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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Cults" [Dec. 18], the photo captioned "Founder L. Ron Hubbard" of the Church of Scientology was not Mr. Hubbard at all. While the writer did have the sense to make a rational distinction between the Peoples Temple and other newer religions, he also stereotyped newer religions under a now meaningless banner of cults. Certainly the Romans too had quandaries with the cult of Christianity. One can only wonder how the media might have reported that story...
Antinuke forces thought such celebrating was premature. Physicist Henry Kendall of the Union of Concerned Scientists called the test meaningless because the LOFT reactor has less than 2% of the output of a typical atomic plant. Said his colleague Robert Pollard: "It's like using a kite to prove a moon rocket will work." But LOFT scientists rejected that argument. Said one: "It isn't necessary to crash 747s against buildings to test their safety." One thing was indisputable: the emergency core cooling system did work. Just to make sure that it does the job under different conditions, the Commission...
...professional misconduct" in making his charges. Said Brooke to the committee: "My career is in jeopardy, and I just want you to hear the facts and make a judgment." The committee announced that it had "no evidence linking Senator Brooke personally" with altering the documents. The absolution was meaningless, since Wertheimer's accusations were not against Brooke but his representatives...
...President proposed that a buffer force of Lebanese soldiers be deployed between the Christians and Syrians, Assad had a brusque reply: "There is no Lebanese army, and what there is represents the Christians." After Sarkis completed a hasty tour of six Arab capitals, Assad laconically submitted to an essentially meaningless compromise, under which part of the Syrian forces besieging East Beirut would be withdrawn. Lebanese troops would be allowed to help patrol the bridges linking Beirut to the Christian areas in the north - their first active role in the recent fighting...
...founded a Japanese subsidiary and spent $500,000 in a futile search for contracts. Says he: "We wouldn't have stayed all this time if we hadn't been encouraged by government bureaucrats who said, 'Be patient, you'll eventually succeed.' " Fed up with meaningless reassurances, Neumaier braced Hiroo Takizawa, the MITI environmental guidance director. Takizawa conceded that Japan intended to protect its own. Said he: "The Japanese government believes that it is very important to nourish Japan's knowledge and technology industries and has been trying to develop its own think tanks." From...