Word: accidental
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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No one has died, and perhaps no one will, but the lingering effects of radiation from the nuclear accident at Pennsylvania's Three Mile Island continue to haunt local residents, to say nothing of the neighbors of nuclear facilities elsewhere in the U.S. To ease those fears, Secretary of...
> A census of 17,000 households containing 50,000 residents within a five-mile radius of the crippled plant. The six-week census, to be funded by the Center for Disease Control and the National Cancer Institute, will collect names and medical histories, as well as the whereabouts of household...
>The National Institute of Mental Health will inquire into the accident's psychological and behavioral impact. Its study will also seek new ways of coping with emotional stress in a future crisis.
Califano emphasized that launching the studies does not reflect any new alarm. Nor did he back off from estimates that the accident will add only one cancer death to the 325,000 expected in the region's population of 2 million. Despite the HEW chiefs reassuring words, the atmosphere...
DIED. Kurt Jooss, 78, German choreographer renowned for highly dramatic, topical ballets, of which the most acclaimed was his 1932 pacifist masterpiece, The Green Table; of injuries suffered in a car accident; in Heilbronn, West Germany.