Word: banning
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Despite that frightening condemnation, the panel failed to take the logical next step--recommending a moratorium on construction of new nuclear plants. It did, however, point to the need for such a ban, concluding that even if President Carter, Congress, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, and the nuclear industry adopt all of its recommendations, there is still "no guarantee that there will be no serious future nuclear accidents...
...plants for which construction permits have been granted. But the commission's report places the blame so widely on federal regulators, the plant's builders and managers and control room operators that six of the twelve members voted to ask President Carter to ban the construction of any new nuclear plants until suggested reforms could be enacted. This moratorium failed to gain a majority only because Kemeny, who had supported other forms of a ban in preliminary voting, inexplicably abstained on the final ballot...
...Chief Marsh Clark discovered that food is so scarce that even Khmer Rouge soldiers are going hungry. ''We crossed a narrow stream that marks the border by walking across a narrow log bridge,'' reported Clark. ''Then we moved cautiously into the village of Ban Rai Kluay, where 5,800 soldiers and civilians once camped. We found only 25 people. Most of them were soldiers too ill to move across the border into Thailand. Their situation underscores the sad state of Pol Pot's army, which in the area we visited, at least...
When the two policemen and their colleagues emerged from the building at 497 Cambridge St., they had 11 unhappy people in tow--ten women and one man. And outside among the crowd of 200 was City Councilor Lawrence E. Frisoli, with his own personal "Ban Massage Parlors" sign...
...inability to compete successfully with such industrial rivals as West Germany and Japan, but perhaps also Peking's displeasure with French reluctance to supply China with modern weaponry, including Mirage fighter planes. Giscard has pointedly rejected Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev's plea for a total ban on weapons sales to China, but so far no deals have been made...