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A Lowell House junior died in an automobile accident early Wednesday morning while driving in his hometown of Northboro, Mass.
David C. Cassidy '87, who was 21-years-old, was killed when his car flipped over in a one-car accident, The Worcester Telegram reported. His brother Timothy, who was in the car at the time, survived the accident.
Thousands of laborers set about sealing off the reactor and cleaning up nearby areas last week. Helicopters continued to drop tons of sand, lead and boron onto the reactor each day to keep radiation from reaching the air. On the ground, crews worked to seal off the 570 degrees mass...
Meanwhile, Moscow was practicing its own political damage control. The Communist Party daily Pravda said that three local officials were punished for failing to distribute wages and clothing after the accident and for otherwise ignoring the needs of evacuees. One offender was expelled from the party and a second was...
Elsewhere, West German militants smashed windows and hurled rocks at police last week as 10,000 antinuclear demonstrators marched in Hamburg. But perhaps the most stunning response to the Chernobyl accident came from France, which relies on the atom for 65% of its electric power. After first assuring its citizens...