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Officials differ on 8,000 pounds of missing nuclear material
By JEFFREY MILLS
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) - A
congressional staff investigator
says one intelligence agency
“believes there was a diver
sion” of nuclear material from
a power plant, although officials
from two agencies remain
publicly confident that none of
the missing 8,000 pounds of
weapons-grade material was
stolen.
Film portrays
King as weak,
associates say
ATLANTA (AP) - A tele
vision film about slain civil
rights leader Martin Luther
King Jr. remakes history and
portrays him as frightened and
cowardly, some of King’s asso
ciates charged Tuesday.
The Rev. Ralph David
Abernathy, former head of the
Southern Christian Leadership
Conference, charged that the
author of the NBC television
film, “King,” which is sched
uled to be aired in two three-hour
segments early next year “at
some point decided to remake
history, to rewrite the (civil
rights) movement.”
The Rev. Mr. Abernathy, who
led the SCLC after King was
killed in Memphis, Tenn., in
1968, said the movie “portrays
Dr. King as a very weak and
cowardly sort of leader. It even
implies that once Dr. King
thought he might have to resort
to violence.”
State Rep. Hosea Williams,
another King associate, said the
movie shows King “being led
around by white people” and
I depicts him as “shallow, un
certain, kind of frightened,
unopinionated.”
The criticism surfaced after
1 copies of the script were circu
lated among civil rights leaders
and former King friends and
j associates.
NBC has called the film a
“docu-drama,” saying that as a
dramatization, the movie does
i not follow each historical step in
King’s life.
An NBC spokesman said
much of the criticism has come
* from persons “who haven’t
read the same script I have.”
The movie, which was filmed
. primarily in Macon, Ga., stars
actors Paul Winfield as Dr.
King; Cicely Tyson as his wid
ow, Coretta Scott King, and Os-
* sie Davis as King’s father, the
Rev. Martin Luther King Sr.
, Activists must
regain discipiline,
* Rev. Jackson says
ATLANTA (AP) — Activists
* must regain the discipline and
solidarity of the early civil
rights days if the United States
is to return to the road of social
progress, the Rev. Jesse Jack
son said Tuesday.
“The reason we could force
* Bull Connor’s hand was that we
had discipline,” he said of the
former Birmingham, Ala., po-
» lice chief who became a symbol
of southern resistance to deseg
regation during the 19605.
* But today’s young people
march for different causes —
such as the right to read por
nography and the acceptance of
* homosexuality — rather than
for rights based on moral val
ues, said Jackson, head of the
Chicago-based civil rights
group PUSH (People United to
Save Humanity).
“Today, after the killing of
* our leaders, the Vietnam War
and Watergate, there has been a
kind of ethical collapse,” he
t said. “Not only must we push
for certain goals, we have td
deal with the ethical crisis that
has left people so weak they
* can’t deal with issues.”
Jackson, a former lieutenant
of slain civil rights leader Dr.
* Martin Luther King Jr., also
promoted his program to
strengthen public education by
« emphasizing cooperation be
tween parents and teachers and
motivating students. His sys
tem is being tested in schools in
* Los Angeles, Kansas City and
Chicago.
“Busing is the crisis that has
t taken the headlines,” he told the
Progressive Baptist Con
vention. “But the No. 1 crisis is
not ‘to bus or not to bus.’ The
» No. 1 problem is to educate or
not to educate.
The officials testified Monday
before a House Commerce sub
committee looking into the way
the federal government
safeguards nuclear materials at
both government and private
plants.
“We are really confident that
nd radioactive materials have
ever been gotten out of those
plants,” said Robert W. Fri,
acting administrator 6f the
Energy Research and Develop
ment Administration. But he
added this was not “a 100 per
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cent certainty.”
Fri and Lee V. Gossick, exec
utive operations director of the
Nuclear Regulatory Commis
sion, said processing problems,
biased measurements or book
keeping errors may account for
the inability to trace the miss
ing weapons-grade plutonium
and uranium.
But after the two officials tes
tified, a subcommittee investi
gator said the congressmen
earlier had received testimony
indicating some of the nuclear
material may have been stolen.
“We have information that an
intelligence agency believes
there was a diversion (of nucle
ar material),” said the subcom
mittee’s chief investigator, Mi
chael Ward. He did not elabo
rate nor identify the agency.
Rep. John Dingell, D-Mich.,
chairman of the subcommittee,
said the questions about the
missing nuclear material
“tend to militate against my
peace of mind.”
“Really good accounting
would say you would watch this
process to see if you came out
with what you put in,” the
chairman said.
Dingell convened the hearing
after the government acknowl
edged last Thursday that nearly
3,400 pounds of plutonium and
, 4,800 pounds of enriched
> uranium can’t be accounted for.
[ The missing materials are of
the type used since World War
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n to produce atomic weapons.
One official said it requires
about 20 pounds of plutonium or
40 pounds of highly enriched
uranium to construct an atomic
bomb.
Fri said that in addition to the
8,000 pounds of missing nuclear
material referred to in last
week’s report, another 16 tons is
believed to be in pipes at two
atomic bomb factories at Oak
Ridge, Tenn., and Portsmouth,
Ohio.
“It’s impossible to pinpoint
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the missing uranium in the dif
fusion plants (at the Oak Ridge
and Portsmouth plants),” Fri
said. “The uranium goes in
there as a gas uranium and
passes through God-knows-
Suspect arrested
DOUGLASVILLE, Ga. (AP)
— John Eaton, 19, of Morehead,
N.C., was being held in the
Douglas County Jail Tuesday in
connection with a slaying in his
home town.
Deputy Sheriff Gerald S.
how many hundreds of miles of
pipes. It spends four or fives
days in a cascade of pipes be
fore it comes out an enriched
product.”
Smith Sr. of Carteret County,
N.C., said Eaton would be taken
back to North Carolina today.
He is named in a murder
warrant in the shotgun slaying
last Sunday of Donald Guthrie,
20, also of Morehead City.