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...pragmatist. On other occasions, Kennedy has seemed to be harking back to a 19th century form of liberalism. In his New York speech, he said: "We are making a clean break with the New Deal and even the 1960s. We reject the idea that Government knows best across the board, that public planning is inherently superior or more effective than private action. There is now a growing consensus, which I share, that Government intervention in the economy should come as only a last resort...
...from the floor.'' (The improper operation of some valves in the containment building of Unit No. 2, which is still far too contaminated with radiation to be entered, contributed heavily to the accident.) At a critical time when the NRC, which is headed by a five-man board, should have been deciding whether or not to seek evacuation of the T.M.I, area, ''the commissioners became preoccupied with the details of evacuation planning and the drafting of a press release...
Defense officials cautioned that radiation tests of the atmosphere above the stretch of ocean had proved negative. Pretoria flatly denied all. ''Utter nonsense,'' snapped Atomic Energy Board Chairman Jacobus De Villiers. ''The U.S. must learn to get its facts straight,'' chided Foreign Minister Roelof (''Pik'') Botha. ''In an area that size, it could have been anyone...
Other candidates had all they could handle just trying to figure out their campaign finances. Less than half of the city council candidates and only two of the 12 school board hopefuls met Monday's filing deadline for reports of all campaign debts, expenditures and donations...
...explains that the Committee originally designed to draft the 1977 agreement, is not expected "to meet regularly with a regular agenda. We're not anxious to proliferate bureaucracies," he adds. If the Joint Policy Committee "continues to exist" on paper, it is ready to be called to the board room if and when the occasion arises. "You can never tell when something will call it up." says Burr, adding that because it has no staff and pays no salaries, the Committee does not threaten to hurt anyone or anything. "Supposing it never meets," he asks, and adds quickly, "there...