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Clinton Wants Probetty I hr Ahkociulrd PressGov Bill Clinton appeared on NBC’s Today show today callingfor better communications between federal and local officials in the wake of the explosion of the Titan II missile silo near Damascus * I think we re going to have to do much better in notifying the citizens and officials in the area of the real potential dangers in the future ” Clinton said duringthe broad*.»stHe said experts had told him there was never any danger from a nuclear explosion, but Clinton said there *as a very real danger from exposure totoxic fumes“There's going to be a full inquiry into this incident and some of our congressmen are calling for an independent inquiry,” Clinton said Tom Brokaw interviewed Clinton, noting that the governor has seen problems with prisons, with cuban refugees and now with missile silo s since he took office•‘1 hope someday we’ll be able to talk about the good things. Tom, Clinton said Clinton answered questions at the l.ittle Rock offices of KARK-TV, the local NBC affiliate-News In Brief—W wither (lloudy.W armerRam and thundershowers will continue through today and tonight replaced by partly cloudy skies on Wednesday. Highs todav and Wednesday will be in the 70s. Tonight the low should tie in the upper 50s The wind will be northeasterly today at 10 mph. yxithwesterly at 5 mph tonight and northwesterly at 10 tnph WednesdayThere is a JO percent chance of ram today and a 20 percent chance tonight. The sun will set today at 7:13 pm Sunnse Wednesday will be at 7 06 a m. Today's weather map and related weather news will be found on page 121JA Student Report* RapeA 25-year'old University of Arkansas student reported she raped about 6 a m tuday at her residence on Gregg Street The woman called Fayetteville police at 7:05 a m. and toldBy PHYLLIS RICEandGAYI.ENE MORTON Tlmei Staff Writer*Local authorities in Arkansas and Oklahoma and FBI agents are searching today for four men who abducted a man and a woman from Fort Smith earl Saturday morning and, took them into Oklahoma and shot the man six times Stan Rappaport, 24, of Fayetteville, son of Mr and Mrs Jerome Rappaport. 1564 Cedar St., was listed in serious condition in the intensive care unit at Sparks Regional Medical Center in Fort Smith today suffering from six gunshot wounds Rappaport was shot twice in the neck and once in theeye, spinal cord, temple and hand, authorities said Hit companion. Carol Chamberlain, 27, of Lavaca 'Sebastian County) was listed in fair condition at the hospital today suffering from a concussionMiss Chamberlain told authorities she and Rappaport were abducted bv four menwshortly after the couple left a Fort Smith nightclub on Jennie Lind Road about 2 am. Saturday morning She said two white males and two Spanishspeaking males abducted her and Rappaport at gunpoint after they stoppl'd to assist the men at an Interstate 540 ramp Miss Chamberlain said she assumed the two Spanish-Silo Radiation Report* DifferLITTLE ROCK i AP — Federal assurances that there was no radiation near the Titan II missile silo that blew up near Damascus were confirmed by state Health Department officials. Gov Bill Clinton said Monday. But his Health Department director said they weren't.Clinton told a news conference that the Air Force reports that there was no radiation hazard “were confirmed by our Health Department' and that the department did so on the basis of tests of samples that were taking from “the area But when questioned by newsmen, Clinton said he did not know whether Health Department personnel ever were admitted to the actual site itself to take samples Dr Robert Young, the department director, said late Mon day, though, that Health Department employees were not allowed onto the site and did not confirm — or deny — the findings reiorred by the Air Force
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Fayetteville Northwest Arkansas Times
Fayetteville, Arkansas, US
Tue, Sep 23, 1980
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