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...moving rapidly in the field of nuclear power. The most aggressive program now belongs to France, which plans to draw 75% of its electricity from the atom by 1990. In 1983 France will complete work on its massive 1,200-megawatt Super Phenix, the country's second fast-breeder reactor. France also leads in developing types of nuclear-waste disposal technology...
Many European and Japanese leaders criticize American timidity over atomic power. They hold the U.S. responsible for slowing international research and development on the reprocessing of spent nuclear fuel and new technology for breeder reactors. Says former West German Chancellor Willy Brandt: "Nobody should pretend that mankind can return to nuclear innocence...
Baker based his objection on Carnesale's opposition to development of breeder reactors, the first of which is slated to be built in Baker's home state, at Clinch River, Tennessee...
...securities executive who put together the syndicate to manage his stud career and 23 investors. Unfortunately, it is not one big happy family. Niatross's various owners have slapped one another with lawsuits, attempting to gain control over the colt's future. On one flank are Breeder Elsie Berger and Trainer-Driver Clint Galbraith; on the other is Stockbroker Louis Guida, manager of the Niatross syndicate. At issue is which breeding farm will have the benefit of his prestigious services...
...hurtin' real bad in Texas," said State Agriculture Commissioner Reagan Brown. The Lone Star State so far has lost more than 1 million broilers and 50,000 breeder hens. Egg production has dropped 5%, and Brown predicted that U.S. chicken prices will go up 15% in three weeks. Cotton yields in some parts of Texas will probably be about 30% less than last year's. In South Texas, ranchers burned expensive propane gas to sear the needles off prickly pear cactus so that cattle could eat and suck water from the plants...