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...some distant "homeland." Last year, however, the government changed its policy and permitted them to buy township homes. Some 10,000 families have since done so, but most residents cannot afford the $800 or more that it costs to purchase a small, four-room house of brick or cement- block construction. Therefore they continue to rent their homes for an average cost of $20 per month, with perhaps $20 more going for electricity...
...completed, but the cleanup effort at Chernobyl continues. In recent weeks it has been slowed to a crawl by a series of technical troubles. The biggest problem is to encase the reactor, which is still emitting dangerous radioactive particles, in a concrete tomb. The Soviets have run short of cement and have had to install a ventilation system to prevent heat buildup, which might cause new fires and explosions. The Communist Party daily Pravda has criticized the slowness of the effort, pointing out that three other nuclear reactors located on the site cannot resume operation until the fourth is sealed...
Among the innumerable constraints that eventually became part of this system were regulations governing the prices of everything from cement to haircuts, and work rules that made it difficult and costly to fire redundant employees, which frequently discouraged companies from hiring or expanding. The Socialists, who came to power following Mitterrand's election in 1981, augmented the dirigisme tradition the following year by nationalizing 38 French banks and nine industrial groups...
Velikhov, the vice president of the Soviet Academy of Scientists and a director of the Chernobyl cleanup, said soil was being frozen and cement was being poured with the goal of sealing off the damaged reactor. Officials will decide afterward whether to reactivate the power plant, he was quoted as saying...
...obtain a lucrative contract to build the first Philippine nuclear power plant. The company last week reiterated that it had actually paid a grand total of $17 million over a ten-year period to Marcos Crony Herminio Disini, head of a now defunct construction conglomerate, to help cement the deal. Westinghouse insists the payments were legal and says it was unaware the money was destined for Marcos. The matter is being investigated by a grand jury in Pittsburgh...