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Franco chose the young Juan Carlos to be his figurehead successor mainly because he is docile and malleable. In the event of Franco's death, the real ruler-until Juan Carlos had "matured"-was to have been Vice Admiral Luis Carrero Blanco, Franco's conservative and like-minded crony who was named Premier last year. But the plan was destroyed when Basque terrorists assassinated Carrero Blanco last December. Though Franco frequently consults Juan Carlos, the prince has no influence on policy, and probably lacks the skill or the military support to hold the country together. Some cynics...
Last May, in an operation named Project Rio Blanco, the AEC exploded three 30-kiloton devices that had been placed about 450 ft. apart in a vertical tube more than a mile underground near the hamlet of Meeker in western Colorado. The goal was to crack the surrounding sandstone and create a huge cavern into which the escaping gas could seep. But when the AEC and its private-industry collaborator. CER Geonuclear Corp. of Las Vegas, began test drilling at the site after the explosions, they made an embarrassing discovery. The blasts had apparently created three separate gas-filled caverns...
...Blanco sponsors say that they are willing to spend another $1.5 million for additional drilling to recover gas from the lower cavities. But even if they can, the future of nuclear blasting for natural gas looks quite bleak. The program is already under attack from environmentalists who fear that the atomic explosions may damage buildings on the surface, trigger earthquakes and leave behind dangerous radiation. The General Accounting Office recently noted that nuclear recovery of gas could be costlier than its proponents originally thought; the cracks created in the sandstone by the A-bombs may close faster than...
...commission announced that it will help foot the bill for testing an alternate, nonnuclear gas recovery scheme called hydraulic fracturing. Employing high-pressure fluids rather than explosions to crack the gas-bearing sandstone, the test will take place only about a mile from the site of the multikiloton Rio Blanco fiasco...
...overos wrote, "have the right to conserve their own identity and to cultivate and develop their spiritual heritage within a sociopolitical system that recognizes their liberty to do so." In the context of Spanish politics, those were daring words indeed. Madrid vividly remembers that Admiral Luis Carrero Blanco, Franco's closest colleague and Arias' predecessor as Premier, was killed by Basque bomber-terrorists as he emerged from daily Mass. But Añoveros went on to regret that "sometimes people, or to say it better, their ruling classes, can succumb to the temptation of sacrificing the characteristics...