you and yours, Rosy. Affectionately, Ted Owens (PK Man) 1713 NE 20th St. Ocala, Florida 32670 * My kids have orders to put on my tombstone: "What? No more TV pro-football games? Dam!" === Page 4 of 18 limits" so that she could finish that book - so important for her to finish - for Dad's sake. I'm sending you a copy, because I know you admire her as we all do, and will enjoy her book. I'm out in Portland, Oregon, and have been meaning to write earlier to let you know about Mom. Although I've had time to get over the initial grief, I still miss her very much. Somehow, she's still here. I'm sure you understand. In case you don't remember me, I'm the youngest daughter. I was happy that you are still in contact with "the Rhines." Your family sounds delightful. Love, Rosie Rhine June 4, 1985 Dear Ted, I was in Durham in April when your kind letter arrived at Mom's house. My sister Betsy usually answers the mail, but I remembered you and told her I'd answer. Mom died three years ago (actually less than that - March 17, 1983). The year before, she had a coronary, but recovered in her indomitable style, so that she could finish her book about Dad's journey, Something Hidden. Six weeks after she finished the book, she suffered from a massive coronary. My sister and I think she "pushed her === Page 5 of 18 R. Rhine 1937 NW Johnson #5 Portland, OR 97209 PORTLAND OR 972 PM 5 JUN 1985 Mallard Decoy Folk Art USA 22 Ted Owens 1713 NE 29th ST Ocala, Florida 32670 BANNER UFOs Described As Size Ping-Pong Balls === Page 6 of 18 # OCALA STAR 25 CENTS DAILY 50 CENTS SUNDAY VOLUME 42, NO. 264, 121ST YEAR Ocala, Florida, Thursday, May 22, 1986 # BANNER Home # Jets Pursue Tiny UFOs ## Described As Size Of Ping-Pong Balls RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AP) -- Multicolored UFOs the size of ping-pong balls were seen in the skies over Brazil on Monday and the government sent fighter jets to chase them, the air force minister said on television. "Because they saturated our radar system in Sao Paulo and because they were interfering with air traffic, it was decided to send up planes to pursue them," Brigadier Gen. Otavio Moreira Lima said Wednesday. The air force immediately dispatched four fighter jets -- two Mirages and two F-5s -- to find the unidentified flying objects, which the Air Space Defense Center had located over the cities of Sao Paulo, Sao Jose dos Campos and Rio de Janeiro. One of the F-5 pilots reported seeing objects that he said were multicolored, Moreira Lima said, adding, "He reported that 13 of these objects accompanied his aircraft, seven on one side of his jet and six on the other side." Another pilot described the objects as "the shape and size of a ping-pong ball flying at a speed of (840 miles)," TV Globo, the country's leading news network, reported. The air force jets, which also picked up the UFOs on their radar screens, tracked them for almost three hours, but had to turn back when the planes started to run out of fuel, reported TV Manchete, another leading news network. "I can't give an explanation for this because we don't have any," said Moreira Lima. May 23, 1986 SCIENTISTS The above was on TV today (CNN). They also announced ANOTHER tremendous UFO sighting in California...dozens of people and police saw it. You will recall my experience in northern California years ago... when three Bigfoot creatures appeared near my two sons and myself... also ping-pong-size red lights appeared overhead and all around the area, in the sky...and when I signaled to them with my flashlight the flash exposed otherwise-invisible giant UFOs. The tiny red lights were attached to the various craft. It's in your files. Ted Owens (PK Man) * My UFOs have put their "signature" to Chernobyl and the NASA disasters. === Page 7 of 18 The U.S. Govt. is lying. Same UFO seen over California last week. See clip. Owens 038 6/2/86 # Russian Rocket Lights Up Night MIAMI (AP) -- Floridians who witnessed a long-tailed fireball that whizzed down the length of the state thought they'd seen a meteor shower or a UFO, but a U.S. air command official said it was a Soviet rocket falling to earth. "It looked like a big ball of fire with a tail... less than two miles into the air. It was bright orange-red," said Theresa Rines, a disc jockey at radio station WAMR-WRAV in Venice, on Florida's southwest coast. Ms. Rines said the object was visible for about 30 seconds as it flew overhead. Residents from Jacksonville to Key West, a distance of over 500 miles, reported seeing the spent rocket. "I thought it was a meteor or comet," Ms. Rines said of the Sunday night sky show. But a spokesman for the North American Aerospace Defense Command, located near Colorado Springs, Colo., said people who called to report citing such natural phenomena were wrong. "It was the rocket body used in the launch of a Soviet satellite designated Cosmos 1746," said Del Kindschi, a NORAD spokesman. ## "It looked like a big ball of fire with a tail" He said that experts at the underground surveillance center in Cheyenne Mountain had expected the spent rocket to begin falling to earth north of Cuba at around 10 p.m. He confirmed that the satellite traveled down the coast of Florida. He said the rocket body hit the atmosphere near Jacksonville and was last seen near Cuba. However, he said he didn't know where it touched down. The U.S.S.R. has disclosed no information about when the satellite was launched or what its mission was, the spokesman said. Although the rocket entered the atmosphere along the Atlantic Coast, it was visible on both coasts at the southern end of the state. "It was real close. It went north to south, from north of Venice south to Port Charlotte," Ms. Rines said. About 20 listeners called the radio station to report the object that looked like a falling satellite or meteor shower, Ms. Rines said. "It was very pretty, it was flying real low. It was going in a straight line," she said. "It was going at a slow rate of speed. I saw it for 30 seconds," she said. === Page 8 of 18 Rocket failure forces halt of Ariane space program UFO vs Space Work Trib 6/1/86 KOUROU, French Guiana (UPI) -- Europe's commercial Ariane rocket program was halted Saturday pending an investigation into the failure of an unmanned rocket that tumbled out of control and was destroyed along with a $55 million satellite. The action left Western nations without satellite launch capability. The action left the Western world with no immediate capability for launching satellites following the Jan. 28 Challenger space shuttle tragedy and failure of American's Atlas-Centaur and Delta unmanned rockets. It also threw into disarray European plans to take over some of the business left open by the shuttle disaster and forced delays into sending needed communications and weather satellites to replace aging orbiters. Frederic d'Allest, chairman of Arianespace, the French-led international consortium that builds, markets and launches the rockets for the European Space agency, said it was uncertain how long the Ariane would be grounded -- although he said flights may resume by the end of the year. Arianespace had planned four more launches this year, the next Aug. 12. The four launches were to send more satellites into orbit. The agency had orders for more than 30 satellites for launch by the end of 1988, including eight that had been scheduled for the shuttle. The Ariane 2 rocket lifted off perfectly Friday night from the Guiana Space Center on the northeastern coast of South America, and its first two stages separated correctly and fell toward the Atlantic. But the third and final stage ignited briefly and went out after a few seconds, and the rocket tumbled wildly out of control. Moments later, flight safety officers at mission control detonated the rocket, which was destroyed along with the satellite. D'Allest said a preliminary investigation traced the problem to the ignition of the third stage. Onboard computers received the orders to fire the engine, but for unknown reasons, the fuel did not ignite properly. "After the separation," he said, "we see that the third stage engine had started to run but then stopped. The preliminary data shows that all the electrical systems and the onboard computer had worked properly. "It appears clearly, unless further investigation shows something else, that we are faced with a problem related to the building up of the thrust during the starting sequence," he said. A problem in the same stage of Ariane's 15th flight last fall forced the detonation of the rocket with the loss of two satellites worth $100 million. Four of the 18 Ariane flights have ended in failure. The accident will also force a slip in flight testing for the next generation of launchers, the Ariane 4, because it used the same engine in the third stage. D'Allest said an independent investigating board will begin work this week on identifying the problem based on computer data showing fuel pressure and temperature. Allan McCaskill, manager of Intelsat launch vehicle office -- owners of the demolished satellite, said the loss of the satellite would delay the organization's plans to improve transmission of television and telephone traffic for the 110 member countries of the Washington-based international telecommunications satellite organizations. UFO vs Space Work Ariane rocket blows up Trib 5/31/86 By STEVE HOLLAND United Press International KOUROU, French Guiana -- Europe's Ariane rocket blasted off with a $55 million satellite aboard Friday, but its third stage failed to fire and mission control blew up the rocket, sending it tumbling into the ocean. After a perfect launch from the Guiana Space Center, the first stage of the unmanned rocket separated correctly, but the third stage failed to ignite on schedule. "The whole mission has been lost," said Frederic d'Allest, chairman of Arianespace, the French-led international consortium that markets, builds and launches the Ariane, which has been the top competitor to the U.S. space shuttle. D'Allest said the first two stages of the 148-foot rocket separated correctly and on time, but the engine in the third stage failed to ignite. The third stage and the 4,400-pound satellite fell together into the Atlantic. Two Ariane rockets have been launched successfully this year, sending four satellites into orbit. Last fall, however, an Ariane rocket had to be detonated when it flew out of control. An eerie silence fell over mission control when news of the rocket failure was revealed. A space agency spokesman said the decision to detonate the rocket was made not because it threatened populated areas, but because it was disappearing over the horizon, meaning officials would have had the risk shifting to another tracking station. UFO vs Space Work Trib 6/1/86 Europe's Ariane 2 rocket carrying a telecommunications satellite lifts off from its pad Friday shortly before it was blown up. Reuters photo === Page 9 of 18 TOM Wicker 0.5B 5/25/86 # Soviet Disaster Forces Openness Aside from the death and misery suffered by so many Soviet citizens and perhaps other Europeans, President Reagan and the Western allies have plenty of reason to take quiet satisfaction in the plight of the Soviet government following the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. For one thing, world public reaction has clearly forced Moscow to an unprecedented degree of openness with other nations and even its own people -- notably including Mikhail Gorbachev's remarkable (for a Soviet leader) televised report on the accident. For another, in his call for "an international regime" to supervise reactor safety and provide the world community with early warning of such accidents as that at Chernobyl, Gorbachev departed sharply from the Soviet Union's usual insistence on excluding the world from its internal affairs. Finally, in an effort to recover from what has been a body blow to Soviet prestige and credibility, Gorbachev has been pushed to take a new risk for arms control -- renewing his previously canceled moratorium on nuclear testing, despite the fact that Moscow has conducted no tests at all since last Aug. 6, while Reagan has ordered 11 U.S. tests in the same period. All three of these developments, in effect, are substantial "victories" for the West and ought to be regarded as such, though without gloating or polemics. Unfortunately, Washington's reaction has mostly been to ignore them. Now Chernobyl and its aftermath have demonstrated further severe deficiencies on the part of the Soviet government. It was unable to protect its people from a nuclear accident and as a consequence has seen fit to call for international assistance in preventing such accidents in the future. The high tribute that Gorbachev paid to American physicians -- though one of them, Dr. Robert Gale, has suggested that no nation is sufficiently prepared to meet such a disaster -- was a concession that Moscow also needed outside help in caring for victims of the accident. To only one of these striking Soviet developments has Reagan so far responded favorably. A White House statement welcomed Gorbachev's proposal for "an international regime," based on a strengthened International Atomic Energy Agency, to promote nuclear reactor safety and to provide "prompt warning and supply of information" in the event of a nuclear accident. A judiciously worded and non-polemical statement by Reagan taking note of and implicitly encouraging further Soviet openness with the world and its own citizens also seems in order. If adversity forced Gorbachev more toward Western ways of responding to crisis, why not credit him for it? Predictably, however, the president's discouraging reaction to the renewal of the Soviet test moratorium was as negative and illogical as ever. # LETTERS TO THE EDITOR 0.5B 5/23/86 ## Nuclear Accident A Blessing In Disguise? To The Editor: The nuclear accident in Russia may turn out to be a blessing in disguise, in that Russia may belatedly pay more attention to the needs of her people instead of exporting her military might around the entire world! They are military bullies who attack every country whom they think are weak enough to plow under, and use their tool of starvation to subdue! # Aid Rushed To Typhoon Victims PORT MORESBY, Papua New Guinea (AP) -- Emergency supplies were rushed today to the Solomon Islands after Typhoon Namu devastated the 900-mile-long Pacific chain with gales and a torrential rain that reportedly killed at least five people and pushed entire villages into the sea. An Australian pilot who flew over the area but was unable to land because of three-foot-deep water at Honiara airport on Guadalcanal said he saw only "a sea of mud with roofs sticking out." But in Canberra, the Australian Foreign Ministry said two Royal Australian Air Force C-130 transports managed to land in Honiara today and delivered two small helicopters, medicine, tents and food. Details from the remote island chain located 1,000 miles northeast of Australia were sparse. But the Australian Associated Press quoted relief workers as saying an estimated 90,000 of the islands' total population of about 240,000 were left homeless, and that at least 50 people were missing. It said five children were swept out to sea when the storm struck Monday with its 115 mph winds, and are presumed to have drowned. John Given, an administrative officer at the Australian Consulate in Port Moresby, said the toll was expected to rise following the typhoon, which apparently struck the island chain without warning. Perry Head, third secretary at the Australian embassy in Port Moresby, said aerial photographs of Guadalcanal showed widespread devastation. "Whole villages have been bowled over by floodwaters and mud, then pushed into the sea," he said. Given told The Associated Press by telephone that Namu also caused wholesale destruction to outlying islands and provincial authorities were sending teams out in canoes to search for survivors and assess the damage. "There's no doubt a major disaster has occurred," Given said. "There is a terrific amount of devastation over a very wide area. This is a long-term disaster." "There is wholesale destruction of villages, extensive damage to many major buildings, including schools, hospitals and wharves," he said. "The coconut palms are gone. So has the coffee and cocoa crops. The rice is flattened. Food is going to be a major problem for the next 6 to 12 months," Given said. Officials said the storm downed power lines, uprooted trees, tore roofs off homes and caused rivers to burst their banks. "But we're still not sure of the extent of damage," said Dykes Angiki, news editor of the Solomon Islands Broadcasting Corp., contacted by The Associated Press by telephone. "Some places are very remote," he said. "It will take a couple of days before we know the toll." In addition to the relief supplies from Australia, New Zealand announced it would contribute $37,000 worth of emergency assistance and begin an airlift to the area. The invasion and capture of Guadalcanal was the first U.S. victory against Japanese land forces in World War II. Angiki said the storm battered Honiara for 17 hours Monday before subsiding Tuesday as it moved south. === Page 10 of 18 No warning, a few years ago, to scientists - uR de in milk! - $\phi$ - P. 53 5/25/86 # Jokes, Rumors, Fears Follow Accident VIENNA, Austria (AP) - The Chernobyl nuclear disaster has generated fears, rumors and some bitter jokes in Eastern Europe, like the renamed U.S.S.R., for "Union of Soviet Radioactive Republics." Authorities throughout the Soviet bloc assured residents they faced no health hazards from the April 26 nuclear plant accident in the Soviet Ukraine, even though precautions were taken against possible radioactive contamination. Some people, accustomed to distrusting the official version of matters, did not believe the assurances. Romanian hospitals had an increase in poisoning cases as parents gave children iodine solutions before the chemical was distributed through dispensaries, said knowledgeable contacts who asked not to be identified. The privately administered doses of the solution, which can prevent some harmful effects of radiation, were apparently too high. The Polish weekly Przeglad Tygodniowy on May 11 reported that immediately after the Chernobyl accident a lot of "science fiction" rumors circulated. In the town of Suwalki, said the paper, someone reported seeing "luminous milk" in his refrigerator. And in Bialystok a man claimed radioactivity was causing his hair to fall out. A doctor in Bucharest, Romania, said she had been flooded with calls from worried people asking for advice. One woman asked if increased radiation levels could have caused her to lose a tooth. Residents of Iasi and other cities in Romania's Moldova province, which borders the Soviet Union, protected their hair from Chernobyl's pass-over by wearing hats, contacts said. Along with reports of radiation scares, sarcastic jokes also emerged from the Soviet bloc. According to one gag, a Czech newspaper advertises for sale: "Villa in Chernobyl... solitude ensured." In Romania, according to another joke, an elderly lady sees her doctor to get an iodine pill, but she doesn't know what it's called. In the end, she says, "Well, how should I put it, just give me a tablet which is good against the Russians." Another joke runs: "What is small, yellow and shines?" The answer: "Kiev." Another joke from Kiev: Kiev is a Soviet city 80 miles from the accident site. A joke from Warsaw says the new slogan of the Polish Communist Party is "Be radiant." No illnesses from the disaster were reported outside the Chernobyl area, but precautions were taken in Eastern Europe, and fears persisted. Some countries, such as Poland and Romania, warned against drinking milk, set up health consultation centers and monitored radiation closely. In Yugoslavia, which is not a member of the Soviet bloc, authorities instituted a special telephone number so people could get official word on radiation levels. Vegetables have been approved for sale again in Yugoslavia after an earlier prohibition, but few people seem to be buying them, and Hungarian housewives also stopped buying fresh vegetables. === Page 11 of 18 Soviet Newspapers Assures OCALA * STAR-BANNER, SUNDAY, MAY 25, 1986 # Food, Vacations Are Safe 0.5B 5/25/86 MOSCOW (AP) -- The U.S. Embassy recommended Saturday that pregnant American women and infants in the Soviet capital not drink Moscow milk after a sample showed increased radiation levels. A Soviet newspaper meanwhile assured worried readers their food was not contaminated by the Chernobyl nuclear plant disaster. The government newspaper Izvestia said it received many letters expressing concern about whether food and popular vacation resorts were safe from radiation spewed in the accident, which occurred 80 miles north of Kiev. Izvestia quoted medical experts as saying "there is no risk to the health of holidaymakers" on the Black Sea and Baltic coasts, as well as other popular resorts. The newspaper quoted a sanitation official as saying checks on food were conducted in the Ukraine, Byelorussia, Modavia and European parts of the Russian Republic. It also assured readers that produce and dairy products were tested before going on sale in much of the western Soviet Union, and quoted one official as saying that processing of milk into butter and cheese "makes these products absolutely free from radioactivity." But U.S. Embassy spokesman Phil Duchateau said tests on a milk sample taken earlier this month showed double the maximum level of radiation recommended by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for infants and pregnant women. Dr. John Baker, the embassy doctor, said the levels found were "by no means dangerous." Still, the embassy called pregnant American women and families with infants after receiving the samples: The maximum level of radiation recommended by the FDA is 1,500 picocuries per liter of milk. A single picocurie is about two radioactive disintegrations per minute. A liter is slightly more than one quart. Samples of lettuce, milk and yogurt were to be shipped to the United States for testing, according to a Western diplomat who spoke on condition of anonymity. In the Izvestia report, an official who distributes the 24-day passes Soviets obtain from their work places to vacation in hostels said some people had the passes taken away, causing concern. Yuri Stupin, head of the central council for trade union visits to resorts, explained that the holiday areas were safe. He said some passes were taken away so they could be used by workers from the Chernobyl power station and children who are among the 92,000 people evacuated from an 18-mile zone around the plant after the April 26 explosion and fire. He said 3,500 places were available at Black Sea resorts for evacuated children, while two vacation spots, one near Odessa and another in the northern Caucasus, were open for Chernobyl plant workers. One Moscow woman who wrote Izvestia said she was told cattle from evacuated areas of the Ukraine and Byelorussia were slaughtered. But Alexander Tretyakov, chief veterinarian with the State Agri-Industrial Committee, assured readers that "the livestock population from the accident zone was completely preserved." Farmers now caring for evacuated livestock received money for feed and animals owned privately were purchased by the state, he said. Tretyakov appeared to contradict Moscow's Communist Party chief, Boris N. Yeltsin, who told The Associated Press earlier this month that livestock from the evacuated zone was slaughtered. Soviet news media reports also said volunteers were running a relief coordinating agency in Moscow to handle offers of help for victims of the Chernobyl accident and to track down family members separated by the disaster. === Page 12 of 18 STAYSKAL 86 TAMPA TRIBUNE REACTOR #2 REACTOR #1 DANGER I THINK IT MEANS IF WE HAVE AN ACCIDENT DON'T SAY ANYTHING FOR THREE DAYS! REMEMBER CHERNOBYL FLORIDA'S TURKEY POINT NUCLEAR PLANT AMONG 11 WORST IN U.S. - SAFETY SYSTEM FAILURES, ERRORS IN OPERATION CITED. 2 Powerful Quakes Hit Fijis === Page 13 of 18 UF Da Sun Attack 0.5B 5/25/86 # Australia, U.S. Sends Relief To Islands HONIARA, Solomon Islands (AP) -- It will take years for the Solomon Islands to recover from devastation wreaked by Typhoon Namu, a government official was quoted as saying Saturday. The storm left a third of the population homeless and wiped out most of the archipelago's crops. Namu killed at least 97 people, with 39 others missing and presumed dead. Officials expect casualty figures to rise once reports come in from outlying areas cut off by the storm. "It (the death toll) may be in the hundreds," said Dykes Angiki, chairman of the National Disaster Council. Namu, packing 115 mph winds, hit the 200-mile-long island chain Monday morning and lashed it for 17 hours, snapping off trees, demolishing homes and virtually wiping out coconut, rice and copra plantations in the Guadalcanal plains, the country's rice bowl. "It will take us well over five years to recover," Finance Minister George Kejoa told the Australian Associated Press. The country previously produced enough rice to feed its 240,000 people. Council member John Selwyn said it would be at least half a year before rice production could resume. Selwyn said international relief efforts were adequate for now, but "there are still a lot of people to be visited and found." He said airlifts from the United States and Australia were expected to arrive Sunday. He said Australia was sending 350 tons of rice and the United States had promised four C-130 transport planes filled with tents, medicine and food. Angiki said medical experts were concerned lest diarrhea break out because of contaminated drinking water. "Teams are going out to remote villages with purification tables in an effort to counter the water pollution problem," Angiki, reached by telephone from Sydney, Australia, told The Associated Press. A missionary involved in the international relief effort said the storm had virtually stripped the archipelago of its woods. "What used to be thick jungles, extending over vast areas, have virtually become deserts overnight," Errol Wright, of the Seventh Day Adventist Western Pacific Mission headquarters in Honiara, said. "Mountain tops have been stripped and what I saw was a huge desert for miles," Wright said. The missionary, who had returned from the island of Malaita, 90 miles east of Honiara, was quoted as saying the Guadalcanal plains outside Honiara were "a great sea of mud." Angiki said flooding and mudslides devastated two dozen villages in the plains where 22 bodies were unearthed Friday. Four deaths were confirmed on Malaita, bringing the toll to 97. Angiki said 17 coastal trading vessels, four helicopters and six aircraft were engaged in the relief operation and that teams in canoes were canvassing outlying islands to assess the destruction. The Solomons, a former British protectorate, lie about 1,000 miles northeast of Australia. Guadalcanal, the main island, is the site of a famous World War II battle in which U.S. Marines scored a major victory against Japanese land-based forces. UF Da Sun Attack 0.5B 5/27/81 # 2 Powerful Quakes Hit Fijis SUVA, Fiji (AP) -- Two powerful earthquakes rocked some isolated islands of Fiji in the South Pacific on Tuesday morning, but they were not felt on the most populous main islands, the Fiji Meteorological Office said. Only isolated islands were in the area of the quakes and the official spokesman did not know if they are inhabited. There were no immediate reports of damage or injury. The spokesman, quoting seismologists in Hawaii, said the quakes were centered in the underwater Lau Ridge of the Fiji Basin at a depth of about 310 miles. The first quake, at 7:41 a.m. (2:41 p.m. Monday EDT) registered 6.7 on the Richter scale, the spokesman said. The second measured 6.2 and had an epicenter about 500 miles south of the capital of Suva, the spokesman said. === Page 14 of 18 THE TAMPA TRIBUNE, Friday, May 23, 1986 Deadly hailstorm strikes China PEKING (UPI) -- A violent hailstorm -- the worst strike central China in a century -- killed more than 0 people and injured at least 9,000 others this week in Sichuan province, officials said Thursday. Huge hailstones began pelting southeastern Sichuan near China's World War II capital of Chongqing early Tuesday, striking 13 districts and counties in the province, reported the official China Central Television. More than 100 people were killed and at least 9,000 others were injured by the shower of ice, which pounded the cities of Yongchuan, Tongchang and Dazu, Chinese officials in Chongqing said in a telephone interview. They said more than 1,000 rescue workers, including high-ranking Communist Party and government officials, medical teams and Peoples Liberation Army troops, were engaged in a large-scale disaster relief effort in the storm-ravaged region. The nationwide television broadcast, monitored in Peking, showed the body of a victim on a stretcher near a village of collapsed earthen houses, a woman whose head was bandaged with blood-stained gauze and a gutted schoolhouse. Rescue workers were carrying those seriously injured to local hospitals and erecting clay and straw shelters for thousands of survivors left homeless by the storm, which demolished more than 35,000 houses and destroyed 7,700 acres of crops, the officials said. The region's electricity, transport and communications links were partially restored after having been severed by the storm, which blew down 2,000 telephone poles, the officials said. All schools and shops were closed and all farm work came to a halt after the tempest struck China's most heavily populated province. Typhoon Toll Feared Higher In Solomons HONIARA, Solomon Islands (AP) -- With 97 people confirmed dead Friday and at least 35 missing, officials expressed fear that the typhoon death toll could rise sharply when reports reach the capital from outlying islands. "So far we only know about the situation in Guadalcanal," said Dykes Angiki, chairman of the National Disaster Council. "Reports from remote areas haven't come in. We don't know what happened there yet." Relief efforts centered on airlifting tons of food, medicine and tents to outer areas, where the fate of thousands of people is unknown. Angiki said 17 coastal trading vessels, four helicopters and six aircraft were engaged in the operation. He said relief teams in canoes were canvassing outlying islands to assess the destruction from Monday's typhoon, but it would take days before had a complete picture of the extent of the disaster. He said flooding and mudslides had devastated two dozen villages in the Guadalcanal plain immediately outside Honiara. Rescue workers unearthed 22 more bodies in the area Friday, he said, and four people died on the island of Malaita. A woman was killed when her house collapsed and three children died in a mudslide, he said. Thousands of the estimated 90,000 homeless -- more than one third the population of the Solomon Islands nation -- were seeking shelter and emergency supplies at ports, missions and airfields. Namu roared over this Pacific Island chain with 115 mph winds Monday, snapping trees and demolishing traditional thatched homes. Accounts of the devastation indicated much of the country's agricultural output, including the coconut, rice and copra crops, was destroyed. Namu cut a wide swath of destruction before heading southeast toward New Caledonia. Meteorologists in Australia said it no longer poses a threat. During the 17-hour onslaught, entire villages were destroyed by high seas, inland villages were washed down hills by mudslides, and people were believed to have been swept away by fast-flowing rivers that burst their banks. Rescue workers said offers of help were pouring in from overseas. Australia and New Zealand airlifted more than $1.1 million in supplies, including food, medicine, tents, tarpaulins and plastic sheets. The United States pledged $25,000. Prime Minister Sir Peter Kenilorea on Wednesday declared the island chain a national disaster area. An Australian pilot who flew over Guadalcanal, described the area as a 'sea of mud with roofs sticking out of it.' The Solomons, a chain of 200 islands 1,000 miles northeast of Australia, have a population of 240,000. The Guadalcanal plains were the site of the first major U.S. victory against Japanese land-based forces in World War II. Chinese storm toll put at 104 PEKING -- Wind, rain and hailstorms that pounded the southwestern Chinese province of Sichuan in mid-May left 104 dead and 4,000 injured, a disaster relief officer in the Sichuan capital of Chongqing said Monday. The official, who identified himself only as Xu, said in a telephone interview that 3,780 homes were destroyed and more than 80,000 damaged in the storms and floods that hit the Chongqing area on May 12, 17 and 20. Xu said 254 were badly hurt. === Page 15 of 18 PK Sun Attack 0.5B 5/26/86 # Storms Rip Texas Killing 5 People FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) -- The body of a baby swept from his mother's arms by floodwaters was found Sunday, while Fort Worth residents tallied up damage from a storm that killed at least four others and collapsed a bowling alley roof. At least 17 people were injured Saturday when tornadoes and thunderstorms pounded parts of western and north-central Texas, overturning four mobile homes in Midland, ripping the roof off an airplane hangar west of Greenwood, and bringing hail and high winds which caused power failures and road closings. On Sunday, searchers near Big Spring, about 250 miles west of Fort Worth, found the body of Joshua Phillips, who was swept away from his mother Saturday night after the family's pickup became stranded in a low-water crossing about 10 miles northeast of the city, authorities said. The body of the boy, whose first birthday was Saturday, was found about 8:40 a.m., said Howard County sheriff's deputy John Wolf. Interstate 20 east of Big Spring was closed for a time late Saturday as more than a foot of water washed away barricades police had erected along portions of the roadway, a dispatcher said. Howard County authorities said several tornadoes were sighted north of Big Spring, but there were no reports of substantial damage. In Fort Worth, Celia Adams, 30, and her 8-year-old son Michael drowned Saturday when they were swept from their car in a flooded underpass, John Peter Smith Hospital spokeswoman Drenda Witt said. Two other people, whose identities were not released, died at their homes from cardiac arrest that Fire Chief Larry McMillan attributed to "stress and trauma from the storm." Authorities suspect two other people died from heart attacks related to the storm, Police Cpl. C.M. Wallace said Sunday. Their bodies were sent to the Tarrant County medical examiners' office for autopsies, she said, but results weren't expected until after the holiday weekend. Seven people were hospitalized and seven others treated at the scene when the roof at Don Carter's All-Star Bowling Lanes collapsed on a crowd of more than 300 watching a state bowling tournament about 3:15 p.m. Saturday, city spokesman Pat Svacina said. "It all happened so fast. I just hit the deck," said bowling alley employee Wes Allen. "I just heard metal twisting around. I just laid on the ground for about five minutes and finally the water started coming in and I heard people screaming." At the Ramada Inn Central across the street, high winds blew out several windows and tore out sections of the roof, causing three minor injuries, said Kit Carson, director of Fort Worth emergency management division. Hail up to two feet deep pelted the city during the storm that temporarily cut power to more than 9,000 homes, officials said. UFO Sun Attack 0.5B 5/22/86 # Workers Find 43 Bodies Buried In Debris, Mud From Typhoon HONIARA, Solomon Islands (AP) -- Rescue workers today found the bodies of 43 people buried in mud and debris on the Guadalcanal plains, a news agency reported. The discovery boosted the death toll from Typhoon Namu to at least 49. Officials say many more people are missing and feared dead, particularly on the outlying islands where casualties and damage have been impossible to ascertain because of downed communications. "The final toll could well be in the hundreds," said Dykes Angiki, national disaster committee chairman. Namu, the most severe late season typhoon in years, roared into the Solomon Islands on Monday packing 115 mph winds and cutting a swath of destruction through the archipelago located 1,000 miles northeast of Australia. UFO Sun Attack 0.5B 5/20/86 # 2 Earthquakes Shake Taiwan, Breaking Windows; No Casualties TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) -- Two earthquakes jolted eastern Taiwan within 12 minutes of each other today, shattering windows in some buildings, officials said. Theren were no immediate reports of casualties. The first quake, measuring 5.8 on the Richter scale, was recored at 1:25 p.m. (1:25 a.m. EDT). Its epicenter was located six miles north of Hualien, an eastern seaport 72 miles south of Taipei, the weather bureau reported. The epicenter of the second quake, which registered 5.69 on the Richter scale, was 5.4 miles north of Hualien, the weather bureau said. Both quakes were felt in Taipei. Police in Hualien, contacted by telephone, said the only known damage was shattered windows. Many of Hualien's 100,000 residents fled into the streets and hesitated to return to their buildings, police said. # Mt. Hood memorial UFO Sun Attack Tue 5/23/86 Richard Haeder, father of Richard Jr. who died last week after he and 10 other climbers were caught in a freak storm on Mt. Hood, stops Thursday to talk with Master Sgt. Richard Harder. Harder, a member of the U.S. Air === Page 16 of 18 hina begins relief efforts for survivors hailstorms Tribune Wires 5/24/86 China mounted relief efforts for hundreds of thousands of survivors Friday after hailstorms and typhoon-force winds killed at least 143 people, injured 9,500 others and destroyed 110,000 homes in central and south China. Meanwhile in the Solomon Islands, with 97 people confirmed dead Friday and at least 35 missing, officials expressed fear that the typhoon death toll could rise sharply when reports reach the capital from outlying islands. The hailstorms in China hit hardest in the country's heavily populated Sichuan province, officials in Chongqing told United Press International in telephone interviews. "It was one of the worst storms in our history," said one disaster relief official, speaking by telephone from his headquarters in Chongqing, 950 miles southwest of Peking. "I couldn't believe it until I saw it. There isn't a house, a tree or a telephone pole left standing in the area." Military and civilian rescue teams began erecting tents for hundreds of thousands left homeless in Sichuan, where hailstorms, heavy rain and up to 85-mph winds demolished 80,700 dwellings this month, officials said. Huge stones of ice weighing up to 33 pounds Tuesday battered 13 Sichuan counties, including Yongchuan, Rongchang and Dazu, in a hailstorm lasting 15 to 20 minutes, the officials said. The storm dumped more than 5.7 inches of rain on Rongchang County in four hours, flooding parts of the town and forcing rescuers to use boats to reach stranded residents, the official China Daily newspaper said. The powerful winds, rain and hailstorms destroyed 91,840 acres of crops and 90,000 fruit trees in Sichuan, officials said. Transportation, communications and electricity links severed by the storm have been partially restored, while many schools, factories and shops remained closed, they said. In the Solomon Islands, relief efforts centered on airlifting tons of food, medicine and tents to outer areas, where the fate of thousands of people is unknown. "So far we only know about the situation in Guadalcanal," said Dykes Angiki, chairman of the National Disaster Council. UFOs Bermuda Effect OCALA STAR-BANNER, SUNDAY, MAY 25, 1986 # Pilot Said To 'Forget' About Near-Collision DES PLAINES, Ill. (AP) -- An air traffic controller on duty when two jets nearly collided at O'Hare International Airport did not report the incident for an hour, a published report said Saturday. The controller first mentioned the May 17 incident to his supervisor when the two men were on a coffee break an hour after the USAir and American Airlines planes narrowly missed colliding as they raced down intersecting runways for takeoff, Carl Dinwiddie, head of the National Transportation Safety Board's office here told the Chicago Sun-Times. An accident was averted when the USAir pilot lifted his plane over the American jet. On Friday, the Federal Aviation Administration released a transcript of a conversation between the unidentified USAir pilot and the controller. USAir pilot: "Did you see what happened there on (runway) 373?" Controller: "No, sir." USAir pilot: "American was awfully close on the takeoff." Controller: "You're right sir, would you like to file something?" USAir pilot (after a pause): "Ah, we'll forget it." Despite the pilot's comment, however, the crew reported the near accident to USAir officials almost immediately, said company spokeswoman Nancy Vaughan, and the pilot also filed a report. The tape indicates the controller was unaware the jets would meet at the runways' intersection 5,000 feet away, said the statement by the FAA's regional office in this Chicago suburb near O'Hare. Dinwiddie said the controller told him he forgot he had sent the USAir plan on its takeoff run when he cleared the American Airlines plane for takeoff. The two planes were carrying more than 200 people. FAA spokesman Mort Edelstein said it is not uncommon for pilots to decide not to report an incident if they decide the planes "weren't as close as it first seemed." Ms. Vaughan said earlier in the week that the planes came within 10 or 20 feet of each other, adding that the airline had "never had a life-threatening, near-collision like that -- nothing anywhere near that close." Edelstein has said investigators have not determined how close the planes came to each other. Edelstein also said the controller, who carried the agency's highest rating, had been reassigned. The two planes were USAir Flight 373, en route to Pittsburgh with 110 passengers and five crew members, and American Flight 695, en route to Oklahoma City with 102 passengers and a crew of seven. Dinwiddie was quoted in the Sun-Times as saying the USAir pilot told him, "If I hadn't lifted up early, I would have struck the American plane." UFOs vs Space Work Report: Deadline worries Thiokol Trib 5/26/86 LOS ANGELES -- Engineers with rocket-maker Morton Thiokol Inc. say a NASA deadline to redesign the shuttle's boosters in time for a proposed July 1987 launch has created the same pressure that some observers believe led to the Challenger disaster, it was reported Sunday. Thiokol engineers in Brigham City, Utah, who spoke with the Los Angeles Times on the condition they not be identified, said the projected NASA deadline means "concern for safety is again being tempered by schedule demands." "The schedule seems to be driving us into early commitments to make decisions," said one engineer. "They are trying to turn around quickly just so they'll be able to show everyone that they could turn around quickly." Similar concerns were raised earlier this month by the presidential commission investigating the Jan. 28 Challenger disaster. === Page 17 of 18 phoon batters Solomon Islands e worst storm to ever hit ne islands left about 90,000 people homeless. Trib. 5/23/86 HONIARA, Solomon Islands (AP) -- Typhoon Namu, the worst storm in history to hit the Solomon Islands, killed at least 71 people and left about 90,000 homeless, and rescue workers said Thursday the toll was expected to go much higher. "We think hundreds died," said John Selwyn, a National Disaster Committee spokesman, reached by telephone from Sydney, Australia. "The death toll will rise. Reports of more deaths are coming in. It will hit 100 soon." Sir Peter Kenilorea, prime minister of the Solomon Islands, declared the island chain a disaster area Thursday. The Solomon Islands, formerly a British protectorate, gained independence in 1978. Typhoon Namu, packing winds of up to 115 mph, battered the 900-mile-long island chain for 17 hours Monday. Entire villages were under mudslides, said Australian Consulate officials in Honiara, the capital. On Guadalcanal, the main island, fast-flowing rivers burst through their banks, sweeping people away. An Australian pilot who flew over Guadalcanal said he saw "a sea of mud with roofs sticking out." On Thursday, rescue workers found the bodies of 65 people buried in mud and debris in the Guadalcanal plains, bringing the confirmed death toll to 71. Most victims appeared to have been from the same village, Velebaikiki, which officials said vanished in a wall of mud. The outlying islands of Malaita, Makira, Rennell and Iona were also battered, but relief workers were unable to reach those areas by canoe because the sea has been impossible to navigate. No damages and casualties were known because of poor communications. Australian Consulate officials said crops on Guadalcanal, the country's rice bowl, were virtually destroyed during the storm. "There won't be a harvest for at least six months," said John Selwyn, senior administrative officer for the Australian High Commission. "Food is going to be a major problem." "It's dreadful. Trees have been smashed down and there's mud everywhere," said Frank Preacher, one of 45 Australian tourists who were evacuated from Guadalcanal by a Royal Australian Air Force transport plane. "They'll need massive international aid to help in the task of rebuilding homes and restoring their fields," he told the Australian Associated Press after arriving in Brisbane, Australia. "Their main crops, palm oil, sweet potatoes and rice, have just been wiped out." Another tourist, Max Grainger, said he and his family were outside Honiara when Namu struck. "There were three deaths near where we were and the worst for us was when we had to cross a flooded river to get back to Honiara," said Grainger. The navigator of the transport plane, Dean Tetley, said Honiara seemed to have withstood the storm well, but homes were flattened and trees uprooted in outlying areas. Rescue workers said they are being inundated with offers of help from overseas. Australia and New Zealand airlifted more than $1.1 million in supplies, including food, medicine, tents, tarpaulins and plastic sheets. The United States pledged $25,000. THE TAMPA TRIBUNE, Friday, May 23, 1986 # NASA chief: Don't delay on new shuttle WASHINGTON (AP) -- The nation's new space chief said Thursday he expects President Reagan will find enough money to replace the space shuttle Challenger. He said if Reagan fails to do so, America's science and its economy will suffer dire consequences. "We need a fourth orbiter right away, as soon as we can build it," said James C. Fletcher in his first interview as the new administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. "A three-shuttle fleet is just a very marginal kind of fleet. If anything should happen to that third orbiter, we would really be in deep yogurt." A decision on whether to spend billions of dollars of needed to build a replacement shuttle has been stalled in the White House since the Jan. 28 launch explosion killed the shuttle's seven crew members. The remaining three shuttles have been grounded since the tragedy. Fletcher replied simply "Yes," when asked if Reagan had tipped his hand in support of the fourth orbiter. And, he said, flights will resume in July 1987, "provided we get adequate funding, which we fully expect." The problem, he said, is not presidential support but how to figure out a way to do this and still not violate the Gramm-Rudman principles," referring to the stringent deficit-reduction law that has forced cuts throughout the government. With NASA facing its meanest budget fight ever, Fletcher said he will stand tough against efforts to make the agency pay for the replacement shuttle or lose some of the ambitious programs NASA has scheduled. "One possibility that has been discussed is to take it out of NASA's hide," Fletcher said. "We are strongly resisting that possibility. I haven't heard anybody in the White House raise the question of whether or not there's going to be a fourth orbiter." In a direct challenge to an interagency group of senior administration officials who recommended to the president that money for the shuttle come from existing programs, Fletcher said he must have at least enough new money from Congress to correct the problems that grounded the fleet. The cost of those corrections has been placed at $626 million. A new shuttle would cost at least $1.9 billion, and the associated equipment would put the total near $3 billion. NASA's current yearly budget is $7.3 billion. === Page 18 of 18 Note: We are in the radon bullseye here! Stanley Watras's house near Boyertown, Pa., turned into a nightmare--so permeated with cancer-causing radon gas that his family had to flee. A freak of nature? Hardly. Five million American homes may face the same problem # Warning! This House Contains Radon Condensed from RODALE'S NEW SHELTER MICHAEL LAFAVORE LIKE EVERYONE ELSE working at the Limerick nuclear-power plant in eastern Pennsylvania, Stanley Watras had to pass through radiation monitors before leaving the building. Most of his co-workers breezed through without a problem, but Watras, an engineer, continually set off alarms. Some days he was found to be carrying six times more radiation than normal. Neither Watras nor his employers could understand where he was picking it up. Then one day Watras went through the door at Limerick and, on impulse, turned and walked back through the monitors without ever entering the power block. Yet the machines still said he was contaminated. "An alarm went off in my head," he recalls. "If I wasn't picking up radiation at work, there was only one place it could be coming from: my house." When scientists came to test the Watrases' modest split-level home in the rolling countryside near Boyertown, Pa., they found a deathtrap. The house was so contaminated with radon--a naturally occurring radioactive gas--that liv- 110 RODALE'S NEW SHELTER (JANUARY '86), © 1985 BY RODALE PRESS, INC., 33 E. MINOR ST., EMMAUS, PA. 18049. PHOTO: MITCH MANDEL/RODALE PRESS, INC.