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William Schneider \We ' re talking about a religious problem -- and it' s time religious people wake up, \ Father William Briscotti told a \ citizens ' town meeting \ Sunday at the Little Flower orphanage , less than a mile dow n the beach from where the Long Island Lighting Com- pany is erecting a nuclear power plant. \We ' ve been building golden calves long enough , \ the Catholic priest told th** 350 people who overflowed the institution ' s chapel for a gathering called in the wake of the Three Mile Island nuclear plant near- catastrophe. \Each time \ mankind builds \ golder. calves , we ' re brought to our knees , \ said the priest. The scale of such an oc- currence , the \tragic potential\ of nuclear power catastrophe is immense , he said . And what for ? \Fifty per cent of the energy produced in the U.S. is wasted , \ he went on. Do we intend , he asked , to leave a legacy of thousands upon thousands cf years of managing radioactive waste so people now can \ run our hair dryers?\ \We ' re talking about something very deep , \ said the priest , \ about the way we live. \ The feelings were strong inside the church to stop nuclear power and to , specifically, prevent the Shoreham nuclear planf just to the west from ever operating. \I' m scared , \ said a young girl , Stephanie Kaufman of East Pa tchogue , who came forward to speak. The gatherings ended with people dividing by geographical areas to plan \ organizing \ for a number of actions against LILCO'S Shoreham projec t and the utility ' s proposal to build two nuclear plants, at Jamesport. The kind of meltdown that was just barelv avoided at Three Mile Island would mean \ catastrophe \ for Long Island , stressed Ingrid Arensen of the SHAD Alliance. \We should stop \ building nuclear plants \immediatel y, \ she said. The Three Mile Island accident is \indicative of how technologies fail. \ There 'd be \ mass panic \ if a meltdown would occur at Shoreham. And \the way Long Island is physically set up there 'd be no possible evacuation...rememhpring anv ordinarv day traffic into Manhattan. If everybody had to leave the Island it would not be possible. \ The deaths and cancers spread from an accident at Shoreham could be \huge and affect all of us on Long Island , \ said Van Howell of Safe 'N Sound of Shoreham. The Shoreham plant should be converted to use of \ another type of fuel , not nuclear , \ said Bill Nohejl , a Wading River farmer and director of the Long Island Farm Bureau. Standing outside the church giving fliers out during the meeting was Bill Schneider , a LILCO construction foreman on the Shoreham project. \Nobody was injured\ near the Harrisburg nuclear plant , Mr. Schneider maintained as he gave out the sheets headed \S.A.F .E. \ for \Committee to Supply Adequate Future Energy . \ \The question of whether nucl ea r power plants are safe depends on how safe you (continued on page 19) - Fafhar w;ii;-» r»» D.:-^„*-»: It was quite a scene in the newborn nurseries at Brookhaven Memorial Hospita l Medical Center on Friday when the baby population hit an unprecedented 35 and nurses barel y had room to move among all the filled bassinettes. \If the birth rate is down , we wouldn 't know about that in here , \ remarked Mrs. Gail Holden , R.N., head nurse , against a M»vn 6 i uuuu ui pui img ana crying as babies awakened , dropped off to sleep or snuggled for comfort in their big, new world. Of the 35 , three were the triplets born to Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Broccol o of Gores Drive , Mastic. In addition , there were three sets of twins plus all the singles. The triolets and twins , all less than five pounds at birth , were under special care in the recentl y comp leted intensive care unit of the newborn nurseries. Fou r other infants , also I Ox low birth weight and with respiratory problems. Were Offimvina fho qjinpr ISOlettcS that nrny irS o o f»onrr«ITarf *=- ¦ vironment. ...DO WN?? t. *«¦ , BABIES BY THE ARMFUL - In the newborn nurseries at Brookhaven Memorial Hosnil.l M.Hi-.i r . z:::^^::^t E ? *•»/•«¦ « ^ ^ «« —« «* a Zsx^^zsz^ssz Nurse Agnes Riker with twins , Theodore and Charisse Ciairborne of Belloort andst^dii\ *'¦¦--* »-- uZ^Zlt with Enzo and Francisca Aliotta of Holbrook; Nurse Gail Holden with tripltt Joh n BroVc oTo W^l P Mirador vuth triplets , Paul and Nancy Broccolo of Mast-; N.,« e Pa-£~ R Roach , jr., of Mastic. «— o..ns«»i wim mna iviane and Larry » -Photo by Josep h Adams j f S^BS\ S Sm 5\£\. i £ i Populatio n gro wth slo ws , B have n still leads - See story on Dage 27 A.
