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President Carter acknowledged the new reality in a talk with a group of editors. He said the accident "will make all of us reassess our present safety regulations ... and will probably lead inexorably toward even more stringent safety design mechanisms and standards." Said Senate Majority Leader Robert Byrd: "We've been assured time and time again by the industry and federal regulatory agencies that this was something that was impossible, that could not happen, but it did happen. There's going to be great difficulty on the part of the American people to feel absolutely reassured about nuclear power...
...Assault on Precinct 13 are such neat packages of self-acknowledged hokum that it is difficult to resent or condescend to them. Compared to the slackness and swaggering middlebrow pretension of recent thrillers like The Invasion of the Body Snatchers or The Last wave, they are remarkable for their stringent suspensefulness, their fundamental lack of conceit, the inventiveness of numerous details and situations, and a sharp, reverberant visceral twang...
However, despite the hamstringing of the bill prior to passage, commission members insist the financial disclosure requirements are stringent enough to be effective. Officials are still required to list their business dealings in great detail. The form also probes deeply into the question of gifts, while not snooping too far into an offical's private family records...
Members said that the Stanford program would probably meet the administration's stringent quality control requirements. Several members noted that each year thirty to forty per cent of Stanford's undergraduates participate in the program...
...regime has already announced that Iran will no longer sell oil to Israel. But what else will it do? The P.L.O. announced last week that the first task of its new Tehran "embassy"-located in what had been the Israeli mission -will be to persuade Iran to impose a stringent boycott against Israel, including a blacklisting of all foreign firms that do business with Jerusalem...