Word: reactional
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...initial reaction of Chrysler's partners was one of shock. The U.A.W. had thought that the $462.5 million in wage and benefit cuts it agreed to last winter was supposed to be sufficient. Said one union official: "We bought $1.5 billion in guaranteed loans with our first concessions, not just $800 million." The banks are unhappy about exchanging a loan, which would have at least theoretical value in a bankruptcy proceeding, for stock that would be worthless in case the company fails...
Meanwhile, the British public is frightened. London Photographer Sally Greenhill expressed a common reaction to the broadcast: "I immediately tore up my organ donor card." In the four weeks after the telecast, the number of kidney transplants fell by a quarter, but is now beginning to increase again. British doctors hope the public will finally be reassured in February, when they state their case in a special 90-minute program...
Three days later TASS carried portions of a truculent speech by Soviet Defense Minister Dmitri Ustinov. Addressing a high-level military group whose proceedings would ordinarily be secret, Ustinov called for "heightened vigilance against the aggressive aspirations of imperialist forces, against the attempts of reaction to damage the positions of socialist countries, specifically of socialist Poland." The implication that pressures on Poland were external rather than internal was similar to charges made against "Western imperialists" and "West German revanchists" before the invasion of Czechoslovakia...
...crucial test for Mugabe's government. Tekere, a hot-tempered radical, is the third-ranking member of Mugabe's Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU) and a popular figure among the 20,000 nationalist guerrillas still under arms. It was feared that his conviction might spark a violent reaction from ZANU militants. On the other hand, his acquittal seemed likely to enrage the country's 190,000 whites, prompting charges of a political fix and accelerating a white exodus that is now running at a rate of more than 1,000 a month. Wary of all these dangers...
...public that nuclear plants can be safely used and turned off in emergencies. An electrical generating plant that is powered by coal, oil or natural gas can be stopped in minutes. But the process can be much more perilous at a nuclear facility. When malfunctions occur, the nuclear reaction that produces the energy cannot be shut down instantly; even afterward, heat and radioactivity remain. Three Mile Island demonstrated that control-room personnel are not always prepared to handle an emergency. In the past year the nuclear industry and the Government spent millions of dollars to improve control-room warning systems...