MOSCOW – A. U .S nuclear safety expert said Friday firefighter has smothered the Chernobyl atomic power plant fire, but he did not rule out the possibility that a melt- down occurred at the crippled reactor. A cement tomb was being built around the reactor to stem the emission of harmful radiation, he said.
NEW YORK – Workers loaded a cargo plane Friday with a “mercy lift” of more than $1 million in powered milk, vitamins and iodide blessed by the Pope for the people of Poland threatened with contamination from the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. The supplies will be dis- tribute by the Catholic Church in Poland,
WASHINGTON – Senate investigators said Friday the Justice
Department was not under political pressure when it rejected a recommendation to indict Teamsters President Jackie Presser for embezzling money from his union. But they said their investigation was hampered by the FBI’s refusal to cooperate.
WASHINGTON – US. Policy toward the Latin American debt crisis boosted profits for some big ‘American banks but seriously dam- aged the domestic farm economy, Joint Economic Committee re- port said Friday. The Congressional report said Reagan’s policies have done little to resolve the debt crisis. MANILA, Philippines – President Corazon Aquino told Secretary of State George Shultz the US. Aid level is “far short” of what is needed and asked for more Friday to help pay debts and fight rebels. After a 45 minute meeting in a guest house, Shultz emerged and shouted to reporters the session was “excellent.”
JERUSALEM – Prime Minister Shimon Peres dismissed reports Friday that Israel is planning a military strike on Syria to avenge suspected Syrian complicity in an attempted bombing of an Israeli passenger jet. “I can say with clarity Israel does not have any intention to attack Syria,” Peres told Israel radio.
LONDON- Authorities in Britain and West Germany are investigating whether Syrian diplomats ‘were involved in the unsuccessful April 17 attempt to place a bomb aboard an Israeli airliner at London’s Heathrow Airport and in the March 29 bombing of the German- Arab Friendship Society in West Berlin.
In a terse statement to Parliament, British Foreign Secretary Geoffrey Howe confirmed that discussion has been held with Syrian Ambassador Lout of Hydra during which “we discussed the El Al bombing,” Howe said he could “give no other details.”
In West Berlin, justice officials said that two Arabs who have confessed to the March 29
bombing of the German-Arab Friend- ship Society there have told police that they smuggled the explosives into the West from the Syrian Embassy in East Berlin,
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