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...nuclear physicist trained in the '50s, I have been appalled at the low level on which the nuclear energy debate has been conducted. When dozens of workers are killed in an oil refinery explosion, no one suggests that we abandon the use of fossil fuels. When a water pipe in a nuclear reactor develops a hairline fracture, hysteria follows. Nuclear reactor safety is a highly quantitative and technical matter. It is high time that responsible journalism calls for rational discourse...
...margin. But people do not intend to vote solely on the tax issue: only a third of those surveyed said they would switch away from an otherwise preferred candidate if he took a stand against a tax cut, less than the percentage of voters who said they would abandon a preferred candidate if he came out in favor of federally funded abortions...
Every once in a while our existential dependency on the environment asserts itself. Even Harvard had to cancel its classes in the wake of the most massive snowstorm in Massachusetts' recorded history last winter. And more tragically, families living in New York's Love Canal have had to abandon their homes when chemicals dumped there 16 years ago came bubbling up through the ground, destroying trees and wildlife and unborn lives...
...become another Stalin-grad." So said a weary Lebanese Christian, preparing to abandon his beloved city of Beirut-perhaps forever. Once again the sectarian violence that has savaged Lebanon for the past five years had erupted in a round of destruction and death. In an all-out effort to crush right-wing Christian militiamen with whom it has been fighting a months-long war, the 30,000-man Syrian peace-keeping force launched a devastating block-by-block assault on Christian areas of Beirut. By week's end it had left at least 800 dead and thousands more wounded...
...that so-called new towns program became one of the decade's most widely publicized Government social experiments. Now the planner's dream has become HUD'S nightmare. Housing Secretary Patricia Harris has announced that the new towns program will be ended, and HUD will abandon financial control of seven of the agency's 13 communities...