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...days after Harrisburg, 35,000 West Germans protested plans to build an underground nuclear dump near Groleban in northern Germany. They began chanting "We All Live in Pennsylvania," and the slogan was soon picked up by demonstrators back in the U.S. Major demonstrations occurred in Japan, in Denmark, and in other nations. French saboteurs blew up millions of dollars worth of nuclear equipment destined for Iraq. The people of the industrialized world have begun turning against nuclear power, but their governments are wedded to the nuclear industry...
Robert E. Kaufman, associate dean for finance and administration, said yesterday Goldstein's loss was a blow for Yale's new administration. "They're trying to build a team down there and I feel very badly for Yale," he said...
...Angeles department of water and power plans to build a 200-kw photovoltaic system that may provide the energy to run a power plant's cooling tower in suburban Sun Valley, Calif. If this project gets federal funding and goes through, it would be eight times larger than the biggest existing photovoltaic system. Up to now, such systems have generally been confined to remote and inaccessible locations where the costs of providing conventional power are prohibitive. For example, in California solar cells generate energy for Coast Guard buoys, rural water pumps, VHF telecommunications relay towers, automatic weather stations and even...
...Hong Kong employees. Soon the Chinese will be assembling A.I.E. television sets, which will be sold in the U.S. under the "Williamsons" name as well as under private labels of K-Mart and other chains. In another case, Harper's International, a Hong Kong automotive distributor, plans to build a big bus-and-truck assembly plant in Shenzhen (Shumchun), just across the border from Hong Kong. In Shenzhen, Chinese are already assembling handbags, shoes, key chains and plastic flowers for Hong Kong companies...
...Distant Mirror, Barbara W. Tuchman ∙ Albert Camus, Herbert R. Lottman Confessions of a Conservative, Garry Wills ∙ In Memory Yet Green, Isaac Asimov ∙ The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor, edited by Sally Fitzgerald ∙ The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt, Edmund Morris To Build a Castle-My Life as a Dissenter, Vladimir Bukovsky