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...hearing last September, Neal Randall, one of the agency's engineers, testified that based on worst-case calculations, he believed the "Yankee Rowe vessel is quite brittle" and was therefore unsafe to operate even for the remainder of its license. The precise extent of the problem is uncertain because the utility has run out of easily accessible test samples of the original steel used in building the vessel. Ideally, such samples are periodically examined for hidden cracks, allowing scientists to determine how much embrittlement has occurred. Although Randall's opinion was a minority view, it electrified the plant's critics...
With the Persian Gulf crisis as a fresh reminder that oil supplies are uncertain, interest in alternative fuels for vehicles is suddenly stronger than it has been in years. From automakers to energy companies, the race to develop a clean and dependable substitute for gasoline is in full gear. Chrysler recently unveiled a battery-powered prototype of its popular minivan. GM is experimenting with automobiles that run on methanol, a form of alcohol that comes from such sources as coal and wood. United Parcel Service recently tested delivery trucks that burn propane rather than gasoline. Mercedes-Benz has developed...
Last week's grisly accounting fulfilled a promise by President Patricio Aylwin to investigate past abuses, a pledge he made last year shortly after he was democratically elected. Whether anyone will ultimately be brought to justice remains uncertain. While still in power, the military decreed an amnesty that shields its agents from prosecution for political crimes committed between 1973 and 1978, and Pinochet, who remains head of the army, has warned against putting any of his men on trial. To help the nation heal its wounds, Aylwin is proposing giving financial compensation to the families of victims, including pension, health...
Rosovsky denied his candidacy in no uncertain terms last June...
...American bombers and emerge in a few years a greater menace than ever. Annulment of all U.N. resolutions after withdrawal would relieve Iraq of any pressure to pay reparations for ravishing Kuwait. Whether such reparations can ever be collected from an Iraqi economy knocked practically flat by bombing is uncertain. But Washington has some hope of using the threat of them -- perhaps to be collected by attaching future oil revenues -- as another club to hold over a postwar Baghdad regime...