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...must find technical means to guarantee its absolute safety and exclude the possibility of another Chernobyl. The best way is international legislation requiring that all new nuclear reactors be sited deep enough underground so that even a worst-case accident would not discharge radioactive substances into the atmosphere. Existing aboveground reactors should be protected by reliable containment structures. The first priority should be to safeguard atomic plants that supply power and heat to large cities, reactors with graphite moderators like the one that malfunctioned at Chernobyl, and fast-neutron breeder reactors...
Rebirth of the Ukrainian churches may stir the sort of nationalist fervor that is inextricably linked with religion. Along with economic failure, this unrest poses the gravest of threats to Gorbachev's regime. Yet Gorbachev apparently calculates that the movement will be safer aboveground and in contact with a Pope who preaches against political violence. The major reason that Gorbachev has not done more for the Ukrainian Catholics has been pressure from the Russian Orthodoxy, which stands to lose half its flock in some regions...
Marcos supporters have petitioned the Philippine Supreme Court to reverse its earlier decision denying re-entry to Marcos. In the meantime, Imelda plans to place her husband's body temporarily in an aboveground crypt. Plans for a wake in the auditorium of Manila's Honolulu consulate were dropped, perhaps after it was discovered that the hall was named after Ninoy Aquino...
...volunteers for the assignment, because she was judged to have inner strength and stamina. For 131 days she dwelled alone in a 20-ft. by 12-ft. Plexiglas module sealed 30 ft. under the surface, without sunlight or any other way of measuring time. Last week she emerged aboveground on schedule. But by her calculations it was only mid-March...
...cannot reach other rat tunnels. "The dilemma is that it's not just the sewers," he says, "but a subterranean labyrinth of unknown dimensions." Besides baiting sewers, he will help owners of buildings near the construction create barriers against underground invasions and set traps for rats that venture aboveground. Vows Jackson: "We'll provide them hotel rooms they will never leave...