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Nuclear power is more controversial; until recently the mere mention of it made environmentalists blanch. They had good reason, considering the accidents at Three Mile Island and Chernobyl, the problem of radioactive waste and the horror stories about U.S. weapons plants. But the greenhouse effect is forcing some antinuclear activists to rethink their position. "I was a strong opponent of the nuclear program in France," said Brice Lalonde, France's Environment Under Secretary and a former presidential candidate on the Ecologist Party ticket. "Now I am reassessing the whole thing." France gets more than 70% of its electricity from nuclear...
...reassigning some of the top staff as the effort expanded, Sasso just worked around them, relying on new, more seasoned hands that he recruited. As a result, there are in effect two campaign hierarchies: the paper structure and the de facto one reporting to Sasso. Even though Baker might blanch at such chain-of-command chaos, a tendency to paper over personnel problems is typical of presidential campaigns but can be near fatal in a President...
...real clue. He explained that the Bureau of the Public Debt is a huge department with 2,000 employees and a $200 million budget. I asked him which one of those people actually writes down the National Debt at the end of the day, those figures that make bankers blanch and children save their pennies. He directed me to southwest Washington and an annex of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, a gray building across from the Central Heating and Refrigeration Plant. Thirty years in Washington and I'd never been there. Did I need a compass and extra rations...
...This debate is about the end of the world and about how we may best delay it." So said Stuart Blanch, the Archbishop of York, last week as the Church of England became the latest denomination to struggle with the morality of nuclear deterrence. British clergy judged the General Synod's deliberations to be the church's most important debate on public policy since World War II. The meeting occurred in Church House, adjacent to Westminster Abbey, where Parliament met in 1941 after German bombers had damaged the House of Commons...
...Doctor," reproves the Black Lion of Uganda, "for an African you are looking very white." Statesman, sportsman, raconteur, eccentric gourmet, General Idi Amin Dada made a lot of people blanch in his eight years as Uganda's dictator. With Amin now in asylum in Saudi Arabia, Director Sharad Patel has felt free to turn this biopic into a minstrel show of atrocity. Amin struts across his domain like Kong with a salad of Day-Glo medals pinned to his chest. Amin expels Asian workers from Uganda and distributes the spoils to his private army of hitmen. Amin services...