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...said she made "extensive efforts" to reach the NRC "but there was no one there, there was no emergency number and no 24-hour manning" like there used to be. An indignant Ray said she considered the situation "incomprehensible" and with a less-than-discreet reference to Three Mile Island, reminded the NRC that "emergencies do occur...
Indeed, the Three Mile Island accident has prompted some finger pointing that nonetheless indicates salutary soul searching. Says the NRC, in a report of its own: ''Everyone connected with nuclear power technology must accept as a fact that accidents can happen. Operations personnel in particular must not have a mind-set that future accidents are impossible. The experience of Three Mile Island has not been sufficient to eradicate that mind-set in all quarters, and the effects of that experience will fade with time. We have no easy answer to suggest, but attitudes must be changed...
...morning of his death, Park had traveled to Tangjin, 100 miles south of Seoul, to inaugurate a three-mile-wide irrigation dam. In a sense, it was a fitting site for his last public appearance. After 18 years as a virtual dictator, Park had left his country a legacy of political repression but also of extraordinary development (see box). After the ceremony, Park and his entourage-including his ever-present five-man plainclothes guard-returned to Seoul; he spent the rest of the afternoon in his office in the Blue House, South Korea's presidential mansion. At around...
...tough North Korean army-80,-000 stronger than South Korea's-is deployed behind the entire 151-mile Demilitarized Zone, just 30 miles north of Seoul...
...pace throughout the 5,000 meter race was erratic, as the leaders took out a fairly quick pace with a split time of 5:15. The second mile led the runners up a winding and rocky trail which Coach Pappy Hunt described as "wet and treacherous" from the rain the night before. The pack slowed its pace here as passing became difficult on the narrow path. During the last mile the tempo picked up as the course began to wind downhill...