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...award of $16.5 million to New Orleans' Tulane University and Xavier University, a 2,200-student black school, to advise the Defense Department on how to dispose of hazardous waste. The Pentagon had never asked for the advice, but Senator J. Bennett Johnston, a Louisiana Democrat, found time to stuff the chestnuts into the pork roast for his own constituents. Xavier's share of the grant, about $7 million over two years, is its largest contract ever...
...store nuclear waste material, Congress has settled on a sagebrush-covered ridge in Bullfrog County, Nev. After geological tests are completed, a shaft will be drilled into Yucca Mountain to store up to 70,000 metric tons of radioactive material early in the next century. Louisiana Senator Bennett Johnston, chairman of the Energy and Natural Resources Committee, led the effort to halt studies of alternative sites in Texas and Washington State...
...decision will save the Government nearly $4 billion in additional tests and drilling. "We need to get on with this," said Johnston. Most members of Congress were happy to choose a home for nuclear waste anywhere but in their own backyard. Senator Alan Simpson of Wyoming summed up the thoughts of doubters. "Why is it," he asked, "that when the facility must isolate waste for tens of thousands of years, we cannot take the time to do it right...
Specter's decision was a turning point in a grim week for Ronald Reagan's controversial nominee. The same day the Pennsylvanian joined the small band of moderate Republicans who are against Bork, a trio of Southern Democrats, including Louisiana's influential conservative J. Bennett Johnston, said they too would oppose the judge when his nomination comes to a vote. With the Democrats holding a 54-to-46 majority in the Senate, the President had been relying on Southern crossover votes to give his man the 51 yeas he will need for confirmation. Making matters worse for the White House...
Last week Specter, Johnston and several other Senators cited Bork's flip- flops as a major reason for their opposition. "Here is a brilliant scholar going through the agony of public hearings and public scrutiny," said Democrat David Pryor of Arkansas, as he announced his intention to vote against Bork. "And yet we don't know him any better now than we did months ago. I would even submit . . . that he does not know himself...