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...there are tunes of glory here, like the OSS rescue of 1,350 imprisoned U.S. airmen from Rumania, or the daring of an OSS man who, armed only with loudspeakers, persuaded an entrenched German force at Cherbourg to surrender. If Donovan's failures appeared to outshine his triumphs, it may be because his major strategic accomplishment- distracting the Germans from Normandy by concentrating OSS sabotage and other disruptive efforts in southern Europe - was not immediately obvious...
...France, where saboteurs had earlier blown up a $15 million nuclear reactor bound for Iraq, protesters from the Cherbourg suburb of Equeurdreville were urging the closing of another reprocessing plant. In Denmark, officials announced they were rethinking their plans for new plant construction, and in Sweden the atomic energy inspection board reported that two nuclear reactors similar to the one at Three Mile Island would have to be retrofitted with systems that would deflate any hydrogen gas bubbles...
...bombs rather than electricity, the Israelis have been protesting the proposed shipment for the past three years. The French had been stung many times before by MOSSAD, Israel's secret service, notably on Christmas morning 1969, when its agents piloted five embargoed gunboats from the port city of Cherbourg to Haifa in a daring and well-executed maneuver. Certainly, Israel benefits from the sabotage, but its officials have denied that they triggered the La Seyne explosion, branding such suggestions "anti-Semitism...
...great stock in mushy dissolves, is slightly below the level of a TV perfume commercial. Whenever the action trails off, he brings on a Jimmy Webb theme song that sounds like a cross between You Light Up My Life and I Will Wait for You from The Umbrellas of Cherbourg. Stars Irving and Ontkean can be vibrant actors, but Markowitz straitjackets them into cutie-pie poses. If Irving comes off the better of the two, it is because of her character's affliction. Somehow silly dialogue does not seem quite so embarrassing when it is relayed in sign language...
...French government plans over the next ten years to add two more plants to its reprocessing center at Cap de la Hague, near Cherbourg, and thus bring the country's total capacity to 2,400 tons a year. Officials insist that the program will not turn France into an international nuclear trash heap. The French plants will dispose of light radioactive and liquid wastes in containers buried either at sea or underground. But the more potent solid radioactive garbage will be shipped back to the countries that produced it. As for the plutonium produced from the waste, it will...