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...compromise decision, Lee did something of an about-face. At week's end, he predicted that the "outages"-jargon for when a generator is out of the power grid-would be of "very short duration." Certainly, he said, they would not last into the peak summer season. But Harold Denton, the NRC's reactor regulations chief, was more skeptical. Something of a hero in the nuclear field for his cool troubleshooting at Three Mile Island in the wake of March's accident, he insisted that all B & W pressurized water reactors were susceptible to the kind...
...real reform. One is that Parliament is loath to give up its traditional supremacy over the courts, which would happen if judges were allowed to declare laws unconstitutional. Another is the sheer slowness of change in Britain. But after his success at Strasbourg, Sunday Times Editor Harold Evans promised to do his best to speed it along. If the Sunday Times, closed since Nov. 30 in a dispute with its printers, ever resumes publishing, Evans says he intends to challenge the contempt laws by reporting on important cases under trial...
...occasionally serious, persecution. Some have been roughed up by police, subjected to threatening interrogation, and accused of working for the CIA. Others have been targets of whispered charges of debauchery and homosexuality. Last summer the New York Times's Craig Whitney and the Baltimore Sun's Harold Piper were tried for "slander and defamation" for quoting a dissident's family as saying they thought his televised confession looked fake. After the reporters refused to publish retractions, they were each fined $72.50 plus court costs...
Every year the defense budget is presented to Congress as a "bare bones" program for American defense; Secretary of Defense Harold Brown argued this point last month before several Senate committees. Yet two major issues lead one to wonder if the proposed budget is just the bare minimum. First, with regard to the nuclear deterrent, former Defense Secretary Robert McNamara determined that an adequate nuclear deterrent was 200-400 megaton equivalents, enough explosive to destroy about 30% of Soviet population and 70% of industry in a second strike. Today the U.S. deploys over 10,000 strategic nuclear warheads, many times...
...Wilcox, had brushed off his warning of a "serious" design problem. Perhaps of greatest immediate import, officials conceded that it may take several more weeks, possibly months, to achieve a "cold shutdown" of the crippled reactor, meaning bringing it down to the minimum possible temperature. Said NRC Operations Boss Harold Denton: "I don't think we ought to commit ourselves to any more timetables?only safety...